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… governmental upheavals after 1911.  Mao Zedong and the Communist Party’s Rise to Victory During the 1920s and … military and economic strength in Taiwan.  In 1949, since most of the new migrants to Taiwan were professional … In 1979, seven years after President Richard Nixon visited China, China officially established diplomatic …

… of magic. Belief in magic and magical occurrences was commonplace before the Reformation and persisted long after … calls into question commonly accepted arguments that most people believed in witchcraft throughout the early … largely overlooked in this volume, produced some of the most notorious freethinkers of the movement, including David …

… As the president made his way to the train, chatting companionably with Secretary of State James G. Blaine, a man … system. Conkling expected Garfield to allow him to fill the most lucrative positions with his followers. When Garfield … the importance of antisepsis had been circulating in the medical world. But, to Garfield’s detriment, many American …

… With the horrific assault of Sept. 11, “terrorism” has become the new American watchword and scourge. Yet as George … executed, often for flimsy reasons, some 12,000 people deemed enemies of the Revolution. Since the Jacobins governed … murdered civilians while committing some of the world’s most shocking deeds. The constituent groups of Arafat’s PLO …

… U.S. Power, Humanitarianism, and the World’s Dispossessed comes at a time that many observers of U.S. domestic … suffering from war and occupation in Europe outperformed the federal government’s institutional capacity to … Freedom Fighters in Salzburg, Austria, 1957. Perhaps the most significant contribution of Porter’s work comes from …

… though it's only 90 miles away from the U.S.'s southernmost point. But U.S. - Cuba relations could be in for a … Studies. I've written a little bit on Cuba. My most important work is a history of Cuba called, Cuba: From … Wiggins. You can find our podcasts and more at our website, origins.osu.edu , on iTunes and on SoundCloud, and as …

… When U.S. senators voted to reject the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, they took a giant step … sharply with this month’s decision. The Cold War’s most stunning arms control gains were made when Ronald … in Europe and set up a verification system providing for on-site inspections. For the first time, diplomacy led not just …

… a narrative worthy of the hype. Even if she had not committed and been tried for murder, Laura Fair would have … Laura Fair’s trials also wrestled with the question of how medical experts and the courts should define insanity in the first place. Was insanity simply the inability to comprehend right and wrong? Or could a person be insane even …

… across the United States owned their reservation lands as a community: families could settle, plant their crops, and own … schools and hospitals.” Dawes’s land allotment plan—his remedy to Native peoples’ allegedly uncivilized lifestyle—was … extended allotment to any previously exempted tribes. The most well-known of these acts was the Curtis Act of 1898, …

… Taskforce on February 1, 2016. That achievement has since become a benchmark in American culture. The expression “if we … the moonshot was a product of its time, and perhaps most importantly, a product of the Cold War . Its main … the Moon provides a stepping-stone to Mars—a nearby test site before making the 36 million mile trip to the red …

… who they really are as they spend years undercover on opposite sides of the battle between the Hong Kong Police Force … returned home but evaded murder charges because he committed the crime outside of Hong Kong’s jurisdiction. He … a distant British outpost until the Taiping Rebellion, the most destructive civil war in human history, from 1850 to …

… "Of Thee I Sing" in 1931, they created a vice president named Alexander Throttlebottom, whose relationship with … thus passed into the language to refer to someone with no competence or apparent purpose. It turns out, however, that … has chosen a Senator more conservative than himself, than most Jewish voters, and than the liberal-labor-minority base …

… “Christianize” the Holocaust in order to play down Catholic complicity in Nazi atrocities. This controversy comes at a … a priority of his papacy. He is the first pope to have visited one of the chief synagogues of Rome. Under his … others did. Stephen A. Allen is a doctoral candidate in the Medieval Institute at the University of Notre Dame and a …

… children. What is different today is the often fatal outcomes of children's brutality towards one another, owing to … limitations of that perspective, too. Though the march's website invites "mothers, grandmothers, stepmothers, … interestingly enough, was not a mother. One of today's most outspoken critics of violence against children and …

… in the beginning of 2025, still working in the name of the commitment that President John F. Kennedy had made in 1961 … place was administered via the efforts of several agencies, most notably the Food for Peace Program and the … warned that the United States needed to demonstrate the opposite, and the existing machinery of aid was not up the …

… the Pacific coast and the removal from them of anyone deemed a national security threat. While the order legally encompassed Germans and Italians, in practice only the … But six weeks after Pearl Harbor, Walter Lippmann, the most influential American journalist of his age, began …

… was the reinterpretation of the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis. Comparing President Kennedy’s action and President Bush’s … outsized importance of the role of the emperor, who transformed himself from a patriotic symbol, often pictured in … the tasks remain formidable — not only a period devoted mostly to helping people survive and to restoring order, but …

… Coming to terms with the American Civil War is no easy task. … about many of the war's other legacies, including a transformed federal government, a shift away from an agricultural … points out that the primary mechanism of liberation for most slaves remained the 13th Amendment. Lincoln no doubt …

… States has decided to treat it as war. What shocks us most about terrorism is that it targets civilians. That … the recent attacks on New York City and Washington were committed by a transnational organization. But it is hard to … the case of the United States, terrorists bypass the U.S. armed forces, the strongest in the world, and take advantage …

… authors' ability to exploit readers' preconceptions. The most recent impersonator autobiographies take advantage of … as fakes should make readers ask why these cliches are so compelling in the first place. Autobiographies, with their … individual took the raw material of his or her life and formed it into something shapely, unique, successful. Tycoons' …

… after one of its members had been elected president, Mohamed Morsi. Morsi was overthrown in July of last year by the … to occupy the Suez Canal zone. Nasser, who did not become Egypt’s official head of state until 1956, came to … Officers.” The Free Officers staked their credibility almost entirely on their ability to assert Egypt’s national …

… 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 … uses interviews, oral histories, archival sound clips, and commentary and analysis by scholars in the field of …