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… bidder is, sadly, at least a century old. As embarrassing as that history may be to residents of the Land of … the honor. By the 19th century’s end, the U.S. Senate had become widely known, as it still is today, as a “millionaires … The Senate itself, however, had consistently refused to comply.   Frustrated by Senate inaction and persistent …

… Jessica Vinas-Nelson  Welcome to History Talk , the podcast that brings together a … for Hondurans in the U.S., a program that has been in place since 1998. The program had allowed Hondurans to legally … or export processing plants that mostly make garments, that come to us in the United States, or auto parts, extractive …

… Thanks for being on the show Professor Conklin and welcome.   Dr. Alice Conklin   Thank you for having me.   … But you argue for a sense of historical perspective when it comes to evaluating the election. What is France's history … election?   Dr. Alice Conklin   Well, France's history since World War II has been, perhaps can think of it as …

… 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 … Lauren Henry:   Welcome to History Talk , the podcast that brings together …

… reward for reasonable risk. We're talking about the dot-com industries of the '90s, aren't we? Not this time. We're … industry, sure to reap fantastic profits with little risk. Common sense would seem to argue against this. But American … romantic West? Like Internet-based industries, the stock-raising business relied on trained professionals. But that …

… 2016, Hillary Rodham Clinton secured enough delegates to become the Democratic nominee for president of the United … for president. But she is far from the first woman to run. Since 1872, fourteen women have run for president, three of … women who have run for president, several others have come within striking distance of the nation’s top post …

… any surprises. Vladimir Putin, the widely popular President since 2000 and Time magazine's "Man of the Year" for 2007, has come to the end of his legal term limit and must step down. … and the overwhelming margin of victory surprised few. The Communist Party came a distant second with only 11% of …

… Eric Michael Rhodes   Welcome to History Talk , the podcast that brings together … Eric. December is AIDS Awareness Month, and we'll be using this month's episode to look at the history of HIV AIDS … pharmacology and public health impacts of HIV. Thanks for coming, Jesse.   Dr. Jesse Kwiek   Happy to be here.   Eric …

… have significantly influenced preaching in the decades since. Three important components of Graham’s outreach in particular were … along with a cohort of younger evangelicals, wanted to overcome the “backwoods” reputation that had tarred previous … Media/Journalism/Communications …

… Brenna Miller    Welcome to History Talk the podcast that brings together a … in Alabama political rally in Alabama, where he was endorsing the primary opponent of Ray Moore, where he referred to … of police violence against African Americans suddenly becomes secondary, that the problem with this isn't even a …

… Musicals are the quintessential American dramatic art form, combining spoken dialogue with music, song, and dance. For … an escape from reality, a fantastical journey to a world of singing and dancing cats and magical nannies who travel via … Man in the Moon," from Evangeline, or The Belle of Acadia. Composer Edward E. Rice and librettist J. Cheever Goodwin …

… has been listening to some version of this exchange since he first entered academia in 1969. Having written … When Affirmative Action Was White concludes with the recommendation that contemporary American policymakers deal … action. Relying heavily on Johnson's 1965 Howard University Commencement Address, the author posits that the 37th …

… The Founding Fathers balanced the power of the president as commander-in-chief with that of Congress, the people’s representatives — the one to command the nation’s armed forces, the other to decide when … whose constituents would bear the costs of war. Not since 1941, when Franklin Delano Roosevelt addressed a joint …

… in Washington established new rules for the conduct of business. Free market fundamentalists often denounced these … reacted by pulling their money from banks and trust companies. The stock market lost nearly half its value. J.P. … His New Deal organized the Securities and Exchange Commission to monitor the stock market. New legislation …

… Its dominant form, HIV-1, has killed 35 million people since 1981 and it has infected roughly the same number … human immune systems, HIV has also allowed tuberculosis to come thundering back as a global health threat and has … for sexual and gender minorities. Gay populations have become more visible and politically active, winning civil …

… North to share collections. Ironically, it was the shortcomings of a UNESCO convention that brought M’Bow to this … in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, suggested that in the coming five years “conditions be put in place for the … opening up conversations around decolonization in Europe, since allegiances to previous generations involved in the …

… women's rights activism certainly continued, it did not compare to the widespread organization of the suffrage … as the men came back to take their jobs, and that minority communities would again settle on the fringes of American … and what their citizenship meant here in the United States since they had gone abroad and fought against fascism and …

… administration has added more than 1,000 individuals and companies to sanctions lists. The president has gloried in … from trade networks and the global financial system has become Washington’s foreign policy tool of choice. Indeed, the … trade on London’s financial markets. Here was a plan for using economic warfare not as a way to avoid violence but as …

… The mobilization of a "Catholic bloc vote" is increasingly viewed as politically necessary as political … shoring up what has been a core constituency for his party since the mid-nineteenth century, has curried favor with … economic recovery. Catholics in 2000 are economically comfortable, and will probably not care about George Bush's …