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Black women marching with signs supporting integration

Race in the Classroom: Teaching Civil Rights

… Leticia Wiggins   This is your host Leticia Wiggins and welcome to History Talk , the history podcast for everyone produced by Origins .   Patrick Potyondy   And … hard work of ordinary, everyday people, and so if people visiting the museum or people in who take our classes, take …

A Century of U.S. Relations with Iraq

… some five hours later. This departure of the 3rd Brigade Combat Team of the 1st Cavalry Division of the U.S. … government took very little interest in Mesopotamia (Greek for "land between the rivers," in reference to the basin … peaceful, and progressive foundation. While this latest effort to remake Iraq achieved certain markers of …
Man at march holding sign that reads "Make America NATIVE Again"

Indigenous Peoples' Day: A Conversation

… People. Dr. Jacob is the Intercultural Specialist for Native American and indigenous Students and Dr. Rivers … Dr. Dr. Daniel Rivers: Thank you so much and welcome to our webinar for Indigenous Peoples' Day. It's … there's that opportunity to engage. You can go and actually visit the Newark Earthworks Center over in Newark. They do …

Killing the Arctic

… is more, climate conditions there serve as a bellwether for planetwide trends. Indeed, rather than simply … patterns in the south, Arctic meteorology has increasingly come to affect them. The Arctic’s terminal decline, then, … via the northern coasts of Scandinavia and Russia—paid a visit to the Greenland ice cap. During this journey, he …
June 4th, 2014, at Hong Kong’s Victoria Park (Photo by the author)

Remembering Tiananmen: The View from Hong Kong

… In between memory and forgetting, there is commemoration . On June 4, 1989 a … reported that only a few family members were allowed to visit the graves, and Zhang Xianling of the Tiananmen …
Ukrainian soldier with blue and yellow ribbon overlay

Understanding the War in Ukraine: Insights from the Recent Past, 1991—Present

… European Languages and Cultures and Director of the Center for Slavic, East European & Eurasian Studies. This lecture is a part of the Center for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies' … 2001, Bush and Putin had a summit meeting, which included a visit by Putin to Bush's ranch in Texas. But relations …
Globe on a plate with knife and fork next to it

Diet for a Large Planet

… choices and agricultural systems is causing problems both for human health and the health of our planet. Solutions … Nicholas Breyfogle: Welcome to Diet for a Large Planet by The Ohio State University. I'm an … Diet for a Large Planet …
Haze obscuring image of rooftops in China

The Greening of China?

… great paradox. With its fast-growing economy, China has become the leading producer of CO2 (though not on a per-capita basis). Simultaneously, it has become the world's leading producer of green and renewable … environment, and what global role China might play in the coming years in confronting climate change. ( Image Source ) …
Moskvitch 3 vehicles roll off the assembly line at JSC Moscow Automobile Plant Moskvitch, 2022.

Sanctions on Russia: Impact and Efficacy

… damaging sanctions against the Russian state, its companies, and its citizens. The sanctions were intended to … and inflict such a high economic cost that it could not afford to continue the war.  As the war grinds on, Russia’s … origin have come at a cost. Kommersant , a major Russian newspaper, reported in late 2022 that defective microchips …

"Y'En A Marre!" (We're Fed Up!): Senegal in the Season of Discontent

… On June 23, 2011, I arrived for a morning of research in Senegal's national archives, in … starting. [Y'En A Marre] want change and their patience has come to an end. Prices are too high, the power fails all the … toward the U.S. President George W. Bush made a celebrated visit to the country in July 2003 in the wake of the Iraq …
bowl of pills with a black background

The Past and Future of the Global War on Drugs (Prologued, Season 2, Finale)

… on Prologued...   Alexander Aviña  So it's a really, like, complex, messy matrix, right? So I don't want to say that there was no drug interdiction effort in Guerrero - there was. But it wasn't the primary … As any good historian should, we encourage our listeners to visit the episode descriptions for citations to background …

Justice Denied: The Killing of Trayvon Martin in Historical Perspective

… After deliberating for sixteen hours, the jurors in  State of Florida v. George … Tallahassee hours earlier. Waiting for the verdict had become unbearable. On the charge of second-degree murder, the … in the sleepy town a few days when he and several buddies visited a convenience store to purchase candy and cold …
Crowds of people in Kyiv, Ukraine

The Fate of Crimea, the Future of Ukraine, Part I

… Crimea was absorbed into Russia, and what the future holds for Ukraine and the Crimean peninsula. ( Image Source ) … Leticia Wiggins  Welcome to History Talk , the history podcast for everyone produced by Origins: Current Events in …

The Politics of International Adoption

… violence, malnutrition or disease. Ten million is hard to comprehend. Nor is it any easier if we break it down: thirty … and perhaps even to flourish. The fact that many of those efforts fail does not subtract from the need to remain … countries in question: orphanages, and the street. I have visited orphanages in several Asian countries; no child …

China Dreams and the “Road to Revival”

… 29, 2012, newly appointed General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Xi Jinping gave a speech that would … Although the term had already entered popular use before Xi’s speech, “China Dream” has since become a lynchpin … if couched in the language of censure—could prompt visitors to the exhibit today to reflect on the injustice …

1989 Twenty Years On: The End of Communism and the Fate of Eastern Europe

… congregated in streets and squares and demanded the end of communist rule. These are indelible images deeply impressed … to communism in Europe. Throughout 2009, countries from the former Soviet Bloc have attempted to recapture some of that … sense of this shift from wonders to worries, one must revisit the history of communism, explore its collapse, and …
Pope Leo XIV in the popemobile at his inauguration, 2025.

Faith, History, and the City of God in the 21st Century

… Rome . If  warnings of the imminent rise of superhuman AI come to pass, he may be the last pontiff crowned during the … confessed to reporters. These times “present a challenge for all of us but it is one that we should not run away … respect for natural order and human limitations is worth revisiting.  As AI datacenters threaten to surpass the  energy …
illustration of woman getting cow pox variolation

Top Ten Origins: Vaccination

… in Europe and the World Health Organization recently called for increased vaccination campaigns in the region. In the … child as a man stands outside with a cow (from the Wellcome Trust). The term vaccination comes from variolae vaccinae , or “smallpox of the cow,” …
Rodin's "The Thinker"

Reaching Beyond the Ivory Tower

… the public intellectual in today’s world. (And don’t forgot to pop over to our Connecting History blog to read … Patrick Potyondy   Welcome to History Talk , the history podcast for everyone, … right.   Jessica Adler    I'm Jessica Adler , currently a visiting researcher at Tufts University and I'll be starting …

Population Bomb? The Debate over Indian Population

… than our entire population," Bush argued that the demand for "better nutrition and better food" among this massive … the early nineteenth century, when the British East India Company controlled an increasing swath of territory across … People eating, people washing, people sleeping. People visiting, arguing, and screaming. People thrusting their …
The almshouse at Woburn, Bedfordshire, England

Top Ten Origins: Housing the Poor

… home is the single greatest expense in most people’s lives. For non-homeowners, rent usually takes up the largest share … in Silicon Valley (where even people with six-figure incomes may qualify for housing subsidies) have attracted … of Homeowners: Ciudad Kennedy President John F. Kennedy visits El Techo housing project, Bogotá, Colombia, 1961 On …

Requiem: Detroit and the Fate of Urban America

… I saw the ad on a real estate web site a week ago. For sale: 3952 Chatsworth Street, Detroit, Michigan. A five … the phalanx of government programs that made our world comfortable: the labor laws that gave our fathers the … crying. We'll still talk, we tell each other. We'll come to visit. Nothing will change. And we believe what we're …