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Labor Secretary Elaine Chao in 2005.

Written With the Blood of Miners

… the U.S. Congress and with the president’s signature will become law. While a new law represents a positive step for … coverage of January’s Sago disaster, in which 12 miners died. With less attention but equal devastation, 21 more … in U.S. history. In 1950, by comparison, 643 U.S. miners died. And there are certainly other countries where things …
Title page of the first edition of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus, 1818.

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

… nineteen, published the gothic novel Frankenstein. It has become a classic of English literature. Title page of the … her feverish story: ten days after her birth her mother died from puerperal fever, at seventeen she eloped with … wife, the following year her premature illegitimate child died shortly after being born and her half-sister Fanny …
Illustration of the duel between Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr (1887)

The Hamilton-Burr Duel

… in American history. Burr fatally wounded Hamilton, who died the next day. Hamilton’s premature death transformed … of Lin Manuel Miranda’s musical Hamilton , he has also become a pop culture icon. Meanwhile, as the character of … puts it in Hamilton: “He may have been the first one to die / But I’m the one who paid for it.” The duel effectively …
a can of Spaghetti-Os

Spaghetti in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction

… every piece was in place for this circular pasta to become a staple of the American diet. By 2010, over 150 million cans of SpaghettiOs were … believed that only the most ignorant consumers would buy their food without knowing where it came from. Americans …

The Roots of Venezuela's Failing State

… in the last year on what people are calling “ the Maduro Diet ,” a scathing reference to current president Nicolás … Maduro. Protestors demonstrating while people seeking to buy basic goods in short supply line up outside a store in … in 2016. Diphtheria, once thought eradicated, has made a comeback . By some estimates, 2.5 million people have left …
Riot police officers in Kyiv, December 2013

A Postcard from Kyiv: A Year of Reckoning for Ukraine

… in Kyiv,  December 2013 The year 2014 will no doubt become a caesura, a line dividing Ukraine’s history into … we cannot even enjoy our victory there. Because people died, people who in the critical moment, with wooden boards … of a generation of people: why did I survive when others died? Maybe I'm more base, more cunning, a bigger coward? …
Nancy Reagan speaking at a "Just Say No" Rally.

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

… we could, you know, leave the house and not really have to come back until it was time for dinner. We could ride our … she decides to give in and have some fun and does drugs and dies. Brionna Mendoza (laughing) Oh my god. What kind of … this big scare, like a paraquat scare, and people who were buying cannabis from Mexico were afraid to smoke it and …
Suffragettes protest for the right to vote

Prologued Podcast celebrating the 19th Amendment Centennial

… Oranjudio. Song and Band information can be found on our website and we encourage our listeners to visit episode … of their husband. So women cannot sue, they could not own buy or sell property, they could not enter into contracts. … Take, for instance, Abigail Adams’s famous “Remember the Ladies” letter, in which she implored her husband, John Adams, …
Seal of the Vice President of the United States.

The Vice Presidency Should Not Be an Accident Waiting to Happen

… or geography. The problem, of course, is that presidents do die. Thirty-seven men have been elected president, and eight of them have died in office. This means that a candidate who chooses his … and funding for the arts. These three men were all accomplished politicians, nationally well known before being …

The Politics of International Adoption

… five years old – most of them in developing countries – die each year from violence, malnutrition or disease. Ten million is hard to comprehend. Nor is it any easier if we break it down: thirty … toll of children's lives equals ten times the number who died in the World Trade Towers, and each week matches the …

Protestant Preaching after the Age of Graham

… When Billy Graham died in February of this year, many of the tributes referred … he was hardly “America’s” pastor. Nevertheless, when he died his body lay in state in the rotunda of the U.S. … influenced preaching in the decades since. Three important components of Graham’s outreach in particular were …
Jimmy Carter, Richard Nixon and Deng Xiaoping during the state dinner for the Vice Premier of China

The Nixon-Deng Comparison

… Whenever a famous politician dies, obituary writers and other commentators immediately start comparing the departed figure … their reputations and how they will be remembered. Had they died thirty years earlier, each would probably have been … The Nixon-Deng Comparison …

The Human Use of Human Beings: A Brief History of Suicide Bombing

… 9/11, reveals a great deal about the phenomenon we have come to know as suicide bombing. First, a radical left-wing … such as faith or community. Historically, the decision to die on behalf of others has been the right of the … obligation, retain the traditional martyr’s willingness to die on behalf of others. In this new, mechanized form of …
Sign that reads, "You are either affected or infected with HIV/AIDS."

HIV/AIDS: Past, Present and Future

… Ohio State University, known to friends and colleagues as Dodie. He is Associate Professor of History and the director … Kwiek   You could actually go on Amazon for about $35 and buy HIV tests and have them delivered to your house.   Dr. … Rhoades. Song and band information can be found on our website, and you can find our podcast and more on our …
John D. Rockefeller in 1914.

Bill Gates — Another Rockefeller or Another Ford?

… Americans have hated political and economic bullies. "Free competition" has always been our rallying cry and the … of small, locally-owned factories; the trusts tried to buy them out. Those factories have all rusted away, or have … D. Rockefeller had used his financial power to destroy and buy out his competitors and made secret rebate deals with …

Beware of Greeks Bearing Gifts: How Neo-Nazis and Ancient Greeks Met in Charlottesville

… years now, those of us who study the ancient world have become progressively aware that American Neo-Nazis, white … Evropa to the prominent display of the Parthenon on the website of the Neo-Nazi forum Stormfront, classical texts … dumpster summer of racism ” confined to classics alone as medieval historians , too, found themselves increasingly …
A view of Cinicinnati in 1841. The waterways that brought cholera to the city feature prominently in this depiction.

Pandemic Redux: Revisiting Cincinnati’s 1849 Cholera in the Age of COVID-19

… December 25, 1848, brought an unwelcome gift to the Queen City. That Christmas Day, a dying man … to the Ohio Valley. Some 6,000 Cincinnatians would die, 5% of the city’s roughly 115,000 population. And death, … After Cincinnati’s initial December outbreak, which steadied to a trickle over spring, the cholera erupted in the …
King Amanullah Khan of Afghanistan.

Afghanistan, Drugs, and the Cold War (Prologued, Season 2, Episode 4)

… WWII, the United States began to boldly pursue a global community modeled upon American political, economic, and … And a large array of Western pharmaceutical companies are buying it to produce for pharmaceutical drugs, … half million refugees, hundreds of thousands of people have died from war and conflict and instability, Afghanistan has …