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About Origins

… "For insight into the complicated and complicating events ... , one needs perspective, not … the foundations of today’s events, and explore the often complicated nature of a particular current event. Our …

A New Congo Crisis?

… for current president Joseph Kabila to step down. It has become a cliché to contrast the Congo’s tremendous economic … soldiers in 2001 during U.S. Congressman Frank Wolf’s visit ( left ). Former child soldiers in Congo in the early … between the regime and the opposition. Recently, after a visit by the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki …
Women from Guadalupe photographed at Ellis Island on their way to Montreal to take on domestic positions, April 6th , 1911.

Black Canadians and Pandemics

… It is possible that in choosing to volunteer in the Black community, Francis was aware of its marginalization. Being … parents. The club members volunteered its members as visiting nurses and nurses’ aides. The CWCM also maintained … workers’ residences mirrored their employment. Had Francis visited any of the men’s homes, he would have noticed how …
The so-called "Elgin Marbles," on display in the British Museum

Classics and the Alt-Right Conundrum

… Brenna Miller   Welcome to History Talk, the podcast that brings together a … immigration changes existing culture for the worse is a common view among white nationalists in the US, and … Vassar College’s recording studio, we have Curtis Dozier, visiting professor at Vassar and the Director of Pharos: …

Humanitarian Intervention: The American Experience from William McKinley to Barack Obama

… economic distress wrought by swashbuckling capitalism. As Commanders-in-Chief and liberal Protestants, the … played in McKinley's decision for war. The senator's visit and interventionist bent hardly made him distinct. … rendered his pronouncement a political bombshell. After visiting the island, Proctor refused all interview requests. …
penguin standing on sand at a beach with a plant and ocean behind it

Early Encounters with Penguins

… Nicholas Breyfogle:   Hello, and welcome to Early Encounters with Penguins brought to you by the … in Teaching, and I'll be your host and moderator today. Welcome to everyone and thank you for joining us.  Now, let me … neither fish nor flesh.”  He estimated that on a single visit to the island the men killed and dried 20,000 birds …
A vision for the future of the US Space Command for 2020: a space-based high-energy laser destroys a terrestrial target.

Rumsfeld May Spark Space Weapons Debate

… which plan to test the next generation of bombs on computers rather than under the ground. But who’s paying … to the final frontiers — space and the virtual realm of computer technology. They have a passionate booster in Donald Rumsfeld. The Air Force’s Space Command boasts that it can develop computerized satellites …

Fear and Loathing Around the World: The Rise of the New Populism

… the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, delivering sharp comic material about his recently released long-form birth … and Samar Islands in November 2013, then-Mayor Duterte visited within days and coordinated his own aid effort, … survivors of super typhoon Haiyan in 2013 ( left ) and visiting Filipinos living in Vietnam in 2016 ( right ). …

All Politics is Local: Understanding Boko Haram

… The consensus among many academics, journalists, and commentators is that Boko Haram is an Islamist organization … from Mali, North Africa, Egypt, and the Saharan oases visited the region of West and Central Africa known as … over other rulers. Borno became a great intellectual center visited by scholars from Sudanic Africa and other parts of …
Sylvester I and Constantine in a 1247 fresco.

Top Ten Origins: Popes Before 1500

… The early version was small (around 30 clerics) and comprised only of “cardinal priests” who served parishes … died somewhere far from Rome, probably never having even visited.   Nevertheless, Christians in Rome from the third … and failed to find a cure until the saints Peter and Paul visited him in a dream. They told him to meet Silvester, who …
Three Afghan police trainees, sitting on ground with guns

Afghanistan: Past and Prospects

… NATO “officially” ended its combat operations in Afghanistan in late December 2014, but … Crews ,  Scott Levi , and Alam Payind about Afghanistan’s complex history to ask what the past of these peoples and … in the early modern history of Central Asia. I've visited Afghanistan and lived for extended periods in …
Mao proclaiming establishment of PRC.

