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Reinforcing Omaha Beach with men and equipment

Remembering D-Day: 10 Important Facts to Know

… 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 … generally unaffected German defenses. 7. But Allied Air Superiority Ultimately Proved a Decisive Element in Victory …
The image of a Thunderbird on top of a totem pole

“Allese Rondade”, that is to say, ‘Shoot!’”

Review of Thundersticks: Firearms and the Violent Transformation of Native America, by David J. Silverman (Cambridge: Belknap Press, 2016)
… 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 …
JFK and Jackie Kennedy on a sailboat

Watching JFK Live and Die Years Later

… 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 …
Immigrant Rights Protest by Betty Tsang, Flickr, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0

The Federal War on Immigrants Is a War on All Workers

… of well-publicized workplace raids to terrorize immigrant communities. Although immigrants bear the brunt of these … of workers' rights. The recent increase in worksite raids comes, not coincidentally, at a moment when, despite a … of history and director of Latin American and Ethnic Studies at Lewis & Clark College. …
Old man sitting alone in a park.

Social Security Reform for All

… which stand to make hundreds of millions in fees and commissions, and anti-welfare state conservative ideologues, … argue that market-driven private programs are inherently superior to those in the public sector. History should … about the gloomy long-term predictions President Bush’s new commission offers concerning the future of the system. …
 Cover of The Gold Standard at the Turn of the Twentieth Century Rising Powers, Global Money, and the Age of Empire by Steven Bryan.

All that Glitters Is Not Laissez-Faire

Review of The Gold Standard at the Turn of the Twentieth Century: Rising Powers, Global Money, and the Age of Empire, by Steven Bryan (New York: Columbia University Press, 2010)
… Until the outbreak of the First World War in 1914, the combination of new technology with the "classically liberal" … the years before World War I was most remarkable for combining expanding trade, growth, and industrialization … silver become too heavy, and something that embodies more value in less volume is needed.  This need is best …
Cover of Caesar A Life in Western Culture by Maria Wyke.

A Man for All Seasons

Review of Caesar: A Life in Western Culture, by Maria Wyke (Chicago 2008)
… 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 …
The Pride Flag being hoisted onto the Space Needle in Seattle, Washington.

Hatred Aimed at Gays Hurts All

… 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 …
Sir Christopher Wren

The Society That Started It All: The Origins of Modern Science

Review of The Royal Society and the Invention of Modern Science, by Adrian Tinniswood (New York: Basic Books, 2019.)
… 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 …
a man kneeling down near tributes to fallen heroes

Heroes Never Die: The Legacies of Euromaidan

Emily Channell-Justice explores the goals and lived experiences of Ukraine’s watershed Euromaidan protests of 2013-14.
… 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 …
Thurgood Marshall

Thurgood Marshall: A Justice For All

… 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. … who claim to have "made it on their own," calling them "superblacks." While Rowan is right to point out the debt …
President Barack Obama signed the ARRA into law on February 17, 2009. Vice President Joe Biden stood directly behind him.

A New New Deal Must Be For All

… 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.   …

Humans Have Always Lived in a World of Many Worlds

… 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 …
President Franklin D. Roosevelt and outgoing President Herbert Hoover on Inauguration Day in 1933.

COVID, the New Deal, and the Importance of Leadership

… 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 …
Chinese laborers work a sugar plantation in 19th century Hawaii.

A Sweet Beginning: the U.S. Sugar Monopoly

… 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 …
Pearl Harbor Attack

War Can Threaten Civil Liberties at Home

… 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 …
A makeshift hospital in Iowa during the 1918 flu pandemic

Pandemics: Past, Present, Future

… 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 …
The 2011 edition of Austin Pride.

Gay Rights: Separate but Equal?

… 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 …
Lady Bird Johnson in the Texas Hill Country.

The Power of the Pedestal

… 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 self-amplifying. Shy and …
The Nuremburg Map of 1524 is the earliest known European visualization of Tenochtitlan

The Fall of Tenochtitlan

… violence. By the end, a few thousand Spaniards under the command of Hernando Cortés fighting alongside many times … people in the early sixteenth century. For a Spanish soldier fighting with Hernando Cortés named Bernal Díaz del … propagated: that a handful of Spaniards of inherently superior quality to Indigenous peoples in the Americas …
Dolley Madison, 1804, by Gilbert Stuart.

Women’s History and a Woman’s Subtle Power

… a black president at the nation’s helm, even the most glib commentators can justify focusing on black history. But … and elections, as well as their personnel — generals, soldiers, kings and candidates.   No one tells us more about …   In contrast, the political machine built by the ladies of Washington supplied the young government and capital …