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Howard Dean in 2014.

How Dean Followed in Goldwater’s Steps

… Barry Goldwater of 1964. Dean should have taken the comparison seriously. Glaring parallels exist between the … election, few believed that Goldwater could successfully compete for, much less win, the Republican nomination, but … of the New Era" (2004) and a writer for the History News Service. …
The remains of the crash of TWA Flight 5 in 1931 [Photo from the Kansas Historical Society]

Top Ten Origins: Aviation Disasters that Improved Safety

… body-scan. Airline passengers in the United States have come to expect these kinds of security measures as a … FAA is sometimes called a “tombstone agency”: change only comes after a death —and usually only after a large number … back the early 1930s. As a result of each of these ten tragedies, commercial aviation really is safer today than it was …

Right-Wing Politics in India

… are Hindus (more than 1 billion people), with Muslims comprising the next most populous group at 15%. First-time … a culture of majoritarianism that would exclude minority communities in India. This is not the first time the BJP has … stamp of Vinayak Damodar Savarkar. During his studies in London and work with various revolutionary groups in …

Who's not to Blame in the South Korea-Japan Spat?

… Korean President Moon Jae-in on August 2, 2019. “We have come this far today by overcoming countless hardships. Just as we have always done in … slavery by the military to provide “comfort” to Japanese soldiers at “comfort stations” dispersed throughout Japan’s …
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 … we'd want to think about and some of them may be in the audience today are young people, especially associated with … this will be my last comment on this, is to go check out a website, and we'll send out a link in a second, I'll see if …

The Human Use of Human Beings: A Brief History of Suicide Bombing

… 9/11, reveals a great deal about the phenomenon we have come to know as suicide bombing. First, a radical left-wing … before he had the opportunity to enter the embassy complex. This shows that individual initiative and … such as faith or community. Historically, the decision to die on behalf of others has been the right of the …
A Hawaiian man employing the spearfishing techniques described by Fagan, circa 1890.

Built Upon Bounty

Review of Fishing: How the Sea Fed Civilization, by Brian Fagan (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2017)
… Some of the earliest evidence of Homo sapien s fishing comes from Central Africa where catfish were captured using … enabled extensive chemical analyses of fish bones. These studies reveal not only what fish species people were … eleven chapters earlier, reducing the impact of any comparison. The lack of chronology or strong thematic …
Cover of Wounded Knee Party Politics and the Road to an American Massacre by Heather Cox Richardson

Where Our Hearts Are Still Buried

Review of Wounded Knee: Party Politics and the Road to an American Massacre, by Heather Cox Richardson (New York: Basic Books, 2010)
… asked Big Foot, leader of the Minneconjou Teton Sioux, to come to Pine Ridge Reservation with his followers in hopes … could restore the peace. Intercepted by the Seventh Cavalry commanded by Colonel James W. Forysth on December 28, Big … east of Wounded Knee Creek. On the following morning the soldiers attempted to disarm the Indian camp. A shot rang out …
soldiers in Vietnam

Memories of Vietnam in Memoriam

Review of Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War, by Viet Thanh Nguyen Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2016.
… the stories they tell about themselves?  In Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War Viet Thanh Nguyen, a … who view the dead and choose to remember them. This is a complex work.  Equal parts philosophical treatise, … the dead.  At the same time, the memories of others become simplified and dehumanized, only victim or enemy.  The …
Captain America punching Hitler

Captain America: Changing Conscience of a Nation

Created by writer Joe Simon and artist Jack Kirby in the eponymous Captain America Comics #1, the patriotic hero became a breakout star for Timely Comics.
… and artist Jack Kirby in the eponymous Captain America Comics #1, the patriotic hero became a breakout star for Timely Comics. …
Senator Joseph McCarthy questioning attorney Joseph Welch during Congress’s Army-McCarthy hearings in 1954.

