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… consequences to explain how individual ambition served the common good. It’s not from the benevolence of the butcher, … unintended consequence of their self interest, mediated by competition, was better and cheaper meat, beer and bread. … consequences RCA’s reactions to the decree gave a new company, Sony, its opening in consumer electronics.   …

… Welcome aboard the train, British History ! In preparation for … in the world. The bloody 1900 Boer War and increased competition with the Germans over railroad and maritime control have also worn down this locomotive. Still, this “weary titan” (p.15) is in tip-top …

… Lyndon Johnson ordered a task force, the Gilpatric Committee (named after its chairman, former deputy defense … to stop nuclear proliferation. According to the Gilpatric Committee, “Energetic and comprehensive steps must be taken in the near future to …

… Whereas in the 20th century, Caesar could just as easily become the savage conqueror again, someone to be resisted … who would finally surrender to Caesar in 51 B.C., would become the symbol of the revolutionary spirit in 19th- and … the millennia, the book, I think, is not without its shortcomings.  Perhaps it says more about my own biases, but I …

… On D-Day, over 125,000 British, American, and Canadian soldiers supported by more than five thousand ships and … thousand casualties on the first day of the invasion. To commemorate the battle, Origins offers ten of the most … 4. Allied Intelligence Successes and Failures Allied soldiers hold aloft a dummy tank to deceive Germans The Allies …

… them and Euro-Americans saying “Indian polities used commercial and military leverage to shape these … over the gun trade? During diplomatic negotiations it was common practice to receive gifts as a sign of brotherhood. … with the most fearsome of natural elements and embodied the awesome power of the Thunderbird and the Horned …

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… events of November 22, 1963, in Dallas. Conservative radio commentator Bill O’Reilly’s best-selling nonfiction book … The End of Camelot (authored with Martin Dugard, 2012) comes to life in a docudrama on the National Geographic … the first televised presidential debates. His death has come to symbolize the turmoil of the 1960s, a sharp turn …

… which stand to make hundreds of millions in fees and commissions, and anti-welfare state conservative ideologues, … about the gloomy long-term predictions President Bush’s new commission offers concerning the future of the system. … foreseen a multitrillion dollar economy, or the impact of computerization, energy consumption and medical advances, …

… hands in public, embracing at an airport, or from being comfortable in workplaces where heterosexual family photos … According to the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, “Studies and surveys consistently show that between one-third … signals of same-gender love. This culture has a deep and complicated history as the Freemasons engraving and poem …

… revolutionary journal of record, The Royal Society embodied modern scientific principles. Gresham College, where … to elevate them to an esteemed position in the eyes of competing Oxbridge scientists, derisive Anglican clergy, and … began to wane, and by the century’s close meetings had become a place to present research (comparable to modern …

… is available at https://origins.osu.edu/read/heroes-never-die-ukraine. Video production by Svetlana Ter-Grigoryan, … Heroes Never Die: The Legacies of Euromaidan …

… REVIEWS~ COMMENTARY Thurgood Marshall: A Justice For All While Carl … to end, he has much to learn from the judge about the complexities of race in late twentiethcentury America. … gives us an endearingly human, fallible man. Little came easy to Marshall, least of all his victories as a lawyer: …

… Barack Obama's economic stimulus plan has provoked comparisons with Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal. Like … women earned only 51 percent of what men did for work of comparable worth.   During the Depression, officials … do "men's work," and the new administration should make a commitment to hire them for "non-traditional" employment.   …

… and the future. Different Truths to Live By Every human community tells its own stories about the ultimate order of … 1552 work A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies . For the peoples of Abya Yala , this holocaust was not … fields, from philosophy and anthropology to science studies, biology, and quantum physics. Many would now agree …

… the names and brief obituary information of people who had died. The New Deal of Franklin D. Roosevelt, elected in … everyone thought Roosevelt was up to the task. Political commentator Walter Lippmann called him “a kind of amiable … New Deal and is essential today. The New Deal produced studies and reports on all manner of the nation’s problems with …

… for the Humanities. Any views, findings, conclusions or recommendations expressed in this content do not necessarily … Dr. Thomas McDow Welcome to pandemics past, present and future. Coming to you … and science. Historians at OSU and elsewhere, have long studied pandemics, taught their lessons and preached …

… was entered in Pennsylvania that would alter the American diet. The case was the United States v. E.C. Knight, et.al . … case effectively created the legal context for sugar to become ubiquitous. Look at any U.S. food label today and you will find that one of the top five ingredients listed, in some form or another, is sugar. From …

… the war in 1917, the German language was prohibited in some communities, and Americans even resorted to the absurd expedient of renaming hamburger “Salisbury steak” and sauerkraut … acceptable, Gen. John DeWitt, head of the Western Defense Command, observed: “A Jap’s a Jap. It makes no difference …

… four years of Nazi occupation. Following a week of guerilla combat between Resistance fighters and the occupying German … Fourth Infantry Division. The following morning, General Dietrich von Choltitz, the German military governor and … for four years meant that most people did not fall into the easy binary of collaborator or resister. Even General von …

… giant leap forward for their cause. Both activists and news commentators have compared this ruling to Brown v. Board of … again? Stephen A. Allen is a doctoral candidate in the Medieval Institute at the University of Notre Dame and a writer for the History News Service. [The Medieval Institute, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN …

… mother has said. But “Lady” is a term many of us are uneasy with. Originating in an older, patriarchal world, … of all classes and races know a lady when we see one. She combines a highly attuned sense of others’ needs with an … something greater than themselves. Lady Bird Johnson embodied both kinds of ladies, the self-effacing and the …

… World War I, President Woodrow Wilson established the Committee on Public Information, led by journalist George Creel, to craft and communicate America’s message. But the nation’s first … Radio messages carried word of the American commitment to audiences around the world, largely through the format of …