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President Nixon looking at a CIA map in 1970.

Why an Intelligence Inquiry Is Needed

… 11 attacks, Congress is now moving to create a bipartisan commission to investigate intelligence gathering policies … gathering should be coordinated with policymaking bodies and oriented toward problem solving, rather than … sources of his group’s funding, must also be carefully studied. Additionally, a careful reconstruction needs to be …
students wearing masks sitting at desks in a classroom writing

Pandemic Pedagogies (Classroom Activities)

An Interdisciplinary Model for Teaching about the Human Impacts of Pandemics
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World History to 1500
World History since 1500
US History to 1877
US History since 1877
… material. 2. Increase student empathy and awareness of the complexities of a pandemic (past or present). 3. Introduce … (again, past or present). Visit the  Pandemic Pedagogies  website at  https://pandemicpedagogiesproject.wordpress.com/ …
Signal Soldiers train to protect against Nuclear Biological and Chemical threats.

The Nuclear Theft From the Poor and Hungry

… fully expanded to other countries, and India and Pakistan come quickly to mind.   Pakistan recently conducted nuclear … to the fight against global hunger.   This sounds like common sense, but it did not pass Congress.   The United …
Martin Luther King, Jr., at Civil Right March on Washington

Exploring the Legacy of MLK’s “I Have a Dream” Speech

If Martin Luther King, Jr. were alive today, do you think he would believe that “his dream” had been achieved? Why or why not?
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African American History
… Students will gather information using the Origins website to help facilitate a Socratic-style discussion that … The lesson can be done in the classroom or adapted and completed online. …
Joseph Stalin

Dismantling a Legacy: The Last Days of Stalin

Review of The Last Days of Stalin, by Joshua Rubenstein (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2015)
… he was dead. The implication was clear—although Stalin had died, his influence would be keenly felt in the Soviet … pardoned or remitted the sentences of prisoners whom had committed minor offenses. As they worked to dismantle … narrow” for the United States and the Soviet Union to come out on the other side with a better relationship, …
Image depicts statues of Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton facing off in their duel.

The Duel Between Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton

On July 11, 1804, former Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton and Vice President Aaron Burr faced off in the most infamous duel in American history.
… in American history. Burr fatally wounded Hamilton, who died the next day. Hamilton’s premature death transformed …
Illustration from Otto of Freising’s twelfth-century chronicle, which depicts Henry IV and Clement III presiding in Rome in 1084, and Gregory VII’s flight from the city and subsequent death in Salerno in 1085.

The Investiture Controversy

… Gregory VII chastised Henry IV’s association with excommunicated advisers and his appointment of three Italian prelates. He demanded obedience to the papacy and threatened excommunication otherwise.  Gregory VII’s admonition ignited, … Medieval …
George W. Bush at the White House in 2003.

Can Bush out-Hoover Hoover?

… the fact that she thought he had “showed himself to be a complete idiot. “Why?” the perplexed reporter inquired. … of voters will value consistency above even wisdom or common sense. The whole Bush campaign seems to be centered … who, to cite but two among several major differences, was committed to balancing the budget and was uninterested in …
Hiroshima after the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city.

Terrorism: A New Kind of War?

… the recent attacks on New York City and Washington were committed by a transnational organization. But it is hard to … from the Middle East or the Korean peninsula. The common characteristic of the states on the current State … too weak to attack us in a more conventional manner. The common bond of these states is found in their weakness and …
New York City in 1932.

Black Tuesday II

… Crash in the heart of the world’s financial center has been superseded by a far worse and all-too-literal Great Crash … often  since the attack on the World Trade Center, but a comparison of the Black Tuesdays of 1929 and 2001 is equally … to respond, “What else is there?” Even though we have become far more materialistic in recent decades, it is …
A black and white photo of Barry Goldwater in 1962.

Rick Perry, Social Security, and the Ghost of Barry Goldwater

… criticized Social Security but later backed away from his comments after his Republican opponents and the press jumped … President Lyndon Johnson—Perry may not be able to overcome his past attacks on Social Security no matter how hard … damaging to Goldwater’s campaign was a Johnson television commercial featuring two hands ripping up a Social Security …
Gemini 4 astronaut Ed White in open space, 1965.

