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… of Justice decided to revise the Second Amendment. This latest example of politically motivated historical revisionism completes the task begun by John Ashcroft in 2001 in his … memo designed to give activist judges a historical pretext for striking down existing gun laws. Ironically, rewriting …

… History can be instructive and often inspiring. Take, for example, the case of the nation’s sixth president, John … immortalized on screen in “Amistad,” Steven Spielberg’s latest effort at cinematic history-telling. The film ought … all, to effect mental, moral, and national improvement. Commitment to improvement of self and nation motivated …

… Join hosts Leticia Wiggins and Patrick Potyondy for part one of a two-segment History Talk on race in … Museum in Memphis . “It really is a place,” says Jeffries, “for living history.” ( Image Source ) … Leticia Wiggins   This is your host Leticia Wiggins and welcome to History Talk , the history podcast for everyone …

… channel to receive updates about our videos and podcasts. For more information about Origins: Current Events in Historical Perspective , please visit origins.osu.edu . …

… fend off disaster. That’s unlikely. Today’s crisis calls for a new take on what used to exist: preventative … landscape and lexicon. This trend has left ever more complex financial markets and multinationals to operate in barely regulated risky gray areas. The latest near collapse of one of Wall Street’s biggest firms …

… in the mid-19th century that the parade as we know it took form. Its appearance coincided with both the massive influx … pluralist implication of the St. Patrick's Day parades becomes more apparent as we look at the events held in cities … College in Worcester, Mass., and a writer for the History News Service. …

… over Enron’s collapse will revitalize campaign finance reform and deliver gains in the fall elections. Shredded … and congressional subpoenas may generate interest in this latest example of corporate corruption, but if sex didn’t … public interest. Neither did Whitewater in the 1990s. Commentators can’t decide whether Americans are too …

… that Pentagon officials are actively discussing plans for using nuclear weapons to prevent Iran from building its … the free world and freedom on earth,” Kennedy told a visiting French diplomat in January 1963. Kennedy’s words … Bush administration has wisely allowed the international community to take the lead in responding to the threat from …

… The term Afrofuturism was coined by Mark Dery in 1993, but encompasses a long history of African American and African … diaspora through technoculture and science fiction, encompassing a range of media and artists with a shared … experiences.” In the first lesson, we move McDow’s argument forward by exploring Black Panther, and other Black …

… When George W. Bush’s advisers brief him for his October trip to Beijing, they may be tempted to only … spy-plane crisis. And the Japanese Prime Minister’s plan to visit a shrine honoring soldiers who died for his country … of more than $30 million (then an astronomical amount) as compensation to foreign powers for the damage caused by the …

… a famous politician dies, obituary writers and other commentators immediately start comparing the departed figure … thought of comparing him to Richard Nixon. This is unfortunate, since there are some striking and illuminating … not just because Nixon was the first American president to visit the People’s Republic of China and Deng was the first …

… have derailed President Obama’s popular campaign finance reform bill, it’s time we admitted a sad truth: bipartisanship … it fails in practice. The doomed reform package is just the latest example of that failure, as intransigent Republicans … Fathers designed it to have, while working against true compromise. That’s bad not just for Democrats, but for …

… material. 2. Increase student empathy and awareness of the complexities of a pandemic (past or present). 3. Introduce … the human impacts of a pandemic (again, past or present). Visit the  Pandemic Pedagogies  website at  https://pandemicpedagogiesproject.wordpress.com/ …

… it was being spoken about by fans of literature, who often complained about the stifling power of the novel and the … which caused people with strong nerves to risk illness and forced those with weak nerves to give up reading it … of pawnbroker Alyona Ivanovna and her sister Lizaveta committed by ex-student Rodion Raskolnikov were “the purest …

… President Obama, South Carolinians doubtless recognized it for what it was: the latest in a long, distinguished history of … standard-bearer for South Carolina. Among his many accomplishments, Thurmond holds the record for conducting the … History News Service …

… (played by Logan Lerman). Fury   Director David Ayer's latest  World War II film The film begins in April 1945, only weeks before Hitler’s suicide. As part of the 2nd Armored Division, … their way through a devastated Germany. The first major combat sequence takes place in an open field, as Collier and …

… in 2003. Mars, the red planet so close to Earth, has become a tantalizing target for humans to visit. Noted space entrepreneur Elon Musk recently released …

… Emmanuel Macron provoked controversy in France during a visit to Algeria. There, he pronounced French colonialism to have been a “crime against humanity.” For historians of colonialism, this may not seem like a … That paper, simply entitled “Declarations Drawn up in Common Agreement,” was signed in a town on the French side …

… nun is abducted, stripped, threatened with rape, and forced to drink her captors’ urine. This is the latest in a series of attacks on Christians in that nation … of the early martyrs are wildly exaggerated, if not completely fictional. But later, better documented deaths …

… Europe and the Soviet Union, made the future of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) uncertain. It was in this period of … many within the Party, alarmed by world events, called for the slowing down of economic restructuring and the loosening of ties with the West, Deng, by visiting some of the most developed cities along China's …

… Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov disembarked from his … their meeting in November, 1940. By the time of Molotov’s visit, the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany had been partners … and the simultaneous purges, officers were rushed into commission; in 1941, only half had completed any formal …

… of psychedelic exploration . The Summer of Love marked the coming out party for the counter-culture we now associate with the 1960s, a … later, as well as the music festivals we see today. In comparison to today’s bloated ticket prices, admission for …