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… Bakken oil-shale region in western North Dakota to a tank complex in Illinois. Its route crosses the Missouri River … of Tears in Oklahoma. An estimated 3,500 Native Americans died along the 1,200 mile journey. Indian treaty-makers did … Indian nations to establish reservation governments and buy back their old lands. In 1946, Congress recognized the …

… implausible. History can promote human improvement, I've come to believe, but not in the didactic or formulaic manner … our most basic assumptions, beliefs, and ideologies. It complicates our lives, making us wiser people if not wiser …

… administrations that deemed the application of force a welcome distraction from domestic problems. At the same time, … offensive mindset—“Rabin’s Schlieffenplan,” (145) as Laron coins it in pointed allusion. Rabin's "Schlieffenplan:" an … but also offer rewarding reading experiences to public audiences with much patience and stamina. …

… career home runs and his 1,119 RBIs place him in the same company as such Hall of Famers as Yogi Berra, Roy … be sure, Allen forced the white baseball establishment to come to terms with the racism that existed in the game in … alone. Racism is a much broader cultural phenomenon, encompassing institutional policies as well as the beliefs and …

… or the opening of world markets to facilitate competition across national boundaries. Record campaign … racism, and urging workers and farmers to recognize their common interest in fighting business consolidation. Because … politics operates. Building broad support for changing the complex global economy will be harder than convincing people …

… use it to fund a generous "cash for clunkers" program which buys and scraps old inefficient and highly polluting cars …

… to give black men full citizenship. For that much, Bush and company can claim a worthy lineage. But as early as 1876 — … the Democrats' political machines eagerly absorbed the newcomers. Republican machines, by contrast, reacted coolly … a vigorous civil rights bill, but the legislation almost died because of a Senate filibuster by Southern Democrats. …

… the idea of a color-blind America. Media pundits and social commentators nationwide claimed that Obama's election … success. History, however, might prove otherwise.  As we come to the end of the first decade of the twenty-first … through the Presidency, and Weaver never wavered from that commitment even when his strategy failed to make any …

… President Bush likes to tell his usually hand-picked audiences that Iraq will become more democratic and prosperous because of America’s … commitment in Iraq. The public should realize that it’s buying a lemon. Michael R. Adamson is an independent …

… Violence against women has a long history in human communities. Yet, we live in a time when people across the … an assistant professor of Women's Gender and Sexuality Studies here at The Ohio State University.   Peggy Solic    My … Leticia Wiggins. You can find our podcasts and more at our website, origins.osu.edu, on iTunes and on Soundcloud. And …

… spread to the Spanish conflict. Robles went to his death a committed Stalinist, but to shroud the reality of the … as a fascist spy. Dos Passos was politically astute and a committed leftist though not a declared Stalinist. … a lethal wound. Dos Passos lived until 1970, but his art died in 1937. Koch's book is light on the history of the …

… on "virtue" instead of policy. Written with a broad audience in mind, Critchlow utilizes biographies and … to argue that "principled pragmatism, the ability to compromise while maintaining core principles, is essential … defined them. Chapter One examines Richard Nixon and the complex story of a man remembered for the naked, amoral …

… Collegiate Athletic Association, or NCAA. In addition to completing the monumental  King Era Trilogy , Branch has … Patrick Potyondy  Welcome to History Talk , the history podcast for everyone … Leticia Wiggins. You can find our podcasts and more at our website, origins.osu.edu, on iTunes, and on SoundCloud. And …

… and Washington, the news media are now brimming with comparisons of alcohol to marijuana prohibition and “lessons … drinking habit. In 1970, two legal scholars wrote a comparison of alcohol and marijuana law that I believe still … The courts generally came to see the state legislatures as competent to decide whether drinking was a public evil and …

… the amendment restored voting rights to ex-felons who had completed their prison sentence and been released from … laws like the one Floridians voted to eliminate. More common are states that extend disfranchisement through … Answers to these questions can be found deep in America’s complicated histories of slavery, segregation, and mass …

… the reinstatement of political control via revolutionary committees supported by the military. The Cultural … October 1976. The resolution acknowledged the period’s tragedies and called them mistakes, laying blame at the feet of … of the “masses” and the “people” as workers, peasants, soldiers, intellectuals, youth, and officials, they are a …

… King. Jury selection began November 15. The case hardly comes as a surprise. In recent years, the King family has … a fairly straightforward case like the King assassination become complicated with such stale, predictable theories that it …

… “North Berwick Witches” tried with her is exceptionally complex, involving politics, religion, magic, and conspiracy … personally involved in Agnes Sampson’s trial would soon become king of England, as James I, where he established the Stuart monarchy, commissioned the King James Bible, wrote an important …

… indefensibility of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima is becoming a part of the national conservative creed." But times … In recent decades most American conservatives have become uncritical of America's use of atomic weapons and … and profoundly offensive to all Americans and Japanese who died in that war, and to those Americans who still possess …

… thus passed into the language to refer to someone with no competence or apparent purpose. It turns out, however, that … in 1940 as a symbol of the administration's continuing commitment to the New Deal, was given significant … qualified to direct foreign policy if the president dies and to continue the basic policies in the next election …

… starting to remake Maxwell Motors into his future Big Three company. In 1922, there was one registered passenger car or … a car (or two) in every driveway.   From Keystone Cops comedies to contemporary movie chases to sophisticated art, … we have enough cars.   We will need to keep producing and buying new trucks and cars to retire reeking beaters, …

… and Moscow are increasingly frayed, and Russia has become a determined foe of the American Middle East agenda. … more pragmatic than ideological, it should be possible to buy it off with the right package of incentives. That would … Service and a doctoral student in history and security studies at Yale. E-mail:  jmankoff@yahoo.com . …

… to Christmas, head over to the local Wal-Mart. The company’s promise of “everyday low prices” is music to the … For better or worse, we’re living in a Wal-Mart World. The company now produces an astonishing 2.3 percent of the … dreams. Woolworth’s five-cent promise gave almost everyone buying power. By 1918, a billion people entered Woolworth’s …