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America's Infrastructure Challenge

… and what it can tell us about  changing conceptions of the common good. In addition, host Patrick Potyondy interviews … Mark Sokolsky  Welcome to History Talk , where we bring together a panel of … big federal involvement in infrastructure would be subsidies for the railroads in the nineteenth century.   Dr. …

American Presidential Scandals

… A tweet from the Richard Nixon Presidential Library after comparisons were made between Nixon and President Trump when the latter fired the Director of the FBI, James Comey. The High Bar The ubiquitous, unfathomable ur-scandal … so narrowly as to separate intent or conspiracy to commit treasonous acts from the actual commission of such …

A Century of U.S. Relations with Iraq

… morning darkness on December 18, 2011, some 500 U.S. soldiers at Camp Adder in southern Iraq boarded 110 military … some five hours later. This departure of the 3rd Brigade Combat Team of the 1st Cavalry Division of the U.S. … civilians and American soldiers, and inconclusive in outcome. The 2003 U.S. military invasion of Iraq and the …
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

… Brenna Miller  Welcome to History Talk , the podcast that brings together a … professor of History and director of the American Studies program, specializing on gender, women, and science.   … Hamlin  Sure. So the legal scholar, Kimberlé Crenshaw, coined the phrase in a 1987, I think, article, where she …
Cover of The Last Empire: The Final Days of the Soviet Union by Serhii Plokhy

"The Greatest Geopolitical Catastrophe of the Century"

Review of The Last Empire: The Final Days of the Soviet Union, by Serhii Plokhy (New York: Basic Books, 2014)
… to declare independence ensured that the Soviet Union had become an irrelevancy and its dissolution had become an inevitability. Although questions of ethnicity did … H.W. Bush in Moscow. The KGB cut the beach house from communications and surrounded it, leaving Gorbachev a …
The Blood of Free Men: The Liberation of Paris, 1944, by Michael Neiberg Book Cover.

How the Sun Rose Again on the City of Light

Review of The Blood of Free Men: The Liberation of Paris, 1944, by Michael Neiberg (New York: Basic Books, 2012)
… with collaborationist neighborhoods, areas of union and communist strength, and the German headquarters district. As … leaders such as de Gaulle and Philippe Leclerc, the commander of the first French division to land with the … operation. As the Allies drew closer to the city, French soldiers with the advancing Allies and the civilians inside …
Khrushchev during his visit to the Agricultural Research Service Center in Maryland.

Khrushchev’s Great American Road Trip

Review of Nikita Khrushchev's Journey into America, by Lawrence J. Nelson and Matthew G. Schoenbachler (Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2019)
… September 1959 Nikita Khrushchev, General Secretary of the Communist Party and Premier of the Soviet Union , arrived in … The opportunity to share in this journey, to imagine the complications and sheer exhaustion of meals, receptions, … Khrushchev during his visit to the Agricultural Research Service Center in Maryland. Some of them were not pleased to …

Aerial Torpedoes, Buzz Bombs, and Predators: The Long Cultural History of Drones

… of the mounting controversy, the president reminded his audience that, “from the Civil War to our struggle against … us from the ravages of modern warfare, or if they will become the appliances of Orwellian control. What is remarkable … Major General Bennett E. Meyers of the army’s Air Technical Service Command (ATSC) tried to distinguish America’s bomb …

Time It Was: 1968 Around the World

… I’ve read about it, 1968 was quite a year. Writers have compared it to the most dramatic moments in modern history— … the most obvious underlying causes of tumult, but they were coincidental, not interrelated. A 1967 protest against the Vietnam War in Washington, D.C. ( left ). A soldier standing guard in Washington, D.C. after riots …
"Gay Liberation" by George Segal

Stonewall and the Unfinished Gay Revolution

… an uprising at New York’s Stonewall Inn. The event has become iconic in popular memory as the spark for a new radical … Stonewall’s wake, a Gay Liberation movement galvanized gay communities nationwide and its anniversary has become a cultural touchstone, as LGBT communities across the …
Donald Trump and Joe Biden

Election 2020: Insights from History

… Dr. Nicholas Breyfogle  Welcome to "Election 2020: Insights from History" coming to you from the History Department and the College of … And I think there's some some concern with, with our audience about how do we move forward from this? You know, the …
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 … NATO-backed “Nazi” aggression, which Putin implicitly compared to the Nazi Holocaust against the Jews. In Putin’s … and still others by the constrained choices of able-bodied men hoping to survive the horrifically violent Nazi …
SpaghettiOs in background, tv dinner, Tang bottle, Spam tin and Jello mold in foreground