The Establishment of the People’s Republic of China and Its Impacts

… governmental upheavals after 1911.  Mao Zedong and the Communist Party’s Rise to Victory During the 1920s and … in China, particularly in urban centers. Although the Communists (CCP) had to retreat to rural areas, the party … Nations. In 1979, seven years after President Richard Nixon visited China, China officially established diplomatic …
Dreamcatchers shown against the sky

Re-storying the Experiences of Indigenous College Students

… Dr. Lucy Murphy  Hello, welcome to "Re-storying the Experiences of Indigenous College … Dependent and Neglected Children in Denver, Colorado when I visited on March 25, in 2018. This picture is on the grounds … where my father was raised. It was a place that I had visited once before when I was about 12, or 13. We didn't …
Mexican flag in a square

Una Postal de la Ciudad de México

… ubicada en las afueras de la Ciudad de México, prosperó como una ciudad hace casi dos mil años. El ascenso y la … Aparte de ser un lugar estupendo que turistas pueden visitar, el Zócalo también es usado para protestar contra … del gobierno que el público desfavorece. Durante mi visita, fui testigo de un grupo de manifestadores hablando …
The Soldiers' Home in Washington, D.C.

“What I Did On My Summer Vacation,” by the President

… view of wartime Washington. On most mornings, Lincoln commuted into the city, but during hot summer months his … president shut the doors of his cottage to uninvited visitors. Lincoln met with antiwar politicians while at the Soldiers’ Home and talked with disgruntled soldiers. He visited the wounded. Yet those sometimes painful …
View of the Solovetskii Monastery.

A Postcard from Solovki

… stand at the bow of the ferry as the water of the White Sea comes in wave after wave through the hole in the gunwale for … and other factors on the growth patterns of this flora. Visitors stroll in the Botanical Gardens, Solovki. The monks … teaching and reading about the Gulag, I had never actually visited the site of one. I’d seen prisons but never a camp. …

American Populism and the Persistence of the Paranoid Style

… with a column praising the strategic savvy and tactical competence of abdicated Alaska governor Sarah Palin. Broder … her hand.) "Her invocation of 'conservative principles and common-sense solutions' was perfectly conventional," Broder … Pseudo-Conservative Revolt" (1954), "Pseudo-Conservatism Revisited" (1964), and "The Paranoid Style in American …
Pioneers Palace in Kiev, Ukraine

Ukrainian Architecture at War

Architecture is a way of understanding the world: recording its history, sharing its culture, and connecting with people.
… For more information about the Co-Haty Project, please visit https://www.metalab.space/co-haty-ukr Video production …
A Day in a Medieval City, by Chiara Frugoni Book Cover

A Day in a Medieval City

Review of A Day in a Medieval City, by Chiara Frugoni (University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2007)
… The result is a descriptive account that, like a new visitor to a city, meanders as it explores one interesting … had written two short articles on urban life. Frugoni combined the two articles, included her own notes, and has … almost entirely on its inhabitants. To do so, she deftly combines textual and visual sources. Using primarily the …
2013 St. Patrick's Day parade in Wappingers Falls, New York.

The Wearing of the Rainbow

… this ideal, but it's important to recognize how far we've come. It's in this sense that the St. Patrick's Day parade …
Scene in Ukraine

Ukraine, In a Nutshell

Review of The Conflict in Ukraine: What Everyone Needs to Know, by Serhy Yekelchyk (New York: Oxford University Press, 2015).
… Saint (~ 988) to the present, and it would require dozen visits to Ukraine to understand the land and its people. … the reader.   The reviewer’s photos during the peaceful component of the pro-democracy EuroMaidan protests.  … and a populace can simply start history at a time most compatible with their own mythological narrative.  The only …
A memorial dedicated to the heroes of the Great Patriotic War (1941-45) in Yaroslavl.

From Kulikovo Field to Kursk: Russia’s Forever War

Review of Russia: The Story of War, by Gregory Carleton (Cambridge, MA and London: Belknap/Harvard University Press, 2017)
… and colossal defeats has long baffled western observers. Visitors to Russia’s capital, the epicenter of Russia’s cult … Further away from the city center, a sprawling memorial complex known as Victory Park pays homage to Russia’s wars … his book follows a loose chronology, Carleton fruitfully revisits earlier periods to trace the evolution of Russian …