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The colorful buildings of Tirana, viewed from the steps of the National Museum.

A Postcard from Tirana: Overcoming the Past

… dotted with reminders of this past, but the residents welcome visitors with true Albanian hospitality and intend to … During World War II, the country saw the creation of the Communist Party of Albania, and after an intense battle in … dot the countryside today. After a 40-year rule, Hoxha died in 1985. With the revolutions of 1989 and the collapse …
Journeys to the Other Shore: Muslim and Western Travelers in Search of Knowledge, by Roxanne L. Euben book cover.

Journeys to the Other Shore: Muslim and Western Travelers in Search of Knowledge

Review of Journeys to the Other Shore: Muslim and Western Travelers in Search of Knowledge, by Roxanne L. Euben (Princeton University Press, Princeton 2006)
… easily between historical periods, and languages. Her command of her own discipline, political theory, and other … racial, and ethnic differences within the West. Euben also complicates the idea of a singular Islam and instead … a way that will appeal to specialists, and not a general audience. At times her language is convoluted and her …
Andrés Manuel López Obrador in front of Mexican flag

"Juntos Haremos Historia": AMLO and Mexico's Fourth Transformation

… Lauren Henry  Welcome to History Talk, the podcast that brings together … Professor of History and Global and Intercultural Studies at Miami University. Dr. Albarran studies revolutionary … day of his presidency, they unveiled a new logo for the website of the govierno de Mexico the website, which is kind …
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 the Mershon Center for International Security Studies, and chair of Peace Studies and Conflict Resolution at …
Portrait of Martin Luther

Martin Luther and the Reformation

… the course of Christianity and western civilization. Commemorative Playmobil figure of Martin Luther. But to stop at the tote bags is to lose sight of the complex web of factors that created the opportunity for … Archbishop of Mainz—Luther was following a longstanding medieval tradition of calling for debate within the university …
Soldiers at the Battle of Stalingrad

Stalingrad at 75, the Turning Point of World War II in Europe

… of the Second World War began. More than four million combatants fought in the gargantuan struggle at Stalingrad … armies. Over 1.8 million became casualties. More Soviet soldiers died in the five-month battle than Americans in the … over France, Poland and others, Hitler and the German High Command ( Oberkommando des Heeres , or OKH), were confident …
The Battle of Waterloo, 1815

Winning and Losing at the Battle of Waterloo

… In February 2015, Belgium proposed a specially minted euro coin to celebrate the bicentennial of the battle, which took … Belgium's plans to make a special-edition euro coin commemorating the Battle of Waterloo. Belgium still … led to an unprecedented number of witness accounts from soldiers and civilians who had lived through the wars, but also …
Image of Shirley Chishorm, Hillary Clinton, Condaleeza Rice, and Kamala Harris

The New Normal (Prologued, Season 1, Episode 8)

… my guests are historians. We look back and study what has come before and  this …this is a decidedly forward looking … only on that, then they went and found that a lot of studies are done only on men, because women, it'd be more of an … Oranjudio. Song and band information can be found on our website, and we encourage our listeners to visit episode …

Where have you gone, Holden Caulfield? Why We Aren’t ‘Alienated’ Anymore

… Over the last year, we have come to know a good deal about Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab. … about him, the odder it seemed that he should have become a terrorist. This fresh-faced twenty-three-year old … even passively take part, and you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, . …
Person on horseback faces line of police and military vehicles

Native Sovereignty and the Dakota Access Pipeline

… Brenna Miller   Welcome to History Talk the podcast that brings together a … education and policy department and the American Indian Studies coordinator for OSU.   Dr. Christine Ballengee Morris   … Blissit. Song and band information can be found on our website. You can find our podcasts and more on our website
a can of Spaghetti-Os

Spaghetti in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction

… every piece was in place for this circular pasta to become a staple of the American diet. By 2010, over 150 million cans of SpaghettiOs were … pasta and sauce. In this sense, it is a food source that completely disconnects “food” and “source.” During the 19 th …

Making Sense of the 'Hermit Kingdom': North Korea in the Nuclear Age

… significant opposition, the Bush administration quickly complied with the terror-list demand (in return for certain … recommended caloric intake and families tried to survive on diets of weeds, roots, and bark. "Today," began one official … overwhelming DPRK hostility towards sadaejuui (submissive service to the great power), which they see in South Korean …

Currency Wars, or Why You Should Care About the Global Struggle Over the Value of Money

… that these and other countries were entering into a competitive spiral of devaluations in an effort to export … the late 1990s and Argentina in the early 2000s. Various studies have found that currency appreciation played a role in … contained. Trade in East Asia was fueled in part by silver coins from Mexico. Prior to the Meiji Restoration of 1868 in …
The Lorraine Motel

Putting Race on Display: The National Civil Rights Museum

… Leticia Wiggins   This is your host Leticia Wiggins and welcome to History Talk , the history podcast for everyone … Rights Museum in Memphis, Tennessee. Its reopening has coincided with the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act … Wiggins. Song and band information can be found on our website. You can find our podcasts and more at our website
North Korea's prime minister Kim Il-sung and China's premier Zhou Enlai tour Beijing in 1958.

China Holds the Key to the North Korea Problem

… As the international community struggles to respond effectively to the missile … intentions of its founder’s to allow each great power a comprehensive veto over any international action that might … and President Franklin D. Roosevelt did not agree on the composition or role of the future organizations executive …
Mather Brown's portrait of Thomas Jefferson.

Joe McCarthy Rides Again

… and now rests in Sen. Joe Lieberman's Homeland Security Committee. Swift Senate passage appears certain. Not since … guaranteed rights. The late historian Henry Steele Commager, denouncing President John Adams' suppression of … Polytechnic University and a writer for the History News Service. …
This Dutch UNPROFOR observation post in Srebrenica took heavy fire from Bosnian Serb troops in 1995.

Srebrenica and its Memory

In July 1995, in the final days of the Bosnian War, over 8,000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys were killed in the Srebrenica massacre.
… legacies that acts of violence leave on individuals and communities, and the importance of remembering and … War II as a federation of six republics, Yugoslavia was composed of a diverse mix of religious and ethnic groups. … the UN peacekeeping compound in Potočari. Dutch UNPROFOR soldiers help Bosniak refugees board a jeep in July 1995. That …