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This video essay articulates my personal Philosophy of History as it current exists. In other words, my “Big Idea History Syllabus” expresses how I see and understand both the past and the study of the past. These ideas inform everything about how I teach, how I write, and how I live day-to-day.

Betio Island, Tarawa Atoll, November 1943.

Photo U.S. Navy - U.S. Defense Visual Information Center photo HD-SN-99-03001

In the mid afternoon of Tuesday, December 28, 1943, Life magazine correspondent Robert ‘Bob’ Sherrod arrived at the White House’s West Wing in preparation for a scheduled 4.00 p.m. presidential radio and press conference.

President Franklin D. Roosevelt had been conducting several media briefings a month since America entered the war with Japan two years earlier. Читать дальше...

During the presidential campaign of 1864, a seventy-two-page booklet appeared on the streets of Manhattan. This publication was titled Miscegenation: The Theory of the Blending of the Races, Applied to the American White Man and Negro. It cost 25 cents. According to the booklet’s anonymous author, “miscegenation” was a word he’d created by combining the Latin root words miscere (to mix) and genus (race). This, the pamphleteer explained, was a more scientific term than “amalgamation,” which he... Читать дальше...

The Note through the Wire is the true story of Josefine Lobnik, a Slovene resistance fighter, and Bruce Murray, a Kiwi prisoner of war – both complete strangers - who meet by chance when she passes a note through the wire of the local POW camp seeking information on her brother who had been captured by the Nazis. Against all odds, they discovered love in the midst of a brutal war in the heart of Nazi-occupied Europe.

As the US COVID-19 vaccination program reaches full stride, approaching 2 million shots per day, the time is ripe to recall the contributions of the physician-scientist who first put vaccines on the map, Edward Jenner.  Some claim that Jenner saved the lives of more people than any other figure in history, yet his contributions are often poorly understood.

On August 12, 1916, France's president, Raymond Poincaré, walked up to the British military headquarters at Val Vion, in northern France, for a private conference with Britain's king, George V.  The king came out to greet him, wearing a beribboned khaki military uniform appropriate to the occasion.  President Poincaré joined him in a more somber kind of uniform, a livery of mourning.  Poincaré wore black from head to toe, without a bit of adornment or decoration. 

The campaign of Amazon workers in Alabama to win representation by the Retail, Wholesale, and Department Store Union (RWDSU) may be a critical turning point in reversing a forty-four- year trend. Since 1978, the corporations and the wealthy elite have accumulated more and more power while the living standards, rights, and power of the U.S. majority have declined. The Amazon union drive points the way to improving workers’ lives and reduces the glaring inequality in the U.S.

A Women's Brigade picketer breaks a window after police tear gassed the occupied Chevrolet Plant 9 during the Flint sit-down strikes.

Photo Illustration by Thiago Prudêncio/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images

During Clubhouse’s weekly town hall on Sunday, CEO Paul Davison announced the voice-chat app’s first creators program. Clubhouse Creator First will help aspiring hosts and creators on the platform build their audiences, connect with brands, and perhaps most importantly, monetize their shows.

Clubhouse announces accelerator program for creators on its platform  The Verge

Erik Lamela was sent off after scoring a first-half wonder-goal.

Sunday’s votes for the new state legislatures kicked off an electoral marathon that culminates in the national election in September.

Former Chief Minister Siddaramaiah has ruled out the possibility of the Congress entering into an alliance with the JD(S) in future.Mr. Siddaramaiah,

Benefits have reached every household because we have upheld spirit of democracy and principle of secularism: Assam CM

Alex Rodriguez and Jennifer Lopez are adamant that the rumors are overblown.
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RuPaul's Drag Race UK queen and fan-favorite A'Whora tells fans the real reason why her stand-up comedy act was censored on the BBC.

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Ambani bomb scare case: Maharashtra BJP chief targets Uddhav Thackeray after Vaze's arrest

Osmanabad sees Covid-19 surge, janta-night curfews in place

It’s getting easier and easier to envision Russell Wilson in a Chicago Bears uniform. Wilson reportedly is interested in moving on from the Seattle Seahawks, who have fielded trade calls on the star quarterback. And the Bears are among the teams that Wilson would consider waiving his no-trade clause for. In fact, Wilson reportedly is […]

Marvin Hagler dead? Not possible. No one could take out the Marvelous one, not even the big guy. Or so it seemed. One quarter of the legendary "Four Kings" didn’t have the most flair during a golden era of lower-weight boxers. Sugar Ray Leonard did. And he didn’t (...)

Top Nigerian singer, Davido, was recently spotted linking up with Canadian rapper Drake in a trending video on social media. Fans reacted to this in funny ways.

In 2020, house sales in Turkey increased by 11.2% compared to the previous year, reaching almost 1,5M purchases. However, the pandemic hit the foreigners’ interest in Turkish real estate, cutting off 10% of what they bought in 2019.