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… involving Hubert H. Humphrey, the incumbent vice president, and Richard Nixon, his Republican opponent. This prospect … the October Surprise. The Nixon team beseeched the South Vietnamese to await a Republican victory and promised an ample reward. Talk of a conclusion to the …

… long essay entitled, “ On the Historical Unity of Russians and Ukrainians .” It laid out historical claims to the … reading of history beginning with the medieval period and moving through the Soviet Union’s dissolution in 1991. … from the Baltic in the north to near the Black Sea in the south. It was centered on the Dnipro River and had its …

… The movie centers on an M-4 Sherman tank nicknamed “Fury” and its crew of battle-hardened soldiers during the waning … driver; Trini “Gordo” Garcia, the Spanish-speaking gunner; and Grady “Coon-Ass” Travis, a bestial mechanic with a southern drawl. Their fifth crewmember, the assistant …

… from the state of Chihuahua in northern Mexico migrated to southern California with four young daughters. The family caravanned up and down the state working the agricultural migrant circuit. That young mother was my grandmother, my abuelita.    My abuelita's stories about those …

… remodeled airport in Tashkent, the nation’s capital and a modern city of well over two million people. But to head to the architecturally magnificent and richly historic town of Khiva (formerly known as … from the mountains that surround the Ferghana Valley in the southeastern corner of the country. Horses pasture off in …

… December 11, 2018, marked the one hundredth birthday of Alexander Isayevich Solzhenitsyn. Born in southern Russia thirteen months after the Bolshevik Revolution , the only son of a mother whose husband had died in a hunting accident while she was pregnant, …

… 1 of Prologued is hosted by Origins historian Sarah Paxton and analyzes the myth of the women's voting bloc. Now, as we wade through the 2020 election cycle and celebrate the centennial of the 19th Amendment granting … past. Guests: Dr. Joan Flores-Villalobos, the University of Southern California (formerly of The Ohio State University) …

… Talk History , host Patrick Potyondy interviews historian and Origins editor Nicholas Breyfogle about the … race for the arctic . He tells us about the complex and perhaps explosive historical dimensions of climate … of "Heretics and Colonizers: Forging Russia's Empire in the South Caucasus" and is co editor of "Peopling the Russian …

… WWI , the Treaty of Lausanne was the only one negotiated and, perhaps more importantly, it is the only treaty of WWI still in force today. Lausanne marked the end of a long and devastating period in the  Middle East . Between 1911 … (1912-13), costing the empire its remaining  territories in Africa and most of Europe.  These provinces, home to nearly …

… Pine Ridge Reservation, one of six Sioux Reservations in South Dakota, fell to Republican agent Daniel Royer. Fearful … the whites— that was spreading with fervor among the Sioux bands would incite an uprising, Royer called for military … As winter approached troops flooded across the Dakotas and on December 15 Sitting Bull, the famed leader of the …

… Winter Olympics are now officially in full swing. Historian and  Origins  contributor, David R. Stone, recently … on  All Sides with Ann Fisher to discuss Russia's political and social history in light of the recent games. The podcast … " Clash in the Caucuses: Georgia, Russia, and the Fate of South Ossetia ," by Stephen Jones 2) The Olympics " Playing …

… Join hosts Patrick Potyondy and Leticia Wiggins and their guests, historians David Brakke , Tina Sessa , and … first Jesuit to fill the job and the first pope from the southern hemisphere and the first from Latin America and the …

… formats—it might seem like refugees are everywhere. Syrian and Eritrean refugees cross the Mediterranean, bound for … Rohingya refugees from Myanmar occupy camps in Bangladesh; and Honduran and Guatemalan refugees seek asylum along the southern border of the United States, to name just a few …

… as if apologies are becoming a regular part of business and politics. Pope John Paul II apologizes for the Crusades, the Inquisition and the long tradition of Roman Catholic anti-Semitism. … Insurance Company will not be paying reparations to the African-American community. But is it really possible for …

… from a flu microbe was as quaint as wind-up phonographs and rumble seats. In the 1960s the surgeon general's office … acute respiratory syndrome, SARS, has advanced out of southern China to menace Hong Kong, Toronto and, probably, the rest of the world.  Again a disease …

… invalidating school desegregation programs in Louisville and Seattle. In their five-to-four decision, the justices … public school where 80 percent of the student body is white and black students going to ones that are 70 percent black, … organizations, led by the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California, argued that current textbooks, clean …

… Pilot whales stranded on Farewell Spit, 2015. On 13 February 2015,  198 pilot whales stranded  in Golden Bay on the northern coast of New Zealand’s South Island. Hundreds of volunteers were mobilized by New …

… States began its war against Iraq with a campaign of "shock and awe." An overwhelming demonstration of American airpower … designed to persuade the Iraqis to throw down their arms and surrender even while rising in revolt against Saddam … victory. His confidence cost Ferguson his life in the South Carolina forests at King's Mountain, where American …

… the historic election of 2008, a small group of historians and journalists was invited to the White House to chat and lunch with First Lady Laura Bush. Organized by the … the United Nations Literacy Decade, fighting AIDS in Africa, and bringing breast care awareness to the Middle …

… the historic election of 2008, a small group of historians and journalists was invited to the White House to chat and lunch with First Lady Laura Bush. Organized by the … the United Nations Literacy Decade, fighting AIDS in Africa, and bringing breast care awareness to the Middle …

… by weather, criticism, or the economy. Fifty-eight thousand Americans received termination notices last December (56 … In the months since, AT&T, Chase Manhattan, Raytheon and Boeing alone announced cuts totaling more than 30,000 … Take, for example, the case of William Myers, who joined Southern California Edison in 1971, after his father, also …

… Pyle sat above a newly constructed port in Sicily—the island near Italy's toe that Anglo-American forces had invaded … with Allied troops across the Mediterranean from North Africa. Before D-day in Normandy eleven months later, the Sicily campaign—Operation …