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… Sometimes the coincidences of history are uncanny.  On Sunday, … Until the outbreak of the First World War in 1914, the combination of new technology with the "classically liberal" … for gold in order to borrow on the London-centered world credit market, in order to expand their nation's …

… Coming to terms with the American Civil War is no easy task. … and enduring questions of race and citizenship. James McPherson, the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian of the … on the administration." Although McPherson gives much credit to their agency, he also points out that the primary …

… nineteen, published the gothic novel Frankenstein. It has become a classic of English literature. Title page of the … shortly after being born and her half-sister Fanny Godwin committed suicide, a couple of months later Percy’s wife … and Frankenstein's monster, played by Boris Karloff, in James Whale's classic film adaptation from 1931 ( right ). The …

… Jessica Blissit   Welcome to History Talk , the podcast that brings together a … nations and other things like that. And really the opposite seems to be happening, at least in relation to the west … the more they stay the same. There have been a lot of superficial changes and never acknowledge that and then I …

… Distinguished Lecturer, Nichols is a frequent public commentator on U.S. politics and foreign policy. Nichols is … Nicholas Breyfogle   Hello, and welcome to "How does ideology drive US foreign relations?" … whole audience. Thank you for coming out. Thanks to the superb team involved with the Clio Society, the Goldberg …

… attempted the same kind of program in Vietnam. It failed completely. The second measure calls for an Iraqi government … Vietnam. In today’s Iraq, the UN would inherit the postwar mess while the United States took credit for toppling Hussein. Invading Iraq was a dangerous …

… too much about it." (Library of Congress) But that did not come to pass. The “no state shall” language was ideally … easier to argue that denial of rights inhibits interstate commerce than to rely on the Fourteenth Amendment. The … Democrats. President Andrew Johnson ( left ), and a message he sent to Congress in June 1866, voicing his …

… Taskforce on February 1, 2016. That achievement has since become a benchmark in American culture. The expression “if we … success at building heavy lift rocketry and Americans’ superiority at instrumentation. The Kennedy administration … the Moon provides a stepping-stone to Mars—a nearby test site before making the 36 million mile trip to the red …

… Leticia Wiggins  Welcome to History Talk , the history podcast for everyone … eighteenth century. Eventually, of course, in more recent times that evolved into the Black Sea Fleet and this is a site that we all know is a very important strategic, warm …

… Russie Unie, soutenu par Vladimir Poutine. Le Parti communiste arrive en second avec seulement 11 % des voix, … la société russe : ses partisans comptent tout autant de femmes que d'hommes, de jeunes que de personnes plus âgées, ils … Ziouganov. Le thème unificateur de la patrie est en effet rapidement relancé par le Kremlin dès 1994-1995, a connu une …

… sex anatomy (ovaries or testes and her hormones and chromosomes. The International Association of Athletic Federations … go either way. All it took was the parents’ unwavering commitment toward raising either a boy or a girl, and this … they are adults. This autonomy is a good thing; it gives credit to the person himself or herself. Let’s give Semenya …

… we like to take a moment to highlight fantastic history sites from around the web. These are websites that – much … going on today. Together, they drill down to colonial times and earlier, revealing the connections (and … broadcast by 36 primary public radio stations, serving 72 communities in 20 states and Washington, D.C.—and more than …

… we like to take a moment to highlight fantastic history sites from around the web. These are websites that – much like  Origins  – seek to bring history … of the University’s eminent imperial historians. It comprises of one of the largest groups of imperial and …

… it is a past that suggests ways to deal with the current mess.   One hundred years ago the corrupt marketing of an … the honor. By the 19th century’s end, the U.S. Senate had become widely known, as it still is today, as a “millionaires … The Senate itself, however, had consistently refused to comply.   Frustrated by Senate inaction and persistent …

… history of a city that has long sat at the crossroads of competing powers, and it still looms large in the … on the island of Luzon, Spanish conquistadors colonized the site. Menaced by pirates and European competitors, the … not transform Manila physically, but they altered place names, imposed a command economy, and gutted the American …

… we like to take a moment to highlight fantastic history sites from around the web. These are websites that – much like Origins – seek to bring history into … highlights a podcast that delivers “the story of our times told by the people who were there.” The BBC World …

… An Earth Day Round Up Photo Credit, Steve Jurvetson In honor of Earth Day 2014, we'd …

… The chair of the House Government Reform Committee, Tom Davis, House Democrat Henry Waxman and Senate … U.S. professional sports leagues. The suspicions about superstar athletes such as Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa have … business were encouraging young Americans to mimic the James Deans of the world rather than the Pat Boones. In 1954, …

… European fascists, who sought to organize the world into superior and inferior “racial states” to fight … back to the “gunboat diplomacy,” the use of force to accomplish diplomatic goals, associated with the major …

… with consumption, claiming  "There is a pronounced superficiality about so much of our high-tech consumption …

… As he refines his economic message on the campaign trail this summer, Republican John … They have imagined that era as a golden age of free-market competition and laissez-faire government.  Many of these … So it is today in our new Gilded Age. Banks and mortgage companies, which lobbied to have regulations in their …

… we like to take a moment to highlight fantastic history sites from around the web. These are websites that – much … in History Online for June connects history and video games! History Respawned is a show where historians consider … respond to some of the questions being raised. Why do we so commonly talk about the golden age of piracy the way that we …

… opens with this quote from Frederick Douglass and its message drives the documentary. Oscar-winning directors Dan … distraught business owners next to coverage of families and communities reeling from extrajudicial violence runs … owners who watched their life’s work burn, it simply cannot compare with grief felt for a slain teenager. Viewers react …