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Photo from 1890 of the first OSU football team

Taylor Branch on the Crisis of College Sports

… Collegiate Athletic Association, or NCAA. In addition to completing the monumental  King Era Trilogy , Branch has … Patrick Potyondy  Welcome to History Talk , the history podcast for everyone … mounted a campaign against that. That's exactly the opposite of what you would hope a university would do, which is …

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 and … immigration. Though over a century old, and thoroughly discredited by scholars, Frank’s article is required reading …
 How to Create the Perfect Wife: Britain’s Most Ineligible Bachelor and His Enlightened Quest to Train the Ideal Mate, by Wendy Moore Book Cover.

The Idiot’s Guide to Enlightened Matrimony

Review of How to Create the Perfect Wife: Britain’s Most Ineligible Bachelor and His Enlightened Quest to Train the Ideal Mate, by Wendy Moore (New York: Basic Books, 2013)
… His friends admired him for his intelligence, honesty, and commitment to virtue, but thought that maybe a little … and Lucretia, Day ensured his foundlings severed all connection with their former life. Day’s detailed plans for the … is a bit too confident in her unsupported claims that no less than Jane Austen and George Bernard Shaw borrowed …
A refrigerator advertisement in The Ladies Home Journal, 1948.

The Feminine Mystique

… copies. This small figure proved grossly inadequate as sales quickly exceeded the million mark, helping to spark a … went on to Smith College, where she studied psychology and completed a year of graduate work at the University of … became a tumultuous marriage, caused in part by Carl’s discomfort with his wife’s success. The couple divorced in …
Zimbabwe Flag against a blue sky

Colonial Land Injustices in Post-Independence Zimbabwe

… from British colonialism on April 18, 1980. The nation commemorates this political milestone annually, with the president attending the main … establish a Cape to Cairo railway & telegraph line that connected British territories from South Africa to  Egypt . The …
William Shatner as Captain Kirk and Leonard Nimoy as Mr. Spock pose behind a model of the starship Enterprise.

Star Trek

… sixth series will debut in 2017) hundreds of novels and comic books, and countless toys, games, uniforms and other merchandise. Star Trek: … thinking of leaving Star Trek when Martin Luther King Jr. visited the set. He insisted that she remain on the show … Milestones …

A Century of U.S. Relations with Iraq

… at Camp Adder in southern Iraq boarded 110 military vehicles and drove off quietly into the night, without having … some five hours later. This departure of the 3rd Brigade Combat Team of the 1st Cavalry Division of the U.S. … War era. President Bush resolved that he would take necessary steps, up to and including military force, to …

Pirates of Puntland, Somalia

… to sustain themselves in deep sea until the vessel actually comes by." Under the pirates' command, the Sirius Star … and beyond. [ Indian Ocean Map ] An early travel guide, Periplus of the Erythrean Sea , written in Greek in the first … environment. That, in turn, might help create the stability necessary to turn a failed state into a successful one. …
A crowd of protesters at night in Sudan

Sudan: Popular Protests, Today and Yesterday

… of living, demonstrators soon widened their criticisms to encompass the full impact of Bashir’s three decades in power: … transcript has been edited for clarity.] Lauren Henry    Welcome to History Talk , the podcast that brings together … Rhodes. Song and band information can be found on our website. And you can find our podcasts and more on …
The Rodina crew. Left to right: Polina Osipenko, Valentina Grizodubova, and Marina Raskova.

The Rodina Flight

The Remarkable Story of the Women’s Non-Stop Long-Distance Flight Record
… record for women at 26 hours 29 minutes flown and 4,008 miles covered (3,671 miles in a straight line).  Plans for the women’s flight commenced three months earlier in August 1938. Valeriy … women in male-dominated fields, particularly those with connections to the military, like aviation. Stalin lauded the …
Stamp commemorating revolution in Iraq

Iraq's 1920 Revolution

… A commemorative 1965 Iraqi stamp marking the 45th anniversary … era, erased the contributions of Shi'i leaders and gave credit for initiating the uprising to a secondary Sunni … was renamed Rustumiya, and, in the history, decisive battles were relocated away from predominantly Shi'i areas to …
The flag of the World Health Organization, founded in 1948, flies over the WHO headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland.

