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Albert Bierstadt, Mount Corcoran, c. 1876-1877, oil on canvas

Silent Spring Revolution, a Conversation with Douglas Brinkley

… postwar economic boom took hold, with America becoming the world’s leading hyper industrial and military … this historic prosperity came a heavy cost: oceans began to die, wilderness vanished, the insecticide DDT poisoned ecosystems, wildlife perished, and chronic smog …
Ukrainian soldier with blue and yellow ribbon overlay

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

… of the Center for Slavic, East European & Eurasian Studies. This lecture is a part of the Center for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies' "Understanding the War in Ukraine: Weekly Wednesday … so it won't be dinging in the background when my microphone is off. My name is Angela Brintlinger. I am the director …
Royal Irish Rifles in foxhole at Battle of the Somme, 1916

Legacies of the Great War

… 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 … you so much for having me here.   Brenna Miller  Via phone we have Dr. Aaron Retish, historian and expert in late …
Booker T. Washington

Picturing Black History

… Daniela Edmeier   Hello everyone and welcome to picturing Black History Webinar today … to demonstrate how sharing our visual pasts can allow our audiences to contextualize and understand the present. So we … articles that our authors discussed today, please visit our website at picturingblackhistory.org. Stay safe and healthy …
European Union flag

The EU: Past, Present, and Future

… a century ago. Today, the EU faces an unprecedented combination of challenges, including a lingering economic … 28 sovereign states and over 500 million Europeans under one political and economic group. Joining us today to … diplomacy and European affairs for the International Studies Department here at OSU. Chris Otter   I'm Chris Otter, …
A drawing by Italian artist Achille Beltrame imagines Archduke Francis Ferdinand's assassination by Gavrilo Princip

The Assassin’s Shadow: The Beginning of World War I and the Legacy of Gavrilo Princip

On June 28, 1914, one event changed the world.
… On June 28, 1914, one event changed the world. A Bosnian-Serb youth Gavrilo … was promptly arrested and imprisoned, where he would die of tuberculosis in 1918. But while the assassin’s fate … lives and change the face of the planet for generations to come. Gavrilo Princip Legend tells that shortly before his …
Political prisoners in Kengir, Kazakhstan

Alexander Solzhenitsyn

… December 11, 2018, marked the one hundredth birthday of Alexander Isayevich Solzhenitsyn. … Revolution , the only son of a mother whose husband had died in a hunting accident while she was pregnant, … Soviet counter-intelligence agency, for writing derogatory comments about Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin in a private …

America's Long-Suffering Mental Health System

… 21 st century. In the wake of a mass shooting such as the one in Parkland, FL, commentators, pundits, and politicians all gather around to … ill. Darren Rainey, who suffered from schizophrenia, died in 2012 from burns to over ninety percent of his body …

Breaking Up Is Hard to Do: America's Love Affair with the Two-Party System

… The left side of the American political-entertainment complex has passed the time since the 2012 election watching the Republican Party with a bowl of popcorn in one hand and a bourbon in the other, listening for the … After the war, which most Federalists opposed, the party died out. Historians sometimes describe the national …
Sign that reads, "You are either affected or infected with HIV/AIDS."

HIV/AIDS: Past, Present and Future

… Ohio State University, known to friends and colleagues as Dodie. He is Associate Professor of History and the director … it different than AIDS?   Dr. Jesse Kwiek   I'll take that one. So infectious diseases can be caused by bacteria, … Rhoades. Song and band information can be found on our website, and you can find our podcast and more on our …
A group of men and women. The women hold signs that say "My Body, My Choice"

Reproductive Rights and Reproductive Justice

… (more, actually), yet the right to make decisions regarding one’s reproduction is among the most divisive issues of our … they evolved over time? When, how, and why did abortion become such a controversial topic in the United States? How … Mark Sokolsky   Hello, everyone. Welcome to History Talk , where we ask a panel of …
Monument with figures dressed as pop culture figures like Superman, Santa, and Ronald McDonald

1989: The Year That Changed It All

… Talk , hosts Patrick Potyondy and Leticia Wiggins welcome historians  Nicholas Breyfogle and  Theodora Dragostinova and Slavic Studies Professor Angela Brintlinger as they consider these … collapsed. A host of countries threw off the reins of one political system and grasped a new one. Poland, …
Tanks and soldiers in parade in Pyongyang

North Korea: The Myth of a Hermit Kingdom

… relations, and director of the Institute for Korean Studies.   Dr. Mitch Lerner   Thanks for having me.   Brenna … been much better applied a couple centuries ago when it was one nation and really not in today's vernacular.   Dr. … Blissit. Song and band information can be found on our website. You can find our podcast and more on our website at …
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Reproductive Politics and the Making of Modern India

… aimed to reform reproduction to transform both individual bodies and the body politic. Across the political spectrum, … economic development, and to transforming both individual bodies and the body politic. The book investigates the often … India. Over to you Mytheli. Mytheli Sreenivas: Hi, everyone. Thanks so much to Professor Breyfogle for that gracious …
Flag of Israel with landscape of Israel in the background

Leaving Zion: Jewish Emigration from Palestine and Israel after World War II

… world. Ori Yehudai is the Schottenstein Chair in Israel Studies and Assistant Professor in the Department of History at … is the Saul and Sonia Schottenstein Chair in Israel Studies and assistant professor in the Department of History at … Sciences, and to the Bexley library. And thank you, everyone, for joining us today. The material that I'll be …
Eight women in US politics

Women in American Politics

… Hillary Clinton, has been nominated for the presidency by one of the major parties and come November she may well be … I'm an Associate Professor of History and American Studies at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. I specialize in … Sokolsky. Song and band information can be found on our website. You can find our podcasts and more at our website
IRA gunmen in Northern Ireland

From the Cold War to the War on Terror

… dates back well into the Cold War. How did terrorism become a focal point of U.S. foreign policy? How did earlier … deeper history tell us about what terrorism is, how our common assumptions about it might be wrong, and how we … explain the U.S.' approach to combating terrorism. On the phone, we have Dr. Philip Travis, an assistant professor of …
The front of the National Security Administration in Fort Meade, MD

America’s Big Brother

… Leticia Wiggins  Welcome to History Talk, produced by Origins , a project of the … relaunch of the Origins podcast. I'm Patrick Potyondy, one of your cohosts and I'm joined by the dynamic Leticia … Surveillance , which is found on the origins.osu.edu website say hello, Dave. David Hadley  Hello. Leticia …
Arnold Schwarzenegger and Maria Shriver in 2007.

An Immigrant in the White House? But Will It Be Arnold?

… Proponents of a new Constitutional amendment want to change the … they should be careful what they wish for. In order to become president of the United States, the Constitution … Hamilton never became president; his clause essentially died with him when he was shot in a duel in 1803. But the …

Democratizing American Higher Education: The Legacy of the Morrill Land Grant Act

… that it was opening up some of its online courses to anyone in the world who wished to take them, an initiative … "Introduction to Solid State Chemistry," "Introduction to Computer Science and Programming," "Quantitative Methods in … to develop their ideas into businesses. The fellowship website states: "Thiel Fellows are given a …