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… Fidel Castro is not exactly welcoming the new president of the United States with open … Cuba? Stephen A. Allen is a doctoral candidate in the Medieval Institute at the University of Notre Dame and a writer for the History News Service. [The Medieval Institute, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN …

… of the early martyrs are wildly exaggerated, if not completely fictional. But later, better documented deaths … it easy. Stephen A. Allen is a doctoral candidate in the Medieval Institute at the University of Notre Dame and a writer for the History News Service. [The Medieval Institute, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN …

… World War I, President Woodrow Wilson established the Committee on Public Information, led by journalist George Creel, to craft and communicate America’s message. But the nation’s first … Radio messages carried word of the American commitment to audiences around the world, largely through the format of …

… What would cause an apparently normal young woman to commit such a brutal act? Some commentators believe they … society. Stephen A. Allen is a doctoral candidate in the Medieval Institute at the University of Notre Dame and a writer for the History News Service. [The Medieval Institute, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN …

… shooting a wounded Iraqi prisoner in Fallujah. The soldier in question has been removed from duty and may face a … have been killed before and will be killed again by soldiers making split-second decisions under almost … the last decades of the 20th century. Tales of Americans committing atrocities in Korea have persisted for decades. …

… 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 …

… us on an authoritative and eye-opening journey into how the company Monsanto came to have outsized influence over our … take a moment to get to know our speaker. Bart Elmore studies the past to understand how we can live more sustainably … relationship that you can even see here on their company website they say that without Coca-Cola, there would be no …

… Americans to reexamine their past as well. Austria has become something of a pariah state because its governing … handled gold seized from Jews by the Nazis was beginning to die down. Pope John Paul II recently asked for forgiveness … eventually go to war against Nazi Germany, and American soldiers did help liberate the concentration camps, but some of …

… Speaker's Note: Matt Goldish would like to add a more complete response to one of the questions asked him after … Nicholas Breyfogle:   Hello and welcome to “What was wrong with the judges at the Salem Witch … Jewish-Christian intellectual relations and Sephardic studies. Matt has a B.A. from the University of California Los …

… Hornet pilots defied the orders of their American commanding officers. These pilots independently aborted 40 … device. The "blue on blue" incident killed one British soldier and wounded another. These two incidents are cautionary … In 2007, the war crimes case against seven Polish soldiers for killing Afghani civilians heightened already …

… Just how has American society mobilized for a sense of common purpose in the past? And why have we seemed to lose that sense of common purpose today in the midst of the coronavirus … Riders on San Juan Hill. There was an even greater need for common purpose as the Great War , what we Americans came to …

… protection for gays?  Perhaps the same impulse — the same combination of religious fervor and fear of social collapse … today. Stephen A. Allen is a doctoral candidate in the Medieval Institute at the University of Notre Dame and a writer for the History News Service. [The Medieval Institute, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN …

… to have an abortion–by ignoring morality, tradition, and common sense. Those who seek to ban abortion frequently … can be found in western Europe in the Middle Ages. Many medieval legal codes were explicitly based on the Bible. Despite this, medieval writers and jurists disagreed about how serious a …

… Leticia Wiggins  Welcome to History Talk, produced by Origins , a project of the … Surveillance , which is found on the origins.osu.edu website say hello, Dave. David Hadley  Hello. Leticia … it would just it's of a size that would make real direct supervision a difficult thing. I mean, the NSA is over …

… claim being made lately about the ever-advancing Computer Age. After all, cyber-data is easier to store, … word. Stephen A. Allen is a doctoral candidate in the Medieval Institute at the University of Notre Dame and a writer for the History News Service. [The Medieval Institute, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN …

… international race for the arctic . He tells us about the complex and perhaps explosive historical dimensions of … Jeffrey Dunifon. Thanks for being on the show, Nick and welcome.   Dr. Nicholas Breyfogle   Thank you so much, Patrick. … mean is that we may have to give up some of the great goodies that we have, you know, at the moment, I mean, I think …

… had done as First Lady. This impressive list of projects encompasses domestic causes from historic preservation to … Her care for women and children, her focus on healing bodies, uplifting minds and soothing hearts truly showed her … when little girls didn’t necessarily grow up to be ladies; they became women. Women do a lot of unladylike …

… had done as First Lady. This impressive list of projects encompasses domestic causes from historic preservation to … Her care for women and children, her focus on healing bodies, uplifting minds and soothing hearts truly showed her … when little girls didn’t necessarily grow up to be ladies; they became women. Women do a lot of unladylike …

… Elections Stephen A. Allen is a doctoral candidate in the Medieval Institute at the University of Notre Dame and a writer for the History News Service. [The Medieval Institute, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN …

… "more faithful" to Israel than the United States. But these comments have drawn a negative reaction from the most blacks … a nation. Stephen A. Allen is a doctoral candidate in the Medieval Institute at the University of Notre Dame and a writer for the History News Service. [The Medieval Institute, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN …

… of U.S. entry into World War I. But, as the world commemorates the centennial of the war, U.S. events have … us to learn why World War I is remembered so differently in combatant countries, what the war's most important … where all of these nations are using armies of citizen soldiers, where they're conscripting instead of using …