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… in the late 20th and early 21st centuries, Gwangju was officially designated as the nation’s “sacred space of … as a “city of peace and human rights,” emphasizing the community’s legacy of peaceful organization and solidarity, … the city, care for the wounded, bury the dead, and maintain order.  In response to the state’s control of mainstream …

… national politics as much as many fear? The answer is more complicated than you might think. Check out a lesson plan … Patrick Potyondy  Welcome to History Talk , produced by Origins: Current Events … Wiggins  And I'm your other host, Leticia Wiggins. To start off this episode, as you know, Patrick, I want to begin with …

… worldwide war against terrorists, it also is setting up an Office of Homeland Security. Questions are being raised … to act decisively, during World War I President Wilson took command of telegraph and telephone systems, issued executive … appears to understand the importance of maintaining good relations with the Arab and Muslim world now that the …

… history of a city that has long sat at the crossroads of competing powers, and it still looms large in the … Philippines. Fighting erupted on February 4, 1899, touching off the Philippine-American War . The conflict lasted three … the avenues of Dewey and Taft. The Escolta, an historic shopping district, on July 4, 1899. American boosters hailed …

… but with no permanent resolution of its status. It is officially part of Georgia, unrecognized until recently by anyone in the international community. It has its own government, though largely staffed … Abkhazians complain of Georgianization policies from the 1930s onwards when Lavrentii Beria, later Stalin's secret …

… European history that question is how did it come to pass that Europeans would differ so strongly from … terrorism. It is to Sheehan's credit that what starts off as a modern question is allowed to flower into a … I owe Sheehan a debt of thanks in that I will now have one good thing to say about Czar Nicholas II to tell my students …

… in American sport involved white athletes refusing to compete against or alongside African-Americans. On at least … succeeded, and the league agreed to Heinsohn’s terms in order to get the game on air. Tip-off was delayed by several minutes. 5. Muhammad Ali Muhammad …

… abysmal human rights record. Jiang and other Chinese Communist Party officials countered that Americans are too fond of imposing … students of the 1940s demand that Chiang Kai-shek be more willing to listen to dissenting voices? In their youth, …

… a stunning achievement and that description of how it was accomplished feels especially poignant today when faith in … through herds of cattle and buffalo, often killing between 30% and 90% of those infected. They died miserable deaths. … case. The joint U.S.-Canadian effort was run by Dr. Richard Shope, a renowned virologist from the Rockefeller Institute …

… 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 … here phoning in from Athens all the way and so to start off, we'd like to give our listeners a sense of exactly what …

… 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 … veneer on the development management nuclear technology by offering to share the Peaceful Uses of nuclear technology, …

… March on Washington approaches, the 1913 Suffrage Parade offers some important lessons. For starters, the planners of the 1913 march had their organizational act together. Communicating via a federated national organization called … parade’s disruption to generate countless media stories and goodwill. The Suffrage Parade surrounded by crowds at 9th …

… In Iraq and Afghanistan, U.S. and NATO forces have few good options. A rapid military withdrawal from either … civil violence. Yet increasing the number of foreign troops will not necessarily speed political agreement among … Sandino was still at large, but the national guard had come under the control of Anastasio Somoza. Somoza then used …

… Le Duan and Le Duc Tho, the police state they and their comrades built in the North to solidify their power and … Two also discusses the failure of Le Duan's 1964 and 1968 offensives, which resulted in greater American intervention. … the book on C-SPAN: http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/308235-14 The author speaking at the 2012 National Book …

… In November 2018, a report commissioned by French President Emannuel Macron called for … of Native American remains by American museums to the complicated provenance of Greek and Roman antiquities held … Lauren Henry:   Welcome to History Talk , the podcast that brings together …

… from Akin's, and President Barack Obama reiterated his commitment to not make "health care decisions on behalf of … issues. Meanwhile, the global economic crisis of the 1930s led more married women than ever before to demand … of trucks that drive through university campuses and in shopping malls. The aim of these campaigns has been to …

… of Lesbians and Gays Everywhere—organizations that had come out of gay-father activism of the 1980s—wrote a brief … and in particular, about childrearing. Ideas about what is good and bad for children, along with decades of political … in a gay bathhouse although he pleaded with the police officers as they put him in the paddy wagon that it would …

… 2009, with events sponsored by national and state "Lincoln Commissions," and because of the remarkable presidential … "It is atheism." In a deeply religious nation, Darwin offended the faithful. By the turn of the twentieth century, … proselytizers was the nation's first professor of sociology William Graham Sumner. From his office at Yale University, …

… Outbreaks of measles across the globe have once again set off the great debate over vaccination. Since 2014, more than … low. Global life expectancy was between 25 and 30 years as recently as 1800, and fewer than 5% of most … child as a man stands outside with a cow (from the Wellcome Trust). The term vaccination comes from variolae …

… Pirates seem to have suddenly become popular in early modern history. Recently,  titles such … , Molly Greene of Princeton University claims to offer us a look at a little explored side in the larger … very least, potential returning Catholics, they stood in good chance of being compensated.    In conclusion if you …

… elections generated hope that the thirty-year standoff between Iran and the United States might be resolved. … partnership.” Those conciliatory words, however, were accompanied on both sides with qualifications, skepticism, and … advisors, encouraged American investment, imported American goods, and purchased loads of American weaponry. In 1964, …

… prose, Kennedy argued that no one should be denied public office because of his faith, that no public official should … and that no religious entity should seek “to impose its will directly or indirectly upon the general populace or the public acts of its officials.”   Kennedy affirmed his commitment to an America that is “officially neither …

… Brenna Miller  Welcome to History Talk , the podcast that brings together a … Do those five states who rescinded bring the count down to 30? Does the count even still hold? So I think these are all … can see a parallel with the number or percentage of women officeholders. So in 2017, women make up less than 20% of …