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… so distressed was he that his beloved Confederacy had lost. History is written by the winners, the old adage goes.  But …  They responded in the years that followed by rewriting the history of slavery and thus the primary reason they fought … that northerners wanted to destroy the South.  In his 1934 history of the Civil War, Adams blamed the war on northern …

… … Slavery … Racism & Racial Ideas … Black Lives in American History … U.S. Laws and Legislation … 19th Century … U.S. Politics … African American History … US History since 1877 … US History to 1877 … Evaluating the …

… How are have the Opium Wars become secret history? … Charles Bell … World History since 1500 … The Second Opium War: A Secret History …

… … Slavery … Racism & Racial Ideas … Black Lives in American History … 19th Century … 20th Century … U.S. Politics … Sports … African American History … US History to 1877 … US History since 1877 … From Republicans …

… War/Reconstruction … 20th Century … Black Lives in American History … US History since 1877 … US History to 1877 … African American History … Confederate …

… unrest. Protests in Ukraine's autonomous republic of Crimea, however, show this conflict is not so close to … to make of Russian actions. Read more on the interesting history of these relationships and intricacies of this … his piece entitled " Crimea, the Tinderbox. " … Connecting History … Europe … Ukraine … Military/War/Peace … Russia … …

… female presidential candidates later, this uneven and long history raises a basic question: Why has it taken so long … led by a woman at some point between 1963 and 2014? And, if history is a guide, might 2016 be the year that the United … read in front of all the delegates, savoring her place in history. As the “first female Cold Warrior,” Smith continued …

… Faculty experts from the Ohio State University Department of History hold a conversation about the first one hundred days … Host: Margaret Newell, Professor, Department of History Panelists: Maysan Haydar, Lecturer and Graduate Student, Department of History Treva Lindsey, Associate Professor, Department of …

… by condemning violence “on both sides,” he repeated a long history of blaming others for acts of terror perpetrated by … To put Charlottesville in context, let’s review the history of white supremacist violence in the United States. … the police nor the two white youths faced consequences. The history of framing white supremacist violence as justifiable …

… out of the heat? I can help you. Analyzing and teaching books are large components of my job, and, honestly, I like … putting together summer reading lists. Here are ten great history books that I recommend that you read this summer. I … interests. My work focuses on modern United States history, so all of these books have at least one foot in …

… to time, 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 public conversation. For this month's BHO (Best in History Online), we turn our attention to the American …

… to time, 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 public conversation. This month, our Best in History Online highlights a podcast that delivers “the story …

… some perspective in a book that carries the title A Short History of Celebrity .  Fred Inglis, Emeritus Professor of … University of Sheffield, is the author of more than twenty books on a broad range of topics—sport, the holiday, media … his "most pointed moral"—is simply that celebrity has a history.  Inglis is thoroughly appalled by many of modern …

… César Chávez that are worthy of federal recognition. The history of Chávez and the farm worker movement is important … around them helps insure that this labor and civil rights history is collected, debated, and passed on.   Shortly … white, and black banners with the UFW eagle.   But this history is not monolithic. At home, my parents talked about …

… protests that were, by some accounts, the largest in world history. Demonstrations occurred in all fifty states and on … 100-meters, in what was then the closest finish in Olympic history. Gordon brought home the gold in his signature event … E. White … Features … Sports … Black Lives in American History … Racism & Racial Ideas … United States … We Won’t …

… scholars. Unfortunately, the final product often gave us History Lite — history reduced to the personal. "Biographies," said Mark … the clothes and buttons almost unrecognizable. Reducing history to personality distorts events and their …

… draft. The most famous politicized athlete in American history is certainly Muhammad Ali, who risked jail time and … black poverty and wearing beads symbolic of the nation’s history of lynching. As with Ali, their protest was accorded … the last major de jure segregated event in the nation’s history. 8. The 1980 Olympics Logo of the 1980 Olympics in …

… In this Origins podcast of Writers Talk History , host Patrick Potyondy interviews historian Sarah … Dangler. Today in conjunction with the OSU Department of History and its magazine Origins , OSU student, Patrick … in Origins . Patrick Potyondy   This is Writers Talk History a partnership between Origins , an online magazine …

… decision. William C. Kashatus's is a writer for the History News Service. His most recent book is "Money … Tragedy of Indian Assimilation." … William C. Kashatus … History News Service … United States … Legal history … Racism & Racial Ideas … Black Lives in American …

… when they are ineligible with felony voter fraud, and more. History shows us that unjust obstacles to voting have … well. … Pippa Holloway … Features … Black Lives in American History … United States … U.S. Civil War/Reconstruction … … Rights … Racism & Racial Ideas … A History of Stolen Citizenship …

… We'd like to take a moment to highlight fantastic history sites from around the web. These are sites that – much like  Origins –  seek to bring history into public conversation. In this post, we feature  … Not Even Past, a site founded in 2010 by the Department of History at the University of Texas at Austin. Inspired by …

… Santayana made one of the world’s best known comments about history when he said that those who learn nothing from the … proposition: those who choose to be learn nothing where history is concerned often defeat their own purposes. In the … recent events the best known sex scandal in presidential history, leading the Republicans to chant, “Ma, Ma, where’s …