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The Respirator and Cloth Mask

Germ theory helped to usher in the widespread use of cloth masks.

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Sergeant First Class Major Cleveland points out North Korean position to his machine gun crew, 1950.

Executive Order 9981 and the Integration of the American Military

… armed services without regard to race, color, religion or national origin.” And the policy was to be “put into effect …

Portrait of Benjamin Franklin by Joseph-Siffred Duplessis.

Apologizing for Slavery

Top view of engineer at desk with laptop, hardhat, and blueprints

Origins interviews the American Society of Civil Engineers

… So to start off, your organization, the ASCE produces a national report card every four years. Can you briefly … The concept for that actually started in 1988 with the National Council on Public Works Improvement, they issued a …

A teacher and her students in an elementary school classroom.

When a Good Public Education Becomes a Constitutional Right

… rights organizations, led by the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California, argued that current textbooks, …

Kosovo is located to the south of Serbia.

The Perils of Breaking Away

… in the next several months, Kosovo is going to receive international approval for its quest to become an independent … independence provided the impetus for creating a new international consensus for handling separatist conflicts. Today, the international community is supposed to respect existing states’ …

Hiroshima after the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city.

Terrorism: A New Kind of War?

… strategy during the Cold War was designed to deter the Soviet Union from attacking the United States and its allies by … on New York City and Washington were committed by a transnational organization. But it is hard to imagine that such a … Global/Transnational …

Flag of the Republic of Venezuela (1930-2006)

An End to Interventionism in Venezuela

… money to the opposition through the U.S. taxpayer-funded National Endowment for Democracy. Chavez has accused his … Diplomacy/International Relations …

Side view of an Andrew Jackson bust at the MET.

The Long Tradition of White House Sex Scandals

Corona in context: Lessons from the SARS Pandemic of 2003

Soon after SARS was discovered, labs around the world shared information in search of a cure.

Russian peasants in the early 20th century.

Vladimir Putin: Not the Jefferson of Russia

… simple way." In the presence of Mikhail Gorbachev–the last Soviet president, who started the process of …

Map of the Electoral College for the 2024 United States presidential election.

Arguing the Electoral College: Con

The Story of Poinsettia Day and U.S.-Mexico Relations

In the late 1820s, Joel Roberts Poinsett introduced the poinsettia plant to Americans, who marveled at its foliage.

How Carter’s “Crisis of Confidence” Speech Still Matters

… years ago, on July 15, 1979, President Jimmy Carter went on national television to give a jolting speech. Billed as an … that strikes at the very heart and soul and spirit of our national will," he asserted. Today, we should listen to his …

The Nature of Childhood: An Environmental History of Growing Up in America since 1865 Book Cover

Play, Paranoia, and American Childhood in the Great Outdoors

Review of The Nature of Childhood: An Environmental History of Growing Up in America since 1865, by Pamela Riney-Kehrberg (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2014)

Cartoonist Clifford Berryman depicts Uncle Sam after a hard-won U.S. victory in Santiago Bay, Cuba during the Spanish-American War.

What Happened When We Stayed the Course in Cuba

The Beatles arrive in 1964 to meet their new fans in America.

50 Years Ago: the Beatles, Rock, and Race in America

Book Cover of The Great War and the Origins of Humanitarianism, 1918–1924 By: Bruno Cabanes

10/13/2014: Hot off the Presses: War and Humanitarianism

… Jebb from Britain - understood that a new type of transnational organization was needed to face problems that respected no national boundaries or rivalries. Bruno Cabanes, a pioneer … Global/Transnational … International Organizations …

An allotment delegation approaches the Nez Perce

The Dawes Act

The 1887 passage of the Dawes Act upended this system of communal land ownership and, in doing so, struck a historic blow at Native Americans’ political rights, economic sufficiency, and cultural heritage.