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The Lorraine Motel

Putting Race on Display: The National Civil Rights Museum

… Leticia Wiggins   This is your host Leticia Wiggins and welcome to History Talk , the history podcast for everyone … the selection of the team they had, the museum did a very good job as being sort of stewards of the Lorraine Motel, of … be told about Medgar Evers, early NAACP activists. So that will then set up when we come back and deal with Freedom …
Protesters against the an anti-gay marriage amendment on the 2012 election ballot.

The Gay-Marriage Amendment: A Danger to the Constitution

… unintended consequences should not be shrugged off lightly. Once an amendment is adopted, it can only be … can block the repair of a mistake. If we amend in haste, we will likely have to endure the result regardless of how much we come to regret it. The nation’s constitutional history is …
The Cornalvo Dam, near the city of Mérida in Spain.

Top Ten Origins: Dams

… are being built in Brazil and China, while campaigns to decommission dams are gaining traction in the United States … the world until its alleged destruction by clumsy monks in 1305.  Located near the Roman capital, the Subiaco dams also … photo of the Elwha Dam taken for the Lower Elwha Fisheries office in 2005. Many of the dams built by the BOR in the …
Mosaics from the apse in the Basilica of San Vitale, Ravenna. Justinian is the figure in the center. The mosaics were completed in 547 CE.

The Justinianic Plague

… Justinian is the figure in the center. The mosaics were completed in 547 CE. Because there have been multiple … source is Procopius of Caesarea (in modern Israel), a high official in the Roman government, who lived in … source is John of Ephesus (in modern Turkey), a Christian bishop living in Syria who lived at the same time as …
Vegetables from ecological farming.

Bringing Democrats and Republicans Together over Food

… initiative was passed, and Congress appropriated $300 million to provide school meals in developing countries. … enemies of peace."   Democrats and Republicans could surely come together to realize that children overseas dying or … since it got its start.  Global hunger has fallen far off the radar in the U.S. government, and programs such as …
Caricature of President Nixon in 1970.

Patrick J. Buchanan: a Populist, Not a Conservative

… his party's $12.6 million, thanks to the Federal Election Commission, which ruled in a recent 5-1 decision that … William McKinley, led the charge for higher tariffs. In 1930, the Smoot-Hawley tariff, one of the largest expansions … as "selling out to the Business Roundtable." But a cutoff of aid to China would also fit in nicely with past …
Portrait of Galileo Galilei by Justus Sustermans

400 Years Ago the Catholic Church Prohibited Copernicanism

What lessons can be learned from the thought and actions of Galileo, who became the “Father of Modern Science”?
… continues to our day. Do these Church actions prove the incompatibility between science and religion? What lessons can … charges against Galileo were unsubstantiated. However, the officials started worrying about the status of heliocentrism … by Pope John Paul II (in 1979-1992). This controversy will probably not end any time soon. This may be seen from …
President Harry Truman in 1945.

Can This Election Produce Another Hundred Days?

… upon when he won approval of the Securities and Exchange Commission, Social Security, unemployment insurance, a … Administration that built new roads, bridges, dams, post offices, classrooms and libraries. This year, with votes … with the New Deal, content to thwart its advance but unwilling to risk its repeal. Few Americans thought that they …
 protests by the Yellow Vest movement

France at the Barricades, 1934

… government. But based on advice from army and police officials and political advisors, Daladier stepped down to … French cities. In fact, the riots of February 6 th have become shorthand to describe the protests and violence that … collapse of the French Republic for the remainder of the 1930s, despite how close they came on February 6, 1934. But by …
Washington Receiving a Salute on the Field of Trenton by John Faed, featuring Blueskin.

Does Experience Really Help?

… is likely to run again. So relevant "experience" is hard to come by.This presidential season, everybody is talking about … out military "experience" as beneficial to the would-be office holder. Zachary Taylor was a hero of the … whose major accomplishment as president was dying early on. William Henry Harrison, hero in the Indian wars, also died …
A sign from a DC Women's March that reads, "70% anti-abortion leaders are men; 100% of them will never be pregnant."

Abortion, History, and the Beginning of Life

… to have an abortion–by ignoring morality, tradition, and common sense. Those who seek to ban abortion frequently … writers and jurists disagreed about how serious a moral offense abortion was. The punishments assigned in medieval … of medieval Irish saints. Saint Kieran, a sixth-century bishop, is said to have come to the rescue of a nun who had …
Illustration from Otto of Freising’s twelfth-century chronicle, which depicts Henry IV and Clement III presiding in Rome in 1084, and Gregory VII’s flight from the city and subsequent death in Salerno in 1085.

