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… This lesson seeks to explore the history of vaccines, encourages … What is the purpose of vaccinations in ensuring public health and the safety of our students? What … for public school students, and which individuals ensure all students meet these requirements? …

… are at the heart of often vitriolic public debates. Both futuristic and somehow archaic at the same time, millions … for the Humanities. Any views, findings, conclusions or recommendations expressed in this content do not necessarily …

… President Obama’s plans for the future of America’s civilian space programs,, outlined in … the development of new technologies to reduce the cost and complexity of operating in space.   These proposals, … to launch a satellite. Nor are rockets infallible: Insurance rates for the launch of a communications satellite …

… “Socialism!” That’s the alarm many conservative commentators and legislators are sounding about the latest … outlined over the past few days, President Bush and Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson joined an international effort … banks and to businesses that right now can’t get the credit they routinely depend upon. If the plan succeeds, …

… Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Smith was visited that night by an angel who told him of an ancient … grandfather, as well as several of his aunts and uncles had also claimed visions and revelations. The story also … enmeshed in another cultural practice of the day: treasure seeking. Joseph Sr. was, by the 1820s, a seasoned …

… day in March 1968.   The belated apology is all to Calley’s credit, but he was not a scapegoat. A scapegoat is someone … who has been assigned blame for another’s actions. Calley committed murder at My Lai and ordered his men to do the … Swift Boaters, Winter Soldiers, and False Atrocity Tales" will be published this fall. …

… crises and growing debt. Yet estate taxes, and other rules governing the transfer of wealth between generations, … are vital to the American experiment. They help ensure equal opportunity and prevent the rise of a small set … that the blood in their veins distinguished them from the common herd. Despite the rhetoric about property rights that …

… several TR quotations — in Osawatomie, Kansas, the site of Roosevelt’s 1910 “New Nationalism Address.” Roosevelt’s resurgence, however, started several years ago, with the 2008 … a Milwaukee auditorium to deliver a speech. True to his combative reputation, he insisted on speaking before going …

… Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-1962 . New York: Walker and Company, 2010. Gao, Hua. Translated by Stacy Mosher and Guo … D.  The Search for Modern China . New York: W.W. Norton and Company, 1991 Vogel, Ezra F.  Deng Xiaoping and the …

… which stand to make hundreds of millions in fees and commissions, and anti-welfare state conservative ideologues, … President Bush’s new commission offers concerning the future of the system. Imagine economists in 1940, when the … of the twentieth century a large and powerful private insurance industry strengthened the opposition of employers to …

… they saw as invaders were inside the United States. On the surface, the goal of the Mississippi Freedom Summer Project … including 35 churches and numerous homes in this state. McComb, Miss., came to be known that summer as the bombing … Hamer’s famous, riveting testimony before the credentials committee at the 1964 Democratic National Convention, for …

… we like to take a moment to highlight fantastic history sites from around the web. These are websites that – much … is as true as the sources allow. The Appendix solicits articles from historians, writers, and artists committed to good storytelling, with an eye for the strange …

… William Colby has become a more or less forgotten figure in the turbulent history of the 1960s … of Scandinavia and preventing the political success of the Communist Party in Italy. In 1959, however, Colby was given …

… days earlier had been snow, melting from the mountains that surround the Ferghana Valley in the southeastern corner of … disappears into a distant memory. The desert seems endless, but it is not. Eventually, and gradually, patches of … history. The train stops in Urgench, a quiet and comparatively modern city of about 150,000 people. Exiting …

… More than four million combatants fought in the gargantuan struggle at Stalingrad … by February 2, 1943, when the Germans trapped in the city surrendered, it was clear that the momentum on the Eastern …

… 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 … public conversation. This month, our Best in History Online comes in the form of an educational tool for improving …

… the inspectors were too few and too weakly supported to overcome Iraqi resistance. But even if the inspections had … The disarmament of Iraq is our aim, we say. And surely even if there’s some slippage between our public … dismantled its war industries. According to the 1919 Versailles treaty, Germany was forbidden to maintain substantial …

… of Ukraine’s sovereignty.   Many observers have been surprised that this war has a religious dimension. Yet its … histories of Ukraine and Russia.  The Eastern Slavic peoples (Russians, Ukrainians, and Belarusians) trace their … in the Ukrainian Republic . By 1992, there were three competing Orthodox churches in Ukraine: the UOC-MP, a new …

… This lesson compairs civil and racial inequality during the Civil … injustices that occurred during the Civil Rights era.  Files for download: Racism-Past-and-Present-Lesson-Plan (PDF File) Racism-Past-and-Present-Presentation …

… forcing politicians to make hard choices and progressive commitments. Democratic candidates have recently been cherry-picking lessons from the civil rights and voting rights campaigns of … and undemocratic. The war in Vietnam bled America’s treasury and disillusioned the poor and black Americans who …

… French and British Finance in the Service of Tsars and Commissars New book from Ohio State historian Jennifer … The Russian state was so heavily indebted to its western creditors, rendering those western economies almost … of World War I." [Book description from the publisher's website ] …