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Administrative building in the Hague in 1939.

First World War of the Twenty-First Century?

… Now the question again surfaces: will the international community be able to avoid the slide toward war? It remains … seen whether the United States, the world’s “sole remaining superpower,” has the vision and determination to take action … these questions. Multinational corporations and worldwide communications, among other things, have created a global …
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Best in History Online: Public History Commons

… 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 … historians alike to share their ideas, the Public History Commons ! The Public His tory Commons is a project of the …
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5/18/2015: Best in History Online: Hypercities

… we like to take a moment to highlight fantastic history sites from around the web. These are websites that – much … This month, our BOH (Best in History Online) pick comes in the form of a website dedicated to reinventing the …
Depiction of the Battle of Bosworth Field by the eighteenth-century painter, Philip James de Loutherbourg.

The Battle of Bosworth Field

… the battle occurred, although a recent study places the site of Richard’s death at  Fenn Lane Farm , about 2 miles … death.  It is easy to see Henry and Richard as polar opposites, especially when the literature after the battle …

Clampdown and Blowback: How State Repression Has Radicalized Islamist Groups in Egypt

… protestor shook with fury as he shouted at the camera in a message to Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, the military strongman … 2013. The video quickly went viral on news and social media sites and was watched not only by fellow Morsi supporters … that the man’s predictions for the future of Egypt may be coming true. Since the coup that ousted Morsi, the Egyptian …
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Best in History Online: Dan Snow's History Hit

… 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 … College, Oxford, and often conducts his interviews on site. Snow began on BBC with popular history programs …

Protestant Preaching after the Age of Graham

… influenced preaching in the decades since. Three important components of Graham’s outreach in particular were … or Atlanta, but in Lagos and Seoul. The Medium Shapes the Message Although he is known for his crusades, approximately … markets her conference presentations, books, and internet sites as resources for women. And, in one of those ironic …
General Edmund Allenby entering Jerusalem on December 11, 1917. Allenby dismounted as a sign of respect for the holy city.

The Collapse of Ottoman Power

Review of The Fall of the Ottomans: The Great War in the Middle East, by Eugene Rogan (New York: Basic Books, 2015)
… of two Russian ships by a German taskforce under the command of a German admiral improbably marked the entry of … beach of ANZAC Cove, one of the principle Entente landing sites on the Gallipoli peninsula Rather than quickly driving … Ottoman Empire achieved even greater military success in Mesopotamia. Ottoman forces isolated and destroyed an …
Generals Eisenhower and Patton at the Ohrdruf Concentration Camp

On the Liberation of the Concentration Camps

… War II in Europe. This year as in previous ones, Europeans commemorated VE (Victory in Europe) Day with a combination … Thus, eastern Europe and particularly Poland —the site of the Jewish Pale of Settlement established by tsarist … “Arbeit Macht Frei” (Work Makes (you) Free) (Photo credit: Kirsten Hildonen) The legacy and memory of the …
Earth covered in trees and water

"Pale Blue Dot": History of Our Environment

… boys, River and Blue. Folks, you can unveil yourselves and come on to the screen if you'd like. Welcome thank you for … every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every superstar, every Supreme Leader, every saint and sinner in … of a fraction of that dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the …
the monument of the Soviet army in Sofia, completed in 1954

11/4/2014: Empty Fountains: Communist-Era Monuments Revisited

… What is the afterlife of an old communist statue? Just what to do with all the Soviet-era … it for granted that a Stalinist monument did not belong opposite from the National Gallery, once a royal palace ( as … and colorful Ronald MacDonald, the Joker, Captain America, Superman, or Santa Claus. As a slap in the face to Russian …

Big-time Bureaucratic Brouhaha

… thing. A rock paper scissors activity engages students in competition, while showing them the differences between a … first-hand the differences between equality and equity. A messy board activity asks students to have a silent … and why. Instructional Strategies: Bell-ringer Four Boards (Messy Board) Exit Ticket Lesson Materials: If you have a …
Cover of Famine: A Short History by Cormac Ó Gráda.

