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DC Police Car in the snow

A Long View of Policing in America

… 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 …

Rash Decisions: Anti-vaccination Movements in Historical Perspective

… 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 …
2006 map of North Korea and South Korea.

Applying the Antarctic Solution to the Korean Nuclear Impasse

… 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 …
The culminating moment of Alice, when the pretense of power is exposed and collapses. Carroll was very concerned throughout his life with giving a wide audience of people, not just his Christ Church students, the tools of logical thinking so that they would not be the victims of demagogues and ideologies.

Everyone’s Inner Child Turns 150 Years Old

… 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 …
Bande dessinée par Ali Delim pour marquer la vingtième anniversaire de la mort de Saïd Mekbel

1/30/2015: Les dangers d'être humoriste: Charlie Hebdo n’est pas le seul

… 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 : …
"Freedom From Want" - NARA poster 1943

The Spirit of 1947: This Thanksgiving Feed a Silent Guest and Build World Peace

… 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 …
poster supporting those lost in Pearl Harbor

Mobilizing for Common Purpose in the COVID Era

… 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 …
Official Program: Woman Suffrage Procession, Washington DC March 3, 1913

I have many things to say (Prologued, Season 1, Episode 2)

… 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 …
American flag fluttering in the breeze.

War Without End Brings Endless Dangers

… 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 …
President Bill Clinton addressing a high school in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1999.

The Politics of Compassion

… 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 …
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 … 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 …
Soldiers marching at the Champs Elysee

Recovering the History of the French Far-Right

Review of Assassination in Vichy: Marx Dormoy and the Struggle for the Soul of France , by Gayle K. Brunelle and Annette Finley-Croswhite (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2020)
Lindh photographed after being transported to Camp Rhino.

Walker’s Misguided — But No Traitor

… 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 …
Pamphlet of "Virginia Women Opposed to Suffrage"

Equal Suffrage Awaits Trial (Prologued, Season 1, Episode 3)

… 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 …
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 … 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 …
Two vials of modern insulin named Actrapid (left) and NovoRapid (right) by the manufacturers.

The First Insulin Injection as a Treatment for Diabetes

… 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 …
Drawing/wood engraving of the state capitol of Illinois at Springfield.

Can Illinois Again Lead by (Bad) Example?

… 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 …
Actors in the Berezil troupe, 1922.

Ukrainian Theater on the Soviet Stage

… 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 …
 This is the logo of the Heaven's Gate cult.

Gullible Americans?

… 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 …