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Omagh, Northern Ireland in 2001.

Taking the Guns Out of Irish Politics

… The decommissioning of weapons in Northern Ireland ought to be a … from an IRA arms dump by dissidents. Twenty-nine people died and more than three hundred were injured in this … If it does not, then people who are not yet born may die as a historic conflict enters its ninth century. Sean …

Clampdown and Blowback: How State Repression Has Radicalized Islamist Groups in Egypt

… that the man’s predictions for the future of Egypt may be coming true. Since the coup that ousted Morsi, the Egyptian … the year since Morsi’s overthrow, an estimated 1,400 have died as a result of political violence, many of them Ikhwān … more moderate Islamist forces. An estimated 1,600 people died during this period. The Al-Sisi Presidency and Islam in …

What We Talk About When We Talk About Confederate Monuments

… the violence had already begun. But the worst was yet to come. Saturday’s rally was scheduled to start at noon, but … the Right rally ( top left ). Virginia National Guard soldiers and Virginia State Police in the aftermath of the … University]. A monument to the sacrifices of Confederate soldiers in Baxley, GA originally on courthouse grounds but now …
cars on a highway

Sweet Fuel: The Remarkable Story of Brazilian Ethanol

… search for clean and affordable alternate energies has become an increasing priority in the twenty-first century. … Center Co-sponsors: The Center for Latin American Studies, https://clas.osu.edu/ The Sustainability Institute, … subsidize the price of these cars to incentivize people to buy them, subsidize the price of fuel to make sure that …
Native woman with her back to the camera

Reclaiming My Family's Story: Cultural Trauma & Indigenous Ways of Knowing

… Ohio State Newark Earthworks Center, American Indian Studies, and the Department of History. … Indigenous Arts and Humanities grant and American Indian Studies at The Ohio State University. My name is Lucy Murphy. … throughout the year so definitely make sure to visit our website mcc.osu.edu. And we have a whole calendar of events. …

Hong Kong in Protest

… returned home but evaded murder charges because he committed the crime outside of Hong Kong’s jurisdiction. He … of an Englishman ordering the emperor of China to buy opium. The text says: "I tell you to immediately buy the … its window to the outside world. Cover of Worker-Peasant-Soldier Pictorial magazine in 1970, during the Great …
Margaret Gorman, winner of the first Miss America Pageant in 1922.

Beauty Pageants and American Politics

… America Pageant. As early as the 1880s, business owners and community leaders began organizing beauty pageants in … 200 bathing beauties on display that September, one easily bested the others to be crowned the first Miss America: … on a television network. Given their tenuous hold on TV audiences, one could argue that beauty pageants harken back to …

The Kids Aren’t Alright: The Policymaking of Student Loan Policy

… to the cost saving measures of the FDLP, especially when compared to the money funneled to private banks through … campuses triple during those two decades. (Very recent studies on the college attendance of ethnic minorities, … course, comes with higher interest rates and a lack of subsidies. Burdens and Benefits The question of whether student …
Still image from the Movie The Bridge (Criterion Collection).

Top Ten Origins: World War II Films

… away from the actual events of the war, movies have become the dominant means for us to envision them. But can you … stares in shock at an enormous mound of dead Japanese soldiers. He covers his face, weeps, and runs, trying to avoid … man from his time as a labor camp supervisor to Imperial soldier to Soviet POW. 2. Kanal , Poland, Andrzej Wajda, 1957 …
An electron microscopic image of a thin section of SARS-CoV within the cytoplasm of an infected cell, showing the spherical particles and cross-sections through the viral nucleocapsid.

Could SARS Set off Another Great Pandemic?

… threat to public health: the specter of a pandemic, and the complacent American response. The so-called "Spanish" flu … million people around the world, more than the number who died in World War I battles. In the United States it killed … Why should we have forgotten the modern equivalent of the medieval Black Death? Perhaps because it killed mostly the …
Upon the Altar of the Nation: A Moral History of the Civil War, by Harry S. Stout Book cover.

