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Best in History Online: The Bowery Boys Podcast

… fantastic history sites from around the web. These are websites that – much like Origins – seek to bring history … their start in 2007, the brothers have produced over 200 episodes on the history of some of the city’s most iconic … Boys Podcast also maintains a blog at boweryboyshistory.com , which serves as an additional resource for listeners, …
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A Postcard from New Orleans, Louisiana

… about a block north of New Orleans’s famed French Quarter. Completely walled in, the cemetery is unwelcoming. The Roman … that grow so hot in the subtropical climate that the bodies of the dead within are rendered to little more than … racial violence. In 2018, the city erected plaques at key points around the French Quarter, recognizing New Orleans’s …
The BBC World Service podcast Witness brings listeners daily podcast shorts on key events in history, described first-hand by the individuals who lived through them.

Best in History Online: BBC's Witness Podcast

… fantastic history sites from around the web. These are websites that – much like Origins – seek to bring history … by the individuals who lived through them. Each episode covers a single moment, person, or topic in history, … and war. The podcast is available on the BBC World Service website and on iTunes . Fans can also connect with Witness …
German and Indian troops as part of the international coalition to put down the Boxer Rebellion

History Shadows U.S.-China Relations

… Prime Minister’s plan to visit a shrine honoring soldiers who died for his country during World War II has … days later, troops representing the United States, six European powers and Japan arrived to crush the uprising. … of more than $30 million (then an astronomical amount) as compensation to foreign powers for the damage caused by the …
The flag of Ethiopia under the rule of the Derg, 1975-1987

Blind Aid: Lessons (Not Learned) from the Ethiopian Famine

… be thousands, hundreds [of] thousands of people who will die.” Vasset’s comments encapsulated the international response to the … the suffering caused by drought. International observers also overlooked the impact of the Derg’s fight with … Blind Aid: Lessons (Not Learned) from the Ethiopian Famine …
Image of a large turkey on a postcard from the early 1900s.

The First “First Thanksgiving”

… in celebration of the safe arrival of new colonists. So that must have been the first Thanksgiving, right? Wrong … new settlement. Apparently, this was, indeed, the first European Thanksgiving in the United States. But it was still … Thanksgiving.” For 136 years, Thanksgiving has been a day commemorated across America. It gives us a moment to recall …

Treating the Symptoms: Northern Ireland’s Incomplete Peace

… that, 17 years after its inception, remains stubbornly incomplete. On the positive side, the Belfast Agreement … Ireland remains one of the most divided societies in Europe. Catholics live in neighborhoods that are … party and joined the Irish Free State as Fianna Fail (“Soldiers of Destiny”). This new party kept Irish nationalism as …
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Republicans Should Look Back to the Future

… recently to consider their party’s future, many of them complained that conservatives had lost their way. They … were frequently battered in national elections by their association with the Great Depression. The popularity of … As a popular general who led the Allies to victory in Europe during the Second World War, he projected an image of …
Marchers for the Equal Rights Amount, holding banner that reads "Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex"

The Equal Rights Amendment: Then and Now

… both passionate supporters and ardent opponents. ( Image Source ) … professor of History and director of the American Studies program, specializing on gender, women, and science.   … Blissit. Song and band information can be found on our website. You can find our podcast and more on our website, …

Rash Decisions: Anti-vaccination Movements in Historical Perspective

… the initial onset of symptoms. Measles often causes severe complications, including pneumonia and encephalitis … that can cause permanent deafness, brain damage, or neurological damage. Infant in 1978 with skin lesions, … was mild and granted lifelong immunity. Lady Mary’s brother died of smallpox in 1713 and her own famous beauty had been …
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Sex Scandals and U.S. History

… The conservative philosopher George Santayana made one of the world’s best known comments about history when he said that those who learn … triumvirate of 1920s conservative Republican presidents, died in 1923 amid bribery and corruption scandals that were …

The Catholic Church and Sexual Abuse, Then and Now

… from the priesthood in February 2019.  All of these tragedies are tinged with a sense of déjà vu. Similar patterns of … changing sexual mores since the 1960s. Occasionally, commentators have referred to an insular institutional … in the aftermath of the liberal revolutions of 1848 in Europe. Pope Pius IX with the clergy members of his Papal …
Image of T2 Atomic Demolition Munition from the 1950s.

The Test-Ban Treaty and the Cold War’s Lessons

… When U.S. senators voted to reject the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, they took a giant step … over Russian territory, those hopes faded. But they did not die. Long before President Clinton signed the Comprehensive … short-range nuclear missiles their nations had stationed in Europe and set up a verification system providing for …
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Best in History Online: The Washington Post's "Made By History"

… fantastic history sites from around the web. These are websites that – much like Origins – seek to bring history … historians who hold diverse perspectives and differing viewpoints on topics ranging from the history of democracy and … the section is to show what historians do. The page aims to combat the tendency to use history as "a tool to advance …

Colonizing Mars: Practicing Other Worlds on Earth

… 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 … worlds isn’t anything new. The same desires that motivated European imperial pursuits and Anglo-American westward …

"Y'En A Marre!" (We're Fed Up!): Senegal in the Season of Discontent

… loud chanting and shouting. Toyota pick-ups raced about, soldiers and police hanging precariously off the sides and … currency, the CFA Franc, is pegged at a fixed rate to the Euro, leaving Senegal's economy vulnerable to events beyond … starting. [Y'En A Marre] want change and their patience has come to an end. Prices are too high, the power fails all the …
U.S. National Archives building

New Laws Needed to Stop Bullying of National Archives

… to a former President because White House files were his personal property. He could destroy what he wanted, then set … often waited for controversies surrounding a President to die down before opening contentious documents. A federal … honorably may struggle with his past. Governance is complex and politics messy. Laws demand disclosure of what …
Aftermath of the al-Qaida bombing at the U.S. Embassy in Tanzania in 1998.

When America Was Considered a Rogue Nation

… before the Civil War, people in Latin America, Western Europe, and even the faraway Hawaiian kingdom were convinced that the United States had become a base for terrorists. No one then actually used the … “war on terrorism” will last longer than assumed. It also warns that the government and news media should exercise …
Isaac W. Williams (front) in a file photo from the 1960s.

Still Fighting the Civil War in South Carolina

… "has nothing to do with slavery."  He proposes that it is a commemoration of South Carolinians who "stood up for their self-government … Americans in Charleston also built a cemetery for Union soldiers who had died as prisoners of war, and they came by the …
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Captain America: Changing Conscience of a Nation

… United States remained neutral while World War II raged in Europe and Asia , but the country was inching toward war. … and artist Jack Kirby in the eponymous Captain America Comics #1 , the patriotic hero became a breakout star for … an experimental program meant to create an army of super soldiers to defeat the Nazis, only to become the program’s sole …

As Cuba and the United States Reengage: The Presence of the Past

… without understanding what preceded it. “There is a complicated history between the United States and Cuba,” … weight of history on our shoulders.” In Havana, Castro also spoke of history. But while Obama hoped “to cut loose the … we have kept our unswerving loyalty to those who died in defense of our principles since the beginning of our …