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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 … of Tears in Oklahoma. An estimated 3,500 Native Americans died along the 1,200 mile journey. Indian treaty-makers did … Indian nations to establish reservation governments and buy back their old lands. In 1946, Congress recognized the …
the word History in script

Why Study History?

… implausible. History can promote human improvement, I've come to believe, but not in the didactic or formulaic manner … our most basic assumptions, beliefs, and ideologies. It complicates our lives, making us wiser people if not wiser …
Israeli Prime Minister, Levi Eshkol

Six Days That Shook The World

Review of The Six Day War: The Breaking of the Middle East, by Guy Laron (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2017)
… administrations that deemed the application of force a welcome distraction from domestic problems. At the same time, … offensive mindset—“Rabin’s Schlieffenplan,” (145) as Laron coins it in pointed allusion. Rabin's "Schlieffenplan:" an … but also offer rewarding reading experiences to public audiences with much patience and stamina. …
Two baseballs.

Why Dick Allen Never Reached the Hall

… career home runs and his 1,119 RBIs place him in the same company as such Hall of Famers as Yogi Berra, Roy … be sure, Allen forced the white baseball establishment to come to terms with the racism that existed in the game in … alone. Racism is a much broader cultural phenomenon, encompassing institutional policies as well as the beliefs and …
Grover Cleveland-Benjamin Harrison presidential (1888) campaign poster about the trade policy of the two candidates

Reform: The Long-Term Winner in Close Elections

… or the opening of world markets to facilitate competition across national boundaries. Record campaign … racism, and urging workers and farmers to recognize their common interest in fighting business consolidation. Because … politics operates. Building broad support for changing the complex global economy will be harder than convincing people …
1935 cartoon by Vaughn Shoemaker in which he parodied the New Deal as a card game with alphabetical agencies.

The Auto Bailout: a Bad Deal

… use it to fund a generous "cash for clunkers" program which buys and scraps old inefficient and highly polluting cars …
President Lyndon B. Johnson giving a speech about the Voting Rights Act with a statute of President Abraham Lincoln in the background.

The Republican Party and African-Americans: The Real History

… to give black men full citizenship. For that much, Bush and company can claim a worthy lineage. But as early as 1876 — … the Democrats' political machines eagerly absorbed the newcomers. Republican machines, by contrast, reacted coolly … a vigorous civil rights bill, but the legislation almost died because of a Senate filibuster by Southern Democrats. …
Cover of Robert Clifton Weaver and the American City The Life and Times of an Urban Reformer by Wendell E. Pritchett.

Invisible Man

Review of Robert Clifton Weaver and the American City: The Life and Times of an Urban Reformer , by Wendell E. Pritchett (University of Chicago Press, 2008)
… the idea of a color-blind America. Media pundits and social commentators nationwide claimed that Obama's election … success. History, however, might prove otherwise.  As we come to the end of the first decade of the twenty-first … through the Presidency, and Weaver never wavered from that commitment even when his strategy failed to make any …
President Bush visiting American troops in Saudi Arabia on Thanksgiving Day, 1990.

Selling Iraq with the Wrong Pitch

… President Bush likes to tell his usually hand-picked audiences that Iraq will become more democratic and prosperous because of America’s … commitment in Iraq. The public should realize that it’s buying a lemon. Michael R. Adamson is an independent …
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 … an assistant professor of Women's Gender and Sexuality Studies here at The Ohio State University.   Peggy Solic    My … Leticia Wiggins. You can find our podcasts and more at our website, origins.osu.edu, on iTunes and on Soundcloud. And …
Photo of Ernest Hemingway smiling.