Upon the Altar of the Nation: A Moral History of the Civil War

Review of Upon the Altar of the Nation: A Moral History of the Civil War, by Harry S. Stout (New York: Viking, 2006)
… By September 1862 the Battle of Antietam provided the bloodiest day in American history, rewriting "the rules for … 24,000 casualties, yet religious leaders only became more committed to their crusades and more strident in their … war was immoral. He cannot accept that 620,000 Americans died in vain, and he feels compelled to share the sense of …

Humanitarian Intervention: The American Experience from William McKinley to Barack Obama

… economic distress wrought by swashbuckling capitalism. As Commanders-in-Chief and liberal Protestants, the … liberators in the age of revolution. Britons regularly bandied their slave trade ban as proof that they remained at … Barton's humanitarian aid, an estimated 186,655 Armenians died in the autumn of 1896 alone. The memory of the failed …

Las raíces del estado de fallido venezolano

… entre 1974 a 1979  que en toda su historia independiente . De hecho, durante este tiempo,  Venezuela gozaba … y Buicks y la clase alta famosamente se lanzaba de compras a Miami donde eran conocidos como los del “dame … es la mayor fuente de divisas del país, el mayor contribuyente al sector fiscal y la principal actividad económica. …
Cover of The Rise and Fall of Modern American Conservatism: A Short History by David Farber.

The Far Right Stuff

Review of The Rise and Fall of Modern Conservatism, by David Farber (Princeton University Press, 2010)
… a table with friends and fight over.  I mean that as a high compliment, since there are far too many books out there, … clung to notions of family, tradition, and institutional obedience that were alternately nostalgic and retrograde. … Catholic version of family life and institutional obedience onto the nation.  In this sense, Buckley, Schlafly …

American Populism and the Persistence of the Paranoid Style

… with a column praising the strategic savvy and tactical competence of abdicated Alaska governor Sarah Palin. Broder … that fit not just the wishes of the immediate audience but the mood of a significant slice of the broader … Populists emerged from this re-interpretation severely bloodied. His 1948 book, The American Political Tradition and …
Ukrainian soldier with blue and yellow ribbon overlay

Understanding the War in Ukraine: Insights from the Recent Past, 1991—Present

… of the Center for Slavic, East European & Eurasian Studies. This lecture is a part of the Center for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies' "Understanding the War in Ukraine: Weekly Wednesday … of the Center for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies here at Ohio State University. And I am really pleased …
Marchers for the Equal Rights Amount, holding banner that reads "Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex"

The Equal Rights Amendment: Then and Now

… professor of History and director of the American Studies program, specializing on gender, women, and science.   … approaches and turning it into a t-shirt that you can buy, or a Pussyhat that you can wear and feel good about … Blissit. Song and band information can be found on our website. You can find our podcast and more on our website, …
Cover of The Anatomy Murders by Lisa Rosner

The Anatomy Murders

Review of The Anatomy Murders, by Lisa Rosner (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009)
… the first few decades of the nineteenth century the dead bodies themselves became precious commodities because the dissection of human cadavers for … straight to an untapped and ever-replenishing source of bodies by killing unsuspecting victims which they quickly sold …

Colonizing Mars: Practicing Other Worlds on Earth

… Congress in Adelaide, Australia. Musk spoke about his company's plans for interplanetary travel and his belief in … be expected. In front of the assembled international audience of space enthusiasts and industry leaders, Musk … settlements, and low estimated ticket price stoked his audience’s breathless desire to venture into the cosmos. …
College Green, Ohio University, 1973.

Our Gilded Bronze Age of Higher Education

… universities to yield an annual, independent source of income. Endowment size has served as a proxy for academic … as well as the pursuit of grants and government subsidies. Tuition hikes also seemed to manifest the incessant … mattered most: fundraising, government grants and subsidies, and tuition, which seemed to increase student debt. …

Russia, America, and the Conspiratorial Worldview

… It is impossible to imagine a Soviet citizen who lived and died without encountering at least one of Efimov’s images. … War I and after the 1917 Revolution and to signal their commitment to the new Bolshevik cause.   Mikhail, the elder … to create a stable, pro-Western regime through vote buying and financial support for pro-Western candidates.” In …
Indian bicycle troops are pictured at the Somme in 1916

The Amritsar Massacre

… peaceful civilians in Punjab were shot by British soldiers under the command of the now infamous “Butcher of Amritsar.” British … subcontinent, led a group of Gurkha, Baluch, and Pathan soldiers towards the square. Dyer and his men faced a slight …