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… 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 …

… 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 …

… Nicholas Breyfogle:   Hello, and welcome to Early Encounters with Penguins brought to you by the … Humanities. Ellen is a very prolific author in medieval environmental history and global water history. She's … the Landscape Environment and Monastic Identity in the Medieval Ardennes in 2013, Medieval Riverscapes: Environmental …

… we'd want to think about and some of them may be in the audience today are young people, especially associated with … this will be my last comment on this, is to go check out a website, and we'll send out a link in a second, I'll see if … we know this is going to force compliance that if you don't buy our seeds, well guess what's going to happen, this Dye …

… 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. … which centuries-old American fantasies about the female soldier are being tested. Women soldiers have always had a …

… Talk , hosts Patrick Potyondy and Leticia Wiggins welcome historians  Nicholas Breyfogle and  Theodora Dragostinova and Slavic Studies Professor Angela Brintlinger as they consider these … Leticia Wiggins. You can find our podcasts and more at our website origins.osu.edu on iTunes and on SoundCloud, and as …

… August 22, 1485, King Richard III of England (r. 1483-1485) died fighting in the Battle of Bosworth Field. The victor, … son of York and was also Edward’s brother.  But when Edward died in April of 1483, he left two young sons (both under …

… 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 …

… Not any funny movie, but “The Mouse That Roared.” That 1959 comedy was based on the premise that by the late 1950s both … aid as a result of war. “The Mouse That Roared” parodies the wisest foreign policy the United States has ever … they might gain or lose in an American occupation. Iraqi soldiers and civilians will be less likely to resist American …

… 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, … and see the fine china and the hoop skirts. So they're buying into the mess as much as anyone. The second point, …

… Battle of Fort Pillow in Tennessee, Confederates under the command of General Nathan Bedford Forrest fulfilled this … they slaughtered an estimated 300 surrendering black soldiers, some even as they lay wounded in hospital tents. Two … during the war, it became a rallying cry for black soldiers to “Remember Fort Pillow!” After the war, General …

… for the Humanities. Any views, findings, conclusions or recommendations expressed in this content do not necessarily … Dr. Nicholas Breyfogle  Hello, and welcome to Ideas of Race and Racism in History brought to you … geographies, political ecology, science and technology studies and tribal cultural resource preservation. Smiles …

… Over the last year, we have come to know a good deal about Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab. … even passively take part, and you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, . … memo and instructed its agents to play nice. You can hardly buy a doughnut these days without filling out a …

… George Santayana made one of the world’s best known comments about history when he said that those who learn … triumvirate of 1920s conservative Republican presidents, died in 1923 amid bribery and corruption scandals that were …

… Spend a few minutes browsing news websites or blogs and you will see a barrage of infographics … Johann Georg Kohl, cartographer and geographer, to come to the United States where he worked for the Coast … of how and why this demand flourished. There is a companion website to the book, www.mappingthenation.com , which …

… the 1700s, European smallpox epidemics seem to have been comparatively mild, with minimal death rates. But thereafter … in the Punjab in Western India (now Pakistan) 47 percent died. As recently as 1972, an epidemic broke out in a … were hospitalized, and nearly half the 764 patients died. Similarly, of 79 unvaccinated patients who became ill …

… Speaker's Note: Matt Goldish would like to add a more complete response to one of the questions asked him after … Nicholas Breyfogle:   Hello and welcome to “What was wrong with the judges at the Salem Witch … Jewish-Christian intellectual relations and Sephardic studies. Matt has a B.A. from the University of California Los …

… and natural theology was a debate within the scientific community of the day. Within the modern scientific community, there is no debate; biologists disagree on the … that evolution cannot explain, scientists will not become modern-day natural theologians in droves. Instead, …

… The medieval church gave birth to the misogynistic rhetoric that … the first real “feminist” rumblings of discontent. Medieval women were not content to be victims of oppression: … Dr. Nicholas Breyfogle  Welcome to "Medieval Women's Rights: Setting the Stage for Today" brought …

… my professor is onto something. Patterson shares with other commentators the feeling that 1965 was a “pivot” or a … the fact no one knew how much it would cost; and struck a compromise on the issue of federal funding to parochial … options: looking soft on communism or sending Americans to die. Patterson emphasizes the feasibility of Johnson’s …

… history.”  The phrase “ global polycrisis ” captures the complexity of events driving up world hunger over the past … polycrisis, people in these states suffer and some even die as a result of starvation.  The Long History of Food … 10% of a population of perhaps 10 million people died. In Sudan 2 million people died from starvation and …

… and a staggering landmark in human population growth combined to give new urgency to the existential question of … warm Classical antiquity, a cold Dark Ages, a warm Medieval Regime, and a cold Hallstatt- driven Little Ice … these under control might make significant differences, buying time for longer-range shifts to take effect. Whatever …