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Pro-Choice demonstrators holding signs saying "Support Legal Abortion"

The Politics of Abortion in Europe and America

… associate editor Patrick Potyondy. Patrick Potyondy   Welcome to Writers Talk History, a partnership between the … that's been really helpful to be able to, to run that stuff past them. It's also been really great because at the center … State University. And I encourage you to go look at that website to find out many great articles about history, …
pile of syringes

The Global War on Drugs

… the myth that cannabis is a weed. In reality, it's the opposite. Its one species name, Cannabis sativa, literally means … long known as the troublesome Jimson weed, datura, researchers undertook datura breeding experiments in the United … we start seeing it as an explanation for everything in the past as well. This is something that we historians are very …
A French Quarter Pontalba Row building.

A Postcard from New Orleans, Louisiana

… about a block north of New Orleans’s famed French Quarter. Completely walled in, the cemetery is unwelcoming. The Roman … portrayal in movies and television. After the cemetery’s less-than-respectful depiction in Easy Rider (1969), the … its history in its very bones, still bearing marks of the past on its infrastructure and layering lives lived to …
Official Program: Woman Suffrage Procession, Washington DC March 3, 1913

I have many things to say (Prologued, Season 1, Episode 2)

… at the polls to vote in the first major election after the passing of the Civil War Amendments, and they encouraged … next time on  Prologued . ( music ) Sarah Paxton ( Credits) This season of Prologued was brought to you by  … and more on our website origins.osu.edu, on iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify and SoundCloud, as well as wherever else you …

History, Memory, and the Art of Protest in Belarus

… Since then, the protestors’ tactics have evolved, with marchers now participating in smaller demonstrations across the … book and dialect map appeared in these circumstances. The passport of the Belarusian People's Republic featuring the … of it. The Belarusian dictator has revitalized the memorial sites and has dedicated other memory sites, including a new …
Tanks rolling off a German assembly line in 1943

The Nature of World War II

… army needed, and modern armies needed a lot. “We kept pouring men and machines into Sicily,” Pyle observed, “as … in continents far removed from the conflict because of the compelling demand that war creates for forest and … Boeing Plant 2, and hundreds of other military-industrial sites spewed the noxious pollutants that would eventually …
Colin Kaepernick and teammates kneeling

The Long View of Sports Protests

… Brenna Miller    Welcome to History Talk the podcast that brings together a … right?   Brenna Miller    What kinds of issues have past protests centered on? Have they been similar or … Song and band information can be found on our website. You can find our podcasts and more on our website at …
Soviet and US Flags

Cultural Diplomacy and the Global Cold War

… Dr. Nicholas Breyfogle   Hello, and welcome to Cultural Diplomacy and the Global Cold War, brought … the time that we have. Now, without further ado, let me pass you over to Professor Theodora Dragostinova, who will … So you see how often these cultural events became actually sites of tension, in which the official representatives of …

Cops and Robbers? The Roots of Anti-Doping Policies in Olympic Sport

… Agency (WADA) Dick Pound presented “The Independent Commission Report #1” to the press corps. The 323-page … sports community increasingly challenged and abandoned the cherished Olympic ideal of “amateurism” during the cold war, … Summer Games in 1976. Anti-Doping Post-1967: Ethics Passé and Morally Dulled Individuals? The 1967 rulings by …

The Other Half of the African Sky: Women’s Struggles in Zimbabwe

… Mugabe has dominated Zimbabwean politics since 1980, having come to power on a wave of popular support developed during … in South Africa—Zimbabwe's neighbor. The president spoke passionately about the trials that WOZA activists endure in … fronts in other southern countries, ZANU promised universal services for all, including emancipation and free access to …

Time It Was: 1968 Around the World

… I’ve read about it, 1968 was quite a year. Writers have compared it to the most dramatic moments in modern history— … together.” That’s just the A-list. The B-list included the passage of the Fair Housing Act, the third important … Students demonstrating in August 1968 ( bottom left ). A teacher speaking with soldiers as students demonstrate in the …
A group of Kyiv civilians gather in a basement downtown to make Molotov Cocktails to be used against Russian troops in Kyiv, Ukraine, 2022.

