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Dry Days Down Under: Australia and the World Water Crisis

… over the last decade city residents have been placed on stringent water-use restrictions in an effort to reduce daily … is a self-reinforcing event. How, we should ask, has it come to all this? Australia's water woes are, in part, a … parts of Australia every few years and major droughts come at least once per generation. The Big Dry is one in a …
Abraham Lincoln

Top Ten Origins: The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln

… a strong hold on the imagination of the American public. To commemorate “Honest Abe,” Origins offers ten of the most … with the biggest questions himself, leaving a few glancing comments about such landmarks as the Emancipation … yield even when Lincoln offered the Confederacy gradual, compensated emancipation in 1862 and again in 1865. …
Children at Play: An American History, by Howard Chudacoff Book Cover

Children at Play: An American History

Review of Children at Play: An American History, by Howard Chudacoff (New York: New York University Press, 2007)
… play, adults' efforts to provide protective spaces indoor (community centers, YMCA) and outdoor (playgrounds, sports … and stronger peer associations formed as a consequence of compulsory schooling in the mid-nineteenth century, a gap … environment, directed only by their own creativity and ingenuity. These, and other, conclusions from the final …

The Year of Africa

… After touring British colonies in Africa, Macmillan had become increasingly convinced that “national consciousness” … an official armed force, the OAU remains an important component of African independence stories. It eventually … and Chinese involvement in Africa is best described as a competition resulting from divergent national and …
pile of syringes

The Global War on Drugs

… Dr. Nicholas Breyfogle   Hello, and welcome to The Global War on Drugs brought to you by the … are 50 years old. President Nixon had created a national commission to study marijuana and he even chose the nine of … of being the least dangerous among the drugs, is the most common object of eradication. So Reagan expanded the US Drug …
Official Program: Woman Suffrage Procession, Washington DC March 3, 1913

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

… call the Anthony Amendment, and what would eventually become the 19th Amendment. But not for a long time. California … support needed to pass a constitutional amendment. It was becoming less likely that a federal amendment was going to … and Alice Paul begins pretty much as soon as Alice Paul comes to NAWSA. Alice Paul moves back to the United States …
Taylor Swift at the 2014 Costume Institute Gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

2/12/2015: Top Ten Origins: Oscar Dresses and Women’s Fashion

… of widespread fashion magazines, which allowed styles to be communicated quickly to the masses. For example, Godey’s … cut to fit the curve of the female body, dresses had become rectangles of fabric reflecting the flattened planes of … style was Twiggy. Her wide-eyed ingénue appearance would come to characterize the new fashions and youth movement of …

Interracial Marriage in "Post-Racial" America

… fight racial prejudice through a celebration of multiracial community. The event takes its name from the 1967 Supreme … as man and wife, against the peace and dignity of the Commonwealth,” they were offered one year imprisonment or a … to celebrate the precepts behind Loving and the case has become an icon of equality and of prejudice transcended. …

Currency Wars, or Why You Should Care About the Global Struggle Over the Value of Money

… that these and other countries were entering into a competitive spiral of devaluations in an effort to export … term "currency war" promptly became a global buzz phrase. Commentators and public officials—like Dominque … contained. Trade in East Asia was fueled in part by silver coins from Mexico. Prior to the Meiji Restoration of 1868 in …
The so-called "Elgin Marbles," on display in the British Museum

Classics and the Alt-Right Conundrum

… Brenna Miller   Welcome to History Talk, the podcast that brings together a … immigration changes existing culture for the worse is a common view among white nationalists in the US, and … or can show us, that misogyny, racism, those things are contingent, that they take many different forms and many …

The Illegalization of Marijuana: A Brief History

… recreational use. Across the state, celebratory stoners welcomed the New Year by lining up at licensed retailers to buy … punitive drug laws, announced that he too would pursue accommodation for medical marijuana; and recreational … quest for prohibition—a prohibition that has become increasingly difficult to explain or justify. Consider …
Globe on a plate with knife and fork next to it

Diet for a Large Planet

… Nicholas Breyfogle: Welcome to Diet for a Large Planet by The Ohio State … begin with a recent document from 2019 by the EAT-Lancet commission on food, planet, and health. This report pulled … This idea that these diets are launching us to crisis is becoming commonplace. One author stated, the world cannot eat …
Crowds of people in Kyiv, Ukraine

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

… Leticia Wiggins  Welcome to History Talk , the history podcast for everyone … afterwards, we have German settlers, Mennonites, that was common there. We have Jews coming there and it was a multinational population by the …
Pope Leo XIV in the popemobile at his inauguration, 2025.

Faith, History, and the City of God in the 21st Century

… Rome . If  warnings of the imminent rise of superhuman AI come to pass, he may be the last pontiff crowned during the … the papacy of Leo XIV may herald the end of an era,  recent commentary celebrates several notable firsts.  Besides being … understanding of history, being defined not by random contingency but by divine providence.  The partition of the City …
British Fleet Spanish Armada of 1588

1588: the Spanish Armada Still Loses

… finally clashed. Looking beyond the events of 1588 to the complex politics which made war between England and Spain … Dr. Nicholas Breyfogle   Welcome to 1588: The Spanish Armada Still Loses, brought to you … but what really clinched it was the 1000 gold and silver coins, the 12 gold rings, the six gold chains and the 35 …
illustration of woman getting cow pox variolation

Top Ten Origins: Vaccination

… child as a man stands outside with a cow (from the Wellcome Trust). The term vaccination comes from variolae vaccinae , or “smallpox of the cow,” … The close relationship between smallpox and cowpox was common lore in the eighteenth century. We have accounts of …
Marchers for the Equal Rights Amount, holding banner that reads "Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex"

The Equal Rights Amendment: Then and Now

… Brenna Miller  Welcome to History Talk , the podcast that brings together a … State Senate passed an ERA resolution and is poised to become the first state to ratify the amendment since Indiana … ratification because they said their ratification was contingent on other states ratifying. But even this issue, as I …

Playing Politics: Olympic Controversies Past and Present

… other hand, speak piously of keeping politics out of sports competition. I am frequently asked, "Must politics be a part … feeling." The former president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), Juan Samaranch, declared on American TV: … first or second in the world, or even to take part in such competition, is a tremendous honor, and sports fans do enjoy …

The Question of Refugees: Past and Present

… face an uncertain future in the sprawling Dadaab camp complex in Kenya barely register on the radar of the global … An image widely used to raise funds for the Armenian Relief Committee. The widowed Amenian woman and her children walked … called for the convention to be interpreted much more stringently to prevent asylum seekers from remaining in the UK …

A Century of HIV

… human immune systems, HIV has also allowed tuberculosis to come thundering back as a global health threat and has … for sexual and gender minorities. Gay populations have become more visible and politically active, winning civil … global intellectual property laws that protected drug companies and made lifesaving drugs inaccessible. The logo …

The International History of the U.S. Suffrage Movement

… Ida B. Wells-Barnett with her four children in 1909. The complex international connections and strategies that … across national borders allowed suffrage movements to overcome political marginalization and hostility in their own … in 1832: “How long shall the fair daughters of Africa be compelled to bury their minds and talents beneath a load of …