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… fantastic history sites from around the web. These are websites that – much like Origins – seek to bring history … public conversation. This month, our Best in History Online comes in the form of an educational tool for improving …

… at … well, any number of things. Lumping them together, the commentariat called all these angry voters “populists” and … candidates that year split the remaining 60%. Lincoln embodied what Americans wanted to believe about their political … plane in the early 1950s ( right ). All three of these bodies share three things in common: first, they are housed …

… fantastic history sites from around the web. These are websites that – much like Origins – seek to bring history … own. Each podcast episode is about an hour long with accompanying text, images, and conversational style to …

… Just how has American society mobilized for a sense of common purpose in the past? And why have we seemed to lose that sense of common purpose today in the midst of the coronavirus … struggles against racism and police violence ? At different points, particularly as the United States has gone to war, …

… 2, Section 2, couldn’t be clearer: “The President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United … there any grant of the sweeping powers now claimed for the commander in chief. Indeed, the congressional power to … of resorting to violence. The Framers made the president commander in chief for efficiency and to avoid a dangerous …

… The Founding Fathers balanced the power of the president as commander-in-chief with that of Congress, the people’s representatives — the one to command the nation’s armed forces, the other to decide when …

… not been much better. Police stations—“convenience security points”— sit on every other street corner and in all … more recently, of settler colonialism. It is also based on competing visions of history and of who belongs to the land. … the number is closer to 45%. In the 1950s, demobilized soldiers were settled on the land, and during the Cultural …

… Guiteau, a disgruntled political hopeful. Garfield later died from an infection which ravaged his body for two and …

… the French Duke of Normandy. It is a reminder that the complicated, ambivalent, and sometimes hostile relationship … In January 1066, Edward the Confessor, King of England, died without an heir, which motivated several claimants to … Tapestry depicting Norman cavalry attacking Anglo-Saxon soldiers. Was William’s claim to the English throne legitimate? …

… and there was always a world that needed redeeming. When he died ten years later, scores of mourners, from New York to … nonconformist left. Historian Leilah Danielson attempts to complete the work that Muste did not. It is most useful to … and activism for Muste. He believed that liberalism, as embodied by the New Deal order, had failed precisely because it …

… dimples, chads and absentee ballots has raised the ire of diehard partisans who will try to weaken the president by … otherwise, is a dynamic process that revolves around three complex elements — the leader, the followers and the … they do appear to be fixated on the second major component of the leadership process: the followers. …

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… those ends were radically different. That difference points up the wrong-headedness of the Bush policy in Iraq. … including 35 churches and numerous homes in this state. McComb, Miss., came to be known that summer as the bombing … Hamer’s famous, riveting testimony before the credentials committee at the 1964 Democratic National Convention, for …

… he was dead. The implication was clear—although Stalin had died, his influence would be keenly felt in the Soviet … pardoned or remitted the sentences of prisoners whom had committed minor offenses. As they worked to dismantle … narrow” for the United States and the Soviet Union to come out on the other side with a better relationship, …

… On D-Day, over 125,000 British, American, and Canadian soldiers supported by more than five thousand ships and … thousand casualties on the first day of the invasion. To commemorate the battle, Origins offers ten of the most … 4. Allied Intelligence Successes and Failures Allied soldiers hold aloft a dummy tank to deceive Germans The Allies …

… The 1972 Munich Olympics were billed as Die Heiteren Spiele —the “Happy Games.” West Germans hoped … Games” soon became the “Olympics of Terror.” A global audience watched a tragic attack on the Israeli athletes … met to plan Operation “Ikrit and Biram” under mission commander “Issa,” Arabic for Jesus. Ikrit and Biram were two …

… All of those meanings are now reflected in the Jewish community’s ambivalent view of the Middle East conflict. … in the first century C.E. A movement to rebuild it has become a rallying point for far-right Jewish nationalists, who … Mideast peace. Ira Chernus is a professor of religious studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder and a writer …

… Pinsker, set the pattern in 1881. Anti-Semitism “can never die,” he maintained. Wherever Jews live among foreigners, … as a permanent fact of life. The Zionists aimed to overcome that psychological infirmity by making the Jews a … Holocaust theologian Emil Fackenheim once told an audience that Israel might be destroyed by its enemies. Still, …

… is collected, debated, and passed on.   Shortly before she died, I interviewed my monolingual Spanish-speaking … With a sense of betraying la causa, I carried out mom's command. My mother was equally adamant that I was not to … and preservation. It will also use the suggestions of the community to evaluate how best to promote the public's …

… power and with pampering their members at the cost of the common good. Union leaders, however, have offered to make … will add nothing to state coffers, whose depletion will be compounded when Walker's tax breaks for business begin to … Senate: Joseph McCarthy.   McCarthy, whose insistence that communists had infiltrated America's unions as well as the …

… was a motive in his pursuit of liberty; indebtedness was common among Virginia planters, who traded in a global … have was a product of winning admittance to the bar. He accomplished this ironically but tellingly, managing to … hardly muted the power of his influence. The public and soldiers adored him. Henry's legacy has remained controversial …

… rash act against a national celebrity. Meanwhile, Knight complained that he was a victim of changing expectations … trustee critical of Brand's action invoked a pointed comparison: "President Truman fired General MacArthur.  … Brand fired General Knight." Defending Knight, the trustee compared Knight's firing to the earlier dismissal of a …