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The History of International Women’s Day

The first “Woman’s Day” celebration was organized by the U.S. Socialist Party in Chicago on May 2, 1908.
… causes.” The following year, women gathered in New York for a similar celebration. Inspired by these American … Academic Technology Services. The Origins ' editorial team includes Editors Nicholas Breyfogle, Steven Conn and … Park and Kristin Osborne We thank the Stanton Foundation for their funding of this and other Origins projects. …
group of protesters with linked arms at Epifanio de los Santos Avenue

The People Power Revolution, Philippines 1986

From February 22 to 25, 1986, hundreds of thousands of Filipinos gathered on Epifanio de los Santos Avenue to protest President Ferdinand Marcos' claim that he had won re-election.
… Academic Technology Services. The Origins' editorial team includes Editors Nicholas Breyfogle, Steven Conn and … Layout: Kristin Osborne We thank the Stanton Foundation for their funding of this and other Origins projects. …
Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife before their assassinations in Sarajevo.

The Enduring Lesson of Sarajevo

… warned at the November ceremony in Lithuania marking the latest round of NATO expansion. The president should have … appease dictators.” As the Bush administration prepares for a U.S. invasion of Iraq, it should also heed the lesson … invasion, the Iraqi military could engage in house-to-house combat or terrorist attacks against U.S. troops in Baghdad …
Image of Pluto from NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft taken on July 13, 2015.

Discovering Pluto

… supposed links between meteor streams and planetary orbits. For example, he proposed that the Perseids and Lyrids were … and mathematical calculations.  Initially, he focused on comet and meteor predictions, but he later turned to … in Neptune’s orbit. To assist with calculations, he hired a team of human computers—individuals (often women) who …
The South Carolina State Capitol.

Trent Lott Should Be History

… Bush is reorganizing the leadership of his economic team, Senate Republicans should reorganize their leadership as well. It is time for their leader, Trent Lott of Mississippi, to step, or be … Internet and Sunday morning television pundits buzzed with commentary about it. The Washington Post's David Broder said …
Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan

Bombing Hiroshima

The atomic age began between heartbeats at 8:15 am on August 6, 1945 when the Japanese city of Hiroshima was leveled by an atomic bomb.
… Academic Technology Services. The Origins ' editorial team includes: Editors Nicholas Breyfogle, Steven Conn and … Specialist Laura Seeger. We thank the Stanton Foundation for their funding of this and other Origins projects.   …
Portrait of President James K. Polk from 1846.

The Lessons of Mr. Polk’s War

… intelligence, launches a war on specious pretexts. American forces occupy the enemy capital but cannot impose a … sectional rancor increase. Even though the United States is ultimately victorious, the war exacerbates already deep … history of foreign occupation, Iraqi civilians would welcome U.S. troops as liberators. Most Iraqis, like most …
A scene from the 1956 Hungarian Revolution

Remembering '56: The Hungarian Revolution

… ill-fated revolution that ended with the re-imposition of Communist rule and the flight of some 200,000 Hungarians to … year was as dramatic as the Hungarian Revolution—a bold but ultimately unsuccessful uprising that nearly expelled Soviet forces from Hungary in late October. The unprecedented …
Joseph Ambrose, an 86-year-old World War I veteran, attends the dedication day parade for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in 1982. Wearing a doughboy uniform like the ones used during the war, he is holding an American flag. It covered the casket of his son Clement, who was killed in the Korean War.

Tributes of Silence, the Honor of Words

… This years Veterans Day comes in the wake of fierce political campaigning over which … truest friend and the staunchest ally of those now fighting for their country overseas. The divisive war in Iraq was … of the Civil War" (2006) and a writer for the History News Service. …
Cover of Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China by Ezra F. Vogel.

The Man Who Re-Invented China

Review of Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China, by Ezra F. Vogel (Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2011)
… Europe and the Soviet Union, made the future of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) uncertain. It was in this period of … many within the Party, alarmed by world events, called for the slowing down of economic restructuring and the loosening of ties with the West, Deng, by visiting some of the most developed cities along China's …
Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History - The New Edition

Best in History Online: The Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History

… “is a reference, research, and teaching tool conceived for students and scholars of art history,” that allows users … civilizations, themes, and artists and makers. Entries for individual artworks include descriptions, information … conservators, and educators--to ensure that visitors have access to new research and perspectives on the …
Journeys to the Other Shore: Muslim and Western Travelers in Search of Knowledge, by Roxanne L. Euben book cover.

