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Tanks and soldiers in parade in Pyongyang

North Korea: The Myth of a Hermit Kingdom

… Jessica Blissit   Welcome to History Talk , the podcast that brings together a … relations, and director of the Institute for Korean Studies.   Dr. Mitch Lerner   Thanks for having me.   Brenna … Blissit. Song and band information can be found on our website. You can find our podcast and more on our website at …
Cover of Living I Was Your Plague: Martin Luther's World and Legacy by Lyndal Roper.

The Legacy of Luther

Review of Living I Was Your Plague: Martin Luther’s World and Legacy, by Lyndal Roper (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2021)
Crowd photo of protests in Hong Kong

Hong Kong and China: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

… Kong. The demonstrators' demands have also expanded to encompass an investigation into police brutality, the … government, and Beijing? How did Hong Kong’s autonomy come about in the first place, and how might it be at risk? … people how to engage in peaceful nonviolent civil disobedience. So there were a number of steps leading up to this, …

Treaties and Sovereign Performances, from Westphalia to Standing Rock

… Bakken oil-shale region in western North Dakota to a tank complex in Illinois. Its route crosses the Missouri River … in 1851 between the U.S. and the Sioux Indian bands ( top ). Signing of a peace treaty in 1642 in New Amsterdam … of Tears in Oklahoma. An estimated 3,500 Native Americans died along the 1,200 mile journey. Indian treaty-makers did …
Women at the Women's March in DC with signs: "Can't Believe We STILL Have to Protest", "Keep your Hands and Laws Off my Body", "RAPE CULTURE" with a line through it

The Long History of #MeToo

… new allegations against powerful men emerge as more women come forward. But, while many are heralding the rise of the … Ohio State University's Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Department, where she specializes in African American … Vinas-Nelson, song and band information can be found on our website. You can find our podcast and more on their website
Robert Smalls pictured between 1870-1880.

The Remarkable Life of Robert Smalls

… the state of Confederate fortifications there. Union Naval commanders acted quickly and successfully on this … the Planter , making him one of the highest paid Black soldiers of the war. His reputation was further burnished … institutions in order to tell his story and help enlist soldiers for the war. The end of the conflict and its immediate …
Artifact from Benin

Who Owns the Past? Museums and Cultural Heritage Repatriation

… In November 2018, a report commissioned by French President Emannuel Macron called for … of Native American remains by American museums to the complicated provenance of Greek and Roman antiquities held … speak with two experts in material culture and museum studies — Professor Sarah Van Beurden and Origins editor Steven …
A map of the US night sky, showing points of population density

Fault Lines: The Urban-Rural Divide in America

… political and social issues, many attributed the outcome of the 2016 election to the frustrations of just 15% of … Jessica Blissit   Welcome to History Talk , the podcast that brings together a … Blissit. Song and band information can be found on our website. You can find our podcast and more on our website
Free speech march at Ohio State University in the mid-20th century

Politics and Protest on College Campuses

… But how does political engagement on campuses today compare to the history of American campus activism, … protests can teach campus activists, administrators, and communities today. For more on OSU campus protests in the … to learn and want to express themselves, you have the ingredients that can lead to a lot of activists’ behavior.   …
Ivan Aivazovsky, a Native of Feodosia, Crimea, is known as one of Russia's greatest painters, and one of the world's best at seascapes. The Battle of Sinop (Russian and Turkish Navies), 1853

Top Ten Origins: Stories from Crimea

… The Crimea that most people have come to know is a peninsula occupied by Russian forces, … northern regions, Simferopol, the northern environs of Sevastopol in the west and Feodosia in the east. The Crimean … Crimea to Russia, as the ancient site where, according to medieval Russian documents, Prince Vladimir “the Baptist” …
The Rodina crew. Left to right: Polina Osipenko, Valentina Grizodubova, and Marina Raskova.

The Rodina Flight

The Remarkable Story of the Women’s Non-Stop Long-Distance Flight Record
… honor in the country. Their achievement: setting the non-stop long-distance flight record for women at 26 hours 29 … miles in a straight line).  Plans for the women’s flight commenced three months earlier in August 1938. Valeriy … 15. Shevchenko, Nikolay, “How Three Soviet Women Nearly Died Chasing their Aviation Dream, Gateway to Russia , …

The Unkept Promise of Nuclear Power

… attends Operation Plumbbob as Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, 1968 (left). The nuclear reactors at the Hanford … However, the quest to use the peaceful atom to build a utopian future has been marked by limited success, by … but in reality private firms came to rely on federal subsidies while they complained about excessive regulation. The …

Killing the Arctic

… 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, … to melt Arctic glaciers with a super-cannon fired from the top of Mount Kilimanjaro, thereby gaining access to coal …

All Politics is Local: Understanding Boko Haram

… The consensus among many academics, journalists, and commentators is that Boko Haram is an Islamist organization … the most powerful person in Borno. Muhammad al-Kanami died in 1838, and was succeeded by his sons. The last of … it would reach a widespread and linguistically diverse audience. According to Paul Newman, who is among the foremost …
Lenin waving flag in front of crowd of workers and soldiers

From Romanovs to Reds: Russia's Revolutions at 100

… Jessica Vinas-Nelson  Welcome to History Talk , the podcast that brings together a … in Ohio, a specialist in Russian and post Soviet studies. Dr. Stephen Norris   Hello. Brenna Miller  In the … Vinas-Nelson. Song and band information can be found on our website. You can find our podcasts and more on our website
John Filo's iconic photograph of Mary Ann Vecchio kneeling over the body of Jeffrey Miller

Kent State after Fifty Years

… antiwar movement, Black Power, and the generation gap had come even to Ohio. As the iconoclastic journalist I.F. Stone … began quietly. Governor Rhodes, who had been in Cleveland, stopped at Kent on his return to the state capital, Columbus. … back at the Guard. Some chucked rocks; others jeered the soldiers. Many students described the atmosphere as almost …
Refugees eating lunch outside the barracks.

Waiting in Limbo: Life as a Refugee in Serbia

… Swat, Pakistan, where he was pursuing a graduate degree in computer engineering. He left seven months ago because he … of other refugees who remain trapped in Serbia. Hungary completed its first razor-wire border fence in September … but for those waiting in limbo time moves slowly and hope dies fast. [All photos by author] …
Mehmed VI, the last Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, leaving the country after the abolition of the Ottoman sultanate, 1922

The Long End of the Ottoman Empire

… Ottoman rule for centuries. The Balkan Wars saw atrocities committed against civilians on a massive scale. The … However, the overall impact of these conflicts paled in comparison to the  First World War .  The magnitude of death … Gingko Library, 2023 ) Hans-Lukas Kieser, When Democracy Died: The Middle East's Enduring Peace of Lausanne …
illustration of woman getting cow pox variolation

Top Ten Origins: Vaccination

… vaccines and by the concerns raised by now-discredited studies that linked vaccines and autism. And as vaccination … on the rise. As we discuss and debate, Origins offers the Top Ten things you should know about vaccines and … child as a man stands outside with a cow (from the Wellcome Trust). The term vaccination comes from variolae …