SpaghettiOs and the Age of Processed Foods

After World War II, canned foods became more and more common, along with a smorgasbord of pre-prepared, processed foods such as SpaghettiOs.
… After World War II, canned foods became more and more common, along with a smorgasbord of other pre-prepared, … After World War II, canned foods became more and more common, along with a smorgasbord of pre-prepared, processed …
a man harvesting wheat - Lviv, Ukraine 1991 Wheat Harvest on Collective Farm 1991 by Manhhai, Flickr, cc-by 2.0

Ukraine: The Breadbasket of Europe

Since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, Ukraine has returned to its pre-revolutionary positin as a major agricultural exporter of key commodities.
… positin as a major agricultural exporter of key commodities. With Russia currently controlling a large … by the College of Arts & Sciences Academic Technology Services. … positin as a major agricultural exporter of key commodities. …
anti-communists and nationalists place a Hungarian national flag atop a demolished statue of Josef Stalin

The 1956 Hungarian Revolution

The date, October 23, 1956, marked the beginning of the ill-fated revolution that ended with the re-imposition of Communist rule and the flight of some 200,000 Hungarians to Western Europe and the United States.
… ill-fated revolution that ended with the re-imposition of Communist rule and the flight of some 200,000 Hungarians to … ill-fated revolution that ended with the re-imposition of Communist rule and the flight of some 200,000 Hungarians to …
view of the site of the explosion in Tunguska

The Tunguska Mystery Explosion

On June 30, 1908, a massive mysterious explosion of a cosmic body shook the skies of Tunguska (in Siberia), on a date that would come to be known as International Asteroid Day.
… the skies of Tunguska (in Siberia), on a date that would come to be known as International Asteroid Day. But was it … the skies of Tunguska (in Siberia), on a date that would come to be known as International Asteroid Day. …
Paratroopers of teh 2nd RPC firing a 106 mm SR recoilless gun at an Egyptian resistance point on an Egyptian resistance point in Port Said

The Suez Crisis (1956)

In July 1956, the international order was disrupted by the Suez Crisis, a complicated imbroglio marked by the intersection of European decolonization, the Arab-Israeli conflict, the Cold War, and the growth of U.S. power.
… Premier Gamal Abdel Nasser nationalized the Suez Canal Company after the United States and Britain refused to … the international order was disrupted by the Suez Crisis, a complicated imbroglio marked by the intersection of European …
Francisco Franco speaking to his naval forces in 1938

The Death of Franco

On 20 November 1975, Spanish General Francisco Franco died in bed, signaling the unceremonious end of one of Europe’s longest dictatorships.
… On 20 November 1975, Spanish General Francisco Franco died in bed, signaling the unceremonious end of one of … Kotheimer, College of Arts & Sciences Academic Technology Services. The Origins' editorial team includes Editors … On 20 November 1975, Spanish General Francisco Franco died in bed, signaling the unceremonious end of one of …
Albert Hofmann holding model of LSD, background is bright color collage

Albert Hofmann and the Discovery of LSD

In November 1938, Albert Hofmann November 1938, first created a derivative of ergot that would later be dubbed lysergic acid diethalyamide: LSD.
… of ergot that would later be dubbed lysergic acid diethalyamide: LSD. Written by Dr. Benjamin Breen. Narration … of ergot that would later be dubbed lysergic acid diethalyamide: LSD. …
Plague Doctor

Responding to Pandemics—Both Past and Present

What can we learn from the public/medical responses during previous epidemics and pandemics to aid us in combating COVID-19 on the local, state, and national levels?
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… outbreak, and the 1918 Spanish Flu Pandemic to aid us in combating COVID-19 on the local, state, and national levels. … during previous epidemics and pandemics to aid us in combating COVID-19 on the local, state, and national levels? …
Cincinnati Reds Baseball Team

Ten Iconic World Series

Ten 20th Century World Series contests that are landmark moments in baseball’s evolution as a commercial enterprise and its adaptation to the significant social and cultural changes of modern America.
… that are landmark moments in baseball’s evolution as a commercial enterprise and its adaptation to the significant … that are landmark moments in baseball’s evolution as a commercial enterprise and its adaptation to the significant …
Soldiers aiming guns at two men in May 1848 in Dresden

The 1848 German Revolutions

On March 9, 1848, the twenty-three members of the Hanau People’s Commission—leading citizens of the small German city on the Main River, upstream from Frankfurt—declared their participation in the quickly-spreading upheaval of the March 1848 Revolutions.
… 9, 1848, the twenty-three members of the Hanau People’s Commission—leading citizens of the small German city on the … 9, 1848, the twenty-three members of the Hanau People’s Commission—leading citizens of the small German city on the …