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The Sixth Extinction and Our Unraveling World

… Brenna Miller     Welcome to History Talk the podcast that brings together a … some reason plummeted. And we just see that in the fossil record. And so we don't have a fossil record of today. So it … Song and band information can be found on our website. You can find our podcasts and more on our website
Six founders of the Algerian FLN: Rabah Bitat, Mostefa Ben Boulaïd, Didouche Mourad, Mohammed Boudiaf, Krim Belkacem and Larbi Ben M'Hidi, 1954

The Evian Accords: An Uncertain Peace

… That paper, simply entitled “Declarations Drawn up in Common Agreement,” was signed in a town on the French side … anticolonial war for Algerian independence that has since become immortalized in popular imagination by such cinematic … between Algeria and France. When independence did come by popular referendum in July 1962, it was seen as …

A Century of U.S. Relations with Iraq

… some five hours later. This departure of the 3rd Brigade Combat Team of the 1st Cavalry Division of the U.S. … civilians and American soldiers, and inconclusive in outcome. The 2003 U.S. military invasion of Iraq and the … U.S. officials refrained from addressing Hussein's dreadful record of human rights abuses, his aggressive tendencies, …
Demonstrators protest the judicial proceedings against suspected White Power activists following the Greensboro massacre of 1979.

"Lone Wolves" No More

Review of Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America, by Kathleen Belew (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2018)
… A soldier named Tim McVeigh . . . ―Charlie King, The War is Coming Home , 1996 On April 19, 1995, a date fraught with … former soldier Timothy McVeigh—along with several accomplices—detonated a three-and-a-half ton fertilizer bomb … Mainstream media sources, as well as FBI, ATF, and court records bolster her analysis as well. She is also a terrific …
Taylor Swift at the 2014 Costume Institute Gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

2/12/2015: Top Ten Origins: Oscar Dresses and Women’s Fashion

… of widespread fashion magazines, which allowed styles to be communicated quickly to the masses. For example, Godey’s … cut to fit the curve of the female body, dresses had become rectangles of fabric reflecting the flattened planes of … in  Sabrina , 1954 ;  Kate Upton, 2014 Coco Chanel is credited with “inventing” the little black dress, a dress …
The port of İzmir, pictured here in 1883, was an Ottoman quarantine station.

Pandemics in Ottoman History: Plague, Cholera, and Influenza

… ecology and disease. Indeed, this earlier experience with combating plague served the Ottomans well as they entered … to its experience confronting pandemics brought on by a completely different disease: cholera . Cholera While plague … Eighteenth-Century Cairo: In Search of Burial and Memorial Sites,” in Plague and Contagion in the Islamic Mediterranean …
Moskvitch 3 vehicles roll off the assembly line at JSC Moscow Automobile Plant Moskvitch, 2022.

Sanctions on Russia: Impact and Efficacy

… damaging sanctions against the Russian state, its companies, and its citizens. The sanctions were intended to … the world’s largest steel works and an entire city on a site located in an unsettled location on the steppe, miles … the construction. The opening of the first blast furnace in record time was lauded by the Western contractors as the …
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 … been stationed in Hungary since 1944. Since his Hungarian Communist Party took power in 1948, Rákosi had presided over … (Source: Embassy of Hungary in the Netherlands) Numerous sites of memory—including a 1956 monument where Stalin’s …
 How to Create the Perfect Wife: Britain’s Most Ineligible Bachelor and His Enlightened Quest to Train the Ideal Mate, by Wendy Moore Book Cover.

The Idiot’s Guide to Enlightened Matrimony

Review of How to Create the Perfect Wife: Britain’s Most Ineligible Bachelor and His Enlightened Quest to Train the Ideal Mate, by Wendy Moore (New York: Basic Books, 2013)
… His friends admired him for his intelligence, honesty, and commitment to virtue, but thought that maybe a little … polite society. Even worse, no matter the occasion or company, he loved to hold forth on the frivolity and … orphan girls with the intent to educate one of them to become his wife. It is this bizarre twist in a familiar tale …
Abraham Lincoln

Top Ten Origins: The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln

… a strong hold on the imagination of the American public. To commemorate “Honest Abe,” Origins offers ten of the most … with the biggest questions himself, leaving a few glancing comments about such landmarks as the Emancipation … yield even when Lincoln offered the Confederacy gradual, compensated emancipation in 1862 and again in 1865. …

