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In 2011, thousands of ultra-nationalist demonstrators took to the streets of Moscow, armed with tsarist insignia and shouting the anti-immigrant chant "Let's give Russia back to the Russians!"

Russia’s Lost Empire

Review of Lost Kingdom: The Quest for Empire and the Making of the Russian Nation, From 1470 to the Present, by Serhii Plokhy (New York: Basic Books, 2017)
… Vladimir Putin poses for the cameras as he tours historical sites in newly-annexed Crimea. Putin asserted that … of the relationship between Russia and Ukraine over the past several hundred years. He is at his best when he … and truly non-Russian populations dwelled . Readers might come away with the impression that the Russian Empire and …
Cover of The Rise and Fall of Modern American Conservatism: A Short History by David Farber.

The Far Right Stuff

Review of The Rise and Fall of Modern Conservatism, by David Farber (Princeton University Press, 2010)
… a table with friends and fight over.  I mean that as a high compliment, since there are far too many books out there, … political liberty" (p. 1). Beyond the personalities and battles over specific policies and programs, he argues, this is … presidential campaign in Neshoba County Mississippi, the site of gruesome civil rights violence, and spoke of states' …

American Populism and the Persistence of the Paranoid Style

… Nevertheless, many of their "radical" demands had come to pass by 1916 or so. But the original Populists were also … Revolt" (1954), "Pseudo-Conservatism Revisited" (1964), and "The Paranoid Style in American Politics" … same psychological terms he saw McCarthyites and John Birchers. He viewed Huey Long and Father Coughlin in much the …

The Long Legacy of World War I

… democracies, and political experiments such as Bolshevik communism. Much of Europe lay in tatters and virtually an … I battlefields to reconnect with their loved ones. Others visited the tombs of the unknown warriors, under the Arc de … The French writer Jean Giono described such a scene in a passage from his novel Le Grand Troupeau ( To the …
Cover of A Cruel Wind: Pandemic Flu in America, 1918-1920 by Dorothy Ann Pettit and Janice Bailie.

Before There Was Swine Flu

Review of A Cruel Wind: Pandemic Flu in America, 1918-1920, by Dorothy A. Pettit and Janice Bailie (Timberlane Books, 2008)
… was upgrading the recent outbreak of H1N1 influenza, more commonly known as "swine flu," to a global pandemic. … clearly lay out the major influenza pandemics of the past century, death rates, morbidity rates and a host of … is so gripping and clear. A Cruel Wind does a valuable service to our understanding of both this illness and the …

Making Sense of the 'Hermit Kingdom': North Korea in the Nuclear Age

… significant opposition, the Bush administration quickly complied with the terror-list demand (in return for certain … to have a normal relationship with them." Events from the past few decades offer a series of instructive examples. … overwhelming DPRK hostility towards sadaejuui (submissive service to the great power), which they see in South Korean …
Entrance gate of Auschwitz Concentration Camp, "Work Sets You Free," 2013

At the Movies: “Canaries,” A Review of Denial

… of the sort espoused by Richard Rorty. The maneuver is a common one from the perspective of positivism. In The … that anything at all can be achieved by reason. In years past I thought so myself and kept protesting against the … of it all. However, when the triumphant Donald Trump visited Barack Obama in the White House after the election, …
The Great Wall of China: Perhaps the greatest collection of walls in human history.

Top Ten Origins: History's Great Walls, Good Neighbors or Bad Policy?

… talk by some American politicians about Mexican immigrants coming to the United States, people around the world are … The Biblical Wall of Jericho is one of the earliest examples of a defensive wall constructed by a community. Two sets … with the New York Stock Exchange, Wall Street is the site of the old wall between the Native Americans and the …
Queen Mary’s College, opened in 1914.

A Postcard from Madras: A City Born of the Colonial Encounter

… (Madras) in India. Madras was born in 1636, when East India Company official Francis Day signed a treaty with the Nayaka … visit her frequently. Nearly four centuries later, the EIC site and the surrounding villages have merged into one of … the War Memorial therefore involves a swift and confident passage across a crowded road whilst adeptly dodging passing …

Yemen: A Civil War Centuries in the Making

… Yemen’s internationally recognized government is sitting comfortably in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, 900 miles away from … in protests and violence was a recognition of not only the passing of a great leader, but also the passing of an entire … to Yemen to constitute the core of the country’s civil service for the subsequent seven decades. This initial group …
A group of children in Sub-Saharan Africa

