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Corona in context: Lessons from the SARS Pandemic of 2003

Soon after SARS was discovered, labs around the world shared information in search of a cure.
… As the world grapples with the ongoing pandemic of COVID-19, it is important … discovered since the mid-1960s (four of which just cause a common cold in humans). Written by Dr. Jim Harris. Narration … for the Humanities. Any views, findings, conclusions or recommendations expressed in this content do not necessarily …

Baptized in the Jordan: Restoring a Holy River

… their heads in prayer. Barely five meters away on the opposite shore, two Jordanian soldiers looked on from the shelter of a reed-covered platform – no visitors had come to visit their side of the river yet that day. As the … Commons). While the site at Qasr al Yehud could in the future become a Palestinian site as part of a peace …
The front of the National Security Administration in Fort Meade, MD

America’s Big Brother

… "America’s "Big Brother": A Century of U.S. Domestic Surveillance ," so co-hosts Patrick Potyondy and Leticia … Surveillance , which is found on the origins.osu.edu website say hello, Dave. David Hadley  Hello. Leticia Wiggins  … to make Alliance diplomacy a lot more awkward in the near future. Especially, you know, the Germans are a major player …
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Between Two Worlds: Jewish War Brides After the Holocaust

… rebuilding a life in the wake of the Holocaust, many Jewish survivors, community and religious leaders, and Allied soldiers viewed … authorities whose policy decisions structured the couples' fates, and the bureaucrats involved in immigration and … Dr. Nicholas Breyfogle   Hello, and welcome to Between Two Worlds: Jewish War Brides After the …

A Pact with the Devil? The United States and the Fate of Modern Haiti

… dying lay beneath the rubble and remains of their homes and communities, American televangelist Pat Robertson stated … the next 100 years became, in many respects, the exact opposite. Rather than being ignored and excluded, Haiti became … was finally free of its debt to France, it now had a new creditor—the U.S. government and the U.S. banks who made a …

The Kids Aren’t Alright: The Policymaking of Student Loan Policy

… government repayment options, paying them off with other credit lines or just ignoring them. More interestingly, most … to the cost saving measures of the FDLP, especially when compared to the money funneled to private banks through … lending, the federal government will be less affected by future credit problems by saving the costs of paying …
The words "Equal Justice Under Law" which are inscribed on the front of the U.S. Supreme Court building in Washington, D.C.

The Ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment

… representation more closely with the voting population. Unless that was changed, southerners would gain representation … of any of the debts Confederates had incurred during the insurrection. The fifth section empowered Congress to enforce … too much about it." (Library of Congress) But that did not come to pass. The “no state shall” language was ideally …
Cover of The End of the West: The Once and Future Europe by David Marquand

The End of the World as We Know It?

Review of The End of the West: The Once and Future Europe, by David Marquand (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2011)
… been patronizing and misleading. They are now manifestly absurd." Only by accepting the "end of the West" can a united … - the deliberate construction of a supranational European Community, based on law rather than force, in which ancient … identified that must be answered if the E.U. is to be the future Europe that the author wishes it to be. The first …
A Nuclear Power Plant in the Untied Kingdom against a blue sky.

How Green Is the Atom?

The Past–and Future–of Nuclear Energy in the United States
… industry representatives, but many environmentalists have come to see nuclear power as key to end world dependence on … Advanced Nuclear for Clean Energy ( ADVANCE ) Act to ensure “clean and emission-free energy for the next 60 to 80 … radioisotopes that fill the environment.  By 2017, 46 NPP sites had leaks or spills that involved radioactive tritium …

Punishing the Past: Presidential Elections in Times of Crisis (1932, 1968, 2008)

… implement would achieve that dream, ushering in a golden future. Nothing surprising in that. Political campaigns are … for the political party whose policies promise the best outcome. But if we had any way to make such calculations—if we … Franklin Roosevelt. In 1928 Hoover and his party had taken credit for the prosperity of the 1920s, and at the end of …

The Unkept Promise of Nuclear Power

… Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his discovery of plutonium, visited Richland, Washington, and the adjacent Hanford Nuclear … attends Operation Plumbbob as Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, 1968 (left). The nuclear reactors at the Hanford … the quest to use the peaceful atom to build a utopian future has been marked by limited success, by failures and …
2011 protest in New Jersey by Garden State Equality in support of same-sex marriage and against deportation of LGBT spouses.