Famine: A Short History

Review of Famine: A Short History, by Cormac O Grada (Princeton University Press, 2009)
… visions of Malthus, Ehrlich, and other doomsayers have not come to pass.  Drawing on a rich variety of government … of famine (until victims become too weak to commit crimes), widespread attempts among desperate people to sell … was available but expensive, people often purchased food on credit, which provided a short-term defense against hunger …
Cover of Where Have All the Soldiers Gone: The Transformation of Modern Europe by Jeff Sheehan.

How the Mighty European Military State has Fallen

Review of Where Have All the Soldiers Gone: The Transformation of Modern Europe, by Jeff Sheehan (Illustrated. 284 pp. Houghton Mifflin Company)
… European history that question is how did it come to pass that Europeans would differ so strongly from … and the question of Islamic terrorism. It is to Sheehan's credit that what starts off as a modern question is allowed … a useful counter to the traditional portrayal of bumbling super powers with their ironclad systems of alliances …
Thomas Jefferson

The Road to a New American Aristocracy

… that the blood in their veins distinguished them from the common herd. Despite the rhetoric about property rights that … question is whether we should allow the children of the super rich the status of nobles by inheriting their parents' … was to limit inheritance. In a 1789 letter to his friend James Madison, Jefferson wrote that "the earth belongs in …

Las raíces del estado de fallido venezolano

… y Buicks y la clase alta famosamente se lanzaba de compras a Miami donde eran conocidos como los del “dame … la situación económica y un establecimiento político desacreditado, los votantes optaron por las promesas del … la rendición de cuentas horizontal del poder ejecutivo y la supervisión de la empresa petrolera estatal, Petróleos de …
Still image from the Movie The Bridge (Criterion Collection).

Top Ten Origins: World War II Films

… away from the actual events of the war, movies have become the dominant means for us to envision them. But can you … the story of a Japanese man from his time as a labor camp supervisor to Imperial soldier to Soviet POW. 2. Kanal , … Still from Germany, Pale Mother  (From the BFI re-release site). Taking its title from Bertold Brecht’s prescient 1933 …
15th century painting of Christine de Pisan, QUeen Isabeau, and 7 other women

Medieval Women's Rights: Setting the Stage for Today

… Dr. Nicholas Breyfogle  Welcome to "Medieval Women's Rights: Setting the Stage for … named woman. Thus, woman is the work of man. While man is a site full of consolation for woman, neither of them could … very strongly believed that it was their responsibility to supervise marriages. And when things went wrong, they leaped …
Sputnik

Soviets Launch Sputnik, 1957

… of a satellite” to the world. Pravda put a distinctively communist spin on the news, arguing that “artificial … transformed the balance of power between the two emerging superpowers. Equally worrisome was the larger message sent by the tiny sphere: Soviet technology was more …
American Theocracy: The Peril and Politics of Radical Religion, Oil, and Borrowed Money in the 21st Century, by Kevin Phillips book cover.

American Theocracy: The Peril and Politics of Radical Religion, Oil, and Borrowed Money in the 21st Century

Review of American Theocracy: The Peril and Politics of Radical Religion, Oil, and Borrowed Money in the 21st Century, by Kevin Phillips New York: Viking, 2006
… helped inspire. Like Nixon in late 1969, the author has become immensely disillusioned with America's leadership class … ruin. Although the technology-led stock-market boom and the credit-industrial complex masked the depth of this problem … Nonetheless, when one steps back from the book it becomes abundantly obvious that the author has accomplished …
Palestinians during the first intifada, 1987. (Photo by Peter Stepan)

The Long Shadow of the June 1967 War

… ceasefires in 1949 and 1956, they failed to resolve the complex underlying Arab-Israeli controversies over … in Glassboro, New Jersey in an effort to de-escalate superpower tensions that had been aggravated by the war. … war would prove to be a watershed in Arab politics by discrediting secular nationalist leaders such as Nasser and …
Old man sitting alone in a park.

Social Security Reform for All

… which stand to make hundreds of millions in fees and commissions, and anti-welfare state conservative ideologues, … argue that market-driven private programs are inherently superior to those in the public sector. History should … about the gloomy long-term predictions President Bush’s new commission offers concerning the future of the system. …