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… of landscapes to match the western movie image, but almost nobody lives out there in the empty West. For more than a century, the West had been the most urbanized part of the country. City people shaped its … sprawling suburbs on the Colorado plains, and multi-ethnic communities in Los Angeles, perhaps ending up with a latte …

… will on others. Following the American Revolution, and for most of America’s history, the United States was a weak … of “a general association of nations,” what would become the League of Nations, to adjudicate international … Cold War — but only recently have we abandoned a broader commitment to a world governed by law instead of force. …

… a famous politician dies, obituary writers and other commentators immediately start comparing the departed figure to other … his rise to prominence interrupted at key points. Nixon’s most famous setbacks were his to Kennedy in the 1960 … The Nixon-Deng Comparison …

… this ideal, but it's important to recognize how far we've come. It's in this sense that the St. Patrick's Day parade …

… During the last four weeks, the Election Assistance Commission, the Justice Department and the Department of … election official, Secretary of State Katharine Harris — seemed to demonstrate that state or local officials no longer were competent to oversee elections. Yet four years later, little …

… During a visit to Syracuse, N.Y., late in October, Bush claimed that “state law reigns supreme when it comes to Indians, whether it be gambling or any other … drafted the Constitution, knowing that states could not be trusted to restrain their citizens from intruding on Indian …

… How do cold wars begin? The question is becoming more than academic as the Bush administration gropes … are outweighed by the risks they are taking. In the years immediately following World War II, the Truman administration … no grand design. He just followed his political instincts. Most of the time, that meant rejecting compromise. As an …

… Bruno Cabanes   "The aftermath of the Great War brought the most troubled peacetime the world had ever seen. Survivors … inalienable." [Book description from the publisher's website .]  …

… a narrative that emphasizes civilian reaction to the war. Most accounts of German occupation, Fritzsche claims, … trapped in the conflict, so sharing information transformed how people interacted with one another. The desire to … German soldier. Fritzsche is particularly interested in comparing the French and Polish accounts about sharing space …

… Great Lakes Creoles: A French-Indian Community on the Northern Borderlands, Prairie du Chien, … and negotiated in them. She explores the role of women as mediators shaping key social, economic, and political … Lakes region." [Book description from the publisher's website ] …

… 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 … For December, our Best in History Online highlights the website for the quarterly journal The American Historian . …

… events are tied together by several key themes. The most important, however, is Engelstein’s claim that the … In February 1917 , the legacy of collective militancy combined with general economic crisis to produce a general … the question of Russia’s involvement in the Great War loomed over the Provisional Government. A key promise of …

… 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 … own. Each podcast episode is about an hour long with accompanying text, images, and conversational style to …

… On Sunday [May 5], France goes to the polls for one of the most critical elections in decades. European and American commentators almost uniformly expressed shock at the … Their new order, like the one Le Pen is proposing, aimed to restore “national greatness.” As a result, the Vichy …

… 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 … solicits articles from historians, writers, and artists committed to good storytelling, with an eye for the strange …

… victory signals that the ERA has a renewed chance to become the 28 th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. To be … during the Women’s March in 2017 calling for the immediate ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment ( right … untold more. Steinem quipped that “insurance agent” was the most popular profession among state legislators in the …

… all civilized nations . . . did not hesitate to employ the most destructive weapon of all times indiscriminately … Hiroshima, the personal pilot of General Douglas MacArthur, commander of Allied forces in the Pacific, recorded in his … monster." In 1963 President Eisenhower, the Allied commander in Europe during World War II, recalled, as he did …

… of a satellite” to the world. Pravda put a distinctively communist spin on the news, arguing that “artificial … of the new, socialist society will transform humanity’s most daring dreams into a reality.” American officials – who surely numbered among the unnamed “contemporaries” that Pravda had in mind – were …

… sad watching a powerful political figure overstay his welcome. Helmut Kohl, German chancellor for sixteen years, has … Germany under Schrôder might do is of greater importance. A comparison of the chancellorships of Konrad Adenauer and … ideas about the European and world situation. Adenauer seemed the indispensable man, a German the western Allies could …

… a table with friends and fight over.  I mean that as a high compliment, since there are far too many books out there, … together. Farber has worked hard – sometimes one can almost feel him bending over backwards – to be fair to his … presidential campaign in Neshoba County Mississippi, the site of gruesome civil rights violence, and spoke of states' …

… affect events. With their defeat in 1865, Southerners claimed to have lost all “save honor.” Retaining their sense of … and male power over possessions both material and human, most especially female dependents. The West no longer values … hospitality shown to his relatives — with tacit American compliance. Or Osama bin Laden’s operatives could have been …

… As the international community struggles to respond effectively to the missile … launched by the North Korean government, critics have blamed the Security Council of the United Nations for failing … three great powers plus China). The leaders of the four most powerful countries would work together to manage …

… of immigrants were rounded up on vague suspicion of communist or anarchist sympathies. Ashcroft and his aides have indicated, commendably, that they want to avoid the civil liberties … Palmer raids, and gain more money for his agency. He also trusted, quite sincerely, that the nation was under attack. …