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… sat down to write his autobiography. Had he finished it, the book undoubtedly would have been filled with the friends … Christian pacifism. But he never finished the book. Muste was a busy man, and there was always a world that needed redeeming. When he died ten years later, scores of mourners, from New …

… 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 …

… More than any other event of the eighteenth century, the French Revolution, … it became a model of revolutionary political change that was followed throughout the world from Europe, to Haiti , … , Russia , and East Asia . And it all began one July day when the people of Paris captured a fourteenth-century …

… 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 Second World War (WWII) ended in 1945 and the rest of Europe was beginning to rebuild itself, Greece entered into a …

… Spanish General Francisco Franco died in bed, signaling the unceremonious end of one of Europe’s longest … the Valley of the Fallen is a mass burial site that was designed to commemorate the Spanish Civil War … of Francoism. The Spanish Civil War began on 18 July 1936 when General Franco and other Spanish officers from the …

… 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. …

… Quentin Morton’s Empires and Anarchies: A History of Oil in the Middle East , serves as a concise, easy-to-read … beginning with European exploration up to 1971, when all Middle Eastern states had obtained independence. … a more disparaging social structure. The oil industry was one in which jobs were given primarily to Europeans and …

… Decades after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, our … more history than memory, and yet he takes up the mission when his friend Al, a child of the Baby Boom, is crippled by … myth. Our obsession with Kennedy persists because it was the first national tragedy truly mediated through …

… This April 15 — the day when individual federal tax return forms are due … will converge on county courthouses, state capitals and Washington, D.C., to protest the federal income tax. As …

… In 1903, Harvard University accepted a gift of $100,000 from the Class of 1879 toward construction of a permanent facility in which to play football.  When completed, Harvard Stadium cost over $300,000, held 40,000 people, and was, for a while, the largest steel-reinforced concrete …

… A commemorative 1965 Iraqi stamp marking the 45th anniversary of the 1920 revolution. For many months … that they came as liberators from foreign oppression when they marched into Baghdad in March 1917, but three … Basra convinced nationalists in the capital that the moment was ripe for revolt. Oblivious to the seething rage in the …

… Listen to Origins author Mitchell Lerner  talk about the Korean War on WOSU's All Sides with Ann Fisher . "By its … thousand five hundred American troops died fighting the three year war in Korea. Six thousand of them were lost in the first winter alone when Chinese troops outmaneuvered and out-manned the U.S. …

… President Obama’s plans for the future of America’s civilian space programs,, outlined … exploitation of space — the high cost of reaching orbit. When I fly domestically, I pay about $2 per pound of me for … making space affordable can prove far more important than was beating the Russians to the moon. Instead of twelve …

… What can the United States do about Iran and its nuclear ambitions? … little diplomatic contact since the 1979 hostage crisis, when Iranians seized the American embassy in Teheran. In the … Iran kept some of its nuclear development secret until it was uncovered in 2002. Iran’s suspicious nuclear activity …

… We are hearing lots about apologies for slavery these days. The Hartford Courant, one of the oldest … apologized for advertising for runaway slaves. That apology was inspired by a story about another great Connecticut … the law against lynchers, decided to take a stand. When black World War I veterans appeared that night to stop …

… a major mistake by opposing filibuster reform. By opposing the proposal of Sen. Bill Frist, the Republican Senate … II period were even bolder in their aspiration. Their goal was to transform the Senate into a strictly majoritarian … as ending lynching. This struggle culminated in 1975 when Republican Vice President Nelson Rockefeller intervened …

… In the summer of 1968, rumors circulated that the Democrats … and Richard Nixon, his Republican opponent. This prospect was labeled the October Surprise. The Nixon team beseeched … initiate it? Such a political earthquake is likely only when the elections are close and contingent on defined …

… As China moves closer to the center of the world economy interest in China's future … Meanwhile, strong sense of commitment to their homeland was also prevalent among the Chinese diasporic communities.  … for foreign contact and capitalist modernity started cooled when the whole world was dragged into WWII. War experiences …