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Human Rights at a Crossroads

… to question the authority of international governing bodies. His campaign slogan, “Make America Great Again,” is a … arrived at the Paris Peace Conference with his Fourteen Points, a plan that he believed would bring justice to … U.S. soldiers just as they were returning from overseas combat ( left ). The opening session of the League of …
Crowds of people in Kyiv, Ukraine

The Fate of Crimea, the Future of Ukraine, Part I

… United States/European Union that are reminiscent of the darkest of Cold War days. Join hosts Leticia Wiggins and Patrick Potyondy as … of the nation that Catherine had begun. Many, many died and many were killed. Then in 1954, Khrushchev … kind of history for the long-term perspective. One of the points I was thinking about in terms of why this event takes …
Cover of Famine: A Short History by Cormac Ó Gráda.

Famine: A Short History

Review of Famine: A Short History, by Cormac O Grada (Princeton University Press, 2009)
… Ehrlich predicted that hundreds of millions of people would die in a global famine in the 1970s unless the rise in human … visions of Malthus, Ehrlich, and other doomsayers have not come to pass.  Drawing on a rich variety of government … of a wartime reallocation of resources.  Conversely, he points out, the most dramatic famines of the modern era also …

Influenza Pandemics Now, Then, and Again

… prevent, the next pandemic. The viruses that affect humans come in many types, and their impact on human communities … and vaccines, they represent a different public health danger than influenza and SARS. Influenza is one of … get sick each year with some form of flu, some of them will die—but only every so often does a pandemic occur. While it …

From Gaza to Jerusalem: Is the Two State Solution under Siege?

… demands to inspect the cargo they carried, and Israeli navy commandos boarded the vessels before the boats pulled into … and this interpretation finds support in close studies of the diplomacy of the late British Mandate period. To … point of Palestinian national emotion in many turning points of the conflict, from the 1929 uprising to the start …
Buildings along a waterfront in China

China and Africa: Historical Perspectives on a Rising Power

… first forged during an earlier era of Sino-American competition. Yet looking at Chinese engagement in Africa … Title VI grant to The Ohio State University East Asian Studies Center, the Goldberg Center for Teaching Excellence in … you again, for inviting me. So I think because one of the points we're trying to drive home in this talk is that …
Colin Kaepernick and teammates kneeling

The Long View of Sports Protests

… While many lament the entrance of politics into their Sunday football, we speak with three historians and sports … controversial, and the historical issues at the heart of today's conversation. Listen in, as we learn how sports have … Robert Bennett   You have to look at it from different viewpoints, right, because personally, speaking, I've always …

Baptized in the Jordan: Restoring a Holy River

… five meters away on the opposite shore, two Jordanian soldiers looked on from the shelter of a reed-covered platform … mined – military zone that can only be reached at a few points along its course. The only place where Jordanians can … Francesca de Châtel, 2013. According to the Yardenit website , this is one of the only places along the Jordan …

Erasing Indigenous History, Then and Now

… Santorum, April 2021 Former Pennsylvania senator (and CNN commentator) Rick Santorum made those comments at a … Rick Santorum giving a speech at the Young American Foundation event, 2021. Santorum’s comments were rightfully … focused once or perhaps twice a year during our social studies classes. Samoset entering the Plymouth settlement in …

Beware of Greeks Bearing Gifts: How Neo-Nazis and Ancient Greeks Met in Charlottesville

… years now, those of us who study the ancient world have become progressively aware that American Neo-Nazis, white … Evropa to the prominent display of the Parthenon on the website of the Neo-Nazi forum Stormfront, classical texts … dumpster summer of racism ” confined to classics alone as medieval historians , too, found themselves increasingly …
DC Police Car in the snow

A Long View of Policing in America

… workers, this was about maintaining a workforce that was obedient and you know, disciplining them and keeping them in … social issues, like mental health that Professor Howard points to. And he reminds me a case of a Native American man … Wiggins. Song and band information can be found on our website. You can find our podcasts and more at our website
U.S. soldiers walking across a field during the Vietnam War.

