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… After all, American society is now among the world's most complex. In a nation of such diverse origins, practices and … of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it." But his views have not always been heeded. Nor …

… fantastic history sites from around the web. These are websites that – much like Origins – seek to bring history … historians alike to share their ideas, the Public History Commons ! The Public His tory Commons is a project of the National Council on Public … Best in History Online: Public History Commons …

… colonialists in their war against Ho’s Vietminh, he had become a bitter U.S. enemy. Over the next decade, Ho frustrated American designs in Southeast Asia. By 1964, communist guerrillas, aided by the North Vietnamese army, … were in Vietnam. By 1973, more than 58,000 of them had died there. Congress later recognized the mistake of the …

… sides their full due, we will be honoring only a bloodless, comforting reflection of the whole troubling man.  Most … and a legitimate target for nonviolent civil disobedience. That was why he was in Memphis in 1968, supporting … fiction. Ira Chernus is a professor of religious studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder and a writer …

… framework of decolonization struggles. Violence has accompanied decolonization whenever the goal of political … of a late twentieth-century drive of colonial peoples to become sovereign nation-states. Much of the fury behind the … belief that they are the only colonized people completely frustrated in their wish to live under their own …

… Mao Zedong to Martin Luther King Jr., China has a long and complex history of interaction with African American … James Watson-Krips  Hello, everyone. Welcome to this discussion with Melvin Barnes, PhD candidates … at Princeton University's Department of East Asian Studies. Today's discussion will center mostly on Melvin's …

… "was somehow the cause of the war." Today, as the nation commemorates the war's sesquicentennial, the war's … must also reflect soberly on the nature of slavery. It is easy to let the word "slavery" pass one's lips without … the sacrifices and hardships of millions of Confederate soldiers and households, too often those solemn intentions get …

… America Pageant. As early as the 1880s, business owners and community leaders began organizing beauty pageants in … At 5’1 and 108 pounds, Gorman remains the youngest and smallest Miss America on record. Observers from around the … on a television network. Given their tenuous hold on TV audiences, one could argue that beauty pageants harken back to …

… Americans have hated political and economic bullies. "Free competition" has always been our rallying cry and the … their entrepreneurship survive in the face of ruthless competition? Free competition meant the opportunity for all … much a monopolist as Rockefeller, but he built millions of cheap cars that put America on wheels, and at the same time …

… returned home but evaded murder charges because he committed the crime outside of Hong Kong’s jurisdiction. He … government, access to British capital, and an influx of cheap labor from China, Hong Kong entered its postwar … its window to the outside world. Cover of Worker-Peasant-Soldier Pictorial magazine in 1970, during the Great …

… Vickers, the man responsible for security at the House of Commons, with taking down the gunman. Commentators not … only intended to prevent the government from disarming soldiers. Yet the body was unable to pass any new laws to … concludes that while the availability of guns, particularly cheap handguns, helped facilitate homicides in the past, …

… and a staggering landmark in human population growth combined to give new urgency to the existential question of … warm Classical antiquity, a cold Dark Ages, a warm Medieval Regime, and a cold Hallstatt- driven Little Ice … and structures of human communities. Ancient and medieval agrarian societies were threatened by …

… fantastic history sites from around the web. These are websites that – much like Origins – seek to bring history … uses interviews, oral histories, archival sound clips, and commentary and analysis by scholars in the field of … scholars and a unique perspective on history for popular audiences. The show is hosted by historians Gillian Frank and …

… Revolution , the only son of a mother whose husband had died in a hunting accident while she was pregnant, … Soviet counter-intelligence agency, for writing derogatory comments about Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin in a private … in the aftermath of the war, when trainloads of Soviet soldiers were sent directly from Western Europe into the camp …

… and natural theology was a debate within the scientific community of the day. Within the modern scientific community, there is no debate; biologists disagree on the … If they shudder at the thought, they should stop cheapening their religious beliefs by trying to pass them …

… too frequently heard, “if only you were white,” as a compliment to their skills, but also as a reality check that … him “one of the greatest pitchers of all time.”  The compliments were great, but they might as well have said, … rookie. Paige was past his prime, but to the Black community, that did not matter. He was their hero, a …

… for those unfamiliar with such theory. Lienesch's comparisons of the antievolution movement to other social … the Scopes trials than the past seventy-five years combined. Given the plethora of books on Scopes, including … in tactics; the movement has seemingly changed its goals completely in recent decades. Early anti-evolutionists, …

… been interwoven with human history. Although the data are incomplete, over 170 volcanic eruptions have been recorded in … from the Ring Road; Iceland's Ring Road, Highway 1, was completed in 1974 and circles the island in an 828 mile … where few other species could survive. Most Icelanders welcome the invasive flower because it helps curb erosion and …

… fireworks light the sky and effigies burn. The celebration commemorates an event from 1605, when authorities discovered … “Jack” Wright (1568-1605), and Guy Fawkes—a seasoned soldier who had fought for Catholic Spain and possessed crucial … of Parliament, killing King James I, the Lords, and the Commons in one stroke. The conspirators hoped the chaos …

… will likely preoccupy future historians for years to come. While a number of factors contributed to his … The Republican Presidential Debates brought in record audiences. The news media’s obsession with Trump is … a growing readership produced the “penny press.” As these cheap, mass-circulation newspapers commercialized and began …

… who make up the Religious Right, faith is important when it comes to moral issues such as abortion and homosexual … called such behavior “virtue.” Personal sacrifice for the common good would provide a necessary check to the selfishness that could easily arise when people become obsessed with individual rights. Civic humanism and …

… became known as Peronism and the Justicialist Party embodied it. Perón’s program “New Argentina,” advocating social … for nothing less than a total redefinition of the social compact. Peronism permeated and penetrated all aspects of … of an attempted military putsch. Perón awarded medals to soldiers who beat back the attempted coup. The CGT, represented …

… motives and the messianic revolutionary ideals of Russian communism. 2 Originating in Czarist Russia, traditional … the Soviet Union's security. On the other hand, messianic communist ideals, which date back to Bolshevik upheaval of … was important to Khrushchev was to maintain the spread of communism. Khrushchev's calls for peaceful coexistence were …