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… to demonstrate how sharing our visual pasts can allow our audiences to contextualize and understand the present. So we … to how something should be taught to generations, to future generations, and speak to our shared past. These two … articles that our authors discussed today, please visit our website at picturingblackhistory.org. Stay safe and healthy …

… 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 … lands, and Henry would succeed to the throne.  Stephen died in October 1154, buried next to Queen Matilda at …

… of living, demonstrators soon widened their criticisms to encompass the full impact of Bashir’s three decades in power: … Sudan’s past is key to any attempt to predict its future. Join us in this month’s History Talk podcast, as … Rhodes. Song and band information can be found on our website. And you can find our podcasts and more on …

… for current president Joseph Kabila to step down. It has become a cliché to contrast the Congo’s tremendous economic … the start of a long dispute over economic decolonization. Future Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba showing the injuries … his troops (a significant percentage of whom were child soldiers), reached the capital of Kinshasa in a mere seven …

… to defeat Hitler’s squad after being told, “If you win, you die.” Tommie Smith and John Carlos raising gloved hands in … in putting the nation on display on the global stage. And coming up, Brazil : about to host to the 2014 World Cup and … and Leticia Wiggins. Find our podcasts and more at our website, origins.osu.edu , and you can find us on Twitter, …

… 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. … demonstrated Hussein's reckless aggressiveness and the futility of Bush administration efforts to deal with him on …

… U.S.-based corporations, most infamously the United Fruit Company, used bribery and other methods to gain the support … 1927. The movement involved both Liberal leaders—including future presidents José María Moncada and Juan Bautista … Report . Washington, D.C.: The Institute for Policy Studies, 1981. Finzer, Erin S. “Modern Women Intellectuals and …

… human immune systems, HIV has also allowed tuberculosis to come thundering back as a global health threat and has … ethical framework for patient participation in research studies. The virus has also spurred scientists to create a … early, prominent donor to the Global Fund. The Present and Future of HIV Where global efforts fell short in stemming …

… of U.S. entry into World War I. But, as the world commemorates the centennial of the war, U.S. events have … us to learn why World War I is remembered so differently in combatant countries, what the war's most important … where all of these nations are using armies of citizen soldiers, where they're conscripting instead of using …

… U.S. Power, Humanitarianism, and the World’s Dispossessed comes at a time that many observers of U.S. domestic … has had a murky, even “schizophrenic,” view of its commitment to the world’s dispossessed. Although the United … of European DPs had already boarded trains to uncertain futures in their former homelands. Instead he follows the …

… lockstep with him.   Obama’s choices might also inspire comparisons to Abraham Lincoln. By the beginning of … in the unlikely event he were to seek the presidency in the future, Lincoln would be his base of support. By contrast, … needs to worry about building electoral support for a future campaign. And, like Lincoln, his “team of rivals” has …

… Over the last year, we have come to know a good deal about Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab. … "had the world at his feet—able to choose from a range of futures to make his mark on the world." Yet the son went off … even passively take part, and you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, . …

… It was then the longest war in U.S. history; although commonly dated as beginning in 1965 with American bombing … at times tortured, brutalized, and killed by American soldiers in search-and-destroy missions. The total number of Americans who died or are missing in the war is just over 58,000, while …

… 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 … to remove humanitarian concerns from U.S. policy proved futile. Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger's realism …

… in the Baghdad sky Insist there’s a price we must pay A soldier returns from the war in the Gulf A soldier named Tim McVeigh . . . ―Charlie King, The War is Coming Home , 1996 On April 19, 1995, a date fraught with … , published in 1978 and set about twenty years in the future, tells the story of a successful white racist …

… professor, Department of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies; Sarah Paxton, JD; PhD candidate, Department of … participation informs our modern expectations and the future of the political process. Just a little bit about the … an Associate Professor of Women's Gender and Sexuality Studies at The Ohio State University and the author of "Colored …