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Senator Joe Lieberman

Accepting Joseph Lieberman: The Electorate Grows Up

… "more faithful" to Israel than the United States. But these comments have drawn a negative reaction from the most blacks … a nation. Stephen A. Allen is a doctoral candidate in the Medieval Institute at the University of Notre Dame and a writer for the History News Service. [The Medieval Institute, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN …
Royal Irish Rifles in foxhole at Battle of the Somme, 1916

Legacies of the Great War

… of U.S. entry into World War I. But, as the world commemorates the centennial of the war, U.S. events have … us to learn why World War I is remembered so differently in combatant countries, what the war's most important … where all of these nations are using armies of citizen soldiers, where they're conscripting instead of using …
Lenin waving flag in front of crowd of workers and soldiers

From Romanovs to Reds: Russia's Revolutions at 100

… Jessica Vinas-Nelson  Welcome to History Talk , the podcast that brings together a … in Ohio, a specialist in Russian and post Soviet studies. Dr. Stephen Norris   Hello. Brenna Miller  In the … Vinas-Nelson. Song and band information can be found on our website. You can find our podcasts and more on our website
15th century painting of Christine de Pisan, QUeen Isabeau, and 7 other women

Medieval Women's Rights: Setting the Stage for Today

… The medieval church gave birth to the misogynistic rhetoric that … the first real “feminist” rumblings of discontent. Medieval women were not content to be victims of oppression: … Dr. Nicholas Breyfogle  Welcome to "Medieval Women's Rights: Setting the Stage for Today" brought …
battle at Tenochtitlan

The Fall of Tenochtitlan

After a brutal 75-day siege, the Mexica capital of Tenochtitlan surrendered on August 13, 1521.
… violence. By the end, a few thousand Spaniards under the command of Hernando Cortés fighting alongside many times … modern world, the seat of the Aztec Empire. Written by Diego Javier Luis. Narration by Dr. Nicholas B. … Diego Javier Luis … Indigenous Communities …
fire at plant in Bhopal in background people lost in the fire

Remembering Bhopal: The World's Worst Industrial Disaster

… This presentation commemorates the 40th anniversary of the Bhopal Gas Disaster … in their homes nearby. It is estimated that 10,000 people died instantly, and survivor organizations estimate that … all this in details, and you can also go to our Bhopal website, and I'll give you that information to see more …
A group of men and women. The women hold signs that say "My Body, My Choice"

Reproductive Rights and Reproductive Justice

… they evolved over time? When, how, and why did abortion become such a controversial topic in the United States? How … are Mytheli Sreenivas, associate professor of Women's Studies and History at Ohio State University, Allison Norris, a … Sokolsky. Song and band information can be found on our website. You can find our podcast and more at our website
L to R - Indigenous, African American, and Jewish Peoples

Ideas of Race and Racism in History

… for the Humanities. Any views, findings, conclusions or recommendations expressed in this content do not necessarily … Dr. Nicholas Breyfogle  Hello, and welcome to Ideas of Race and Racism in History brought to you … geographies, political ecology, science and technology studies and tribal cultural resource preservation. Smiles …
The Blood of Free Men: The Liberation of Paris, 1944, by Michael Neiberg Book Cover.

How the Sun Rose Again on the City of Light

Review of The Blood of Free Men: The Liberation of Paris, 1944, by Michael Neiberg (New York: Basic Books, 2012)
… with collaborationist neighborhoods, areas of union and communist strength, and the German headquarters district. As … leaders such as de Gaulle and Philippe Leclerc, the commander of the first French division to land with the … operation. As the Allies drew closer to the city, French soldiers with the advancing Allies and the civilians inside …
soldiers in Vietnam

Memories of Vietnam in Memoriam

Review of Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War, by Viet Thanh Nguyen Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2016.
… the stories they tell about themselves?  In Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War Viet Thanh Nguyen, a professor of American Studies at USC and a Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, reflects … who view the dead and choose to remember them. This is a complex work.  Equal parts philosophical treatise, …
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 …
An art exhibition, probably in Moscow in 1964. Taken by Thomas T. Hammond during his travels in the Soviet Union.

