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… 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 decolonization, the Arab-Israeli conflict, the Cold …

… The holiday season is a time of giving to loved ones. It can also be a time … World War left destruction far beyond the battlefields of Europe. Food supplies were devastated, and recovery would not come easily. The American Relief Administration, led by …

… a life in the wake of the Holocaust, many Jewish survivors, community and religious leaders, and Allied soldiers viewed marriage between Jewish women and military … these unions were more than just a ticket out of war-torn Europe: they would help the Jewish people repopulate after …

… in recent propaganda. Why and how do nationalists in Europe and the U.S. draw contemporary connections to ancient … in the Classics and History do about it? On this episode of History Talk , hosts Jessica Viñas-Nelson and Brenna Miller speak with three classists to discuss …

… at the “false dichotomy between Native peoples who built societies around kinship and Europeans who focused on race,” Lee argues that both … his reader back to a Middle America before Europeans, as commercial and military power shifted between Mississippian … Indigenous Communities …

… by the meeting between Africans, Native Americans, and Europeans in the Americas. The idea that diseases such as … measles, typhus, and influenza decimated Indigenous communities in the Americas is a commonly held one. Like so … one’s breast, etc. there was indeed perishing, many indeed died of it.” Aztec victims of a sixteenth-century epidemic. …

… firearms were brought to the western hemisphere by European explorers and settlers. They quickly became … them and Euro-Americans saying “Indian polities used commercial and military leverage to shape these … with the most fearsome of natural elements and embodied the awesome power of the Thunderbird and the Horned …

… us on an authoritative and eye-opening journey into how the company Monsanto came to have outsized influence over our … genetically engineered technology. Panel: Bart Elmore | Associate Professor of Environmental History at The Ohio State University … chemical companies that are the kind of lions of the day. Europe is where most of these chemicals that are ultimately …

… Organization. The word influenza is derived from the medieval Italian word for “influence” ( influentia ) and … first used the term in English, but “influenza” was not a commonly used term in England until the 1782 pandemic. 2. … the summer months, spread quickly to Africa and then into Europe along trade routes from Asia Minor and Northern …

… of pollutants and toxins. Panelists: Nicholas Breyfogle, Associate Professor, Department of History; Director, Goldberg Center Kip Curtis, Associate Professor, Department of History Jennifer Eaglin, … we'd want to think about and some of them may be in the audience today are young people, especially associated with …

… carried out by crazed individuals that defy all reason. But is this actually the case? When and why did suicide … and Patrick Potyondy who interview guests Corbin Williamson , Jonathan Romaneski , and Jeffrey Lewis as they tackle … tough questions on the terrors of suicide bombing. ( Image Source ) …

… During the European exploration and colonization of Africa during the … to Livingstone's servants Susi and Chuma. Livingstone died shortly after being so famously found and it was they … a celebrity figure until his death in 1904. And as Pettitt points out it was Stanley's portrayal of "darkest Africa" …

… On its “Milestones in UN History” website, the United Nations features smallpox eradication, … often killing between 30% and 90% of those infected. They died miserable deaths. Pope Clement XI’s personal physician, … example, the virus claimed an estimated 200 million cows in Europe, to the horror of their owners. This was why Pope …

… first forged during an earlier era of Sino-American competition. Yet looking at Chinese engagement in Africa … relationships. Panel: Nicholas Breyfogle (Moderator) | Associate Professor, Department of History Patrick Nash | … Title VI grant to The Ohio State University East Asian Studies Center, the Goldberg Center for Teaching Excellence in …

… United States is characterized by three great waves of newcomers. The first wave came primarily from Ireland, Germany, and other parts of northern and western Europe during the mid-nineteenth century. The second wave … movies typically depicted Italian, Irish, and Jewish soldiers fighting alongside their WASP comrades. The stated …

… dying lay beneath the rubble and remains of their homes and communities, American televangelist Pat Robertson stated … a French colony that played a crucial role in trade between Europe, the Caribbean, and the Americas during the … Boukman's revolt quickly blossomed into the largest, bloodiest slave uprising in history. By the end of September, …

… rebuke to conventional wisdom so the battle of Adwa was to European attitudes towards Africans during the Age of … and, due to a series of blunders by his subordinate commanders, his force was overwhelmed. Aside from numerous … also captured 1,900 Italians and 1,500 Askari (African soldiers serving in the Italian armed forces). The scope and …

… in order to separate it from the scandalous collapse of a commercial bank that had strong financial links to the king. … Stockholm in 1680. This was the first building in northern Europe intended solely for banking. The distinction of being … and 2013. Indeed, we were still living with the barely studied consequences of the financial crisis of 2008 when the …

… birds—dried Indian corn, wheat, barley, and fish. The local diet also included lobster, eel, nuts, squash, beans, and … and other fruits and vegetables Native Americans and European settlers farmed no longer exist. Four centuries later, we have come to depend increasingly on only a handful of commercial …

… against one another on a range of economic, political and social issues, many attributed the outcome of the 2016 election to the frustrations of just 15% of … and rare moments of cooperation and shared goals.  ( Image Source ) … population of Chicago really begins to explode. It's really European immigrants of one kind, and another, and then …

… this project was in a part an academic exercise, it was also an effort to reclaim pieces of a family’s experience that … hegemonic nationalist narratives. Host: Lucy Murphy, Professor | Department of History | The Ohio State University … Ohio State Newark Earthworks Center, American Indian Studies, and the Department of History. …