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… already been showing up in recent history. Millennials have come of age hearing they are the first generation in … hard work rarely won them rewards. The American Dream has sometimes been supported by withholding opportunities from … are not even permanent, he adds, because of humanity’s “extraordinary degree of plasticity.” Most of the side …

… 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 …   I'm calling today from Belgrade, Serbia, where I'm doing some research for my dissertation. But last week I took the …

… 13.77 billion years ago, our entire observable universe was compressed into the size of a peach and had a temperature of … independent lines of evidence. Out of this basic framework comes a grand history of our universe … and plenty of mysteries yet to be solved. Let’s explore some of the best moments in the history of the universe …

… the countries formerly designated as the “ East European communist bloc ” displayed a remarkable solidarity in … acquired territories and populations after World War I , some because of the dissolution of the Russian Empire and … either cast as helping in traditional gendered terms, or as extraordinary.  Feminine heroism in battle is still not …

… Union. Nearly three years, later, however, the final outcome of Brexit remains uncertain. And issues that affect the … changed? What were the political and economic forces that compelled the UK to join the EU in the first place? What … Dream? , Treating the Symptoms: Northern Ireland’s Incomplete Peace , and The EU: Past, Present, and Future . ( …

… of U.S. entry into World War I. But, as the world commemorates the centennial of the war, U.S. events have … us to learn why World War I is remembered so differently in combatant countries, what the war's most important … Jessica Vinas-Nelson   Welcome to History Talk the podcast that brings together a …

… drugs, we find that stories of drug wars are actually quite commonplace. Ultimately, these drug wars, waged across … conquest of India where most of this opium was grown. So sometimes it's called the “triangular trade,” because … nation would be generated by these substances, therefore, extraordinary measures had to be taken. Brionna Mendoza …

… that the man’s predictions for the future of Egypt may be coming true. Since the coup that ousted Morsi, the Egyptian … centers, schools, periodicals, political organizations, and extra-legal, at times aggressive, tactics. Following the … Egyptian military and police agents have also arrested and sometimes tortured suspected Brotherhood sympathizers, …

… celebrate the bicentennial of the battle, which took place some ten miles south of Brussels. However, these plans were … Belgium's plans to make a special-edition euro coin commemorating the Battle of Waterloo. Belgium still … that allows individual nations to unilaterally produce coins of irregular denominations. 70,000 2½ euro coins were …

… Sandino was still at large, but the national guard had come under the control of Anastasio Somoza. Somoza then used this armed force to eliminate … United States got what it wanted in the short run – an anti-communist regime – but the oppressiveness of the Somoza clan …

… of future discussions of gun control for decades to come. It might even have an impact on the dynamics of the … legal scholars, politicians, and historians endorsed some version of the collective rights interpretation. As … of the Second Amendment in the years since Burger made his comment has been nothing short of astonishing. This view was …

… on Drugs, it isn’t colonial China or Japan or Mexico that comes to mind…it's the United States. And for good reason. … explain why and how they came to have that drug. That's an extraordinary moment. That really changes and puts on its … to pin him to any evidence that he's involved in heroin trafficking. And what they managed to uncover over the course of …

… Dr. Nicholas Breyfogle   Welcome to Leaving Zion: Jewish Emigration from Palestine and … us today. The material that I'll be presenting to you comes from a book that I recently published about Jewish … them in conflict with the national project. So these are some general observations about emigration, how they're …

… 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 … post-war America, big corporations, and neoliberalism, and sometimes folding it into the theory of the world going …

… This presentation commemorates the 40th anniversary of the Bhopal Gas Disaster … Nicholas Breyfogle: Hello and welcome to Remembering Bhopal: The World's Worst Industrial … but you know, as a fellow traveler, as an activist, as somebody who is still very much connected with the struggles …

… Pick up a paper these days and you almost invariably see some mention of Detroit's great crisis. But the stories … the phalanx of government programs that made our world comfortable: the labor laws that gave our fathers the … Race We knew about race, of course. Though we lived in a completely white neighborhood, there was no way to avoid …

… Dr. Nicholas Breyfogle   Hello, and welcome to Cultural Diplomacy and the Global Cold War, brought … at The Ohio State University. A native of Bulgaria, she completed her PhD at the University of Illinois at Urbana … transmission of ideas and values. And I have listed here some of these key ideas and values that each side, namely …

… 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 … until 1982, when the bill stalled at 35, after which point, some of the states, five, I believe, rescinded their …

… "overpopulated" place. Since the early nineteenth century, some observers—Indians and others—have remarked that India's … the early nineteenth century, when the British East India Company controlled an increasing swath of territory across the subcontinent, Company officials pronounced that large and expanding …

… Patrick Potyondy   Welcome to History Talk produced by Origins, Current Events in … policymakers also seem unable to understand the region's complexities or developed sound sustainable strategies for a … and we also read the languages, living and dead. We know something about a pretty good cross section of the society …

… is nothing unusual about forms of marriage that involve something other than one man and one woman. In a majority of … in the first five books of the Old Testament.  It was common throughout ancient India, the Middle East, Africa, … wished to establish the trading ties that went with becoming in-laws but didn't have two sets of marriageable …

… in several Chinese industrial cities made headlines some weeks ago. These events are worth thinking about now as … a way to use history when trying to make sense of China’s complicated present. Another kind of continuity between 1989 … for a time when China was more isolated. Some even complained about their nation’s entrance into the World …

… wake of a mass shooting such as the one in Parkland, FL, commentators, pundits, and politicians all gather around to … of mental illness on life quality of life and health outcomes are significant. Individuals with severe mental … perpetrators. Only 3-5% of violent crimes can be tied in some way to a person's mental illness, and people with …