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Photo from 1890 of the first OSU football team

Taylor Branch on the Crisis of College Sports

… Collegiate Athletic Association, or NCAA. In addition to completing the monumental  King Era Trilogy , Branch has … Patrick Potyondy  Welcome to History Talk , the history podcast for everyone … of southern states, when there wasn't a single elected official in the 17 southern states, as late as the early …
Marchers for the Equal Rights Amount, holding banner that reads "Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex"

The Equal Rights Amendment: Then and Now

… Brenna Miller  Welcome to History Talk , the podcast that brings together a … State Senate passed an ERA resolution and is poised to become the first state to ratify the amendment since Indiana … Blissit. Song and band information can be found on our website. You can find our podcast and more on our website, …
DC Police Car in the snow

A Long View of Policing in America

… Patrick Potyondy   Welcome to History Talk the history podcast for everyone … if you will. They were not particularly the governing officials, if you will. They were poorer, white individuals … Wiggins. Song and band information can be found on our website. You can find our podcasts and more at our website
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 … they both characterized the  U.S.-Mexico boundary as a site of  crisis.  They both suggested bolstering border … OHL’s impact endures in the region.  U.S. immigration officials hailed OHL  as an immediate success following its …
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 … Nicholas Breyfogle: Hello and welcome to Remembering Bhopal: The World's Worst Industrial … this contaminated water, and analysis of the groundwater by official scientific agencies have shown presence of toxic …

The International History of the U.S. Suffrage Movement

… Ida B. Wells-Barnett with her four children in 1909. The complex international connections and strategies that … across national borders allowed suffrage movements to overcome political marginalization and hostility in their own … in 1832: “How long shall the fair daughters of Africa be compelled to bury their minds and talents beneath a load of …
Graffiti on wall: "Broken Promises"

Jefferson Cowie on Deindustrialization, Trade, and the 2016 Presidential Election

… to stop bad trade deals and global special interests, we welcome you with open arms, perhaps sensing an opportunity with … Memphis, or Sierra Juarez, which are the three of the four sites I studied, they would open with a very simple wrote … of places it was going it becomes accelerated codified, the official seal of approval happens with NAFTA, and then the …

The Real Marriage Revolution

… in the first five books of the Old Testament.  It was common throughout ancient India, the Middle East, Africa, … wished to establish the trading ties that went with becoming in-laws but didn't have two sets of marriageable … people whose love was based on the fact that they were opposites. Men and women were increasingly described as having …

Clampdown and Blowback: How State Repression Has Radicalized Islamist Groups in Egypt

… 2013. The video quickly went viral on news and social media sites and was watched not only by fellow Morsi supporters … that the man’s predictions for the future of Egypt may be coming true. Since the coup that ousted Morsi, the Egyptian … al-Minya which left one police officer dead. (A judge later commuted all but 37 of the sentences to time in prison; …

A New View of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: From Needs and Narratives to Negotiation

… Political administrations have changed and negotiators have come and gone but the conflict between Israelis and … national myths of each community, such diametrically opposite attitudes toward the founding of Israel were … It is this psychological barrier that I have described in official statements as constituting 70 percent of the whole …

Pandemics: Today and Yesterday

… in biomedicine in recent years. Three of our “deadly companions.” Poliovirus ( left ), Influenza ( center ), and … bacillus as the cause of the pandemic led public health officials on a futile search for a flawed therapeutic to … a record 12 to 18 months. A drive through COVID-19 testing site in Louisiana, 2020. To date the fastest vaccine …

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 … 2000s brought no tangible political benefits. Quite the opposite: by 2003, Israeli officials were intercepting the overwhelming majority of …

With a Little Help from Our Friends?: The Costs of Coalition Warfare

… Hornet pilots defied the orders of their American commanding officers. These pilots independently aborted 40 … overly unilateralist, more resources than ever have been committed to coordinating operations, strategy, and weaponry … of coalition warfare derives also from the prerequisites of developing a coherent multinational fighting force. …

Breaking Up Is Hard to Do: America's Love Affair with the Two-Party System

… The left side of the American political-entertainment complex has passed the time since the 2012 election watching … further into foreign policy, as Federalists believed in the commercial necessity of a stable, peaceful relationship with … its intensity, the first party system was only nationally competitive for two Presidential cycles, 1796 and 1800 , …

Justice Denied: The Killing of Trayvon Martin in Historical Perspective

… Tallahassee hours earlier. Waiting for the verdict had become unbearable. On the charge of second-degree murder, the … in the sleepy town a few days when he and several buddies visited a convenience store to purchase candy and cold drinks. … with a crime for killing the unarmed black youth, police officials insisted that Florida’s Stand Your Ground law, …
College Green, Ohio University, 1973.

Our Gilded Bronze Age of Higher Education

… universities to yield an annual, independent source of income. Endowment size has served as a proxy for academic … causes. Endowments are also targeted because they have become steeply stratified over the past century. Merely … in the excise tax are under consideration. Elected officials nationwide are thus scoring political points by …

The Long, Long Struggle for Women's Rights in Afghanistan

… had very recently joined forces with the celebrated Tajik commander Ahmad Shah Massoud to establish the "Northern … , or burqa , a long shapeless gown that hangs from a hat to completely cover everything from head to toe. To our eyes, … wife if she refuses to have sex has been published in the official gazette and become law." The law applies to …

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 … to persist independently of the altered physical river. An official at Al Maghtas in Jordan said that the river’s holy …

A New World Order? Africa and China

… On one hand, huge new markets have opened to American companies; on the other, Chinese producers have created stiff competition. Nowhere has China’s emergence been more … liberation and revival of the African nations.” Chinese official Lu Shaye made the point even more emphatically: …
seedlings

Seed Money: Monsanto's Past and Our Food Future

… us on an authoritative and eye-opening journey into how the company Monsanto came to have outsized influence over our … Dr. Nicholas Breyfogle  Welcome to Seed Money: Monsanto's Past and Our Food Future, … example, a source, who's in his greenhouse, and Monsanto officials come in to badger him, he's finding this weed and …

Feast and Famine: The Global Food Crisis

… countries experienced food riots. "Hunger seasons" have become the norm in many parts of the global south, and women … west, however, what strikes us is not hunger, but its opposite: obesity. According to a recent World Health … is manifest. It has many tangled causes, one being simple competition for basic cereals. The growth of nonwestern …
Portrait photograph of woman, boy and two dogs, ca. 1890s.

How Dogs Became Our Faithful Family Companions

… were often labeled luxuriant leeches. However, by 1900, the common dog was a faithful companion and beloved family member. While not everyone … Victorians esteemed their dogs as jolly chums, faithful companions, and constant dependents. Some even remarked that …
Artist representation of data security and privacy. Large eye peeks through an open window.

These Machines Know Too Damn Much

… narrative says technology is to blame—that after mainframe computers burst onto the scene in the middle of the … by then it was too difficult to roll things back. We had become too dependent. Worse, we had become too complacent. And … Europe’s General Data Privacy Regulations (GDPR), and by officially recognizing data privacy as a fundamental human …