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From Harlem to Ferguson: LBJ's War on Crime and America's Prison Crisis

… riots. It also led to a nation-wide debate about  how white officers patrol black neighborhoods and the militarization … lives or the devastation it has brought on families and communities across the nation. The historical origins of … to killing two other women and committing at least 30 burglaries. By summer the city was on edge. Mayor Robert …
Stenciled graffiti of a priest pursuing two children

Secrecy and Celibacy: The Catholic Church and Sexual Abuse

… as well as nuns and adult women, by Catholic priests, bishops, and members of religious orders. But while clerical abuse has only recently become a news item, it has a much longer history. This month, … molesting a boy, this was brought to the attention of the bishop. The bishop was a very respected person in that area. …

The Fate of the Kurds

… play with . Kurds in Sheffield, England, protest Turkey’s offensive against Kurdish YPG forces in Syria in 2018. The … related to Persian. In the largely mountainous region that comprises their homeland, over the centuries Kurds practiced … current situation continues to play out as it is, the Kurds will not be “just fine,” as the U.S. president suggested. A …
Cover of The Young Turks' Crime against Humanity: The Armenian Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing in the Ottoman Empire by Taner Akçam

The Crime That Dare Not Speak Its Name

Review of The Young Turks' Crime against Humanity: The Armenian Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing in the Ottoman Empire, by Taner Akçam (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2012)
… the courage to privilege truth seeking and challenge the official narrative of the Turkish government has been … to produce genocide. These include the Young Turks' intense commitment to the homogenization of Anatolia (a development … step toward rescuing Armenia from Turkish oppression (p. 130)." But with this reform in place, when the Ottomans …

The Illegalization of Marijuana: A Brief History

… recreational use. Across the state, celebratory stoners welcomed the New Year by lining up at licensed retailers to buy … marijuana patients are issued a card that allows them to shop at a dispensary or order from delivery services that … a gift. Prohibition Repealed, But Not for Drugs In the 1930s, the nation’s top anti-narcotics official took up the …
DC Police Car in the snow

A Long View of Policing in America

… Patrick Potyondy   Welcome to History Talk the history podcast for everyone … 21st Century Policing. And there was to put it mildly, very good reason for this.   Leticia Wiggins   Early last year … Brown, a black teenager by Darren Wilson, a white police officer in the St. Louis suburb, Ferguson, Missouri brought …
Eight women in US politics

Women in American Politics

… and institutional hurdles faced by women seeking public office. … Patrick Potyondy  Welcome to History Talk the podcast that brings together a … women's rights grew out of the abolition movement in the 1830s and 1840s. And in particular, the debates over the 14th …
National Memorial for Peace and Justice exhibit, Montgomery AL

Confederates and Lynching in American Public Memory

… over Confederate monuments. How do these two trends in commemorating our nation’s past relate to one anther? What … Brenna Miller  Welcome to History Talk, the podcast that brings together a … and they're like, "Our family never talked about this, for 30 or 40 or 50 years," and why? Because that's the trauma …

The Catholic Church and Sexual Abuse, Then and Now

… a detailed, often graphic account of decades of criminal offenses against minors by Catholic priests. Other states … their own investigations. Evidence that church superiors—bishops, archbishops, and even popes—failed to address abuses … changing sexual mores since the 1960s. Occasionally, commentators have referred to an insular institutional …
The defendants in the dock at the International Military Tribunal. They were organized in the dock according to the importance of their positions in the Nazi leadership.

The Nuremberg Judgment

… On September 30, 1946, the Palace of Justice in Nuremberg, Germany, was a … strode in. British judge (and Tribunal president) Geoffrey Lawrence carried the judgement in a thick folder, … from its worst impulses—how to create a new international community based on “respect for the human person” and belief …
Buildings along a waterfront in China

China and Africa: Historical Perspectives on a Rising Power

… presence over the last decade much to the concern of U.S. officials. Africa is a major recipient of this new … first forged during an earlier era of Sino-American competition. Yet looking at Chinese engagement in Africa … Dr. Nicholas Breyfogle  Hello, and welcome to China and Africa: Historical Perspectives on a …

Policing the Police: A Civil Rights Story

… hallways. Teachers gave lessons to help young students comprehend an American past with racial segregation, and how … in the Bill of Rights did not even apply to state or local officials until the 1950s. The U.S. government took little … the Supreme Court and then left to gather dust until the 1930s by Southern Democrats and laissez-faire Republicans. But …
A Soviet junior political officer urges Soviet troops forward against German positions, 1942

Operation Barbarossa

… Internationale , but at twice the normal speed—Nazi Party officials were worried that some locals might try to sing … leadership. Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov says goodbye to the German Foreign Minister Joachim von … and the simultaneous purges, officers were rushed into commission; in 1941, only half had completed any formal …
Mary Mallon in a hospital bed in 1907.

