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Donald Trump and Joe Biden

Election 2020: Insights from History

… Dr. Nicholas Breyfogle  Welcome to "Election 2020: Insights from History" coming to you … under the Reagan administration targeting black elected officials down in the deep south. And so one of the … wouldn't want their children to marry someone of the opposite party. The sense that the people in the other party are …
Graffiti reading "Ireland a Nation, Irish and Free"

The Provisional Irish Republican Army

… Catholic Republic of Ireland, an utterly unacceptable outcome. They therefore fiercely fought the civil rights … in Belfast. The police, overwhelmingly Unionist, were complicit in the violence, leaving Catholics with no obvious … IRA. The majority faction came to be known as the Official IRA. Shortly afterward, Sinn Fein split along …
Chris Anderson asks: "Will you run again?" Gore replies, "Ohh, you aren't going to get me on this one!"

But Gore Did Help Invent the Internet

… When Al Gore allegedly claimed he invented the Internet, comedians, political  pundits and Republicans had a field … optic network, along with the servers, software and other components of what became the Internet, didn't differ from … federal agencies. This was not so. At least  one elected official actively participated in creating the Internet: Al …
Female governors left to right, Nellie Tayloe Ross, Ella T. Grasso, Kay Orr, and Gretchen Whitmer.

A Century of Elected Woman Governors in the United States, 1924-2024

… William B. Ross died while governor in October 1924 from complications following an emergency appendectomy. The … who chose for Lurleen not to know. Then in 1965, doctors officially diagnosed her with uterine cancer.  George and … the District of Columbia. Women gubernatorial officeholders come from both major U.S. political parties. Since December …
BJP rally in India

The Politics of India

… Patrick Potyondy   Welcome to History Talk , the history podcast for everyone. I'm …   Dr. Mytheli Sreenivas   Well, I think that, so India is officially according to its constitution, a secular … both of those countries in 1947. So that's another ongoing site of tension. A lot of that is around, the around the …
Booker T. Washington

Picturing Black History

… Daniela Edmeier   Hello everyone and welcome to picturing Black History Webinar today brought to you … stats and numbers can be. It is the people that work on site with this material that keeps Archive living and … Woodson in Black History Month, attains a certain kind of official recognition from President Reagan, but also to …
Heroin bust.

Devising a Drug-Free World (Prologued, Season 2, Episode 3)

… on Drugs, it isn’t colonial China or Japan or Mexico that comes to mind…it's the United States. And for good reason. … Brady Siff previously explained, California was a critical site of development for drug prohibition beginning with the … And that required going to some of the higher ups to get an official okay. And at this point, Lucky Luciano is in jail. …
An image of Kuwait’s oil fields after they were set ablaze by retreating Iraqi soldiers during the First Gulf War

Oil Empires and Petro-Anarchies

Review of Empires and Anarchies: A History of Oil in the Middle East, by Michael Quentin Morton (London: Reaktion Books, 2017)

Colombia: Al Borde de la Paz con las FARC?

… Moon, el presidente de Colombia, Juan Manuel Santos, y el comandante supremo de las Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de … ahora estarían listos para formalmente firmar el acuerdo completo el 26 de septiembre de 2016 en Cartagena que seria … durante su existencia, pero ninguno ha llegado tan lejos como el proceso actual. A pesar de que haya obstáculos …
Cover of Vodka Politics by Mark Lawrence Schrad

Bottoms Up, or Race to the Bottom?

Review of Vodka Politics: Alcohol, Autocracy, and the Secret History of the Russian State, by Mark Lawrence Schrad (New York: Oxford UP, 2014)
… was his only advice, citing a famous and beloved Russian comedy about excessive drinking, Eldar Ryazanov’s 1975 film … The Irony of Fate . Mark Schrad’s book puts that all-too-common Russian experience in a long historical context. And … his book: from Russian politicians and state figures, from official statistics and the approximations of Western …
Stenciled graffiti of a priest pursuing two children

Secrecy and Celibacy: The Catholic Church and Sexual Abuse

… orders. But while clerical abuse has only recently become a news item, it has a much longer history. This month, … Eric Michael Rhodes   Welcome to History Talk , we're the podcast that brings … but from the late 16th century onwards, this becomes an official charge of the Inquisition.   Lauren Henry   The …

As Cuba and the United States Reengage: The Presence of the Past

… without understanding what preceded it. “There is a complicated history between the United States and Cuba,” … themselves deeply into Cuban internal affairs. These prying officials included Enoch Crowder, Sumner Welles, Spruille … curb Cuban policies. On the contrary, it produced the opposite effect, and served further to deepen the estrangement. …
US Secretary of State Edward R. Stettinius, Jr., signing the UN Charter on 26 June 1945. President Truman stands by at left (UN Photo/Yould).

The Signing of the United Nations Charter

… Wilson bitterly called “a sullen and selfish isolation,” becoming an observer in the League but never a full member. As … and reformed Isolationist Arthur Vandenberg, the party committed to supporting a postwar cooperative peace … traditional U.S. influence in the region, they responded to official Latin American concerns about communist …
Suffragists with signs: "Votes for Women"

The Myth of the Women's Voting Bloc (Prologued, Season 1, Trailer)

… which we live. Current events, however dire or exciting or complicated they may be, have been made by history. They … important work along with a number of other Latina elected officials throughout the country. They also I think are … Oranjudio. Song and Band information can be found on our website and we encourage our listeners to visit episode …
A scene from the 1956 Hungarian Revolution

Remembering '56: The Hungarian Revolution

… ill-fated revolution that ended with the re-imposition of Communist rule and the flight of some 200,000 Hungarians to … the revolution. Imre Nagy and other top-ranking Hungarian officials who had sympathized with the revolution were … (Source: Embassy of Hungary in the Netherlands) Numerous sites of memory—including a 1956 monument where Stalin’s …