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A group of children in Sub-Saharan Africa

Sub-Saharan Africa

… Patrick Potyondy   Welcome to History Talk , the podcast that brings together a panel of experts to discuss current events in … besides the fact that they tend to be grouped together in ways that other continents are not, is that they're …
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Climate Change: Insights from History

… Hello, everyone and welcome from the College of Arts and Sciences. Thank you so … to address how climate change history can help us find a way forward. they'll discuss past patterns of climate change … to address them. So without further ado, John, and Sam, to get started, what is climate history? And what can we learn …

The Soccer World Goes to South Africa: Sport and the Making of Modern Africa

… the newly elected President Mandela turned to sport as a way to begin healing the country. Dramatized in the 2009 … the 1968 Mexico City Olympics, as African nations banded together to oppose apartheid sport. In April 1968, the IOC … committees assert will attend events and continue to visit host communities. It is in the hopes of realizing such …
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Native Sovereignty and the Dakota Access Pipeline

… of Native American treaties, resistance, and protests. For more on the Standing Rock protests, see Origins' article, " Treaties and Sovereign Performances, from Westphalia to Standing Rock ." ( Image … this point. But I also think that it is also an alternative way of thinking about land, and about sovereignty, and about …
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America's Post-Election Political Landscape

… Baker —in the wake of the 2016 presidential election. Together, they reflect on the nature of political campaigns, … occurring across the country. Join us as we consider the ways that the campaign and Donald Trump’s victory both fit … on college campuses and elsewhere. And I think in the way that our media, in some ways tacitly, in some places …

Good Guys and Bad Guys with Guns: Gun Control in Canada and the U.S.

… Vickers, the man responsible for security at the House of Commons, with taking down the gunman. Commentators not … in a headline homage to NRA executive vice-president Wayne LaPierre’s words after the 2012 Sandy Hook massacre, … wing, the Canadian Institute for Legislative Action, get logistical support from the NRA and have adopted …
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Diet for a Large Planet

… choices and agricultural systems is causing problems both for human health and the health of our planet. Solutions … often discussed, but a central question remains: how did we get to this point? Join Professor Chris Otter as he takes us … and freezing methods so meat could be shipped this way globally instead. This was a large system. A quick note …
French demonstrators with purple signs that read "ras le viol"

Violence Against Women

… Violence against women has a long history in human communities. Yet, we live in a time when people across the … at times, to stand against misogynistic violence in all its forms. Recently, the United Nations created the "He for She" campaign, which highlights that violence against …
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A Long View of Policing in America

… Patrick Potyondy   Welcome to History Talk the history podcast for everyone … Potyondy   Alright, thanks for joining us today. So to get started, most of the news media covering the deaths of … never, they'll never meet, but they'll they know, they're always there. And that police forces have really been a modern …
Shells of burnt-out busses after a suicide bombing

The Terrors of Suicide Bombing

… pilots, and today’s suicide bombers? How can the history inform policy decisions to try and prevent such acts? Join … just self-sacrificial violence, and we can trace it all the way back. Even if we use the concept of technology. I mean, … of the attractive features of a suicide bomb; it can be targeted, there can be changes made in the target, even up to …

Baptized in the Jordan: Restoring a Holy River

… in, bowing their heads in prayer. Barely five meters away on the opposite shore, two Jordanian soldiers looked on from the shelter of a reed-covered platform – no visitors had come to visit their side of the river yet that … later, after a visit to the gift shop, both groups were getting back on the Israeli tourist buses, off to the next …

What's in a Name?: The Meaning of 'Muslim Fundamentalist'

… words we use do not just reflect reality: they shape the way we perceive that reality. In so doing the words we use also become a part of the world we are trying to understand. One … Sillett's piece, titled "Don't Betray Your Heritage for Obama's 'Change'" made use of a keyword that is on many …
1864 depiction of the Fort Pillow Massacre in Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper

