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… fantastic history sites from around the web. These are websites that – much like Origins – seek to bring history … This month, our Best in History Online highlights a website that allows scholars, students, teachers, and the … 7,500 works of art from the Met’s extensive collection. The website “is a reference, research, and teaching tool …

… of the Turkish Republic since its founding in 1923: the uncompromising secularism of the first Turkish president, … Mustafa Kemal Atatürk . Although Erdoğan insists that he is committed to secularism, he has won the hearts of millions … Fundamental Organization Law of 1921 was a temporary expedient intended to facilitate military resistance against the …

… Leticia Wiggins   Welcome to History Talk Produced by Origins , a project of the … Breyfogle. Our executive producer is David Staley. Our website manager and technical advisor is Mitchell Shelton. … and Leticia Wiggins . Find our podcasts and more at our website origins.osu.edu Thank you for listening!   …

… associate editor Patrick Potyondy. Patrick Potyondy   Welcome to Writers Talk History, a partnership between the … because there have been a number of women who have died because they were not able to get access to legal … State University. And I encourage you to go look at that website to find out many great articles about history, …

… Ukrainian exhaustion, and overwhelming Bolshevik military superiority resulted in the final consolidation of the … were war-weary, and saw no Entente troops or aid forthcoming.  Ukraine’s signing the Treaty was something the …

… huge bestsellers. We celebrate the Founders’ audacity and commitment, marvel at their battlefield heroics, literary … taxes for the rich and welfare provisions for the neediest, we have allowed our material inequalities to … that spirit — as well as to honor the Founders, those who died on 9-11, and in combat in Afghanistan and Iraq, and on …

… Dr. Nicholas Breyfogle   Hello, and welcome to Cultural Diplomacy and the Global Cold War, brought … invested in cultural diplomacy to convince the world in the superiority of their respective political and economic … end quote. Yet each side also had to consider their audiences, which allowed for flexibility with the ideological …

… Project ]. Canada’s Houses of Parliament (its House of Commons and the Senate chambers) sit on the unceded … even before treaties were signed, suggesting that expediency and opportunity trumped genuine regard for Indigenous … for 2018. Indeed, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s website “ Beyond 94 ” that tracks which of the …

… Dr. Nicholas Breyfogle   Hello, and welcome to The Global War on Drugs brought to you by the … drawn from dozens of anthropological and archaeological studies, indigenous groups ingested datura medicinally and … a time now where we'll shift over ... to give you in the audience a chance to ask questions that you might have of our …

… Accurate employment statistics for the period are hard to come by, but according to some accounts, the national … the unemployed. In some cities, mayors established these bodies. Elsewhere, they were founded and run by private … were run by private charities but some received public subsidies as unemployment soared. By the early twentieth century, …

… states, by thirty other countries, and by private companies. Some visitors recorded that they left simply … But the “flesh and blood of those past events” had been tidied up, even sanitized, on the High Street of 1926. The … and yet the U.S. continued to send men off to kill and die for almost another decade. The war ended ignominiously …

… What can and should members of the international community do to honor 1989’s Beijing martyrs? Not … version of events, which erroneously states that brave soldiers and traitorous troublemakers were the only ones who died on June 4th. It also entails clearing up some …

… perish in the conflagration that consumed the city, or die from the radiation that fell darkly to the earth in a … its efforts to build atomic bombs after a series of shortcomings and failures convinced its government to focus on a different super weapon program: a death ray that would have used …

… birth narrative takes a markedly different approach. It comes to us via Firdausi's Shahnameh (Book of Kings), … mystery, gold, and enchantment. Later ancient and medieval romantic depictions of the East would be based on … not to be his, since he is merely a mortal man, doomed to die despite all his worldly power. The book concludes with a …

… figure in Anglo-Norman society, admired by both nobles and commoners for his wealth, charm, and decisiveness.  Stephen … on Empress Matilda’s absence in Normandy when Henry I died. With support from Londoners and the Church—secured … lands, and Henry would succeed to the throne.  Stephen died in October 1154, buried next to Queen Matilda at …

… needs to stop demonizing enemies and relying on military superiority and instead find common ground with its adversaries. In October 1962 Kennedy … Kennedy to move away from seeing foreign policy as a tough competitive game. He came to appreciate the human stakes …

… Prologued … James Bradford The United States essentially becomes one of the major contributors to Afghanistan's … the 70s, as they tried to present it, both for a domestic audience and for an international audience. This obviously provided cover for the horrific state …

… on the Bosporus—a strait crowded not only with urban commuters and pleasure craft, but Russian oil tankers … Canal, the Suez and the Corinth Canal in Greece cannot even compete!" The project outlined by Erdogan calls for a 45-50 … to formerly disparate states. The Grand Canal of China, completed in the seventh century CE, remains by far the …

… Anderson famously defined nationalism as an “imagined community” binding together a widespread group of people … Romanians under the Voivode Mihai the Brave. Bălcescu, a soldier, historian, and leader of the 1848 Wallachian … themselves as part of a Romanian nation.  A Moldavian medieval chronicler, Miron Costin, described Mihai’s reign as …

… also proposed deploying advanced drug detection machines to combat the influx of fentanyl, which he claimed was … for those living in the cities and resulting in fatal outcomes for migrants in transit.   OHL presents a critical … Accordingly, Operation Gatekeeper was launched at the San Diego-Tijuana corridor in 1994, Operation Safeguard at the …

… Violence against women has a long history in human communities. Yet, we live in a time when people across the … an assistant professor of Women's Gender and Sexuality Studies here at The Ohio State University.   Peggy Solic    My … Leticia Wiggins. You can find our podcasts and more at our website, origins.osu.edu, on iTunes and on Soundcloud. And …

… would help define American life for generations to come. In 1964, the relatively new musical genre of rock and … left to hold it up. By the early 1960s, Buddy Holly had died in a plane crash, Elvis was making movies, Chuck Berry … what [they] used to play at the Crawdaddy, a regular diet of Jimmy Reed, Bo Diddley, Muddy Waters with some Slim …

… the term “New Cold War” has mushroomed among analysts and commentators seeking to define contemporary geopolitics. … unceasing warfare from the very beginning: a decorated soldier returns to his village to begin life in the new China … may not be state of the art for the 1970s, but as her supervisor points out, it is a stunning testament to the …

… French and British Finance in the Service of Tsars and Commissars New book from Ohio State historian Jennifer … railroads, and the development of the military-industrial complex, Russia's ministers of finance, municipal leaders, … of World War I." [Book description from the publisher's website ] …