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… (syphilis), artists explored social phenomena including commercialization, globalization, gender, race, and class. … Prostitution,” Gallagher turns to the female body and the way it prompted pejorative images of venereal disease in … of venereal infection. Itch, Clap, Pox is an unapologetic literary analysis and not a medical history. The four …

… and audacious amphibious approach. It was also in many ways inevitable. Following Germany’s conquest of France in … the beach defenses. Weather caused aircraft to miss targets, but more importantly the brevity of the bombardment … celebrations commemorating the invasions draw thousands of visitors. Heads of state from the United States, the United …

… nearly 15 million lives and change the face of the planet for generations to come. Gavrilo Princip Legend tells that shortly before his … the lords.” In 2014, as preparations in Sarajevo were underway for the centennial anniversary of the assassination, his … Former Yugoslavia …

… beautifully produced. Vivid photographs and footage were combined with informative and entertaining commentary by … his times was a man worth learning about. But we didn't get to see enough of that Wilson, one of the most … asserting that the federal government's task was to "sweep away special privileges and artificial barriers to the …

… "more faithful" to Israel than the United States. But these comments have drawn a negative reaction from the most blacks … sign of how things have changed since 1960 is the different ways in which Kennedy and Lieberman presented their faith to … decides to run for president. Then we will be able to get a truer picture of how much we have grown as a nation. …

… of each state, would ensure that the president would always be drawn from the “temperate and respectable,” the … put into his dissent: “The election is a tie, so let’s get on with it.” In other words, counting all the votes is … votes for president. But he looked like a backwoods ruffian compared with the venerable John Quincy Adams. So elite …

… who has been assigned blame for another’s actions. Calley committed murder at My Lai and ordered his men to do the … orders, I will have to say that I was a second lieutenant getting orders from my commander and I followed them … the dissent. It was an atrocity-producing war, that is the way we fought the war, body counts, every dead Vietnamese is …

… has, because it performs a lot of functions that are not always distinctly related to what you would say is drug … And in other words, we're, you know, we're all in this together, sort of borrow a COVID phrase, right? But the sort … As any good historian should, we encourage our listeners to visit the episode descriptions for citations to background …

… who belong to New Birth Baptist Church near Atlanta. Some commentators have condemned Bishop Eddie Long’s virulently … anti-gay theology and political activism and have called for a black church that is more welcoming and inclusive of … forced to reproduce with enslaved women, and in many other ways, too, they had little control over their bodies and …

… he noted, “It’s just the nature of the game. I’ve always looked upon us as modern-day gladiators.” Athens on the … In fact, as surprising as it may be to sports watchers and commentators, how Americans talk about sports today is a … risk of injury, disposability, and popularity. Together, they are representative of what is often meant when …

… but at the time it seemed like a relatively minor threat in comparison with established groups like Hamas and Hizballah. … of militant groups called The International Islamic Front for Jihad Against Jews and Crusaders. The document amounted … lot. Because of his failure the bomber was unable to get his vehicle close enough to destroy the building …

… sacrifices. If anyone is up for the challenge, you are welcome to climb up the steps. However, you should consider the … the Aztecs, human sacrifice was perhaps the most profound way to appease the gods. In 1519, Hernán Cortés sacked … so fascinating is the way in which past and present blend together. The monuments of past civilizations are an integral …

… wished that things could just be like they used to be. A common sentiment, it is actually responsible for distorting … of fact, the idealistic history we imagine is almost always entirely false and it is the job of historians to sift … beyond all else, when discussing chivalry one must never forget the reality that medieval knights fought with a tacit …

… Here's why.   The Great Depression was the result of the combination of the 1929 financial crisis and serious … of American society. Demand was down, businesses could not get the credit needed to finance operations and employees … and created a downward spiral.   A similar process is underway now. The collapse of housing and stock prices and the …

… Ever since Watergate, campaign finance reformers have come to expect great legislative victories in … Dole’s) 1996 campaign. Huge sums of money were collected in ways that violated the spirit, and often the letter, of the … History News Service … The Broken Scandal-Reform Cycle …

… to “barley, hops, and water.” At the time, a growing taste for the pale and crisp styles of beer produced by adding … the price of beer per Maß (a Bavarian liter) and to limit competition for cereal grains used to bake bread. A … opened a brewery in Germany. Still, just a few blocks away from the site of Munich’s famous Oktoberfest beer …

… called – to that list. Texas and energy have been tied together since the start of the twentieth century, when oil … least some of the blame can go to the now-disgraced energy company, Enron, and its misuse of long-held American … we should remember Enron’s role and the problematic ways that companies can use words like “monopoly” to pursue …

… plague, caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis , persisted for centuries in wild rodent colonies in Central Asia and, … came into Mediterranean ports by ship. But, it is also becoming clear that small pools of plague had been established … out of the European resource wars—began a search for new ways to the East, making their way south along the African …

… all covert action in Tehran be put on hold. "We tried to get the block-headed British to have their oil company make … F. Kennedy moved into the White House, riots erupted half way around the world in Tehran. In May 1961, the new … with local police outside the White House during the Shah's visit to Washington in late October, Carter took his guest …

… Supreme Court decision, Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, which freed corporations to spend unlimited … support. The origins of the First Amendment lie in concern for the liberty of individual conscience and the right of … will say: Well, fine, we can solve that problem by just getting rid of health care reform and government …

… interest in China's future place in the international community has grown. Odd Arne Westad explores China's foreign relations over the past 250 years to offer … China's foreign relations never unfolded in a unilinear way. Rather, they took on a "schizophrenic" form that made …

… in 1959, Pickering wrote a law review article suggesting ways to strengthen the state's anti-miscegenation laws. This … Court's decision in Brown v. Board, the councils brought together many of the South's leading citizens, who proposed to … does not belong on the Circuit Court. Joshua M. Zeitz is a visiting assistant professor of history at Brown University …

… are tightly intertwined. American immigration policy has always toggled back and forth between seeking immigrant labor … began on the west coast, developed into often-violent targeting of Chinese laborers, and resulted in exclusionary … U.S. immigration document. Upon his return from a temporary visit to China in 1895, Wong was denied re-entry to San …