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Seed Money: Monsanto's Past and Our Food Future

… us on an authoritative and eye-opening journey into how the company Monsanto came to have outsized influence over our … Seed Money: Monsanto's Past and Our Food Future … Welcome to Seed Money: Monsanto's Past and Our Food Future, brought to you by the History Department, the Clio …
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Diet for a Large Planet

… of unparalleled proportions. Our reliance on unsustainable dietary choices and agricultural systems is causing problems … of our planet. Solutions from lab-grown food to vegan diets to strictly local food consumption are often … the last 200 years to explore how we developed our current diet heavy in meat, wheat, and sugar. He’ll explore how the …

NATO's New Order: The Alliance After the Cold War

… and dangerous, amplifying the sense of tension and competition across Europe and strengthening the sense of … and the United States) broke down. Disagreements over the future of Germany, the growing division of Europe, and … the Western alliance. Clinton pushed a new partnership embodied in the NATO-Russia Founding Act signed in May 1997, …
A makeshift hospital in Iowa during the 1918 flu pandemic

Pandemics: Past, Present, Future

… 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 from the History department at The … And he was able to rest in the second floor of a baker shop, and lied infirm for a couple days. But he then goes on …
Top view of person serving themself a rice dish from a table of food

Food for Thought: Diet in History

… we shove into our mouths has shaped our cultures, our bodies, and our planet. ( Image Source )   … we shove into our mouths has shaped our cultures, our bodies, and our planet. So stay tuned.   Dr. Helen Veit   I am … fishing methods. So, you know, we might see a world in the future with very little fish. And, you know, I also think …
ship on waterway that is polluted with oil spill

Water Crisis on the Blue Planet: What Water’s Past tells us about Humanity’s Future

… power production — will likely represent one of the most complicated dilemmas of the twenty-first century. Speaker: … Blue Planet: What Water's Past tells us about Humanity's Future, which is brought to you by the History Department … sweat, and the kind of evaporation of water on our bodies to cool ourselves. Humans are quite remarkable. There …
And Water for All - stylized image of hands with water behind them

... And Water for All

An educational documentary about water affordability
… done it with these water and sewer systems that have become ubiquitous in our lifetimes.   Nicholas Breyfogle  The … small mom and pop, what we call "transient systems", the smallest systems that might have a single well. The challenges … part makes it hard, that plays a big part, and the only future I see for towns like us is expanding our water base, …
Monument with figures dressed as pop culture figures like Superman, Santa, and Ronald McDonald

1989: The Year That Changed It All

… Talk , hosts Patrick Potyondy and Leticia Wiggins welcome historians  Nicholas Breyfogle and  Theodora Dragostinova and Slavic Studies Professor Angela Brintlinger as they consider these … the wonder, the possibility, the sense that the view of the future could be better. The sense that people could, in …
Black Friday shoppers in the morning at Walmart store in Durham, North Carolina.

Is Retailing’s Death Star Vulnerable After All?

… is baseball, football, or Nascar? You’re wrong. It’s shopping. The United States is a country filled with passionate shoppers. Nothing is more American than finding a bargain. … to Christmas, head over to the local Wal-Mart. The company’s promise of “everyday low prices” is music to the …
American soldiers land near Algiers

Torch: The Allied Invasion of French North Africa, 1942

… the Axis, operation Torch constituted the biggest and most complex amphibious landing to that point in world history.  … North Africa by year’s end.  Hoping to give French soldiers an opportunity to cooperate with the Allies and … largest amphibious armada–some 670 vessels and 107,000 soldiers in total–across the Atlantic almost wholly undetected …
Sign that reads, "You are either affected or infected with HIV/AIDS."

HIV/AIDS: Past, Present and Future

… , and Jesse Kwiek — about the origins, spread, and future of HIV/AIDS in both the United States and around the … Ohio State University, known to friends and colleagues as Dodie. He is Associate Professor of History and the director … to ask our esteemed panel, what does HIV look like in the future? And where do you think the disease, the challenges …
Shakespeare For All Time, by Stanley Wells Book cover.

