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… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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) …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… Seventh Coalition, led by the British Duke of Wellington and Prussia's Marshall von Blücher. This fateful encounter … doomed Napoleon's brief restoration as Emperor of France and preserved the balance of power that Europe's traditional … bicentennial of the battle, which took place some ten miles south of Brussels. However, these plans were stymied by the …

… of Joseph I. Lieberman as the Democratic vice-presidential candidate. Almost every American president or vice-president … But the real story here is not Lieberman's candidacy. The real story is that his nomination has not … ministers, especially in the religiously conservative South, had denounced Smith from the pulpit, and much the …

… Join hosts Patrick Potyondy and Leticia Wiggins and their guests, historians David Brakke , Tina Sessa , and Daniel Watkins as they discuss Pope Francis—the … 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 …

… a justifiable military response — harbored ambitious goals and expanded a local conflict into something larger. It didn’t work … from spiraling out of control. In 1982, Israel invaded southern Lebanon in order to raze Palestinian Liberation …

… Instead, there were simply “the people living in the south-west of what has historically been Russian land [who] have called themselves Russian .” In his eyes, … States effectively took control of the Ukrainian government and economy after 1991, to the detriment of regional …

… I stand at the bow of the ferry as the water of the White Sea … up on the coiled ropes lying on the deck, my feet stay dry and I look out with excitement at the outstretched sea in … about 100 smaller ones) in the White Sea not far to the south of the Arctic Circle. A center of Russian Orthodoxy …

… it mean three-to-five-year lturists watched the heavens and built monuments to mark the vernal equinox, the first … a time of rejuvenated hope. The puebloans of the American Southwest marked the beginning of spring, and the other three seasons, by tracking the path of the …

… recently been scarred by violence and remains trapped in a frozen conflict.  Tucked away in the South Caucasus near the frontiers of Russia, Iran, and Turkey, this gorgeous mountain land boasts stunning …

… In a critique of John Kerry’s presidential candidacy, Vice President Dick Cheney invoked historical … of America’s wartime leadership: Presidents Abraham Lincoln and Franklin D. Roosevelt, Generals U.S. Grant, Dwight D. … issued for the protection of civilian property in the South, but Lincoln, always “sensitive” to the knowledge that …

… U.S. relations with key states of the Middle East, and resulted in territorial and political changes that remain consequential on this … Israel, in collusion with Britain and France, to secure its southeastern border by invading Egypt and causing the …

… has caused a stir in California, Minnesota, North Carolina and South Carolina by unveiling plans to put up anti-immigrant … immigration in the name of reform goes back centuries and relies upon two time-tested formulas, both of which are …