The Investiture Controversy

… victory over rebels in the duchy, appointed a new archbishop in Milan, and named two additional bishops in Italy in … Gregory VII chastised Henry IV’s association with excommunicated advisers and his appointment of three Italian … famous declaration to the Reichstag in 1872 that Germany “will not go to Canossa” as Henry IV did in 1077.  The …
A portrait of Martin Luther King, Jr.

The Assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

… Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. step onto the balcony of room 306, he pulled the trigger. A fraction of a second later, a … Memphis, a pall of shock and sadness blanketed the black community. Anguish soon turned to anger. Fearing a riot, the … almost impossible. The disappearance of small mom and pop shops, many of which did not reopen after being burned, hurt …
Portrait of Jimmy Carter from 1979.

The Nobel Committee Speaks to America

… Carter. By giving him this honor at this time, the Nobel Committee seized the opportunity to express its concern over … has been long left behind. There was also his role while in office in securing the 1978 Camp David accords for peace … toward a resolution that might result in the use of force against Iraq. In announcing the prize, the chairman of the …
the monument of the Soviet army in Sofia, completed in 1954

11/4/2014: Empty Fountains: Communist-Era Monuments Revisited

… What is the afterlife of an old communist statue? Just what to do with all the Soviet-era … bloc:” some blown up or knocked down, others shunted off to museums, and still others left standing and … on the structure. Even more striking is the neglect of the 1300 Years Bulgaria monument in the National Palace of …
Agincourt: Henry V and the Battle that Made England, by Juliet Barker Little, Brown and Company book cover.

Agincourt: Henry V and the Battle that Made England

Review of Agincourt: Henry V and the Battle that Made England, by Juliet Barker Little, Brown and Company (New York, 2006)
… Henry V also laid claim to the crown of France, and to make good that claim he launched an unexpectedly successful armed … unalloyed sense of justification: She announces that the outcome of the battle of Agincourt showed "God had chosen to … with such a courteous nature, who followed "precisely the code of conduct that governed the medieval laws of war," …
Palestine & Israel flags

Israeli and Palestinian Fantasies Block the Way to Peace

… As any viewer of television news knows, those who comment on the Arab-Israeli crisis offer many different explanations for the current outbreaks … to indulge in these fantasies, significant compromise will be difficult to achieve.   The principal fantasy of the …
President George W. Bush in 2004.

When the Axis Was Truly Evil

… peace than Bush’s “axis of evil.” The president’s comments have led to denunciations from the three nations he … the global menace of the old Axis powers, he would have a good point. But the huge dissimilarities between the Axis … States to fight what historian Charles Beard in the 1930s called “perpetual wars for perpetual peace,” a policy …
1960s hippies dancing at a festival.

The Soundtrack of the Summer of Love

… of psychedelic exploration . The Summer of Love marked the coming out party for the counter-culture we now associate … culture, which had been in decline in England since the 1930s. That sound, a fusion of American R&B with British music … Mick Jagger, Paul McCartney, and Paul Simon—to offer advice. The Beatles didn’t play there but they …
the word History in script

Why Study History?

… implausible. History can promote human improvement, I've come to believe, but not in the didactic or formulaic manner … unnatural, it violates Christian sensibilities, and it will spark even more prejudice and discrimination) bore a … Court, Clarence Thomas, says that gay marriage is an offense to his religion. But he is also married to a white …
soldiers in Iraq

Can Iraq Learn to Live in Peace?

… the inspectors were too few and too weakly supported to overcome Iraqi resistance. But even if the inspections had … spread of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) seems like a good idea. So now we’re going to try something else: regime … turnaround of Japan in Iraq. The only way that Gulf War II will succeed in long-term disarmament is if the United …
Richard and Mildred Loving in June, 1967.

At the Movies: "The Loving Cup"

… Loving v. Virginia , the most pertinent film is Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner? (1968), which features a stirring defense … to her rescue, but before he can save the day, Flora jumps off a cliff to her death rather than allow Gus to assault … torturous delay, he declares his happiness, laughing: “Good. That's real good.” He begins looking screen right. …
Nanci Pelosi standing at a podium with many people behind and beside her

The Contentious ACA

… Leticia Wiggins   Welcome to History Talk Produced by Origins , a project of the … the ACA marks a shift away from the 20th century model of offering individuals federal assistance based on membership … you know, similarly developed countries, we're spending 30%, they're spending 9%. And then Bradley comes in and she …
The Sherman M4-A2E8 Tank

12/3/2014: At the Movies: Fury

… their way through a devastated Germany. The first major combat sequence takes place in an open field, as Collier and … goal with the film was to challenge the conventional “good war” narrative.  He wanted to demonstrate that “[the … evidence to document any clear patterns. Historians have offered highly divergent estimations of the number of German …