Human Spaceflight Began Fifty Years Ago This Month, But Not Much Has Happened Lately

… system and beyond.  Satellites make possible the modern communications, navigation, weather, and other space-based … space travel fully reliable.  Insurance rates for launching communications satellites into geosynchronous orbit run from … airplane flight by the Wright brothers in 1903 to sustained commercial flight was 50 years. We can hope that the arrival …
Melvyn Bragg

Best in History Online: BBC's In Our Time

… 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 a podcast.   In Our Time is one of the … any intellectual rigor. After 42 minutes, you will come away with a very useful introduction to the major …
Weimar Germany: Promise and Tragedy, by Eric D. Weitz Book Cover

Weimar Germany: Promise and Tragedy

Review of Weimar Germany: Promise and Tragedy, by Eric D. Weitz (Princeton University Press, Princeton, 2007)
… Weitz helps the reader understand how and why the fragile, complex, and tense culture of Weimar Germany motivated these … do. The discussion of the sexual revolution in Germany comes closer to touching on the wide variety of general … across the spectrum is an outstanding touch, because they communicate not just the intellectual but also the artistic …
Allen Weinstein

Will They Be the National (Secret) Archives?

… suggested to many that the White House wanted its own man supervising the release of the president's father's papers. … Assassination Records, and now the files of the 9-11 commission. Decisions about access to these materials should … Collins of Maine, chair of the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee and a Republican, noted in Weinstein's …
Black Women's Rights Leaders

Prologued: Women and the Vote

Analyzing the myth of the women's voting bloc
… ) Apple Podcasts ( https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/prologued/id1525013753 ) Spotify ( https://open.spotify.com/show/439Ra0Qdd69CH20lsI6pcZ?si=vSbq3lSRTfOd1LbRHHhQcw ) Soundcloud ( https://soundcloud.com/user-435127104/sets/prologued-season-1 ) or where ever …
Palais de Beaulieu

The Theological Third Way in Latin America

Review of A Gospel for the Poor: Global Social Christianity and the Latin American Evangelical Left, by David C. Kirkpatrick (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019)
… Spirit, teaching them to obey everything I [Jesus] have commanded you” (Matthew 28:19 NIV). This Great Commission … Evangelical Left , explores the development of the understudied—and by many accounts, unacknowledged—Latin American … been hidden in plain sight. By giving a voice to understudied and often-ignored actors, this monograph colors the …
President George W. Bush

Policies for the Fearful: Rollback Then, Regime Change Now

… the test of the first Soviet atomic weapon in 1949. The combination of the Soviet Union’s atomic weapons and its superiority in conventional forces placed the United States … country in the world is more or less on the level of Panama compared with the military strength of the United States. …
Three Young White Men and a Black Woman (1632) by Christiaen van Couwenbergh.

A Question of Power, Not Sex

… who belong to New Birth Baptist Church near Atlanta. Some commentators have condemned Bishop Eddie Long’s virulently anti-gay theology and political … many other ways, too, they had little control over their bodies and intimacies.   Nineteenth-century accounts from …
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5/22/14: The Best in History Online - "Active History.ca"

… In this post, we feature   Active History.ca ,  a website connecting historians work to the wider public with … and is transformative to both practitioners and communities." We highly recommend you check out this site, and if you're a …
a plane flying over a group of West Berlin citizens

The Berlin Airlift

The Berlin Airlift began on June 26, 1948, only two days after the Soviet Union's blockade of West Berlin.
… The Berlin Airlift, 1948-1949   ( ⁠https://www.tamupress.com/book/9781603440905/to-save-a-city/⁠ ) Berlin on the … and the Early Cold War ( ⁠https://www.kentuckypress.com/9780813136134/berlin-on-the-brink/⁠ ) "The Incomplete Blockade: Soviet Zone Supply of West Berlin, …
US citizens in unemployment line

America and Unemployment

Grade Level
9-12
Teaching Area
US History since 1877
… unemployment. Our lesson plan follows this current event in comparison to the economy’s downfall during the Great … and present—that have been created to try and overcome the issue of unemployment. In addition to working with …