Journeys to the Other Shore: Muslim and Western Travelers in Search of Knowledge

Review of Journeys to the Other Shore: Muslim and Western Travelers in Search of Knowledge, by Roxanne L. Euben (Princeton University Press, Princeton 2006)
… easily between historical periods, and languages. Her command of her own discipline, political theory, and other … – a discourse whose only travels take place in the form of violent jihads. Journeys to the Other Shore , then, … communities in varying historical and geographic contexts. Ultimately, within Journeys to the Other Shore Roxanne Euben …
Djiboutian workers fill bags with wheat destined for Ethiopia, provided by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), at the Port of Djibouti, Africa, Jan. 7, 2013.

The Birth and Death of USAID

… plans to reduce the staff of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) to 15 people and move … in the beginning of 2025, still working in the name of the commitment that President John F. Kennedy had made in 1961 … in August 1941 to discuss the war, they announced hope of ultimately securing a peace that promised that “all the men …
Northern Alliance Troops in Afghanistan in 2001.

Why Afghanistan Will Not Be a Quagmire

… The United States has sent special forces, along with British special forces, into Afghanistan. … has concluded that the Taliban regime in Afghanistan is complicit because it harbors al-Qaida. But will an American … Vietnam. Britain failed to isolate Afghanistan and paid the price. In the nineteenth century, the British and Russian …
Print depicting the USS Olympia firing on the Spanish fleet during the Battle of Manila Bay on May 1, 1898.

Top Ten Origins: Puerto Rico and the United States

… 2018, President Donald Trump made a set of disparaging comments about Puerto Rico. They underscored just how little … fact, Puerto Ricans are Americans—making our relations not foreign, but familiar or even familial. There are 3.4 … Obama became the first sitting United States president to visit Puerto Rico since President Kennedy’s trip in 1961. …
the back of a man who is looking at a flying saucer in the sky

Project Blue Book: America's Obsession with UFOs

Headquartered at Wright Patterson Air Force Base near Dayton, OH, Project Blue Book, the U.S. Air Force’s investigation into UFOs, ran for 12 years beginning in March of 1952.
… Headquartered at Wright Patterson Air Force Base near Dayton, OH, Project Blue Book, the U.S. Air … the World to Flying Saucers https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/06/ … Project Blue Book Termination https://www.archives.gov/news/articles/project-blue-book-50th-anniversary Project …
An AIDS testing site in Moscow, 1987.

The Blame Game: The USSR’s Response to HIV/AIDS

… HIV/AIDS in the late 1980s—how officials initially blamed foreign nations for the virus and denied the possibility of extensive community spread among the Soviet population—offers a … and homosexual and bisexual men. Letter writers to Soviet newspapers floated the idea of setting up a colony for the …
Border Fence/Wall

Shifting Borders: The Many Sides of U.S.-Mexican Relations

… Long before the recent initiatives to strengthen the border wall … tell us about the current state of affairs and prospects for the future between the U.S. and Mexico? Join us as hosts … of having a deportable labor force, which keeps consumer prices down, a labor force that's extremely vulnerable, …
Artistic rendition of Space Station Freedom with the STS Orbiter Vehicle

No Cheap Ticket to Outer Space

For the first time since Project Apollo nearly four decades … millions of dollars, or approximately $10,000 a pound. By comparison, sending a 180-pound history professor across the … Atlantic Ocean demands $3-6 a pound, depending on ticket prices. Unless the cost of reaching orbit is reduced, space …
A photo of the Great Synagogue of Rome.

The Catholic Church and the Holocaust

… who is better known by her given name of Edith Stein — was formally declared a saint and martyr by Pope John Paul II. … “Christianize” the Holocaust in order to play down Catholic complicity in Nazi atrocities. This controversy comes at a … Jews a priority of his papacy. He is the first pope to have visited one of the chief synagogues of Rome. Under his …

The Long, Long Struggle for Women's Rights in Afghanistan

… astonishing and repressive law that would make it illegal for women of the Shi'i minority (approximately 10 percent of … and I were fortunate enough to be granted permission to visit northern Afghanistan. We were an unlikely group to be … had very recently joined forces with the celebrated Tajik commander Ahmad Shah Massoud to establish the "Northern …
Black Women's Rights Leaders

Prologued: Women and the Vote

Analyzing the myth of the women's voting bloc
… Dr. Joan Flores-Villalobos, the University of Southern California (formerly of The Ohio State University) Dr. Daniel … ) Apple Podcasts ( https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/prologued/id1525013753 ) Spotify ( … Academic Technology Services. The Origins' editorial team includes Editors Nicholas Breyfogle, Steven Conn and …