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… On one hand, huge new markets have opened to American companies; on the other, Chinese producers have created … level in recent history. From 2000 to 2009, China also forgave poor African countries almost $3 billion in debt, … parts of northern and eastern African coasts. And the visit of the Moroccan explorer Ibn Battuta to China in the …

… about a major project that his government had imagined for Istanbul, the largest city in Turkey—and Europe. It … on the Bosporus—a strait crowded not only with urban commuters and pleasure craft, but Russian oil tankers … country," Erdogan said. In many ways, Erdogan is but the latest ruler over the centuries to transform the city on the …

… Humboldt, Nevada. Humboldt, Iowa. Humboldt County, California. The Humboldt River. All these places, and … to honor a German naturalist who made exactly one brief visit to the United States early in the nineteenth century, but whose adventures and accomplishments were so much admired they made him an …

… Korean President Moon Jae-in on August 2, 2019. “We have come this far today by overcoming countless hardships. Just … we will in fact turn adversities into opportunities to leap forward.” A casual observer of South Korea-Japan relations … Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo. For a Japanese prime minister to visit the controversial Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo, where 14 …

… by stampeding to the shopping mall. It’s also a chance for purists to ruin the fun by insisting that Hanukkah has … been a minor Jewish festival. Yet this holiday — which commemorates the successful Israelite revolt in the second … including the newly secularized Christmas. “Santa Claus visited the East Side last night,” the New York Tribune …

… December 25, 1848, brought an unwelcome gift to the Queen City. That Christmas Day, a dying man … pandemic reached Cincinnati 17 years earlier, saw no “cause for apprehension or anxiety … or any reason to suppose that … “Cincinnati is the city of pigs,” wrote English visitor Isabella Lucy Bird. “[S]wine lean, gaunt, and …

… of HIV/AIDS  as a phenomenon that began in the 1980s, when news first broke of a mysterious and highly deadly disease. … to the globalization and economic neoliberalism that transformed the global economy in the late twentieth century. On … of HIV/AIDS in both the United States and around the world. For more Origins coverage of HIV/AIDS and other related …

… fight racial prejudice through a celebration of multiracial community. The event takes its name from the 1967 Supreme … The case established marriage as a fundamental right for interracial couples, but 72 percent of the public … their hometown. After being arrested again in 1963 while visiting relatives in Virginia, Mildred Loving wrote …

… Doug Dangler  From the Center for the Study and Teaching of Writing at The Ohio State … Thanks for being on the show Professor Conklin and welcome.   Dr. Alice Conklin   Thank you for having me.   … enjoyed being here.   Doug Dangler  For more Writers Talk visit www.writers talk.org.   …

… a life in the wake of the Holocaust, many Jewish survivors, community and religious leaders, and Allied soldiers viewed … Jewish women and military personnel as a way to move forward after unspeakable loss. Proponents believed that … in History Program, and President of the Association for Jewish Studies. Nicholas Breyfogle (Moderator) is an …

… first state to permit marijuana dispensaries to sell pot for recreational use. Across the state, celebratory stoners welcomed the New Year by lining up at licensed retailers to buy … purchasing medical marijuana requires a perfunctory visit to a “pot doc”—licensed physicians who specialize in …

… advanced to the semifinals of the Men’s Cricket World Cup for the first time, winning a stunning victory over the 2021 … time that the United States hosted an international cricket competition. In fact, the first international cricket game … racially mixed teams from competing abroad and required visiting international teams to be composed of only white …

… Ohio State University Dr. Sarah Brady Siff , Drug Enforcement & Policy Center, Moritz College of Law; Ohio State … Professor of History and Director of the Goldberg Center for Excellence in Teaching, Ohio State University … holds a PhD in history from Ohio State and is currently visiting assistant professor at the Moritz College of Law in …

… On June 15, 1950,  North Korean armed forces invaded  South Korea and launched a brutal war on the … forces, however, the South Korean military repelled the Communist attack and eventually pushed them north of the … the other. Sometimes diplomats from the two Koreas would visit the same head of state within the same day.  Seoul …

… Your veterans’ healthcare is safe.” A few months before his signature Affordable Care Act (ACA) was scheduled … His remarks made it clear that the ACA was only the latest iteration of government involvement in the health … be neglected by state and local health systems, or become—in World War I-era parlance—“public charges.” Alongside …

… decided this month that the state’s constitution does not forbid same-sex civil marriages. It therefore paved the way … before all slaves in Massachusetts would be set free, the Commonwealth v. Jennison case of 1783 ensured that slaves … of Independence and the federal Constitution, citing the latest scientific and social research and making claims …

… Zoos are some of the world’s most visited attractions. Yet they often make headlines for controversial reasons such as in 2016 when the … or in 2017 when poachers killed a rhinoceros at a Paris Zoo for its horns. While schoolchildren and adults alike may … to think with, you know. Over 600 million people a year visit a zoo. So they're, you know, significant institutions …

… Hornet pilots defied the orders of their American commanding officers. These pilots independently aborted 40 … pilots mistook a four vehicle British reconnaissance patrol for the enemy, even though the vehicles were decorated with … of familiarity with one another's commanders and staff, visits, the creation of liaison teams, multinational …

… China, colonial Mexico, and turn-of-the-century California. Ultimately, a international perspective helps us to … drugs, we find that stories of drug wars are actually quite commonplace. Ultimately, these drug wars, waged across … As any good historian should, we encourage our listeners to visit episode descriptions for citations to background …

… "For insight into the complicated and complicating events ... , one needs perspective, not … attitudes; context, not anecdotes; analyses, not postures. For any kind of lasting illumination the focus must be on …

… Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), exposing the struggle for access to and exploitation of a large copper and cobalt … for current president Joseph Kabila to step down. It has become a cliché to contrast the Congo’s tremendous economic … soldiers in 2001 during U.S. Congressman Frank Wolf’s visit ( left ). Former child soldiers in Congo in the early …

… ancient Greece and Rome? What are the consequences of this for our understandings of the ancient era? And what should … Eileen McCoskey , Donna Zuckerberg , and Curtis Dozier . For more on this topic, see: Denise Eileen McCoskey - … Vassar College’s recording studio, we have Curtis Dozier, visiting professor at Vassar and the Director of Pharos: …