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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 a podcast.   In Our Time is one of the … any intellectual rigor. After 42 minutes, you will come away with a very useful introduction to the major …

… to bring the guilty parties to justice and to prevent future episodes of terrorism. What kind of war will the … advocated by Secretary of State Colin Powell? Or will war come in the form of numerous military strikes that engage … as some of the president’s trigger-eager advisers recommend? We should hope for the former, because a massive …

… going forward." [Podcast description from WOSU's website ]    More of  Peter Mansoor's work with Origins : …

… third-place finisher, will have the most impact on the near future of American politics. It's worth looking for … or the opening of world markets to facilitate competition across national boundaries. Record campaign … racism, and urging workers and farmers to recognize their common interest in fighting business consolidation. Because …

… and as troubling news about the country’s racial divides comes front and center, we’ll talk about how teachers can engage and inform." [Podcast description from WOSU's website ]   More of  Hasan Kwame Jeffries  work with  …

… of nuclear weapons. Paul W. Tibbets Jr., retired brigadier general and former businessman, died on Nov. 1. He'll forever be remembered for what he … the first to use it, we had adopted an ethical standard common to the barbarians of the Dark Ages. I was not taught …

… During the last four weeks, the Election Assistance Commission, the Justice Department and the Department of … to demonstrate that state or local officials no longer were competent to oversee elections. Yet four years later, little … should begin preparing for the 2006 elections. A bipartisan commission to handle the task would remove concerns that an …

… document that should be preserved and protected for future generations. Few Americans know, however, how poorly … was brilliant, but the process nearly destroyed the text. Compounding the damage was the decision in 1841 to put the … to monitor the condition of the document using a $3 million computerized camera system designed by the Jet Propulsion …

… fantastic history sites from around the web. These are websites that – much like Origins – seek to bring history …

… seeks both to understand these myths and to uncover the complicated and often contradictory realities that underpin … and information." [Book description from publisher's website ]. …

… to expand NATO is based on an outdated crusade against communism, a crusade launched against the Soviet Union in … to winning World War II than to looking at the political future. The State Department is making a similar mistake … not only unnecessary, it is based on devotion to past anti-communist cliches. In addition, based on the experience of …

… California out of its energy dilemma and transformed its future. Waterpower once used for gold mining was harnessed … of electric power, also used oil to fuel the ever longer commute to work at jobs that the electric power industry and … doing things differently, California created a new energy commission that followed the advice of energy guru Amory …

… perish in the conflagration that consumed the city, or die from the radiation that fell darkly to the earth in a … its efforts to build atomic bombs after a series of shortcomings and failures convinced its government to focus on a … though he was predominantly focused on American lives. His commanders predicted upwards of half a million American …

… holocaust in which hundreds of millions of people would die horribly. Even the much smaller nuclear arsenals of the … Treaties (START I, in 1991 and START II, in 1993), and the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT, in 1996). These … “unequivocal undertaking by the nuclear-weapon states to accomplish the total elimination of their nuclear arsenals.” …

… can help guide us into a more just, humane, and enlightened future. Scholars of social reform are especially prone to … implausible. History can promote human improvement, I've come to believe, but not in the didactic or formulaic manner … it may never illuminate the best road to choose. Jonathan Zimmerman teaches history and education at New York …

… are at the heart of often vitriolic public debates. Both futuristic and somehow archaic at the same time, millions … understandings of how disease is transmitted within the community. As a general rule, respirators function by … humidity of lowland Bengal took a physical toll on the soldiers and officials of the East India Company. Upon …

… it was being spoken about by fans of literature, who often complained about the stifling power of the novel and the … of pawnbroker Alyona Ivanovna and her sister Lizaveta committed by ex-student Rodion Raskolnikov were “the purest … Punishment was published, a student by the name of Danilov committed a similar crime: killing a moneylender and his …

… Caesar and, therefore, to understand the kind of present or future he is asked to encourage or warn against (21)."   In … Whereas in the 20th century, Caesar could just as easily become the savage conqueror again, someone to be resisted … who would finally surrender to Caesar in 51 B.C., would become the symbol of the revolutionary spirit in 19th- and …

… For good or ill, future generations will look to this spring's Marches on … reputation by ordering his men to attack their former comrades in arms with tear gas and riot weapons and burn …

… fantastic history sites from around the web. These are websites that – much like Origins – seek to bring history … historians alike to share their ideas, the Public History Commons ! The Public His tory Commons is a project of the National Council on Public … Best in History Online: Public History Commons …

… going to receive international approval for its quest to become an independent nation. While many inside Kosovo and out … is supposed to release a report on the province’s future by the end of 2006, and will almost certainly … Service and a doctoral student in history and security studies at Yale. E-mail:  jmankoff@yahoo.com . …

… as the war drags on and Americans and Iraqis continue to die. The term "shock and awe" is in keeping with a … Smith returned to England, proclaiming his mission accomplished; but the Virginia Indian wars lasted for decades. … this terror from the air." Any society would experience "a complete breakdown," as civilians, seeking to end their …

… which stand to make hundreds of millions in fees and commissions, and anti-welfare state conservative ideologues, … about the gloomy long-term predictions President Bush’s new commission offers concerning the future of the system. Imagine economists in 1940, when the …