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… I am become death, the shatterer of worlds. J. Robert Oppenheimer … atomic bomb, his creation, explode at the Trinity test site. An atomic age was dawning and Oppenheimer was leading … the broader changing political and social context of the times. Readers with an interest in sociology, identity …

… tenants of true womanhood to argue that women were morally superior and well equipped to care for American society in … as president of the NCN,W the organization deepened its commitment to the Civil Rights Movement, with Height joining … and some women prefer the republican party for the opposite reason, Sarah Paxton A lot of this partisanship is …

… has denounced a Senate bill to extend an increased tax credit for children to the nation’s 6.5 million low-income families, and has buried the measure in another round … abolition aroused a cadre of reformers who unsettled public complacency in less than a century. In 1780, Pennsylvania …

… ultimate solution to problems of (pick one, or pick many) communication, commerce, travel, learning, teaching, thinking? Much of the … than they had before. Many saw the railroad as a message from God to His most favored nation, announcing 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 … uses interviews, oral histories, archival sound clips, and commentary and analysis by scholars in the field of …

… translated into action. In the 1950s, President Eisenhower committed the U.S. government to a first-strike nuclear … also used nuclear threats as psychological weapons. When Communist China shelled Taiwan’s outposts on the islands of … ambassador in Washington, he “would rather be atomized than communized.” Now the Bush administration has combined the …

… to challenge Major League Baseball (MLB). The Red Sox superstar started with the usual. He thanked his coaches, he … had gone before. He pleaded, “I hope that someday, the names of Satchel Paige and Josh Gibson in some way can be … too frequently heard, “if only you were white,” as a compliment to their skills, but also as a reality check that …

… (right) . The images today are somewhat different, but the message is the same. Conditions are awful, and recently, as … everyone thought Roosevelt was up to the task. Political commentator Walter Lippmann called him “a kind of amiable … 'Construction of a Dam' (1939). The federal government commissioned this mural, along with many others, to fund …

… NBC Nightly News aired a story called "Sticker Shock at the Supermarket." Reporter Erin Burnett ominously described "the … early twentieth century to the present, highlighting the complex interaction of politics, economics, nutrition, and … strands together in a clear, smoothly flowing—albeit, sometimes repetitive—narrative. Discussions of welfare usually …

… the fact that she thought he had “showed himself to be a complete idiot. “Why?” the perplexed reporter inquired. … is inconsistent: a “flip-flopper,” the sender of “mixed messages.” Bush strategists may yet succeed with this … “the vision thing.” The son’s problem is just the opposite. He has such a Vision that it blinds his vision. People …

… War. Each nation hailed its space “firsts” as proof of the superiority of its social and economic system. Apollo was also a stunning technological accomplishment. NASA moved in eight years from launching a man … last year, six American rockets, three military and three commercial, have failed, with a loss of more than $3 …

… From a meagre population of 150 when the British East India Company first set up a factory and trading post on the … transactions were facilitated by the use of Chinese copper coins. Chinese currency facilitated trade not just with … of the Boeing 747 in 1970, which had two and a half times the carrying capacity of its largest predecessor and a …

… stained glass window at Boston University's Marsh Chapel, site of the Harvard Psilocybin Project. Leary and Alpert … hallucinogen producing effects similar to LSD) at varying times in 1961. The experience with mushrooms prompted Leary to …

… they often darkened the day-time sky.       Martha has become a cautionary tale of the human ability to extinguish … to clone and resurrect the bird.    Here at Origins, we've compiled a few links to help you learn all you need to know … "Saving Our Birds," by John W. Fitzpatrick ( New York Times , August 29, 2014) "'Martha' The Last Passenger Pigeon," …

… granted greater decision-making authority to local communities, and the Paraguayan government opened budget … U.S. foreign aid program had few notable successes to its credit. In many cases, such assistance simply strengthened … the improved monitoring of polls that are essential prerequisites for free and fair elections. Third, foreign aid is …

… of “Western civilization” is familiar: It begins in ancient Mesopotamia, reaches a peak in Greece , which, in turn, was … story, the myth relegates that city’s more interesting, complicated history to the margins. Ian Worthington’s latest … between Athens and Rome poignantly illustrate Athens’ complicated relationship with the rest of the Mediterranean …

… I saw the ad on a real estate web site a week ago. For sale: 3952 Chatsworth Street, Detroit, … had wound their way to the city in circuitous, sometimes serendipitous ways. But in the end most of them had … the phalanx of government programs that made our world comfortable: the labor laws that gave our fathers the …

… Al Gore said this past week, "and let us listen." The message that the electorate has cast a virtual tie vote is … to 79. Had Henry chosen to fight, Mason's fears might have come true. The infant nation was fragile. In Massachusetts, … He employed it to make sure that Mason's prediction did not come to pass. His closing words to the Virginia convention …

… civilians in Punjab were shot by British soldiers under the command of the now infamous “Butcher of Amritsar.” British … public gatherings. In this way, the British Raj could take credit for bringing democracy to India while cracking down … Nehru and his son Jawaharlal, and a man who would soon become very well known—Mohandas K. Gandhi. In 1919, Gandhi was …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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 …