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Photo from 1890 of the first OSU football team

Taylor Branch on the Crisis of College Sports

… Collegiate Athletic Association, or NCAA. In addition to completing the monumental  King Era Trilogy , Branch has … Patrick Potyondy  Welcome to History Talk , the history podcast for everyone produced by Origins . I'm your host, Patrick …
The other side of The Shore, depicting the Maritime House, third from the left. The former headquarters of the National Seamen’s Union are now flats.

A Postcard from Leith, Scotland

… replaces it. The wealthy Georgian facades of New Town transform into charity shops, pubs, Indian restaurants, and the … your right, you will encounter the upscale whiskey house, complete with nineteenth-century stone walls that feature … maritime, industrial, and working-class culture, when you visit the neighborhood today, the only reminders of that …
Cover of The End of the West: The Once and Future Europe by David Marquand

The End of the World as We Know It?

Review of The End of the West: The Once and Future Europe, by David Marquand (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2011)
… - the deliberate construction of a supranational European Community, based on law rather than force, in which ancient enemies could live together in … with the E.U. One of the more interesting and important points that Marquand makes is that while the Eurozone …
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: … Henry and Eric Michael Rhodes discuss this pivotal moment for Sudan with two experts on Sudanese history and politics: … All Politics is Local: Understanding Boko Haram , Searching for Wakanda: The African Roots of the Black Panther Story , …
Israeli Prime Minister, Levi Eshkol

Six Days That Shook The World

Review of The Six Day War: The Breaking of the Middle East, by Guy Laron (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2017)
… and Egypt in the 1950s and 1960s created the conditions for military coups and for administrations that deemed the application of force a welcome distraction from domestic problems. At the same time, … offensive mindset—“Rabin’s Schlieffenplan,” (145) as Laron coins it in pointed allusion. Rabin's "Schlieffenplan:" an …
Soldiers in Kosovo

Kosovo: The Lessons of History?

… “If our bombs are so ‘smart,’ how come they’re always hitting refugees, hospitals and … high school classroom. I should have been better prepared for these questions, for they echoed my concerns during the … School, Albuquerque, N.M., and a writer for the History News Service. …

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 … Dream,” and scholars and pundits explicated its finer points in a rash of academic books and in party theoretical … if couched in the language of censure—could prompt visitors to the exhibit today to reflect on the injustice …
The Champs Elysees crowded with French patriots after the liberation of Paris in 1944.

We Didn’t Go It Alone in 1944

… “freedom fries” and accused the French of cowardly betrayal for refusing to follow the White House into war. Now, with a … policies now causing so much trouble in Iraq. When it comes to remembering World War II, Americans should be more … Tourism in France" (2004), is a writer for the History News Service and a historian at California State University, …

About Origins

… "For insight into the complicated and complicating events ... , one needs perspective, not … attitudes; context, not anecdotes; analyses, not postures. For any kind of lasting illumination the focus must be on …
Marchers for LGBTQ rights

The Debate Over Same-Sex Marriage and LGBTQ Rights

… States has been one of the most dramatic cultural transformations in recent memory. But with these changes have come many questions and tensions. Is the focus on the … Wiggins discuss the historical background behind the news headlines with three experts: Daniel Rivers and Clayton …

A New Congo Crisis?

… Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), exposing the struggle for access to and exploitation of a large copper and cobalt … for current president Joseph Kabila to step down. It has become a cliché to contrast the Congo’s tremendous economic … soldiers in 2001 during U.S. Congressman Frank Wolf’s visit ( left ). Former child soldiers in Congo in the early …
Exiles carry a poster against the communist government of Cuba, in a demonstration in Miami

Cuba in Focus–Again

… again, even on Fidel Castro, whom most of us had almost forgotten — most, that is, except the million-plus … the exiles and the U.S. government joined in a powerful common cause to dump Castro, who, in the peak Cold War … although Americans still need U.S. government permission to visit Cuba legally, many go illegally through third …
Escobar: Paradise Lost, directed by Andrea Di Stefano

