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… Patrick Potyondy   Welcome to History Talk the history podcast for everyone produced by Origins at Ohio State. I'm your … that policing of racialized groups, for instance, slaves or free blacks in the north dates to the antebellum era, as …

… the initial onset of symptoms. Measles often causes severe complications, including pneumonia and encephalitis … And we humans have succeeded at many other control efforts. By vaccination, we eliminated smallpox, one of the … vaccination campaigns. British poster urges people to get free vaccinations at specific locations in Liverpool in …

… prohibits all military activity? The unlikely source of common ground lies in the Antarctic Treaty of 1959. This treaty may appear obscure, but in reality it’s a model for achieving peace and disarmament on the Korean peninsula. … late 1980s and thus pledged to honor the nuclear weapons-free zone status of the Antarctic. Today, a nuclear …

… Alice in Wonderland, the little girl created by Oxford mathematician and logician Charles Lutwidge Dodgson … our own purposes as well. Zombie Alice at 2014 New York ComicCon. Cosplaying is one way people have taken ownership … for what it is brings her dream to an end and sets her free to live an authentic life. Alice in the Duchess’s …

… 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 … les militants des groupes armés divers se réclamant d’une forme plus « vraie » de l'Islam ont tué trois humoristes : …

… a peaceful Europe. At the time, many worried that Communism might gain power in Europe. Could a third world … Congress is proposing to reduce international food aid.   Revisit 1947. Americans chose not to let hunger gain strength … at home. You might even play an online game such as Free Rice, which raises funds to feed the hungry.   If all …

… Just how has American society mobilized for a sense of common purpose in the past? And why have we seemed to lose that sense of common purpose today in the midst of the coronavirus … Mobilizing for Common Purpose in the COVID Era …

… conflict.  Today we talk about the women who led the charge for suffrage, their successful advocating for the nineteenth amendment, and who they left behind along … be found on our website, and we encourage our listeners to visit episode descriptions for citations to background …

… threat to the United States, but are suddenly targeted for long-term problems that the world has been dealing with … the diplomatic efforts and foreign aid needed to solve complex international problems. During the Cold War, … at the expense of privacy, fair judicial procedures and freedom from unreasonable arrests and harassment. It …

… George Bush has begun his campaign by talking about "compassionate conservatism." After securing the nomination, … of Franklin Roosevelt. They tried to combine compassion for a "third of a nation," the "ill housed, ill-clothed, … founders of the United Nations. They do so at a time when free markets usually mean more poverty, and less real …

… Rome . If  warnings of the imminent rise of superhuman AI come to pass, he may be the last pontiff crowned during the … raises some daunting questions: What is the role of free will in human society? What of faith? What, if … respect for natural order and human limitations is worth revisiting.  As AI datacenters threaten to surpass the  energy …

… Walker Lindh, the young American recently captured fighting for the Taliban, pushes to the fore the meaning of treason. … as taking up arms against the government or giving aid and comfort to its enemies. The offense is extremely serious and … one major respect, he continued a time-honored tradition. Freedom has long included the liberty to ignore governmental …

… clubs and launched multiyear protests. While sharing a common goal, these efforts were not without internal … of Radical Republicans, who included Lincoln loyalists and freedman, who took control of southern state legislatures. … be found on our website, and we encourage our listeners to visit episode descriptions for citations to background …

… us on an authoritative and eye-opening journey into how the company Monsanto came to have outsized influence over our … Department of History; Director, Harvey Goldberg Center for Teaching Excellence … story that the whole point of Monsanto was to try and break free of the stranglehold control of these big businesses …

… a chronic condition that can have serious, life-threatening complications if left untreated. Diabetes is caused when the … first successfully used on January 23, 1922. The efforts to refine and distribute insulin therapy represented … Bouchardat most famously observed the importance of a sugar-free diet during the Franco-Prussian War. Research into the …

… the honor. By the 19th century’s end, the U.S. Senate had become widely known, as it still is today, as a “millionaires … that, if the Senate seats Roland Burris, it would remain free to remove him if his patron Blagojevich were found … be a welcome start.   A more substantial consequence of revisiting this bit of American history could arise from its …

… 1920, in the middle of war , a group of Ukrainians performed Macbeth . They had been in Kyiv, but the city was … Follies. The Berezil’s managing director researched the latest in stage lighting, and the state funded the purchase … cavorted with dancing girls. Finally, the figure of comic writer Ostap Vyshnia was depicted hunting a line of …

… of the Heaven’s Gate suicides now blame everything from comets to cults to cyberspace to the dead themselves — the … More than a century ago, Herman Melville made the case for American gullibility in the novel “The Confidence-Man” … — because we are afraid to encroach on someone’s religious freedom.  We are afraid to say, “Your conspiracy theories …