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Populism and Anti-Americanism in Modern Latin America

… Brazil and Chile, are not populists. Consequently, the most common definition of populism in political science today … (most likely killed by the military that dropped their bodies in the shark infested ocean). Furthermore, declassified … politician can be thrown out. What this holds for the future of democracy in Latin America is unclear; as Latin …
French demonstrators with purple signs that read "ras le viol"

Violence Against Women

… Violence against women has a long history in human communities. Yet, we live in a time when people across the … an assistant professor of Women's Gender and Sexuality Studies here at The Ohio State University.   Peggy Solic    My … Leticia Wiggins. You can find our podcasts and more at our website, origins.osu.edu, on iTunes and on Soundcloud. And …

From Karl Marx to Karl Rove: “Class Warfare” in American Politics

… Class is back. Whatever its other accomplishments, the Occupy Wall Street movement that sprouted … all boats. Harry S Truman, who became president when FDR died in office in 1945 and narrowly won a second term in … be effective in [creating] jobs," while Rick Santorum refuted Obama's "class-warfare arguments" by saying, "There …
Sheikha Mozah

Beyond the Veil: Women in the Mideast and North Africa

…   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 …

How Public and Private Enterprise Have Built American Infrastructure

… ongoing capital campaign. Workers survey the damage after a commuter train crashed into a passenger car near Valhalla, … banking expansion, and offering direct and indirect subsidies to speed up development. The mixed approach to … to the urban core. Thriving urban business districts died. The Pulaski Skyway in Newark, NJ, with the Lincoln …
Flag of United States Semiquincentennial

Happy 250th Birthday America!

… 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 …
Photo from 1890 of the first OSU football team

Taylor Branch on the Crisis of College Sports

… Collegiate Athletic Association, or NCAA. In addition to completing the monumental  King Era Trilogy , Branch has … Patrick Potyondy  Welcome to History Talk , the history podcast for everyone … Leticia Wiggins. You can find our podcasts and more at our website, origins.osu.edu, on iTunes, and on SoundCloud. And …

Updating ‘No Child Left Behind:’ Change, or More of the Same

… of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT). Weingarten complains that the administration's plans "put 100 percent … those of the school-focused activists, but they have also come to loggerheads—as they have done most recently. … and education activists who wanted to influence the future of No Child Left Behind and other policies of the …

The International History of the U.S. Suffrage Movement

… Ida B. Wells-Barnett with her four children in 1909. The complex international connections and strategies that … for women’s rights before a mixed-race and mixed-sex audience—embraced a diasporic vision of freedom when she asked … few even took on the British term “suffragette” (initially coined by the British Daily Mail as an epithet) to signal …

Who Owns the Nile? Egypt, Sudan, and Ethiopia’s History-Changing Dam

… surreptitiously acquired from Stratfor, the Texas security company, revealing Egyptian and Sudanese plans to build an … navigated until 1968 by a team of British and Ethiopian soldiers and civilians equipped by the Royal Military College … organized a stupendous pincer movement with one group of soldiers traveling from East Africa across Ethiopia and the …

The Real Marriage Revolution

… in the first five books of the Old Testament.  It was common throughout ancient India, the Middle East, Africa, … and celibate was the best way to serve the Lord. In the medieval European hierarchy of female virtue, the unmarried … were all the better for it. On the other side of the coin, advances in assisted reproduction from the 1970s …

Russia, Gay Rights, and the Sochi Olympics

… delegation to Sochi. Inadvertently, the Sochi games have become the gay games. Homosexuality in Russia Today The … fall under the law, or are statements to a broad public audience grounds for prosecution? What exactly is a “warped … Vladislav Surkov, one of Putin’s former close associates, coined the term “sovereign democracy” for the concept that …

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

… merely create a postal system, the most important means of communication at the turn of the 19 th century. It … rail against the New Deal it isn’t the mortgage subsidies or the SEC they have in mind, it’s the social welfare … Americans misunderstand the way the New Deal helped create future economic growth and stability, if they fail to …
The new Terrorism Confinement Center in El Salvador, which opened in February 2023, was built to detain thousands suspected gang members.

Marching Back to the Past: Militarism in El Salvador

… average citizens with no connection to crime have become victims of this policy —especially poor and young … According to testimonies after the massacre, the common soldiers’ saying “one dead child, one less guerrilla” was … Court magistrates and the Attorney General. He also made bitcoin legal tender, claiming it would modernize the country’s …

With a Little Help from Our Friends?: The Costs of Coalition Warfare

… Hornet pilots defied the orders of their American commanding officers. These pilots independently aborted 40 … device. The "blue on blue" incident killed one British soldier and wounded another. These two incidents are cautionary … best to develop and implement counterinsurgency operations (COIN), to design strategies to counter terrorism, and to …

American Presidential Scandals

… A tweet from the Richard Nixon Presidential Library after comparisons were made between Nixon and President Trump when the latter fired the Director of the FBI, James Comey. The High Bar The ubiquitous, unfathomable ur-scandal … of at least five major motion pictures and an episode of Futurama . Its cultural power came, ultimately, from its …

Erdoğan’s Presidential Dreams, Turkey’s Constitutional Politics

… of the Turkish Republic since its founding in 1923: the uncompromising secularism of the first Turkish president, … Fundamental Organization Law of 1921 was a temporary expedient intended to facilitate military resistance against the … however, could alienate many Turkish nationalist voters in future elections. To be sure, the ultra-nationalists of …
Marchers for LGBTQ rights

The Debate Over Same-Sex Marriage and LGBTQ Rights

… in recent memory. But with these changes have come many questions and tensions. Is the focus on the … in Modern Family , crime procedurals, or even Levi’s jeans commercials changed the public’s perceptions, and has it … watch a clip of it. And I asked my students like who the audience for this ad is? And the answer, of course, is men. …
A pro-union demonstration in Romania, 2009. The flag translates to "Moldova Our Sister"

Moldova and Romania: A Long and Complicated Relationship

… Anderson famously defined nationalism as an “imagined community” binding together a widespread group of people … Romanians under the Voivode Mihai the Brave. Bălcescu, a soldier, historian, and leader of the 1848 Wallachian … face of the Kremlin’s destabilization efforts. Whatever the future brings, it is certain that Romania’s help has ensured …

Yearning to Breathe Free: The American Immigration Story

… they simply never made enough to do so. “Many Chinamen have come; few have returned. Why is this?” representatives of China’s laboring community said in an 1876 address to Congress. “Because … Ajo, Arizona. That bipartisanship seems to have all but died over the past decade, as the resurgence of identity …

'The World's Worst Humanitarian Crisis': Understanding the Darfur Conflict

… called it "genocide." The violence and destruction is often compared to the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. These tragic events have riveted the international community and attracted unprecedented media attention. … the Sudanese President. A ruling is expected in the near future. It is unclear what will happen if an arrest warrant …

Madame President: A History of the Women Who Ran before Hillary

… 2016, Hillary Rodham Clinton secured enough delegates to become the Democratic nominee for president of the United … women who have run for president, several others have come within striking distance of the nation’s top post … to the presidency. Maybe, if a female candidate embodied these historical trends and characteristics, 2016 might …