A New War Like — Vietnam?

… the first stage of the air war against the Taliban regime completed, the United States now enters a more difficult and dangerous phase of combat. Repeatedly, President Bush has … that supports al-Qaida, the organization headed by Osama bin Laden, the terrorist who plotted the attacks on the …
Rendering of the new National World War I Memorial in Washington DC

It’s Time for a National World War I Memorial

… On Monday Americans will gather to celebrate Memorial Day, a … nearly 117,000 perished during the war — 53, 402 in combat — and another 204,000 were wounded. Many believe that the last man to die in the war was an American soldier, 23-year-old Henry …
cover of The American Historian

Best in History Online: The American Historian

… fantastic history sites from around the web. These are websites that – much like Origins – seek to bring history … For December, our Best in History Online highlights the website for the quarterly journal The American Historian . … and teaching of American history.” [Taken from the TAH website] Be sure to check out and follow both The American …
Ellis Island, New York City.

Hiding Behind Reform

… opponents make a mythological distinction between present-day immigration and the flood of newcomers who came in the past. ProjectUSA’s website is emphatic on this point. Making this distinction …
Voting booths

America's Post-Election Political Landscape

… Hamlin, an associate professor of history and American studies. She specializes on women and gender history in the … I can think of a number of previous, the cultural turning points in which it's clear in the long run, that the … Blissit. Song and band information can be found on our website. You can find our podcast and more on our website at …
Ludwig van Beethoven in front of sheet music from his first symphony.

Beethoven’s First Symphony

… April 2, 1800, at Vienna’s Burgtheater Theater. It was the dawn of a new century, one in which advances in science, … the aristocracy-based patronage system, which had sustained composers for generations.  Now, middle-class audiences flocked to public concert halls to applaud the …
A traditional glass of Weissbier

Keeping Beer “Pure”: The 1516 Reinheitsgebot

… or beer purity law. Originally a somewhat mundane trade regulation law, the Reinheitsgebot is today … barley ( left ) and hops ( right ) are the acceptable ingredients in beer according to the  Reinheitsgebot.   Half a … the price of beer per Maß (a Bavarian liter) and to limit competition for cereal grains used to bake bread. A …
Stenciled graffiti of a priest pursuing two children

Secrecy and Celibacy: The Catholic Church and Sexual Abuse

… Church has been buffeted by a series of sexual abuse scandals. High-profile investigative reports have uncovered … orders. But while clerical abuse has only recently become a news item, it has a much longer history. This month, … such a rife environment for sexual abuse? How do these scandals reflect the history of the Church? How has the Church …
Theatrical poster for the American release of the 1952 film High Noon

War with Iraq: The Movie

… a villain and his henchmen threaten the safety of a western community, whose cowardly citizens cringe in the face of danger. Sheriff Gary Cooper, alone, stands up to fight. When … Lebanon to save it from destructive fighting, American soldiers became the targets of warring parties; 241 Marines …
Title page of the first edition of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus, 1818.

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

… nineteen, published the gothic novel Frankenstein. It has become a classic of English literature. Title page of the … of personal traumas that fueled her feverish story: ten days after her birth her mother died from puerperal fever, at seventeen she eloped with …
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 … the Obelisk decorating the Place de la Concorde stands today). Louis dismounted the carriage and removed his coat and …
Cover of A Short History of Celebrity by Fred Inglis.

A Short History of Celebrity

Review of A Short History of Celebrity, by Fred Inglis (Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2010)
… Celebrity .  Fred Inglis, Emeritus Professor of Cultural Studies at the University of Sheffield, is the author of more … sources and meanings of modern celebrity.       His basic points are two.  The first—also his "most pointed moral"—is … of intense familiarity with distance.  This is the "compound" that makes the celebrity sacred in modern society: …