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… Mao’s   Great   Famine: The History of China's Most 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 …

… This lesson is designed to develop students’ abilities to comprehend, synthesize, and analyze a complex text. Students will identify and define key … for students to record their responses to digitally. This medium of interactive technology is a method for engaging …

… was designed to tie in history to several eighth grade Common Core State Standards. First, students will compare and contrast textual evidence provided by primary … students to evaluate the influence and importance of the media’s role in public opinion of Hiroshima. While the …

… Supreme Court decision, Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, which freed corporations to spend unlimited amounts of money on election campaigns, greatly compromises the integrity of all three branches of the federal government. Its most dangerous consequence has so far been overlooked, and …

… with General Billy Mitchell in the 1920s. He argued that most of the U.S. military was obsolete. The United States … to support their own operations, but Army Air Force commanders tried instead to amass all the planes they could … is that what we have seen in Yugoslavia is likely to become the pattern for future U.S. interventions. But there is …

… Paris, the cultural and political capital of France and the most galling symbol of German occupation, lay roughly 300 km … with collaborationist neighborhoods, areas of union and communist strength, and the German headquarters district. As … leaders such as de Gaulle and Philippe Leclerc, the commander of the first French division to land with the …

… with a Think Pair Share activity that asks students to compare what they know about the COVID-19 response to a … Next, the lesson transitions into a stations activity that compares the 1918 Spanish Flu, AIDS in the 1980s, and … for students that the Spanish Flu was not the priority of most world governments at the time, instead focusing on …

… 21st century, and is written at a level which is not easily comprehensible to 7th graders. I decided to create this … students learn about the transition from antiquity to the medieval period. As the article mentions, few Americans … who made the video informs its content. After, the students complete a short session defining the key vocabulary terms …

… and the Treaty of Ghent were part of that tense process. Most Americans have ignored the bicentennial of the War itself, and will not commemorate its end either, and it is worth asking why. The … of inevitability. And so Americans find it difficult to come to grips with, and perhaps intentionally ignore, how …

… however, offer this warning to his Democratic fans: most Americans have supported Bush’s post-9/11 adventurism. … officers as presidential contenders. Generals who have become president (there were ten, six of them notable as … permanent armies, and the Founders pointedly placed the armed forces under civilian authority. Remote from Europe, the …

… the last 150 years, American “children’s focus has, for the most part, moved indoors, and away from the naturally … Places, backyards, and basements filled with televisions, computers, and Playstations. Riney-Kehrberg describes how … of newspapers, periodicals, television programs, films, websites, and published works to tell her story, but she also …

… “If our bombs are so ‘smart,’ how come they’re always hitting refugees, hospitals and … uses cruise missiles and cluster bombs.” Her friend chimed in, “I don’t want to hear about school mediation … but if we listen carefully, their voices convey a sense of compassion, coupled with disappointment. Often stereotyped …

… Despite what media coverage is leading the American public to believe, … by hostile states or require an open-ended U.S. military commitment to Iraq. In short, this issue is of crucial … in the Middle East. It will also determine the future commitment of the United States to Iraq. Maj. Gen. Paul …

… century. Many of Yale’s colleges and buildings are named after slaveowners. Even John C. Calhoun, the most notorious pro-slavery thinker of them all, has a … it difficult to break free from the constraints of their communities, for many churches, political parties and laws …

… 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 …

… In 2009, according to the International Maritime Commission, the waters off the northeastern coast of Somalia … memoir by Richard Phillips, tells the story of one of the most sensational events of 2009—the hijacking of an American … and flares, is stalked by the four khat-intoxicated, armed men in an open skiff. Professional and self-righteous, …

… 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 … conversation. This month, our Best in History Online pick comes in the form of a collaboration of historians from …

… first vice president, John Adams, referred to it as “the most insignificant office ever the invention of man … enhanced the office by taking on duties traditionally performed by the president. Mondale’s successors further expanded … future political ambitions, work behind the scenes, and become an extension of his president. Ryan’s power will be …

… to get voters registered. He realized that if he were to become the city’s first African American elected mayor he … face at the polls, especially in the South. To reach the most elevated political office in the United States will … demonstrates the distance that the people of Chicago have come since Washington’s election. Like it or not, though, …

… Europe and the Soviet Union, made the future of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) uncertain. It was in this period of … Tour" in spring 1992. Although many within the Party, alarmed by world events, called for the slowing down of economic … of ties with the West, Deng, by visiting some of the most developed cities along China's coast, argued that …