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… had ever seen. Survivors of the war were not only the soldiers who fought, the wounded in mind and body. Theywere … became inalienable." [Book description from the publisher's website .]  …

… and as troubling news about the country’s racial divides comes front and center, we’ll talk about how teachers can engage and inform." [Podcast description from WOSU's website ]   More of  Hasan Kwame Jeffries  work with  …

… the Russias.” Services in Moscow capped a series of events commemorating the Romanovs’ tercentenary, in what proved to … at great peril to the future of his country and its people. Immersing himself in a celebration of the past, he turned … deemed oppositional, the tsar brusquely cut him off. He welcomed supplicant peasant elders, but Kostroma was part of a …

… fantastic history sites from around the web. These are websites that – much like Origins – seek to bring history … new sound on the web, as we add our very first podcast recommendation into the mix. The Exploring Environmental …

… tax credit for children to the nation’s 6.5 million low-income families, and has buried the measure in another round … abolition aroused a cadre of reformers who unsettled public complacency in less than a century. In 1780, Pennsylvania … that those making $20,000 or less a year would be more than compensated by their wage hikes — and that the rest of us …

… as the war drags on and Americans and Iraqis continue to die. The term "shock and awe" is in keeping with a … Smith returned to England, proclaiming his mission accomplished; but the Virginia Indian wars lasted for decades. … this terror from the air." Any society would experience "a complete breakdown," as civilians, seeking to end their …

… Pinsker, set the pattern in 1881. Anti-Semitism “can never die,” he maintained. Wherever Jews live among foreigners, … as a permanent fact of life. The Zionists aimed to overcome that psychological infirmity by making the Jews a … Holocaust theologian Emil Fackenheim once told an audience that Israel might be destroyed by its enemies. Still, …

… How do cold wars begin? The question is becoming more than academic as the Bush administration gropes … No single dispute was big enough, in itself, to cast the die for or against prolonged cold war. But each one required … our choices. Ira Chernus is a professor of religious studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder and a writer …

… Students will gather information using the Origins website to help facilitate a Socratic-style discussion that … The lesson can be done in the classroom or adapted and completed online. …

… tacos increasingly brought these foods into the American diet. As Mexican immigrants arrived in new locales, various … States.  The popularity of these dishes and Mexican ingredients pushed Mexican cuisine into fast food with the … Powder  The food tradition of the American Southwest has come about through various populations’ contributions over …

… Mountain Division spent the better part of  three years immersing its recruits in the art of mountain warfare before … in a stalemate with Axis troops north of Rome. With a commanding view of the narrow approach to the Po River … forgotten: The fact that during its Italian odyssey, its soldiers fought as joint-combatants with an unlikely set of …