Shakespeare For All Time

Review of Shakespeare For All Time, by Stanley Wells (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003)
… testifies to this fascination. William Shakespeare has become more than a brilliant playwright from … is an argument that is likely to hit home with his target audience, many of whom are likely to be commuters themselves. … (151) His language was meant to be comprehended by stage audiences, not to be read. Thus, it is not surprising that …
The flag of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).

A European Future for NATO?

… be France, not the United States, that guides NATO into the future. President Obama plans to deliver a speech in France … France is rejoining military NATO, the United States is becoming more distant. This may be the best way the United … is impossible. But NATO needs to invest in ideas for the future, decide on its priorities and begin to allocate …
Crowds of people in Kyiv, Ukraine

The Fate of Crimea, the Future of Ukraine, Part I

… history, how Crimea was absorbed into Russia, and what the future holds for Ukraine and the Crimean peninsula. ( Image … of the nation that Catherine had begun. Many, many died and many were killed. Then in 1954, Khrushchev … We wondering both how have the events in Crimea changed the future of the Ukraine? And then also, what should the United …
A memorial to the Heaven’s Hundred in Kyiv. Serhii Kemsky’s photo is in black and white under the words Nebesna sotnia.

Heroes Never Die

… why he came to the protests, he said, “It’s also my future. I live in this country.” Serhii was killed by four … January 22.   Serhii Kemsky also had a vision of Ukraine’s future. Born in Crimea , he studied political science in the western city of Lviv and came …
Two baseballs.

Why Dick Allen Never Reached the Hall

… career home runs and his 1,119 RBIs place him in the same company as such Hall of Famers as Yogi Berra, Roy … be sure, Allen forced the white baseball establishment to come to terms with the racism that existed in the game in … alone. Racism is a much broader cultural phenomenon, encompassing institutional policies as well as the beliefs and …
Firefighters working on the San Diego wildfires in 2007.

San Diego’s Natural Disaster Wasn’t Entirely Natural

… The catastrophe in San Diego is not entirely a natural one. As with Katrina, it’s … humans. This week, two massive wildfires ignited in the San Diego County backcountry and began their march toward the … are offering time, money and supplies. Inter-agency communication is decidedly better. And the city owns a …

The UN, the WHO, and the Future of U.S. Diplomacy

… through an American-friendly model. These multilateral bodies allowed Washington officials to portray self-interested … policies as altruistic during the ideological competition of the Cold War. But these institutions and … country might benefit from working with them more in the future. The United States and the Origins of Supranational …
European Union flag

The EU: Past, Present, and Future

… a century ago. Today, the EU faces an unprecedented combination of challenges, including a lingering economic … host, Mark Sokolsky. Today we address the past, present and future of the European Union, that unique institution that … diplomacy and European affairs for the International Studies Department here at OSU. Chris Otter   I'm Chris Otter, …

Kosovo's Year Zero: Between a Balkan Past and a European Future

… spelled out, in English, the word Newborn . Fireworks accompanied live appearances by pop stars and elected … independence an enormous legal problem that put at risk the future of international law as we know it. For these … (the Battle of Kosovo, when Ottoman forces defeated the Medieval Serbian state) or 1690 (when the Serbian Patriarch of …
map of Yugoslavia

What Victory in Yugoslavia May Mean for Future Wars

… to support their own operations, but Army Air Force commanders tried instead to amass all the planes they could … share of the military budget. What this will mean in the future is that what we have seen in Yugoslavia is likely to … enemy chooses to attack U.S. civilians, rather than soldiers, with bombs or missiles? If civilians once again …

Feminism in Egypt: New Alliances, Old Debates

… seats in parliament. Morsi was the winner of Egypt’s first competitive presidential election, but his government was … Family Development, and “Nazra” Association for Feminist Studies. The coalition was effective in organizing against the … on female detainees. The Nazra Association for Feminist Studies, for example, documented around 500 cases of sexual …
Albert Bierstadt, Mount Corcoran, c. 1876-1877, oil on canvas

Silent Spring Revolution, a Conversation with Douglas Brinkley

… postwar economic boom took hold, with America becoming the world’s leading hyper industrial and military … this historic prosperity came a heavy cost: oceans began to die, wilderness vanished, the insecticide DDT poisoned … Revolution , Douglas Brinkley pays tribute to those who combated the mauling of the natural world in the Long …