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… several TR quotations — in Osawatomie, Kansas, the site of Roosevelt’s 1910 “New Nationalism Address.” … a Milwaukee auditorium to deliver a speech. True to his combative reputation, he insisted on speaking before going … English. She is the author of “Slinging Mud: Rude Nicknames, Scurrilous Slogans, and Insulting Slang from Two …

… Ukrainian exhaustion, and overwhelming Bolshevik military superiority resulted in the final consolidation of the … were war-weary, and saw no Entente troops or aid forthcoming.  Ukraine’s signing the Treaty was something 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 … Boys Podcast also maintains a blog at boweryboyshistory.com , which serves as an additional resource for listeners, …

… When U.S. senators voted to reject the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, they took a giant step … and the Cold War produced a massive arms race. Soon both superpowers created even more devastating hydrogen bombs. By … in Europe and set up a verification system providing for on-site inspections. For the first time, diplomacy led not just …

… rights activism throughout the rural South.  While not discrediting the work of such leaders as King, they have given … individuals like Ella Baker and local activists whose names few would recognize.  Perhaps most especially, they have … never passive victims.  From the very beginning of black community development in the North, African Americans fought …

… the close blockade as the primary means of employing naval superiority. Simultaneously, German success on the continent … strategic priorities. Corbett disavowed continental commitment and mass armies, believing Britain should instead … committed a mass conscript army to the continent, the opposite of Corbett’s vision. The result for Britain was the …

… of Ghent , 1814 where the Admiral of the Royal Navy James Gambier is shaking hands with the U.S. Ambassador to … ignored the bicentennial of the War itself, and will not commemorate its end either, and it is worth asking why. The … idea that the United States is a unique and superior nation—the roots of which lay in the American …

… I teach courses on Eastern Europe, nationalism, migration, communism, the Cold War, among others.   Dr. Robin Judd   … those forced population movements were executed under the supervision of the Western powers. So I do want to return … Relief and Rehabilitation Administration, which is revisited in 1946 when it becomes the IRO, the International …

… spelled out, in English, the word Newborn . Fireworks accompanied live appearances by pop stars and elected … thousand demonstrators, some of whom vandalized local sites associated with those countries that supported … was Serbian or Albanian. The dénouement is well known. Crimes against Albanian civilians perpetrated by Serbian …

… blue jeans); and “American Traditional Characters” (Superman, Mickey Mouse, Rudolph and others). Dr. Mordica … as a jingoistic celebration of the flag. Perhaps the most compelling stories Eller tells come in the political and holiday tradition sections of the …

… landscape and lexicon. This trend has left ever more complex financial markets and multinationals to operate in … build a support package for several nearly insolvent trust companies. This effort quelled market panic and made Morgan … a need for more regulation. What are missing are better supervision and a public regulatory vision to guide it. The …

… Brenna Miller  Welcome to History Talk , the podcast that brings together a … he had killed personally, or had killed under his direct supervision, either as a horse racing tout in the streets of … Blissit. Song and band information can be found on our website. You can find our podcast and more on our website at …

… that these and other countries were entering into a competitive spiral of devaluations in an effort to export … currency systems most favorable to exports and domestic growth. It was true in the 1970s and 1980s when the … about free trade nonetheless remains popular. Quite the opposite was the case, however. The currency war of the 1930s …

… of “Soviet art” as exclusively about promoting a political message, in fact, in the 1920s, artists across the Soviet … cavorted with dancing girls. Finally, the figure of comic writer Ostap Vyshnia was depicted hunting a line of … Avant-Garde of the 1910s and 1920s (Rodovid, 2015). Website: “Open Kurbas” created by Tetiana Rudenko and the team …

… nation, Bavaria appointed Gustav Ritter von Kahr as State Commissioner General ( Generalstaatskommissar ), granting … of the devastating impact of the Treaty of Versailles, is credited with having resuscitated the German army in the … Kahr ordered local radio stations to broadcast a clear message: “Generalkommissar von Kahr, Colonel von Seisser, …

… Nicholas Breyfogle:   Hello, and welcome to Early Encounters with Penguins brought to you by the … islands full of wildlife including some that were homes to year-round colonies of what we now call African … where such encounters happened were a group of nesting sites, quickly named by the sailors, the Penguin Islands. …

… demands to inspect the cargo they carried, and Israeli navy commandos boarded the vessels before the boats pulled into … but violence between Israelis and Palestinians has at times reached agonizing levels. This was particularly true … under the Oslo framework since the early 1990s did the opposite of achieving peace. Horrific sequences of suicide …

… toward Latin America. The authors argue that while sometimes the actions of U.S. policymakers showed they believed … century, officials sometimes demonstrated a broad commitment to republican and democratic principles. For … America as a result of its standing as the sole remaining superpower is both – but in different ways. It has become …

… reward for reasonable risk. We're talking about the dot-com industries of the '90s, aren't we? Not this time. We're … based on common sense, whether their subjects be web sites or cattle herds. The great market crash of Old West … no more than it seems to matter now: you just employed on-site cattle bosses (pixel bosses?) to handle that. Just as a …

… illustrious astronomer and architect Sir Christopher Wren, credited with designing many iconic buildings across Britain … to elevate them to an esteemed position in the eyes of competing Oxbridge scientists, derisive Anglican clergy, and … began to wane, and by the century’s close meetings had become a place to present research (comparable to modern …

… movements; and the third being "crib-sheet books, the compilations, quote books, 'dictionaries' and … grassroots activists, Critchlow illuminates the oftentimes overlooked, but extremely important, role that women … quick-witted, charismatic and intelligent; she has received credit for almost single-handedly halting the Equal Rights …