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… failed each other.  Infamous photograph of German soldiers rounding up Jews for deportation in the Warsaw Ghetto, … sharing information transformed how people interacted with one another. The desire to talk and make sense of the … German soldier. Fritzsche is particularly interested in comparing the French and Polish accounts about sharing space …

… of evil is as much a theological task as it is a military one. President Bush seems confident that God’s truth marches … he proclaimed that “our nation is chosen by God and commissioned by history to be a model to the world.” This conviction …

… Santorum, April 2021 Former Pennsylvania senator (and CNN commentator) Rick Santorum made those comments at a … shaped the development of this country. We’ve been conditioned to accept this “whitewashed,” Indigenous-free … focused once or perhaps twice a year during our social studies classes. Samoset entering the Plymouth settlement in …

… Yemen’s internationally recognized government is sitting comfortably in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, 900 miles away from … and ethnic groups as well as tribal areas. Alternatively, one could trace the origins of the current conflict to the 9 … dozens of protesters were killed in March 2011, civil disobedience was accompanied by attacks in retribution, …

… But reports of “mass graves” and conflict with Russia make one wonder if this is just a pause in the fighting. Will the … needs to stop demonizing enemies and relying on military superiority and instead find common ground with its adversaries. In October 1962 Kennedy …

… would help define American life for generations to come. In 1964, the relatively new musical genre of rock and … left to hold it up. By the early 1960s, Buddy Holly had died in a plane crash, Elvis was making movies, Chuck Berry … Johnny and the Moondogs (soon to be the Beatles) was one of these bands. After Americans’ moral panic, only an …

… , Latin America , Russia , and East Asia . And it all began one July day when the people of Paris captured a … 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, …

… High Line is a mere ribbon — not even of land, but an abandoned stretch of elevated railroad bed. Yet their underlying … similarities reveal the dynamics of property and money in New York City, which have changed little in 150 … spirit. Even in the mid-19th century, New York City was in competition with new garden suburbs that beckoned well-to-do …

… to Mark Twain, “it often rhymes.” Indeed, few historical comparisons make more compelling verse than the COVID-19 … allows us to speculate about the aftermath of COVID-19 . Medieval Eurasian Trade Routes, with the red lines indicating … Agricultural production halted as villages were abandoned and acres of crops went unharvested. Historians even …

… matters in the United States and ancient Rome. Everyone seems to have an opinion on whether the United States is … *which* Roman decline and fall is the best parallel. Some commentators prefer the fall of the Roman Republic as the … and will be teaching using that framing in the future. One of the best examples of his analysis is in Chapter 7 and …

… The Founding Fathers balanced the power of the president as commander-in-chief with that of Congress, the people’s representatives — the one to command the nation’s armed forces, the other to … war, more than 1,200 American historians turned to one of those old ways — that of citizens petitioning …

… a very different matter. Unfortunately, bad analogies have come to dominate discussions of China in the American press. … or Nazis? It depends on the goal of the writer.  If one’s purpose is to discredit Beijing’s current leaders, … China would do now that its second Communist “Emperor” had died. As the debate over the so-called “China threat” to …

… emergence with a mixture of excitement and anxiety. On one hand, huge new markets have opened to American companies; on the other, Chinese producers have created … of independence. Seeking for ways to compete with the superpowers for control over Congo’s copper resources …

… expose the growing division within American Catholicism. On one side are liberal Catholics such as Sens. Richard Durbin, … with his Catholic values. Although abortion wasn’t mentioned, it was clear to those present that the issue was on … he would most likely recuse himself. It must have been an uncomfortable moment for both Durbin and Roberts, Catholic to …

… and electrified those listening back home on Earth: “That’s one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind.” … Taskforce on February 1, 2016. That achievement has since become a benchmark in American culture. The expression “if we … success at building heavy lift rocketry and Americans’ superiority at instrumentation. The Kennedy administration …

… Over the past century, baseball has become a truly global game. The sport debuted at the Olympics … on these plantations were seasonal workers from the West Indies, where cricket had been much more popular. These … of the U.S. invasion of his nation. Dominicans were not alone in their embrace of baseball. The United States deployed …

… unrest that followed. To explain this food crisis to an audience in St. Louis in May 2008, then-President George W. … India the most populous country on earth. The numbers alone cannot tell us the full story, however. The debates … the early nineteenth century, when the British East India Company controlled an increasing swath of territory across …

… the portrait of Grant off the $50 bill and replace it with one of Ronald Reagan. I had forgotten that Grant graces the … they want to see Reagan’s face every time they slap one down at a West Hollywood club.   No disrespect to … to study photographs of official Soviet events to see which Communist Party members were visible and which had been …

… what came to be known as the “penny lunch.”   This was one of the first attempts to provide school feeding for children. When the school superintendent stopped by to see Walsh’s program in action, … the effect of child hunger in war-torn Europe, started a committee to bolster the existing national school lunch …

… fantastic history sites from around the web. These are websites that – much like  Origins  – seek to bring history … of the University’s eminent imperial historians. It comprises of one of the largest groups of imperial and global historians …

… joint exercises in the Caribbean with the Russian navy. No one likes Chávez's loopy Cold-War language, but he's onto … with his nutty words: the way the Bush administration has compromised American foreign policy and jeopardized world peace. When Venezuela's Hugo Chávez throws one of his rhetorical bombs, we learn something about the …

… For the last 60 years, the United Nations has been one continual story of missed opportunities. In that … record, any other organization would be better than the one we have. At the end of the World War I, President Wilson … potential as a force for world peace has been paralyzed by superpower rivalry. Even with the end of the Cold War, the …

… Useful for a Change: Historians and Modern Tribal Communities" Wednesday, March 26 at The  Ohio State … Shriver R. David Edmunds’ central question is a good one:  how can academic historians engage with modern Native … Rather, for academics-turned-consultants, the target audience is lawyers and judges.  The real question is how can …

… fantastic history sites from around the web. These are websites that – much like Origins – seek to bring history … For December, our Best in History Online highlights the website for the quarterly journal The American Historian . … of the American past. Membership in the OAH is open to anyone interested in the investigation, study, and teaching of …