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Between Two Worlds: Jewish War Brides After the Holocaust

… a life in the wake of the Holocaust, many Jewish survivors, community and religious leaders, and Allied soldiers viewed marriage between Jewish women and military … survived the Holocaust and married an American soldier after liberation, introduces us to the Jewish women who …
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 … change that people figured out how to make it more cheaply? Or what drove that? Do you know?   Dr. Clay Howard  …
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Bringing Evil to Justice

Review of All the Missing Souls: A Personal History of the War Crimes Tribunals, by David Scheffer (NJ: Princeton University Press, 2012)
… a test of how well the United States, and the international community could create institutions of governance after the … provided with a vigorous defense. Slobodan Milosevic died in a jail cell in The Hague. Meanwhile the Bush administration's hybrid "military commissions," while failing to meet the procedural norms of …
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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 …
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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 … 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: …
Graffiti on wall: "Broken Promises"

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

… the book "Capital Moves: RCA's Seventy Year Quest for Cheap Labor", and "Stayin' Alive: The 1970s and the Last … 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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 … described, the promise of nuclear power is electricity too cheap to meter, and that it would transform the world. And …
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 …
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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, …
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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 …