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… on New York's World Trade Center towers and the Pentagon in Washington, DC put al-Qaeda, the Taliban, and Afghanistan on … Afghanistan's future seems grim and little better off than when the western militaries arrived.   Leticia Wiggins   As … he was a Pashtun king, but when he went to Russia to visit Lenin or his person who would be a monarch in his absence …

… The medieval church gave birth to the misogynistic rhetoric … be victims of oppression: they challenged the rhetoric, and when that didn’t work, they found ways to work around it. In … theory, i.e., I assumed that the oppression of women was really because men wanted to feel more important than …

… Eminent environmental historians from the Ohio State University Department of History share how … and tries to improve her carbon footprint wherever and when she can. Bart Elmore is an environmental historian who … that image. I'd like to read an excerpt from the book that was inspired by this image that was taken of Earth. That …

… 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 … pedagogy is from urban Indian college-going students when their Indigenous identities are overlooked or contested … Gonzales-Miller  Thank you, Lucy. I appreciate that. That was a nice introduction that you offered. I'm going to go …

… 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 …

… From its inception as a  military ski patrol in 1941, the American 10th Mountain Division spent the better part … during  World War II . Their extreme stateside training was  highly publicized . All around the country, civilians … Samba as they crossed the equator.  Unsure what to expect when they arrived, the Americans were stunned by their …

… 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 … One, it turned into a protest of the fact that Kaepernick was not signed as a free agent this year, despite being …

… 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 … societies tended to be immediately patriarchal, because war was part of the involvement and where you have warfare and …

… Facing the harrowing task of rebuilding a life in the wake of the … Jewish War Brides After the Holocaust. And my thinking was that today, I would first sort of introduce some general … of what is a war bride or who were these war brides, when we're talking about war brides and usually, the term …

… 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 … used to be the Soviet Union, where all of these statues of Lenin, Marx, Dzerzhinsky and all these other guys, that all …

… as essential to life as breathing (more, actually), yet the right to make decisions regarding one’s reproduction is … “reproductive rights,” and how have they evolved over time? When, how, and why did abortion become such a controversial … terms of our conversation today, what Roe v. Wade also did was to kind of galvanize an anti-abortion movement in this …

… During the Cold War, cultural diplomacy emerged as an important … wanted to promote on a world stage because each one of them was trying to secure spheres of influences, not only in … and then-Vice President Nixon, in Moscow in 1959, when a debate about Cold War kitchens turned out to be a …

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

… 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 … 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 … D would have started with the first Opium War, which was fought between China and England, from 1839 to 1842. … 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 … continue. For many Hong Kongers, the proposed legislation was merely the latest attempt by Beijing to undermine the … were seeded in 1898, as part of a 99 year lease. And so when people talk about the handover in 1997, July 1st, …

… The rural roads that led to our planet-changing global … soft drink brand from his hometown. From 2016 to 2018. He was a Carnegie Fellow at the New America Foundation in … these companies, you know, one of the things that happened when I went off to grad school was I studied the history of …

… Talk , host Patrick Potyondy interviews Jefferson Cowie , the James G. Stahlman Chair in the Department of History at … us understand our political moment.   Jefferson Cowie   When I go to the heartland, and I talked to people there, … resonates so strongly, even though I think the process was well underway beforehand, it continued afterwards, and …

… "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 … been much better applied a couple centuries ago when it was one nation and really not in today's vernacular.   Dr. …

… 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. …

… 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 …

… 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 …

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