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… I teach courses on Eastern Europe, nationalism, migration, communism, the Cold War, among others.   Dr. Robin Judd   … refugee crisis in Europe, which perhaps has peaked at about one million people, and how does that compare globally to … And combined with a bloody civil war that is going on in one corner of the world, we very clearly see this refugee …

… first forged during an earlier era of Sino-American competition. Yet looking at Chinese engagement in Africa … Dr. Nicholas Breyfogle  Hello, and welcome to China and Africa: Historical Perspectives on a … affairs. And with that, let me pass the microphone over to Patrick. Thank you so very much.   Patrick Nash  …

… about nuclear weapons and who has them? How did the U.S. become so central in efforts to control them? And how can past … Brenna Miller Welcome to History Talk , the podcast that brings together a … to be here.   Brenna Miller          And finally, by phone we have Dr. Matt Ambrose, a graduate student of the Ohio …

… Daniela Edmeier   Hello everyone and welcome to picturing Black History Webinar today brought to you … today. So I would like to you know, express thanks to everyone who is attending here live and a special welcome to …

… us on an authoritative and eye-opening journey into how the company Monsanto came to have outsized influence over our … to a global agribusiness powerhouse. Monsanto used seed money derived from toxic products―including PCBs and Agent … Seed Money: Monsanto's Past and Our Food Future …

… Dr. Angela Brintlinger  Welcome, everybody. I went ahead and turned off my email so it won't be dinging in the background when my microphone is off. My name is Angela Brintlinger. I am the director … many of these talks, others might want to come to the last one, which we'll be having next week. The war is not ending, …

… Nicholas Breyfogle: Hello, and welcome to Reproductive Politics and the Making of Modern … India. Over to you Mytheli. Mytheli Sreenivas: Hi, everyone. Thanks so much to Professor Breyfogle for that gracious … further so please do feel free to reach out. So historians, one of our jobs, I think, is to tell stories and so I …

… Dr. Nicholas Breyfogle   Welcome to Leaving Zion: Jewish Emigration from Palestine and … Sciences, and to the Bexley library. And thank you, everyone, for joining us today. The material that I'll be … Even beyond the practical goal of moving people from one place to another, Jewish immigration to the Land of …

… On June 28, 1914, one event changed the world. A Bosnian-Serb youth Gavrilo … Franz Ferdinand, the heir apparent to the Austrian throne, and his wife Sophie as their motorcade passed by on the … lives and change the face of the planet for generations to come. Gavrilo Princip Legend tells that shortly before his …

… global economy. Drawing on exclusive interviews with company executives, corporate archives and other records, … corporations. He then considers what each has become: an essential presence in the daily workings of the … and I'll be your host and moderator today. Welcome to everyone. And thank you for joining us. Today we're privileged to …

… opposed to collective) right to bear arms, and the first one to actually strike down an existing gun control law on … of future discussions of gun control for decades to come. It might even have an impact on the dynamics of the … view is now eminently respectable. For several reasons, opponents of this interpretation were slow to respond: …

… (more, actually), yet the right to make decisions regarding one’s reproduction is among the most divisive issues of our … they evolved over time? When, how, and why did abortion become such a controversial topic in the United States? How … Mark Sokolsky   Hello, everyone. Welcome to History Talk , where we ask a panel of …

… that it was opening up some of its online courses to anyone in the world who wished to take them, an initiative … or "massive open online courses." Ten years ago, MIT was one of the pioneers of the Open Courseware Movement (OCW), … "Introduction to Solid State Chemistry," "Introduction to Computer Science and Programming," "Quantitative Methods in …

… Talk , hosts Patrick Potyondy and Leticia Wiggins welcome historians  Nicholas Breyfogle and  Theodora … Leticia Wiggins   This is your host Leticia Wiggins and welcome to History Talk , smart conversations about today's … collapsed. A host of countries threw off the reins of one political system and grasped a new one. Poland, …

… Patrick Potyondy  Welcome to History Talk the podcast that brings together a … Hillary Clinton, has been nominated for the presidency by one of the major parties and come November she may well be … national politics until about a half century later. For one thing, as a new voting group, women's turnout at the …

… 30,000 people had been arrested, a staggering figure that one human rights organization rightly referred to as … Lukashenko claimed victory in a fraudulent election, his opponents have not given up. The Belarusian opposition leader … Sweden, larger than the three Baltic republics (PDF File) combined, and larger than Austria. It would be the 11 th …

… a century ago. Today, the EU faces an unprecedented combination of challenges, including a lingering economic … Patrick Potyondy   Welcome to History Talk the podcast that brings together a … 28 sovereign states and over 500 million Europeans under one political and economic group. Joining us today to …

… But how does political engagement on campuses today compare to the history of American campus activism, … protests can teach campus activists, administrators, and communities today. For more on OSU campus protests in the … well back into the early 19th century. Harvard for one was known to be a place where believe it or not students …

… In between memory and forgetting, there is commemoration . On June 4, 1989 a protest in Beijing’s … event: the Chinese word for June 4 th ( liusi , or 6-4) is one, while May 35 th —a way to allude both to Tiananmen and … and for college students to study into the night, is cordoned off under the hot summer sky. It is perhaps a metaphor …

… Western Allies in Europe in World War II and remains today one of the best known campaigns of the war. Written by Greg … The Normandy Invasion on June 6, 1944 remains today one of the best known campaigns of the WWII. …

… Franco died in bed, signaling the unceremonious end of one of Europe’s longest dictatorships (1939-1975). Written … Franco died in bed, signaling the unceremonious end of one of Europe’s longest dictatorships. …

… The Battle of Bosworth Field was one of the last major battles of the Wars of the Roses, a … and the House of Lancaster over claims to the English throne.  Written and narrated by Hannah Keller. Video … The Wars of the Roses . Yale University Press, 2010. Jones, Dan.  The Wars of the Roses: The Fall of the …

… American colonists and British authorities, and provided one of the sparks that would ignite the American Revolution. … American colonists and British authorities, and provided one of the sparks that would ignite the American Revolution. …