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Charles Darwin’s American Adventure: A Melodrama in Three Acts

… according to the International Darwin Day Foundation website. Born on February 12, 1809, Darwin published his … 2009, with events sponsored by national and state "Lincoln Commissions," and because of the remarkable presidential … year, was "a separate thought of the creator." Agassiz died in 1873 and spent the last years of his life crusading …
Sign that reads, "You are either affected or infected with HIV/AIDS."

HIV/AIDS: Past, Present and Future

… HIV , as well as A New Congo Crisis? , Searching for Wakanda: The African Roots of the Black Panther Story and The … Ohio State University, known to friends and colleagues as Dodie. He is Associate Professor of History and the director … McDow   And I think this is one of the most interesting points of connection between a scientific understanding and …
Monument with figures dressed as pop culture figures like Superman, Santa, and Ronald McDonald

1989: The Year That Changed It All

… Talk , hosts Patrick Potyondy and Leticia Wiggins welcome historians  Nicholas Breyfogle and  Theodora Dragostinova and Slavic Studies Professor Angela Brintlinger as they consider these … Leticia Wiggins. You can find our podcasts and more at our website origins.osu.edu on iTunes and on SoundCloud, and as …
Cover of Vodka Politics by Mark Lawrence Schrad

Bottoms Up, or Race to the Bottom?

Review of Vodka Politics: Alcohol, Autocracy, and the Secret History of the Russian State, by Mark Lawrence Schrad (New York: Oxford UP, 2014)
… was his only advice, citing a famous and beloved Russian comedy about excessive drinking, Eldar Ryazanov’s 1975 film … the same; both killed their own sons and heirs. Both also died in their early 50s due in part to the toll alcohol had … health and wellness spheres continue to come true. Schrad points to taxation policies as the prime reason Russians …
State of War: The Political Economy of American Warfare, 1945-2011, by Paul A. C. Koistinen Book Cover.

The Anatomy of the Military-Industrial Complex

Review of State of War: The Political Economy of American Warfare, 1945-2011, by Paul A. C. Koistinen (Lawrence, KS: University of Kansas Press, 2012)
… to the nation he coined the phrase "military-industrial complex." Eisenhower used that address to issue a warning to … of economists like Seymour Melman and others who have studied the question. He juxtaposes the growth of military … us to visit warehouses full of mothballed tanks, Koistinen points out that of roughly 11,000 tanks the Army owns, only …
Dreamcatchers shown against the sky

Re-storying the Experiences of Indigenous College Students

… Dr. Lucy Murphy  Hello, welcome to "Re-storying the Experiences of Indigenous College … Indigenous Arts and Humanities Grant and American Indian Studies at The Ohio State University. My name is Lucy Murphy. … the disunity? What was the clutter? What was the divergent points? And those came up from, I learned from Tommy Orange …
a woman at a witch trial. she is wearing white and has her arms up in air with lightening bolts coming out of them. A judge, lawyer and an audience of people look on.

What was Wrong with the Judges at the Salem Witch Trials?

… Speaker's Note: Matt Goldish would like to add a more complete response to one of the questions asked him after … Jewish-Christian intellectual relations and Sephardic studies. Matt has a B.A. from the University of California Los … happening with these witchcraft accusations. And he appoints a court which he can do. It's called the Court of …
Border Fence/Wall

Shifting Borders: The Many Sides of U.S.-Mexican Relations

… in the history department and global and intercultural studies department, specializing in revolution and social … come into play.   Dr. Lilia Fernandez  You know, one of the points I wanted to pick up on, that both Dr. Coleman and Dr. … Viñas-Nelson. Song and band information can be found on our website. You can find our podcasts and more on our website, …

Fear and Loathing Around the World: The Rise of the New Populism

… I wrote. An 1896 political cartoon depicting Populist candidate William Jennings Bryan as a snake swallowing the … the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, delivering sharp comic material about his recently released long-form birth … message needed to be more welcoming to younger, non-white audiences, particularly on issues of immigration and social …
The Lorraine Motel

