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Canada’s Dark Side: Indigenous Peoples and Canada’s 150th Celebration

… birthday celebrations  in 2017 [photo credit:  TML Weekly Information Project ]. Canada’s Houses of Parliament (its House of Commons and the Senate chambers) sit on the unceded … their concerns even as the official national celebrations commemorating that history—which had so failed Indigenous …

Media and Politics in the Age of Trump

… 2016 campaign will likely preoccupy future historians for years to come. While a number of factors contributed to his … agendas and frame political debates each election cycle. News media’s constant coverage has boosted Trump’s … Media/Journalism/Communications …
Nationalist police forces in Barcelona preventing voting in the October 1, 2017 referendum.

Top Ten Origins: Catalonia (Catalunya) and Spain

… ten historical moments help us understand the long and complicated relationships Catalunya has had with Spain as … and the Basque country have their own independent police forces and the Basque Country and Navarra have independent … Catalan Autonomy and the Beginning of Resistance The first newspaper published in the Catalan language, Un Enemic del …

Aerial Torpedoes, Buzz Bombs, and Predators: The Long Cultural History of Drones

… the 2012 presidential election to “develop explicit rules for the targeted killing of terrorists by unmanned drones,” … us from the ravages of modern warfare, or if they will become the appliances of Orwellian control. What is remarkable … Alexander Graham Bell believed the event historic, telling newspapers: “No one could have witnessed these experiments …
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 …

1989 Twenty Years On: The End of Communism and the Fate of Eastern Europe

… congregated in streets and squares and demanded the end of communist rule. These are indelible images deeply impressed … to communism in Europe. Throughout 2009, countries from the former Soviet Bloc have attempted to recapture some of that … sense of this shift from wonders to worries, one must revisit the history of communism, explore its collapse, and …

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 … Truman should have been dismissed in 1948. 2008? The good news is that these lessons indicate what should happen in …
The Great Wall of China: Perhaps the greatest collection of walls in human history.

Top Ten Origins: History's Great Walls, Good Neighbors or Bad Policy?

… talk by some American politicians about Mexican immigrants coming to the United States, people around the world are … that the Wall of Jericho was constructed not only for defensive purposes, but also to protect the city from … West Germany, which resulted in a swarming of the wall checkpoints by thousands of citizens. And on November 9, the …
Pope Leo XIV in the popemobile at his inauguration, 2025.

Faith, History, and the City of God in the 21st Century

… Rome . If  warnings of the imminent rise of superhuman AI come to pass, he may be the last pontiff crowned during the … confessed to reporters. These times “present a challenge for all of us but it is one that we should not run away … respect for natural order and human limitations is worth revisiting.  As AI datacenters threaten to surpass the  energy …
illustration of woman getting cow pox variolation

Top Ten Origins: Vaccination

… in Europe and the World Health Organization recently called for increased vaccination campaigns in the region. In the … child as a man stands outside with a cow (from the Wellcome Trust). The term vaccination comes from variolae vaccinae , or “smallpox of the cow,” …
Tommie Smith and John Carlos protesting at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City.

Ten Protests in Sports History

… by professional athletes, sparked by the decision of (former) San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick to … in American sport involved white athletes refusing to compete against or alongside African-Americans. On at least … upon his return home. 7. 1969 College Football Protests News clipping of Fred Milton, linebacker for Oregon State …

Requiem: Detroit and the Fate of Urban America

… I saw the ad on a real estate web site a week ago. For sale: 3952 Chatsworth Street, Detroit, Michigan. A five … the phalanx of government programs that made our world comfortable: the labor laws that gave our fathers the … crying. We'll still talk, we tell each other. We'll come to visit. Nothing will change. And we believe what we're …

Playing Politics: Olympic Controversies Past and Present

… especially in Tibet, make Beijing an unworthy host for the celebration of human athletic prowess in the Games … other hand, speak piously of keeping politics out of sports competition. I am frequently asked, "Must politics be a part … to win this place at the center of world affairs, where news media breathlessly await the official judgment whether …

Russia, America, and the Conspiratorial Worldview

… the collapse of the Soviet Union. In Russia, they even form part of the Kremlin’s public diplomacy. Russian media … War I and after the 1917 Revolution and to signal their commitment to the new Bolshevik cause.   Mikhail, the elder … system until 1997. Although the three men disagreed on many points, Efimov drew them together, linked through American …
Women at desk marked "Learn to Vote"

So...what now? (Prologued, Season 1, Episode 4)

… power they demonstrated during the suffrage movement to form the much anticipated women's voting bloc that would … the polls were moved to schools and churches and community centers. There was some change in how candidates … be found on our website, and we encourage our listeners to visit episode descriptions for citations to background …
The remains of the crash of TWA Flight 5 in 1931 [Photo from the Kansas Historical Society]

Top Ten Origins: Aviation Disasters that Improved Safety

… body-scan. Airline passengers in the United States have come to expect these kinds of security measures as a … FAA is sometimes called a “tombstone agency”: change only comes after a death —and usually only after a large number … past. 1. The “Knute Rockne” Crash, 1931 An advertisement for the 1940 film Knute Rockne, All American ( left ). The …
A displaced woman sits on a bed next to the remnants of her burnt house in Khor Abeche, South Darfur, 2014. UN Photo/Albert Gonzalez Farran, UNAMID

Sahelian Arabs and their Role in the Sudan War

… broke out between the  paramilitary militia Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) in 2023.  … RSF as terrorists. Yasir al-Atta, the Sudanese army deputy commander, said in an interview on August 3, 2024, that the … take up arms and fight for the Rapid Support Forces in this latest Sudanese civil war. …

Right-Wing Politics in India

… are Hindus (more than 1 billion people), with Muslims comprising the next most populous group at 15%. First-time … bicameral Parliament), enabling it to govern without forming a multi-party coalition. BJP worker distributing … 7, 1947 edition of Amrita Bazar Patrika , an anti-colonial newspaper in Bengal, India. Golwalkar’s vision for India was …

"Merchants of Death": The International Traffic in Arms

… employed them in operations to deliver weapons to various combatants in Africa. By his own admission, he had flown weapons to anti-Taliban forces in Afghanistan during the 1990s and aided the French … Republicans, and he arranged shipments so that the best and latest weapons went to Franco while the oldest and least …
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 … Times ,  The Washington Post , and other prominent American newspapers praising its “multiparty democracy.” All this is …

Should Age Matter? How 65 Came to Be Old and Old Came to Be Ill

… United States. The press, the government, and the medical community claim, often and loudly, that these numbers augur … are proving that chronological age is not biologically uniform. In the United States the so-called “geriatric crisis” … Dr. Francis E. Townsend arrived prepared to push his latest pension plan, $150 a month for everyone over sixty. …

A History of Stolen Citizenship

… the amendment restored voting rights to ex-felons who had completed their prison sentence and been released from parole or probation, except for those convicted of murder or felony sex crimes. A … Mass Incarceration and Mass Disfranchisement A St. Louis newspaper described the election-day arrests and harassment …