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… 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 ) … Rights Museum in Memphis, Tennessee. Its reopening has coincided with the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act …

… During the last four weeks, the Election Assistance Commission, the Justice Department and the Department of Homeland Security have considered asking Congress for authority to delay this year’s election if a terrorist attack were to coincide with the November vote. Members of Congress from …

… 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 …

… 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 of Irish immigrants … pluralist implication of the St. Patrick's Day parades becomes more apparent as we look at the events held in cities …

… 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 …

… fans and flashbulbs from the many reporters who would inform the nation that a new kind of British Invasion had … would help define American life for generations to come. In 1964, the relatively new musical genre of rock and … America.   In the early twentieth century, white Americans coined the term “race music” to describe the blues and jazz …

… ideas in an introductory activity, they will be able to visit stations of primary and secondary sources to further investigate this issue. At each station, they will complete a handout with guiding questions in small groups.  … drugs”, a TED Talk by Michelle Alexander, a compelling performance by Kendrick Lamar at the Grammys, and the Origins …

… 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 …

… Republic of China and Chinese leader Jiang Zemin's recent visit to New York triggered a new rendition of a familiar … abysmal human rights record. Jiang and other Chinese Communist Party officials countered that Americans are too … of this should not stop concerned Americans from pushing for human rights and democracy there. It should just …

… interest, inspiring our most recent History Talk podcast, “ Visiting the Ivory Tower: Conversations on Public … While we interviewed public intellectuals themselves for our podcast, we wanted to be sure and take a moment to … as the case might be. If we really want to engage the community with historical thinking, a better model might be …

… In 1831, when Gustave de Beaumont and I left France to visit the United States to examine first hand this … strife between Sunnis and Shiites within your great community of Islam weakened the entire civic and social … Both men were determined to prevent a continuation of this form of religious tyranny, so injurious to the …

… begins to fade, there’s a race among critics to find a compelling Rasputin or a group of gray eminences pulling the … public image has become — with fashion magazine covers, visits to schools and tours of vegetable gardens — few people doubt her intelligence and passion for favorite causes and ideas.   Is she possibly the real …

… For scholars of the Reformation , the question of legacy is … The prominent reformer, Martin Luther boasts the most complex legacy of his contemporaries because of how he … Luther: Renegade and Prophet (2017), which was published to coincide with the anniversary. Her uneasy feeling elicited a …

… 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 …

… For a while it was thought that William Shakespeare … the other a novelist, died almost simultaneously remains a coincidence full of symbolism. They were kindred spirits. … the rights of his novel to a printer. He was buried in a common grave. Most profoundly, our modern sensibility is …

… 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 …

… 1896, participants from 14 countries converged on Athens to compete in a festival that was simultaneously ancient and … facilities (a velodrome, shooting gallery, and seating for the swimming competitions) saw the staging of 45 events … and concerts provided after-hours entertainments for visitors. It was a distinctive marriage between a sports …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… Historians have come to love the milestone anniversaries of significant … life in strong and thoughtful prose as she interprets the latest research on the topic, but they are to be found … exclusively to the description and analysis of the winding fortunes of the colony once it is actually planted in the …