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The Hajj and Europe

… to Mecca, is a central ritual of the Muslim faith and one of the largest and oldest gatherings of people in the … safety, and how much states should subsidize the ritual—is complicated. In many countries, demand for hajj visas … its citizens on the ground in Saudi Arabia. Despite being officially secular, the French government posts a consul in …
Sheikha Mozah

Beyond the Veil: Women in the Mideast and North Africa

…   Mark Sokolsky  Welcome to History Talk , the podcast that brings together a … comes to the fore. And generally the overall impression is one that glosses over differences and complexities, and … Sokolsky. Song and bad information can be found on our website. You can find our podcasts and more at origins.osu.edu …
Colin Kaepernick and teammates kneeling

The Long View of Sports Protests

… Brenna Miller    Welcome to History Talk the podcast that brings together a … Lives Matter movement. And a handful of other players had done that in the NFL last year. A few other athletes and … Song and band information can be found on our website. You can find our podcasts and more on our website at …

Re-mapping American Politics: The Redistricting Revolution Fifty Years Later

… thereby over-ruling earlier decisions that courts were not competent to decide such political questions. Two years … the economy. And it was a revolution not just in the mostly one-party, racially segregated South of that day. Many of … began. This second mass movement of people was an internal one. It consisted primarily of southern blacks moving north …

A Century of U.S. Relations with Iraq

… some five hours later. This departure of the 3rd Brigade Combat Team of the 1st Cavalry Division of the U.S. … in early Iraq was limited. President Woodrow Wilson envisioned a liberal post-World War I political system that would … and 1930s, U.S. diplomats generally deferred to British officials, who managed Iraq as a League of Nations mandate, …
Santorum speaking in Des Moines, Iowa in 2011

Rick Santorum Misunderstands Both Kennedy and Religious Pluralism

… about religious freedom made him “throw up” would rank as one of the most unsettling remarks of the 2012 campaign. … denied public office because of his faith, that no public official should request or accept “instructions on public … the public acts of its officials.”   Kennedy affirmed his commitment to an America that is “officially neither …

Colombia: On the Brink of Peace with the FARC?

… June 23, 2016, while most of the world was awaiting the outcome of the Brexit vote, another major historical event was … The FARC is the largest guerrilla group in Colombia and one of the longest continuously active such groups in the … Seventh Conference led to a name change, with the group officially becoming the FARC-EP (EP for  Ejército Popular , …
DC Police Car in the snow

A Long View of Policing in America

… Patrick Potyondy   Welcome to History Talk the history podcast for everyone produced by Origins at Ohio State. I'm your host Patrick … if you will. They were not particularly the governing officials, if you will. They were poorer, white individuals …
Graffiti on wall: "Broken Promises"

Jefferson Cowie on Deindustrialization, Trade, and the 2016 Presidential Election

… with these economic processes. The movement of jobs from one place to the next, and the effects that movement creates … to stop bad trade deals and global special interests, we welcome you with open arms, perhaps sensing an opportunity with … of places it was going it becomes accelerated codified, the official seal of approval happens with NAFTA, and then the …
Political prisoners in Kengir, Kazakhstan

Alexander Solzhenitsyn

… December 11, 2018, marked the one hundredth birthday of Alexander Isayevich Solzhenitsyn. … Soviet counter-intelligence agency, for writing derogatory comments about Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin in a private … experience. Political prisoners in Kengir, Kazakhstan , the site of a famous prisoner revolt. Solzhenitsyn portrayed …
Person on horseback faces line of police and military vehicles

Native Sovereignty and the Dakota Access Pipeline

… Brenna Miller   Welcome to History Talk the podcast that brings together a … pipeline construction, claiming it as a necessary component of the nation's infrastructure and oil security and a … was approved several years ago and in early 2016, the officials of the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation began to …

What's All Happening at the Zoo?

… supposedly prohibited the sale of Marius despite offers, one of which exceeded half a million dollars. Yet keeping … The gorilla habitat at the Cincinnati Zoo in 2016. Zoo officials decided that they must kill the gorilla. With a … even have gorilla enclosures in the first place? It should come as no surprise that zoos make headlines. According to a …
Black women marching with signs supporting integration

Race in the Classroom: Teaching Civil Rights

… Leticia Wiggins   This is your host Leticia Wiggins and welcome to History Talk , the history podcast for everyone produced by Origins .   Patrick Potyondy   And I'm … get to class a little bit early. And so class will begin unofficially, five minutes before-   Patrick Potyondy   Right, …

Where have you gone, Holden Caulfield? Why We Aren’t ‘Alienated’ Anymore

… Over the last year, we have come to know a good deal about Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab. … Underpants Bomber." Luckily, he was an amateur. The only one he hurt was himself. The more we learned about him, the … and the father was so worried about him that he asked U.S. officials not to renew his visa. "My family system, our …
Cartoon from Puck: The Bosses of the Senate

Buying American Elections?

… Money and politics. While some think these two should be like … by the Supreme Court, Americans have worried over whether money really should equal free speech. Join hosts Leticia … national politics as much as many fear? The answer is more complicated than you might think. Check out a lesson plan …
Mary Mallon in a hospital bed in 1907.

Who Was Typhoid Mary?

… earlier, five police officers and a towering female health official had shown up, unannounced, demanding that Mallon, a … of 22 cases and  two deaths .  In 1884, the bacterium  Salmonella typhi had been identified as the causal agent for … tested and found to be full of typhoid bacilli.  Mallon had committed no crime. She had been unaware of her carrier …

Conserving Diversity at the Dinner Table: Plants, Food Security, and Gene Banks

… farmed no longer exist. Four centuries later, we have come to depend increasingly on only a handful of commercial … And when you pass the potatoes, you're probably passing one of the three kinds that, since the 1970s, have made up … today. More than nine out of ten of the varieties in the official U.S. Department of Agriculture seed list of 1903 …
Native woman with her back to the camera

Reclaiming My Family's Story: Cultural Trauma & Indigenous Ways of Knowing

… Dr. Lucy Murphy  Welcome to Reclaiming My Family's Story: Cultural Trauma and … School in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, and it's probably one of the most well-known Native American boarding schools … and even in the missionary, so, you know, the opposite side with the missionary schools, those were funded by …
A makeshift hospital in Iowa during the 1918 flu pandemic

Pandemics: Past, Present, Future

… for the Humanities. Any views, findings, conclusions or recommendations expressed in this content do not necessarily … Dr. Thomas McDow Welcome to pandemics past, present and future. Coming to you … that is unprecedented in the lifetimes of nearly everyone alive. We have faced and will continue to face a great …
Painting of the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand

Memories of the Great War

… bring us first-hand stories of how the Great War is being commemorated across the globe. Brenna Miller joined us from … , the famous spark that set off the war. Kirsten Hildonen phoned in from Belgrade (Serbia), an epicenter of the Great …   Welcome to History Talk the history podcast for everyone produced by Origins: Current Events and Historical …
The Terra Cotta Warriors: Xi’an’s most famous attraction

A Postcard from Xi’an: Balancing Past and Future

… the PRC must first establish where China has already been . One encounters such reckoning throughout Xi’an in its public … the inner city. A Tang hot springs palace outside the city, site of one of China’s most famous love stories, serves as a … it’s a Daoist mountain to the east, a Buddhist reliquary complex to the west, or the tomb-speckled hillside to the …