Sub-Saharan Africa

… Patrick Potyondy   Welcome to History Talk , the podcast that brings together a … focuses on the intersection of culture and politics. In the past, I've studied the relationship between nationalism and … perhaps in the case of Africa, we're sort of moving the opposite direction, that if anything, these borders are becoming …
George Holliday's footage of Rodney King being beaten by police in 1991

The 1992 Los Angeles Rebellion: “No Justice, No Peace”

… evidence of the LAPD’s excessive use of force and confirmed complaints of police brutality made by black and Latino … Commissioners. In early June 1992, voters overwhelmingly passed Charter Amendment F, which reformed the City Charter … of Judge Joyce Karlin’s sentence of probation and community service for Korean merchant Sun Ja Du after she killed …
Polin Museum

A Postcard from Warsaw, Poland: POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews

… in Polish-Jewish history. After years of controversies and compromises, the final product represents the dedicated … heart of Warsaw’s pre-war Jewish neighborhood, Muranów, the site of the former Warsaw Ghetto, and it faces directly the … begins when visitors first enter the building. As they pass through the main doors, they encounter a large glass …

America's "Big Brother": A Century of U.S. Domestic Surveillance

… by any other intelligence agency,” especially as telecommunication technology advances. Perhaps surprisingly, … Edward Snowden to the Washington Post and the Guardian this past summer. It was made instead in the 1970s by the … (the great-nephew of Napoleon) to set up an investigative service within the Department of Justice. Congress, however, …
An Aboriginal leader at the 13th Annual Canadian Aboriginal Festival in 2006.

Westward Expansion & Imperialism: Horse of a Different Color?

Grade Level
9-12
Teaching Area
US History to 1877
… This lesson plan grapples with the concepts of European Imperialism and European … similarities to European Imperialism around the world.  The lesson begins by having students present their prior … from America, Canada, and Australia in which they will compare the three sources.  From here students will be …
Olympic Broadcasting Services covering the men's 10 kilometre marathon swim at the 2012 Olympic Games.

The Big Game on the Small Screen: The Televised Transformation of Sport

… Contemporary televised sport, in many ways, has become a better fan experience than being there live. You get … with sound, is older than many people realize.  Examples of the successful transmission of images over a distance … a month by 1948, the year in which total televisions first passed a million units.   As television began finally to …
Alice Conklin's recent In the Museum of the Man: Race, Anthropology, and Empire in France, 1850-1950 Book Cover.

3/26/14: The Latest Books from OSU Historians

… Kurdistan on the Global Stage: Kinship, Land, and Community in Iraq  (Rutgers University Press, 2014). Daniel Rivers published  Radical Relations: Lesbian Mothers, Gay Fathers, and Their Children in the …
The American Historical Association Logo

3/26/2015: Best in History Online: The American Historical Association

… we like to take a moment to highlight fantastic history sites from around the web. These are websites that – much like Origins – seek to bring history into … attention to the American Historical Association's (AHA) site. The AHA functions as an inclusive organization, …
Red and yellow test tubes on cover of Health Technology and Science ibook

Health, Technology and Science: Today & Yesterday

… role of food, disease, science, and technology in the human past and present. With the human population currently soaring past 7 billion, the question of how to feed, manage, and … century, we need more than ever the essential insights that past human experience provide for solving today’s most …
A vigil for increasing mental health care at Cook County Jail in 2014 (photo credit: Sarah-Ji).

Evolution of the Treatment of Mental Illness

Grade Level
9-12
Teaching Area
Science & Technology
… This lesson plan deals with the evolution of the treatment of … how these things have changed throughout history. For this lesson, we decided to focus on the treatment of mental illness in the early 19th and 20th century, and comparing these practices to those used today. After the …
a military drone in the air over a desert

Military Drones: Terror Weapon or Military Tool?

Grade Level
9-12
Teaching Area
World History since 1500
US History since 1877
Science & Technology
War & Peace
… The lesson plan focuses and grapples the long, changing, and … from being flimsy wood and canvas devises that were more common in science fiction novels than the military to the …
nurses holding stretchers

The 1918 Spanish Flu Pandemic vs. the 2020 Covid-19 Pandemic

What political, economic, and ecological effects did the 1918 Spanish Flu have on the United States and the British Commonwealth?
Grade Level
9-12
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Teaching Area
US History since 1877
… avoid repeating the same mistakes our ancestors made in the past.  This lesson seeks to put the 1918 Spanish Flu Pandemic into its … its effects, and to challenge students to examine what lessons a disease that struck over 100 years ago can teach … 1918 Spanish Flu have on the United States and the British Commonwealth? …