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Employees operating a testing center at the Walmart Supercenter in Elizabethville, PA, August, 2020.

Licenses to Ill: Health Passes and Surveillance

… A common response to the COVID-19 epidemic worldwide has been … were not made exempt from further scrutiny. Just the opposite: they actually shouldered additional burdens of … to be fully integrated with the country’s “social credit system,” meaning one’s health score will be largely …
A crowd of Syrian refugees in the Vienna airport

Road to Europe: The 2015 Migration Crisis

… I teach courses on Eastern Europe, nationalism, migration, communism, the Cold War, among others.   Dr. Robin Judd   … Relief and Rehabilitation Administration, which is revisited in 1946 when it becomes the IRO, the International … Wiggins. Song and band information can be found on our website. You can find our podcasts and more at our website, …
Fourth of July celebration in Philadelphia, 1819.

The United States: Democracy or Republic?

… in the 18th century included the selflessness to put the common good above special interests. Only a few (men) could … democracy and republicanism have coexisted, sometimes complementarily, other times confrontationally.  Part of the … Republicanism was in no way unique to what would become the United States: republicanism existed throughout the …

Interracial Marriage in "Post-Racial" America

… fight racial prejudice through a celebration of multiracial community. The event takes its name from the 1967 Supreme … as man and wife, against the peace and dignity of the Commonwealth,” they were offered one year imprisonment or a … remain. Founding Myth, Foundational Rejection The first recorded interracial marriage in American history was the …
Illustration of global public health by Giovanni Maki, 2004.

The WHO and International Public Health

… epidemiological data on infectious diseases, and offer recommendations on sanitation. The OIPH would later become a partner of the League of Nations Health Organization … of Achievement: Highlights of the Work of WHO , “would become the coordinating force behind a network of first-class …

A Century of Sanctions

… administration has added more than 1,000 individuals and companies to sanctions lists. The president has gloried in … from trade networks and the global financial system has become Washington’s foreign policy tool of choice. Indeed, the … in human rights violations. How did economic sanctions become so vital to America’s relationship with the rest of the …
Sheikha Mozah

Beyond the Veil: Women in the Mideast and North Africa

…   Mark Sokolsky  Welcome to History Talk , the podcast that brings together a … and North Africa, the question of women's rights frequently comes to the fore. And generally the overall impression is … Sokolsky. Song and bad information can be found on our website. You can find our podcasts and more at origins.osu.edu …

Las raíces del estado de fallido venezolano

… y Buicks y la clase alta famosamente se lanzaba de compras a Miami donde eran conocidos como los del “dame dos.” En términos políticos, el país era … la situación económica y un establecimiento político desacreditado, los votantes optaron por las promesas del …

What's in a Name?: The Meaning of 'Muslim Fundamentalist'

… perceive that reality. In so doing the words we use also become a part of the world we are trying to understand. One … the threat posed by Islamic fundamentalism. "We have yet to come to terms fully with the threat that Islamic … of our time." McCain has made it clear that he is fully committed "to winning this battle, enhancing the stature of …
Crowds of people waving Ukrainian flags

The Fate of Crimea, the Future of Ukraine, Part II

… Patrick Potyondy  Welcome to History Talk , the history podcast for everyone … selfie pictures. So if you go to the John Glenn school website, you can see some of the pictures of the protest, the … and Leticia Wiggins. Find our podcasts and more at our website, origins.osu.edu , and you can find us on Twitter, …
A pro-union demonstration in Romania, 2009. The flag translates to "Moldova Our Sister"

Moldova and Romania: A Long and Complicated Relationship

… Anderson famously defined nationalism as an “imagined community” binding together a widespread group of people … year, the territory that is today the Republic of Moldova—comprising the majority of the region known then as … the Russian Orthodox Church to operate.  After the fall of communism, the Romanian-led Metropolitan of Bessarabia was …
IRA gunmen in Northern Ireland

From the Cold War to the War on Terror

… dates back well into the Cold War. How did terrorism become a focal point of U.S. foreign policy? How did earlier … deeper history tell us about what terrorism is, how our common assumptions about it might be wrong, and how we … home, of white supremacist ideologies. He had his own website, The Last Rhodesian, and he was part of a Southern …
Hitler with politicians

The Nazis Take Poland and the Start of World War II

… of the German Army moved out of their encampments and into combat. It was the beginning of a war over the future of … extent of the death, destruction and disorganization this combined fire caused in three short hours was incredible. By … Polish soil and in the ensuing six years Poland became the site of a majority of German concentration camps. Though it …
Abovian Among the Kurds, painting by Mkrtich Sedrakyan, 1950. (Image from author's personal collection, courtesy of the Khachatur Abovian House-Museum, Yerevan, Armenia.)

