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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 … 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 …

… patients’ access to lifesaving medical assistance, all compounded by the emergence of a new variant that may be … to challenge the underlying health inequities that have become so glaringly apparent in India’s second coronavirus … issued by a foreign government, which were sometimes at odds with indigenous understandings of disease. …

… 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 …

… wake of a mass shooting such as the one in Parkland, FL, commentators, pundits, and politicians all gather around to … mental health care at Cook County Jail in 2014 (photo credit: Sarah-Ji). The effects of mental illness on life … away in an institution. Her father reportedly never visited her again. A graph showing the decrease in inpatients …

… suggested to many that the White House wanted its own man supervising the release of the president's father's papers. … Assassination Records, and now the files of the 9-11 commission. Decisions about access to these materials should … Collins of Maine, chair of the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee and a Republican, noted in Weinstein's …

… years ago this month. In fact, England and Spain, the two superpowers at the time, one on its ascent, the other on the … the rights of his novel to a printer. He was buried in a common grave. Most profoundly, our modern sensibility is … to conceive the last four centuries without these two names: Shakespeare and Cervantes. We are their children. …

… Blue are also in fashion. The World Series in New York, the Super Bowl in New Orleans, and the Winter Olympics in Salt … Although the United States has often wavered from that commitment, the tragic events of Sept. 11 compel us to … the World War II generation revered Old Glory, it was sometimes burned by their children who opposed the Vietnam …

… of events leading to World War I, a particularly horrifying mess of a modern war that Americans naively believed was … of the Marne. Both sides then dug in along what would become the great Western Front, a series of trenches extending …

… Cemetery were not even permitted to visit the grave sites of their relatives after the Civil War.   President … the national holiday from its pedestal. Memorial Day commemorates the men and women killed on the battlefield or … Gibbons (R – Nevada). Both bills were referred to the Committee on the Judiciary and the Committee on Government …

… was caused principally by spiking gasoline prices, tight credit and disappearing paychecks. But a deeper look shows … starting to remake Maxwell Motors into his future Big Three company. In 1922, there was one registered passenger car or … simply maintaining the status quo until something better comes along.   Some sort of American automobile industry will …

… On August 28th, America will commemorate the anniversary of the March on Washington for … Randolph during the early 1940s. Randolph along with James Farmer (president of Congress of Racial Equality), John … promoting racial equality. The March on Washington has been credited with helping to spur the passing of the Civil …

… and dangerous, amplifying the sense of tension and competition across Europe and strengthening the sense of … initial years after the fall of the Soviet Union , it has become more assertive on its borders and less willing to … changes that NATO underwent during these decades were the times it expanded its membership, adding Greece and Turkey to …

… 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 … the section is to show what historians do. The page aims to combat the tendency to use history as "a tool to advance …

… 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 …

… organization until seven years later, are usually credited with this accomplishment, having banished slavery in their remaining … as the basis of American nationality. A freed slave, James Mars, exuded confidence in his diary that “the time is …

… the Obama administration. Why should the world’s greatest superpower worry about small groups of pirates? Because, … European prisoners.   Then, as now, the United States was coming out of a long and costly war (with England). Then, … Today, President Obama hopes to reduce American military commitments abroad as the Iraq war winds down. Pirate …