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Fifty Years Later, We Still Need to Learn to Love the Bomb

… Film Institute ranks the film as the third best American comedy ever made and the 39th best film overall. It would be … can’t fight in here! This is the War Room!” But few comedies have endured like Dr. Strangelove, and Strangelove has … War was a farce. And so, rather than preaching to its audience about the possibilities of apocalypse, Dr. …
Washington Receiving a Salute on the Field of Trenton by John Faed, featuring Blueskin.

Does Experience Really Help?

… is likely to run again. So relevant "experience" is hard to come by.This presidential season, everybody is talking about … then abandoning, the Hungarian revolution against communism in 1956, failing to stop Joe McCarthy's … on. William Henry Harrison, hero in the Indian wars, also died early in his presidency. Ulysses Grant presided over …
U.S. Department of Homeland Security seal.

Sharing the Burdens of War

… manufacturers who overcharged taxpayers and cost many soldiers their lives. Like these divisive measures, the current … draft exemption for college students. At the time, family income was the largest single determinant of who attended … National Philadelphia” and director of American Culture Studies at Bowling Green State University. …
Billboard of Nursultan Nazarbayev in Kazakhstan, 2015.

Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, and the Democratization Shell Game

… both countries appear to break from the autocratic past and complicate our understanding of their political future. In … that were billed as “the final transition from a super-presidential form of government to a presidential … years of the USSR.  The two leaders quickly tossed aside Communism as a governing ideology and instead embraced …

The Secular Roots of a Religious Divide in Contemporary Iraq

… some political pundits conclude, negotiations cannot overcome divine principles dictating distinct worldviews that … Rightly Guided Caliphs were chosen by a consensus of the community. This was not a democracy; it was instead a … as  ashura . Shi'is believe that Husayn was a martyr who died the rightful leader of the political community. …

A Pact with the Devil? The United States and the Fate of Modern Haiti

… dying lay beneath the rubble and remains of their homes and communities, American televangelist Pat Robertson stated … Boukman's revolt quickly blossomed into the largest, bloodiest slave uprising in history. By the end of September, … conflicts, in 1802, the French captured Louverture who died in 1803 while in French custody. Naturally, the French …
Meiji Constitution promulgation by Toyohara Chikanobu, 1889.

Japan’s Meiji Restoration

… Assistance.  “As the first non-Western nation to become a developed country, Japan built itself into a country … more broadly, for better and for worse.  Yet, studying commemorations like the Meiji sesquicentennial reveals how … Indigenous Communities …
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

… was even in Puritan New England) is a civil contract. Thus, superior courts in California, Massachusetts and Connecticut … religiously intolerant regimes in the world today.   The outcome of the recent referendum in California shows us that …
Harper's Weekly illustration

Top Ten Contested Political Conventions

… on how you score the Democrats in 1860) at which the outcome wasn’t clear at the outset. Anti-Masons 1831 William … belligerence : a maximalist policy on Texas annexation, combined with a maximalist policy on expansion into the … Protester standing in front of a row of National Guard soldiers, across the street from the Democratic National …
Protesters during day 14 of Occupy Wall Street

"Class Warfare" in American History

… Politics." Thanks for being on the show Sarah, and welcome.  Sarah Siff   My pleasure. Thanks.  Patrick Potyondy   … process of writing through that and have your graduate studies, you're a PhD student in the history department here at OSU. I'm wondering if your graduate studies in history have prepared you for only specific types of …
voting button by Steve Rainwater, Flickr, CC BY-SA 2.0

Race and Voting, Past and Present

… phone line or to check registration lists on a laptop computer. But very few majority-black districts received the … White and Hispanic districts enjoyed greater access to the computers, so they also had an easier time verifying their … contest, the Hayes-Tilden battle of 1876. Most recent commentators on this episode have focused upon the issue of …
Queen Mary’s College, opened in 1914.

