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Indigenous Peoples' Day: A Conversation

… Ohio State University experts Melissa Beard Jacob, Ph.D., and Associate Professor Daniel Rivers discuss Indigenous … to what we see happening in the two regions of the American Southeast, what is modern day, Tennessee, Mississippi, … where my Tribe and the Cherokee and others from the southeast already were. But there was deep resistance in the …
The detonation of the Castle Bravo thermonuclear bomb

Top Ten Origins: Civil Defense, Nuclear War, and Duct Tape

… Saber-rattling between the current U.S. administration and the North Korean regime and an errant incoming missile alert in Hawaii have focused … develop a thermonuclear weapon, detonating a device in the South Pacific in November 1952. In March 1954, an improved, …

Pandemics: Today and Yesterday

… of the role that disease-causing microbes such as bacteria and viruses have played across the long span of human … companions.” Poliovirus ( left ), Influenza ( center ), and COVID-19 ( right ). Our “deadly companions,” to use … into the Greek world from across the Mediterranean in North Africa. "Plague in an Ancient City" (1652-1654) by Michiel …
Anti-Christian sign in Federal Plaza Chicago 2008

Slavery, Gay Rights, and the Bible

… A growing plurality of Americans accepts gay unions, and approval is strongest among the young. So, changes in … on scripture should have a deeper cause for concern. Time and again, history has shown that people who cite the Bible … of the strongest resistance to gay marriage has come from African American ministers who quote scripture as literally …

Savage Gladiators vs. Civilized Amateurs: Rome and Athens in American Sports Culture

… In a 1973 football game between the Cincinnati Bengals and the Denver Broncos, a pass was intercepted by the … lucrative of college sports, football and basketball. The Southeastern Conference (SEC) was the first conference to … Atlantic Monthly , David Berri, professor of economics at Southern Utah University, offered some calculations for the …

Humans Have Always Lived in a World of Many Worlds

… world of experience ruled by universal laws of science and nature. But the historical record suggests otherwise. If … racist “coloniality.” Thus, along with the descendants of African slaves all over the Americas, indigenous peoples … like the precolonial civilizations of the Americas, Africa, and Asia, even though the latter sustained many …
Omagh, Northern Ireland in 2001.

Taking the Guns Out of Irish Politics

… The decommissioning of weapons in Northern Ireland ought to be a simple enough affair. The parties which … of the political spectrum are now locked in dialogue and committed to principles of nonviolence. All but one of … of Independence, which led to the creation of Northern and Southern Ireland, the British Army handed weapons over for …
Cover of Patrick Henry: First Among Patriots by Thomas S. Kidd

Patriot or Pragmatist?

Review of Patrick Henry: First Among Patriots, by Thomas S. Kidd (New York: Basic Books, 2011)
… an imaginary dagger into his breast. The man had presence, and that's not debatable. The rest of his legacy, however, … surviving source was published four decades after the fact and based on witnesses' recollections. Yet a larger problem … Henry came of age as evangelical Protestantism awakened the southern colonies. He heard the sermons of influential …
In 2014, the debate about the underlying causes of "long, hot summers" remerged with the high-profile police killings of Michael Brown, Tamir Rice, Eric Garner, and others.

Long Hot Summers and Separate Societies

Review of Separate and Unequal: The Kerner Commission and the Unraveling of American Liberalism, by Steven M. Gillon (New York: Basic Books, 2018)
… of structural racism or because of the breakdown of “law and order?” Is white, affluent society to blame for such … color or are they the “thin blue line” separating society and chaos? Fifty years ago, those urban riots resulted in … chapters, “conservative newspapers, Republicans, southern [white] Democrats, and disaffected whites” did not. …
dollar bill with image of capitol building in front of it

Deeper Than the “Deep State”: Follow the Money

… run by business executive Elon Musk, has been reshaping and reducing the government.  A colleague in Germany wrote … While critics raise alarms over the president’s bold moves and supporters think the critics are trying to hem in needed … dispensed aid and good will in  Somalia ,  Sudan , and  South Sudan , but also recognized “agency missteps.” Rather …
Sarah Palin

Sarah Palin Distorts the Founders’ Religious Views

… of evangelical Christians on American politics. Notwithstanding the evangelicals’ strong support for his candidacy, Mike Huckabee failed to get the GOP presidential … will presumably provide the nation with either its first African-American president or its first female vice …
A portrait of U.S. Brig. Gen. William “Billy” Mitchell, who advocated for air power in the 1920s.

