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Taiwanese flags on display for National Day, 2018.

The Taiwan Strait Conflict

… put the entire  global economy in disarray and for years to come. Estimates of possible losses differ, but they are in … At the same time, Washington ended its treaty alliance and official relations with the ROC. The United States withdrew … nations in the world ditched Taipei and recognized Beijing one after the other. The avalanche started in late October …
 SPLM rally in Southern Sudan, 2010. (Image by U.S. Institute of Peace)

Tribal Militias in Sudan

… infrastructure of Sudan ’s capital city, Khartoum.  On one level, the war began because SAF leader General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and RSF commander General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, known as Hemeti, … but fighting among Janjaweed collaborators. UNAMID officials say 80 to 90 percent of the violent deaths …
Raising a Flag over the Reichstag by Yevgeny Khaldei (1945).

The Living Ghosts of the Second World War and the Russian Invasion of Ukraine

… and Neo-Nazis” who, backed by their NATO allies, were committing “genocide” against Russians.  In justifying the … against NATO forces later. Of course, Russia is not alone in its fixation on the Second World War , and many of … and victims of the Second World War garnered increasing official support from Communist leaders. Both modest and …
President Ronald Reagan during an interview in 1988.

Marking a Tragic Anniversary

… crippled by the walkout, President Ronald Reagan issued one of the most important statements of his presidency. He … confrontation, we live in a nation much different from the one over which Reagan presided. The Cold War is no more. The … legacy with which Americans will sooner or later have to come to terms: today we live in a society of greater …
The so-called "Elgin Marbles," on display in the British Museum

Classics and the Alt-Right Conundrum

… Brenna Miller   Welcome to History Talk, the podcast that brings together a … the alt rights appropriation of classical history. On the phone, we have Denise McCoskey, a professor of classics and … the Director of Pharos: Doing Justice to the Classics , a site devoted to documenting and responding to appropriations …
The World Trade Center towers on September 11, 2001

The War on Terror

… questions facing American society and the international community in these uncertain times. ( Image Source ) … Patrick Potyondy  Welcome to History Talk the podcast that brings together a … poor choice by invading Iraq in 2003, the way forward is, nonetheless through unremitting pressure on terrorist group. …

A Century of Sanctions

… foreign challenges, President Donald Trump has preferred one response above all others: economic sanctions. Trump has … , frozen the assets of Venezuelan leaders, and targeted officials in Cuba , Russia , and Syria . His administration has added more than 1,000 individuals and companies to sanctions lists. The president has gloried in …
Government of National Unity in 2009. Left to right: Arthur Mutambara, Robert Mugabe, Morgan Tsvangirai, and Thabo Mbeki.

A Lesson for South Africa? Zimbabwe’s Path to Multi-Party Rule

… Swaziland (now Kingdom of Eswatini), all of which transitioned to independence through peaceful processes in the … bloody civil war that lasted almost 15 years, from 1965 to official independence in 1980.   Political factors complicated matters. Since the early 1960s, the British …
Photo of Eugene V. Debs from 1900.

Let’s Hear It for the Losers!

… presidential losers of the American past. Yes, the time has come for all true lovers of trivia to stand up and be … take note of this foray into insignificance. Both gone and forgotten, second-place finishers in the … devotee of trivia, it should be noted that he also received one electoral vote in 1796, and therefore lost four times. …

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 … television news, are reaping incredible amounts of money from their election coverage. Cable news organizations … headlines such as “Venom, Sensationalism, Attacks on Honest Officials, Distorted News, and Appeals to Passion.” The …

Beyond 'Tribes': Violence and Politics in Kenya

… On Sunday, January 27, 2008, I phoned Nairobi to speak with two Kenyans whom I have known for … going to take their seats the next day and that they were completely resolute in overturning the election and bringing … corporations have been the bribes extorted by government officials (at one point airlines pulled out of Kenya due to …
Top view of person serving themself a rice dish from a table of food

Food for Thought: Diet in History

… White   I love food as a historical subject, because it's one of those great topics that's both everywhere and … in the sense that because it's so everyday, because it's so common, historians of the past tend to overlook it in favor … Sokolsky. Song and band information can be found on our website. You can find our podcasts and more at origins.osu.edu, …
artwork entitled Can You Pass the Acid Test

The Acid Tests

… in users. Although the Acid Tests took place over less than one year, their influences continue to ripple through … stained glass window at Boston University's Marsh Chapel, site of the Harvard Psilocybin Project. Leary and Alpert … campuses, the next phases of experimentation occurred in unofficial, grassroots type settings. Kesey first used LSD in …
Undated photo of the Reichstag building in Berlin, Germany.

Democracy-Building Will Be Tougher This Time

… and factional and ethnic rebellions since the mid-1930s. No one there can remember an extended period of guaranteed … had literate, talented, industrially and technologically competent populations, a huge help in building a modern … by the Cold War, and for seven years in Japan. American officials today talk of a one- or possibly two-year …
Liu Bang, or Emperor Gaozu of Han

Liu Bang, from Peasant Rebel to Emperor

… Liu Bang also became the symbolic father of the Han people. One fifth of the world’s population now self-identifies as … of China’s greatest imperial dynasty was, like Mao, a commoner. As with many dynastic founders, it is difficult to … in China, then and today— and he became a minor provincial official. By this time, it would seem, his personal …
Ukrainian refugees sheltering beneath a bridge in Kyiv, March 5, 2022.

“The Tragedy Has Never Left Us.” On the War in Ukraine

… not obscure the fact that this conflict, with all its complexity and tragedy, belongs firmly to the present. This … crowded train station in Kharkiv on March 2, 2022 resembles one packed with refugees from 1941 doesn’t mean the two … and 70,000 villages wiped out by the fighting, according to official statistics) have a lot to do with it [Tumarkin, The …
Through the Eye of a Needle: Wealth, the Fall of Rome, and the Making of Christianity in the West, 350-550 AD, by Brown, Peter Book Cover.

What to Do About the Money?

Review of Through the Eye of a Needle: Wealth, the Fall of Rome, and the Making of Christianity in the West, 350-550 AD, by Brown, Peter (Princeton University Press, 2012)
… towards the accumulation and spending of wealth. In Part One Brown provides the context for fourth century attitudes … the importance of civic euergetism —the giving of wealth to one's city—and its pervasiveness in society. Wealth was … Augustine, Brown emphasizes the importance of patronage and community in the famous bishop's career and suggests that …

With a Little Help from Our Friends?: The Costs of Coalition Warfare

… Hornet pilots defied the orders of their American commanding officers. These pilots independently aborted 40 … of civilian casualties. Australian authorities reprimanded none of the pilots—they were following Australian rules of … of coalition warfare derives also from the prerequisites of developing a coherent multinational fighting force. …
"Glory to victorious Red Army soldier!" by Dmitrii Stakhievich Moor, 1920

The October Revolution in Russia

…   One hundred years ago, in wartime Petrograd, Russian … Provisional Government ministers could find almost no one willing to defend them. That night, Bolshevik Red Guards … Over the next three years, the Bolsheviks (soon renamed Communists) would have to win power in a bloody civil war …
Female governors left to right, Nellie Tayloe Ross, Ella T. Grasso, Kay Orr, and Gretchen Whitmer.

A Century of Elected Woman Governors in the United States, 1924-2024

… at the time was but a technicality (Texas was largely a one-party state). Ross took the oath of office on January 5, … William B. Ross died while governor in October 1924 from complications following an emergency appendectomy. The … who chose for Lurleen not to know. Then in 1965, doctors officially diagnosed her with uterine cancer.  George and …