Ten Moments of White Supremacist Violence in U.S. History

… both sides,” he repeated a long history of blaming others for acts of terror perpetrated by white supremacists. To put … in Charlottesville remind us that they have not gone away. 1. Fort Pillow Massacre, April 12, 1864 A statue of … Battle of Fort Pillow in Tennessee, Confederates under the command of General Nathan Bedford Forrest fulfilled this …
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Remembering Bhopal: The World's Worst Industrial Disaster

… This presentation commemorates the 40th anniversary of the Bhopal Gas Disaster … disaster, the immediate and ongoing health repercussions for the people of Bhopal, and their global legal and activist fight for justice and corporate accountability. Dr. Madhumita …
Official Program: Woman Suffrage Procession, Washington DC March 3, 1913

I have many things to say (Prologued, Season 1, Episode 2)

… conflict.  Today we talk about the women who led the charge for suffrage, their successful advocating for the nineteenth amendment, and who they left behind along the way. … quickly became clear to many of these women that the only way to truly have a voice in their society was through …

The Illegalization of Marijuana: A Brief History

… purchasing medical marijuana requires a perfunctory visit to a “pot doc”—licensed physicians who specialize in … push toward legalization, voters seem to have found a way around the twentieth-century quest for prohibition—a … thousands of unlucky citizens face criminal sanctions for getting caught with a drug that one third of all …

Climate, Human Population and Human Survival: What the Deep Past Tells Us about the Future

… and a staggering landmark in human population growth combined to give new urgency to the existential question of … that the global population had reached 7 billion. Taken together, the events raise deep concerns over long-term … to vast numbers and transformed our world in unprecedented ways. The very long view of human history—revised in the …
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Yemen: Inside The Forgotten War

… with millions more threatened by disease and famine. Yet for many in the West, Yemen remains a forgotten war, despite the fact that the Saudi-backed forces fighting the northern Houthi rebels continue to … Yemen civil wars about. Dr. Austin Knuppe: Yeah, I like the way you framed that. I guess as a political scientist as one …

Populism and Anti-Americanism in Modern Latin America

… evokes negative connotations. It suggests a pre-democratic way of governing, though its meaning in practice is often … – such as Juan Peron in Argentina (1946-1955, 1973-1974), Getulio Vargas in Brazil (1930-1945, 1950-1954), and Lázaro … that the U.S. feels it can work with. The most important visit by President Bush was to Brazil. Brazilian President …
Pro-Choice demonstrators holding signs saying "Support Legal Abortion"

The Politics of Abortion in Europe and America

… History , historian Anna M. Peterson joins the show all the way from Oslo, Norway. Host Patrick Potyondy interviews her about one of the … today— abortion —as well as her research experience in a foreign country. ( Image Source ) … and European history. Anna joins us today from Oslo, Norway, where she's been conducting research. Welcome to the …
Judas kissing Jesus

The Gospel of Judas: The Rediscovery of the Earliest Gnostic Gospel

… Professor of History and Director, Goldberg Center for Excellence in Teaching at The Ohio State University. … early history of gnostic mythology.  Let's take a moment to get to know our speaker today, David Brakke. David Brakke, … discovered gospel is like.  Judas does know the truth in a way that no one else in the gospel does, and he does cause …
Tiger

Caged: Humans and Animals at the Zoo

… Zoos are some of the world’s most visited attractions. Yet they often make headlines for controversial reasons such as in 2016 when the … zoo, historically zoos have represented far more than a fun way to spend an afternoon. Explore zoos past and present in … prolific correspondence for many years. And Hagenbeck was always telling Hornaday to come and see this new zoo and these …
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The Global War on Drugs

… Ohio State University Dr. Sarah Brady Siff , Drug Enforcement & Policy Center, Moritz College of Law; Ohio State … Professor of History and Director of the Goldberg Center for Excellence in Teaching, Ohio State University … was addictive, that it caused psychosis, that it was a gateway to opiates, it caused violence and crime, etc. …