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… Department of History, The Ohio State University Robin Judd | Associate Professor, Department of History, The … Professor of Geography, University of Victoria, Canada This content is made possible, in part, by Ohio … for the Humanities. Any views, findings, conclusions or recommendations expressed in this content do not necessarily …

… 1009 CE, the church serves as one of many major pilgrimage points. The interior of the Church has been split as … Christians Ethiopian monks relax in the courtyard of Dier Es-Sultan monastery. A narrow stairway leads to Dier … Residents of Silwan gather for a celebration at their community center. This is the same question the Palestinian …

… of U.S. entry into World War I. But, as the world commemorates the centennial of the war, U.S. events have … us to learn why World War I is remembered so differently in combatant countries, what the war's most important … impacts were, and how its legacies continue to affect us today. ( Image Source ) …

… find themselves in Middle Eastern countries like Jordan, Iraq, and Lebanon. This is hardly the first time that … turn their eyes away. Join guests Theodora Dragostinova , Robin Judd , and Steven Hyland as they discuss today’s refugee and migrant crisis in not only Europe but in …

… Comparing COVID-19 to HIV is, in many ways, like comparing … United States and in Sub-Saharan Africa to make ART affordable, and it is still not widely available in many poorer … beginning of the pandemic, more than 700,000 Americans have died (see Figure 6). HIV/AIDS has also had devastating, and …

… politics.  Guests Kimberly Hamlin , Susan Hartmann , and David Steigerwald discuss the impact of women’s suffrage in … twentieth century, the emergence of female political candidates, and the cultural and institutional hurdles faced by … I'm an Associate Professor of History and American Studies at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. I specialize in …

… 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 … where they're describing these birds for the first time points out as early as the 1500s that when you look at them …

… interviews her about one of the most contentious topics today— abortion —as well as her research experience in a … because there have been a number of women who have died because they were not able to get access to legal … State University. And I encourage you to go look at that website to find out many great articles about history, …

… wake of a mass shooting such as the one in Parkland, FL, commentators, pundits, and politicians all gather around to … a quarter of homeless Americans are seriously mentally ill. Darren Rainey, who suffered from schizophrenia, died in 2012 from burns to over ninety percent of his body …

… John Adams, while serving as the nation’s first vice president, … or geography. The problem, of course, is that presidents do die. Thirty-seven men have been elected president, and eight … and funding for the arts. These three men were all accomplished politicians, nationally well known before being …

… 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 … in the West, such as that June 4th is best remembered as a day tanks crushed students in Tiananmen Square. In fact, …

… It was then the longest war in U.S. history; although commonly dated as beginning in 1965 with American bombing and … at times tortured, brutalized, and killed by American soldiers in search-and-destroy missions. The total number of …

… 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, …

… how the world is remembering their centennial anniversary today. ( Image Source ) … in Ohio, a specialist in Russian and post Soviet studies. Dr. Stephen Norris   Hello. Brenna Miller  In the … whole story that both of these two revolutions that Steve points to and I think it's important to highlight that there …

… temptation to say, "Well, I mean, how many people in the audience might have had this experience growing up?" You know, … be happening at a hospital in the United States. This points to really primitive levels of care. This is a major … Vinas-Nelson, song and band information can be found on our website. You can find our podcasts and more on our website …

… You can't read the newspapers or surf the web without coming face to face with the pivotal human problem of energy … energy conservation, and sustainability were neither everyday news items nor were they significant forces within … fuels are used mostly for transportation and include biodiesel, ethanol, hydrogen, electric, natural gas and …

… While not explicitly backing Manila, Obama stressed his commitment to preserving stability in  the South China Sea . … in ironies. The American position in the Pacific changed fundamentally with  the Spanish-American War in 1898 . In May … Boxer Rebellion in China targeted Westerners, 2,500 U.S. soldiers quickly traversed the South China Sea to help suppress …

… a dramatic political revolution in Kyiv's Independence (Maidan) Square and the overthrow of President Viktor … in Kyiv,  December 2013 The year 2014 will no doubt become a caesura, a line dividing Ukraine’s history into … we cannot even enjoy our victory there. Because people died, people who in the critical moment, with wooden boards …