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Energy Policy: How is the “Long Transition” from Fossil Fuels Doing?

… state of Idaho. I also predicted that, “For the foreseeable future, however, the economics of alternative sources, … over the last four years.  The reasons for that are many, complex, and subject to change in the near and far future.  … Let’s remove one false idea right now:  Public subsidies support both carbon-based and alternative energy …

The Question of Refugees: Past and Present

… refugees who at the time of writing face an uncertain future in the sprawling Dadaab camp complex in Kenya barely … Somalia must first walk for weeks across a desert and many die along the way or soon after arrival. This mass gravesite … that the institutional innovations in post-1945 Europe coincided with ambitious plans for the reconstruction of …
Border Fence/Wall

Shifting Borders: The Many Sides of U.S.-Mexican Relations

… us about the current state of affairs and prospects for the future between the U.S. and Mexico? Join us as hosts Brenna … us about the current state of affairs and prospects for the future between the U.S. and Mexico? Today on History Talk, … in the history department and global and intercultural studies department, specializing in revolution and social …
Illustration of global public health by Giovanni Maki, 2004.

The WHO and International Public Health

… learn the lessons of the past so we can apply them in the future.”  Ghebreyesus is correct. We can learn much from the … epidemiological data on infectious diseases, and offer recommendations on sanitation. The OIPH would later become a … for the WHO. There are many possible reasons why: Lee died suddenly in 2006, and his successor, Hong Kong-born …
A group of boys at Chirec International School in India playing Cricket, 2015.

Cricket without Boundaries: The Story of a Global Game

… of the game, it also raised questions about cricket’s future and the challenges facing the sport today, including … ,  New Zealand , Pakistan, South Africa, Sri Lanka, West Indies, and  Zimbabwe —are regarded as the powerhouses of the … diminish Americans’ love of cricket. Instead, its decline coincided with the Civil War, as Americans increasingly …
Bird's-eye-view of the 1993 border blockade enacted by CBP Border Patrol agents in El Paso, Texas as part of Operation Hold the Line.

Fortifying the U.S.-Mexico Boundary: The 1993 “Hold the Line” Experiment

… also proposed deploying advanced drug detection machines to combat the influx of fentanyl, which he claimed was … for those living in the cities and resulting in fatal outcomes for migrants in transit.   OHL presents a critical … Accordingly, Operation Gatekeeper was launched at the San Diego-Tijuana corridor in 1994, Operation Safeguard at the …
Monument with figures dressed as pop culture figures like Superman, Santa, and Ronald McDonald

1989: The Year That Changed It All

… Talk , hosts Patrick Potyondy and Leticia Wiggins welcome historians  Nicholas Breyfogle and  Theodora Dragostinova and Slavic Studies Professor Angela Brintlinger as they consider these … you're full of optimism, you want to do your best and this coincided with this momentous historical change. So it was a …
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 … back the early 1930s. As a result of each of these ten tragedies, commercial aviation really is safer today than it was … MO. On board were thirteen passenger and crew. Five died in the accident, including Senator Bronson Cutting …
Afar community animal health worker describing the appearance and characteristics of rinderpest in cattle (photo credit: ILRI/Jeff Mariner).

The Second Disease Eradication: Rinderpest

… On its “Milestones in UN History” website, the United Nations features smallpox eradication, … a stunning achievement and that description of how it was accomplished feels especially poignant today when faith in … often killing between 30% and 90% of those infected. They died miserable deaths. Pope Clement XI’s personal physician, …
cover of The American Historian

Best in History Online: The American Historian

… fantastic history sites from around the web. These are websites that – much like Origins – seek to bring history … For December, our Best in History Online highlights the website for the quarterly journal The American Historian . … and teaching of American history.” [Taken from the TAH website] Be sure to check out and follow both The American …
Flag of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic

Soviet Ukraine in a Nutshell

… of violence and instability until 1922. Multiple communities of former tsarist imperial subjects imagined the future in radically different ways. Progressive Ukrainians … wanted an independent Ukraine, socialists desired a future that was connected with the Russian Bolsheviks, but …
Rendering of the new National World War I Memorial in Washington DC

It’s Time for a National World War I Memorial

… nearly 117,000 perished during the war — 53, 402 in combat — and another 204,000 were wounded. Many believe that the last man to die in the war was an American soldier, 23-year-old Henry Gunther of Baltimore. He was killed …

As Cuba and the United States Reengage: The Presence of the Past

… without understanding what preceded it. “There is a complicated history between the United States and Cuba,” … we have kept our unswerving loyalty to those who died in defense of our principles since the beginning of our … vulnerable. “We must have Cuba. We can’t do without Cuba,” future president James Buchanan implored Secretary of State …
Sailors in formation at the Center for Information Warfare Training, Naval Air Station Pensacola Corry Station, 2019.

Will Women Join the Ranks of Esteemed Veterans?

… Dozens of women soldiers are dying in Iraq — and no one seems to care. Why do I say that? Because the outcry that many expected over the combat deaths of American women in Iraq has not taken place. … home just how high a cost the Iraq war has for us. It’s no coincidence that the two most famous soldiers of the Iraq …
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 … and Belgrade and Keshia Lai as she reports on the less studied war memorials in Singapore.   Patrick Potyondy   So … events themselves, the focus on promoting peace and a new future was definitely a part of an effort to present that …
A shopkeeper sits outside his store in the Cardo waiting for tourists and residents to stop in.

A Postcard from Jerusalem

… Christians Ethiopian monks relax in the courtyard of Dier Es-Sultan monastery. A narrow stairway leads to Dier Es-Sultan, a contentious site atop the Church of the … Residents of Silwan gather for a celebration at their community center. This is the same question the Palestinian …
Nancy Reagan speaking at a "Just Say No" Rally.

The “Modern” War on Drugs (Prologued, Season 2, Episode 1)

… we could, you know, leave the house and not really have to come back until it was time for dinner. We could ride our … she decides to give in and have some fun and does drugs and dies. Brionna Mendoza (laughing) Oh my god. What kind of … panicked over this new threat to the nation's children and future, as it was framed by the American policymakers. …
The flag of Ethiopia under the rule of the Derg, 1975-1987

Blind Aid: Lessons (Not Learned) from the Ethiopian Famine

… a vicious civil war. She expressed her frustration with the futility of using medicine to treat starving patients and … be thousands, hundreds [of] thousands of people who will die.” Vasset’s comments encapsulated the international response to the …

Clampdown and Blowback: How State Repression Has Radicalized Islamist Groups in Egypt

… events have suggested that the man’s predictions for the future of Egypt may be coming true. Since the coup that … the year since Morsi’s overthrow, an estimated 1,400 have died as a result of political violence, many of them Ikhwān … reign in the early and mid-1970s this period of tolerance coincided with a calming of the Islamist forces in Egypt. …
Chinese tanks in Beijing in 1989

Honoring China’s June 4th Martyrs

… What can and should members of the international community do to honor 1989’s Beijing martyrs? Not … version of events, which erroneously states that brave soldiers and traitorous troublemakers were the only ones who died on June 4th. It also entails clearing up some …
British Fleet Spanish Armada of 1588

1588: the Spanish Armada Still Loses

… finally clashed. Looking beyond the events of 1588 to the complex politics which made war between England and Spain … but what really clinched it was the 1000 gold and silver coins, the 12 gold rings, the six gold chains and the 35 … you can use this military history to develop insights about future conflicts, even the Russian war against Ukraine? …