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… to bring history into public conversation. This month, our Best in History Online highlights an award-winning podcast … who received his MA in Modern History at Balliol College, Oxford, and often conducts his interviews on site. Snow began … he hosted in 2004 with his father. Since then, Snow has forged an online history empire on Twitter , Facebook , and …

… to bring history into public conversation. This month, our Best in History Online highlights a podcast that looks at … uses interviews, oral histories, archival sound clips, and commentary and analysis by scholars in the field of … and communities, making the program both a research tool for scholars and a unique perspective on history for popular …

… likeminded, resource: George Mason University's History News Network (HNN) . HNN's mission is to put current events … HNN finds and posts the most up-to-date features by the best historians across the globe. These primarily include … well-researched and directed towards the general, history-news-loving, public.  HNN makes learning about the history …

… he and his fellow Republicans deserve much of the blame for their increase. Ever since the advent of the Bush … Justifying war with Iraq, the administration hammered away at that nation’s alleged possession of weapons of mass … The Republican-dominated U.S. Senate refused to ratify the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, a landmark measure negotiated …

… solicits articles from historians, writers, and artists committed to good storytelling, with an eye for the strange and a suspicion of both jargon and traditional narratives. A creature of the web, its format takes advantage of the flexibility of hypertext and …

… conversation.     In March, our pick is an ongoing project for historians and public historians alike to share their ideas, the Public History Commons ! The Public His tory Commons is a project of the … and functions, including History@Work blog , Public History News Feed , digital publications from The Public Historian …

… the City: Anti-Urbanism in the Twentieth Century  (Oxford University Press, 2014). Diane King published  … Kurdistan on the Global Stage: Kinship, Land, and Community in Iraq  (Rutgers University Press, 2014). Daniel … 3/26/14: The Latest Books from OSU Historians …

… new sound on the web, as we add our very first podcast recommendation into the mix. The Exploring Environmental … The Best in History Online – "Exploring Environmental History …

… “Therefore go, and make disciples, baptizing them in the name of … Spirit, teaching them to obey everything I [Jesus] have commanded you” (Matthew 28:19 NIV). This Great Commission found at the end of the first gospel of the New … Review of A Gospel for the Poor: Global Social Christianity and the Latin …

… As any viewer of television news knows, those who comment on the Arab-Israeli crisis offer many different explanations for the current outbreaks of violence. Rarely mentioned, … in the West Bank. Jewish settlers travel regularly over highways connecting their communities, and soldiers in the …

… hour, they are joined by fellow historians, people in the news, and callers interested in exploring the roots of … who you are.   BackStory has passed the 3.9 million mark for podcast downloads, with 28,000-30,000 weekly subscribers … broadcast by 36 primary public radio stations, serving 72 communities in 20 states and Washington, D.C.—and more than …

… our historical past. Each month, the site posts new book recommendations , historical films , and faculty research (in … Not Even Past is local history, and much of their site is committed to featuring the newest studies and scholarship on … affiliated projects:  15 Minute History -  a podcast for secondary school teachers and students  Our/stories - a …

… - the result of a conference on " Active History: History for the Future " in 2008. Active History.ca features  papers … and is transformative to both practitioners and communities." We highly recommend you check out this site, and if you're a …

… The United States was a nation forged in the ideological fires of a democratic revolution … Christopher McKnight Nichols , Professor of History and Wayne Woodrow Hayes Chair in National Security Studies at … Distinguished Lecturer, Nichols is a frequent public commentator on U.S. politics and foreign policy. Nichols is …

… Kong. The demonstrators' demands have also expanded to encompass an investigation into police brutality, the … has been withdrawn, protests seem certain to continue. For many Hong Kongers, the proposed legislation was merely the latest attempt by Beijing to undermine the unique "one …

… the environmental impact of our have-it-now, fly-by-night, buy-on-credit global economy. Drawing on exclusive interviews with company executives, corporate archives and other records, … in sustainability initiatives and respond to new calls for corporate responsibility, Elmore shows the limits of …

… ancient Greece and Rome? What are the consequences of this for our understandings of the ancient era? And what should … Eileen McCoskey , Donna Zuckerberg , and Curtis Dozier . For more on this topic, see: Denise Eileen McCoskey - … narratives of history?   Dr. Curtis Dozier   I think the best way to sum up what they say is that the classical world …

… of U.S. entry into World War I. But, as the world commemorates the centennial of the war, U.S. events have … versus the United States, and what legacies might we be forgetting? In this episode of History Talk, we speak to … us to learn why World War I is remembered so differently in combatant countries, what the war's most important …

… history of women in the United States beginning all the way back with the American Revolution. Join us as we reveal … of their husband. So women cannot sue, they could not own buy or sell property, they could not enter into contracts. … Newman and Rose Schneiderman to view the vote as their best form of protection. In the wake of the Triangle …

… Humanities, a state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Any views, findings, conclusions or recommendations expressed in this content do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities. … at the bottom of your screen on Zoom. And we'll do our best to get through all the questions that come our way. …

… been around for more than 200 years. It will not be going away anytime soon. The Early American Republic and the Qing … else in its cargo: more than 20,000 Spanish silver coins. The goods the Americans were bringing would not be enough to procure the products they hoped to buy. The traders had to settle the remaining balance with …

… us on an authoritative and eye-opening journey into how the company Monsanto came to have outsized influence over our … Department of History; Director, Harvey Goldberg Center for Teaching Excellence … at the bottom of your screen on Zoom, and we'll do our best to answer as many questions as we can. We had several …