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French demonstrators with purple signs that read "ras le viol"

Violence Against Women

… Violence against women has a long history in human communities. Yet, we live in a time when people across the … understanding of violence against women has changed in the past several decades, that even when violence against women … Wiggins. You can find our podcasts and more at our website, origins.osu.edu, on iTunes and on Soundcloud. And as …
Sheikha Mozah

Beyond the Veil: Women in the Mideast and North Africa

… In 2010, the National Assembly and the Senate of France passed an act prohibiting the concealment of face in public … for employment for women within women's spaces as teachers or doctors or various professions, and I should say … Sokolsky. Song and bad information can be found on our website. You can find our podcasts and more at origins.osu.edu …
Stenciled graffiti of a priest pursuing two children

Secrecy and Celibacy: The Catholic Church and Sexual Abuse

… orders. But while clerical abuse has only recently become a news item, it has a much longer history. This month, … to be pursued vigorously. Number two, the church of the past had enjoyed an incredible degree of impunity for things … and gamblers, as well as abusing women. The image of the lecherous priest is almost a stereotype in the early 16th …
Infamous photograph of German soldiers rounding up Jews for deportation in the Warsaw Ghetto, 1943.

Weathering the Storm: Wartime Lives of Ordinary People

Review of An Iron Wind: Europe Under Hitler, by Peter Fritzsche (New York: Basic Books, 2016)
… German soldier. Fritzsche is particularly interested in comparing the French and Polish accounts about sharing space … German woman overcome with emotion as she walks past victims of the German SS, 1945. Fritzsche’s greatest … focus on Poland and France at the expense of other less scrutinized areas of German influence. For example, …
President Franklin D. Roosevelt and outgoing President Herbert Hoover on Inauguration Day in 1933.

COVID, the New Deal, and the Importance of Leadership

… are awful, and recently, as the number of COVID deaths surpassed 100,000, the New York Times ran a front-page story … 1933, had to confront that crisis, and his response holds lessons we might well heed. FDR won an overwhelming victory … everyone thought Roosevelt was up to the task. Political commentator Walter Lippmann called him “a kind of amiable …
MTA digital message campaign recognizes "Heroes moving Heroes," frontline employees who help other essential workers get to and from their jobs, 2020.

Work and Life after COVID-19

… : those who have the means flee the crowds. In the past, Roman aristocrats would leave for their rural villas … city for Mount Vernon on September 10, 1793. He later visited the city before the official all clear on November 14, … other business carried out virtually over Zoom. The theater company, Gemini CollisionWorks, gathers most of its 22 …
Judas kissing Jesus

The Gospel of Judas: The Rediscovery of the Earliest Gnostic Gospel

… more during the webinar. Now, without further ado, let me pass you over to Professor David Brakke, who will take us on … and he laughs at them.  The disciples ask Jesus, “Teacher, why are you laughing at our prayer of thanksgiving?  … mathematical texts is interesting. Are there other similar sites nearby or theories about the provenance? We had …

Killing the Arctic

… how they gutted and dried cod, flensed whale blubber, or butchered caribou. Still, the harm was limited by their small … leading the first successful voyage through the Northeast Passage linking the Atlantic to the Pacific via the northern … damage was inflicted on the Aleutian island of Amchitka, site of three atomic bomb tests between 1965 and 1971. The …
Some of the subjects in the Guatemalan experiments

The Guatemala Inoculation Experiments

… and the Pan American Sanitary Bureau (which would later become the Pan American Health Organization) financed and … in 2010 revealed that Dr. John Cutler of the Public Health Service headed the Guatemalan experiments. Cutler would … as carriers of VD. By moving the study to Guatemala, researchers would have the option to test and observe “naturally” …
The World Trade Center towers on September 11, 2001

The War on Terror

… questions facing American society and the international community in these uncertain times. ( Image Source ) … Patrick Potyondy  Welcome to History Talk the podcast that brings together a … say there are lessons that can be learned from a sort of past hysteria? Perhaps communism is closer to our own …

A Fresh Start for Pakistan?