Voting Away Others’ Rights

… of California voters to take away the right of gays and lesbians to marry highlights the danger of exposing civil … today and embrace celibacy.   California’s legal battles surrounding gay marriage have yet to be settled. Legal … religiously intolerant regimes in the world today.   The outcome of the recent referendum in California shows us that …
fire at plant in Bhopal in background people lost in the fire

Remembering Bhopal: The World's Worst Industrial Disaster

… This presentation commemorates the 40th anniversary of the Bhopal Gas Disaster …   when the bosses from Union Carbide Corporation U.S.   visited the Bhopal factory, and there was a safety week that … new perspectives in terms of how to prevent these kinds of future disasters? Do you think there's been any learning on …
School Lunch Politics: The Surprising History of America's Favorite Welfare Program, by Susan Levine Book Cover

Playing Politics with Our Children's Health

Review of School Lunch Politics: The Surprising History of America's Favorite Welfare Program, by Susan Levine (Princeton University Press, 2008)
… told Burnett that he can no longer afford fresh vegetables, seafood, and other nutritious items. "We used to have … historian Susan Levine's book, School Lunch Politics: The Surprising History of America's Favorite Welfare Program , … early twentieth century to the present, highlighting the complex interaction of politics, economics, nutrition, and …

The Real Marriage Revolution

… what traditional marriage actually entailed, few, we can be sure, would want any part of it. The Many Types of Marriage … in the first five books of the Old Testament.  It was common throughout ancient India, the Middle East, Africa, … people whose love was based on the fact that they were opposites. Men and women were increasingly described as having …
Portrait of Galileo Galilei by Justus Sustermans

400 Years Ago the Catholic Church Prohibited Copernicanism

What lessons can be learned from the thought and actions of Galileo, who became the “Father of Modern Science”?
… continues to our day. Do these Church actions prove the incompatibility between science and religion? What lessons can be learned from the thought and actions of … reveal a stationary earth). Copernicus did not really refute these objections, but he elaborated a novel and …
Marchers for LGBTQ rights

The Debate Over Same-Sex Marriage and LGBTQ Rights

… in recent memory. But with these changes have come many questions and tensions. Is the focus on the … in Modern Family , crime procedurals, or even Levi’s jeans commercials changed the public’s perceptions, and has it … for the better? How has the study and teaching of gay and lesbian history changed? What is the relationship between …
Flag of Israel with landscape of Israel in the background

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

… on its head, focusing on Jewish out-migration from Palestine and Israel between 1945 and the late 1950s. Based on … the Jewish homeland, many Jews instead saw the country as a site of displacement or a way-station to more desirable … a fresh transnational perspective on the critical period surrounding the birth of Israel and the post-Holocaust …
The Mars explorer Curiosity's view back at its own tracks after crossing a sand dune in 2014.

Mariner 9: Opening The Martian Frontier

… Photograph of Mars taken by the Hubble Space Telescope in 2003. Mars, the red planet so close to Earth, has become a tantalizing target for humans to visit. Noted space … The pictures we had from those spacecraft showed a barren surface mostly made of craters. Just like the moon. Imagined …
A long line of migrants in India

Migration and Mobility: Yesterday and Today

… policy in the U.S., Europe, and across the world have become fierce and deeply divisive, to say the least, and will surely continue to dominate politics in the coming years. … and predicaments people on the move face today and in the future. Ohio State University Department of History …

(Fore)Closing on the American Dream

… like my parents, are not at risk because they have good credit, can afford the monthly payments, and live in an area … lucky. Their ability to afford their monthly payments was compromised first by the falling market, then by mortgages … rates in the months after October 1929, looking to offset future inflation. These higher rates hurt Depression-era …
Byzantium: The Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire, by Judith Herrin Book Cover

Byzantium for Dummies

Review of Byzantium: The Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire, by Judith Herrin (Princeton University Press, Princeton, 2008)
… to Byzantium , Herrin relates a story of two builders coming to her office after passing it daily to ask her what … The eye-catching cover is a visual clue to the treasures within this book, which explores the intrigue of the … Juliet's balcony, and the reader is expected to be able to flesh out her minimalism on their own. The catch, of course, …
Bartholomew I, the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, signs the tomos (January 5, 2019) that officially established the Orthodox Church of Ukraine and granted it autocephaly.

The Religious Roots of the War in Ukraine

Many observers have been surprised that this war has a religious dimension. Yet its roots lie in the intertwined but separate religious histories of Ukraine and Russia.
… Many observers have been surprised that this war has a religious dimension. Yet its … Many observers have been surprised that this war has a religious dimension. Yet its …