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… A highway bridge collapses in Minnesota, lead poisons the water of Flint, Michigan, and Americans are … and what it can tell us about  changing conceptions of the common good. In addition, host Patrick Potyondy interviews … big federal involvement in infrastructure would be subsidies for the railroads in the nineteenth century.   Dr. …

… On this episode of History Talk , guests Johanna Sellman , Gulsah … the idea that women's rights marks a divide between Islamic societies and the "West," explore the history of women's … artistic expression throughout the Islamic world. ( Image Source ) …

… in American history. Burr fatally wounded Hamilton, who died the next day. Hamilton’s premature death transformed … ) wrote 2015's Broadway sensation, Hamilton ( left ), and also starred as the Tony Award winning cast's titular … of Lin Manuel Miranda’s musical Hamilton , he has also become a pop culture icon. Meanwhile, as the character of …

… in the first five books of the Old Testament.  It was common throughout ancient India, the Middle East, Africa, … The upper classes in several regions of what is now Europe also practiced it prior to the 7th century. A more … and celibate was the best way to serve the Lord. In the medieval European hierarchy of female virtue, the unmarried …

… The Complexity of Brazilian Race Relations … Between Black and White: The Complexity of Brazilian Race Relations … represents an ideology entirely different from white European and North American phobias about race mixture … unabated until the I 930s. The program, which included subsidies for the transAtlantic voyage, was designed to solve the …

…  Remember the famous Marshall Plan that helped Europe rebuild after World War II?  Before the … enemies of peace."   Democrats and Republicans could surely come together to realize that children overseas dying or … for sustenance a benchmark of success in Afghanistan.  Also, we cannot ignore the serious food needs of Pakistan as …

… 1009 CE, the church serves as one of many major pilgrimage points. The interior of the Church has been split as … Christians Ethiopian monks relax in the courtyard of Dier Es-Sultan monastery. A narrow stairway leads to Dier … Residents of Silwan gather for a celebration at their community center. This is the same question the Palestinian …

… long history of pointing to mental illness as a panacea for solving social problems and an equally lengthy history of … the treatment of those considered mentally ill. On this episode of History Talk, hosts Jessica Viñas-Nelson and Brenna … from the present, but people suffering from late stage neurosyphilis, absolutely they have they wound up in …

… human immune systems, HIV has also allowed tuberculosis to come thundering back as a global health threat and has … ethical framework for patient participation in research studies. The virus has also spurred scientists to create a … Colonial Africa: The Crucible of HIV The globalization of European imperialism helped incubate and spread HIV within …

… international race for the arctic . He tells us about the complex and perhaps explosive historical dimensions of climate change . ( Image Source ) … of history at The Ohio State University who specializes in European and environmental history. He's the author of …

… unrest that followed. To explain this food crisis to an audience in St. Louis in May 2008, then-President George W. … In more recent years, some in the United States and Europe have argued that this large population poses a global … the early nineteenth century, when the British East India Company controlled an increasing swath of territory across …

… nearly 117,000 perished during the war — 53, 402 in combat — and another 204,000 were wounded. Many believe that the last man to die in the war was an American soldier, 23-year-old Henry … that they be honored. Julian Saltman, a Ph.D. candidate in European history at the University of California-Berkeley, …

… his era. His expeditions to remote – remote, at least, from Europe – corners of the world, including South America and … an explorer into a conservationist. Alexander von Humboldt dies on p. 105 of this book, roughly a third of the way … a bit fuzzy around the edges here. For all of them, Sachs points to the de-centering that comes with exploration, …

… eye of a political storm that toppled French colonialism in Southeast Asia, exposing the shallow logic of the Cold War, … still shrouded in mystery. Spent largely at the fringes of European and Asian societies, Ho's complex experiences have been canonized at home and abroad, …

… While not explicitly backing Manila, Obama stressed his commitment to preserving stability in  the South China Sea . … role in the western Pacific, unable to compete with European power or Russian and Japanese proximity. Even after … Boxer Rebellion in China targeted Westerners, 2,500 U.S. soldiers quickly traversed the South China Sea to help suppress …

… Mubarak's home and workplace in the 1980s. Blending Arabic, European, and Persian architectural styles, the complex embodied purposefully Egypt's place at the crossroads of the … nightmare"—a spigot of information from the contact points of American power, where powerbrokers and diplomats …

… I'm an Associate Professor of History and American Studies at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. I specialize in … have established some kind of quota system. In most of the European countries, the parties themselves say, well, a … Sokolsky. Song and band information can be found on our website. You can find our podcasts and more at our website …

… 2014, more than 22,000 cases of measles have appeared in Europe and the World Health Organization recently called for … vaccines and by the concerns raised by now-discredited studies that linked vaccines and autism. And as vaccination … child as a man stands outside with a cow (from the Wellcome Trust). The term vaccination comes from variolae …

… or the shrinking of the Aral Sea? These, too, rank as tragedies of the highest order. The Arctic, defined as the lowest … patterns in the south, Arctic meteorology has increasingly come to affect them. The Arctic’s terminal decline, then, … and territorial mastery played their roles in motivating Europe’s northern incursions into the Arctic, but killing …