A Postcard from Madras: A City Born of the Colonial Encounter

… (Madras) in India. Madras was born in 1636, when East India Company official Francis Day signed a treaty with the Nayaka … British Crown insisted that in return for financial aid the Company would allow missionaries to proselytize freely in … when England went to war, so did her colonies. Indian soldiers became an integral part of the Allied war effort in …
Israeli soldiers stand around their tanks during the Yom Kippur War.

The Yom Kippur War and the OPEC Oil Embargo

… heavily on Soviet support for arms and many Arab nations welcomed Soviet aid. Nixon and National Security Adviser Henry … that an embargo of sales to the United States was forthcoming. Nixon attempted to assuage Saudi fears, promising to help mediate “peaceful, just, and honorable” outcomes for all parties.  Nixon quickly undercut his own …

Russia and the Race for the Arctic

… understand why there is all this noise in the international community. If anyone wants to plant a flag down there, … in the United States. For Shmidt, his rapid rise to Arctic superstardom began with the 1932 expedition of the ship … that the Arctic holds in the Russian heart and spirit. Adieu Polar Bears: Climate Change and the Arctic's …
A scene from the revolution

The People Power Revolution, Philippines 1986

… since well before Marcos’s declaration of martial law. Committed activists who organized underground in the … the corruption of the Marcoses in exchange for an anti-Communist bulwark in Southeast Asia. By the mid-1980s, … and chose instead to defect. This group included soldiers who had grown frustrated with corruption in the …
Side view of an Andrew Jackson bust at the MET.

The Long Tradition of White House Sex Scandals

… married in the 1790s before her divorce had officially become final. He won the election anyway, but she died of a stress-induced heart attack before he began his … Washington boarding house and causing her first husband to commit suicide out of shame over her supposed blatant sexual …
Detail of an 8th-century silk painting depicting Wu Zeitan.

Wu Zetian: The Only Woman Emperor in Chinese History

… the Sui and established the Tang dynasty. He rose to become Minister of Works, giving Wu Zetian an early taste of … request, Yuan Tiangang—the foremost diviner of his day—studied her. Struck by her features, Yuan declared that the … the prince got involved in a taboo liaison. When Taizong died, Wu Zetian, 25, was sent to a convent, while Li Zhi …
Eight women in US politics

Women in American Politics

… Patrick Potyondy  Welcome to History Talk the podcast that brings together a … I'm an Associate Professor of History and American Studies at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. I specialize in … Sokolsky. Song and band information can be found on our website. You can find our podcasts and more at our website
The original Star-Spangled Banner is on view at the National Museum of American History in Washington, DC.

Grace Wisher: The Black Girl Who Helped Stitch the Star-Spangled Banner

… Three years into Grace’s apprenticeship, Pickersgill was commissioned to create the Star-Spangled Banner in … households worked to contribute to the family income and many white and Black working-class populations sold … role in the establishment of the United States. Their bodies were relied upon for the continuation of the …
A protest against the Iraq War held in 2007 in Washington D.C.

“Passive Citizenship is Not Enough”

… the country, his own books, articles, and op-ed pieces accomplished nothing. Yet his declaration denies the real … Vietnam, ultimately rising to the rank of colonel before becoming an academic. A conservative, he nevertheless became … of U.S. troops in Iraq as they shift the mission from combat to support. Even the Senate Republican leader, Mitch …
North College Hill, Ohio, USA, Memorial Day parade, 2004, by Rick Dikeman.

A Vanishing American Remembrance?

… May 30 as Decoration Day at national cemeteries to honor soldiers who died in service. Gen. Logan's order spoke only to honoring … the national holiday from its pedestal. Memorial Day commemorates the men and women killed on the battlefield or …
Glass negative of Kaiser Wilhelm.

A New Kind of Anti-Americanism

… trade, encouraging the development of the European common market and paying the lion’s share for NATO, the … supporting right-wing dictatorships in the name of halting communism, but also saw the United States as a defender of … is increasingly blurred as allies and former enemies have come to regard the United States much as European nations …