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Donald Trump and Joe Biden

Election 2020: Insights from History

… elections. And so if you think about it, just at the national level, Clinton wins in a three way race and '92. … or modern elections in general, when we think about the national level has been the effort to suppress the vote. And … about a 6 million vote difference in the kind of overall national vote, at least as of today, depending on how the …
The hazards of an enclosed work environment – a typist with cloth mask during the influenza pandemic in 1918.

The Respirator and Cloth Mask

… member of the US Navy wearing an N95 respirator (left) . A National Guardsman sews a cloth face mask.  (right) . The … 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. …

The Real Marriage Revolution

… intolerance toward same-sex relationships. In 2002, an international poll found that 42 percent of Americans believed … the past—were based upon the idea that marriage required a union between individuals who played very different … between husbands and wives. Marriage was redefined as a union of two people whose love was based on the fact that …
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 …
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.
Detail from the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol.

Common Good and Common Evil in American Religion

Review of America’s Religious Wars: The Embattled Heart of Our Public Life, by Kathleen M. Sands (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2019)
… on visions, solutions, and resolutions, for the future of national life. Through the three sections of her book, Sands …
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 …
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 …
People wearing masks

The Respirator and Cloth Mask

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