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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 …
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’ …
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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 …
Hospital workers

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.
… in part, by Ohio Humanities, a state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Any views, findings, … in this content do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities.   … Global/Transnational … International Organizations …
Poinsette

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.
… y Caribeña (Dec. 2015) Torcuato S. Di Tella, National Popular Politics in Early Independent Mexico, … Diplomacy/International Relations …
Carter’s “Crisis of Confidence” Speech.

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 …
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 …
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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.
19th century engraving showing Wall Street from the corner of Broad Street.

The First Wall Street Bomb

… of harboring radical ideas. The explosion also solidified national support behind Wall Street, transforming the daily … than in shouting, that the attack had its most profound national effect. Wall Street itself, eager to minimize fears …
People wearing masks

The Respirator and Cloth Mask

Germ theory helped to usher in the widespread use of cloth masks.
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Two women in masks in 1918

The 1918 Flu Pandemic

Estimates suggest that this flu claimed as many as 50 million lives around the world between 1918 and 1919.
… in part, by Ohio Humanities, a state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Any views, findings, … in this content do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities. … Global/Transnational …
An HIV AIDS patient in Mozambique

What HIV Teaches Us: The Need for Affordable Health Care

HIV and COVID-19 have both laid bare that stark racial disparities exist in population health and in access to quality medical care in the US.
… in part, by Ohio Humanities, a state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Any views, findings, … in this content do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities.       … Global/Transnational … International Organizations …