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… 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 …

… 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. …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… from Akin's, and President Barack Obama reiterated his commitment to not make "health care decisions on behalf of … grown more widely available. As the professionalization and commercialization of medicine began, more abortion options … century, social scientists began to publish statistics comparing birth rates among nations. As nationalism and …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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. …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… farmed no longer exist. Four centuries later, we have come to depend increasingly on only a handful of commercial plant varieties for our food supply. And we see … and development. Seeds became not an outcome of farmers' ingenuity but a private commodity. New varieties of seeds …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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 …