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… Mountains, who helped Castro overthrow Batista. Soon the exiles and the U.S. government joined in a powerful common cause to dump Castro, who, in the peak Cold War … Washington began badly. Outstanding among the CIA's many futile efforts to get rid of Castro was a disastrous …

… relied either entirely or mostly on the Berlin Airlift to survive. The Berlin Airlift began on June 26, only two days … new runways in both major West Berlin airports just to accommodate the increased traffic from the large, heavy, … of Britain in the Berlin Airlift" "The Berlin Blockade Revisited" …

… Time, transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to complete the Works of Death, Desolation, and Tyranny already … of Baghdad and other cities and drive as fast as 120 miles an hour in convoys. They’ve killed scores of Iraqis and … States government immunity from prosecution.” Iraq is surely a dangerous place. Over one hundred private …

… nearly 117,000 perished during the war — 53, 402 in combat — and another 204,000 were wounded. Many believe that … has left the First World War without a clearly focused “site of memory.”   There is, however, an opportunity to make … location of the national World War I memorial is ultimately less important than its existence. (Edwin Lutyen’s famed …

… or environmental poisoning, for instance—COVID-19 was compelling “people everywhere . . . to put their immediate … 24, 2020). Now a year later, Sarewitz’s expectations seem absurd. Frequent exhortations to “Follow the Science” and its … The anti-science crowd ridiculed mask-wearers as sheep mindlessly following the herd. Armed crowds gathered at the …

… noted that work on the largest mosque in the city had been completed just before his arrival, but Timur ordered its … to Hajji Muhammad al-Qazi, a Chagatai courtier who had visited the court of Castile in Toledo several years earlier. … as a desert backwater. He was impressed by the gardens surrounding Timur’s palace, by the enormous variety of goods …

… the Russias.” Services in Moscow capped a series of events commemorating the Romanovs’ tercentenary, in what proved to … memory of Mikhail’s Russia, he did so at great peril to the future of his country and its people. Immersing himself in a … instead a major hub of textile manufacture and had been the site of major labor unrest in 1905; factory workers were …

… are at the heart of often vitriolic public debates. Both futuristic and somehow archaic at the same time, millions … understandings of how disease is transmitted within the community. As a general rule, respirators function by … capable of being spread to patients by doctors performing surgery. Simpler than the Victorian respirators, cloth masks …

… its silver mines, were the most valuable to the Spanish treasury. However, by 1666, Spain had suffered from military … most valuable colonial possessions in an era of uncertain communications and increased European competition. It also … dilemma. Although English possessions in the Caribbean were less extensive, the government in London had as little (or …

… destruction. Bush apparently hopes that a war posture can assure support for expanding the U.S. military, for arbitrary … the diplomatic efforts and foreign aid needed to solve complex international problems. During the Cold War, … put the country on a war footing for a long and indefinite future. Designating many states and organizations as threats …

… the terrorist attack seems too much to bear. Professional commentators, and current and former government officials … found themselves embarked on a century-long struggle for survival with the other most powerful city on the western … of people who will consequently become terrorists in the future. The use of military force often has consequences …

… would serve merely as an explicit reminder of the U.N.'s incompetence.   An examination of the situation with an eye to …   The post-First World War settlement, the Treaty of Versailles, had two critical problems:  First, it did not include … too quickly and therefore resulted in too many shortsighted compromises.   The order to follow the Second World War …

… corporations that benefited from slavery faces major obstacles, not least of which is the lack of legal precedent or … elsewhere indicate that the slavery lawsuit could become an invaluable tool for bridging the racial divide in … corporations during the same period — compensated only surviving victims. Yet descendants of survivors did receive …

… at the fringes of European and Asian societies, Ho's complex experiences have been canonized at home and abroad, … man who moved in and out of the great political struggles of his times, influencing the trajectory of twentieth … subject with skill and sensitivity. Although his book measures only one-hundred eighty seven pages of text, it …

… of solving a problem facing the entire world, the summit’s composition best resembles a hodgepodge of national-or what in the United States … in any diplomatic negotiation.   So we shouldn’t be surprised to have seen so much parochialism at Copenhagen. … Looking for a Common Language at Copenhagen …

… and the Pan American Sanitary Bureau (which would later become the Pan American Health Organization) financed and … inspired by outrage at the Tuskegee experiments. Nonetheless, the lesson of the need for constant vigilance is … of the medical establishment. Amid the current crisis surrounding the Zika virus, Guatemalan citizens do not know …

… institutionally not just conceptually in 428, even if future events would undo all of this (which Traina admits). … sphere of influence. In this context Flavius Dionysius, commander of Rome's eastern military forces and a native of … churches, with some of the finest mosaics that have survived from the late antique world. It was here that the …

… nation. These were major breakthroughs with regard to on-site inspection into the Soviet Union–an idea the Soviets … reliant on trust rather than the sword. But for this to become a reality, there must be an accumulation of goodwill. … a region full of suspicions and heavy armaments. A hostile future will await them. William Lambers is an author and …

… strange circumstances and seemingly inexplicable actions surrounding it. Only one thing is certain. Kennedy’s death … day in Dallas in 1963. In an inaugural address that has become a poignant reminder of the idealism of the 1960s, JFK … about American involvement in Southeast Asia. While it is futile to compare John F. Kennedy with the presidents who …

… Sen. John Cornyn, Phyllis Schlafly and others for the wholesale impeachment of judges of whose rulings they … that “judicious conduct,” in the best sense of those words, comes from judges insulated from popular emotions. The … seat on the federal bench under constant political pressure. The occasional bitter contests we have witnessed over …

… moving quickly through a rapid succession of ancient peoples who have inhabited the Crimean peninsula , including the … the Greeks, the Romans, and the Goths, among others. This comprises the first chapter of Kent’s history. The next … Kent’s book is a very welcome addition to the scholarship surrounding Crimea. Nearly every book that has been written …

… ceasefires in 1949 and 1956, they failed to resolve the complex underlying Arab-Israeli controversies over … Israel, by cautioning Israel to rely on peaceful means to ensure its interests, and by organizing a multilateral Western … war would prove to be a watershed in Arab politics by discrediting secular nationalist leaders such as Nasser and …

… Violence against women has a long history in human communities. Yet, we live in a time when people across the … Patrick Potyondy  Welcome to History Talk from Origins: Current Events in … Wiggins. You can find our podcasts and more at our website, origins.osu.edu, on iTunes and on Soundcloud. And as …