When the Soviets Domesticated the West

Review of To See Paris and Die: The Soviet Lives of Western Culture, by Eleonory Gilburd (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2018)
… Russian translations and interpretations. To See Paris and Die by Eleonory Gilburd tells the story of the Soviet … One of Gilburd’s key arguments is that this Soviet audience made sense of books, films, and paintings through the … from viewers and readers and more than 6,000 entries in comment books from exhibitions—Gilburd gives voice to Soviet …
A Church in Novgorod Russia

Russia and the World

… But what exactly does Russia want? And how does this compare to its ambitions in the past? In this episode of … of Havighurst Center for Russian and Post-Soviet Studies at Miami University in Ohio.   Stephen Norris      … piece that will be on Origins, which is kind of your sister website of History Talk. There's shameless self-promotion.   …
The remains of the crash of TWA Flight 5 in 1931 [Photo from the Kansas Historical Society]

Top Ten Origins: Aviation Disasters that Improved Safety

… body-scan. Airline passengers in the United States have come to expect these kinds of security measures as a … back the early 1930s. As a result of each of these ten tragedies, commercial aviation really is safer today than it was … MO. On board were thirteen passenger and crew. Five died in the accident, including Senator Bronson Cutting …
British Fleet Spanish Armada of 1588

1588: the Spanish Armada Still Loses

… finally clashed. Looking beyond the events of 1588 to the complex politics which made war between England and Spain … Never before or since World War II, have so many people died violent unnatural deaths in such a short space of time. … but what really clinched it was the 1000 gold and silver coins, the 12 gold rings, the six gold chains and the 35 …

The United States, China, and the Money Question

… rights issues, others Chinese foreign policy, but the most common rhetorical barbs tie back to trade and currency. This … else in its cargo: more than 20,000 Spanish silver coins. The goods the Americans were bringing would not be … of the U.S. than to push their commerce to the East Indies as fast and as far as it will go.” Merchants listened …
A red AIDS ribbon outlined in candles

The Global History of HIV

… for the Humanities. Any views, findings, conclusions or recommendations expressed in this content do not necessarily … Dr. Nicholas Breyfogle  Welcome, everyone, to "The Global History of HIV," brought to … recalling the 38, the 32 point 7 million people who have died from HIV and its related illnesses in the near, the …
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 … President for Programming of the Association for Jewish Studies, the leading international Jewish Studies organization. …
penguin standing on sand at a beach with a plant and ocean behind it

Early Encounters with Penguins

… Nicholas Breyfogle:   Hello, and welcome to Early Encounters with Penguins brought to you by the … Humanities. Ellen is a very prolific author in medieval environmental history and global water history. She's … the Landscape Environment and Monastic Identity in the Medieval Ardennes in 2013, Medieval Riverscapes: Environmental …
a couple in a wedding dress and soldier dress uniform

Between Two Worlds: Jewish War Brides After the Holocaust

… a life in the wake of the Holocaust, many Jewish survivors, community and religious leaders, and Allied soldiers viewed marriage between Jewish women and military … survived the Holocaust and married an American soldier after liberation, introduces us to the Jewish women who …
Cover of All the Missing Souls: A Personal History of the War Crimes Tribunals by David SchefferDavid S

Bringing Evil to Justice

Review of All the Missing Souls: A Personal History of the War Crimes Tribunals, by David Scheffer (NJ: Princeton University Press, 2012)
… a test of how well the United States, and the international community could create institutions of governance after the … provided with a vigorous defense. Slobodan Milosevic died in a jail cell in The Hague. Meanwhile the Bush administration's hybrid "military commissions," while failing to meet the procedural norms of …