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… history. The train stops in Urgench, a quiet and comparatively modern city of about 150,000 people. Exiting … fourth century B.C.E. Khorezmians were minting their early coins by the second century B.C.E. A century later the … Heritage City. Arabkhan madrasa, 1616. (Photo by author) Visitors are greeted with comfortable hotels, restaurants …

… Join hosts Leticia Wiggins and Patrick Potyondy for part one of a two-segment History Talk on race in … Museum in Memphis . “It really is a place,” says Jeffries, “for living history.” ( Image Source ) … I'm guessing didn't have the didn't have the money to buy artifacts that they would have wanted. They had a lot of …

… about a major project that his government had imagined for Istanbul, the largest city in Turkey—and Europe. It … on the Bosporus—a strait crowded not only with urban commuters and pleasure craft, but Russian oil tankers … country," Erdogan said. In many ways, Erdogan is but the latest ruler over the centuries to transform the city on the …

… often  since the attack on the World Trade Center, but a comparison of the Black Tuesdays of 1929 and 2001 is equally … is hardly the only thing we have to fear, but it is a major force in itself. Even if we can get beyond unreasoning … more important than money and the material things it can buy came through so loudly and clearly in the ghastly events …

… Humboldt, Nevada. Humboldt, Iowa. Humboldt County, California. The Humboldt River. All these places, and … to honor a German naturalist who made exactly one brief visit to the United States early in the nineteenth century, but whose adventures and accomplishments were so much admired they made him an …

… China, colonial Mexico, and turn-of-the-century California. Ultimately, a international perspective helps us to … and it's sold to other Chinese. So it's Chinese merchants buying a Chinese product, selling it to Chinese customers. … As any good historian should, we encourage our listeners to visit episode descriptions for citations to background …

… for current president Joseph Kabila to step down. It has become a cliché to contrast the Congo’s tremendous economic … soldiers in 2001 during U.S. Congressman Frank Wolf’s visit ( left ). Former child soldiers in Congo in the early … in the guise of shady agreements used to satisfy allies or buy allegiances. To the surprise of many, L-D. Kabila’s son, …

… Korean President Moon Jae-in on August 2, 2019. “We have come this far today by overcoming countless hardships. Just … we will in fact turn adversities into opportunities to leap forward.” A casual observer of South Korea-Japan relations … Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo. For a Japanese prime minister to visit the controversial Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo, where 14 …

… by stampeding to the shopping mall. It’s also a chance for purists to ruin the fun by insisting that Hanukkah has … been a minor Jewish festival. Yet this holiday — which commemorates the successful Israelite revolt in the second … including the newly secularized Christmas. “Santa Claus visited the East Side last night,” the New York Tribune …

… December 25, 1848, brought an unwelcome gift to the Queen City. That Christmas Day, a dying man … pandemic reached Cincinnati 17 years earlier, saw no “cause for apprehension or anxiety … or any reason to suppose that … “Cincinnati is the city of pigs,” wrote English visitor Isabella Lucy Bird. “[S]wine lean, gaunt, and …

… the words “The End” on a popular, long-running American comedy named “The Roaring Twenties: The New Era of Eternal … In his inaugural address less than twenty months before, Herbert Hoover had proclaimed that the final victory … sun will shine forever.”  The trouble was that mass buying required that purchasing be widely diffused among the …

… fight racial prejudice through a celebration of multiracial community. The event takes its name from the 1967 Supreme … The case established marriage as a fundamental right for interracial couples, but 72 percent of the public … their hometown. After being arrested again in 1963 while visiting relatives in Virginia, Mildred Loving wrote …

… Doug Dangler  From the Center for the Study and Teaching of Writing at The Ohio State … Thanks for being on the show Professor Conklin and welcome.   Dr. Alice Conklin   Thank you for having me.   … enjoyed being here.   Doug Dangler  For more Writers Talk visit www.writers talk.org.   …

… a life in the wake of the Holocaust, many Jewish survivors, community and religious leaders, and Allied soldiers viewed … Jewish women and military personnel as a way to move forward after unspeakable loss. Proponents believed that … in History Program, and President of the Association for Jewish Studies. Nicholas Breyfogle (Moderator) is an …

… advanced to the semifinals of the Men’s Cricket World Cup for the first time, winning a stunning victory over the 2021 … time that the United States hosted an international cricket competition. In fact, the first international cricket game … racially mixed teams from competing abroad and required visiting international teams to be composed of only white …

… opposite sides of the battle between the Hong Kong Police Force and the criminal Triads. For the movie’s two leads, … returned home but evaded murder charges because he committed the crime outside of Hong Kong’s jurisdiction. He … of an Englishman ordering the emperor of China to buy opium. The text says: "I tell you to immediately buy the …

… and artist Jack Kirby in the eponymous Captain America Comics #1 , the patriotic hero became a breakout star for … patriotic calls for children to collect scrap metal and buy war bonds. Fans could join the Sentinels of Liberty, … “good war.” Four-color McCarthyism could not pull enough coins from adolescent pockets to prevent the superhero …

… On June 15, 1950,  North Korean armed forces invaded  South Korea and launched a brutal war on the … forces, however, the South Korean military repelled the Communist attack and eventually pushed them north of the … the other. Sometimes diplomats from the two Koreas would visit the same head of state within the same day.  Seoul …

… Your veterans’ healthcare is safe.” A few months before his signature Affordable Care Act (ACA) was scheduled … His remarks made it clear that the ACA was only the latest iteration of government involvement in the health … be neglected by state and local health systems, or become—in World War I-era parlance—“public charges.” Alongside …

… replaces it. The wealthy Georgian facades of New Town transform into charity shops, pubs, Indian restaurants, and the … your right, you will encounter the upscale whiskey house, complete with nineteenth-century stone walls that feature … maritime, industrial, and working-class culture, when you visit the neighborhood today, the only reminders of that …

… Hornet pilots defied the orders of their American commanding officers. These pilots independently aborted 40 … pilots mistook a four vehicle British reconnaissance patrol for the enemy, even though the vehicles were decorated with … of familiarity with one another's commanders and staff, visits, the creation of liaison teams, multinational …