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Large group of suffragists on steps

One Hundred Years of Women and the Vote

… professor, Department of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies; Sarah Paxton, JD; PhD candidate, Department of History; Producer, Prologued podcast; … first enfranchisement that Ohio women got. And I think that points to the kind of fragmentary nature of the progress of …
The front of the National Security Administration in Fort Meade, MD

America’s Big Brother

… (NSA). Ohio State University History Department’s very own David Hadley covered the history of the NSA in December … co-hosts Patrick Potyondy and Leticia Wiggins sat down with David Hadley and Origins editors Nicholas Breyfogle and … he had access to all of those files. But well, one of the points the NSA makes is well, this information secure and we …
Native woman with her back to the camera

Reclaiming My Family's Story: Cultural Trauma & Indigenous Ways of Knowing

… Ohio State Newark Earthworks Center, American Indian Studies, and the Department of History. … Indigenous Arts and Humanities grant and American Indian Studies at The Ohio State University. My name is Lucy Murphy. … throughout the year so definitely make sure to visit our website mcc.osu.edu. And we have a whole calendar of events. …

What We Talk About When We Talk About Confederate Monuments

… in his hometown of Charlottesville, Virginia, for Saturday, August 12, 2017. Members of the “alt-right” turned out … the violence had already begun. But the worst was yet to come. Saturday’s rally was scheduled to start at noon, but … the Right rally ( top left ). Virginia National Guard soldiers and Virginia State Police in the aftermath of the …
Statue of Sancho Panza in Madrid, Spain

Kindred Spirits: Shakespeare and Cervantes in Life and Death

… Shakespeare (1564-1616) and Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616) died, like Thomas Jefferson and John Adams, on the very same day: April 23 rd , 1616, four hundred … the rights of his novel to a printer. He was buried in a common grave. Most profoundly, our modern sensibility is …
Joseph Ambrose, an 86-year-old World War I veteran, attends the dedication day parade for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in 1982. Wearing a doughboy uniform like the ones used during the war, he is holding an American flag. It covered the casket of his son Clement, who was killed in the Korean War.

Tributes of Silence, the Honor of Words

… This years Veterans Day comes in the wake of fierce political campaigning over which policies best serve the interest of U.S. soldiers. Again and again, candidates in the campaign that just …
Jimmy Carter, Richard Nixon and Deng Xiaoping during the state dinner for the Vice Premier of China

The Nixon-Deng Comparison

… Whenever a famous politician dies, obituary writers and other commentators immediately start comparing the departed figure … the top. Both had his rise to prominence interrupted at key points. Nixon’s most famous setbacks were his to Kennedy in … The Nixon-Deng Comparison …
Black women marching with signs supporting integration

Race in the Classroom: Teaching Civil Rights

… you know, they don't want to be in these majority Black audiences. And I said, well, you know what, this is actually a … been the degree to which the structures of race have become points of discussion here and there, and particularly inside … Wiggins. Song and band information can be found on our website. You can find our podcasts and more at our website

The Human Use of Human Beings: A Brief History of Suicide Bombing

… 9/11, reveals a great deal about the phenomenon we have come to know as suicide bombing. First, a radical left-wing group with a vaguely Marxist agenda (The Revolutionary People’s Liberation Party in Turkey) … such as faith or community. Historically, the decision to die on behalf of others has been the right of the …
Labor Secretary Elaine Chao in 2005.

Written With the Blood of Miners

… the U.S. Congress and with the president’s signature will become law. While a new law represents a positive step for … coverage of January’s Sago disaster, in which 12 miners died. With less attention but equal devastation, 21 more … and congressional overseers will do the unheralded, day-to-day work of keeping mines safe. There are strong …
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, …
Mushroom cloud over the Bikini Atoll

Nuclear Tensions, Nuclear Weapons, and a Long History of Nuclear War

… about nuclear weapons and who has them? How did the U.S. become so central in efforts to control them? And how can past … proliferation inform how we address these questions today? On this episode of History Talk , hosts Brenna Miller … Jessica Viñas-Nelson speak with experts Christopher Gelpi , Dakota Rudesill , and Matt Ambrose to discuss the history of …
Albert Bierstadt, Mount Corcoran, c. 1876-1877, oil on canvas

Silent Spring Revolution, a Conversation with Douglas Brinkley

… government routinely detonated nuclear devices in the Nevada desert and the Marshall Islands. Not only was nuclear … 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 …

South Africa: Twenty-Five Years Since Apartheid

… been lifted, and negotiations for a new constitution had commenced. While political violence between the ANC and … his ballot for the first time in his life in 1994. Today much of that initial promise remains unfulfilled. After … South Africans in concentration camps. Tens of thousands died. The British consolidated South Africa in 1910 and gave …
In Mauritania, Aissata Abdoul Diop shows how the maize ears have dried in the drought stricken garden, 2012. 

