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Interracial Marriage in "Post-Racial" America

… fight racial prejudice through a celebration of multiracial community. The event takes its name from the 1967 Supreme … as man and wife, against the peace and dignity of the Commonwealth,” they were offered one year imprisonment or a … means to raise funds for the Virginia Company’s colony. She died in England soon thereafter and the peace brokered with …
Tiger

Caged: Humans and Animals at the Zoo

… and cultural history, micro history, film, agrarian studies, violence and animal studies.   Dr. Tracy McDonald   … little difference between the stuffed gorilla that you can buy at the gift shop and the gorilla in an enclosure that … Blisset. Song and band information can be found on our website. You can find our podcast and more on our website
Book cover of To Break Russia's Chains by Vladimir Alexandrov

Terrorism as the Path to a Better Russia

Review of To Break Russia’s Chains: Boris Savinkov and His Wars Against the Tsar and the Bolsheviks by Vladimir Alexandrov (New York: Pegasus Books, 2021)
… and sent to Vologda. It was there he decided to become a writer, sending his first short story to Maxim Gorky. … escaped and joined the Socialist Revolutionary (SR) Combat Organization. He was now a political terrorist and a … and then sought to kill Boris Chicherin, the first Soviet Commissar for Foreign Affairs, in Genoa in 1922. Alexandrov …

The Second Amendment Goes to Court

… of future discussions of gun control for decades to come. It might even have an impact on the dynamics of the … view. The NRA even endowed a chair in Second Amendment studies at George Mason Law School with the express purpose of … the assembly clause of what became the First Amendment embodied this civic republican ideal. The right of assembly was …

The Question of Refugees: Past and Present

… face an uncertain future in the sprawling Dadaab camp complex in Kenya barely register on the radar of the global … Somalia must first walk for weeks across a desert and many die along the way or soon after arrival. This mass gravesite … ground, an Indian government official invited a European audience to “imagine what would have happened if instead of a …
Painting of the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand

Memories of the Great War

… bring us first-hand stories of how the Great War is being commemorated across the globe. Brenna Miller joined us from … and Belgrade and Keshia Lai as she reports on the less studied war memorials in Singapore.   Patrick Potyondy   So … our music. Song and band information can be found on our website. You can find our podcasts and more at our website

The Year of Africa

… After touring British colonies in Africa, Macmillan had become increasingly convinced that “national consciousness” … of Lumumba’s anti-Western sentiments and as a result of soldiers’ mutinies and secessionist movements in the southern … of the British Gold Coast Colony, stood before an audience of nearly 50,000 to announce the birth of a new …
In 2011, thousands of ultra-nationalist demonstrators took to the streets of Moscow, armed with tsarist insignia and shouting the anti-immigrant chant "Let's give Russia back to the Russians!"

Russia’s Lost Empire

Review of Lost Kingdom: The Quest for Empire and the Making of the Russian Nation, From 1470 to the Present, by Serhii Plokhy (New York: Basic Books, 2017)
… and truly non-Russian populations dwelled . Readers might come away with the impression that the Russian Empire and … history. Despite this, Plokhy succeeds in detailing the complexities of Russo-Ukrainian relations over the centuries … to any reader interested in these issues. From their common origins in Kievan Rus to their conflict over Crimea , …

A New Congo Crisis?

… for current president Joseph Kabila to step down. It has become a cliché to contrast the Congo’s tremendous economic … his troops (a significant percentage of whom were child soldiers), reached the capital of Kinshasa in a mere seven … in the guise of shady agreements used to satisfy allies or buy allegiances. To the surprise of many, L-D. Kabila’s son, …

Trade Wars: The Collapse of America's Free Trade Consensus

… Trump held up Carrier, an air conditioning and heating company, as a symbol of the plight of American … by free trade deals that hurt American workers. The company had planned to close an Indiana plant that makes … trade enabled businesses to export their goods to willing buyers while facing little competition from imports. With …
Official ISIS flag

11/12/2014: Top Ten Origins: The Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS)

… . The surge of U.S. forces to Iraq in 2007-2008 and the accompanying counterinsurgency strategy along with a Sunni … ungoverned spaces that ISIS has used to regenerate its combat power with an infusion of new recruits, financing, … the umma (the Islamic people) should be ruled by the most competent person, while the Shi’a believe that the ruler of …
Pro-Choice demonstrators holding signs saying "Support Legal Abortion"

The Politics of Abortion in Europe and America

… associate editor Patrick Potyondy. Patrick Potyondy   Welcome to Writers Talk History, a partnership between the … because there have been a number of women who have died because they were not able to get access to legal … State University. And I encourage you to go look at that website to find out many great articles about history, …
Anti-draft protest outside the Department of Justice in 1967.

