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Students at the Tuberculosis Sanitorium, Phoenix Indian School, ca. 1890-1910.

Early American Contagions

… measles, typhus, and influenza decimated Indigenous communities in the Americas is a commonly held one. Like so … one’s breast, etc. there was indeed perishing, many indeed died of it.” Aztec victims of a sixteenth-century epidemic. … stark disparities are not because germs affect Indigenous bodies differently. Across the nation, by late May 2020, …
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 …

Human Rights at a Crossroads

… to question the authority of international governing bodies. His campaign slogan, “Make America Great Again,” is a … arrived at the Paris Peace Conference with his Fourteen Points, a plan that he believed would bring justice to … U.S. soldiers just as they were returning from overseas combat ( left ). The opening session of the League of …
Eight women in US politics

Women in American Politics

… Patrick Potyondy  Welcome to History Talk the podcast that brings together a … I'm an Associate Professor of History and American Studies at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. I specialize in … Sokolsky. Song and band information can be found on our website. You can find our podcasts and more at our website
State of War: The Political Economy of American Warfare, 1945-2011, by Paul A. C. Koistinen Book Cover.

The Anatomy of the Military-Industrial Complex

Review of State of War: The Political Economy of American Warfare, 1945-2011, by Paul A. C. Koistinen (Lawrence, KS: University of Kansas Press, 2012)
… to the nation he coined the phrase "military-industrial complex." Eisenhower used that address to issue a warning to … of economists like Seymour Melman and others who have studied the question. He juxtaposes the growth of military … us to visit warehouses full of mothballed tanks, Koistinen points out that of roughly 11,000 tanks the Army owns, only …
Cover of Famine: A Short History by Cormac Ó Gráda.

Famine: A Short History

Review of Famine: A Short History, by Cormac O Grada (Princeton University Press, 2009)
… Ehrlich predicted that hundreds of millions of people would die in a global famine in the 1970s unless the rise in human … visions of Malthus, Ehrlich, and other doomsayers have not come to pass.  Drawing on a rich variety of government … of a wartime reallocation of resources.  Conversely, he points out, the most dramatic famines of the modern era also …

Influenza Pandemics Now, Then, and Again

… prevent, the next pandemic. The viruses that affect humans come in many types, and their impact on human communities … get sick each year with some form of flu, some of them will die—but only every so often does a pandemic occur. While it … In 2009, approximately, 8,000-16,000 Americans have died, and perhaps 60 million Americans have been sickened. …

From Gaza to Jerusalem: Is the Two State Solution under Siege?

… demands to inspect the cargo they carried, and Israeli navy commandos boarded the vessels before the boats pulled into … and this interpretation finds support in close studies of the diplomacy of the late British Mandate period. To … point of Palestinian national emotion in many turning points of the conflict, from the 1929 uprising to the start …
Buildings along a waterfront in China

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 … you again, for inviting me. So I think because one of the points we're trying to drive home in this talk is that …
Colin Kaepernick and teammates kneeling

The Long View of Sports Protests

… Robert Bennett   You have to look at it from different viewpoints, right, because personally, speaking, I've always … where you find examples of athletes finding a large audience maybe in some ways, whether they're seeking a large … Vinas-Nelson. Song and band information can be found on our website. You can find our podcasts and more on our website

Baptized in the Jordan: Restoring a Holy River

… five meters away on the opposite shore, two Jordanian soldiers looked on from the shelter of a reed-covered platform … mined – military zone that can only be reached at a few points along its course. The only place where Jordanians can … Francesca de Châtel, 2013. According to the Yardenit website , this is one of the only places along the Jordan …

Beware of Greeks Bearing Gifts: How Neo-Nazis and Ancient Greeks Met in Charlottesville

… years now, those of us who study the ancient world have become progressively aware that American Neo-Nazis, white … Evropa to the prominent display of the Parthenon on the website of the Neo-Nazi forum Stormfront, classical texts … dumpster summer of racism ” confined to classics alone as medieval historians , too, found themselves increasingly …
The Lorraine Motel

Putting Race on Display: The National Civil Rights Museum

… Leticia Wiggins   This is your host Leticia Wiggins and welcome to History Talk , the history podcast for everyone … committed to my memory, and, and writing some sort of main points that those parts of the exhibit should highlight. … Wiggins. Song and band information can be found on our website. You can find our podcasts and more at our website
DC Police Car in the snow

A Long View of Policing in America

… workers, this was about maintaining a workforce that was obedient and you know, disciplining them and keeping them in … social issues, like mental health that Professor Howard points to. And he reminds me a case of a Native American man … Wiggins. Song and band information can be found on our website. You can find our podcasts and more at our website
Ellis Island, New York City.

Hiding Behind Reform

… between present-day immigration and the flood of newcomers who came in the past. ProjectUSA’s website is emphatic on this point. Making this distinction … in the respectable clothes of high-minded concern for the common good. To cite but a few examples: In the 1840s …
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 …
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 …
Ludwig van Beethoven in front of sheet music from his first symphony.

Beethoven’s First Symphony

… the aristocracy-based patronage system, which had sustained composers for generations.  Now, middle-class audiences flocked to public concert halls to applaud the … his fortune in Vienna. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, who had died the year before, reshaped expectations for the …