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… the intellect with emotion and place. You can follow our common fight for independence and creating and keeping a … Fire Island to the islands of the Pacific. You can savor some of our creative juices in art, poetry, sculpture…. And … and headed to the Lamar Valley, it was like entering a completely different park. The traffic drops off and the …

… After all, American society is now among the world's most complex. In a nation of such diverse origins, practices and … those threats to the free transit of information and ideas. Some public libraries in the Virginia suburbs of … of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it." But his views have not always been heeded. Nor …

… around Athens’s busy Stadiou Street hoping to withdraw some euros from an ATM. After what felt like an eternity … the machine when I heard some Greek expletives and saw a commotion in front of me. The ATM ran out of money. I spent … accept the bailout conditions proposed by the European Commission. What felt like a scene from some apocalyptic …

… Refugees in the Western Sahara, Rohingya in Bangladesh, and Somali refugees who at the time of writing face an uncertain future in the sprawling Dadaab camp complex in Kenya barely register on the radar of the global … An image widely used to raise funds for the Armenian Relief Committee. The widowed Amenian woman and her children walked …

… for the Humanities. Any views, findings, conclusions or recommendations expressed in this content do not necessarily … Dr. Thomas McDow Welcome to pandemics past, present and future. Coming to you … ago when scientists got involved and figured out a way to extract genetic material from the teeth of skeletons of …

… Violence against women has a long history in human communities. Yet, we live in a time when people across the … Patrick Potyondy  Welcome to History Talk from Origins: Current Events in … and contexts? And then that also kind of raises an extra question, you know, should it change as well?   Cathy …

… 2016, Hillary Rodham Clinton secured enough delegates to become the Democratic nominee for president of the United … women who have run for president, several others have come within striking distance of the nation’s top post … 63 nations of the world that have been led by a woman at some point between 1963 and 2014? And, if history is a …

… It was then the longest war in U.S. history; although commonly dated as beginning in 1965 with American bombing … dispersal of tiny bomb fragments that made detection and extraction difficult. Americans also deployed chemical … to dialogue with the designated enemies of their country. Some of these travelers were already antiwar activists, …

… release. But as Nixon showed when archivists tried to open some segments of his conversations about Watergate, a … formal claims against release of records. When it opened some of Nixon’s documents in 1987, the Archives informed the … honorably may struggle with his past. Governance is complex and politics messy. Laws demand disclosure of what …

… Australia, with its approximately 22 million people, has by some estimates the planet's 15th largest economy. But the … is a self-reinforcing event. How, we should ask, has it come to all this? Australia's water woes are, in part, a … parts of Australia every few years and major droughts come at least once per generation. The Big Dry is one in a …

… It seems as if apologies are becoming a regular part of business and politics. Pope John … for the Irish famine of the 1840s. The Aetna Insurance Company apologizes for selling insurance against the escape … it really possible for anyone to apologize meaningfully for something they never did to someone who is long dead? It …

… Journalists Association marched in solidarity with anti-extradition protesters. Since March, millions of Hong Kong’s … returned home but evaded murder charges because he committed the crime outside of Hong Kong’s jurisdiction. He … in 2012 waving Hong Kong’s colonial flag. Unrest has only become more intense and widespread over the summer, including …

… Politics." Thanks for being on the show Sarah, and welcome.  Sarah Siff   My pleasure. Thanks.  Patrick Potyondy   … that often conservatives use when they want to talk about someone as redistributive, or what they would call socialist … wealth to people who had less. And this was a very common thing to talk about. After World War Two, it became …

… 1961 outgoing President Dwight Eisenhower recognized that something significant had changed in American life, and in … to the nation he coined the phrase "military-industrial complex." Eisenhower used that address to issue a warning to … of State of War , Paul Koistinen has completed an extraordinary life's work. This book is the fifth and final …

… December 25, 1848, brought an unwelcome gift to the Queen City. That Christmas Day, a dying man … feature prominently in this depiction. In 1832, it killed some 2% of Cincinnati’s roughly 30,000 inhabitants. This … global pandemic reflected new routes of transportation, commerce, and migration that allowed the disease to move …

… The so-called Bone Valley of central Florida contains some of the largest phosphate deposits in the world, which … supply global agriculture with one of its most important commodities: synthetic fertilizer. In the process, the … air pollution in the country. During the 1960s, however, complaints by farmers and ranchers eventually forced …

… You can't go around the world these days dropping a flag somewhere. This isn't the 14th or 15th century." John B. … understand why there is all this noise in the international community. If anyone wants to plant a flag down there, … Arctic region and the melting of sea ice; the promise of extraordinary economic gain from ocean-floor resources such …

… and his two sons in January. Although the possibility that something similar might happen in the United States may seem … of the early martyrs are wildly exaggerated, if not completely fictional. But later, better documented deaths … 26 Roman Catholics were crucified in Japan in 1597. Compared with this, a single blasphemous painting seems …

… WWII, the United States began to boldly pursue a global community modeled upon American political, economic, and … policies were directed against the production and trafficking of drugs. But during the Cold War, there's a tension … 5%, you're tripling the amount of morphine that you can extract, so it's a great value. Brionna Mendoza During WWII, …

… well as 2013. Patrick Potyondy   Great, and can you give us some details on the report card's, you know, size and scope? … Tom Smith   Sure. And by the way, the next report card will come out in 2017. What we do is we look at 16 categories of … you know, just how bad some of our infrastructure has become? Tom Smith   Well, you know, in general, I'll just …

… Old Testament and to look in on their own Christianity as something very Jewish. Susannah Heschel seeks to bring out … Nazi anti Semitism and racial ideology required one to overcome a number of intellectual hurdles. How could one accept … weight to the propaganda of the Institute; propaganda coming from the pulpit calls forth far deeper resonance than …

… to step outside of their homes. In response, a group of some 300 Afghan women gathered to protest this law and … had very recently joined forces with the celebrated Tajik commander Ahmad Shah Massoud to establish the "Northern … , or burqa , a long shapeless gown that hangs from a hat to completely cover everything from head to toe. To our eyes, …

… United States is characterized by three great waves of newcomers. The first wave came primarily from Ireland, Germany, … century. The second wave arrived between 1882 and 1924, coming largely from eastern and southern Europe. This was … waves of immigrants have engendered a variety of responses. Some Americans have welcomed immigrants, but others have …