Media and Politics

Grade Level
9-12
Teaching Area
US History since 1877
American Government
… media, the government regulations on the media companies in the 1940s, then the deregulation of those companies in the 1980s and 90s, and ending with the media in … discussion and then an exit ticket for the students to complete. The PowerPoint presentation, stations documents, …
 Monte Albán

A Postcard From Oaxaca, Mexico

… mountain views, Oaxaca City also offers vistas of Mexico's complex history. In 1521, Hernán Cortés sent Captain José … Mill). Oaxaca's rugged terrain means that many indigenous communities remain isolated: roughly 50% of the state’s … in Mexico: the Sierra Sur mountain range keeps indigenous communities in relative isolation. (Photos courtesy of Kelly …
Albert Bierstadt, Mount Corcoran, c. 1876-1877, oil on canvas

Silent Spring Revolution, a Conversation with Douglas Brinkley

… postwar economic boom took hold, with America becoming the world’s leading hyper industrial and military … this historic prosperity came a heavy cost: oceans began to die, wilderness vanished, the insecticide DDT poisoned … Revolution , Douglas Brinkley pays tribute to those who combated the mauling of the natural world in the Long …
The image of a Thunderbird on top of a totem pole

“Allese Rondade”, that is to say, ‘Shoot!’”

Review of Thundersticks: Firearms and the Violent Transformation of Native America, by David J. Silverman (Cambridge: Belknap Press, 2016)
… them and Euro-Americans saying “Indian polities used commercial and military leverage to shape these … over the gun trade? During diplomatic negotiations it was common practice to receive gifts as a sign of brotherhood. … with the most fearsome of natural elements and embodied the awesome power of the Thunderbird and the Horned …
Soldiers marching in front of the memorial - The Motherland Calls in Volgograd.

Living in History: Stalingrad at 75

… Glory, at Mamayev Kurgan, Volgograd, Russia. The monument commemorates those who died defending the city 1942-1943. In the twenty-first … several weeks by a handful of Soviet defenders under the command of the eponymous Lieutenant Pavlov, is partially … Media/Journalism/Communications …
Artist representation of data security and privacy. Large eye peeks through an open window.

These Machines Know Too Damn Much

… narrative says technology is to blame—that after mainframe computers burst onto the scene in the middle of the … computers, federal offices like the Internal Revenue Service, Social Security, and the Department of Education … fragmented sloppily across digital tape, could never die; that the notion of an inescapable past was somehow …
Auguste Chouteau—Founder of St. Louis and Head of the Chouteau family

Blood Rules the Water: Kinship Diplomacy in Early America

Review of Masters of the Middle Waters: Indian Nations and Colonial Ambitions Along the Mississippi, by Jacob F. Lee (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2019)
… his reader back to a Middle America before Europeans, as commercial and military power shifted between Mississippian … to place, Lee demonstrates that it is, in fact, a universal commonality shared by Indigenous peoples, Francophones, and … America and ultimately controlled by Native nations and communities. Lee demonstrates a mastery of the sources, …

The Soccer World Goes to South Africa: Sport and the Making of Modern Africa

… of the re-admittance of South Africa to the international community. To many, winning a rugby tournament might seem to … for protest: sport. The major international sport bodies acted, albeit slowly. When their calls for … is a very difficult thing, let alone going to look for the website of FIFA to apply for a ticket. It is going to block …
A makeshift hospital in Iowa during the 1918 flu pandemic

Pandemics: Past, Present, Future

… for the Humanities. Any views, findings, conclusions or recommendations expressed in this content do not necessarily … Dr. Thomas McDow Welcome to pandemics past, present and future. Coming to you … and science. Historians at OSU and elsewhere, have long studied pandemics, taught their lessons and preached …
Crowd photo of protests in Hong Kong

Hong Kong and China: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

… Kong. The demonstrators' demands have also expanded to encompass an investigation into police brutality, the … government, and Beijing? How did Hong Kong’s autonomy come about in the first place, and how might it be at risk? … Lauren Henry   Welcome to History Talk , the podcast that brings together …
A photograph of Dr. David Livingstone from 1857.

Dr. Livingstone, I Presume?: Missionaries, Journalists, Explorers, and Empire

Review of Dr. Livingstone, I Presume?: Missionaries, Journalists, Explorers, and Empire, by Clare Pettitt (Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 2007)
… The writer Walter Benjamin once suggested that "History decomposes into images, not narratives" and Clare Pettitt … She notes how this meeting, publicized by the Herald complete with copious amounts of American triumphalism, was … to Livingstone's servants Susi and Chuma. Livingstone died shortly after being so famously found and it was they …
ELAS Guerrillas, 1943

The Greek Civil War, 1946–1949

… If eight percent of the population of seven million had died or been killed during WWII , the Greek civil war (GCW) … coups d’état and dozens of governments. Although Greek communists had been a serious threat to all Greece’s … built on it decimated. The period of Greek civil strife is commonly divided into three “rounds”. The first one began in …