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The Beatles arrive in 1964 to meet their new fans in America.

50 Years Ago: the Beatles, Rock, and Race in America

… would help define American life for generations to come. In 1964, the relatively new musical genre of rock and … left to hold it up. By the early 1960s, Buddy Holly had died in a plane crash, Elvis was making movies, Chuck Berry … what [they] used to play at the Crawdaddy, a regular diet of Jimmy Reed, Bo Diddley, Muddy Waters with some Slim …
Artistic rendition of Space Station Freedom with the STS Orbiter Vehicle

No Cheap Ticket to Outer Space

… millions of dollars, or approximately $10,000 a pound. By comparison, sending a 180-pound history professor across the … the path not chosen of reducing launch costs will limit future development, the Bush administration’s tendency to … then doubled before presenting them to President Kennedy. Future costs of human flights to the moon and Mars will …
Cover of Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China by Ezra F. Vogel.

The Man Who Re-Invented China

Review of Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China, by Ezra F. Vogel (Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2011)
Lt. Cmdr. Raben Talvo (left), and Hospital Corpsman 1st Class Angela Ramirez (right) administer the San Diego Naval Medical Center's first monoclonal antibody (mAb) treatment to a COVID-19-positive patient, January 26, 2021.

The Rhyme of History: What the Black Death tells us about COVID-19’s Aftermath

… to Mark Twain, “it often rhymes.” Indeed, few historical comparisons make more compelling verse than the COVID-19 … allows us to speculate about the aftermath of COVID-19 . Medieval Eurasian Trade Routes, with the red lines indicating … could prove effective for treating other diseases in the future. Lt. Cmdr. Raben Talvo (left), and Hospital Corpsman …
fire at plant in Bhopal in background people lost in the fire

Remembering Bhopal: The World's Worst Industrial Disaster

… This presentation commemorates the 40th anniversary of the Bhopal Gas Disaster … in their homes nearby. It is estimated that 10,000 people died instantly, and survivor organizations estimate that … new perspectives in terms of how to prevent these kinds of future disasters? Do you think there's been any learning on …
Advertisement of an upcoming land sale by the United States Department of the Interior in 1911. The Interior Department published many similar advertisements to encourage white settlers to purchase "excess" reservation lands.

The Dawes Act

… across the United States owned their reservation lands as a community: families could settle, plant their crops, and own … but the land itself belonged to the entire nation for future generations’ use. The 1887 passage of the General … Native peoples would never, in the view of Dawes and his audience, reach the threshold of civilization. This view …
 Mapping the Nation: History and Cartography in Nineteenth-Century America, by Susan Schulten Book cover.

From Sea to Shining Sea

Review of Mapping the Nation: History and Cartography in Nineteenth-Century America, by Susan Schulten (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012)
… Spend a few minutes browsing news websites or blogs and you will see a barrage of infographics … Johann Georg Kohl, cartographer and geographer, to come to the United States where he worked for the Coast … of how and why this demand flourished. There is a companion website to the book, www.mappingthenation.com , which …

Hacer América and the American Dream: Global Migration and the Americas

… while other jurisdictions declared these children unwelcome. A U.S. Border Patrol poster placed around the border … rights] in the North. It was not true. Our children are our future. Let’s protect them.” And those hoping for a … as a part of the Bracero Program, 1954. The British West Indies’ complementary Temporary Foreign Worker Program ran …
MTA digital message campaign recognizes "Heroes moving Heroes," frontline employees who help other essential workers get to and from their jobs, 2020.

Work and Life after COVID-19

… the status quo. But, as a historian looking at what the future will bring, it is more likely that we will retain … other business carried out virtually over Zoom. The theater company, Gemini CollisionWorks, gathers most of its 22 … members for a Zoom meeting to read and discuss scripts for future productions, May 2020. Employees might argue that …
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12/8/2014: Best in History Online: The Appendix

… fantastic history sites from around the web. These are websites that – much like Origins – seek to bring history … solicits articles from historians, writers, and artists committed to good storytelling, with an eye for the strange … method of writing history." [description from The Appendix website] …
man standing my large container of fish with ocean and mountains in background

It’s the Factors of Life: Abiotic and Biotic Factors of Biomes

Grade Level
4-8
Teaching Area
Science & Technology
… ideas; once the brainstorm time is over, the class will come together to observe the similar ideas students came up … using Ohio Department of Natural Resources and Ohio History websites. To conclude the lesson, students will answer … that recap the day’s objectives while also highlighting a future lesson subject regarding conservation and …
HyperCities Website Header with logo.

