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… refugees who at the time of writing face an uncertain future in the sprawling Dadaab camp complex in Kenya barely register on the radar of the global … Somalia must first walk for weeks across a desert and many die along the way or soon after arrival. This mass gravesite …

… state of Idaho. I also predicted that, “For the foreseeable future, however, the economics of alternative sources, … over the last four years.  The reasons for that are many, complex, and subject to change in the near and far future.  … Let’s remove one false idea right now:  Public subsidies support both carbon-based and alternative energy …

… us about the current state of affairs and prospects for the future between the U.S. and Mexico? Join us as hosts Brenna … us about the current state of affairs and prospects for the future between the U.S. and Mexico? Today on History Talk, … in the history department and global and intercultural studies department, specializing in revolution and social …

… learn the lessons of the past so we can apply them in the future.”  Ghebreyesus is correct. We can learn much from the … epidemiological data on infectious diseases, and offer recommendations on sanitation. The OIPH would later become a … for the WHO. There are many possible reasons why: Lee died suddenly in 2006, and his successor, Hong Kong-born …

… time that the United States hosted an international cricket competition. In fact, the first international cricket game … of the game, it also raised questions about cricket’s future and the challenges facing the sport today, including … ,  New Zealand , Pakistan, South Africa, Sri Lanka, West Indies, and  Zimbabwe —are regarded as the powerhouses of the …

… also proposed deploying advanced drug detection machines to combat the influx of fentanyl, which he claimed was … for those living in the cities and resulting in fatal outcomes for migrants in transit.   OHL presents a critical … Accordingly, Operation Gatekeeper was launched at the San Diego-Tijuana corridor in 1994, Operation Safeguard at the …

… December 25, 1848, brought an unwelcome gift to the Queen City. That Christmas Day, a dying man … to the Ohio Valley. Some 6,000 Cincinnatians would die, 5% of the city’s roughly 115,000 population. And death, … After Cincinnati’s initial December outbreak, which steadied to a trickle over spring, the cholera erupted in the …

… Talk , hosts Patrick Potyondy and Leticia Wiggins welcome historians  Nicholas Breyfogle and  Theodora Dragostinova and Slavic Studies Professor Angela Brintlinger as they consider these … the wonder, the possibility, the sense that the view of the future could be better. The sense that people could, in …

… On its “Milestones in UN History” website, the United Nations features smallpox eradication, … a stunning achievement and that description of how it was accomplished feels especially poignant today when faith in … often killing between 30% and 90% of those infected. They died miserable deaths. Pope Clement XI’s personal physician, …

… fantastic history sites from around the web. These are websites that – much like Origins – seek to bring history … For December, our Best in History Online highlights the website for the quarterly journal The American Historian . … and teaching of American history.” [Taken from the TAH website] Be sure to check out and follow both The American …

… of violence and instability until 1922. Multiple communities of former tsarist imperial subjects imagined the future in radically different ways. Progressive Ukrainians … wanted an independent Ukraine, socialists desired a future that was connected with the Russian Bolsheviks, but …

… nearly 117,000 perished during the war — 53, 402 in combat — and another 204,000 were wounded. Many believe that the last man to die in the war was an American soldier, 23-year-old Henry Gunther of Baltimore. He was killed …

… without understanding what preceded it. “There is a complicated history between the United States and Cuba,” … we have kept our unswerving loyalty to those who died in defense of our principles since the beginning of our … vulnerable. “We must have Cuba. We can’t do without Cuba,” future president James Buchanan implored Secretary of State …

… Dozens of women soldiers are dying in Iraq — and no one seems to care. Why do I say that? Because the outcry that many expected over the combat deaths of American women in Iraq has not taken place. … which centuries-old American fantasies about the female soldier are being tested. Women soldiers have always had a …

… nineteen, published the gothic novel Frankenstein. It has become a classic of English literature. Title page of the … her feverish story: ten days after her birth her mother died from puerperal fever, at seventeen she eloped with … wife, the following year her premature illegitimate child died shortly after being born and her half-sister Fanny …

… bring us first-hand stories of how the Great War is being commemorated across the globe. Brenna Miller joined us from … and Belgrade and Keshia Lai as she reports on the less studied war memorials in Singapore.   Patrick Potyondy   So … events themselves, the focus on promoting peace and a new future was definitely a part of an effort to present that …

… Christians Ethiopian monks relax in the courtyard of Dier Es-Sultan monastery. A narrow stairway leads to Dier Es-Sultan, a contentious site atop the Church of the … Residents of Silwan gather for a celebration at their community center. This is the same question the Palestinian …

… we could, you know, leave the house and not really have to come back until it was time for dinner. We could ride our … she decides to give in and have some fun and does drugs and dies. Brionna Mendoza (laughing) Oh my god. What kind of … panicked over this new threat to the nation's children and future, as it was framed by the American policymakers. …

… a vicious civil war. She expressed her frustration with the futility of using medicine to treat starving patients and … be thousands, hundreds [of] thousands of people who will die.” Vasset’s comments encapsulated the international response to the …

… events have suggested that the man’s predictions for the future of Egypt may be coming true. Since the coup that ousted Morsi, the Egyptian … the year since Morsi’s overthrow, an estimated 1,400 have died as a result of political violence, many of them Ikhwān …

… Battle of Fort Pillow in Tennessee, Confederates under the command of General Nathan Bedford Forrest fulfilled this … they slaughtered an estimated 300 surrendering black soldiers, some even as they lay wounded in hospital tents. Two … during the war, it became a rallying cry for black soldiers to “Remember Fort Pillow!” After the war, General …