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… American celebrity.” Born Cassius Clay, Ali won a gold medal at the Rome Olympics in 1960 and then rose quickly up … of the Nation of Islam and instantly became the country’s most famous black nationalist; upon being classified 1-A for … knocked out an exhausted Foreman with a series of powerful combination punches. George Foreman vs Muhammad Ali, October …

… 80 million of those prints and negatives and preserves almost every conceivable format of photography. Much of the … stats and numbers can be. It is the people that work on site with this material that keeps Archive living and … Harris's archive is the view from a photographer who was trusted by his own community, documenting that community. So …

… calling it. The drop in rainfall and river flows has been most severe in the southern and eastern states (Victoria, … is a self-reinforcing event. How, we should ask, has it come to all this? Australia's water woes are, in part, a … water supply in Sydney, the Tank Stream, quickly became a site of contention—and disastrously polluted—as local elites …

… On June 23, 2016, while most of the world was awaiting the outcome of the Brexit vote, another major historical event was … Santos and the supreme commander of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC, Fuerzas Armada Revolucionarios …

… over Confederate monuments. How do these two trends in commemorating our nation’s past relate to one anther? What … occurrences. So in recent years, I think perhaps following, most publicly, the shooting at the AME church, Charleston, … mean, it's as clear as day, really, and there it is on that site.   Dr. Hasan Jeffries  And as you said earlier, it's …

… The Crimea that most people have come to know is a peninsula occupied by Russian forces, … the importance of Crimea to Russia, as the ancient site where, according to medieval Russian documents, Prince …

… credit lines or just ignoring them. More interestingly, most of his friends used the opportunity to bemoan their own … to the cost saving measures of the FDLP, especially when compared to the money funneled to private banks through … to students or universities, who would serve as intermediaries. After President George H. W. Bush's vetoes, …

… concerning why the conflict continues. Many blame Abiy Ahmed Ali, prime minister of Ethiopia and Nobel Peace Prize … peace. At his inaugural ceremony in 2018, he counseled a complete break with the past forms of governance that were … banned opposition groups to return. The Nobel committee was most impressed that he made peace with Eritrea. But his …

… the benefit of the clear military or geographic objectives common to more conventional wars. This lack of knowledge … Boer War (1899-1902) the British interned 120,000 Boers , mostly women and children, in concentration camps; over … two years of confinement, mostly from improper hygiene and medical care. When faced with an uprising in Kenya in the …

… McGuiness shook the Queen’s hand and wished her well. In most cases such an event—a symbolic meeting between the head … that, 17 years after its inception, remains stubbornly incomplete. On the positive side, the Belfast Agreement … terrorism is possible, albeit very unlikely. In the years immediately after Good Friday, paramilitaries from both the …

… George W. Bush’s presidency as a triumphant success. Most professional historians take a radically different … than all or any of these: that of James Buchanan, who warmed the president’s chair while the Union disintegrated in … pit for the money of American taxpayers for years to come. •  Failed to follow through in Afghanistan, where the …

… are also experiencing moderate to severe drought, and this comes on the heels of a very dry decade. This long drought … irrigation systems to California’s Central Valley—the most productive agricultural region in the world—has been … disease, malnutrition, and warfare. Long inhabited sites were abandoned as the desperate populations wandered …

… racial, cultural, and political history, and is the author most recently of The Great Exception: The New Deal and the … of History at Vanderbilt University. He's the author most recently of the book, "The Great Exception: The New … Memphis, or Sierra Juarez, which are the three of the four sites I studied, they would open with a very simple wrote …

… Tallahassee hours earlier. Waiting for the verdict had become unbearable. On the charge of second-degree murder, the … enacting laws that stripped African Americans of their most basic freedom rights, including equal justice under the … in the sleepy town a few days when he and several buddies visited a convenience store to purchase candy and cold drinks. …

… ten historical moments help us understand the long and complicated relationships Catalunya has had with Spain as … to Spanish and French, known as Catalan. 2. Catalunya: A Medieval Borderland Miniature of Charlemagne and four Muslim … position on the Mediterranean coast made it one of the most important cities in the kingdom. The populace, already …

… drugs, we find that stories of drug wars are actually quite commonplace. Ultimately, these drug wars, waged across … and I teach at the University of Colorado Boulder. So the immediate provocation was the destruction of a shipload of … this was, of course linked to the conquest of India where most of this opium was grown. So sometimes it's called the …

… But what exactly does Russia want? And how does this compare to its ambitions in the past? In this episode of … the First's victory over Napoleon. And then the third most recent is Stalin's victory over Hitler. I should also … that will be on Origins, which is kind of your sister website of History Talk. There's shameless self-promotion.   …

… left behind by their fleeing owners. Although the town was mostly abandoned, the nation and the world saw the blast on … by the specter of our nuclear past. And given Japan's complicated past with nuclear issues, it is especially … unabated. By the mid-1950s, most of the easily dammed sites had already been developed. Likewise, Japanese sources …

… the Axis, operation Torch constituted the biggest and most complex amphibious landing to that point in world history.  … terrain separated the invasion’s three proposed landing sites in Morocco and Algeria. Stormy winter forecasts …

… Yemen’s internationally recognized government is sitting comfortably in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, 900 miles away from … ) and Riyadh, Saudi Arabia in 2019 ( right ). International mediation has failed to bring the warring parties closer to … of powerful individuals at the expense of the population most in need. Foreign aid is now ranked among Yemen’s most …

… take a long view of environmental history with two esteemed guests, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Elizabeth Kolbert … life. So over the last half billion years or so, and the most famous of these extinction events, is the event that in … Song and band information can be found on our website. You can find our podcasts and more on our website …