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Colin Kaepernick and teammates kneeling

The Long View of Sports Protests

… Brenna Miller    Welcome to History Talk the podcast that brings together a … it specifically in a national ceremonial role, is generally credited to have happened for the first time at the 1918 … Song and band information can be found on our website. You can find our podcasts and more on our website at …
Still image from the Movie The Bridge (Criterion Collection).

Top Ten Origins: World War II Films

… away from the actual events of the war, movies have become the dominant means for us to envision them. But can you … Still from Germany, Pale Mother  (From the BFI re-release site). Taking its title from Bertold Brecht’s prescient 1933 … Still from A Woman in Berlin  (from the Strand Releasing site). This film opens as the war ends, as the Red Army …
Crowds outside the Bank of United States in New York after its failure in 1931.

Blame It All on Unintended Consequences

… consequences to explain how individual ambition served the common good. It’s not from the benevolence of the butcher, … unintended consequence of their self interest, mediated by competition, was better and cheaper meat, beer and bread. … intend to stimulate American consumption with the cheap credit their savings created.   When Republican and …
John F. Kennedy and Dr. Alvin Weinburg at the Graphite Reactor Oak Ridge National Lab in 1959.

The Dangers – Then and Now – of a Pre-Emptive Strike

… Bush administration has wisely allowed the international community to take the lead in responding to the threat from … sanctions against Iran for the first time and urged Iran to comply with a United Nations request to halt its nuclear … they may realize that a nuclear strike on Iran’s processing sites, killing an estimated 10,000, would have similarly …
The aurora borealis over the Arctic

Climate Change, Russia, and the Race for the Arctic

… international race for the arctic . He tells us about the complex and perhaps explosive historical dimensions of … Jeffrey Dunifon. Thanks for being on the show, Nick and welcome.   Dr. Nicholas Breyfogle   Thank you so much, Patrick. … of ice in the Arctic that we've seen in the historic record, and by a great deal, I mean way, way lower than the …
Bande dessinée par Ali Delim pour marquer la vingtième anniversaire de la mort de Saïd Mekbel

1/30/2015: Les dangers d'être humoriste: Charlie Hebdo n’est pas le seul

… Hebdo a suscité une recherche profonde pour découvrir comment les hommes armés sont venus à être si irrités par … avec des conséquences mortelles leur colère envers des comiques dont le travail a été jugé blasphématoire ou opposé … regrettés était le chroniqueur Saïd Mekbel. Son esprit de comédie n’épargnait personne comme il s’en servait …

Ideology or Ethnicity? The Israeli Political Crisis

… the Supreme Court and amidst growing public criticism. To compound the confusion, Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu, sitting … in Israeli society—for example, divisions over territorial compromise with the Palestinians; divisions between Jews and … the time of the 1981 elections, Israeli author Amos Oz recorded the following monologue of a Mizrahi resident of a …
The London meeting to discuss NATO military intervention in Libya, March 29, 2011.

Secretary Clinton — Leader or Figurehead?

… Several bomb blasts accompanied Hillary Clinton’s recent trip to Pakistan. This … know that it sometimes makes sense to let others take the credit, or the hits. But there may come a day in the near … relationship with the president. So far, Clinton’s record appears to fall short on both counts. To be a …
Spanish and French troops in Afghanistan in 2005.

Calling Al-Qaeda Fascist Doesn’t Make It So

… a "totalitarian ideology" menacing people everywhere. This comparison between Islamic radicalism and fascism, which some commentators on the Right have trumpeted ever since 9/11, is … incarnation, was a genocidal, totalitarian movement, Bush's comparison suggests that Islamic radicalism must, as with …
Large group of suffragists on steps

One Hundred Years of Women and the Vote

… Leticia Wiggins  Hello everyone and welcome to our webinar on 100 years of women and the vote. I'm … Just a little bit about the format: we're delighted to welcome three experts on women's history. We have Susan … that would qualify them to hold the highest office, to be commander in chief. And I think that the way that sexism has …
Two vials of modern insulin named Actrapid (left) and NovoRapid (right) by the manufacturers.

The First Insulin Injection as a Treatment for Diabetes

… a chronic condition that can have serious, life-threatening complications if left untreated. Diabetes is caused when the … date to the ancient Egyptians, over a millennium before the common era . Later, in the second century CE, the Greek … healthier, more than twice her original weight, and had become a shining example of the power of insulin therapy for …

Rash Decisions: Anti-vaccination Movements in Historical Perspective

… the initial onset of symptoms. Measles often causes severe complications, including pneumonia and encephalitis … fatal, it has plagued humans since the beginnings of recorded history. Smallpox is central to the origins of … fluoride, mercury, and aspartame exposure . In 1998, now discredited British doctor Andrew Wakefield published a paper …
The supreme court of Massachusetts sits at the John Adams Courthouse in Boston.

Gay-Marriage Decision: Just the Beginning of the Debate

… before all slaves in Massachusetts would be set free, the Commonwealth v. Jennison case of 1783 ensured that slaves … by the early 19th century all the Northern states had committed at least to eventual emancipation, slavery’s … and social research and making claims about human nature. Commonwealth v. Jennison and its long aftermath also …
Globe on a plate with knife and fork next to it

Diet for a Large Planet

… Nicholas Breyfogle: Welcome to Diet for a Large Planet by The Ohio State … begin with a recent document from 2019 by the EAT-Lancet commission on food, planet, and health. This report pulled … itself from within. This author who argued for js this posited that it was the cause of every disease to man. …

Media and Politics in the Age of Trump

… will likely preoccupy future historians for years to come. While a number of factors contributed to his … coverage. Cable news organizations are expected to make a record-breaking $2.5 billion this election season. This … of Trump that greatly advantaged his campaign over his competitors’, especially in the primary season’s early days. …
Communards with flags

The Socialist Legacy in France

… Thanks for being on the show Professor Conklin and welcome.   Dr. Alice Conklin   Thank you for having me.   … Potyondy   Sounds like they didn't quite get a lot of the credit for fighting the Nazis during World War II or were … the Nazi occupier. So the socialist actually have a good record in World War II. The communists have the best record
A Sea Fight with Barbary Corsairs by Laureys a Castro, c. 1681

Hostage Taking in Algeria Is a 200-Year-Old Story

… The State Department is probably very pleased with the outcome of last week’s hostage crisis in Algeria, although … shows that when hostage crises drag on and the public comes to make a personal connections with the captives, … Algerians knew, even in an era of primitive communications, that westerners who learned that their …
French demonstrators with purple signs that read "ras le viol"

Violence Against Women

… Violence against women has a long history in human communities. Yet, we live in a time when people across the … Patrick Potyondy  Welcome to History Talk from Origins: Current Events in … Wiggins. You can find our podcasts and more at our website, origins.osu.edu, on iTunes and on Soundcloud. And as …
President Harry Truman in 1945.

Can This Election Produce Another Hundred Days?

… upon when he won approval of the Securities and Exchange Commission, Social Security, unemployment insurance, a … flourished. Reagan and his supporters embraced the recommendations of the economist Milton Friedman that relied … Large sectors of the population are saddled with expanding credit-card debt, many having to pay interest that was …
Cover of Famine: A Short History by Cormac Ó Gráda.

Famine: A Short History

Review of Famine: A Short History, by Cormac O Grada (Princeton University Press, 2009)
… visions of Malthus, Ehrlich, and other doomsayers have not come to pass.  Drawing on a rich variety of government … deaths due to any particular famine because of incomplete records and because death tolls are often politically … was available but expensive, people often purchased food on credit, which provided a short-term defense against hunger …