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The World Trade Center towers on September 11, 2001

The War on Terror

… questions facing American society and the international community in these uncertain times. ( Image Source ) … Patrick Potyondy  Welcome to History Talk the podcast that brings together a … is John Mueller, Woody Hayes, chair of national security studies at the Mershon Center for International Security …
Engraving of Roman plague doctor, Schnabel c.1656.

Quarantino: Plague and the Origins of Social Distancing

… strength and quantity, and are well mixed.” Humoral theory, combined with ignorance of germs, created a situation ripe … get to be sure), or theriac, a syrup made of various ingredients including opium that were aged for up to a decade … unknown or because physicians had not previously studied them, there seemed to be no cure. There was such a fear …
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 … Breyfogle. Our executive producer is David Staley, our website manager and technical advisor is Mitchell Shelton. …
President George W. Bush with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and National Security Advisor Stephen Hadley in 2006.

Is Iraq Vietnam?

… South Vietnam’s governments also had serious problems. The Diem regime (1954-63) wanted to defeat or at least contain the Viet Cong but could not rally non-Communist South Vietnamese behind it, prompting the United … to happen. (Similarly, some Americans in 1963 thought that Diem could continue in office if he fired his brother Nhu – …
Mosaics from the apse in the Basilica of San Vitale, Ravenna. Justinian is the figure in the center. The mosaics were completed in 547 CE.

The Justinianic Plague

… reportedly a casualty of the disease, although he did not die from it. Mosaics from the apse in the Basilica of San … Justinian is the figure in the center. The mosaics were completed in 547 CE. Because there have been multiple … that Justinian’s government had to direct the removal of bodies from the city and their mass burial outside the walls. …

The Long Legacy of World War I

… democracies, and political experiments such as Bolshevik communism. Much of Europe lay in tatters and virtually an … world. The Lost Generation: Keeping Watch over Absent Bodies by Bruno Cabanes The First World War was a crucial … its conscripts, Romania 26%, and Bulgaria 23%. Italian soldiers killed in a trench in Slovenia during World War I ( …
In an address to a joint-session of the US Congress on September 20, 2001, US President George W. Bush demanded that the Taliban deliver Osama bin Laden and destroy bases of al-Qaeda.

Bush Should Consider the Fate of Wartime Presidents

… nation must choose between alternative ways of life, “communist or free,” Truman declared. Truman shook off fears … not permanent safety. As dreams of destroying communism died, Truman’s approval ratings steadily declined. When the … Vietnam? Guerrilla war erases the line between enemy soldiers and civilians. The world is already uneasy about a war …
A memorial to Holocaust victims in front of a Jewish cemetery.

A Postcard from Berlin: Confronting a Troubled Past

… dot the landscape and stand beside opera houses and statues commemorating prominent figures of German cultural heritage. … and live. One of the better examples is the “Denkmal für die ermordeten Juden Europas” or the Memorial to the … the Berlin Wall itself. The city honors ordinary people who died trying to cross the border as well as those who …
15th century painting of Christine de Pisan, QUeen Isabeau, and 7 other women

Medieval Women's Rights: Setting the Stage for Today

… The medieval church gave birth to the misogynistic rhetoric that … the first real “feminist” rumblings of discontent. Medieval women were not content to be victims of oppression: … Dr. Nicholas Breyfogle  Welcome to "Medieval Women's Rights: Setting the Stage for Today" brought …
The Lorraine Motel

Putting Race on Display: The National Civil Rights Museum

… Leticia Wiggins   This is your host Leticia Wiggins and welcome to History Talk , the history podcast for everyone … and so you get a better sense for the, it becomes an immersive experience, in a way and they achieve that.   … Wiggins. Song and band information can be found on our website. You can find our podcasts and more at our website
View of Tbilisi as seen from Narikala, the city's medieval citadel.

A Postcard from Georgia and Azerbaijan

… cultures, and belief systems. In the Late Antique and medieval eras, Christianity, Zoroastrianism, Islam, and … was crucified. Elias bought Jesus’ robe from a Roman soldier at Golgotha and brought it back to Mtskheta. As he … only after St. Nino spent an entire night praying for it to come back. From its bark, once it was grounded, flowed holy …
Floor proceedings of the U.S. Senate, in session during the impeachment trial of Bill Clinton

Uneasy Lies the Head that Sleeps in the White House

… Before 1600 (the period most of the English precedents come from), of course, one has to be careful when using … is a distinct possibility that William II was assassinated) died violent deaths at the hands of their subjects. Some, … quietly murdered. Others, like Richard I and Richard III, died fighting the rebels. Another two, King Stephen in 1141 …
Sylvester I and Constantine in a 1247 fresco.

