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… largest integrated health care system in the United States, and one of the country’s first medically focused entitlement … of the twentieth century, although less than ten percent of southern men age 65 and older were pensioners, approximately … candidate Mitt Romney told a gathering of veterans in a South Carolina barbeque shop that he wondered “if there …

… representative government. Democracy will replace tyranny, and freedom will rise from the ashes of brutality. That … this country,” he declared, “which are infinitely precious and especially American — a love of freedom, a feeling for … suppressed democracy. Choosing to back dictators such as South Vietnam’s Ngo Dinh Diem, Nicaragua’s Anastasio Somoza, …

… ended their accounts with the creationists vanquished and the debate buried. But in retrospect it appears that the … Then, twenty years ago, with the rise of Jerry Falwell and the Moral Majority, the hostility against teaching … include the creationist stories of the American Indians, African cultures, or Mexicans?) Even Al Gore, according to …

… the ones who want to make up for decades of prejudice and discrimination. But because of the Catholic Church’s active opposition to abortion, same-sex marriage, and capital punishment, it raises serious questions about … Lyndon Johnson nominated Thurgood Marshall, the first African-American justice and President Ronald Reagan, the …

… Clinton may have had an affair with a White House intern and persuaded her to lie about it had not been public for an … assert that the only connections between Watergate and the current matter are that the intern, Monica Lewinsky, … to implicate President Kennedy in the 1963 assassination of South Vietnamese President Diem; exchanging government …

… influential? How did the anti-evolution movement originate and how has it developed into the "intelligent design" … traces the growth of fundamentalism in the United States and the almost simultaneous rise of a coherent … movement to other social movements, such as the southern civil rights movement and American women's …

… 29, 1938, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain and French Prime Minister Edouard Daladier met in Munich with German and Italian dictators Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini to … have a free hand on the European continent in central and South-East Europe.” Obsessed with communism, Chamberlain was …

… of 2003 I collapsed at a college debating tournament dinner and soon found myself in quarantine in Guelph, Ontario. Collapsing with a cough and fever is worrisome at any time. It was particularly … influenza A—H1N1—began appearing in Mexico and the American southwest. By June, the World Health Organization announced …

… "That's history." We've all heard this expression, and we all know what it means. "That's history," or, even … past is irrelevant. Sure, history happened. But so what? And why, most of all, should we bother to learn it? One … about what is "natural" and "Christian." The only African-American on the Supreme Court, Clarence Thomas, says …

… Americans "have to have a sense of mission in the world" and that people everywhere look to the United States "as a … that are figuring out how to chart their own course" and asserted "the only people who are going to reform Russia … dreamed of taking Mikhail Gorbachev up in a helicopter over southern California to show the Soviet leader the homes, …

… month’s podcast, three Ohio State historians travelled far and wide to bring us first-hand stories of how the Great War is being commemorated … feeling aftershocks of the wars of the past 25 years . And Keshia Lai reported from Singapore, then an important … from the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and to unify with other south Slavs and independent state. And, of course, there's …

… The notorious Munich conference of 1938, where Britain and France abandoned Czechoslovakia to Nazi aggression, taught the … order. Iraqi Kurds in the north and Shiites in the south could take advantage of Saddam Hussein’s fall to …

… intractable one. The current struggle between Israel and Hezbollah is the sixth episode in a 58-year-long war between Israel and its Arab neighbors that commenced in 1948 when the state … and the Middle East continued on many battlefields: North Africa, Spain, France, Palestine, the Balkans, Asia Minor. …

… when he identified “that quality of empathy, of understanding and identifying with people’s hopes and struggles, as an … implicitly elsewhere, violated the constitutional rights of African Americans. Warren concluded that when a political … U.S. Laws and Legislation …

… Another political sex scandal is in the news. It’s hard to keep up with the growing … derailed 1987 presidential bid seems like ancient history. And now New York’s governor, Eliot Spitzer, had to resign … gay sex; a racist politician carrying on an affair with an African-American woman; or, in the case of Spitzer, an …

… today are higher than they were at any point between 1946 and 1992. And those budgets don't include the costs of the Iraq and … spending produced a new "gunbelt" in sections of the south and west. If, as Koistinen observes, all this military …

… Bush seems confident that God’s truth marches with him and his nation. During the Civil War, by contrast, Abraham … might be a “difference of purpose between the Almighty and them.” To deny this truth was to deny that there was a … its bloody end, he observed that both sides, North and South, “read the same Bible and pray to the same God; and …

… the United States to use its troops more unilaterally, and he wants them used primarily for fighting. Vice … Gore is more inclined to act cooperatively with allies and to use troops for peacekeeping. This difference revives … Europe and assume the right to unilateral action in Asia, Africa and Latin America. Now that the Cold War is gone, …

… David Hoffmann examines some key moments in recent Russian and Ukrainian history, with particular attention to the … of the Soviet Union, Putin’s rise to power in Russia, and the 2014 Revolution in Ukraine.  Speaker | David L. Hoffmann, College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor of History. Professor …