Putting Race on Display: The National Civil Rights Museum

… Leticia Wiggins   This is your host Leticia Wiggins and welcome to History Talk , the history podcast for everyone … committed to my memory, and, and writing some sort of main points that those parts of the exhibit should highlight. … Wiggins. Song and band information can be found on our website. You can find our podcasts and more at our website
Rodin's "The Thinker"

Reaching Beyond the Ivory Tower

… larger puzzle to understanding the public intellectual in today’s world. (And don’t forgot to pop over to our Connecting … with the public from teaching, to writing for a popular audience. We'll even question the value of public intellectual … and many more, as the Times calls them hits on its website.   Patrick Potyondy   And so just to wrap up, do you …
ship on waterway that is polluted with oil spill

Water Crisis on the Blue Planet: What Water’s Past tells us about Humanity’s Future

… religious, economic and political. Water stands at the foundation of most of what we do as humans. At the same time, … power production — will likely represent one of the most complicated dilemmas of the twenty-first century. Speaker: … sweat, and the kind of evaporation of water on our bodies to cool ourselves. Humans are quite remarkable. There …
The World Trade Center towers on September 11, 2001

The War on Terror

… questions facing American society and the international community in these uncertain times. ( Image Source ) … is John Mueller, Woody Hayes, chair of national security studies at the Mershon Center for International Security … your question as to the phrase Global War on Terrorism, two points. The first is, I think it was, from the very outset, …
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      … one, a very long complicated one. I'll just hit a couple points. One, there's kind of a mystic way that Crimea …
North College Hill, Ohio, USA, Memorial Day parade, 2004, by Rick Dikeman.

A Vanishing American Remembrance?

… The city of Yonkers, N.Y., has canceled its Memorial Day parade this year. What's the news in this? It's the … May 30 as Decoration Day at national cemeteries to honor soldiers who died in service. Gen. Logan's order spoke only to … the national holiday from its pedestal. Memorial Day commemorates the men and women killed on the battlefield or …

Protestant Preaching after the Age of Graham

… When Billy Graham died in February of this year, many of the tributes referred … Hindus, and Jews who make up the majority of Americans today he was hardly “America’s” pastor. Nevertheless, when he … influenced preaching in the decades since. Three important components of Graham’s outreach in particular were …
Person on horseback faces line of police and military vehicles

Native Sovereignty and the Dakota Access Pipeline

… the Standing Rock Reservation and their allies against the Dakota Access Pipeline coninues, History Talk takes a look … Hosts Jessica Blissit and Brenna Miller and guests David Nichols ,  Christine Ballengee Morris , and  Daniel Rivers  discuss the specific environmental and …
Sailors in formation at the Center for Information Warfare Training, Naval Air Station Pensacola Corry Station, 2019.

Will Women Join the Ranks of Esteemed Veterans?

… Dozens of women soldiers are dying in Iraq — and no one seems to care. Why do I say that? Because the outcry that many expected over the combat deaths of American women in Iraq has not taken place. … war — that female soldiers are either helpless victims or dangerous sexual deviants. But what about the women who …
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America's Infrastructure Challenge

… and what it can tell us about  changing conceptions of the common good. In addition, host Patrick Potyondy interviews … Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), Tom Smith, who updates us on how our infrastructure is holding up today. ( Image Source )   A History Talk Short : (00:04:50) …
Suffragettes protest for the right to vote

Prologued Podcast celebrating the 19th Amendment Centennial

… Welcome to Prologued ! Prologued is a serial podcast from … Oranjudio. Song and Band information can be found on our website and we encourage our listeners to visit episode … Take, for instance, Abigail Adams’s famous “Remember the Ladies” letter, in which she implored her husband, John Adams, …
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 him from one of … of Lin Manuel Miranda’s musical Hamilton , he has also become a pop culture icon. Meanwhile, as the character of …