Who Was Typhoid Mary?

… where she worked as a cook.  Hours earlier, five police officers and a towering female health official had shown up, … tested and found to be full of typhoid bacilli.  Mallon had committed no crime. She had been unaware of her carrier … Island (FL): StatPearls Publishing; 2025 Jan–. PMID: 30085544.  https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK519002/ . …
Book cover of To Break Russia's Chains by Vladimir Alexandrov

Terrorism as the Path to a Better Russia

Review of To Break Russia’s Chains: Boris Savinkov and His Wars Against the Tsar and the Bolsheviks by Vladimir Alexandrov (New York: Pegasus Books, 2021)
… and sent to Vologda. It was there he decided to become a writer, sending his first short story to Maxim Gorky. … stemmed from similar beliefs. He was consistently willing to employ direct political violence, hatching plans … President of an independent Czechoslovakia . Alexandrov offers the best conclusion for understanding Savinkov’s …

Treating the Symptoms: Northern Ireland’s Incomplete Peace

… that, 17 years after its inception, remains stubbornly incomplete. On the positive side, the Belfast Agreement … bear arms. The Test Act of 1704 required holders of public office to take communion in the Church of Ireland, the Irish … with the UK. Political deadlock ensured that for the next 30 years Northern Ireland would remain entangled in a …
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

… attacks on alleged class enemies, the toppling of Party officials high and low, and the reinstatement of political control via revolutionary committees supported by the military. The Cultural … think immediately of the iconic Red Guards . There is good reason for this: Mao himself celebrated youth, young …
Ukrainian soldier with blue and yellow ribbon overlay

Understanding the War in Ukraine: Insights from the Recent Past, 1991—Present

… Ohio State University History Professor David Hoffmann examines some key moments in recent Russian and … and the 2014 Revolution in Ukraine.  Speaker | David L. Hoffmann, College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor of History. Professor Hoffmann is a specialist in Russian and Soviet history, with …

The Summer of ’10: Federal Power, Local Autonomy, and the Struggle over Immigration Policy

… death penalty" for revoking business licenses of repeated offenders—should be known by June 2011. Then in July—echoes … Mexican-American Legal Defense Fund and others had already commenced litigation. As summarized by the United States in … that would come there . . . at the expense of religion and good morals." There was little debate at the Constitutional …
15th century painting of Christine de Pisan, QUeen Isabeau, and 7 other women

Medieval Women's Rights: Setting the Stage for Today

… Dr. Nicholas Breyfogle  Welcome to "Medieval Women's Rights: Setting the Stage for … get married after he'd done some sort of apprenticeship, so 30s 40s, somewhere in there, he was ready to become, you … Ages, we discovered that we had female priests and female bishops, female deacons. There have been two books written on …
Large group of suffragists on steps

One Hundred Years of Women and the Vote

… for women of color; the ongoing gender disparity in elected officials; and how history informs the 2020 election. … Leticia Wiggins  Hello everyone and welcome to our webinar on 100 years of women and the vote. I'm … of both liberal and conservative women running for federal office. So this is all happening 100 years since the vote. …
Women at the Women's March in DC with signs: "Can't Believe We STILL Have to Protest", "Keep your Hands and Laws Off my Body", "RAPE CULTURE" with a line through it

The Long History of #MeToo

… Donald Trump’s Access Hollywood  tapes to the allegations against Harvey Weinstein, sexual harassment and sexual … into the news cycle. Nearly every day, new allegations against powerful men emerge as more women come forward. But, while many are heralding the rise of the …
John Filo's iconic photograph of Mary Ann Vecchio kneeling over the body of Jeffrey Miller

Kent State after Fifty Years

… the essence of an age of tumult: the young squaring off against the old; opponents of American policy in Vietnam … antiwar movement, Black Power, and the generation gap had come even to Ohio. As the iconoclastic journalist I.F. Stone … killing. President Richard Nixon in his April 30, 1970 television address announcing the United States …