Pandemics: Today and Yesterday

… in biomedicine in recent years. Three of our “deadly companions.” Poliovirus ( left ), Influenza ( center ), and … of our “deadly companions” is clear in the historical record. And the history of pandemics helps us better … a record 12 to 18 months. A drive through COVID-19 testing site in Louisiana, 2020. To date the fastest vaccine …
A Soviet junior political officer urges Soviet troops forward against German positions, 1942

Operation Barbarossa

… Hitler was expansive in his proposals; as German documents recorded, he wanted “to establish the spheres of influence … and the simultaneous purges, officers were rushed into commission; in 1941, only half had completed any formal military education program . A Soviet …

The Fate of the Kurds

… related to Persian. In the largely mountainous region that comprises their homeland, over the centuries Kurds practiced … pastures and forging symbiotic relationships with settled communities. Others lived in cities and contributed to local … the empire. Sultan Abdülhamid II and his closest military commander in eastern Anatolia, Zeki Pasha, decided to …
Palestinians during the first intifada, 1987. (Photo by Peter Stepan)

The Long Shadow of the June 1967 War

… ceasefires in 1949 and 1956, they failed to resolve the complex underlying Arab-Israeli controversies over … that officials in the multi-layered U.S. government communicated a range of messages including some statements … war would prove to be a watershed in Arab politics by discrediting secular nationalist leaders such as Nasser and …
Zog I of Albania in front of the Albania Republic flag.

Albania’s First Republic

… the multireligious provisional government was challenged by competing leadership, most notably the Republic of Central … Italy were unable to control the growing calls for a completely independent Albania. In the summer of 1920, the … sixty assassination attempts, until 1939, when Mussolini commanded Italian forces to invade and occupy Albania. Zog …

The Roots of Venezuela's Failing State

… in 2016. Diphtheria, once thought eradicated, has made a comeback . By some estimates, 2.5 million people have left … Dissatisfied with the economic situation and a discredited political establishment, voters opted for the … rebound significantly or the government finds new lines of credit, Venezuela is nearing a default on its $10 billion …
The Sofia Monument to the Soviet Army painted in the colors of the Ukrainian flag din support of the 2014 Ukrainian Revolution.

World War II in Eastern Europe: Many Lands, Many Memories

… the countries formerly designated as the “ East European communist bloc ” displayed a remarkable solidarity in … East European countries see the analogy in exactly the opposite way. For them, Putin’s actions recall the German … the right-wing xenophobic underground. At Auschwitz , the site of some of the greatest racist atrocities of the war, …

The Year of Africa

… After touring British colonies in Africa, Macmillan had become increasingly convinced that “national consciousness” … an official armed force, the OAU remains an important component of African independence stories. It eventually … An early promotional photo of Joseph Kabasele for Opika Records, 1950s. Independence cha-cha we have won!  Oh, we …
Collapsed bridge

America's Infrastructure Challenge

… and what it can tell us about  changing conceptions of the common good. In addition, host Patrick Potyondy interviews … projects. President Dwight Eisenhower is usually given credit for the interstate highway system, which he did sign … Sokolsky. Song and band information can be found on our website. You can find our podcasts and more at our website, …

Treaties and Sovereign Performances, from Westphalia to Standing Rock

… Bakken oil-shale region in western North Dakota to a tank complex in Illinois. Its route crosses the Missouri River … received for each of their numerous cessions was a written record of their domains’ new boundaries. Some treaties, like … The thousands of protesters encamped near the DAPL site use sweat lodges and burning sage to purify themselves …

NATO's New Order: The Alliance After the Cold War

… and dangerous, amplifying the sense of tension and competition across Europe and strengthening the sense of … initial years after the fall of the Soviet Union , it has become more assertive on its borders and less willing to … European states. Under Putin , the Russian state has become more centralized and autocratic. Dissent, including …
pile of syringes

The Global War on Drugs

… Dr. Nicholas Breyfogle   Hello, and welcome to The Global War on Drugs brought to you by the … the myth that cannabis is a weed. In reality, it's the opposite. Its one species name, Cannabis sativa, literally means … against marijuana first emerge in the historical record, Mexico and the Southwest. By 1907, California had …
Film poster for Pather Panchali (1955).

Top Ten Origins: From Bollywood to Indywood

… Multilingualism in India is as common as daylight. India recognizes 22 official languages and its 1962 census recorded residents speaking over 1600 native tongues. It is … decorated Indian film with as many as 19 awards to its credit. The wheels of Indian justice system grind slowly and …