2/6/2015: At the Movies: Escobar

… Andrea Di Stefano Del Toro is not the lead, and this is unfortunate because he steals the film from the very first … soldiers. Entrance to Hacienda Napoles, the main Escobar compound, with a gate adorned with Escobar's first smuggling … in other parts of the Americas. And as Robin Kirk points out in the book More Terrible than Death: Massacres, …
A painting of the Rubicon scene from the mid-nineteenth century: Gustave Boulanger, Jules-César arrivé au Rubicon.

Julius Caesar Crosses the Rubicon

… Gaul, or today’s Emilia Romagna—the statesman and accomplished general Julius Caesar crossed the little Rubicon … sole ruler of the Roman state . Caesar developed a template for a Roman autocratic rulership that would have appalled … is one of, if not the, most famous historical turning points. These turning points force us to confront our …

Policing the Police: A Civil Rights Story

… hallways. Teachers gave lessons to help young students comprehend an American past with racial segregation, and how … movement is ending police brutality and use of deadly force. The desire to be free from disproportionate police … and murder of black people,” reads the seventh of 10 points in the Black Panther Party Platform of 1966. To …

'The Energy of a Bright Tomorrow': The Rise of Nuclear Power in Japan

… Fukushima, Japan, but few were there to hear it. The day before, the earth and then the sea turned against the towns in … by the specter of our nuclear past. And given Japan's complicated past with nuclear issues, it is especially … cars and consumer electronics appeared regularly in the newspapers, which ran a spate of pronuclear articles. …
Pancho Villa and followers.

Mexico’s Great Transition

… This Friday, December 1st, for the first time since Mexico's modern revolution in … now joins their ranks — ranks never numerous enough, as news out of Iraq, North Korea, Burma, China and the … taking power.  What ought to be changes of government become changes of regime. Putsches and revolutions substitute …
Protesters during day 14 of Occupy Wall Street

"Class Warfare" in American History

… Doug Dangler   From the Center for the Study and Teaching of Writing at The Ohio State … Politics." Thanks for being on the show Sarah, and welcome.  Sarah Siff   My pleasure. Thanks.  Patrick Potyondy   … was used recently. My primary sources that I used were newspaper articles that I text searched. So it's probably …
KKK Rally

From Dixie to the Third Reich

Review of Hitler’s American Model: The United States and the Making of Nazi Race Law, by James Q. Whitman (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2017)
… regimes, especially those of the US South, as models for these infamous laws. Rather than claiming that the Nazis … law” (p. 5). This argument revolutionizes the discussion of comparative racism and our understanding of the influence of … this event was cataclysmic in that it caused the US to become even more connected with Germany and the racist Third …

Feminism in Egypt: New Alliances, Old Debates

… From 2011 to 2014, breathtaking political changes transformed the lives of men and women in Egypt . First, with the … seats in parliament. Morsi was the winner of Egypt’s first competitive presidential election, but his government was … of the Network of Women's Rights Organizations in Egypt, points to disagreements over basic frames of reference among …
Detail from the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol.

Common Good and Common Evil in American Religion

Review of America’s Religious Wars: The Embattled Heart of Our Public Life, by Kathleen M. Sands (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2019)
… you do not discuss religion, sex, or politics in polite company. Sex to one side, in America’s Religious Wars, … us that talking about religion has always been a vehicle for talking about politics in the United States. From the … lives, such as equality, freedom, limited government, community, dignity, and the distribution of resources. …

From Baghdad to Kabul: The Historical Roots of U.S. Counterinsurgency Doctrine

… transition of all security responsibilities to Afghan forces," Marine Corps Brig. Gen. Larry Nicholson declared at … the benefit of the clear military or geographic objectives common to more conventional wars. This lack of knowledge … part of the city, the Casbah , with barbed wire and checkpoints to force the residents to show identification and …