… elected government served out its full term and passed the reins of power to a democratically elected … in 1947, Pakistan’s political elites have faced regional, communal, and religious obstacles to building a stable, … underrepresented in army officer ranks as well as the civil service. And the national capital had been placed in West …
Protesters during day 14 of Occupy Wall Street

"Class Warfare" in American History

… Also at The Ohio State University. All Origins articles and podcasts can be accessed for free at … Politics." Thanks for being on the show Sarah, and welcome.  Sarah Siff   My pleasure. Thanks.  Patrick Potyondy   … wealth to people who had less. And this was a very common thing to talk about. After World War Two, it became …

Treaties and Sovereign Performances, from Westphalia to Standing Rock

… neither white sojourners nor American state laws could pass without their consent. The U.S. Supreme Court affirmed … as 1832, when in Worcester vs. Georgia it grounded the Cherokees’ immunity to Georgia state law in their treaties … The thousands of protesters encamped near the DAPL site use sweat lodges and burning sage to purify themselves …

The Catholic Church and Sexual Abuse, Then and Now

… Catholic Church has been roiled by sexual scandals in the past. Proceedings of the Second Vatican Council in 1963. The … changing sexual mores since the 1960s. Occasionally, commentators have referred to an insular institutional … Augustinians, Dominicans, and others) who served as preachers and confessors. As Erasmus realized, such confidential …
The Humboldt Current: Nineteenth-Century Exploration and the Roots of American Environmentalism, by Aaron Sachs Book Cover

The Humboldt Current: Nineteenth-Century Exploration and the Roots of American Environmentalism

Review of The Humboldt Current: Nineteenth-Century Exploration and the Roots of American Environmentalism, by Aaron Sachs (Viking Books, 2006)
… early in the nineteenth century, but whose adventures and accomplishments were so much admired they made him an … has faded from our imagination. Most people have some passing familiarity with Darwin; one suspects that many … the study of physical phenomena. . . , we find its noblest and most important result to be a knowledge of the …
Here, a bus broadcasts the anti-apartheid message to Londoners in 1989.

Inequality After Apartheid

Review of Apartheid Guns and Money: A Tale of Profit, by Hennie van Vuuren (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019)
… easily relegated the structural and systemic crimes to the past. Hennie van Vuuren’s new book, Apartheid Guns and … new oral and archival evidence that he and a team of researchers were able to uncover really is. In a section on … proposal dressed up as public diplomacy” in 1985 and who visited the country the following year. When approached in …
An image showing slaves working on a plantation on the island of Antigua in the early 1800s.

After Abolition: Britain and the Slave Trade Since 1807

Review of After Abolition: Britain and the Slave Trade Since 1807, by Marika Sherwood (I.B. Tauris, 2007)
… Parliament outlawed the slave trade. While the anniversary passed without too much comment in the United States, it was commemorated widely in … slavery continued under other names as indentured service or forced labor. As late as 1948, colonial officials …
L to R - Indigenous, African American, and Jewish Peoples

Ideas of Race and Racism in History

… Department of History, The Ohio State University Deondre Smiles | Ph.D. Geography '20; Assistant Professor of Geography, … for the Humanities. Any views, findings, conclusions or recommendations expressed in this content do not necessarily … Morehouse College, his Ph.D. from Duke University. I'll pass you over to Hasan now. Thank you.   Dr. Hasan Jeffries  …
A Sherman tank enters Fort Santiago

The Battle for Manila

… history of a city that has long sat at the crossroads of competing powers, and it still looms large in the … After destroying a Muslim settlement at the mouth of the Pasig River on the island of Luzon, Spanish conquistadors colonized the site. Menaced by pirates and European competitors, the …
Portrait of Francisco Franco in 1964 from Biblioteca Virtual de Defensa

The Death of Franco

… prisoners, the Valley of the Fallen is a mass burial site that was designed to commemorate the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) as a … Road Massacre; and the summary execution of teachers, intellectuals, and political opponents. By the war’s … Milestones …
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 … coverage of international affairs. And with that, let me pass the microphone over to Patrick. Thank you so very much. … kind of strong man leaders. And while that's not a prerequisite, China works just as well with democracies, as it does …
People holding signs: "More Mental Health Care + Less Jail Time" and "Support Mental Health - It's the Right Thing to Do"

Mental Health and American Society

… conditions under the term mental illness, because that encompasses everything from mood disorders, like depression, even … song and band information can be found on our website. You can find our podcasts and more on our website … origins.osu.edu on iTunes and on SoundCloud, and Stitcher. And as always, you can find us on Twitter and …
wind turbines

Energy Policy: How is the “Long Transition” from Fossil Fuels Doing?

… over the last four years.  The reasons for that are many, complex, and subject to change in the near and far future.  … .  With increased supply, and falling demand given the less than robust recovery from the Great Recession and … in China), the price of oil began to drop by 2014. During past cycles, falling oil demand pressured OPEC to reduce …

Frenemies: Iran and America since 1900

… have been riveted on North Africa and the Middle East these past months. The popular protests that rocked Tunis, Cairo, … Abdel Nasser. Searching for Stability America's Iran watchers worried, however, that the Shah's repressive domestic … to military purposes, and $1.1 billion in agricultural credits. For their part, the Iranians resorted to human wave …