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… Eurasia is the world's largest unified landmass, Eurasian history has traditionally been marked by its disunity. … of these neighboring regions and peoples as disconnected as history books imply? In Empires of the Silk Road , Christopher …

… 14, 2001, he declared that America’s “responsibility to history” was to “rid the world of evil.” The service ended … that “our nation is chosen by God and commissioned by history to be a model to the world.” This conviction is deeply rooted in American history. Preaching to his fellow Puritans in 1630, shortly …

… grapple with Thurgood Marshall. To students of American history he is the hero who won legal desegregation of … EducaSusan M. Schulten is a doctoral candidate in American History at the University of Pennsylvania. tion case. … Rowan writes: "selling out by blacks was selling in white bookstores." He is right in the sense that many white …

… is most useful to see Danielson's story as an intellectual history disguised as biography. Muste blended Christian … is most useful to see Danielson's story as an intellectual history disguised as biography. Muste blended Christian … to peace. … Review of American Gandhi: A.J. Muste and the History of Radicalism in the Twentieth Century , by Leilah …

… scholars who accept the Zionist narrative of Israeli history and those who tend to be more sympathetic to the … who challenged earlier Zionist interpretations of Israeli history that tended to downplay the Palestinian perspective. … newly-opened archives to expose the blemishes of Israeli history, writing a more critical version than their …

… today? Listen in to find out. To learn more about the history of voting, check out these Origins features:  A History of Stolen Citizenship ;  Re-mapping American … ( Image Source )   … Eric Michael Rhodes  Welcome to the History Talk , the podcast that brings together experts to …

… theaters of war: sites where vying factions negotiate history, a society’s identity, and, consequently, its … or destroying a monument does not constitute an erasure of history. Rather, it signals a reevaluation of how that … and #TakeThemDown movements, here are ten episodes in the history of monument takedowns which illustrate this point. …

… appropriately, in and amongst papers related to the history of the Cagoule—an anti-communist terror organization … the Cagoule. Assassination in Vichy , then, is more than a history of the death of a man, it is the history of the life of a nation, and this was, …

… rank the Bush presidency as the most disastrous in American history. They’re wrong. An informal, unscientific survey of … conducted at my suggestion by George Mason University’s History News Network finds that eight in ten historians … rate the current presidency the worst in all of American history. Such a low grade for the incumbent by historians …

… Michael Quentin Morton’s Empires and Anarchies: A History of Oil in the Middle East , serves as a concise, easy-to-read introduction to modern Middle Eastern history through the lens of the region’s largest industry: … a lawyer for 30 years, and since 2006 has published several books and articles on the Middle East and oil. He has an …

… piece piqued Origins’ interest, inspiring our most recent History Talk podcast, “ Visiting the Ivory Tower: … PhDs are academics. There are recent PhDs from our very own history department at Ohio State that work for the … of the Intellectual” in The New York Times … Connecting History … Education … Intellectual History … Graduate …

… one of the most extraordinary developments in recorded history. Only 60 years after the exhaustion and bitterness … years of a young nation by people of generally similar history who more or less trusted each other, is spare, to … Jr. a historian in Washington, D.C., was co-founder of the History News Service. He is most recently the editor of A …

… whose origins date back almost three millennia. A History of Iran, one of several recent books that aim to draw back the gloomy curtain of recent … Axworthy's book offers a compelling overview of Iranian history, it does not go into much depth. This is …

… complicated post-colonial coming of age. Favoring academic history over Rushdie’s magical realism, Keay’s work examines the history of South Asia from the Partition of British India in … South Asia Since Partition , by John Keay (New York: Basic Books, 2014) … After Midnight … S. Honchell … Reviews … …

… the American Revolution, and for most of America’s history, the United States was a weak nation. It lacked the … people. Johann N. Neem is an assistant professor of history at Western Washington University in Bellingham and a writer for the History News Service. … Johann N. Neem … History News …

… Books are dead. That is the provocative claim being made … at the University of Notre Dame and a writer for the History News Service. [The Medieval Institute, University of … e-mail:  Stephen.A.Allen2@nd.edu ] … Stephen A. Allen … History News Service … Science & Technology … …

… party in 1948, Truman staged the greatest upset in the history of presidential elections. In the train of the … accomplished. George B. Tindall is Kenan Professor of History Emeritus at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a writer for the History News Service. … George B. Tindall … History News …

… Unfortunately, he does not fully exploit the ample cultural history on the sixties, using examples of popular culture … America , by James T. Patterson (New York: Basic Books, 2012) … Sarah Brady Siff … Reviews … United States … U.S. Politics … Black Lives in American History … U.S. Laws and Legislation … 20th Century … …

… the consequences of playing American football. … Ancient History … World History to 1500 … World History since 1500 … Gladiators and Football …

… … Colonialism/Imperialism … Global/Transnational … Ancient History … World History to 1500 … World History since 1500 … Who Owns the Past? …

… from the past, Senator, as you go forth trying to make history. Randal Maurice Jelks is an associate professor of history at Calvin College, Grand Rapids, Mich., and a writer for the History News Service. He is writing a book on one of Martin …

… novelty of Separate and Unequal lies in the numerous oral history interviews Gillon conducted with surviving … histories that he cites. Second, his institutional oral history ignores developments outside of the doors of the … American Liberalism , by Steven M. Gillon (New York: Basic Books, 2018) … Eric Michael Rhodes … Reviews … United States …

… above politics, their own precedents — and the weight of history – should nonetheless force them to see that the … purpose was to promote religion. The act's legislative history stated that lawmakers wanted to "acknowledge the … of our nation and our people to the Almighty." As this history of religious intent indicates, "under God" was …