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Indigenous Peoples' Day: A Conversation

… Dr. Dr. Daniel Rivers: Thank you so much and welcome to our webinar for Indigenous Peoples' Day. It's … for Native and Indigenous students. So thank you all for coming out today. Daniel and I are very excited to have a … registration and so Daniel and I are going to take some time to answer those through a conversation …
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The Politics of Abortion in Europe and America

… associate editor Patrick Potyondy. Patrick Potyondy   Welcome to Writers Talk History, a partnership between the … today is OSU historian Anna Peterson, who specializes in comparative women's and European history. Anna joins us … with little kind of legislative repercussions. But at some point in time, namely, you know, the 19th century, the …

Refugees or Immigrants? The Migration Crisis in Europe in Historical Perspective

… variably called the refugee or migrant crisis in Europe . Some have used expressions such as “flood,” “invasion,” or … threaten the cultural makeup of Europe due to the alleged incompatibility of the Islamic faith of the majority of new … number of migrants crossing the Mediterranean soared. Traffickers ruthlessly exploited the vulnerability of these …
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America’s National Parks: 10 Moments of Insight

When you “pair the intellect with emotion and place,” what often results is a moment of insight: an unexpected instance where you suddenly understand something deeper about history, about nature, about others, about yourself.
… the parks offer, rather than as a ranking of the best—something that really is impossible, since all of us bring … the park’s museum, which is located beneath the Arch, was completely redesigned to acknowledge the growing consensus … video essay presented here, I ask viewers to keep this more complex and troubling context in mind as well.) Written by …

(Fore)Closing on the American Dream

… year in college, my parents called me at my dorm room with some important news. Our scheduled weekly calls occurred on … lucky. Their ability to afford their monthly payments was compromised first by the falling market, then by mortgages … that has never been able to effectively cope with low-income homeowners who have been typically women, racial and …
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Reproductive Politics and the Making of Modern India

… devastating implications of this logic, which demonized some women’s reproduction as the cause of national and … Nicholas Breyfogle: Hello, and welcome to Reproductive Politics and the Making of Modern … just thank you all so very much for joining us today. I am extraordinarily grateful to Mytheli Sreenivas, for sharing …
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The Fate of Crimea, the Future of Ukraine, Part II

… Patrick Potyondy  Welcome to History Talk , the history podcast for everyone … because obviously the roots of events today reach back some years. So when Ukraine became independent in 1991, it … a more free and open economy, you're going to have to extract the role of the state. That's going to be painful, …
Crowds of people in Kyiv, Ukraine

The Fate of Crimea, the Future of Ukraine, Part I

… Leticia Wiggins  Welcome to History Talk , the history podcast for everyone … aspects of Crimean history, geography, and demography, that someone trying to make sense of this, of these Crimean … that the future of Ukraine is going to be one without this extraordinarily beautiful location with its extraordinary …
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The Idiot’s Guide to Enlightened Matrimony

Review of How to Create the Perfect Wife: Britain’s Most Ineligible Bachelor and His Enlightened Quest to Train the Ideal Mate, by Wendy Moore (New York: Basic Books, 2013)
… We all know someone like the strangely sympathetic protagonist of Wendy … his heart broken by, to hear him tell it, two of the most fickle and shallow women in all of Britain. His friends admired him for his intelligence, honesty, and commitment to virtue, but thought that maybe a little …
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Afghanistan: Past and Prospects

… NATO “officially” ended its combat operations in Afghanistan in late December 2014, but … Crews ,  Scott Levi , and Alam Payind about Afghanistan’s complex history to ask what the past of these peoples and … Patrick Potyondy   Hello and welcome to History Talk from Origins: Current Events in …
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 … Barr unsealed charges of narcoterrorism and drug trafficking against Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and … know if it would damage their lungs—because paraquat is extraordinarily toxic. Michelle Paranzino The Nixon …
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Taylor Branch on the Crisis of College Sports

… Collegiate Athletic Association, or NCAA. In addition to completing the monumental  King Era Trilogy , Branch has … Patrick Potyondy  Welcome to History Talk , the history podcast for everyone … Branch  The primary problem of college sports is that some universities, not all, a small number of universities, …
Fourth of July celebration in Philadelphia, 1819.

The United States: Democracy or Republic?

… democratic institutions and traditions.” Yet, according to some Republican politicians, like House Speaker Mike … in the 18th century included the selflessness to put the common good above special interests. Only a few (men) could … democracy and republicanism have coexisted, sometimes complementarily, other times confrontationally.  Part of the …
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Seed Money: Monsanto's Past and Our Food Future

… us on an authoritative and eye-opening journey into how the company Monsanto came to have outsized influence over our … Dr. Nicholas Breyfogle  Welcome to Seed Money: Monsanto's Past and Our Food Future, … to Vietnam, Brazil, all across the country. I met with some of the top weed scientists, agricultural scientists in …

The Catholic Church and Sexual Abuse, Then and Now

… of the Catholic Church finds itself in a period of extraordinary crisis. An August 2018 grand jury report on … of the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C. in 2005. Some church leaders were found to have engaged in such acts … changing sexual mores since the 1960s. Occasionally, commentators have referred to an insular institutional …
IRA gunmen in Northern Ireland

From the Cold War to the War on Terror

… dates back well into the Cold War. How did terrorism become a focal point of U.S. foreign policy? How did earlier … deeper history tell us about what terrorism is, how our common assumptions about it might be wrong, and how we … Brenna Miller  Welcome to History Talk , the podcast that brings together a …
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The Politics of International Sport

… in putting the nation on display on the global stage. And coming up, Brazil : about to host to the 2014 World Cup and … Patrick Potyondy  Welcome to History Talk , the history podcast for everyone … for joining us. And let's get right to it. First off, some deep background. When and why did large international …

The Politics of International Adoption

… violence, malnutrition or disease. Ten million is hard to comprehend. Nor is it any easier if we break it down: thirty … propelled by that number ten million, by the desire to help some of those children find the stability and the health and … human history. Children have been adopted, legally and extra-legally, formally and informally, to constitute or …
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The Syrian Civil War: Alawites, Women's Rights, and the Arab Spring

… Leticia Wiggins   Welcome to History Talk produced by Origins , a project of the … as she mentioned, it's only sort of a narrow majority, something like 60% is Sunni and Arab. So they're obviously, … the way that women have stepped forward and become, of extraordinary importance as activists, symbolically …