5/18/2015: Best in History Online: Hypercities

… fantastic history sites from around the web. These are websites that – much like Origins – seek to bring history … This month, our BOH (Best in History Online) pick comes in the form of a website dedicated to reinventing the way we think about …

The Politics of International Adoption

… five years old – most of them in developing countries – die each year from violence, malnutrition or disease. Ten million is hard to comprehend. Nor is it any easier if we break it down: thirty … toll of children's lives equals ten times the number who died in the World Trade Towers, and each week matches the …
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Best in History Online: Imperial & Global Forum

… fantastic history sites from around the web. These are websites that – much like  Origins  – seek to bring history … of the University’s eminent imperial historians. It comprises of one of the largest groups of imperial and … in the UK.” [Description from Imperial & Global Exeter website] You can also take part in their exploration of …
cracks in the ground due to drought

Paris, and Existential Global Challenges

… and Human Survival: What the Deep Past Tells Us about the Future  and contributed to last month's  podcast   Climate … of two fundamental challenges to our collective future. Over the next month, leaders from around the world …
Portion of DisasterHistory.org timeline.

Best in History Online: Disaster History

… fantastic history sites from around the web. These are websites that – much like  Origins  – seek to bring history … conversation. This month, our Best in History Online pick comes in the form of a collaboration of historians from … major historic disasters on a timeline. As stated on their website,  DisasterHistory.org  “grew out of a research …
The Trials of Laura Fair by Carole Haber Book Cover.

A Woman Scorned?

Review of The Trials of Laura Fair: Sex, Murder, and Insanity in the Victorian West, by Carole Haber (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2013)
Photograph of wounded American soldiers during the Korean War.

12/23/2014: Remembering the Korean War

… end, some thirty-six thousand five hundred American troops died fighting the three year war in Korea. Six thousand of … be home by Christmas." [Podcast description from WOSU's website ]  Mitchell Lerner's work with Origins : Making …
Official portrait of President Gerald R. Ford (February 25, 1976).

Will Vindication Elude Ford?

… scandal-ridden. Sadly for former President Gerald Ford, who died Tuesday evening, his well-deserved vindication will probably never come. Thrust into a difficult situation — one he handled … Nixon would not be prosecuted for any crimes he might have committed. Forever afterward, Ford was dogged by charges …
cover of History Today featuring article Napoleon Life after Death

Best in History Online: History Today

… fantastic history sites from around the web. These are websites that – much like Origins – seek to bring history … conversation. This month, our Best in History Online pick comes in the form of a history magazine who aims to bring serious history to a wide audience! Based in London and published monthly, History Today …
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5/22/14: The Best in History Online - "Active History.ca"

… In this post, we feature   Active History.ca ,  a website connecting historians work to the wider public with … result of a conference on " Active History: History for the Future " in 2008. Active History.ca features  papers , book … and is transformative to both practitioners and communities." We highly recommend you check out this site, …
President Lyndon B. Johnson visiting American troops in Vietnam in 1966.

The Ambiguities of “Cut and Run”

… that Eisenhower did the responsible thing when he quickly completed the truce negotiations that ended the fighting in … that almost half the 58,000 Americans killed in Vietnam died during Nixon’s presidency. The real mistake during what … Reagan “cut and run” in 1983 after 241 American servicemen died in Beirut in the suicide bombing of the Marine …
Martha last passenger pigeon

100 years have gone by... still no Passenger Pigeons

… 1st, 1914, Martha, the last known example of her species, died in her cage at the Cincinanti Zoo.   Martha and her … they often darkened the day-time sky.       Martha has become a cautionary tale of the human ability to extinguish … history of our extinct fine-feathered-friend and what the future has in store.    "A Century of Extinction," by …
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Best in History Online: Sexing History Podcast

… fantastic history sites from around the web. These are websites that – much like Origins – seek to bring history … uses interviews, oral histories, archival sound clips, and commentary and analysis by scholars in the field of … scholars and a unique perspective on history for popular audiences. The show is hosted by historians Gillian Frank and …