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… and as troubling news about the country’s racial divides comes front and center, we’ll talk about how teachers can engage and inform." [Podcast description from WOSU's website ]   More of  Hasan Kwame Jeffries  work with  …

… this story, in various forms, was relayed to me by everyone from a museum docent to a checkout clerk. For nearly 500 … people in harvesting sea life off the banks of what would become Canada’s eastern shore. Cod—so synonymous with fishing … such an integral part of life in Newfoundland that one anonymous source in the early 20th century declared that …

… urban renewal this hour." [Podcast description from WOSU's website ]    More of Steven Conn's work with Origins : The …

… 1st, 1914, Martha, the last known example of her species, died in her cage at the Cincinanti Zoo.   Martha and her … they often darkened the day-time sky.       Martha has become a cautionary tale of the human ability to extinguish …   Some scientists are even weighing whether or not to clone and resurrect the bird.    Here at Origins, we've …

… that there was considerable mechanical innovation in the medieval period. These medieval machines included mechanical … heads that revealed the future, and automated gardens complete with metallic singing birds. In this book, E.R. … and the laws that govern both—which is usually taken as one of the hallmarks of modernity of 17th century natural …

… anniversary of the birth of W. E. B. Du Bois. Although he died more than 50 years ago, his life and work command more attention now than ever before. Many of his … Wilhelms Universitӓt, the former University of Berlin) alone suggested the heights to which he might ascend over the …

… months ago, my colleague Dallas DeForest reviewed Richard Stoneman's book on the reception from ancient to modern times … as she calls it (19). Wyke has established herself as one of the leading experts on the subject of classical … Whereas in the 20th century, Caesar could just as easily become the savage conqueror again, someone to be resisted …

… Arab world. Among you there are those who love power and money more than they love their country, as, alas, there are … If those people fail to subordinate the love of power and money to the love of country, Iraq will not develop a working … strife between Sunnis and Shiites within your great community of Islam weakened the entire civic and social …

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

… is collected, debated, and passed on.   Shortly before she died, I interviewed my monolingual Spanish-speaking … With a sense of betraying la causa, I carried out mom's command. My mother was equally adamant that I was not to … and preservation. It will also use the suggestions of the community to evaluate how best to promote the public's …

… century onward. A simple and straightforward story, but one that does not tell the entire history of Europe's … New World, David Abulafia, best known for his work on the medieval Mediterranean, highlights the immediate impact of the … ), the notorious document that the Spanish read to the uncomprehending Indians before seizing their land. These …

… thousand Americans, 16,000 Japanese, and 100,000 Manileños, one tenth of the population. Written by Gregory Kupsky. …

… Romney who has it wrong, and in that remark he perpetuates one of the central myths of the religious right in our … to the world that people of any religious faith would be welcome. To Penn we owe our freedom of religion. Penn was a … the practice of polygamy, Mormons have largely been left alone by the state. The sect has grown and expanded as a …

… fantastic history sites from around the web. These are websites that – much like Origins – seek to bring history … public conversation. This month, our Best in History Online comes in the form of an educational tool for improving …

… failed in its attempt to subdue that nation militarily. Nonetheless, the Bush administration should continue its … meanwhile avoiding the kind of mistakes the Soviet Union committed — or it will risk a similar defeat. In 1979, … Afghanistan in 1989, its pride bruised, its reputation bloodied and its spirit broken. The successor Russian army …

… along with the text, “Happy Women’s Day.” To be honest, I was a bit baffled. The following day another e-card … by the U.S. Socialist Party, it brought together an audience of 1,500 women who demanded economic and political … break with socialist tradition. Though ideologically committed to human equality, socialists had long argued that …

… Four young men have accused the leader of one of the largest churches in the country of sexual abuse. … who belong to New Birth Baptist Church near Atlanta. Some commentators have condemned Bishop Eddie Long’s virulently anti-gay theology and political …

… ago, the prospect of a non-Protestant president — let alone a non-Christian one — was enough to cause panic among … "more faithful" to Israel than the United States. But these comments have drawn a negative reaction from the most blacks … a nation. Stephen A. Allen is a doctoral candidate in the Medieval Institute at the University of Notre Dame and a …

… fantastic history sites from around the web. These are websites that – much like Origins – seek to bring history … historians alike to share their ideas, the Public History Commons ! The Public His tory Commons is a project of the … to serve the field by providing a platform where practitioners, scholars, and others with an interest in the …

… reflect on the various intervention plans and select one plan the Colombian government should have taken in the …

… , to name a few. Yet, aside from the high-profile case studies of Cuba and Nicaragua, one region of the Global South has remained conspicuously … and development. Latin America is a vast region comprising 33 individual countries in the southern half of …

… be creating a political cartoon about a topic featured at one of the stations. Instructional Strategies: Bell Ringer …

… this region has also been central to Ukraine’s complex journey to define itself. In the Soviet era and in Russia today, this journey has been reduced to just one story: the impact of radical nationalism. But there are … of Ukrainians have passed through the city of L’viv alone and city officials expect at least 50,000 of these …