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… that, worldwide, the number of hungry people had reached one billion. Today, more people are hungry than at any point … countries experienced food riots. "Hunger seasons" have become the norm in many parts of the global south, and women … up seventy percent of the world's hungry, and they own only one percent of the world's land. They might prepare most of …

… Jessica Blissit   Welcome to History Talk the podcast that brings together a … of zoos, humans and other animals.   Brenna Miller   Via phone we have Dr. Daniel Vandersomers, a postdoctoral fellow …   Hi everybody.   Jessica Blissit   And also via phone we have Dr. Tracy McDonald an Associate Professor of …

… during the 19th century many explorers became celebrities. One in particular, Dr. David Livingstone, became synonymous with the intrepid individual braving … The writer Walter Benjamin once suggested that "History decomposes into images, not narratives" and Clare Pettitt …

… Hello, everyone and welcome from the College of Arts and Sciences. Thank you so … precipitation patterns and more, climate change represents one of the greatest most existential threats to humanity as …

… Agency (WADA) Dick Pound presented “The Independent Commission Report #1” to the press corps. The 323-page … investigations, the report followed arrests in France only one week earlier. By most accounts, the Independent … will acknowledge, “game changing” scandals have come and gone, yet the common practice of using performance enhancing …

… by their fleeing owners. Although the town was mostly abandoned, the nation and the world saw the blast on television. … by the specter of our nuclear past. And given Japan's complicated past with nuclear issues, it is especially … to pursue nuclear power. Choosing a nuclear policy was one thing, persuading an initially reluctant public was …

…   Leticia Wiggins  Welcome to History Talk , the history podcast for everyone from Origins at Ohio State. I'm your host, Leticia … relatively small nation of eleven million people is only one hundred miles away from Florida and yet has played a …

… talk by some American politicians about Mexican immigrants coming to the United States, people around the world are … Doré's English Bible. The Biblical Wall of Jericho is one of the earliest examples of a defensive wall constructed … 7825 BCE. The most famous Wall of Jericho, however, is the one mentioned in the Biblical account of the wall that the …

… accurately be known as the Phosphate State. The so-called Bone Valley of central Florida contains some of the largest … deposits in the world, which supply global agriculture with one of its most important commodities: synthetic fertilizer. In the process, the …

… April 24, 2015 marks the commemoration of the 100 th anniversary of the Armenian … The result was the physical annihilation of the Armenian communities that had lived in the Anatolian peninsula for … of the legal and historical label “genocide,” and why coming to terms with mass atrocities is so difficult today. …

… congregated on the campus of the University of Virginia. One of the protest’s organizers ordered them to march in … and chanted white nationalist slogans. A video captured by one of the participants in the tiki torch march the night … the violence had already begun. But the worst was yet to come. Saturday’s rally was scheduled to start at noon, but …

… Nicholas Breyfogle: Welcome to Diet for a Large Planet by The Ohio State … diets are launching us to crisis is becoming commonplace. One author stated, the world cannot eat as the US or UK … food resource. This is using the more peripheral Celtic zones of the UK for agrarian zones to the use of …

… US woman suffrage movement is usually told as a national one. It begins with the 1848 Seneca Falls convention ; … world collaborated across national borders. They wrote to one another; shared strategies and encouragement; and … Ida B. Wells-Barnett with her four children in 1909. The complex international connections and strategies that …

… of political figures and movements labeled “populist” at one time or another in American history, the term functions … the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, delivering sharp comic material about his recently released long-form birth certificate and roasting,  to his face,  one of the nation’s leading “birther” conspiracy theorists,  …

… Patrick Potyondy   Welcome to History Talk , the history podcast for everyone, produced by Origins : Current Events in Historical … So stay tuned. Patrick spoke to our first guest via phone about academics and the label of the public …

… Microsoft is one of the preeminent firms of the Information Age. But its … industrial power in the Railroad Age. Like so many complex cases decided under that statute, this one will take years for a final resolution. The substance of …

… credit, but he was not a scapegoat. A scapegoat is someone who has been assigned blame for another’s actions. Calley committed murder at My Lai and ordered his men to do the … into a confined area near a culvert. There they sat — prisoners, effectively — awaiting their fate. Some of his men …

… Bakken oil-shale region in western North Dakota to a tank complex in Illinois. Its route crosses the Missouri River … adjacent to and upstream of the Standing Rock Reservation, one of several belonging to the Dakota and Lakota Sioux. A … have lived since April 2016. The Sioux do not stand alone in their opposition to the DAPL. The project has also …

… Since the beginning of 2015, more than one million people have arrived to Greece as refugees , … the country. Total refugees housed in Greece on March 29th, one day after the author's arrival. ( United Nation High Commissioner for Refugees ) We came to Greece with only a …

… story, but it’s a myth. To be sure, it’s a powerful one — one that will be repeated many times this November. The fact … are uncertain. The only documentary evidence of the event comes from the journal of Plymouth Colony’s governor, Edward … Indigenous Communities …

… on the Bosporus—a strait crowded not only with urban commuters and pleasure craft, but Russian oil tankers … told the jubilant crowd. "Today we roll up our sleeves on one of the biggest projects of the century, with which the … remains only remotely possible or, at best, years away. Nonetheless, the party's electoral slogan was boundlessly …

… open during the day, the gates shut tight after curfew; no one could leave or enter the city until the following day. … though, the walls also represented a symbolic barrier, one that clearly designated the city as unique from its … had written two short articles on urban life. Frugoni combined the two articles, included her own notes, and has …

… because at the time I was living in Toronto, which was then one of several cities internationally caught in the grip of … type of virus, such frightening symptoms brought to mind one of the greatest public health nightmares of the … prevent, the next pandemic. The viruses that affect humans come in many types, and their impact on human communities …