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… formally by a court or informally by a non-judicial “truth commission”? Or should he be applauded as a patriot?   Look … would attack, power would be seized and Catiline would become dictator.   Cicero, however, foiled the plot. By adroit … corners. It was a sign that traditional Roman politics was coming to an end when, a few years after the execution of …

… and artist Jack Kirby in the eponymous Captain America Comics #1, the patriotic hero became a breakout star for Timely Comics. …

… fantastic history sites from around the web. These are websites that – much like Origins – seek to bring history … respond to some of the questions being raised. Why do we so commonly talk about the golden age of piracy the way that we …

… Guiteau, a disgruntled political hopeful. Garfield later died from an infection which ravaged his body for two and …

… Baseball: often touted as “America's Pastime,” it is often easy to overlook how the sport has firmly implanted itself … not discrete organizations, but frequently interacted and competed, sharing players and locations, effectively … for the 1946-7 Cuban League season was only three quarters completed. With the end of the Second World War, and the …

… world, the more necessary a knowledge of foreign nations becomes. Yet Congress is trying to handicap that endeavor by … to bring one group of experts, those in international studies, under stricter government control. This legislation … of federal funding for international or “area studies” programs. These interdisciplinary programs are devoted …

… and Moscow are increasingly frayed, and Russia has become a determined foe of the American Middle East agenda. … the United Nations over the Iranian nuclear program should come as no surprise. The further the American quest to … Service and a doctoral student in history and security studies at Yale. E-mail:  jmankoff@yahoo.com . …

… 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/ …

… 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 …

… 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. …

… 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 …

… in American history. Burr fatally wounded Hamilton, who died the next day. Hamilton’s premature death transformed …

… 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 …

… as the sole arbiter of labor and political issues. The concomitant opening of the markets hurt several domestic giants in the oil and telecommunication sections. The increased mobility of skilled … various parts of Mexico, and assembled a professional and competent team of advisers. The one-time Coca-Cola executive …

… this important moment in World War II, as well as the soldiers and civilians who took part in the liberation. Written …

… 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 …

… 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 … been “More, more, more for me, me, me!” Americans have become so addicted to spending that it now takes something …

… 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 …

… How do cold wars begin? The question is becoming more than academic as the Bush administration gropes … No single dispute was big enough, in itself, to cast the die for or against prolonged cold war. But each one required … our choices. Ira Chernus is a professor of religious studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder and a writer …

… I am become death, the shatterer of worlds. J. Robert Oppenheimer … Department of Sociology and interdisciplinary Science Studies at the University of California, San Diego and is currently a lecturer in science and technology …