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Colin Kaepernick and teammates kneeling

The Long View of Sports Protests

… Brenna Miller    Welcome to History Talk the podcast that brings together a … it specifically in a national ceremonial role, is generally credited to have happened for the first time at the 1918 … Song and band information can be found on our website. You can find our podcasts and more on our website at …

Child Kidnapping in America

… the money). This refusal brought him a torrent of negative commentary and helped to define for the future what … parent held one arm of the child and was pulling her in opposite directions. This was the most public display of a … institutions that had developed to supplement the parental supervision of children—such as teachers at child care …
Marker: "90 Miles to Cuba. Southernmost Point, Continental USA. Key West, FL"

Rethinking Cuba Libre

…   Leticia Wiggins  Welcome to History Talk , the history podcast for everyone from … praise. They don't ask for human rights. They just provide credit to an ally and aid to an ally. Relationship with the … Wiggins. You can find our podcasts and more at our website, origins.osu.edu , on iTunes and on SoundCloud, and as …
Ronald Reagan toasting at a State Dinner during his presidency.

Behind the Reagan Myths, a Mediocre Presidency

… number of letters that prove he was no dummy. A historian’s complaint, however, is larger than chagrin at the number of … exemplar of this sort of leadership who got his vote four times. Franklin D. Roosevelt twice sensed that the direction … He squandered this opportunity and instead led in the opposite direction, toward economic and population expansion …

Justice Denied: The Killing of Trayvon Martin in Historical Perspective

… Tallahassee hours earlier. Waiting for the verdict had become unbearable. On the charge of second-degree murder, the … “How do I explain this to my young boys??” tweeted NBA superstar Dwyane Wade. Others used social media to express … in the sleepy town a few days when he and several buddies visited a convenience store to purchase candy and cold drinks. …
King speaking to an anti-Vietnam war rally at the University of Minnesota in St. Paul, April 27, 1967.

Which Martin Luther King to Honor?

… sides their full due, we will be honoring only a bloodless, comforting reflection of the whole troubling man.  Most … greatest triumph, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, the black community of Watts in Los Angeles erupted in riots. More … the striking sanitation workers, when he was killed. This message of resisting economic, social and military …

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 … policy, 2) state-run, state-subsidized systems of commodity credit and storage, and 3) state regulation of the … Revolt" (1954), "Pseudo-Conservatism Revisited" (1964), and "The Paranoid Style in American Politics" …
Photo of "Fighting Bob" La Follette

Lessons for the Nader Camp: ‘Fighting Bob’ La Follette in 1924

… in a sea of political corruption, a caring man genuinely committed to protecting consumers, promoting peace and … showing great strength at the expense of the other; both credited him with more support than he really had. But what … flirtation with the Nader candidacy will not, in the end, supercede the imperative of defeating the Republicans. …
Demolition of Alexander III Monument, Moscow 1918

Russia’s February Revolution and the Precarious Politics of Nostalgia

… To delay is impossible.” The tsar did not reply, instead complaining that “Again that fat-belly Rodzianko has written … into the First World War in 1914 . As those who have visited Russia know well, the First World War can seem … world’s fragility.” Putin used the speech to deliver two messages, the first aimed at an international audience, the …
dollar bill with image of capitol building in front of it

Deeper Than the “Deep State”: Follow the Money

… a year into Trump’s second term, his own supporters have become suspicious that even his Justice Department has joined … more than a fifth higher than the nation’s gross domestic product (GDP), with payments on the debt the fastest … defense, Medicare, or Medicaid. As a result,  Moody’s credit rating agency downgraded the United States’s credit

About Origins

… "For insight into the complicated and complicating events ... , one needs … Patrick R. Potyondy Leticia R. Wiggins Sarah Brady Siff James Helicke Lawrence Bowdish Glenn Kranking Hannah Blubaugh … Miller , Leticia R. Wiggins and Patrick R. Potyondy Music Credits for History Talk Song: "Star-Crossed" Band: The End …
The logo of Solidarność painted on an overturned Soviet era T-55 in Prague in 1990

Poland Takes Charge of Its Own Revolution

Review of Empowering Revolution: America, Poland, and the End of the Cold War, by Gregory F. Domber (The University of North Carolina Press, 2014)
… in the Sejm (Parliament) and the newly-formed Senate to non-Communist candidates. The Polish elections laid the … forge ahead with their efforts to remove their Soviet-led communist parties from power, a process that would be fully … the change in leadership in Poland came about because of domestic efforts, where local leaders “acted independently to …
 Monte Albán

Una Postal de Oaxaca, México

… impresionante, la ciudad de Oaxaca ofrece vistas de la compleja historia de México. En 1521, Hernán Cortés mando a … de la danza tradicional.  La Sierra Madre del Sur es como un paisaje a fondo de la ciudad colorida de Oaxaca. Los … la convirtió en una de las ciudades mas grandes de Mesoamérica (Wikimedia). La ciudad de Oaxaca es la capital …
Close-up of the mural commemorating works of A.J. Muste on the War Resisters League Building in New York, New York.

"There Is No Way to Peace, Peace Is the Way": A.J. Muste and American Radical Pacifism

Review of American Gandhi: A.J. Muste and the History of Radicalism in the Twentieth Century, by Leilah Danielson (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014)
… nonconformist left. Historian Leilah Danielson attempts to complete the work that Muste did not. It is most useful to … he tried to forge an independent middle ground between the Communists on the left and the AFL on the right, first at … view, the United States was leveraging its massive military superiority in a racist colonial war to oppress the people …
Mushroom cloud over the Bikini Atoll

Nuclear Tensions, Nuclear Weapons, and a Long History of Nuclear War

… about nuclear weapons and who has them? How did the U.S. become so central in efforts to control them? And how can past … Brenna Miller Welcome to History Talk , the podcast that brings together a … a lot of pressure to shoot first at them. That's the opposite of strategic stability. Strategic stability means the …

Human Rights at a Crossroads

… League would be an international governing body that would supersede individual national ambition—therefore preventing … have the exclusive right to determine laws and address domestic issues without interference by an external body. A … U.S. soldiers just as they were returning from overseas combat ( left ). The opening session of the League of …

American Presidential Scandals

… A tweet from the Richard Nixon Presidential Library after comparisons were made between Nixon and President Trump when … was more complex and more closely fought. The intended site of the Whitewater Development Corporation along the … Internet (or as Clinton liked to call it, “the Information Superhighway ”). CNN broke the news by filming its lead …

A Sea of Troubles: The Philippines and Pacific Geopolitics

… Sea.” About a year later, President Barack Obama visited Manila to mark the signing of a new Enhanced Defense … While not explicitly backing Manila, Obama stressed his commitment to preserving stability in  the South China Sea . … soil. Undoubtedly, massive American assistance after  Supertyphoon Yolanda  (also called Typhoon Haiyan) in …