Tuberculosis and the Optimism of Biomedicine

… DDT were among the most important. But without the will and commitment on the part of governments, health care … By making formerly sick people well they could then become productive citizens. They would learn the benefits of … or recommendations expressed in this content do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for …
President George Bush signing deregulation papers with gas company employees looking on

Texas, Enron, and Energy Monopolies

… images from Texas of a severe cold snap that left icicles hanging off ceiling fans and stories of families going … least some of the blame can go to the now-disgraced energy company, Enron, and its misuse of long-held American … images of the financial slight of hand that ruined the company in 2001. But before that point, both Ken Lay and …

Learning to Love the Nuclear Pariah: From China to North Korea

… An estimate compiled by the nation’s intelligence services reaches the … times, Sino-American brinksmanship (what Dulles called the “necessary art” of getting “to the verge without getting into … Republic of China in 1949 ( left ). President Nixon visited China in 1972, but the U.S. did not formally recognize …
Satchel Paige with bat boys in the dugout watching a game in Los Angeles, ca. 1943.

Satchel Paige: The First Negro League Player Inducted into the Hall of Fame

… too frequently heard, “if only you were white,” as a compliment to their skills, but also as a reality check that … he changed his targets from animals and insects to soda bottles, holes in fences, and gum wrappers he placed over home … him “one of the greatest pitchers of all time.”  The compliments were great, but they might as well have said, …
An MP looking north from South Korea in the Demilitarized Zone, 2008.

The War That Never Ended: The Legacy of the Korean War

… forces, however, the South Korean military repelled the Communist attack and eventually pushed them north of the … forces singlehandedly carried out this atrocity.   Nonetheless, the North Koreans built a museum in 1960 that is … and other civilians on state-funded trips to this site. Complete with wax figurines of long-nosed, beast-like …
Pieter Bruegel the Elder's 1562 painting "The Triumph of Death" depicts the turmoil Europe experienced as a result of the plague.

The Black Death and its Aftermath

… came into Mediterranean ports by ship. But, it is also becoming clear that small pools of plague had been established … of the Scientific Revolution. Quarantines were directly connected to this new empiricism, and the almost instinctive … medieval Europe’s thinly disguised resource wars, as nobles and their men at arms attempted to replace rent with …
Close-up of the mural commemorating works of A.J. Muste on the War Resisters League Building in New York, New York.

"There Is No Way to Peace, Peace Is the Way": A.J. Muste and American Radical Pacifism

Review of American Gandhi: A.J. Muste and the History of Radicalism in the Twentieth Century, by Leilah Danielson (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014)
… hailed the loss of one of the brightest minds and most tireless spirits that had animated the nonconformist left. Historian Leilah Danielson attempts to complete the work that Muste did not. It is most useful to … By 1936, Muste left the labor movement behind and with reconnect with his pacifist Christian roots.It is most useful to …
Zog I of Albania in front of the Albania Republic flag.

Albania’s First Republic

… the multireligious provisional government was challenged by competing leadership, most notably the Republic of Central … Italy were unable to control the growing calls for a completely independent Albania. In the summer of 1920, the … from the First Albanian Republic? There are two valuable lessons from the rise and collapse of Albania’s republic.  …

The International History of the U.S. Suffrage Movement

… usually told as a national one. It begins with the 1848 Seneca Falls convention ; follows with numerous state campaigns, court battles, and petitions to Congress; and culminates in the … Ida B. Wells-Barnett with her four children in 1909. The complex international connections and strategies that …
1960s hippies dancing at a festival.

The Soundtrack of the Summer of Love

… of the 1967 Summer of Love. Be-ins and Love-in’s, the Beatles and Pink Floyd, love and drugs; the summer of 1967 saw a … of psychedelic exploration . The Summer of Love marked the coming out party for the counter-culture we now associate … festival, offered advice and contributed items for an on-site exhibit consisting of original guitars, outfits, and …

Colombia: On the Brink of Peace with the FARC?

… June 23, 2016, while most of the world was awaiting the outcome of the Brexit vote, another major historical event was … as the current process. While there are significant obstacles to a lasting peace, it does appear that Colombia is … First, some of the Liberal insurgents in this era had connections with the Communist Party of Colombia. Second, and …
Engraving of Roman plague doctor, Schnabel c.1656.

Quarantino: Plague and the Origins of Social Distancing

… strength and quantity, and are well mixed.” Humoral theory, combined with ignorance of germs, created a situation ripe … or their districts.” Those who attempted to violate these rules were given enormous fines while guards were placed at … or recommendations expressed in this content do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for …