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The Slave Trade by Auguste Francois Biard (1833).

When Free Trade Meant Something Else

Review of Not Made by Slaves: Ethical Capitalism in the Age of Abolition, by Bronwen Everill (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2020)
… the global economy. This conversation has raised uncomfortable questions about contemporary businesses and … capitalized on how the global economy’s emerging interconnectedness created a space where morality and commerce met, … business transactions, delving into issues of fraud, credit, and government relations. Merchants involved in …
Radio World's Fair in 1926.

“Black Tuesday” After 70 Years

… the words “The End” on a popular, long-running American comedy named “The Roaring Twenties: The New Era of Eternal … those of the 1920s. The world economy is much more interconnected. Government has many more tools to counteract … inevitable collapse was postponed by selling products on credit to consumers who did not have the money to buy them. …
General Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1945.

Second-Guessing Hiroshima?

… Second-guessing the necessity and morality of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima … children, revolts my soul." Two days later, John Foster Dulles and Methodist Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam together urged … Hiroshima, the personal pilot of General Douglas MacArthur, commander of Allied forces in the Pacific, recorded in his …
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 … Surveillance , which is found on the origins.osu.edu website say hello, Dave. David Hadley  Hello. Leticia Wiggins  … guy who, you know, he's a young man, not much experience necessarily and suddenly is able to get. So that, for me was …
Booker T. Washington

Picturing Black History

… Daniela Edmeier   Hello everyone and welcome to picturing Black History Webinar today brought to you … LSC collection, was operating in the 1850s, and is widely credited as being one of the first photo agencies ever to … stats and numbers can be. It is the people that work on site with this material that keeps Archive living and …
A red AIDS ribbon outlined in candles

The Global History of HIV

… for the Humanities. Any views, findings, conclusions or recommendations expressed in this content do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for … where the associations rightly or wrongly are the opposite. Can you tell us the story there?   Dr. Thomas McDow    …
Painting of the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand

Memories of the Great War

… bring us first-hand stories of how the Great War is being commemorated across the globe. Brenna Miller joined us from … Patrick Potyondy   Welcome to History Talk the history podcast for everyone … War I's beginning that you mentioned that you that you visited some of the events and Sarajevo has it received much …
And Water for All - stylized image of hands with water behind them

... And Water for All

An educational documentary about water affordability
… for all. Even though the movie is set in Ohio, many of its lessons will be relevant for those concerned with water … done it with these water and sewer systems that have become ubiquitous in our lifetimes.   Nicholas Breyfogle  The … An important thing to keep in mind is that this doesn't necessarily mean that water services are unaffordable. In …
Close-up of Indian couple's hands during wedding ceremony

Reproductive Politics and the Making of Modern India

… spectrum, people insisted that regulating reproduction was necessary and that limiting the population was essential to … Nicholas Breyfogle: Hello, and welcome to Reproductive Politics and the Making of Modern … spectrum insisted that to regulate reproduction was necessary. And that limiting the population was essential to …
President John F. Kennedy delivers an address on the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962.

Historical Analogies: Handle With Care

… Historical analogies, comparing something in the present with what appears to be … the Soviet Union was installing medium-range nuclear missiles in Cuba, putting most areas of the eastern United States … W. Bush, we should keep in mind that it will probably be necessary for the chief executive to make one or more …
An artist's rendering of the Tunguska event

The 1908 Tunguska Event and the Threats of Tomorrow

… No disaster scenario more challenges human hopes to overcome nature’s forces than the sudden and unpredicted strike … indigenous group that resides in central Siberia. The site of the Tunguska explosion in the late 1920s. As Akulina … efforts. If science has been linked to fantasy, Siberia connects to the cosmos. The buggy and boggy environment of the …
Demolition of the former Penn Station concourse raised public awareness about preservation.

Choking Off Our Past

… the Lower East Side Tenement Museum in New York City to Acoma Sky City in New Mexico. NTHP activists are gathering in … current efforts aimed at protecting the Apollo 11 landing site and 106 pieces of equipment left at Tranquility Base on … in the United States. It will also serve as an exploring milestone for succeeding generations to measure their own …

Another Silent Spring

… as governments ordered their citizens to stay home, avoid unnecessary travel, and keep away from large-group gatherings. … future when “some evil spell” had settled on our communities, when “mysterious maladies swept the flocks of … begin to concentrate more on the selected few, becoming parasites on domesticated livestock like cows, pigs, and …
The Palins and McCains in Fairfax, Virginia, September 2008.

Why the Sarah Palin Gamble Didn’t Pay Off

… John McCain probably lost whatever chance he had to become president on August 28, the day he invited Sarah Palin … his running mate. In making that decision, McCain ignored a lesson of recent vice-presidential selection: presidential … could visualize occupying the Oval Office if that became necessary.   Surely Walter Mondale, George H.W. Bush, Al …
Vladimir Putin seated and surrounded by military officers

World War II Memory in Putin's Russia

… Vladimir Putin has gone to extraordinary lengths to commemorate the Second World War. Even though the war ended … During the Soviet era, the Communist Party was always credited with a victory. That's no longer the case. But the … who was the founder of studies of collective memory, posited that all memory is essentially social. In contrast to …
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 … out fairly regularly that any kind of public assistance is necessarily going to create dependence and it's going to … Breyfogle. Our executive producer is David Staley. Our website manager and technical advisor is Mitchell Shelton. Our …

The American Dream after COVID-19

… already been showing up in recent history. Millennials have come of age hearing they are the first generation in … and enslaved African Americans lived with the cruelest opposite of the American Dream. Their abilities brought sneers … sometimes soar to enormous heights, even without any connection to hard work. One celebrity quoted by James Fallows …

Savage Gladiators vs. Civilized Amateurs: Rome and Athens in American Sports Culture

… by the Broncos. In frustration, Bengal offensive back Charles Lee “Boobie” Clark struck Bronco Dale Hackbart in the back of the head, causing a severe neck fracture from the blow. In the ensuing legal case, … In fact, as surprising as it may be to sports watchers and commentators, how Americans talk about sports today is a …

Where have you gone, Holden Caulfield? Why We Aren’t ‘Alienated’ Anymore

… Over the last year, we have come to know a good deal about Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab. … Graduate had it. Today's college students face the very opposite: uncertain prospects in a capricious world. Many, I … of consumption with the first cell phone and the first credit card; pushes them into colleges that no longer …