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… 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 …

… Vice President Dick Cheney. As a consequence, Kucinich’s message that constitutional limits apply to presidential … or the Republican who aspires to succeed him. If so, the outcome will reinforce conclusions previously drawn from the … the conduct of national security policy. That legacy deeply compromises our constitutional system. Lessons drawn from …

… The familiar, yet superficial history of rock and roll begins in the early … disc jockey Alan Freed crowing “That’s Bill Haley and the Comets rockin’ and rollin’ you with ‘Shake, Rattle and Roll.’” Yet a much deeper history exists and a more complex set of origins. Sister Rosetta Tharpe On March 20, …

… hardly in question. The mystery was how high the plot went. Commissioner Charles Chenevier and Superintendent Georges Kubler of France’s investigative … de l’Empereur hotel. The figure has been moved several times since its dedication and forms part of the story of …

… are excited about the idea of exploring space. The Web sites for Spirit and Opportunity, the Mars rovers, have … millions of dollars, or approximately $10,000 a pound. By comparison, sending a 180-pound history professor across the … their budget. That was because the NASA administrator, James Webb, told his engineers to be honest in their cost …

… we like to take a moment to highlight fantastic history sites from around the web. These are websites that – much … journal of experimental and narrative history; though at times outlandish, everything in its pages is as true as the … solicits articles from historians, writers, and artists committed to good storytelling, with an eye for the strange …

… on Prologued...   Alexander Aviña  So it's a really, like, complex, messy matrix, right? So I don't want to say that there was … time to examine and address: charges of trafficking against communist Cuba, for example, or the long history of drug …

… United States has abused its position as the world’s sole superpower. One result has been the reinvigoration of … of “a general association of nations,” what would become the League of Nations, to adjudicate international … and Mexicans in the West to toppling unfriendly regimes during the Cold War — but only recently have we …

… history—and of understanding past pandemics in particular. Comparisons abound. Historical “lessons” have spread almost … virus. In particular, the 1918–19 influenza pandemic has become a major subject of interest. So, where do we stand? In … the rise of the more infectious Delta and Omicron variants combined with the presence of large blocks of unvaccinated …

… wanted to emulate. Now that they had been freed from communist oppression, many supposed, it would not be long … many Russians did hope that Russia would magically become like the United States, the euphoric American … that Americanization was the natural and only acceptable outcome of Russian reform contributed to disregard of …

… we like to take a moment to highlight fantastic history sites from around the web. These are websites that – much … conversation. This month, our Best in History Online pick comes in the form of a collaboration of historians from around …

… we like to take a moment to highlight fantastic history sites from around the web. These are websites that – much … public conversation. This month, our Best in History online comes in the form of a podcast.   In Our Time is one of the …

… 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 …

… a tea party favorite and a new member of the Congressional Super Committee, wrote an op-ed in which he said that “excessive …

… however, has more than its share of ghosts. It is the site of the deadliest labor war in American history. Since … above in 1914) had struck for union recognition; the company's obedience to Colorado's 8-hour day law; the right … their families who had been evicted from their company homes, killing eighteen of them, including women and children. …

… where he was imprisoned, to the Place de la Révolution, the site of his execution.  Written by Dr. Elizabeth Bond. …

… several TR quotations — in Osawatomie, Kansas, the site of Roosevelt’s 1910 “New Nationalism Address.” … a Milwaukee auditorium to deliver a speech. True to his combative reputation, he insisted on speaking before going … English. She is the author of “Slinging Mud: Rude Nicknames, Scurrilous Slogans, and Insulting Slang from Two …

… Ukrainian exhaustion, and overwhelming Bolshevik military superiority resulted in the final consolidation of the … were war-weary, and saw no Entente troops or aid forthcoming.  Ukraine’s signing the Treaty was something the …

… 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 … Boys Podcast also maintains a blog at boweryboyshistory.com , which serves as an additional resource for listeners, …

… there are so few of them we never see enough to catch the message. The Supreme Court, nevertheless, has found them … advertising–presumably this would apply to businesses now competing the have the biggest flag in the neighborhood. One … systematize them and bring them up to date, not as commandments but as guidance for people who prefer to salute …

… December 25, 1848, brought an unwelcome gift to the Queen City. That Christmas Day, a dying man … English travel writer Isabella Lucy Bird (1831-1904) who visited Cincinnati in the 1850s. After Cincinnati’s initial … population, but according to one contemporary source four times likelier to die than native-born Americans. Nativist …

… we like to take a moment to highlight fantastic history sites from around the web. These are websites that – much … conversation. This month, our Best in History Online pick comes in the form of a history magazine who aims to bring …