Rumsfeld Must Modernize U.S. Armed Forces

… The recent terrorist attacks on New York and Washington underscore the urgent need to modernize the … believed, the U.S. military services had to become flexible and mobile enough to meet smaller and more elusive threats … to the east and west, and benign neighbors to the north and south, the United States has enjoyed relatively long periods …

Ideology or Ethnicity? The Israeli Political Crisis

… crisis. The country held two rounds of elections in April and September 2019 that failed to produce a government. And … came from Muslim countries in the Middle East and North Africa. Ashkenazi Jews thus came to dominate the Jewish … Inside The Forgotten War ; Women in the Mideast and North Africa ; and the Syrian Civil War and Arab Spring . … Ori …
Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War, by Nathaniel Philbrick Book Cover.

Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War

Review of Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War, by Nathaniel Philbrick (New York, Viking Press 2006)
… evokes images of 'wide-brimmed hats', 'buckled shoes', and a shared harvest meal. Nathaniel Philbrick's story of … Philbrick's work is the relationship between the Pilgrims and the Wampanoag people, his narrative details how this … 60 and 80 percent" of the Native American population of Southern New England (332). Philbrick's story of the …
School Lunch Politics: The Surprising History of America's Favorite Welfare Program, by Susan Levine Book Cover

Playing Politics with Our Children's Health

Review of School Lunch Politics: The Surprising History of America's Favorite Welfare Program, by Susan Levine (Princeton University Press, 2008)
… ominously described "the skyrocketing price of food" and its effect on Americans' budgets. According to the … that he can no longer afford fresh vegetables, seafood, and other nutritious items. "We used to have fresh spinach; … and the USDA in the 1930s continued after World War II. Southern Democrats were crucial to the enactment of the …
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in 1964.

The (Character) Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.

… times implicated the CIA, the FBI, U.S. Army intelligence, and even President Lyndon B. Johnson in an elaborate … J. Edgar Hoover mounted an intense campaign of surveillance and harassment in a pitched effort to destroy his career. … hate groups,” including King’s organization, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC). The FBI …
The London meeting to discuss NATO military intervention in Libya, March 29, 2011.

Secretary Clinton — Leader or Figurehead?

… secretaries of state have been those who think creatively and move assertively. Likewise our most effective foreign policies have come under strong and secure secretaries of state. Of course, the verdict is … in the Turkey-Armenia talks and her most recent trip to South Asia and the Middle East suggest she’s finally ready …
Election Day in Philadelphia 1815 by John Lewis Krimmel, picturing the site of Independence Hall and demonstrating the importance of elections as public occasions.

How We Learned to Love the Constitution

… only, at first, for white males), continental nationalism and an emphasis upon free trade. But the election of 1800 … like the one just past, that failed to produce a certain and clear finality. But the contest 200 years ago was unlike … respective acts, that was at stake again in 1860 when the South seceded, and the Civil War painfully validated that …
Pro-Choice demonstrators holding signs saying "Support Legal Abortion"

The Politics of Abortion in Europe and America

… will describe her research on abortion in the United States and abroad. And she'll be talking to Origins associate editor Patrick … places, including Europe. I think that she also looks at South America as well. And then if you want to really go in …

The Long Legacy of World War I

… By war’s end, the Russian, Austro-Hungarian, Ottoman, and German empires that had dominated Europe for centuries … War in 1918 ( left ). Anti-Bolshevik Volunteer Army in South Russia in January 1918 ( right ). State policies from … War, the spread of Communism in Asia and across the Global South, and inspiration for social movements as diverse as …
Globe on a plate with knife and fork next to it

Diet for a Large Planet

… proportions. Our reliance on unsustainable dietary choices and agricultural systems is causing problems both for human … exports for the British market. The dust bowl hit Canada, South Africa, Australia. It was a global problem. We have a quote …
illustration of Prince George IV

Unspoken Anxiety or Vivid Metaphor?

Review of Itch, Clap, Pox: Venereal Disease in the Eighteenth-Century Imagination, by Noelle Gallagher (New Haven: Yale, 2019)
… diseases permeated society at the time. Playwrights, poets and artists obsessed over venereal disease, she argues. … metaphors such as “the itch” (herpes), “clap” (gonorrhea), and “pox” (syphilis), artists explored social phenomena … racial politics, frequently attacking Jews and persons of African descent as bringers of venereal infection. Itch, …
The Dream of Worldwide Democratic and Social Republics – The Pact Between Nations, a print prepared by Frédéric Sorrieu, 1848.

Nationalism in Decline

… now live in an era of supranationalism. The United States stands poised between wanting to write its own ticket and wishing to speed efforts to solve the world’s problems. … Europe of its colonies, adding dozens of new nations in Africa and Asia. The Communist revolution in China turned …