Ukraine in War and Revolution

… state was “entirely created” by the Bolsheviks after the communist seizure of power in 1917 as part of Lenin’s … 1917 continued, however, a shared future with Russia became less and less attractive. Imperialist attitudes from Russian … when considering the course of European conflicts over the past two hundred years. During World War I, the fighting in …
Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony

Elizabeth Cady Stanton: Wife, Mother, Revolutionary Thinker

… with Susan B. Anthony (standing), circa 1900. She is much less well known now than her close friend and intellectual … my daughter, I wish you were a boy!” Whether he meant the comment as an affront or as a statement on the injustice … She died on October 26, 1902, eighteen years before the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment. Elizabeth Cady Stanton …
West Berliners stand amid the rubble of WWII and watch U.S. Air Force transport planes land at Templehof Airport during the Berlin Airlift in 1948.

The Berlin Airlift

… its blockade of  West Berlin , allowing trains, barges, and passenger transit from Western-Occupied Germany to legally … new runways in both major West Berlin airports just to accommodate the increased traffic from the large, heavy, … of Britain in the Berlin Airlift" "The Berlin Blockade Revisited" …
a corpse rising from the grave

Revenants, Vampires, and Ghosts, Oh My! European Folklore and the Supernatural

… of English Affairs ), describes an incident in which a treacherous man flees the English city of York to escape the … a feast day, the brothers sneak to the revenant’s gravesite and dig up his corpse. What they see horrifies them: … continue to find material evidence of the distant past. Over the past few years alone, countless “new” burial …
The Battle of Waterloo, 1815

Winning and Losing at the Battle of Waterloo

… British Duke of Wellington and Prussia's Marshall von Blücher. This fateful encounter doomed Napoleon's brief … scavenged molars of fallen soldiers. For many observers, passing judgment on Waterloo meant also judging the two … the larger Napoleonic legacy remain in France. Present day site of the Battle of Waterloo. Many cherished French …

Justice Denied: The Killing of Trayvon Martin in Historical Perspective

… Tallahassee hours earlier. Waiting for the verdict had become unbearable. On the charge of second-degree murder, the … racially discriminatory aspects of the black experience, past and present. Instead, they viewed Zimmerman’s actions … in the sleepy town a few days when he and several buddies visited a convenience store to purchase candy and cold drinks. …
Nsala of Wala in the Nsongo District

1885: A European Colonial Dream and an African Nightmare

… was an unremarkable day in the  Congo  basin, where it passed like many others. Yet thousands of miles away in … Conference on West Africa was signed.  The conference has become known for “carving up  the African continent ” for the … a  series of essays , written in 1953 by students and teachers on mission posts in the Equator region. Even though …
Hollywood Movie store in Hong Kong, 2010.

Film, Television, and China’s (New) Cold War

… Over the past several years, the term “New Cold War” has mushroomed among analysts and commentators seeking to define contemporary geopolitics. … rapprochement with the US. Nixon, after all, famously visited the country in 1972; the Shanghai Communique was … Media/Journalism/Communications …
Cover of The End of the West: The Once and Future Europe by David Marquand

The End of the World as We Know It?

Review of The End of the West: The Once and Future Europe, by David Marquand (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2011)
… according to Marquand need to embrace the fact that their cherished idea of western dominance, always historically … - the deliberate construction of a supranational European Community, based on law rather than force, in which ancient … In the early 20 th century Europe had learned the hard lesson that competing ethnic nationalities can kill, in …
Globe on a plate with knife and fork next to it

Diet for a Large Planet

… We'll answer as many questions as we can. Now let me pass you to Chris Otter for an exploration of a diet for a … itself from within. This author who argued for js this posited that it was the cause of every disease to man. … of this. It's seen as Bennett's Law, arguing that the richer a country gets, the lower amount of resources go to …

Down and Out (Again): America’s Long Struggle with Mass Unemployment

… of the 1960s, the U.S. economy's historic case of the wobbles had returned. Hard times defined the '70s, the early … proposed, would be a radical departure from the American past. The Birth of a Policy Tradition The possibility of … Accurate employment statistics for the period are hard to come by, but according to some accounts, the national …
The Sherman M4-A2E8 Tank

12/3/2014: At the Movies: Fury

… their way through a devastated Germany. The first major combat sequence takes place in an open field, as Collier and … By December, 1945, it was estimated that half of all U.S. servicemen in occupied West Germany had a local girlfriend.  … retaliation for killings of Allied POWs (such as Malmedy/Chernogne), executions after the liberation of German …