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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 …

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… That day Tibbets's B-29 — christened the "Enola Gay" after his … of nuclear weapons. Paul W. Tibbets Jr., retired brigadier general and former businessman, died on Nov. 1. He'll … the first to use it, we had adopted an ethical standard common to the barbarians of the Dark Ages. I was not taught …

… France and Its Empire Since 1870, Second Edition Recently updated edition of book from Ohio State Historian Alice L. … 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 ]. …

… of money and momentum. This year, conventions were almost completely removed from the selection of a nominee. For all … success and evidence of his electability in a primary calendar structured to ensure that the party would make a prompt … have looked for vice-presidential candidates who would complement their campaign’s main themes. In 1992, Al Gore, …

… city of Hiroshima was leveled by an atomic bomb. Three days later, the United States dropped a second bomb on … 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 …

… Corbett sought to dispel this strategic uncertainty by elucidating a British way of making war from a vigorous study of … strategic priorities. Corbett disavowed continental commitment and mass armies, believing Britain should instead … Lambert’s work is exceptional and will appeal to a wide audience. …

… and there was always a world that needed redeeming. When he died ten years later, scores of mourners, from New York to … that had animated the nonconformist left. Historian Leilah Danielson attempts to complete the work that Muste did not. It is most useful to …

… to order the warrantless surveillance of suspected al-Qaida agents in the United States? Yes he does, say some, who … War to defend their position. Then and now they argue, the commander-in-chief during wartime has an obligation to place … Lincoln, beginning in April 1861, ordered federal soldiers to arrest active secessionists, saboteurs and …

… Prime Minister’s plan to visit a shrine honoring soldiers who died for his country during World War II has … of a crisis that ended a century ago on Sept. 7, 1901, the date of the signing of that controversial treaty. To have a … of more than $30 million (then an astronomical amount) as compensation to foreign powers for the damage caused by the …

… militarization of the border that we are familiar with today. The U.S. Border Patrol ( pictured above  in 1924 when … an acute labor shortage, the U.S. and Mexico established a binational agreement to import temporary workers to harvest … less interest in actual immigrants who might settle and become part of the citizenry. The program thus conditioned …

… he was dead. The implication was clear—although Stalin had died, his influence would be keenly felt in the Soviet Union. Joshua Rubenstein’s The Last Days of Stalin explores that influence not only in the … pardoned or remitted the sentences of prisoners whom had committed minor offenses. As they worked to dismantle …

… the Constitution requires. Bush’s announcement after Labor Day that he would consult with Congress only exacerbates the … 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 decide when …

… the war in 1917, the German language was prohibited in some communities, and Americans even resorted to the absurd expedient of renaming hamburger “Salisbury steak” and sauerkraut … in the United States found themselves what historian Roger Daniels has called “prisoners without trial.” What happened …

… in American history. Burr fatally wounded Hamilton, who died the next day. Hamilton’s premature death transformed him from one of …

… the Western Allies in Europe in World War II and remains today one of the best known campaigns of the war. Code named … On D-Day, over 125,000 British, American, and Canadian soldiers supported by more than five thousand ships and … thousand casualties on the first day of the invasion. To commemorate the battle, Origins offers ten of the most …

… had ever seen. Survivors of the war were not only the soldiers who fought, the wounded in mind and body. Theywere … was needed to face problems that respected no national boundaries or rivalries. Bruno Cabanes, a pioneer in the study … became inalienable." [Book description from the publisher's website .]  …

… The 1972 Munich Olympics were billed as Die Heiteren Spiele —the “Happy Games.” West Germans hoped … met to plan Operation “Ikrit and Biram” under mission commander “Issa,” Arabic for Jesus. Ikrit and Biram were two … am, drunk American athletes helped the tracksuit-clad fedayeen over the Village fence. Despite Israeli wrestling …

… Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters in partnership with legendary musicians The Grateful Dead. Acid, also known as LSD (lysergic acid diethylamide) is a powerful hallucinogen that elicits a … University's Marsh Chapel, site of the Harvard Psilocybin Project. Leary and Alpert worked together in the …

… fantastic history sites from around the web. These are websites that – much like Origins – seek to bring history … likes that! Each week, HNN finds and posts the most up-to-date features by the best historians across the globe. These …

… Great Lakes Creoles: A French-Indian Community on the Northern Borderlands, Prairie du Chien, … "A case study of one of America's many multi-ethnic border communities, Great Lakes Creoles builds upon recent research … Great Lakes region." [Book description from the publisher's website ] …