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… The State Department is probably very pleased with the outcome of last week’s hostage crisis in Algeria, although … who joined the remnants of the earlier group (some had died or been released earlier). Not until 1796 did the new … the Algerian and North African practice of taking European and American captives.   With today’s vastly …

… ensuing chaos and devastation, painfully relevant to all audiences who had endured not only World War I , but also the … art of the 1920s and Ukraine’s cultural connections to Europe . And while we might think of “Soviet art” as … Avant-Garde of the 1910s and 1920s (Rodovid, 2015). Website: “Open Kurbas” created by Tetiana Rudenko and the …

… 1989, coupled with the collapse of socialism in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, made the future of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) uncertain. It was in this period of … Leap Forward (1958-61), when an estimated 16-45 million died. He doubts grew during the Cultural Revolution …

… how "Le Duan and Nixon sought to find each other's breaking points in the battlegrounds of Cambodia and Laos rather than … France, China, the Soviet Union, and various Eastern European nations. This international history was the result … This will also be the starting point for numerous other studies on international diplomacy during the Cold War. Nguyen …

… a response to the spiraling cost of living, demonstrators soon widened their criticisms to encompass the full impact of Bashir’s three decades in power: … stagnation, and civil war in the country’s west and south. In the end, the huge crowds who took to the streets …

… new allegations against powerful men emerge as more women come forward. But, while many are heralding the rise of the … about these issues today have protested them in the past. So what’s different now? And how does contemporary activism … fit into the longer history of awareness? On this episode of History Talk , hosts Jessica Viñas-Nelson and Brenna …

… future when “some evil spell” had settled on our communities, when “mysterious maladies swept the flocks of chickens; the cattle and sheep … bacterium responsible for the Black Plague of 14 th century Europe, which killed a third of the people). Those outbreaks …

… a relic of a long ago past. If you want to get a hold of someone in the age of the Internet, you just pick up your … an app (maybe Skype, maybe FaceTime) to unlock portals of communication. Apple’s original iPhone, released in 2007. … business had the means of communicating via telegraphs with European business partners by the early twentieth century, …

… rights issues, others Chinese foreign policy, but the most common rhetorical barbs tie back to trade and currency. This … of the U.S. than to push their commerce to the East Indies as fast and as far as it will go.” Merchants listened … became a center of great-power political competition as European countries, Japan, and the United States both …

… in Congress at the close of last week. And rightfully so, for the House of Representatives solemnly debated … Before 1600 (the period most of the English precedents come from), of course, one has to be careful when using … is a distinct possibility that William II was assassinated) died violent deaths at the hands of their subjects. Some, …

… 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  growth of popular literacy and the democratization of European Christianity.  For all its popular appeal, the …

… ago to educate him on the thinking of President Lyndon Johnson in late 1964 as Johnson weighed the possibility of … Presidents Eisenhower and Kennedy. If Vietnam fell to the Communists, they argued, so too would the rest of Asia. … all those troops. Kenneth Weisbrode is a historian at the European University Institute and the author of The Atlantic …

… perish in the conflagration that consumed the city, or die from the radiation that fell darkly to the earth in a … of the aerial campaigns of World War II . Although Western Europe and the United States decried Nazi support of the … its efforts to build atomic bombs after a series of shortcomings and failures convinced its government to focus on a …

… 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 …

… 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 collaboration of historians from … readily accessible to the public.” As they develop, they also “aim to serve as a forum of collaborative work and …

… a narrative worthy of the hype. Even if she had not committed and been tried for murder, Laura Fair would have … years of age, Laura found herself the widow of a man who died under unexplained circumstances in the midst of divorce … to William D. Fair, with whom she had a daughter. But he soon died of a gunshot wound, probably self-inflicted. …

… fantastic history sites from around the web. These are websites that – much like Origins – seek to bring history … This month, our BOH (Best in History Online) pick comes in the form of a website dedicated to reinventing the … urban development in the early 20th century. Or explore how social media sites like Twitter can shape the narrative for …

… War on WOSU's All Sides with Ann Fisher . "By its end, some thirty-six thousand five hundred American troops died fighting the three year war in Korea. Six thousand of … be home by Christmas." [Podcast description from WOSU's website ]  Mitchell Lerner's work with Origins : Making …

… fantastic history sites from around the web. These are websites that – much like Origins – seek to bring history … times outlandish, everything in its pages is as true as the sources allow. The Appendix solicits articles from historians, writers, and artists committed to good storytelling, with an eye for the strange …

… 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 … from Imperial & Global Exeter website] You can also take part in their exploration of imperial history by …

… Delaware Senatorial candidate Christine O'Donnell's recent comment–wondering whether “separation of church and state” … both O'Donnell and her many critics: that Thomas Jefferson's use of the phrase “separation between Church & State” … Hannah Adams of Medfield, Massachusetts, found a huge audience for her book "Alphabetical Compendium of the Various …