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… 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  …

… Bush reads thick presidential biographies for policy guidance. But, having led a coalition to defeat the Taliban in … Not any funny movie, but “The Mouse That Roared.” That 1959 comedy was based on the premise that by the late 1950s both … aid as a result of war. “The Mouse That Roared” parodies the wisest foreign policy the United States has ever …

… urban renewal this hour." [Podcast description from WOSU's website ]    More of Steven Conn's work with Origins : The … The Role of "Big Government" in American History Charles Darwin’s American Adventure: A Melodrama in Three Acts …

… Thanksgiving was still not the first in America. Florida residents point out that an earlier Spanish Thanksgiving … Thanksgiving.” For 136 years, Thanksgiving has been a day commemorated across America. It gives us a moment to recall … inhale the heady aromas of our new harvests; to relish the coming together, once again, of family and good friends; to …

… These headlines could be plucked from any newspaper today: “Multinational peacekeeping force planned for … Now the question again surfaces: will the international community be able to avoid the slide toward war? It remains … Nikolas K. Gvosdev is a senior fellow for strategic studies at The Nixon Center in Washington and a writer for the …

… fantastic history sites from around the web. These are websites that – much like Origins – seek to bring history … embracing the breadth and variety of activity in history today." It is also "the largest professional organization in …

… and the June 4th Massacre that horrified television audiences around the world. It’s natural to use 1989 as a … typically stressed just one sort of continuity with the days of Tiananmen: Beijing’s readiness to use draconian … a way to use history when trying to make sense of China’s complicated present. Another kind of continuity between 1989 …

… Guiteau, a disgruntled political hopeful. Garfield later died from an infection which ravaged his body for two and …

… the reinstatement of political control via revolutionary committees supported by the military. The Cultural … Chinese Communist Party’s official newspaper, the People’s Daily —chose May 16 as the date when Mao Zedong articulated … October 1976. The resolution acknowledged the period’s tragedies and called them mistakes, laying blame at the feet of …

… a man running for his life, I immediately knew the answer. "COME IN!" someone was yelling. I need not have been told; … already made my way back through the gate of the archive complex. A security guard gave me a glass of water and asked … three decades. Massive inflation, a relentless and formidable drag on the fabric of the Brazilian economy, came to a …

… the countries formerly designated as the “ East European communist bloc ” displayed a remarkable solidarity in support of Ukraine. Officials from Estonia echoed … defending their country, even when that meant killing soldiers and civilians beyond the boundaries of one’s own …

… The Crimea that most people have come to know is a peninsula occupied by Russian forces, … to the Sea: A Geographical  Overview   Map of Crimea today A peninsula jutting into the Black Sea, most of Crimea … Crimea to Russia, as the ancient site where, according to medieval Russian documents, Prince Vladimir “the Baptist” …

… that they were stunningly oblivious to the environmental dangers they were creating. She charged public officials … by killer chemicals unwittingly unleashed by the scientific community. “Future historians may well be amazed by our … New Yorker serialized “Silent Spring,” a California reader complained to the magazine’s editor that “Miss Rachel …

… we think about this political family, but it is a mostly comprehensive overview in Ken Burns’ trademark engaging … episode begins with FDR’s run as a vice presidential candidate, which he lost decisively, but soon shifts to his … focusing on his empathy for the suffering of others. Burns points to FDR’s creation of the Warm Springs resort for …

… for the virus and denied the possibility of extensive community spread among the Soviet population—offers a … Moscow, 1987. The number of infected was initially low in comparison to the USA, where the virus was spreading more … that foreigners, especially from the West, had looser standards of sexuality. They believed that Soviet youth were …

… is not quite as large as Massachusetts and Rhode Island combined. It is also the second-most densely populated … or China has had in five decades or more. The question also points to the equally substantial continuities in Taiwanese … and a Leninist party structure in 1924 (the year before Sun died), the KMT under Chiang Kai-shek's leadership ran a …

… aggressors" as if they were charging the border still today. That term, and those passions, remain an important … forces highlighting Jewish suffering would have meant combatting anti-Semitism among their own population. … to "a single camp," and the enforced model of utter obedience meant that all efforts had to be directed against the …

… in Iraq: the longer we stay, the stronger our enemies become. We cannot defeat either the insurgency or the civil … for rebuilding, while the middle class flees to avoid the danger. The Pentagon trains Iraqis to fight, but we may well … assassinated British officials and killed British soldiers. In only a year or two, the British press and public …

… desperate to stay sober gave rise to an organization that today estimates an active membership of nearly two million … Jung.  Jung suggested that alcoholism might only be overcome through a profound spiritual experience. Following … the Twelve Traditions of AA.  His article “Twelve Suggested Points for A. A. Tradition” appeared in AA’s monthly …

… almost fully yoked themselves together under a single encompassing charter. What's more, the boundaries of the nations so close to placing themselves within … and the unpopularity of its nation's many governments that commentators are stressing as they assess the one-two punch …

… want to see an economic juggernaut in action during the holiday shopping sprint from Thanksgiving to Christmas, head over to the local Wal-Mart. The company’s promise of “everyday low prices” is music to the … discount retailers have been discarded into history’s dustbin. While many discounters failed because they didn’t adopt …

… Congress in Adelaide, Australia. Musk spoke about his company's plans for interplanetary travel and his belief in … be expected. In front of the assembled international audience of space enthusiasts and industry leaders, Musk … IAC crowd. A year earlier, at the 67 th IAC meeting in Guadalajara, Mexico, Musk had revealed that he had built his …

… If he were alive today, William McKinley would understand Barack Obama's 2011 … 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 …

… last history play Henry VIII: Or, All is True. A volatile combination of a cheap roof and pyrotechnic effects could … reimagined and rebuilt, remaining a place of fascination today. As we remember this event 400 years later, the … below) returns to her father; the wife, Hermia, who did not die, but has been disguised as a statue, is revivified; and …