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… infects between 1.3 and 4 million people and is responsible for between 21,000 and 143,000 deaths annually worldwide, … the poor’s living conditions. In Great Britain, Poor Law Commissioner Edwin Chadwick, from the miasma school, began … However, it would take another decade (and another pandemic visitation) for this discovery to be broadly accepted. …

… when asked about the U.S. administration’s vocal support for the beleaguered opposition to the Venezuelan government, … century, officials sometimes demonstrated a broad commitment to republican and democratic principles. For … , not only Presidents and Secretaries of State but also newspapermen and common citizens effused sympathy for the …

… setting the non-stop long-distance flight record for women at 26 hours 29 minutes flown and 4,008 miles … miles in a straight line).  Plans for the women’s flight commenced three months earlier in August 1938. Valeriy … in transport missions, rather than in combat.  During his visit with female pilots of the Krasnodar Aviation School in …

… On November 8, 1942, American and British forces invaded beaches and ports across French North Africa. … the Axis, operation Torch constituted the biggest and most complex amphibious landing to that point in world history.  … and American forces through the remainder of the war. Torch coincided with stunning victories at El Alamein and …

… wished that things could just be like they used to be. A common sentiment, it is actually responsible for distorting the realities of our collective past because … only to attend the nearest Renaissance fair or turn on the latest movie depicting medieval warfare to see just how …

… cucumbers, apricots, peaches, and berries of all kinds. Before the locavore, organic food movement emerged, villagers … of independence. And, for many, knowing where your food comes from, intimately, down to the moisture of the soil, … markets, radiologists released contaminated produce back to sellers to sell. In 1990, KGB officers unearthed four …

… over-exploitation of resources increasingly dominate the news, there may be an even larger threat on the horizon. By … event of our own making? And if so, what will this mean for humanity and what can we do about it? Listen in as hosts … have reshaped ecosystems in the past, their consequences for animal and plant diversity, and what this may mean for …

… a million people. South Dakota, the stories revealed, had become the “Cayman Islands of the Heartland.” As unlikely as … of public control and the commonweal around the globe for the past half-century. These policies have made the rich … costs associated with the rally impacted local people and visitors alike. Sky-high rents, for example, meant that some …

… Participants: Bob Ahern | Director of Archive Photography for Getty Images Dawn Chitty, (Ed.D.) | Director of … And we can do this in a number of ways. First, we can revisit our own analog collections. Just 1% of our analog … gathering in 1980. And what we see pictured here is a bookseller and some patrons at a black community event in 1980. …

… Australia has water troubles. For at least the past nine years, the people "down under" … is a self-reinforcing event. How, we should ask, has it come to all this? Australia's water woes are, in part, a … The Federation Drought (1895-1903)—so named because it coincided with Australia's birth as an independent and …

… Prologued is a serial podcast from Origins that performs in depth discussions of historical roots that have … the history of a major issue society is facing, in an effort to not only explain how we got here, but to reveal a path forward.  Season 1 will analyze the myth of the women's …

… a strong hold on the imagination of the American public. To commemorate “Honest Abe,” Origins offers ten of the most … , and John F. Kennedy(1963). JFK’s murder was a touchstone for anyone who was alive at that moment. Lincoln’s passing … interest in the President’s life. Maybe it is just a coincidence that this burst of scholarship began in an age …

… Musicals are the quintessential American dramatic art form, combining spoken dialogue with music, song, and dance. For … still happen, the decline of the movie musical has coincided with a rise in theatrical productions that were … hybrid. This rousing real-life tale of child newspaper sellers who went on strike in 1899 for better pay began life …

… In societies that have undergone major political transformations—away from systems of oppression and towards … politicians, arms dealers, and bureaucrats, among others, committed heretofore underappreciated crimes in the waning … proposal dressed up as public diplomacy” in 1985 and who visited the country the following year. When approached in …

… No disaster scenario more challenges human hopes to overcome nature’s forces than the sudden and unpredicted strike of a giant … they wanted to determine if a guest from outer space had visited. Yet their commitment to empirical research …

… into law on April 3, 1948. The Marshall Plan, as it’s more commonly known, was intended to revive the economies of … Italy, and West Germany, the program was an ambitious foreign aid effort and an unprecedented display of U.S. … However, in underscoring its accomplishments, the latest references to the Marshall Plan neglect its more …

… but the game itself made no money. Men’s college basketball commenced with a similarly obscure contest.  In 1895 at … national football championship made a nifty $549 million for the teams and their conferences.  Division I men’s … by poorly compensated, short-term contract, adjunct, and visiting professors. Employees Who Don’t Get Paid For over a …

… Espionage produces information. Its analysis generates intelligence. The process … spy. Since then, as this list shows, espionage became more complex and increasingly valuable. The times change, but … in a forward hospital. French officials let Mata Hari visit him in exchange for her agreement to spy on Germans. …

… Arabic, European, and Persian architectural styles, the complex embodied purposefully Egypt's place at the … as the group settled down to talk. After a brief back-and-forth about Israel, Mubarak turned to Iraq. "My dear … Little was known of the man beyond the fact that he had visited a website associated with radical Islam—but his name …

… World War . Or so the story goes. In January 1918, after forty-one months of combat, Allied troops were ready for a ceasefire, but they … been touched by death. Oftentimes, there was no grave to visit and no body upon which to perform funereal rights that …

… were exhausted, and all but the Oatman family opted to stay for at least a few weeks to recover.  The Oatmans, led by … Olive remade herself into a proper Victorian lady, complete with a child (the couple adopted) and a beautiful … transitions. For more information on Mifflin and her work, visit: …

… American immigration policy has always toggled back and forth between seeking immigrant labor and restricting entry … they simply never made enough to do so. “Many Chinamen have come; few have returned. Why is this?” representatives of … U.S. immigration document. Upon his return from a temporary visit to China in 1895, Wong was denied re-entry to San …