Hunger Is Not Eradicated: The Food Crisis in Africa

… history.”  The phrase “ global polycrisis ” captures the complexity of events driving up world hunger over the past … Central African Republic, Somalia , Ethiopia , and South Sudan —have entered a polycrisis that will be difficult to … polycrisis, people in these states suffer and some even die as a result of starvation.  The Long History of Food …
British Fleet Spanish Armada of 1588

1588: the Spanish Armada Still Loses

… Geoffrey Parker for a definitive history of the Spanish Armada. In July 1588 the Spanish Armada sailed from Corunna to conquer England. Three weeks later … finally clashed. Looking beyond the events of 1588 to the complex politics which made war between England and Spain …
Space Shuttle Columbia launching

Can We Boldly Go There Any More?

… Space is dangerous. And, consequently, expensive. That first fact was … atmosphere. The second fact will be relearned in the coming weeks as we emerge from our shock at this tragedy and … of space is not how many astronauts and cosmonauts have died, but how few. Though there have been several close …
a woman wearing old pilot goggles on her head and holding a bottle of Coca-Cola

Country Capitalism: How Corporations from the American South Remade Our Economy and the Planet

… global economy. Drawing on exclusive interviews with company executives, corporate archives and other records, … corporations. He then considers what each has become: an essential presence in the daily workings of the global economy and an unmistakable … take a moment to get to know our speaker. Bart Elmore studies the past to understand how we can live more sustainably …
Bird's-eye-view of the 1993 border blockade enacted by CBP Border Patrol agents in El Paso, Texas as part of Operation Hold the Line.

Fortifying the U.S.-Mexico Boundary: The 1993 “Hold the Line” Experiment

… also proposed deploying advanced drug detection machines to combat the influx of fentanyl, which he claimed was … policy issues, they both characterized the  U.S.-Mexico boundary as a site of  crisis.  They both suggested bolstering … Accordingly, Operation Gatekeeper was launched at the San Diego-Tijuana corridor in 1994, Operation Safeguard at the …
Haze obscuring image of rooftops in China

The Greening of China?

… great paradox. With its fast-growing economy, China has become the leading producer of CO2 (though not on a per-capita basis). Simultaneously, it has become the world's leading producer of green and renewable … Jessica Blissit and Brenna Miller talk to three experts— David Pietz , Betsy Brunner , and Ruth Mostern —about the …
The remains of the crash of TWA Flight 5 in 1931 [Photo from the Kansas Historical Society]

Top Ten Origins: Aviation Disasters that Improved Safety

… body-scan. Airline passengers in the United States have come to expect these kinds of security measures as a … of deaths. The reactive nature of the FAA continues today, with many criticizing its failure to prevent the crash … back the early 1930s. As a result of each of these ten tragedies, commercial aviation really is safer today than it was …
A rhino standing on the beach

The Sixth Extinction and Our Unraveling World

… Brenna Miller     Welcome to History Talk the podcast that brings together a … I am convinced. And I think many, many people who have studied this issue are convinced that humans drove those … Vinas-Nelson. Song and band information can be found on our website. You can find our podcasts and more on our website

America's "Big Brother": A Century of U.S. Domestic Surveillance

… by any other intelligence agency,” especially as telecommunication technology advances. Perhaps surprisingly, … scale, their advanced technologies, and in the legal foundation that the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court … Johnson. As intelligence historian Christopher Andrew points out, King was therefore probably the only major …
Cover A Revolution in Taste The Rise of French Cuisine, 1650–1800 by Susan Pinkard.

Bon Appetit, Historically Speaking

Review of A Revolution in Taste: The Rise of French Cuisine, 1650-1800 , by Susan Pinkard (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2009)
… someone discussing the importance of fresh and local ingredients.  Many cookbooks published in past ten years promise … debates about food in the Enlightenment.  These books combine descriptions of food and ingredients with innovative … only for providing recipes for delicious foods, but their adaptability to the middle-class kitchen, suggesting …