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… sear the souls of witnesses and the suffering alike. Yet history teaches that resorting to war often has consequences … Serbia. The result was World War I, the largest war in history to that time. Among that war’s fruits were the … government more than any other president in American history. What he could not have known was that his use of …

… full-page public-service ads celebrated “Milestones in the History of U.S. Higher Education.” The first ad had “1862” … that serves as the title of one of his most important books. In fact, Morrill and his fellow legislators … of the act.   Howard P. Segal is Bird and Bird Professor of History at the University of Maine. His new book is …

… Join your usual History Talk co-hosts Leticia Wiggins and Patrick … Conn , and Tamara Mann as they discuss the contentious history of healthcare policy in the United … Leticia Wiggins   Welcome to History Talk Produced by Origins , a project of the public history initiative and the Goldberg Center and the …

… This month History Talk  hosts   Patrick Potyondy  and  Leticia Wiggins …   Leticia Wiggins  Welcome to History Talk , the history podcast for everyone from Origins at Ohio State. I'm …

… Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act — a long and ugly history of violence and hate based on sexual orientation may … Hostility toward perceived or real homosexuality has a long history. Much before the official terms and classifications … same-gender love. This culture has a deep and complicated history as the Freemasons engraving and poem reveal. But …

… this evocative study, Heather Cox Richardson, Professor of History at the University of Massachusetts—Amherst, places … exploration of party politics and Indian relations. Books, documentaries, and even an HBO movie have dramatized … century politics and not in my separate Native American history section, for it is in the political realm that the …

… the campaigns of reformers in earlier periods of American history. When hazardous practices created troubles in the … by bureaucrats in Washington, but twentieth century history suggests that effective regulation can help both … the University of North Carolina, Wilmington, has published books on popular culture and politics, and is a writer for …

… affected readers. The committee produced a report on comic books that resulted in the industry adopting a … knocking at their door. Julian E. Zelizer, a professor of History at Boston University and the author of "On Capitol … its Consequences, 1945-2000" (2004), is a writer for the History News Service. …

… it for what it was: the latest in a long, distinguished history of not-quite-ready-for-democracy political behavior. … the record for conducting the longest filibuster in Senate history. He went on and on for 24 hours and 18 minutes to … the crowd. Even in South Carolina’s illustrious political history, one is hard pressed to think of another politician …

… Susan Levine's book, School Lunch Politics: The Surprising History of America's Favorite Welfare Program , is timely. … offers an accessible narrative for anyone interested in the history of welfare, education, and federal policymaking in … Review of School Lunch Politics: The Surprising History of America's Favorite Welfare Program , by Susan …

… Leticia Wiggins   Welcome to History Talk produced by Origins , a project of the Public History Initiative and the Goldberg Center and the Department of History at The Ohio State University. The American …

… of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a writer for the History News Service. His radio commentaries on "Engineering … History News Service …

… part of a much larger Republican project of rewriting the history of their own party to expunge it of anything that …   In the current political climate, however, this is the history that the Republican party wants to repudiate. Tea … late as the 1930s Republicans campaigned proudly on their history as the party that ended slavery. In the 1950s, …

… Why should  1989 matter to us now? On this edition of  History Talk , hosts Patrick Potyondy and Leticia Wiggins … Wiggins   This is your host Leticia Wiggins and welcome to History Talk , smart conversations about today's most … they've done in Bulgaria, over the content of history textbooks. And they did a survey of you know, what kids knew …