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… measles, typhus, and influenza decimated Indigenous communities in the Americas is a commonly held one. Like so much of our popular conceptions … Aztec victims of a sixteenth-century epidemic. This image accompanies the quoted text, taken from Nahua historians and …

… the global economy. This conversation has raised uncomfortable questions about contemporary businesses and … business transactions, delving into issues of fraud, credit, and government relations. Merchants involved in … Abolitionists were also deeply engaged in a debate over credit and fraud. Some argued that credit was necessary to …

… Welcome to Prologued ! Prologued is a serial podcast from … of color. That’s it. ( laughter ) ( music) Sarah Paxton ( credits) This season of Prologued was brought to you by … Oranjudio. Song and Band information can be found on our website and we encourage our listeners to visit episode …

… we like to take a moment to highlight fantastic history sites from around the web. These are websites that – much … new sound on the web, as we add our very first podcast recommendation into the mix. The Exploring Environmental … this podcast has plenty of episodes to choose from, with recordings dating back to 2006. These podcasts are part of …

… we like to take a moment to highlight fantastic history sites from around the web. These are websites that – much like Origins – seek to bring history into … attention to the American Historical Association's (AHA) site. The AHA functions as an inclusive organization, …

… On a sunny day in late April 2003 at a site about 150 km from the North Pole, Artur Chilingarov, … understand why there is all this noise in the international community. If anyone wants to plant a flag down there, … renown—and also the Soviet Union's Arctic pilots. For their record-breaking flights over the Arctic region, they …

… over Confederate monuments. How do these two trends in commemorating our nation’s past relate to one anther? What … Brenna Miller  Welcome to History Talk, the podcast that brings together a … mean, it's as clear as day, really, and there it is on that site.   Dr. Hasan Jeffries  And as you said earlier, it's …

… number of letters that prove he was no dummy. A historian’s complaint, however, is larger than chagrin at the number of … nation to alter its perceptions, values and policies. The comfortable old ways will no longer do. Reagan had an … He squandered this opportunity and instead led in the opposite direction, toward economic and population expansion …

… of the military later found expression in the Posse Comitatus law of 1878, still in force. Archaic as the title … we are to block this new threat to our republic. The Posse Comitatus law was carefully observed for nearly 80 years, … away from Washington, D.C., military headquarters for post commanders to wait for permission to respond to an Indian …

… postwar economic boom took hold, with America becoming the world’s leading hyper industrial and military … Revolution , Douglas Brinkley pays tribute to those who combated the mauling of the natural world in the Long … author), David Brower (director of the Sierra Club), Barry Commoner (an environmental justice advocate), Coretta Scott …

… the story goes. In January 1918, after forty-one months of combat, Allied troops were ready for a ceasefire, but they … on November 11, 1918, the German delegation met Allied Commander Ferdinand Foch, and signed the Armistice in his … capital cities, in town squares, at cemeteries and memorial sites throughout the world—for many an annual ritual—to …

… motives and the messianic revolutionary ideals of Russian communism. 2 Originating in Czarist Russia, traditional … in the Third World. In my opinion, Zubok gives far too much credit to Brezhnev for the reduction of tensions between … In evaluating the end of the Cold War, Zubok does not give credit to the Reagan administration. The aggressive policies …

… the Axis, operation Torch constituted the biggest and most complex amphibious landing to that point in world history.  … terrain separated the invasion’s three proposed landing sites in Morocco and Algeria. Stormy winter forecasts … General Dwight D. Eisenhower was appointed Supreme Allied Commander over the operation. As the head of an Allied …

… but more oftentimes not. That information is then recorded, reconfigured, and redistributed in ways that few … narrative says technology is to blame—that after mainframe computers burst onto the scene in the middle of the … campaigns more sophisticated. With the rise of the credit card industry, consumer debt in the United States had …

… Carter. By giving him this honor at this time, the Nobel Committee seized the opportunity to express its concern over … of improving health and living conditions, he also deserves credit for his work on economic development and cooperation … than twenty years since his presidency ended. That splendid record also created a highly visible platform for Europeans …

… have heralded eclipses as portentous, ominous events. Sites aligned to solstices and equinoxes—England’s … total solar eclipse . Dating to 1223 BCE in Syria, it was accompanied by the appearance of  Mars in the sky and … was to come, Tenskwatawa not only predicted but also took credit for this apparent miracle. Whatever the latest …

… The furor over comments made by Gen. Stanley McChrystal and his aides to a … earlier, infamous clashes between presidents and wartime commanders, both of them, curiously, of similar prefixes — …

… Hurricane Katrina has underscored the importance of unified command and control in response to national disasters. … the determination to get the job done. He was secretary of commerce from 1921 to 1928 under presidents Harding and … the flood control work of the Army Corps of Engineers and commanded other divisions of the War Department as needed. …

… 2018, President Donald Trump made a set of disparaging comments about Puerto Rico. They underscored just how little … and the Hill: Fuerzas Armadas de Liberación Nacional (FALN) Site of the Fuerzas Armadas de Liberación Nacional (FALN) … Manhattan on October 26, 1974. The next year, the FALN took credit for a series of bombings in New York, Chicago, and …

… according to the International Darwin Day Foundation website. Born on February 12, 1809, Darwin published his … 2009, with events sponsored by national and state "Lincoln Commissions," and because of the remarkable presidential … Evolution was itself set in motion by the creator, they posited, much the way an earlier generation of theologians had …

… War II in Europe. This year as in previous ones, Europeans commemorated VE (Victory in Europe) Day with a combination … Thus, eastern Europe and particularly Poland —the site of the Jewish Pale of Settlement established by tsarist … “Arbeit Macht Frei” (Work Makes (you) Free) (Photo credit: Kirsten Hildonen) The legacy and memory of the …

… violence. By the end, a few thousand Spaniards under the command of Hernando Cortés fighting alongside many times … Chinese uprising in Spanish-controlled Manila in 1603, the commander Luis Pérez Dasmariñas rallied his troops to launch … the hard way that the myth was false. One chronicler recorded what a survivor reported of Dasmariñas’s end: “They …

… 13.77 billion years ago, our entire observable universe was compressed into the size of a peach and had a temperature of … independent lines of evidence. Out of this basic framework comes a grand history of our universe … and plenty of … same set of properties (mass, spin, the usual) but opposite charge: antimatter. These days we can easily make …