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… 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 … to make Alliance diplomacy a lot more awkward in the near future. Especially, you know, the Germans are a major player …

… Revolution , the only son of a mother whose husband had died in a hunting accident while she was pregnant, … Soviet counter-intelligence agency, for writing derogatory comments about Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin in a private … in the aftermath of the war, when trainloads of Soviet soldiers were sent directly from Western Europe into the camp …

… 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 … entire  website  specifically devoted to documenting and refuting the appropriation of classical antiquity by hate …

… orders. But while clerical abuse has only recently become a news item, it has a much longer history. This month, … to this problem, and how might the scandal shape its future? In this episode, we’ll seek to answer these … to this problem? And how might the scandal shape its future?    Eric Michael Rhodes   In this episode we'll seek …

… about a block north of New Orleans’s famed French Quarter. Completely walled in, the cemetery is unwelcoming. The Roman … pyramid purchased by actor Nicolas Cage for his future burial. St. Louis No. 1 Cemetery, New Orleans. … that grow so hot in the subtropical climate that the bodies of the dead within are rendered to little more than …

… from Akin's, and President Barack Obama reiterated his commitment to not make "health care decisions on behalf of … the accused woman's testimony to know whether the child had died in utero or had been born full-term and alive. When … between 1870 and 1914, while its neighbor (and recent and future enemy) Germany's had barely changed at all. The idea …

… William Colby has become a more or less forgotten figure in the turbulent … Vietnam. The South Vietnamese regime headed by Ngo Dinh Diem was problematic from the American perspective. Because … policies of the Ngo government. They urged Diem to adopt some sort of popular program to counter that …

… in Iran (1953), Jacobo Arbenz in Guatemala (1954), Ngo Dinh Diem in Vietnam (1963) and Salvador Allende in Chile (1973). … support for opponents of the local regime. The overthrow of Diem began our descent into the hellish quagmire of the … property, the rule of law, a willingness to make political compromises and to accept the outcome of free elections. In …

… relations between the United States and Iran have been complicated and edgy as long as anyone can remember. … world" that Iran would prevent such atrocities in the future. Although the Shah of Iran was insulted by Uncle … satisfy the Royal Navy's rapidly expanding appetite for diesel fuel by pumping oil from the world's largest refinery …

… director of the Institute for Cuban and Cuban-American Studies. I've written a little bit on Cuba. My most important … of takeaway question, what does the past tell about the future in this case? That is, can we use past relations, … Leticia Wiggins. You can find our podcasts and more at our website, origins.osu.edu , on iTunes and on SoundCloud, and …

… on the Bosporus—a strait crowded not only with urban commuters and pleasure craft, but Russian oil tankers … history—Turkey's founding as a nation-state in 1923—and its future centennial celebrations in the next decade. Said … the others. At the heart of this "Eastern Question" was the future of the Ottoman Empire and the question of the …

… and anger are settling into a cold rage against whoever committed the atrocity and those who may be sheltering the … lesson to those who might contemplate such acts in the future. Recent history suggests, however, that even massive … weapons. At what point should we retaliate? When a million die in Boston or Seattle from a nuclear blast? The same …

… came into Mediterranean ports by ship. But, it is also becoming clear that small pools of plague had been established … rural and urban: the daughter of King Edward III of England died of the plague in the summer of 1348. But quickly—at … survived the plague, her children tended to survive; if she died, they died with her. In the late 1340s, news of the …

… Speaker's Note: Matt Goldish would like to add a more complete response to one of the questions asked him after … Jewish-Christian intellectual relations and Sephardic studies. Matt has a B.A. from the University of California Los … afflicted girls. So, we don't know much about them in the future but it's interesting that whoever asked that …

… cautious, thoughtful Obama was just plain weak, or worse: incompetent. Well, health care legislation has passed, the … four or eight years but rather several decades into the future.   Obama seems to be grasping this fact in ways that … admire? He speaks often of Lincoln, the Roosevelts, Reagan. Future historians of today’s zeitgeist will note that the …

… August 22, 1485, King Richard III of England (r. 1483-1485) died fighting in the Battle of Bosworth Field. The victor, … the titular role, albeit placing the king 500 years in the future and acting as a fascist dictator.  This fascination, … son of York and was also Edward’s brother.  But when Edward died in April of 1483, he left two young sons (both under …

… August 19, 14 CE, the most influential man in Roman history died. Augustus began his career by fomenting a civil war, … forming a military junta, then violently eliminating any competition before fighting the other members of the junta. … of what common Romans might have thought, surely, the soldiers who died with gashes in their thighs or fractured …

… revolution, such a proposition was not far-fetched. It was common sense that government should rest on the consent of … about the newcomers, the nature of citizenship, and the future of democracy in America. Non-citizens work in every … the laws that govern citizens, serve in the military and die defending the United States. Their numbers are …

… the Supreme Court and amidst growing public criticism. To compound the confusion, Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu, sitting … the significance of Israeli-Palestinian relations to the future of the region, the issue was almost absent from … American president. But Netanyahu’s political and personal future came under doubt in late 2016 when the Israeli police …

… wise to heed Marshall's warning and rally the international community to increase food aid to the Afghan government. … the insurgency. There is also the challenge of heading off future humanitarian emergencies by establishing food … to building a food reserve within India to cope with future emergencies. The Indian minister of agriculture …

… superpower status. Its narrowing, unstable economy has become dependent on the export of a single commodity: energy. … around 12 km from the accident site. In this animation, diesel oil is visible in the Ambarnaya River on both May 31 … identifiable in crimson red. Just recently, 20,000 tons of diesel fuel leaked from the Norilsk thermal power plant into …

… to everyday and intimate forms of violence. Their foot soldiers have asserted the right to assault men and women whom … program of political action that would lead to a more just future than what was on offer in Moscow or Washington. The … apparatus was a crucial step. They published a website in the late 1990s but soon abandoned it, preferring …