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Glacial ice on Lake Baikal

Climate Change and Human Life

… populations throughout the world to a world where in the future, we're going to find that most biomass was … in the last five years is how much major decision-making bodies, sadly, non-democratic decision-making bodies, have … Wiggins. Song and band information can be found on our website. You can find our podcasts and more at our website, …

Dispatches from the Armenian Revolution

… tri-color Armenian flag and filled with hope for a better future, the crowd roared with enthusiasm when the … role in the mobilization of the population. Indeed,  some commentators noted  that it had more in common with … for corruption and the rise of oligarchs . Armenian soldiers in Karabakh in 1994 using Russian AK-74 assault …

From Fat Cats to Egg Heads: The Changing American "Elite"

… at … well, any number of things. Lumping them together, the commentariat called all these angry voters “populists” and … what is going wrong, and what threatens to go wrong in the future. But who are “they,” more precisely, this cabal of … candidates that year split the remaining 60%. Lincoln embodied what Americans wanted to believe about their political …
Six founders of the Algerian FLN: Rabah Bitat, Mostefa Ben Boulaïd, Didouche Mourad, Mohammed Boudiaf, Krim Belkacem and Larbi Ben M'Hidi, 1954

The Evian Accords: An Uncertain Peace

… That paper, simply entitled “Declarations Drawn up in Common Agreement,” was signed in a town on the French side … to be domestic disturbances by terrorists. French soldiers patrol the hills above Souk Ahras, Algeria (1958). On … in the Sahara in 1960); and the framework that would govern future associations between France and an independent …

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 … historical lesson of the twentieth century. This way led to future fascisms. For many Americans, however, the war had …
Cover of The Eternal Decline and Fall of Rome: The History of a Dangerous Idea by Edward J. Watts.

Falling for the Fall of Rome

Review of The Eternal Decline and Fall of Rome: The History of a Dangerous Idea by Edward J. Watts (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021)
Cover of With Our Backs to the Wall Victory and Defeat in 1918 by David Stevenson.

The End of the War as They Knew It

Review of With Our Backs to the Wall: Victory and Defeat in 1918, by David Stevenson (Cambridge, M.A.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2011)
… of 1918, then nuanced chapters examining the major combatants in technology, logistics, and intelligence, … gains Germany could position itself advantageously for a future war that the military chiefs expected. 3 Weaknesses … the lack of German replacements; and recognition of the futility of further sacrifice. 4 Economically, Stevenson …
Herbert Hoover

We Could Use a Man like Herbert Hoover Again

… Hurricane Katrina has underscored the importance of unified command and control in response to national disasters. … programs to better prepare state and local leaders for future crises. These programs should be run by the National … to the 1927 flood. If we are to deal effectively with future hurricanes, earthquakes, forest fires and mudslides, …

Are Women People? The Equal Rights Amendment Then and Now

… victory signals that the ERA has a renewed chance to become the 28 th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. To be … conditions, and physical tasks too arduous for pregnant bodies. In the years leading up to the introduction of the … National Consumers League (NCL), disagreed. She enlisted future Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis to argue the …
Booker T. Washington

Picturing Black History

… 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 …

Humans Have Always Lived in a World of Many Worlds

… past will help transform the way we see the present and the future. Different Truths to Live By Every human community tells its own stories about the ultimate order of … 1552 work A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies . For the peoples of Abya Yala , this holocaust was not …
soldiers at the battle of Lincoln

King Stephen and The Anarchy: A Reign Reconsidered

… 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 …
A crowd of protesters at night in Sudan

Sudan: Popular Protests, Today and Yesterday

… 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 …

A New Congo Crisis?

… 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 …
Team photo of a soccer team

The Politics of International Sport

… 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, …

Blue, Black, and Green: Inflation and the Fate of Argentina

… where tourists and porteños (inhabitants of Buenos Aires) come to exchange currency. As one walks the streets, the … life” and commented continually on the nation’s optimistic future. A protest against the banks and Corralito in 2002. … of inflation and devaluation, Rosas slashed public subsidies and public works. A proponent of small government, …
A photograph of Dr. David Livingstone from 1857.

Dr. Livingstone, I Presume?: Missionaries, Journalists, Explorers, and Empire

Review of Dr. Livingstone, I Presume?: Missionaries, Journalists, Explorers, and Empire, by Clare Pettitt (Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 2007)
… The writer Walter Benjamin once suggested that "History decomposes into images, not narratives" and Clare Pettitt … to Livingstone's servants Susi and Chuma. Livingstone died shortly after being so famously found and it was they … role in shaping our view of Africa. While Livingstone had died shortly after the meeting, Stanley continued to be a …
Three 10th Mountain Division Ski troopers above Camp Hale in the Pando Valley, Colorado in February, 1944.

Skis, Samba, and Smoking Snakes: An Unlikely World War II Partnership

What happened when glacier-goggled American ski troops and samba-loving Brazilian soldiers fought side-by-side halfway across the world?
… in a stalemate with Axis troops north of Rome. With a commanding view of the narrow approach to the Po River … forgotten: The fact that during its Italian odyssey, its soldiers fought as joint-combatants with an unlikely set of … the line far too long and lacked adequate rest.  Conducting futile frontal assaults undermined by a general lack of …

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. … demonstrated Hussein's reckless aggressiveness and the futility of Bush administration efforts to deal with him on …
Photograph of Augusto César Sandino, taken between 1927 and 1934

The Sandino Manifesto and the Birth of the Nicaraguan Revolution

… 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 …
Vladimir Putin seated and surrounded by military officers

World War II Memory in Putin's Russia

… Vladimir Putin has gone to extraordinary lengths to commemorate the Second World War. Even though the war ended … in World War II. He said this, quote, "Glory to the soldiers. They have passed on to us a heroic tradition and have … impossible to pursue that option now. But hopefully, in the future, will be become once against a possibility.   Dr. …

A Century of HIV

… 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 …