Top Ten Origins: Popes Before 1500

… The early version was small (around 30 clerics) and comprised only of “cardinal priests” who served parishes … historical evidence, and most scholars think that Peter died somewhere far from Rome, probably never having even … who promptly healed the sick emperor though a full immersion baptism at the Lateran. Constantine was so …
A painting of the Rubicon scene from the mid-nineteenth century: Gustave Boulanger, Jules-César arrivé au Rubicon.

Julius Caesar Crosses the Rubicon

… Gaul, or today’s Emilia Romagna—the statesman and accomplished general Julius Caesar crossed the little Rubicon … However, when their third ally, Marcus Crassus, died shortly after the death of Julia, Caesar’s daughter and … Caesar crossed the river, uttering his famous phrase, “the die is cast,” which Appian wrote that he spoke “like a man …
Rodin's "The Thinker"

Reaching Beyond the Ivory Tower

… Patrick Potyondy   Welcome to History Talk , the history podcast for everyone, … with the public from teaching, to writing for a popular audience. We'll even question the value of public intellectual … and many more, as the Times calls them hits on its website.   Patrick Potyondy   And so just to wrap up, do you …
Portrait of Louis XVI, King of France and Navarre, c. 1779

The Execution of Louis XVI

… through the city of Paris from the Temple, the fortified medieval monastery where he was imprisoned, to the Place de la … and Navarre, c. 1779. He traveled in the mayor's coach accompanied by his confessor, Henry Essex Edgeworth de … his hair. Louis addressed the crowd in a clear voice, “I die innocent. I pardon my enemies and I hope that my blood …
A French Quarter Pontalba Row building.

A Postcard from New Orleans, Louisiana

… about a block north of New Orleans’s famed French Quarter. Completely walled in, the cemetery is unwelcoming. The Roman … that grow so hot in the subtropical climate that the bodies of the dead within are rendered to little more than … memorial in honor of the thousands of enslaved children who died before reaching the age of three (right). The tour …
Washington Receiving a Salute on the Field of Trenton by John Faed, featuring Blueskin.

Does Experience Really Help?

… is likely to run again. So relevant "experience" is hard to come by.This presidential season, everybody is talking about … then abandoning, the Hungarian revolution against communism in 1956, failing to stop Joe McCarthy's … on. William Henry Harrison, hero in the Indian wars, also died early in his presidency. Ulysses Grant presided over …
NCAA Basketball championship banners.

The Big Business of “Amateur” Intercollegiate Sports

… but the game itself made no money. Men’s college basketball commenced with a similarly obscure contest.  In 1895 at … NCAA was founded. When at least 18 college football players died and as many as 168 were seriously injured during the … workers, permeates the NCAA system. In 1955 Ray H. Dennison died after sustaining a head blow while playing football for …
Two women in black hijab in Yemen

Yemen: Inside The Forgotten War

… Eric Michael Rhodes: Welcome to History Talk , the podcast that brings together … casualties, though many think up to six times more have died. Blockades mean millions face starvation. And the … Rhodes. Song and band information can be found on our website. You can find our podcasts and more on our website, …
Omagh, Northern Ireland in 2001.

Taking the Guns Out of Irish Politics

… The decommissioning of weapons in Northern Ireland ought to be a … from an IRA arms dump by dissidents. Twenty-nine people died and more than three hundred were injured in this … If it does not, then people who are not yet born may die as a historic conflict enters its ninth century. Sean …
An electron microscopic image of a thin section of SARS-CoV within the cytoplasm of an infected cell, showing the spherical particles and cross-sections through the viral nucleocapsid.

Could SARS Set off Another Great Pandemic?

… threat to public health: the specter of a pandemic, and the complacent American response. The so-called "Spanish" flu … million people around the world, more than the number who died in World War I battles. In the United States it killed … Why should we have forgotten the modern equivalent of the medieval Black Death? Perhaps because it killed mostly the …