The Draft — for Democracy

… afford to do so continued their education, while their compatriots with lesser means often found themselves … service rates by African Americans, from the Buffalo Soldiers of the nineteenth century through World War II, … close to the breaking point. There now may not be enough soldiers to fulfill all the assigned missions. If the Bush …
Sylvester I and Constantine in a 1247 fresco.

Top Ten Origins: Popes Before 1500

… The early version was small (around 30 clerics) and comprised only of “cardinal priests” who served parishes … historical evidence, and most scholars think that Peter died somewhere far from Rome, probably never having even … of the later Middle Ages, the legend holds that Joan studied the liberal arts in Athens while living as Joannes …
A makeshift influenza hospital at Camp Funston, 1918.

Top Ten Origins: Flu

… Organization. The word influenza is derived from the medieval Italian word for “influence” ( influentia ) and … first used the term in English, but “influenza” was not a commonly used term in England until the 1782 pandemic. 2. … twentieth century endured the two most important case studies in the history of infectious disease: the 1918-1919 …
Flag of Israel with landscape of Israel in the background

Leaving Zion: Jewish Emigration from Palestine and Israel after World War II

… world. Ori Yehudai is the Schottenstein Chair in Israel Studies and Assistant Professor in the Department of History at … Dr. Nicholas Breyfogle   Welcome to Leaving Zion: Jewish Emigration from Palestine and … is the Saul and Sonia Schottenstein Chair in Israel Studies and assistant professor in the Department of History at …
Robert Smalls pictured between 1870-1880.

The Remarkable Life of Robert Smalls

… the state of Confederate fortifications there. Union Naval commanders acted quickly and successfully on this … the Planter , making him one of the highest paid Black soldiers of the war. His reputation was further burnished … January 1864, he used his compensation from the Planter to buy the Beaufort home of his former enslaver on Prince …
Women working at a farm at Lamas district in Peru, 2014. (Photo by CIF Action)

Reforming Peruvian Agriculture, Again

… declared, the group trains “farmers, women, and indigenous communities in the use of improved technologies in current … Aside from PERU-Hub, research teams from OU recently completed the first phase of collaborative projects with … varieties that could thrive at high altitudes, improve the diets of sheep and cattle, and increase local milk, meat, …
Martin Luther King, Jr., at Civil Right March on Washington

Exploring the Legacy of MLK’s “I Have a Dream” Speech

If Martin Luther King, Jr. were alive today, do you think he would believe that “his dream” had been achieved? Why or why not?
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… Students will gather information using the Origins website to help facilitate a Socratic-style discussion that … The lesson can be done in the classroom or adapted and completed online. …
Plate of enchiladas at a Mexican restaurant.

Mexican Food in the United States

… tacos increasingly brought these foods into the American diet. As Mexican immigrants arrived in new locales, various … States.  The popularity of these dishes and Mexican ingredients pushed Mexican cuisine into fast food with the … Powder  The food tradition of the American Southwest has come about through various populations’ contributions over …
A protest against the Iraq War held in 2007 in Washington D.C.

“Passive Citizenship is Not Enough”

… the country, his own books, articles, and op-ed pieces accomplished nothing. Yet his declaration denies the real … Vietnam, ultimately rising to the rank of colonel before becoming an academic. A conservative, he nevertheless became … of U.S. troops in Iraq as they shift the mission from combat to support. Even the Senate Republican leader, Mitch …
Republican Party Logo.

Republicans Should Look Back to the Future

… recently to consider their party’s future, many of them complained that conservatives had lost their way. They … and a progressive. Not many of today’s leaders offer that combination. At the recent governors’ conference only a few …   Yet Eisenhower recognized that the American public welcomed FDR’s New Deal reforms that helped the aged, the …
2009 Tour de France winner, Alberto Contador, wearing the yellow jersey on June 26, 2009.

The Tour de France and the Yellow Jersey

… cyclists might wear the yellow jersey during the three-week competition, only one will ultimately win it. Cover of the … this hue. Ultimately, the Tour was born out of blistering competition and vigorous debate over who could be considered … beyond France’s borders and its neighbors to reach audiences thousands of miles away. No longer exclusively …
Wrangell-St Elias Natl Park by CheWei Chang, Flickr, CC BY-ND 2.0

America’s National Parks: 10 Moments of Insight

When you “pair the intellect with emotion and place,” what often results is a moment of insight: an unexpected instance where you suddenly understand something deeper about history, about nature, about others, about yourself.
… the park’s museum, which is located beneath the Arch, was completely redesigned to acknowledge the growing consensus … video essay presented here, I ask viewers to keep this more complex and troubling context in mind as well.) Written by …