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Buildings along a waterfront in China

China and Africa: Historical Perspectives on a Rising Power

… first forged during an earlier era of Sino-American competition. Yet looking at Chinese engagement in Africa … Title VI grant to The Ohio State University East Asian Studies Center, the Goldberg Center for Teaching Excellence in … Public Library, and the Ohio State University East Asian Studies Center, which is supported by the US Department of …
Donald Trump and Joe Biden

Election 2020: Insights from History

… Dr. Nicholas Breyfogle  Welcome to "Election 2020: Insights from History" coming to you … And I think there's some some concern with, with our audience about how do we move forward from this? You know, the … Like, that's difficult because and I don't think there's an easy way forward. Because the the polarization, particularly …
National Memorial for Peace and Justice exhibit, Montgomery AL

Confederates and Lynching in American Public Memory

… over Confederate monuments. How do these two trends in commemorating our nation’s past relate to one anther? What … important to keep in mind. It wasn't just some nice old ladies who thought this might be a good idea, right? I mean, … Vinas-Nelson. Song and band information can be found on our website. You can find our podcast and more on our website at …
Collage: On the left, a group of men emptying liquor bottles during Prohibition. On the right, a field of marijuana plants

Hooked: Drugs, Prohibition, and American Cities

… millions of individuals, and stigmatized inner city communities--all without appearing to have produced a … Scott Martin, professor of history and American cultural studies at Bowling Green State University. Dr. Martin, thank … to our podcast on iTunes, SoundCloud, Stitcher and on our website origins.osu.edu . And you can leave a review if …
Man at march holding sign that reads "Make America NATIVE Again"

Indigenous Peoples' Day: A Conversation

… Dr. Dr. Daniel Rivers: Thank you so much and welcome to our webinar for Indigenous Peoples' Day. It's … Daniel Rivers. I'm faculty lead for the American Indian Studies Program here and I teach Native American History, … don't know if you want to talk about American Indian Studies in terms of like, class options?  Dr. Daniel Rivers: …
Cover of Where Have All the Soldiers Gone: The Transformation of Modern Europe by Jeff Sheehan.

How the Mighty European Military State has Fallen

Review of Where Have All the Soldiers Gone: The Transformation of Modern Europe, by Jeff Sheehan (Illustrated. 284 pp. Houghton Mifflin Company)
… European history that question is how did it come to pass that Europeans would differ so strongly from … attitudes toward standing armies and warfare, without coming down on one side or the other. Some Americans may … Thus the major conflicts of the twentieth century become the outliers, not what defines European society. This …
Heroin bust.

Devising a Drug-Free World (Prologued, Season 2, Episode 3)

… on Drugs, it isn’t colonial China or Japan or Mexico that comes to mind…it's the United States. And for good reason. … And they're going to create their own drug control bodies to kind of regulate and keep an eye on how much drugs … it more than made up for in crafty PR. Matt Pembleton It's easy to knock the Bureau for being bad at its job, right? …
Artist representation of data security and privacy. Large eye peeks through an open window.

These Machines Know Too Damn Much

… narrative says technology is to blame—that after mainframe computers burst onto the scene in the middle of the … fragmented sloppily across digital tape, could never die; that the notion of an inescapable past was somehow … forced to settle for “sectoral” or patchwork policy remedies that regulated different industries such as banking or …
Statue and Ukrainian Flag

The Russian Invasion of Ukraine

… Director, Center for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, The Ohio State University •    Shawn Conroy, PhD … Student, Center for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, The Ohio State University •    Myroslava Mudrak, … you by the Center for Slavic East European and Eurasian Studies, the College of Arts and Sciences and the Goldberg …
Lydia Walker

Postwar Decolonization and its Discontents

… is available Open Access for free download on the Cambridge website .  The Moderator of this event is Nicholas … Nicholas Breyfogle: Hello and welcome to "Postwar Decolonization and Its Discontents." … at the Russian Center for International Security Studies. She is the author of States in Waiting from Cambridge …
A rhino standing on the beach

The Sixth Extinction and Our Unraveling World

… Brenna Miller     Welcome to History Talk the podcast that brings together a … I am convinced. And I think many, many people who have studied this issue are convinced that humans drove those … Vinas-Nelson. Song and band information can be found on our website. You can find our podcasts and more on our website
Cover of War is All Hell: The Nature of Evil and the Civil War by Edward J. Blum and John Matsui.

Forces of Good and Evil

Review of War is All Hell: The Nature of Evil and the Civil War by Edward J. Blum and John Matsui (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021)
… chapter deals with the wartime experiences of individual combatants. When confronted with the visceral nature of warfare soldiers often articulated their experiences using religious … as being “all hell” by detailing the process by which soldiers on both sides demonized each other and how men used …
Three 10th Mountain Division Ski troopers above Camp Hale in the Pando Valley, Colorado in February, 1944.

