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Yearning to Breathe Free: The American Immigration Story

… American immigration policy has always toggled back and forth between seeking immigrant labor and restricting entry … they simply never made enough to do so. “Many Chinamen have come; few have returned. Why is this?” representatives of … U.S. immigration document. Upon his return from a temporary visit to China in 1895, Wong was denied re-entry to San …
DC Police Car in the snow

A Long View of Policing in America

… Patrick Potyondy   Welcome to History Talk the history podcast for everyone produced by Origins at Ohio State. I'm your … his open casket picture, to generate the sentiment that ultimately was wrapped into the civil rights movement of the …
From the 2011 UN Climate Change Conference in Durban, South Africa.

Top Ten Origins: Climate Change

… existence of any meaningful change. Still, the data speaks for itself. Carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, just shy of … gasses drove rapid changes in global climate. Faster computers and better climate models have improved forecasts … to both a regional drought and a global spike in wheat prices in its outbreak. What climate change means for
Black women marching with signs supporting integration

Race in the Classroom: Teaching Civil Rights

… Leticia Wiggins   This is your host Leticia Wiggins and welcome to History Talk , the history podcast for everyone produced by Origins .   Patrick Potyondy   And … hard work of ordinary, everyday people, and so if people visiting the museum or people in who take our classes, take …
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

… the reinstatement of political control via revolutionary committees supported by the military. The Cultural … aiming not only at political upheaval but also the transformation of social and cultural life through Mao Zedong … that transforming society’s economic structure would ultimately lead to cultural transformation, Mao suggested …
Billboard of Nursultan Nazarbayev in Kazakhstan, 2015.

Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, and the Democratization Shell Game

… of  Kazakhstan and  Uzbekistan as autocracies. Not unusual for the  Central Asian region , the two countries’ elections … both countries appear to break from the autocratic past and complicate our understanding of their political future. In … With the understanding that the Cold War was ultimately a battle between the forces of tyranny and …
June 4th, 2014, at Hong Kong’s Victoria Park (Photo by the author)

Remembering Tiananmen: The View from Hong Kong

… In between memory and forgetting, there is commemoration . On June 4, 1989 a … reported that only a few family members were allowed to visit the graves, and Zhang Xianling of the Tiananmen …
Graffiti on wall: "Broken Promises"

Jefferson Cowie on Deindustrialization, Trade, and the 2016 Presidential Election

… of the New Deal exception, populism as the primary driving force of change in American politics, immigration as a key … to stop bad trade deals and global special interests, we welcome you with open arms, perhaps sensing an opportunity with … you know, the democratic Bill Clinton administration is who ultimately signed this in the law, is it because both …

Punishing the Past: Presidential Elections in Times of Crisis (1932, 1968, 2008)

… each spent a great deal of time talking about their dreams for the 21st century. And they have worked to persuade … for the political party whose policies promise the best outcome. But if we had any way to make such calculations—if we … should happen in November of 2008. We don’t know that the team of Gore and Lieberman would have pursued less …
Troops of the French 2nd Armored Division parade down the Champs-Élysées on 26 August 1944

The Liberation of Paris

… four years of Nazi occupation. Following a week of guerilla combat between Resistance fighters and the occupying German … governor and commander of the city’s German garrison, formally surrendered to the Allies. After four years of … destroying it, remains undeniably compelling to all who visit Paris today. American soldiers from the U.S. 4th …

Justice Denied: The Killing of Trayvon Martin in Historical Perspective

… After deliberating for sixteen hours, the jurors in  State of Florida v. George … Tallahassee hours earlier. Waiting for the verdict had become unbearable. On the charge of second-degree murder, the … in the sleepy town a few days when he and several buddies visited a convenience store to purchase candy and cold …

An Enemy Until You Need A Friend: The Role of "Big Government" in American History

… has boiled over during the last several election cycles . For some of those angry Americans, the federal government … merely create a postal system, the most important means of communication at the turn of the 19 th century. It … that controlled everything from their wages to the price of consumer goods. The only force in American life …
These false killer whales were part of an MSE in Flinders Bay, Australia, July of 1986.

Washed Ashore: Marine Mammals from Medieval Times to Today

… to save the lives of the stranded whales . Despite the  efforts  of the Department of Conservation and New Zealand’s … and tied to ropes and anchors off the bay, left to decompose within the ecosystem. Europeans who lived in the … warning. Beachings are carefully and dutifully recorded by teams of activists who race to save stranded mammals—and …

The Politics of International Adoption

… violence, malnutrition or disease. Ten million is hard to comprehend. Nor is it any easier if we break it down: thirty … and perhaps even to flourish. The fact that many of those efforts fail does not subtract from the need to remain … countries in question: orphanages, and the street. I have visited orphanages in several Asian countries; no child …
Government of National Unity in 2009. Left to right: Arthur Mutambara, Robert Mugabe, Morgan Tsvangirai, and Thabo Mbeki.

A Lesson for South Africa? Zimbabwe’s Path to Multi-Party Rule

… (ANC) failed to secure a majority vote, leading to the formation of a Government of National Unity (GNU) for the … 1965 to official independence in 1980.   Political factors complicated matters. Since the early 1960s, the British … used currency following Prime Minister Tsvangirai’s visit to the U.S. in 2009, and it has remained so to date. …

China Dreams and the “Road to Revival”

… 29, 2012, newly appointed General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Xi Jinping gave a speech that would … Although the term had already entered popular use before Xi’s speech, “China Dream” has since become a lynchpin … if couched in the language of censure—could prompt visitors to the exhibit today to reflect on the injustice …
Voting booths

America's Post-Election Political Landscape

… Brenna Miller  Welcome to History Talk , the podcast that brings together a … Blissit. The 2016 presidential election has been historic for having the first female nominee from a major party and … people debate and sort of the demise of high school debate teams and the fact that now we have again, since the '70s …
Raising a Flag over the Reichstag by Yevgeny Khaldei (1945).

The Living Ghosts of the Second World War and the Russian Invasion of Ukraine

… though it was the country launching an invasion, stood for the heroic Soviet Union during the “sacred” Great … and Neo-Nazis” who, backed by their NATO allies, were committing “genocide” against Russians.  In justifying the … .  On the other hand, the Great Patriotic War was the ultimate victory for the Russian state, as the Soviet Union …