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… combat operations in Afghanistan in late December 2014, but the country remains fractured by ethnic and geographical fissures, with local warlords controlling their own fiefdoms and the government in Kabul only nominally in control. And the … Afghanistan's future seems grim and little better off than when the western militaries arrived.   Leticia Wiggins   As …

… The medieval church gave birth to the misogynistic rhetoric that continues to hinder women’s … be victims of oppression: they challenged the rhetoric, and when that didn’t work, they found ways to work around it. In … be victims of oppression. They challenged the rhetoric, and when that didn't work, they found ways around it. Let's get …

… Eminent environmental historians from the Ohio State University Department of History share how … floods, unstable food supplies, changing energy needs, and the threats of pollutants and toxins. Panelists: Nicholas … and tries to improve her carbon footprint wherever and when she can. Bart Elmore is an environmental historian who …

… Palace, the seat of the Provisional Government. Vladimir Lenin giving a speech in Moscow. This government had ruled … poster depicting Marx, Engels, Lenin, and Stalin, 1933. Was the Soviet regime really a product of socialist … legacy of coercion and bloodshed proved to be its undoing. When Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev lifted censorship in …

… her dissertation research project that sought to examine the experiences of identity erasure, invisibility and hyper … monolithic descriptions of Native students influences the classroom experiences of non-Reservation Native … pedagogy is from urban Indian college-going students when their Indigenous identities are overlooked or contested …

… It was early March when an electronic greeting card dropped into my mailbox. The cover featured a colorful depiction of a young female … not only in Russia but across the rest of Europe. In 1922, Lenin established International Women’s Day as a communist … The Radical Roots of International Women's Day …

… 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick began kneeling during the National Anthem to raise awareness of the Black Lives Matter movement. When President Donald Trump weighed in by condemning such … on. From the Kaepernick's perspective It began last season when he began kneeling for the national anthem before San …

… a long history in human communities. Yet, we live in a time when people across the planet are beginning to give greater attention to this … against misogynistic violence in all its forms. Recently, the United Nations created the "He for She" campaign, which …

… This year, the National Memorial for Peace and Justice—the nation’s first memorial to the over 4,000 African American victims of lynching—opened … white supremacy, right? I mean, they went up at a time when Reconstruction Era and coalition governments were … the height of Jim Crow, I mean they were winning that. It was reinforcing this notion that, "We are on top and we will …

… as essential to life as breathing (more, actually), yet the right to make decisions regarding one’s reproduction is among the most divisive issues of our time. On this episode, … “reproductive rights,” and how have they evolved over time? When, how, and why did abortion become such a controversial …

… During the Cold War, cultural diplomacy emerged as an important aspect of relations between states across the globe. Exhibitions, concerts, performances, book … recent book,  The Cold War from the Margins: A Small Socialist State on the Global Cultural Scene , this talk …

… The first International Women's Day was organized by the U.S. Socialist Party and brought together an audience of 1,500 … The first “Woman’s Day” celebration was organized by the … The History of International Women’s Day …

… In the West, many think of HIV/AIDS  as a phenomenon that began in the 1980s, when news first broke of a mysterious and highly deadly … think of HIV AIDS as a phenomenon that began in the 1980s when news first broke of a mysterious and highly deadly disease that was affecting certain subsets of the population, gay men, …

… On this episode of Prologued , we turn our attention back to the nation that ultimately made a global War on Drugs possible: the United States. Learn with us how, during the 1930s and 1940s, the U.S. began to establish a global … of the War on Drugs didn’t begin with Nixon or Reagan. When we approach the topic of drug prohibition from a global …

… In early June 2019, residents of Hong Kong took to the streets to protest proposed legislation by the Hong Kong government that would enable extradition from … continue. For many Hong Kongers, the proposed legislation was merely the latest attempt by Beijing to undermine the …

… Talk , host Patrick Potyondy interviews Jefferson Cowie , the James G. Stahlman Chair in the Department of History at Vanderbilt University. Cowie … economic, racial, cultural, and political history, and is the author most recently of The Great Exception: The New …

… "Hermit Kingdom" led by crazy dictators, but what is the view from inside Pyongyang? Join us as we discuss when and how North Korea got its nickname, debate its … Today we're here with three historians to explore how, when, and why North Korea seems to have diverged so much …

… In the last year, tensions between the U.S. and North Korea, a false nuclear missile alert in Hawaii, and debates over the Iran nuclear deal have renewed public attention to the … North Korea are connected in some way, going back to 2002, when President George W. Bush gave his Axis of Evil speech, …

… been celebrated as International Workers Day. So declared the International Socialist Congress meeting in Paris in … Strike of 1877— America’s first nationwide labor conflict—was but the opening salvo of nearly two decades of constant … Reading Railroad Massacre during the Great Strike of 1877 when 10 to 16 protesters were killed and hundreds injured. …

… The atomic age began between heartbeats at 8:15 am on August 6, 1945 when the Japanese city of Hiroshima was leveled by an atomic bomb. Three days later, the United … age began between heartbeats at 8:15 am on August 6, 1945 when the Japanese city of Hiroshima was leveled by an atomic …

… Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring shocked the American public when it was published in the summer of 1962. Carson hooked readers … Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring shocked the American public when it was published in the summer of 1962. …