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The BBC World Service podcast Witness brings listeners daily podcast shorts on key events in history, described first-hand by the individuals who lived through them.

Best in History Online: BBC's Witness Podcast

… 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 …
PPI Drug Testing by Cambodia, PPI Network, CC BY 2.0, Flickr

Pro Sports Can Run, But They Can’t Hide

… 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, …
Portrait of Franklin D. Roosevelt from the early 1930s.

The Four Freedoms in the War Against Terrorism

… 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 …
A COVID-19 antigen testing center in Warora, Maharashtra, India.

The Deep Roots of India’s COVID-19 Crisis

… 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. …
"The Bosses of the Senate" (1889). Reformers like the cartoonist Joseph Keppler depicted the Senate as controlled by the giant moneybags, who represented the nation's financial trusts and monopolies.

The Dreary Science Meets Politics

… 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 …
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Best in History Online: History Respawned

… 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 …
LA 92, directed by Dan Lindsay, T.J. Martin

At the Movies: LA 92: The Right to be Angry

… 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 …

America's Long-Suffering Mental Health System

… 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 …
Allen Weinstein

Will They Be the National (Secret) Archives?

… 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 …
Statue of Sancho Panza in Madrid, Spain

Kindred Spirits: Shakespeare and Cervantes in Life and Death

… 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. …
1942 photo of an American flag.

The Changing Symbolism of Old Glory

… 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 …
American soldiers making rolling barbed wire entanglements during World War I.

War Can Take On a Life of Its Own

… 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 …
North College Hill, Ohio, USA, Memorial Day parade, 2004, by Rick Dikeman.

A Vanishing American Remembrance?

… 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 …
Rush hour traffic in Interstate 95 in Miami.

Finally, Too Many Cars

… 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 …
March on Washington

The Unfinished Struggle: Civil Rights and the March on Washington

… 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 …
Chartwell, the country estate of Winston Churchill

By Invitation Only

Review of The Long Weekend: Life in the English Country House, 1918-1939, by Adrian Tinniswood New York: Basic Books, 2016

NATO's New Order: The Alliance After the Cold War

… 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 …
American Flag with 15 stars

Best in History Online: The Washington Post's "Made By History"

… 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 …
An Act for the Gradual Abolition of Slavery, Supreme Executive Council of Pennsylvania, March 1, 1780. Pennsylvania State Archives.

The Forgotten First Step Toward Freedom

… 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 …
Capture of the Pirate Blackbeard, 1718 depicting the battle between Blackbeard and Robert Maynard in Ocracoke Bay; romanticized depiction by Jean Leon Gerome Ferris from 1920.

Why Piracy Remains a Threat

… 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 …