The Breaking Point: Hemingway, Dos Passos, and the Murder of Jose Robles

Review of The Breaking Point: Hemingway, Dos Passos, and the Murder of Jose Robles, by Stephen Koch (New York: Counterpoint, 2005)
… spread to the Spanish conflict. Robles went to his death a committed Stalinist, but to shroud the reality of the … as a fascist spy. Dos Passos was politically astute and a committed leftist though not a declared Stalinist. … a lethal wound. Dos Passos lived until 1970, but his art died in 1937. Koch's book is light on the history of the …
President Richard Nixon

Republican Character

Review of Republican Character: From Nixon to Reagan, by Donald T. Critchlow (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018)
… on "virtue" instead of policy. Written with a broad audience in mind, Critchlow utilizes biographies and … to argue that "principled pragmatism, the ability to compromise while maintaining core principles, is essential … defined them. Chapter One examines Richard Nixon and the complex story of a man remembered for the naked, amoral …
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 … Leticia Wiggins. You can find our podcasts and more at our website, origins.osu.edu, on iTunes, and on SoundCloud. And …
Man Celebrating Repeal Day with a banner that says "Good Old Days Are Back Again!"

Celebrating Repeal with a Drink, Not a Joint

… and Washington, the news media are now brimming with comparisons of alcohol to marijuana prohibition and “lessons … drinking habit. In 1970, two legal scholars wrote a comparison of alcohol and marijuana law that I believe still … The courts generally came to see the state legislatures as competent to decide whether drinking was a public evil and …

A History of Stolen Citizenship

… the amendment restored voting rights to ex-felons who had completed their prison sentence and been released from … laws like the one Floridians voted to eliminate. More common are states that extend disfranchisement through … Answers to these questions can be found deep in America’s complicated histories of slavery, segregation, and mass …
Holding a copy of ”Selected Works of Mao Zedong," Red Guards are featured on the cover of a Guangxi elementary school textbook, 1971.

"Mao's Last Revolution": China's Cultural Transformation

… the reinstatement of political control via revolutionary committees supported by the military. The Cultural … October 1976. The resolution acknowledged the period’s tragedies and called them mistakes, laying blame at the feet of … of the “masses” and the “people” as workers, peasants, soldiers, intellectuals, youth, and officials, they are a …
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in 1964.

The (Character) Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.

… King. Jury selection began November 15. The case hardly comes as a surprise. In recent years, the King family has … a fairly straightforward case like the King assassination become complicated with such stale, predictable theories that it …
Illustration of Agnes Sampson speaking to the Devil in human form. From The History of Witches and Wizards (1720).

The Execution of Agnes Sampson for Witchcraft in Edinburgh

… “North Berwick Witches” tried with her is exceptionally complex, involving politics, religion, magic, and conspiracy … personally involved in Agnes Sampson’s trial would soon become king of England, as James I, where he established the Stuart monarchy, commissioned the King James Bible, wrote an important …
Atomic bomb damage on Hiroshima gas building.

Time to Confront the Ethics of Hiroshima

… indefensibility of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima is becoming a part of the national conservative creed." But times … In recent decades most American conservatives have become uncritical of America's use of atomic weapons and … and profoundly offensive to all Americans and Japanese who died in that war, and to those Americans who still possess …
Dick Cheney in 2003.

The Vice President: Heir Apparent in American Politics

… thus passed into the language to refer to someone with no competence or apparent purpose. It turns out, however, that … in 1940 as a symbol of the administration's continuing commitment to the New Deal, was given significant … qualified to direct foreign policy if the president dies and to continue the basic policies in the next election …
Rush hour traffic in Interstate 95 in Miami.

Finally, Too Many Cars

… starting to remake Maxwell Motors into his future Big Three company. In 1922, there was one registered passenger car or … a car (or two) in every driveway.   From Keystone Cops comedies to contemporary movie chases to sophisticated art, … we have enough cars.   We will need to keep producing and buying new trucks and cars to retire reeking beaters, …
Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Restoring Russian Support for the War on Terror

… and Moscow are increasingly frayed, and Russia has become a determined foe of the American Middle East agenda. … more pragmatic than ideological, it should be possible to buy it off with the right package of incentives. That would … Service and a doctoral student in history and security studies at Yale. E-mail:  jmankoff@yahoo.com . …
Black Friday shoppers in the morning at Walmart store in Durham, North Carolina.

Is Retailing’s Death Star Vulnerable After All?

… to Christmas, head over to the local Wal-Mart. The company’s promise of “everyday low prices” is music to the … For better or worse, we’re living in a Wal-Mart World. The company now produces an astonishing 2.3 percent of the … dreams. Woolworth’s five-cent promise gave almost everyone buying power. By 1918, a billion people entered Woolworth’s …