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… reportedly a casualty of the disease, although he did not die from it. Mosaics from the apse in the Basilica of San … Justinian is the figure in the center. The mosaics were completed in 547 CE. Because there have been multiple … that Justinian’s government had to direct the removal of bodies from the city and their mass burial outside the walls. …

… fantastic history sites from around the web. These are websites that – much like Origins – seek to bring history … conversation. This month, our Best in History Online pick comes in the form of a history magazine who aims to bring serious history to a wide audience! Based in London and published monthly, History Today …

… Dozens of women soldiers are dying in Iraq — and no one seems to care. Why do I say that? Because the outcry that many expected over the combat deaths of American women in Iraq has not taken place. … which centuries-old American fantasies about the female soldier are being tested. Women soldiers have always had a …

… presidential losers of the American past. Yes, the time has come for all true lovers of trivia to stand up and be … If Clay felt betrayed, he would have a great deal of company as a perennial also-ran. Other men ran for the … distinguished only by the fact that they "lost big." It is easy to belittle their campaigns, but remember that these …

… Rome . If  warnings of the imminent rise of superhuman AI come to pass, he may be the last pontiff crowned during the … away from.” Quoting Saint Augustine, he encouraged his audience: “Let us live well and the times will be good. We are … the moveable-type press, invented by fellow German Johannes Gutenberg around 1440.  Luther’s nail in the door was …

… northern China. Amid this misery, a mysterious group that combined traditional Chinese folk culture, including martial … court fled Beijing for  Xi’an . Western troops proceeded to commit atrocities of their own, looting much of the city and … Shook the World in the Summer of 1900 . New York: Walker & Company, 2000. Silbey, David J.  The Boxer Rebellion and the …

… lucky. Their ability to afford their monthly payments was compromised first by the falling market, then by mortgages … that has never been able to effectively cope with low-income homeowners who have been typically women, racial and … chartered the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (Freddie Mac). These corporations market the bundled mortgages as …

… of psychedelic exploration . The Summer of Love marked the coming out party for the counter-culture we now associate … she burst out onto the scene receiving incredible audience enthusiasm and critical reception. D.A. Pennebaker … love, and music in the shadow of the Vietnam War . It is easy to consider the Summer of Love as a golden age, a …

… economic distress wrought by swashbuckling capitalism. As Commanders-in-Chief and liberal Protestants, the … liberators in the age of revolution. Britons regularly bandied their slave trade ban as proof that they remained at … Barton's humanitarian aid, an estimated 186,655 Armenians died in the autumn of 1896 alone. The memory of the failed …

… Prime Minister’s plan to visit a shrine honoring soldiers who died for his country during World War II has inflamed … of more than $30 million (then an astronomical amount) as compensation to foreign powers for the damage caused by the …

… by historians, depicted by artists and celebrated by common people. In 1880, the French chose to make the … times of deterritorialized terror, outsourced prisons, bitcoins, and subcontracted state and military arbitrariness, … to Independence Square in Kyiv (not to mention the recent commemorations of the 1989 Tiananmen Square Movement ). The …

… face an uncertain future in the sprawling Dadaab camp complex in Kenya barely register on the radar of the global … Somalia must first walk for weeks across a desert and many die along the way or soon after arrival. This mass gravesite … of Greece after sailing from Turkey in 2015. It is all too easy to conceive of present-day asylum seekers as figures …

… the 1700s, European smallpox epidemics seem to have been comparatively mild, with minimal death rates. But thereafter … in the Punjab in Western India (now Pakistan) 47 percent died. As recently as 1972, an epidemic broke out in a … were hospitalized, and nearly half the 764 patients died. Similarly, of 79 unvaccinated patients who became ill …

… however, white women had greater access to the ballot box compared to women of color. The continued disenfranchisement …

… Comparing COVID-19 to HIV is, in many ways, like comparing … beginning of the pandemic, more than 700,000 Americans have died (see Figure 6). HIV/AIDS has also had devastating, and … to the World Health Organization , fewer than half as many die from HIV now than fifteen years ago. The availability of …

… orchestrated. Governor Andrew Cuomo and the medical community praised Lindsay. She was a healthcare hero . … a distrust of vaccinations among the Black community. It is easy to pathologize Black peoples’ fears regarding COVID-19 … procedures and completed follow-up paperwork. When the men died, Rivers encouraged their families to allow Tuskegee …

… The result, according to Goldstein: "I think the healthy diet is in jeopardy." In this context, historian Susan … early twentieth century to the present, highlighting the complex interaction of politics, economics, nutrition, and … designed to feed hungry children while also improving the diets of middle- and upper-class children. Part of …

…   Mark Sokolsky  Welcome to History Talk , the podcast that brings together a … and modern Arabic literature. And I'm Middle East Studies librarian here at OSU.   Gulsah Toronoglu  Hi, I'm … Mark Sokolsky. Song and bad information can be found on our website. You can find our podcasts and more at …

… Class is back. Whatever its other accomplishments, the Occupy Wall Street movement that sprouted … all boats. Harry S Truman, who became president when FDR died in office in 1945 and narrowly won a second term in … "doesn't count" when trying to balance the budget. Reagan gutted social programs and implemented a 25 percent …

… but the game itself made no money. Men’s college basketball commenced with a similarly obscure contest.  In 1895 at … NCAA was founded. When at least 18 college football players died and as many as 168 were seriously injured during the … workers, permeates the NCAA system. In 1955 Ray H. Dennison died after sustaining a head blow while playing football for …

… Drexel Burnham Lambert, Michael Milken’s junk bond shop, to die a slow death from 1986 to 1990, the term “regulation” … 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 …

… series was more appropriate for a small, paying Showtime audience than a network broadcast. Reagan supporters also … history. Ed Gillespie, chairman of the Republican National Committee, complained that the CBS script contains language … president says in the drama, “They that live in sin shall die in sin.” After much protest, CBS agreed to remove the …

… be eclipsed by the next scandal before too long. If we’re becoming a more liberal society, shouldn’t there be fewer and … that have governed our culture since the colonial era. Some commentators will bemoan the apparent moral corruption of … of these scandals broke in the news media of the day. One commonality among political sex scandals today is that the …