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Who's not to Blame in the South Korea-Japan Spat?

… Korean President Moon Jae-in on August 2, 2019. “We have come this far today by overcoming countless hardships. Just … States occupied the south. Korea became perhaps the first site of confrontation in the new Cold War. In 1948, … the Asia-Pacific —and Japan’s whitewashing of war crimes in official government statements and history textbooks. It is …
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The EU: Past, Present, and Future

… a century ago. Today, the EU faces an unprecedented combination of challenges, including a lingering economic … Patrick Potyondy   Welcome to History Talk the podcast that brings together a … Sokolsky. Song and band information can be found on our website. You can find our podcasts and more at our website
pile of syringes

The Global War on Drugs

… Dr. Nicholas Breyfogle   Hello, and welcome to The Global War on Drugs brought to you by the … some states in the Midwest named cannabis a noxious weed so officials could uproot it and poison it. West Virginia is … the myth that cannabis is a weed. In reality, it's the opposite. Its one species name, Cannabis sativa, literally means …
The Trojan Nuclear Plant in 1973.

The Atomic Age

… of 1989 in eastern and central Europe and the collapse of Communism in the Soviet Union in 1991 brought an end to the … know about, there are several other nations which hope to become nuclear powers in the near future. Add to this those … miniature atomic bombs hints that atomic bombs might well come in a small packages. Finally, even though we have …
2011 protest in New Jersey by Garden State Equality in support of same-sex marriage and against deportation of LGBT spouses.

Voting Away Others’ Rights

… New England founded its colonial enterprise with some official divisions between state and church — not allowing … religiously intolerant regimes in the world today.   The outcome of the recent referendum in California shows us that …
The Statue of Liberty in New York City.

Where Will “Liberation” Lead?

… Europe at the close of World War II. Administration officials find it easy to explain their current goals by … of Guatemala’s Jacobo Arbenz dared to undertake a comprehensive land reform campaign, nationalize corporate property and open diplomatic relations with communist countries in 1954, Washington was quick to …
A Biafran child suffering the effects of starvation due to the federal blockade during the Nigerian Civil War

“No Victor and No Vanquished” - Fifty Years after the Biafran War

… and cultural challenges. The crisis that would become the Nigerian Civil War began on January 15, 1966 when a … Their grievances included alleged corruption among public officials, the government’s failure to ensure equitable … a military body led by General Johnson Aguysi Ironsi, the Commander of the Nigerian Army, who was also Igbo. The …

History, Memory, and the Art of Protest in Belarus

… Sweden, larger than the three Baltic republics (PDF File) combined, and larger than Austria. It would be the 11 th … background and a horizontal red stripe in the middle. The official BNR state emblem, the Pahonia—a knight on … of it. The Belarusian dictator has revitalized the memorial sites and has dedicated other memory sites, including a new …
Cover of Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China by Ezra F. Vogel.

The Man Who Re-Invented China

Review of Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China, by Ezra F. Vogel (Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2011)
… Europe and the Soviet Union, made the future of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) uncertain. It was in this period of … What led Deng Xiaoping, the leader of the world's largest Communist Party, to embrace capitalism so fervently? … history (347). Making use of Chinese-language biographies, official summaries of daily Party meetings, as well as …
“The great financier, or British economy for the years 1763, 1764, 1765.” This British cartoon depicts the American colonies as a Native American woman, as juxtaposed to British officials and Britannia (far right), demonstrating the disconnect between the colonies and the metropole even though the colonists thought of themselves as full British subjects.

The Old Informing the New

Review of Rethinking America: From Empire to Republic, by John M. Murrin (New York: Oxford University Press, 2018)
Cover of Science under Fire Challenges to Scientific Authority in Modern America by Andrew Jewett.

Science Beseiged

Review of Science Under Fire: Challenges to Scientific Authority in Modern America, by Andrew Jewett (Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press, 2020)
… or environmental poisoning, for instance—COVID-19 was compelling “people everywhere . . . to put their immediate … opportunism . . . are being brought to heel by the pincer combination of shared values and facts on the ground” ( … herd. Armed crowds gathered at the homes of public-health officials across the country and hounded them from their …
And Water for All - stylized image of hands with water behind them

... And Water for All

An educational documentary about water affordability
… done it with these water and sewer systems that have become ubiquitous in our lifetimes.   Nicholas Breyfogle  The … finally improve water quality.   Speaker 6  The special Subcommittee on water pollution will be in order.   Manny … Breyfogle  New Waterford is a good example of how local officials can take proactive measures to build and maintain …
Women working at a farm at Lamas district in Peru, 2014. (Photo by CIF Action)

Reforming Peruvian Agriculture, Again

… declared, the group trains “farmers, women, and indigenous communities in the use of improved technologies in current … Aside from PERU-Hub, research teams from OU recently completed the first phase of collaborative projects with … machinery, and few options for recourse. Government officials and some universities acknowledged the inequality. …
1892 Populist Party presidential campaign button.

“Party Like It’s 1892!”

… in state and local races across the land.  Many pundits are comparing this election to the election of 1994, when anger … in July 1892, when these farmers and their friends officially launched the People's Party, or the Populist … was quite a radical document — though quite the opposite of the proposals of today's Tea Party.  It called for …
Cover of Health, Healing and Illness in African History by Rebekah Lee.

Africa's Medical History Revealed

Review of Health, Healing and Illness in African History, by Rebekah Lee (London: Bloomsbury Academic Press, 2021)
… of actors, including African patients themselves, families, communities, traditional healers, healthcare workers, and … providers over causation and therapeutic approaches to combat particular diseases. Coercive and racialized health … South Africa . These ailments were categorized into communicable (tuberculosis) and non-communicable diseases …

Hong Kong in Protest

… who they really are as they spend years undercover on opposite sides of the battle between the Hong Kong Police Force … returned home but evaded murder charges because he committed the crime outside of Hong Kong’s jurisdiction. He … “Where is your conscience?” Lin Zexu, a Qing dynasty official during the First Opium War, 1839-1842. Shortly …
Storming the Bastille

Storming the Bastille (July 14, 1789)

… by historians, depicted by artists and celebrated by common people. In 1880, the French chose to make the … times of deterritorialized terror, outsourced prisons, bitcoins, and subcontracted state and military arbitrariness, … a painting that would preserve the memory of the first official celebration of 14 July as a national holiday. …