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… will likely preoccupy future historians for years to come. While a number of factors contributed to his … The Republican Presidential Debates brought in record audiences. The news media’s obsession with Trump is … television. Advertisers—usually called sponsors—would buy entire time segments of programming from a commercial …

… antiwar movement, Black Power, and the generation gap had come even to Ohio. As the iconoclastic journalist I.F. Stone … Guard moved on campus and pushed students from the central Commons back toward the dorms. Having done so, the Guard’s … back at the Guard. Some chucked rocks; others jeered the soldiers. Many students described the atmosphere as almost …

… not obscure the fact that this conflict, with all its complexity and tragedy, belongs firmly to the present. This … we’re watching happen today [Sheehan, Where Have All the Soldiers Gone? ]. Far from being a “war of the past,” (i.e. a … of cultures, emotions, the environment, and combatants’ bodies—is disregarded in demands that it do what it is …

… Accurate employment statistics for the period are hard to come by, but according to some accounts, the national … the unemployed. In some cities, mayors established these bodies. Elsewhere, they were founded and run by private … were run by private charities but some received public subsidies as unemployment soared. By the early twentieth century, …

… Swat, Pakistan, where he was pursuing a graduate degree in computer engineering. He left seven months ago because he … of other refugees who remain trapped in Serbia. Hungary completed its first razor-wire border fence in September … but for those waiting in limbo time moves slowly and hope dies fast. [All photos by author] …

… Ottoman rule for centuries. The Balkan Wars saw atrocities committed against civilians on a massive scale. The … However, the overall impact of these conflicts paled in comparison to the  First World War .  The magnitude of death … Gingko Library, 2023 ) Hans-Lukas Kieser, When Democracy Died: The Middle East's Enduring Peace of Lausanne …

… lives or the devastation it has brought on families and communities across the nation. The historical origins of … James Baldwin, who described white officers as occupying soldiers. “Their very presence is an insult, and it would be, … World Telegraph & Sun. On July 18, two days after Powell died, a planned civil rights demonstration led to an …

… 2000 and Time magazine's "Man of the Year" for 2007, has come to the end of his legal term limit and must step down. … the population had long been waiting. Putin in effect embodies Russia's "recovery": he has succeeded in putting an end …

… cloud was detected over Sweden did the full extent become known to the authorities in the Soviet Union’s capital … for “nature”: humans or radioactivity? Some scientific studies indicate an abundance of wild life, especially large … Jim Green, “Chernobyl - how many died?” The Ecologist , 26th April 2014 …

… The Complexity of Brazilian Race Relations … Between Black and White: The Complexity of Brazilian Race Relations … Betw-een Black and -white: The Complexity of Brazilian Race Relations Despite the … unabated until the I 930s. The program, which included subsidies for the transAtlantic voyage, was designed to solve the …

… the term “New Cold War” has mushroomed among analysts and commentators seeking to define contemporary geopolitics. … unceasing warfare from the very beginning: a decorated soldier returns to his village to begin life in the new China … film, as Smith walks past the frozen corpses of Chinese soldiers who fought at Changjin/Chosin, he remarks that the US …

… and the Equal Rights Amendment being well on its way to becoming the newest tenant of the US Constitution. But it was … Depression and big families could live on dad's single income in the new suburbs, most women didn't have to work. … as pushing America closer and closer to the socialism and communism that they watched develop in the Soviet Union. …

… both countries appear to break from the autocratic past and complicate our understanding of their political future. In … years of the USSR.  The two leaders quickly tossed aside Communism as a governing ideology and instead embraced … announced his own popular referendum on skipping his upcoming election, too. Lacking a more salient Islamist threat …

… are also experiencing moderate to severe drought, and this comes on the heels of a very dry decade. This long drought … we are experiencing now. Long dry stretches during the Medieval centuries (especially between 900 and 1350 CE) had … outermost rings of the tree stumps showed that these trees died approximately 4,800 years ago. Decades later, more …

… 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. … of Education, Dr. Maurice Stevens, in Comparative Studies, and Dr. Candace Stout, and Art Ed. And so without …

… In 1985, it seemed the Soviet Union would last forever. Its Communist Party rulers held a monopoly on political power. … by pervasive surveillance and forced labor camps. And they commanded the largest military in the world. The Exhibition … of Eastern Europe —land won by the blood of Soviet soldiers in World War II —as tantamount to treason. They …

… and Russia, and with nearly two times the per-capita income of China, Brazil is on track to become a major force in the global economy. How Things Change … After her release, Rousseff returned to college and studied economics, and began a career in government service. …

… RSF as terrorists. Yasir al-Atta, the Sudanese army deputy commander, said in an interview on August 3, 2024, that the … of resources, the Arabian Peninsula would at times become over-populated. This led to mass migrations across the … Sudanese writer al-Sadiq al Raziqui wrote on Al-Jazeera’s website that mercenaries returning from  Yemen in 2019 were …

… safety, and how much states should subsidize the ritual—is complicated. In many countries, demand for hajj visas … Muslim immigration to Western Europe and the fall of communism in the east have caused Europe’s Muslim … Ukraine , Russia offered Crimean Tatars generous hajj subsidies ($1000 per person, about a third of the cost of an …

…   Leticia Wiggins  Welcome to History Talk , the history podcast for everyone from … director of the Institute for Cuban and Cuban-American Studies. I've written a little bit on Cuba. My most important … Leticia Wiggins. You can find our podcasts and more at our website, origins.osu.edu , on iTunes and on SoundCloud, and …

… Class is back. Whatever its other accomplishments, the Occupy Wall Street movement that sprouted … Budget Office offered this analysis of household income shortly after Occupy Wall Street started, showing that … all boats. Harry S Truman, who became president when FDR died in office in 1945 and narrowly won a second term in …

…   Mark Sokolsky  Welcome to History Talk , the podcast that brings together a … and modern Arabic literature. And I'm Middle East Studies librarian here at OSU.   Gulsah Toronoglu  Hi, I'm … Mark Sokolsky. Song and bad information can be found on our website. You can find our podcasts and more at …

… united in a struggle for civil and political rights, they comprise various tribal affiliations and speak different … writer Khachatur Abovian was the founder of Kurdish Studies in Russia. Educated at Dorpat (present-day Tartu, … impressed the orchestra, the dancers, and the audience.” …

… states, by thirty other countries, and by private companies. Some visitors recorded that they left simply … But the “flesh and blood of those past events” had been tidied up, even sanitized, on the High Street of 1926. The … and yet the U.S. continued to send men off to kill and die for almost another decade. The war ended ignominiously …