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… Leticia Wiggins   Welcome to History Talk Produced by Origins , a project of the … Breyfogle. Our executive producer is David Staley. Our website manager and technical advisor is Mitchell Shelton. … and Leticia Wiggins . Find our podcasts and more at our website origins.osu.edu Thank you for listening!   …

… already been showing up in recent history. Millennials have come of age hearing they are the first generation in … as did the 1918 Spanish Flu and the even more deadly medieval Black Death . These diseases, including our current … less destruction and with less vulnerability to current or future crises. …

… associate editor Patrick Potyondy. Patrick Potyondy   Welcome to Writers Talk History, a partnership between the … because there have been a number of women who have died because they were not able to get access to legal … State University. And I encourage you to go look at that website to find out many great articles about history, …

… were war-weary, and saw no Entente troops or aid forthcoming.  Ukraine’s signing the Treaty was something the …

… invariably generates a shift to a more "western" style diet, which involves rising meat consumption, which in turn … allowed speculation: the Liverpool corn exchange authorized futures trading in 1883. This food system also displaced … and washing machines, to, later, remote controls and online shopping, technology was subtly reducing the amount of …

… the quest to use the peaceful atom to build a utopian future has been marked by limited success, by failures and … but in reality private firms came to rely on federal subsidies while they complained about excessive regulation. The … electricity than any other source. Wind turbines on the Bishop Hill wind farm in Illinois, 2017. In the last decade, …

… atmosphere. The second fact will be relearned in the coming weeks as we emerge from our shock at this tragedy and … of space is not how many astronauts and cosmonauts have died, but how few. Though there have been several close … whether the real ones or the Star Trek characters from the future, just as pilots did in the 1920s and 1930s. They …

… states, by thirty other countries, and by private companies. Some visitors recorded that they left simply … But the “flesh and blood of those past events” had been tidied up, even sanitized, on the High Street of 1926. The … and yet the U.S. continued to send men off to kill and die for almost another decade. The war ended ignominiously …

… You can't read the newspapers or surf the web without coming face to face with the pivotal human problem of energy … enable readers to conclude for themselves whether and how future energy needs will be met—or not. Generally speaking, … fuels are used mostly for transportation and include biodiesel, ethanol, hydrogen, electric, natural gas and …

… What can and should members of the international community do to honor 1989’s Beijing martyrs? Not … version of events, which erroneously states that brave soldiers and traitorous troublemakers were the only ones who died on June 4th. It also entails clearing up some …

… perish in the conflagration that consumed the city, or die from the radiation that fell darkly to the earth in a … its efforts to build atomic bombs after a series of shortcomings and failures convinced its government to focus on a … though he was predominantly focused on American lives. His commanders predicted upwards of half a million American …

… birth narrative takes a markedly different approach. It comes to us via Firdausi's Shahnameh (Book of Kings), … mystery, gold, and enchantment. Later ancient and medieval romantic depictions of the East would be based on … not to be his, since he is merely a mortal man, doomed to die despite all his worldly power. The book concludes with a …

… Seeking answers to these questions, sociologists have studied Singapore’s demographic policies, social control … transactions were facilitated by the use of Chinese copper coins. Chinese currency facilitated trade not just with … especially in the Asia-Pacific region, to build a future for itself. In Southeast Asia, the ideological …

… figure in Anglo-Norman society, admired by both nobles and commoners for his wealth, charm, and decisiveness.  Stephen … on Empress Matilda’s absence in Normandy when Henry I died. With support from Londoners and the Church—secured through his brother Henry bishop of Winchester—Stephen was crowned king.  His early …

… When Billy Graham died in February of this year, many of the tributes referred … is one that highlights what Graham well understood: the future of evangelicalism was to be in the global South. … have a multi-million-dollar house in a Dallas suburb. The Bishop dresses immaculately and flies to many of his …

… in the form of Uncle Sam withholding the keystone to complete the "League of Nations Bridge." The traditional way … is rooted in this version of history. Worries about the future of the liberal international order under the Trump … Rockefeller also funded efforts led by U.S. banker (and future Vice President) Charles G. Dawes, in 1924, to …

… put the entire  global economy in disarray and for years to come. Estimates of possible losses differ, but they are in … could contribute to a peaceful resolution in the distant future. It does so by deterring Chinese aggression with arms … and vocal age of open demonstrations. Chiang Kai-shek died in 1975. Faced with a revolting society led by the …

… Violence against women has a long history in human communities. Yet, we live in a time when people across the … an assistant professor of Women's Gender and Sexuality Studies here at The Ohio State University.   Peggy Solic    My … Leticia Wiggins. You can find our podcasts and more at our website, origins.osu.edu, on iTunes and on Soundcloud. And …

… called it "genocide." The violence and destruction is often compared to the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. These tragic events have riveted the international community and attracted unprecedented media attention. … the Sudanese President. A ruling is expected in the near future. It is unclear what will happen if an arrest warrant …

… through the city of Paris from the Temple, the fortified medieval monastery where he was imprisoned, to the Place de la … and Navarre, c. 1779. He traveled in the mayor's coach accompanied by his confessor, Henry Essex Edgeworth de … image, and insignias were removed from public view, like shop signs, inns, and other public buildings. The first …

… “elected” president of Syria. The unrest resulted from a combination of socio-economic and political problems that … Alawites, furthermore, ignore Islamic sanitary practices, dietary restrictions, and religious rituals. The … Yet the Alawite community remained divided over the future of the community. Despite a deep sense of religious …

… can help guide us into a more just, humane, and enlightened future. Scholars of social reform are especially prone to … implausible. History can promote human improvement, I've come to believe, but not in the didactic or formulaic manner … our most basic assumptions, beliefs, and ideologies. It complicates our lives, making us wiser people if not wiser …

… Sankara led a coalition of radical military officers, communist activists, labor leaders, and militant students to … government’s rise and fall, demonstrating how it embodied the critical transition period in modern African … on 22 September 1984, the CNR decreed men had to do all the shopping and tasks usually consigned to women, in what it …