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… Seventy years ago this October 29, a giant exclamation point was placed after the words “The End” on a popular, long-running American … referred to the years of the Great Depression as a time when the American middle class, whose “eyes had failed them, …

… The Black Death was the second pandemic of bubonic plague … and the most devastating pandemic in world history. It was a descendant of the ancient plague that had afflicted … Death had aftershocks still felt into the early 1700s. When it was over, the European population was cut by a third …

… Forty years ago, Martin Luther King, Jr., was Time’s “Man of the Year.” Oddly enough, … Year” played off the perspective of forty years earlier. When King was born, said Time, someone like the 1920s sage, …

… Teenage wizard Harry Potter, the hero of a popular children’s book series, routinely … a fictional character who assumes the sky is falling when an acorn hits him, the anti-Potter parents are forming … elites thought “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” was too crude for refined readers. Twenty years later, …

… Süleyman, who would be known to the west as “the Magnificent,” began his reign as sultan of … as a teenager, he served as a provincial governor and was key participant in his father Selim’s (r.1512-1520) … battlefield and the conqueror of new lands for his empire. When Süleyman was made sultan, his kingdom encompassed the …

… North Korea has nuclear weapons technology. As a result, the United States and China are trying to force North Korea … economic sanctions and threatening military force, either of which North Korea has said it would view as an act … United States would avoid war by relaxing its sanctions. When the sanctions stayed in force, Japan attacked Pearl …

… The Texas State Board of Education, God's gift to op-ed …  the history of religious public relations.  In the past, when unpopular religious denominations set up interest … scholarship to bear on current public debates.  The HNS was founded in 1996 by Joyce Appleby and James Banner as a …

… way to bankruptcy, crashing down in 2029? Most likely not. There are good reasons to believe that the much discussed … the future of the system. Imagine economists in 1940, when the federal budget was around $10 billion, making a serious prediction about …

… The crisis began on July 26, when Egyptian Premier Gamal … B. Breyfogle.    … In July 1956, the international order was disrupted by the Suez Crisis, a complicated imbroglio …

… This lesson plan deals with the evolution of the treatment of mental illness and … disorders. The Origins article that I chose to use was an article the discussed the mental health system in the … sources to formulate an argument to answer the question “When treating mental illness, is it better to focus on …

… The Great War and the Origins of Humanitarianism, 1918–1924 … - understood that a new type of transnational organization was needed to face problems that respected no national … individuals, organizations, and nations in crisis, how and when the right to human dignity first became inalienable." …

… What is the internet? Is it a technological godsend? Is the internet … to bear on people’s lives in new and remarkable ways. When the Union Pacific met up with the Central Pacific at … very few. What the technology titans did with their wealth was not at all clear or foreordained. Like the internet, the …

… The biggest story in this year's otherwise uneventful … non-Protestant president — let alone a non-Christian one — was enough to cause panic among many Americans. When John F. Kennedy ran for office in 1960, he had to …

… In the heyday of the Robber Barons in the 1870s Cornelius … more of the kind of radical changes the New Deal instituted when it established the Securities and Exchange Commission … and stimulate economic growth, since private enterprise was inherently good and the public sector was inherently …

… The State Department is probably very pleased with the … well have missed it; in most American news media the story was eclipsed by accounts of a dead imaginary girlfriend and … why American officials may be happy. History shows that when hostage crises drag on and the public comes to make a …

… Last spring, when President Clinton raised the question of whether the United States should formally … be a blockbuster. Why the idea of a slave memorial on the Washington Mall is becoming more popular. And why the …

… This lesson plan focuses on the genocide in Rwanda that occurred in 1994 when the Hutu government targeted the Tutsi population and Hutu …

… Origins editor and author Steven Conn talk about cities of the past and the future on WOSU's All Sides with Ann Fisher .     "In 2009 we saw a 'first' on Earth. That’s when the scales tipped, and more people lived in urban than …

… The presidential campaign has begun to sharpen debate about … or national security. Such interventions began in 1992 when the United States sent a military mission to Somalia. … and sometimes from foreign governments build steadily until Washington feels it has to act.  But there is an alternative …

… When the Supreme Court ruled recently in Lawrence v. Texas that … But is this a valid comparison? The Brown ruling of 1954 was one of the truly great Supreme Court decisions of the … blacks and whites. By the time of the Brown decision, it was obvious that separate accommodations for blacks were …

…  Confederate enthusiasts are throwing a grand ball there to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the state's … civil war, one that has raged in Charleston since 1865.   When the city fell to the Union army that year, local … of ridicule and defacement.  Even after the original statue was replaced by a second, which stood atop an enormous …

… years ago this month, Franklin Roosevelt assumed the presidency amid mass unemployment, a collapsing bank … kind of majorities that Franklin Roosevelt depended upon when he won approval of the Securities and Exchange … corporations and wealthy Americans. A national debt that was a trillion dollars in 1981 exceeds ten trillion today. …