Skis, Samba, and Smoking Snakes: An Unlikely World War II Partnership

What happened when glacier-goggled American ski troops and samba-loving Brazilian soldiers fought side-by-side halfway across the world?
… in a stalemate with Axis troops north of Rome. With a commanding view of the narrow approach to the Po River … forgotten: The fact that during its Italian odyssey, its soldiers fought as joint-combatants with an unlikely set of … appearances in histories of the Italian campaign, it is easy to forget that numerically, at least, the experience of …
Vladimir Putin seated and surrounded by military officers

World War II Memory in Putin's Russia

… Vladimir Putin has gone to extraordinary lengths to commemorate the Second World War. Even though the war ended … Dr. Nicholas Breyfogle  Hello, and welcome to World War II Memory in Putin's Russia, brought to … in World War II. He said this, quote, "Glory to the soldiers. They have passed on to us a heroic tradition and have …
Cover of 428 AD: An Ordinary Year at the End of the Roman Empire by Giusto Traina.

The End of the World as They Knew It

Review of 428 AD: An Ordinary Year at the End of the Roman Empire, by Giusto Traina (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2009. pp. xix, 203. Trans. by Allan Cameron)
… sphere of influence. In this context Flavius Dionysius, commander of Rome's eastern military forces and a native of … outfoxed the Romans; Flavius was sent to accept this fait accompli . In the next two chapters, Traina continues to … book that is unique for the field of late antique studies. The book's great strength (and its focus) is its …
cars on a highway

Sweet Fuel: The Remarkable Story of Brazilian Ethanol

… search for clean and affordable alternate energies has become an increasing priority in the twenty-first century. … Center Co-sponsors: The Center for Latin American Studies, https://clas.osu.edu/ The Sustainability Institute, … Arts and Sciences, and by the Center for Latin American Studies, a Title VI National Resource Center, funded by the US …
Large group of suffragists on steps

One Hundred Years of Women and the Vote

… professor, Department of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies; Sarah Paxton, JD; PhD candidate, Department of … Leticia Wiggins  Hello everyone and welcome to our webinar on 100 years of women and the vote. I'm … an Associate Professor of Women's Gender and Sexuality Studies at The Ohio State University and the author of "Colored …
The Battle of Waterloo, 1815

Winning and Losing at the Battle of Waterloo

… Belgium's plans to make a special-edition euro coin commemorating the Battle of Waterloo. Belgium still … led to an unprecedented number of witness accounts from soldiers and civilians who had lived through the wars, but also … that allows individual nations to unilaterally produce coins of irregular denominations. 70,000 2½ euro coins were …
Collapsed bridge

America's Infrastructure Challenge

… and what it can tell us about  changing conceptions of the common good. In addition, host Patrick Potyondy interviews … big federal involvement in infrastructure would be subsidies for the railroads in the nineteenth century.   Dr. … Sokolsky. Song and band information can be found on our website. You can find our podcasts and more at our website, …
Sign that reads, "You are either affected or infected with HIV/AIDS."

HIV/AIDS: Past, Present and Future

… Eric Michael Rhodes   Welcome to History Talk , the podcast that brings together … Ohio State University, known to friends and colleagues as Dodie. He is Associate Professor of History and the director … Rhoades. Song and band information can be found on our website, and you can find our podcast and more on our …
Mushroom cloud over the Bikini Atoll

Nuclear Tensions, Nuclear Weapons, and a Long History of Nuclear War

… about nuclear weapons and who has them? How did the U.S. become so central in efforts to control them? And how can past … of the Mershon Center for International Security Studies, and chair of Peace Studies and Conflict Resolution at … Vinas-Nelson. Song and band information can be found on our website. You can find our podcasts and more on our website
Pope Francis holding Bible

The People's Pope and the Changing Face of Catholicism

… how his actions fit into the Church's traditions and its commitment to social justice. Listen and explore hundreds of … Trinity or, you know, belief in Jesus As the Son of God who died for people's sins or any of these kind of what I would … Leticia Wiggins. You can find our podcasts and more at our website origins.osu.edu , on iTunes and on Soundcloud and as …
Graffiti on wall: "Broken Promises"

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

… to stop bad trade deals and global special interests, we welcome you with open arms, perhaps sensing an opportunity with … Sierra Juarez, which are the three of the four sites I studied, they would open with a very simple wrote production, … Sokolsky. Song and band information can be found on our website. You can find our podcast and more at …