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Exterior view of the Union Carbide pesticide factory in Bhopal, India,
The Bhopal Chemical Gas Disaster

Book Cover of In the Museum of Man: Race, Anthropology, and Empire in France, 1850-1950 By: Professor Conklin
OSU Historian Interviewed on NPR's Counterpoint
For centuries, baptisms have been performed in the Jordan River, considered holy by many religious communities. A baptism taking place in the Jordan River.
Baptized in the Jordan: Restoring a Holy River
Storming the Bastille
Storming the Bastille (July 14, 1789)
A drawing by Italian artist Achille Beltrame imagines Archduke Francis Ferdinand's assassination by Gavrilo Princip
The Assassin’s Shadow: The Beginning of World War I and the Legacy of Gavrilo Princip
Exploring Environmental History Podcast Logo
The Best in History Online – "Exploring Environmental History Podcast"
Rainbow flag.
The Road to Same-Sex Marriage: Lesbian Mothers, Gay Fathers, and the American Family
June 4th, 2014, at Hong Kong’s Victoria Park (Photo by the author)
Remembering Tiananmen: The View from Hong Kong
Reinforcing Omaha Beach with men and equipment
Remembering D-Day: 10 Important Facts to Know
180-degree view of Tiananmen Square in 2004 (Photo by Saad Akhtar)
Commemorating the Tiananmen Square Massacre
Cover of The Last Empire: The Final Days of the Soviet Union by Serhii Plokhy
"The Greatest Geopolitical Catastrophe of the Century"
posters reading I Am A Man
OSU Faculty Contributes to Civil Rights Museum
Active History.ca Website Logo
5/22/14: The Best in History Online - "Active History.ca"
Anti-Morsi poster in Egypt.
Clampdown and Blowback: How State Repression Has Radicalized Islamist Groups in Egypt
First Lady Nancy Reagan expresses her feelings about drugs while riding horses with her husband, President Ronald Reagan.
The Illegalization of Marijuana: A Brief History
Ivan Aivazovsky, a Native of Feodosia, Crimea, is known as one of Russia's greatest painters, and one of the world's best at seascapes. The Battle of Sinop (Russian and Turkish Navies), 1853
Top Ten Origins: Stories from Crimea
Cover of Vodka Politics by Mark Lawrence Schrad
Bottoms Up, or Race to the Bottom?
Immigrant laborers, part of the Bracero program
Immigrant Deportations Today and the Continuing Legacy of "Operation Wetback"
Photo of a deer
4/24/14: Memories of the Iron Curtain
The Nature of Childhood: An Environmental History of Growing Up in America since 1865 Book Cover
Play, Paranoia, and American Childhood in the Great Outdoors
Insects on white flowers
4/22/14: An Earth Day Round Up
Overlooking Euromaidan in Kyiv, Ukraine.
The Ukrainian Crisis: In Russia's Long Shadow
Not Even Past Website Logo
4/10/14: The Best in History Online - "Not Even Past"
Oneida Nation Friendship Statue from The National Museum of the American Indian
3/31/14: How Historians Can Help Native Americans
alienation in the society
3/28/14: On Alienation and Consumption, Then & Now
Earth during the Ice Age
3/27/14: Climate Change, the Little Ice Age, and History
Alice Conklin's recent In the Museum of the Man: Race, Anthropology, and Empire in France, 1850-1950 Book Cover.
3/26/14: The Latest Books from OSU Historians
Splash of water
3/22/14: Happy World Water Day!
The Thinker by Auguste Rodin
Graduate Students Discuss Public Intellectualism
Last Supper By Simon Ushakov, 1685
Reverence and Relics: The Holy Dead in the Pre-Modern Christian World
The New York Times Article, "The 'Boys' in the Bunkhouse" Cover Photo
3/11/14: History through People, "The 'Boys' in the Bunkhouse"
The ruins of Ludlow
Which Side Are You On?: The Ludlow Massacre and Class Struggle in 1914
Flag of Crimea
3/3/14: A Volatile Crimea
The flag of Ethiopia under the rule of the Derg, 1975-1987
Blind Aid: Lessons (Not Learned) from the Ethiopian Famine
Photo of Earth
2/28/14: 21 Historical Events to Remember
Anti-government protesters in Kiev
"Ukraine, Headed for a Revolution?"
Press coming from Sochi during the recent Olympic cycle
2/21/14: On Distorting Russia
Flag of Pakistan.
A Fresh Start for Pakistan?
Putin Sochi Olympics Gay Rights
Russia, Gay Rights, and the Sochi Olympics
Photo of a smiling doctor
2/11/14: "Body Politics: The History of Health Care Policy"
summer olympics banner
2/9/14: Russia, Gay Rights, and the Sochi Olympics
In order, India’s Indira Gandhi, Pakistan’s Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, and Bangladesh’s Mujibur Rahman
After Midnight
The Beatles arrive in 1964 to meet their new fans in America.
50 Years Ago: the Beatles, Rock, and Race in America
History in Pictures Twitter Page Profile
Two Teenagers are Behind the Most Popular History Twitter Feed
The film Poster for Captain Phillips (2013)
Contested Waters: Captain Phillips and the Hijacking of the Maersk Alabama
The Trials of Laura Fair by Carole Haber Book Cover.
A Woman Scorned?
a man standing on a large bomb
Fifty Years Later, We Still Need to Learn to Love the Bomb
President Warring G. Harding at Walter Reed Hospital in March of 1921.
People Were Skeptical about Veterans’ Hospitals, Too: The Affordable Care Act and Health Policy Precedents
Man Celebrating Repeal Day with a banner that says "Good Old Days Are Back Again!"
Celebrating Repeal with a Drink, Not a Joint