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… Wilson bitterly called “a sullen and selfish isolation,” becoming an observer in the League but never a full member. As … Roosevelt planned to open the conference himself, but he died shortly before it began on April 25, 1945. The 16th … conflicts, such as the 2014 Russian annexation of Crimea. Nonetheless, the passage of the charter represented a new era …

… for Salvadoran right-wing extremists who believed that anyone who opposed the military regime was a communist, including religious figures. This slogan, … nuns based on their dress code. On December 4, their bodies were found in shallow graves. They had been raped and …

… Politics." Thanks for being on the show Sarah, and welcome.  Sarah Siff   My pleasure. Thanks.  Patrick Potyondy   … talked about class warfare, and capitalists had a lot of money, and they had a whole bunch of people working for them. … process of writing through that and have your graduate studies, you're a PhD student in the history department here at …

… irrevocably porous. But the events of November 9 did not come from nowhere. The fall of the Berlin Wall—as detailed … magnifying glass, Sarotte argues, party leader Erich Honecker’s hardline policies grew evermore untenable. The … moment came on October 9 when, unable to reach his superiors and overwhelmed by the sheer size of the crowd (at …

… Historians have come to love the milestone anniversaries of significant … underway proposing settlements in Ireland, the West Indies, Guiana, Newfoundland, and New England. Jamestown was …

… congregated in streets and squares and demanded the end of communist rule. These are indelible images deeply impressed in the memory of anyone old enough to remember: the round-table talks in Poland … of the Catholic clergy, once considered an unwavering opponent of the communist regime, has been exposed as secret …

… initiated." That evening, in a foreshadowing of events to come, fireworks lit the sky above Fort Sumter. Who could … slavery, or that slavery was not the root cause of the bloodiest conflict in our history.   And Masoff has company in … Alexander Stephens described as a nation whose "corner-stone rests upon the great truth, that the negro is not equal …

… We've heard such sage advice before. But in the past, no one heeded it. Now it's time for leaders in Washington to … reacted by pulling their money from banks and trust companies. The stock market lost nearly half its value. J.P. … obligations. Obviously, these senators are proposing remedies to win support for their presidential campaigns. They …

… Students will gather information using the Origins website to help facilitate a Socratic-style discussion that … been learned throughout the school year. The lesson can be done in the classroom or adapted and completed online. …

… all, has a college named after him there. Yale is not alone here. Profits from the harsh slave plantations of the … chair. The family that founded Brown made much of its money on the slave trade. Slaves worked on the Princeton … it difficult to break free from the constraints of their communities, for many churches, political parties and laws …

… opening act of the full-scale invasion of Poland as some one-and-a-half million men of the German Army moved out of their encampments and into combat. It was the beginning of a war over the future of … World War, wrote “In 1914 the war began with enthusiasm. Soldiers were mobbed and garlanded with flowers. They left for …

… as the Republic. While the topic of immigration reform is one that deserves candid discussion, all serious dialogue … figures such as Henry Adams and Theodore Roosevelt questioned whether the United States, built on its Anglo-Saxon heritage, could accommodate large numbers of Slavs and Italians whose …

… had ever seen. Survivors of the war were not only the soldiers who fought, the wounded in mind and body. Theywere … no national boundaries or rivalries. Bruno Cabanes, a pioneer in the study of the aftermath of war, shows, through … became inalienable." [Book description from the publisher's website .]  …

… going forward." [Podcast description from WOSU's website ]    More of  Peter Mansoor's work with Origins : …

… fantastic history sites from around the web. These are websites that – much like Origins – seek to bring history …

… the party. In July, when the 186 members of the platform committee meet, they’ll have to write a plank on the war in … that stirs powerful passions. A more cautious war position, one that respects the power of symbolism, could be the … the White House. Ira Chernus is a professor of religious studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder and a writer …

… secretary Robert Gates — to review the War on Terror's combat decoration recipients and upgrade some to the Medal … of Defense procedures is revealed in the story of one of those 32, Roy Benavidez of Cuero, Texas. In May 1968, … killed, and the chopper crashed. Benavidez dragged the bodies out, tended the wounded, and set up a second perimeter. …

… similar issues in his Origins  article, " Where Have You Gone Holden Caulfield? Why We Aren't 'Alienated' Anymore ." … with consumption, claiming  "There is a pronounced superficiality about so much of our high-tech consumption …

… our thoughts in permanent symbolic form outside of our bodies via Venus figures, body paint markings and cave … of the mind." [Book description from the publisher's website .] …

… on the grounds of the Tuileries Palace in Paris to witness one of the first manned balloon ascents. The exhibition … below portrays the craft as a “king-machine” that embodies the monarchy’s obligation to watch over its subjects … of the poorer, disempowered social strata to overcome restraints imposed on them by the authoritarian regime. …

… Yavapais sold them to the Mohaves a year later.  Mary Ann died of an unknown illness exacerbated by famine while with … Olive remade herself into a proper Victorian lady, complete with a child (the couple adopted) and a beautiful … experiences and why she did what she did, but Mifflin has done an admirable job of trying to recreate the young woman …

… up over 1 million people, most of them men. Regardless of one’s views on the matter, we would be wise to recognize …

… pluralist implication of the St. Patrick's Day parades becomes more apparent as we look at the events held in cities … this ideal, but it's important to recognize how far we have come.   So when this weekend's St. Patrick's Day parades pay …

… More than four million combatants fought in the gargantuan struggle at Stalingrad … armies. Over 1.8 million became casualties. More Soviet soldiers died in the five-month battle than Americans in the entire …