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The International History of the U.S. Suffrage Movement

… Ida B. Wells-Barnett with her four children in 1909. The complex international connections and strategies that … sisters, who in 1826 made the first formal demand for an immediate rather than gradual end to slavery. Boston reformer … power. The right to vote proved to be the convention’s most controversial demand, and abolitionist Frederick …
Official Program: Woman Suffrage Procession, Washington DC March 3, 1913

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

… professor of history at Miami University in Ohio, and a foremost authority on the history of the women's suffrage … call the Anthony Amendment, and what would eventually become the 19th Amendment. But not for a long time. California … Oranjudio. Song and band information can be found on our website, and we encourage our listeners to visit episode …
Official portrait of President Gerald R. Ford (February 25, 1976).

Will Vindication Elude Ford?

… evening, his well-deserved vindication will probably never come. Thrust into a difficult situation — one he handled … are made. It’s no coincidence that of our six or seven most popular presidents, only Theodore Roosevelt and Thomas … He was the first president to take aggressive action aimed at curbing American dependence on foreign oil. As a …
Ruins of Chorrillos after the battle of January 13, 1881. Photograph by Eugene Courret. Glass Plate. National Library of Peru Collection.

The War of the Pacific and the Fate of South America

… Bolivian Atacama region, mainly led by Chilean and British companies. The mineral was used both as a fertilizer and in the manufacture of explosives, making it one of the most coveted products in international trade and industry.  … and increased Chilean expansionist pressures, but the immediate trigger for the conflict was Bolivia’s 1878 tax …
Troops of the French 2nd Armored Division parade down the Champs-Élysées on 26 August 1944

The Liberation of Paris

… four years of Nazi occupation. Following a week of guerilla combat between Resistance fighters and the occupying German … of occupation, humiliation, and the persecution of its most vulnerable citizens, Paris was free. Troops of the … broken! Paris martyred! But Paris liberated!” he proclaimed. “Liberated by itself, liberated by its people with the …
Jair Bolsonaro speaking at microphone

Brazil, Bolsonaro, and the Politics of Nostalgia

… Eric Michael Rhodes  Welcome to History Talk the podcast that brings together … the issues around which the election turned what were the most salient concerns of everyday Brazilians, corruption, … Rhodes, song and band information can be found on our website. You can find our podcasts and more on our website
members of the Tea Party holding signs

The Great American Debate Recommences

… Mark Skoda, the president of a Tea Party PAC, recently summed up what he calls their first principles: “less … of the United States Constitution yet their principles were most fiercely embodied not in our current Constitution, but … that Congress was debating a declaration of independence, a committee was drafting the Articles. Its purpose was to form …

Sudan in Crisis

… troops and southern guerillas. There are several immediate causes of the recent protests, which began in … both north and south. Colonial Policy and Two Sudans During most of the colonial period (1899-1956), Sudan was ruled as … coexisted with Egyptian schools, missionary schools, community schools, and Sudanese private schools. In the …
A view of New York City behind Secretary Gale Norton in a lower Manhattan office space in 2006.

Downsizing Becomes Normal

… his father, also an Edison employee, counseled him that the company would provide a secure life. Myers’ forced … firms terminated salaried employees only as a last resort. Most companies implemented pay cuts and shortened workweeks, … downsizings have produced less generalized outrage. Media coverage has generally ignored the plight of workers …
Portrait of President James K. Polk from 1846.

The Lessons of Mr. Polk’s War

… history of foreign occupation, Iraqi civilians would welcome U.S. troops as liberators. Most Iraqis, like most Mexicans in 1846, thought otherwise, and popular …
Heads of delegations at the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP21), which led to the signing of the Paris Agreement.

Looking for a Common Language at Copenhagen

… Yet in diplomacy, format is central. The messy, almost unmanageable configuration of the Copenhagen summit is … of solving a problem facing the entire world, the summit’s composition best resembles a hodgepodge of national-or what … all of these efforts, like the League itself, were doomed by national-or, more precisely, nationalist-passions and …
Zaporizhians by Józef Brandt, unknown date.

The Cossacks, Ukraine’s Paradigmatic Warriors

… has proven itself mighty and tenacious to an international community that may have previously thought them quiet and … word meaning “free man.” Their origins are disputed, but most scholars agree that they were a multiethnic group formed from tribes living in the area, as well as from …
Courtesans such as Lilly Langtry (in this 1885 photograph) are claimed to have started utilizing underwear as tool of seduction.

Where’s that Sexy History Under There?

Review of Exposed: A History of Lingerie, by Colleen Hill (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Yale University Press, 2014)
… billboard in Times Square or featured as a line exclaimed with a British accent as supermodels strut about on TV. … relatively uncovered. By tracing the history of lingerie - mostly through means of fashion photography and short accompanying descriptions - Hill attempts to describe lingerie …
Portrait of Louis XVI, King of France and Navarre, c. 1779

The Execution of Louis XVI

… through the city of Paris from the Temple, the fortified medieval monastery where he was imprisoned, to the Place de … and Navarre, c. 1779. He traveled in the mayor's coach accompanied by his confessor, Henry Essex Edgeworth de … four deep along the coach's path, and the journey passed mostly in silence as Louis prayed. By 10 am, Louis’ coach …
State of Israel Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon, pictured during a defense meeting held at the Pentagon in Washington, District of Columbia (DC).

Is Sharon Following in the Steps of Nixon and de Klerk?

… for this apparent transformation. Sharon is working toward complete Israeli disengagement from the Gaza Strip, including the removal of Israeli settlers. For most observers of the crisis in the Middle East, Sharon … solution in the lands between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea. It may end up being less ironic than …
The South Carolina State Capitol.

Trent Lott Should Be History

… support of modest racial reform in the United States. The most recalcitrant segregationists in Southern politics – … in seats of power.   After Strom Thurmond's birthday party, media observers saw Lott's tribute to his retiring colleague … Internet and Sunday morning television pundits buzzed with commentary about it. The Washington Post's David Broder said …
A long line of migrants in India

Migration and Mobility: Yesterday and Today

… policy in the U.S., Europe, and across the world have become fierce and deeply divisive, to say the least, and will surely continue to dominate politics in the coming years. All the while, lives are in the balance as … be a citizen, or only to identify as one thing. I'd say the most significant difference is that, you know, for people …
Statue of Samuel J. Tilden in New York City.

Presidential Electoral Controversy Nothing New in Florida

… just as it did during the election of 1876. As the news media and lawyers from the Gore and the Bush campaigns … to resolve the issue in 1876 through a special Electoral Commission and a resulting complex set of commitments that … controversy. In 1877, African-American voters lost the most in the compromise that resolved the electoral conflict. …
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 … the end of the Cultural Revolution is less ambiguous; most link it to Mao’s death in September of 1976, or to the … is but one officially designed Cultural Revolution historic site, a graveyard in the city of Chongqing where Red Guards …
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 … here at Ohio State University. And my work is focused mostly on issues around suburbanization, suburban growth, … Sokolsky. Song and band information can be found on our website. You can find our podcasts and more at our website, …
Nancy Reagan speaking at a "Just Say No" Rally.

The “Modern” War on Drugs (Prologued, Season 2, Episode 1)

… see, the development of the US drug war was deeply informed by experiences abroad...and to understand why the War on … last idyllic age where I had the typical nuclear family. Most of my friends’ parents had both their mom and dad in … for Harry Anslinger was that the truth was exactly the opposite: it was Chiang Kai-Shek’s allies who were trafficking …