Top Ten Origins: Russia’s Relations with the Kurds

… united in a struggle for civil and political rights, they comprise various tribal affiliations and speak different … are adherents of the Yazidi faith, a religion that shares common elements with Christianity, Islam, and … Abovian’s outlook was universal. His wife was German and he recorded Kurdish and Azerbaijani Tatar folklore in Armenia. …

Taiwan's 2008 Elections: A New Direction for the 'Other China'?

… is not quite as large as Massachusetts and Rhode Island combined. It is also the second-most densely populated … (where Ma grew up and went to college), Ma has never visited the Chinese mainland. After graduating at the top of … on his fellow students while at Harvard and the now discredited DPP charge that he continues to hold a U.S. Green …
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 … into question (substituting “red” for “expert”), it discredited authority political and intellectual, and it … is but one officially designed Cultural Revolution historic site, a graveyard in the city of Chongqing where Red Guards …
BJP rally in India

The Politics of India

… Patrick Potyondy   Welcome to History Talk , the history podcast for everyone. I'm … both of those countries in 1947. So that's another ongoing site of tension. A lot of that is around, the around the … Wiggins. Song and band information can be found on our website. You can find our podcasts and more at our website
Man at march holding sign that reads "Make America NATIVE Again"

Indigenous Peoples' Day: A Conversation

… Dr. Dr. Daniel Rivers: Thank you so much and welcome to our webinar for Indigenous Peoples' Day. It's … for Native and Indigenous students. So thank you all for coming out today. Daniel and I are very excited to have a … in the Ohio Valley. That is what happened. And so that site and the document, the 1795 treaty that Melissa alluded …
Pope Leo XIV in the popemobile at his inauguration, 2025.

Faith, History, and the City of God in the 21st Century

… Rome . If  warnings of the imminent rise of superhuman AI come to pass, he may be the last pontiff crowned during the … the papacy of Leo XIV may herald the end of an era,  recent commentary celebrates several notable firsts.  Besides being … capitalism and godless socialism he envisioned a Christian commonweal combining natural rights of property with those …

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 … companies. In addition, Angola received another line of credit from China that was pegged at 1.5% over 17 years. …
Nuuk, Greenland skyline with the aurora borealis.

Greenland Fantasies

… parties, struggle with their sexuality, track “likes” and “comments” on Facebook, experience domestic abuse, and dream … shipping between Greenland and Norway.  The last extant record of Norse Greenland describes the wedding celebration … of telephone eventually played by writers who had never visited Greenland, reports through the centuries grew more …
June 4th, 2014, at Hong Kong’s Victoria Park (Photo by the author)

Remembering Tiananmen: The View from Hong Kong

… In between memory and forgetting, there is commemoration . On June 4, 1989 a protest in Beijing’s … organizers instead showed grainy footage of previously recorded videos. Tiananmen Mothers: In a small group … cemetery in Chongqing is chained and locked, and gravesites are carefully watched. One recalls from the Maoist era …

After Putin? Russia's Presidential Elections

… 2000 and Time magazine's "Man of the Year" for 2007, has come to the end of his legal term limit and must step down. … situation. They contribute even today to the discrediting of so-called democratic or liberal parties. As a … or The Union of Right Forces are for the most part discredited because they have not performed a mea culpa to …
Dreamcatchers shown against the sky

Re-storying the Experiences of Indigenous College Students

… Dr. Lucy Murphy  Hello, welcome to "Re-storying the Experiences of Indigenous College … and Neglected Children in Denver, Colorado when I visited on March 25, in 2018. This picture is on the grounds … where my father was raised. It was a place that I had visited once before when I was about 12, or 13. We didn't …