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 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 …
Pullman Strike illustration

Top Ten Origins: American Workers and Strikes

… Socialist Congress meeting in Paris in July 1899. The comrades set the date in solidarity with organized workers … thousands of other laborers took part. More than 100 people died in the various clashes between workers and the forces … car, they hit at one of the company’s most strategic choke points. Strikers guarding the entrance to a GM plant in …
Floor proceedings of the U.S. Senate, in session during the impeachment trial of Bill Clinton

Uneasy Lies the Head that Sleeps in the White House

… Before 1600 (the period most of the English precedents come from), of course, one has to be careful when using … is a distinct possibility that William II was assassinated) died violent deaths at the hands of their subjects. Some, … quietly murdered. Others, like Richard I and Richard III, died fighting the rebels. Another two, King Stephen in 1141 …
Diocletian's Camp in Palmyra

Understanding the Middle East

… Patrick Potyondy   Welcome to History Talk produced by Origins, Current Events in … Middle East today? Dr. Jane Hathaway  When a historian studies the Middle East, he or she is entering what's often a … and we could take it back to a number of starting points or first articulators, whether it's Samuel Huntington …
A U.S. Marine Corporal looks through a sniping rifle during a training in California in 2001.

Don’t Compare America Now With Britain Then

… and means to maintain its present overseas positions and commitments, it will fail, as did Great Britain in the late … cuts in defense might render the United States unwilling to commit forces to one region in fear of leaving other regions … The current international political environment is hardly comparable to the one that existed between the two world …
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 …
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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 …
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The EU: Past, Present, and Future

… a century ago. Today, the EU faces an unprecedented combination of challenges, including a lingering economic … diplomacy and European affairs for the International Studies Department here at OSU. Chris Otter   I'm Chris Otter, … Sokolsky. Song and band information can be found on our website. You can find our podcasts and more at our website
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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)
… a narrative worthy of the hype. Even if she had not committed and been tried for murder, Laura Fair would have … years of age, Laura found herself the widow of a man who died under unexplained circumstances in the midst of divorce … William D. Fair, with whom she had a daughter. But he soon died of a gunshot wound, probably self-inflicted. Desperate …
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. at a press conference in Holland in 1964.

Asking Martin Luther King…

… talking about Martin Luther King, one of the questions most commonly asked is: “What would Dr. King say about…?” The … hold that would bridle our consumerism?” Such a question points to our need of a moral authority in perilous times. … by the end of traditional colonialism and international communism, and domestically by the end of legalized racial …
Howard Dean in 2014.

How Dean Followed in Goldwater’s Steps

… Dean led the Democratic pack by at least 12 percentage points in polls. But his campaign has been in a tailspin … Hampshire, where Dean had led the field by as many as 23 points. Many factors explain Dean’s fall, but certainly he … Barry Goldwater of 1964. Dean should have taken the comparison seriously. Glaring parallels exist between the …
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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] …
President John F. Kennedy delivers an address on the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962.

Historical Analogies: Handle With Care

… Historical analogies, comparing something in the present with what appears to be … equal. Some are better — or at least more useful when it comes to seeking guidance from history — than others. A case … had written “Profiles in Courage,” a book composed of studies of Americans who had stood fast under pressure. In …
Saxonburg Memorial Church.

Does the First Amendment Separate Church and State?

… Delaware Senatorial candidate Christine O'Donnell's recent comment–wondering whether “separation of church and state” … Hannah Adams of Medfield, Massachusetts, found a huge audience for her book "Alphabetical Compendium of the Various … is the Howard R. Lamar Professor Emeritus of American Studies, History, and Religious Studies at Yale University. …
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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 …

A Sea of Troubles: The Philippines and Pacific Geopolitics

… While not explicitly backing Manila, Obama stressed his commitment to preserving stability in  the South China Sea . … Boxer Rebellion in China targeted Westerners, 2,500 U.S. soldiers quickly traversed the South China Sea to help suppress … to history,  dueling map exhibitions , and international bodies. Though they are existentially at odds, the  People’s …
Pamphlet of "Virginia Women Opposed to Suffrage"

Equal Suffrage Awaits Trial (Prologued, Season 1, Episode 3)

… clubs and launched multiyear protests. While sharing a common goal, these efforts were not without internal … and these women come together and found the International Ladies Garment Workers Union, and they organize strikes and … Oranjudio. Song and band information can be found on our website, and we encourage our listeners to visit episode …
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 …
Oppenheimer: The Tragic Intellect, by Charles Thorpe Book Cover

Oppenheimer: The Tragic Intellect

Review of Oppenheimer: The Tragic Intellect, by Charles Thorpe (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006)
… I am become death, the shatterer of worlds. J. Robert Oppenheimer … Department of Sociology and interdisciplinary Science Studies at the University of California, San Diego and is currently a lecturer in science and technology …
Tank in Syria

The Syrian Civil War: Alawites, Women's Rights, and the Arab Spring

… Fate of Syria," which can be found on the origins osu.edu website. Thanks for joining us, Ayse. Ayse … involvement." What do we mean by that? If we mean, soldiers on foot, Patrick Scharfe  Ground forces. Ayse … harder to solve. Leticia Wiggins  You bring up these great points of how you know the actuality and kind of what we see …