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Learning to Love the Nuclear Pariah: From China to North Korea

… An estimate compiled by the nation’s intelligence services reaches the … foreshadowing how the United States and the international community has treated those in pursuit of the ultimate … Donald Trump and DPRK Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un has become must-see-TV. The two nuclear-armed blowhards exchange …

A History of Stolen Citizenship

… the amendment restored voting rights to ex-felons who had completed their prison sentence and been released from … laws like the one Floridians voted to eliminate. More common are states that extend disfranchisement through … Answers to these questions can be found deep in America’s complicated histories of slavery, segregation, and mass …

The West without Water: What Can Past Droughts Tell Us About Tomorrow?

… are also experiencing moderate to severe drought, and this comes on the heels of a very dry decade. This long drought … on everyone’s mind is when will this dry period finally come to an end and rainfall return to normal—and just what is normal for the U.S. Southwest when it comes to rain? And with a growing and more urban population …

South America’s ‘Sleeping Giant’ Wakes: Brazil’s 2010 Election

… and Russia, and with nearly two times the per-capita income of China, Brazil is on track to become a major force in the global economy. How Things Change … for meaningful redistribution of Brazil's highly unequal income and land. Investors also feared that the former …
Donald Trump and Joe Biden

Election 2020: Insights from History

… Dr. Nicholas Breyfogle  Welcome to "Election 2020: Insights from History" coming to you from the History Department and the College of … please do unmute and turn on your video as you're coming on, that'd be great. So this is Paula. Also joining …

Feast and Famine: The Global Food Crisis

… countries experienced food riots. "Hunger seasons" have become the norm in many parts of the global south, and women … is manifest. It has many tangled causes, one being simple competition for basic cereals. The growth of nonwestern … but inefficient way to consume protein and calories. This competition has recently been magnified by the expansion of …

Avoiding the Scourge of War: The Challenges of United Nations Peacekeeping

… On July 1, 2011, the United Nations welcomed its newest member. South Sudan's January referendum on … the world of U.N. peacekeeping's inconsistencies, shortcomings, and mounting challenges. Despite the presence of … populations around the world, the United Nations has become synonymous with peacekeeping. Yet, nowhere in the 111 …
fire at plant in Bhopal in background people lost in the fire

Remembering Bhopal: The World's Worst Industrial Disaster

… This presentation commemorates the 40th anniversary of the Bhopal Gas Disaster … Nicholas Breyfogle: Hello and welcome to Remembering Bhopal: The World's Worst Industrial … in Teaching, and I'll be your host and moderator today. Welcome to everyone and thank you so much for joining us. Today …
NASA marks Earth Day’s 50th anniversary.

“Give Earth a Chance”: Earth Day and the Politics of Modern Environmentalism

… emerged as a spokesperson for a diverse global movement to combat the climate crisis following a spate of … Germany. Although it might seem that there is little comparison between today’s climate crisis and the … and 1970s, the parallels are striking. Those who would come to call themselves environmentalists in the aftermath …

Media and Politics in the Age of Trump

… will likely preoccupy future historians for years to come. While a number of factors contributed to his … of Trump that greatly advantaged his campaign over his competitors’, especially in the primary season’s early days. … 327 minutes of nightly broadcast network news coverage , compared with Hillary Clinton’s 121 minutes and Bernie …
Artist representation of data security and privacy. Large eye peeks through an open window.

These Machines Know Too Damn Much

… narrative says technology is to blame—that after mainframe computers burst onto the scene in the middle of the … by then it was too difficult to roll things back. We had become too dependent. Worse, we had become too complacent. And now our privacy is circling the …

Las raíces del estado de fallido venezolano

… y Buicks y la clase alta famosamente se lanzaba de compras a Miami donde eran conocidos como los del “dame dos.” En términos políticos, el país era … aérea de la Plaza Venezuela en Caracas, Venezuela en 2010. Como cambian las cosas. Hoy en día, Venezuela está atascada …

The UN, the WHO, and the Future of U.S. Diplomacy

… policies as altruistic during the ideological competition of the Cold War. But these institutions and … loss of control frustrated Washington officials, who complained about the UN and WHO even as they generously … the United States has struggled to adapt to the more complex, decentralized world that has seen U.S. power …

The Fourth Industrial Revolution and the Ghosts of Ned Ludd

… in eighteenth-century Britain. Electrification and telecommunications , led by nineteenth-century American … or early twentieth century (right). The global rise of microcomputing brought about the Third Industrial Revolution … workers whose lives are changed by new technologies. One commercial advertisement for Lumen, “ The Platform for …
Mushroom cloud over the Bikini Atoll

Nuclear Tensions, Nuclear Weapons, and a Long History of Nuclear War

… 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 … of nuclear weapons and who has them? How did the US become so central efforts to control them? And how can past …
Booker T. Washington

Picturing Black History

… Daniela Edmeier   Hello everyone and welcome to picturing Black History Webinar today brought to you … to everyone who is attending here live and a special welcome to everyone joining us for Getty Images as well. Today … archive photography for Getty Images and has been with the company for 23 years. Bob is responsible for the archive's …