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Nancy Reagan speaking at a "Just Say No" Rally.

The “Modern” War on Drugs (Prologued, Season 2, Episode 1)

… we could, you know, leave the house and not really have to come back until it was time for dinner. We could ride our … schools, drug prohibition has become as American as apple pie. While visceral images of police raids, gang … actually closed down the border in order to get Mexico to pay more attention to drug control and to escalate its own …
Nanci Pelosi standing at a podium with many people behind and beside her

The Contentious ACA

… Leticia Wiggins   Welcome to History Talk Produced by Origins , a project of the … , one of your History Talk cohosts and I'd like to welcome you to this month's podcast. It's safe to say there … that that has necessitated a change in how we can pay for and access health care.   Sandra Tanenbaum   In …
A Sea Fight with Barbary Corsairs by Laureys a Castro, c. 1681

Hostage Taking in Algeria Is a 200-Year-Old Story

… The State Department is probably very pleased with the outcome of last week’s hostage crisis in Algeria, although … shows that when hostage crises drag on and the public comes to make a personal connections with the captives, … toward an expedient but costly resolution that involved paying large ransoms for the captives and tributes in cash …

Erasing Indigenous History, Then and Now

… Santorum, April 2021 Former Pennsylvania senator (and CNN commentator) Rick Santorum made those comments at a conservative student organization-hosted … financial compensation as well in the form of annuity payments to tribes. In theory, this meant that tribes were …
Richard and Mildred Loving in June, 1967.

At the Movies: "The Loving Cup"

… Loving v. Virginia , the most pertinent film is Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner? (1968), which features a stirring defense … Shelter (2011) and Midnight Special (2016), is rapidly becoming one of the most accomplished filmmakers in the United … recalling the film’s opening shot. However, his patience pays off. Later that night, Richard lies his head upon …
Earth covered in trees and water

"Pale Blue Dot": History of Our Environment

… boys, River and Blue. Folks, you can unveil yourselves and come on to the screen if you'd like. Welcome thank you for … before we join our panelists, I'd like to take a moment to pay homage to the title of this webinar, Pale Blue Dot, … just kind of taking in, as she watched all these students grapple with these issues, something that she's been fighting …
Crowds of people waving Ukrainian flags

The Fate of Crimea, the Future of Ukraine, Part II

… Patrick Potyondy  Welcome to History Talk , the history podcast for everyone … Trevor Brown  It's a pleasure.   Rudy Hightower  You're welcome.   Patrick Potyondy  Could you describe, to start us … very painful. So for example, the average Ukrainian citizen pays about 10% of the actual energy that they consume. So …

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 … country’s anti-doping establishment. WADA’s “Independent Commission Report #1” team (Richard Pound, Richard McLaren, … off charge after charge of corruption including financial payoffs to conceal positive doping results, the destruction …
A long line of migrants in India

Migration and Mobility: Yesterday and Today

… policy in the U.S., Europe, and across the world have become fierce and deeply divisive, to say the least, and will surely continue to dominate politics in the coming years. All the while, lives are in the balance as … Dr. Nicholas Breyfogle  Hello, and welcome to Migration and Mobility: Insights from History coming …
Cover of Zoot Suit The Enigmatic Career of an Extreme Style by Kathy Peiss.

A Suit, or a Statement?

Review of Zoot Suit: The Enigmatic Career of an Extreme Style, by Kathy Peiss (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011)
Tulsa aftermath. Jun 1, 1921.

In Oklahoma, Another Debate About Reparations

… in the city that a lynching was imminent. The proud black community, which was reading "radical" literature such as … were required to work cleaning up the burned area for no compensation other than meals and housing. By noon, more … John Hope Franklin. In February the commission recommended paying reparations to survivors. It looked to precedents …
The front of the National Security Administration in Fort Meade, MD

America’s Big Brother

… Leticia Wiggins  Welcome to History Talk, produced by Origins , a project of the … it by date, but by location which was taken so somebody at Apple knows where we were on that lovely Sunday afternoon … mean, I think ultimately the US you most countries who are paying any attention are enormously distrustful of the …

Yearning to Breathe Free: The American Immigration Story

… they simply never made enough to do so. “Many Chinamen have come; few have returned. Why is this?” representatives of China’s laboring community said in an 1876 address to Congress. “Because … work as western mining waned. Nativist sentiment spurred competition between white people and immigrants. The most …
Voting booth exhibit at the George W. Bush Presidential Library.

God in the Voting Booth: How Religion Shapes the Politics of Both Republicans and Democrats

… Office in February 2025 to “assist faith-based entities, community organizations, and houses of worship in their … in Christian egalitarian principles of concern for the common person. “You shall not press down upon the brow of … evangelical-inspired Democratic Party concern for the “common man” transformed into a more explicit commitment to …
Dorothea Lange's Migrant Mother depicts destitute pea pickers in California, centering on Florence Owens Thompson, age 32, a mother of seven children, in Nipomo, California, March 1936.

Another Great Depression?

… Here's why.   The Great Depression was the result of the combination of the 1929 financial crisis and serious … It was pumped up by over-lending by banks and financial companies and over-borrowing by Wall Street. Rising interest … worse, too many of those who over-borrowed are unable to pay; they're now defaulting on their mortgages, car loans, …
President Barack Obama signed the ARRA into law on February 17, 2009. Vice President Joe Biden stood directly behind him.

A New New Deal Must Be For All

… Barack Obama's economic stimulus plan has provoked comparisons with Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal. Like … women earned only 51 percent of what men did for work of comparable worth.   During the Depression, officials … single mothers hold jobs. They earn money that is vital to paying mortgages and putting food on the table.   The …
Bande dessinée par Ali Delim pour marquer la vingtième anniversaire de la mort de Saïd Mekbel

1/30/2015: Les dangers d'être humoriste: Charlie Hebdo n’est pas le seul

… Hebdo a suscité une recherche profonde pour découvrir comment les hommes armés sont venus à être si irrités par … avec des conséquences mortelles leur colère envers des comiques dont le travail a été jugé blasphématoire ou opposé … exploiter d’une façon comique l'absurdité des problèmes du pays, particulièrement ceux de nature politique. Des …

The Unkept Promise of Nuclear Power

… attends Operation Plumbbob as Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, 1968 (left). The nuclear reactors at the Hanford … to celebrate the bomb. As Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) throughout the 1960s, he was perhaps the … 1957 provided one of those subsidies by capping liability payments for reactor accidents. An image of a nuclear power …
June 4th, 2014, at Hong Kong’s Victoria Park (Photo by the author)

Remembering Tiananmen: The View from Hong Kong

… In between memory and forgetting, there is commemoration . On June 4, 1989 a protest in Beijing’s … of this “second liberation,” inequalities and corruption—combined with an era of relative openness—led to calls for … suffer in the post-1949 People’s Republic and possibly even pay with their lives. But even those who survived would …