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The Shifting Terrain of Latin American Drug Trafficking

… In June 2011, the non-governmental organization Global Commission on Drug Policy published a report detailing the … cartel and effectively ended the cocaine wars that bloodied the streets of Miami. In addition, each trafficker … surge in ephedrine exports to Mexico, a critical ingredient in the production of methamphetamines.) Other events …
Russian chemist and educator Dmitrii Mendeleev

Mendeleev's Periodic Table

… chemists had worked to find an organizing principle that encompassed all of the known elements and that could be … characteristics—they were largely inert and resistant to combining with other substances—but the entire set fit … students. The majority of these tables look fantastical in comparison with the castle-like table that is found in …
Wall street and Broadway, New York City

A New Deal Prescription for Gordon Gekko

… power broker, used insider knowledge to organize corporate buyouts that produced millions for himself while leaving … resonated strongly in the 1980s, because they reminded audiences of the behavior of Ivan Boesky and other … investments broadly through risky buyouts of disparate companies. Often they stuffed their pockets with cash while …
An official portrait of Vice President Dick Cheney taken in 2005

Cheney: Silent Partner to the President

… conceived.” Under Cheney, the vice presidency has become an extension of the presidency itself. Adams was not … Bush has great respect for Cheney’s ability to accomplish common goals without drawing attention to himself. The …
a man standing on a large bomb

Fifty Years Later, We Still Need to Learn to Love the Bomb

… Film Institute ranks the film as the third best American comedy ever made and the 39th best film overall. It would be … can’t fight in here! This is the War Room!” But few comedies have endured like Dr. Strangelove, and Strangelove has … War was a farce. And so, rather than preaching to its audience about the possibilities of apocalypse, Dr. …
Photograph of wounded American soldiers during the Korean War.

12/23/2014: Remembering the Korean War

… end, some thirty-six thousand five hundred American troops died fighting the three year war in Korea. Six thousand of … be home by Christmas." [Podcast description from WOSU's website ]  Mitchell Lerner's work with Origins : Making …
President Lyndon B. Johnson visiting American troops in Vietnam in 1966.

The Ambiguities of “Cut and Run”

… that Eisenhower did the responsible thing when he quickly completed the truce negotiations that ended the fighting in … that almost half the 58,000 Americans killed in Vietnam died during Nixon’s presidency. The real mistake during what … Reagan “cut and run” in 1983 after 241 American servicemen died in Beirut in the suicide bombing of the Marine …
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, …
Detail of an 8th-century silk painting depicting Wu Zeitan.

Wu Zetian: The Only Woman Emperor in Chinese History

… the Sui and established the Tang dynasty. He rose to become Minister of Works, giving Wu Zetian an early taste of … request, Yuan Tiangang—the foremost diviner of his day—studied her. Struck by her features, Yuan declared that the … the prince got involved in a taboo liaison. When Taizong died, Wu Zetian, 25, was sent to a convent, while Li Zhi …
Chinese laborers work a sugar plantation in 19th century Hawaii.

A Sweet Beginning: the U.S. Sugar Monopoly

… was entered in Pennsylvania that would alter the American diet. The case was the United States v. E.C. Knight, et.al . … case effectively created the legal context for sugar to become ubiquitous. Look at any U.S. food label today and you will find that one of the top five ingredients listed, in some form or another, is sugar. From …
Tanks and soldiers in parade in Pyongyang

North Korea: The Myth of a Hermit Kingdom

… relations, and director of the Institute for Korean Studies.   Dr. Mitch Lerner   Thanks for having me.   Brenna … overt fear and repression, and in some cases, sort of buying over the loyalty of the elites in Pyongyang, but … Blissit. Song and band information can be found on our website. You can find our podcast and more on our website at …
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 … something, that you have the choice as to whether or not to buy and that they are periodically erased just because these …
Artist representation of data security and privacy. Large eye peeks through an open window.

These Machines Know Too Damn Much

… narrative says technology is to blame—that after mainframe computers burst onto the scene in the middle of the … fragmented sloppily across digital tape, could never die; that the notion of an inescapable past was somehow … they don’t, change is much more likely. We can, in effect, buy our way to a more private society. We’re not there yet, …
 Cover of The Gold Standard at the Turn of the Twentieth Century Rising Powers, Global Money, and the Age of Empire by Steven Bryan.

All that Glitters Is Not Laissez-Faire

Review of The Gold Standard at the Turn of the Twentieth Century: Rising Powers, Global Money, and the Age of Empire, by Steven Bryan (New York: Columbia University Press, 2010)
… Until the outbreak of the First World War in 1914, the combination of new technology with the "classically liberal" … the years before World War I was most remarkable for combining expanding trade, growth, and industrialization … silver become too heavy, and something that embodies more value in less volume is needed.  This need is best …
European Union flag

The EU: Past, Present, and Future

… a century ago. Today, the EU faces an unprecedented combination of challenges, including a lingering economic … diplomacy and European affairs for the International Studies Department here at OSU. Chris Otter   I'm Chris Otter, … Sokolsky. Song and band information can be found on our website. You can find our podcasts and more at our website
a corpse rising from the grave

Revenants, Vampires, and Ghosts, Oh My! European Folklore and the Supernatural

… sometimes glitteringly attractive, creatures come from? While not an exact replica, the myths and legends of revenants, ghosts, and vampires of the late medieval and early modern periods present amazing parallels to … been particularly sinful in nature The revenant likely had died a sudden death without religious last rites, especially …
An image comparing Communism to Naziism

Historical Analogies and the China Debate

… a very different matter. Unfortunately, bad analogies have come to dominate discussions of China in the American press. A disturbing number of commentators have been implying or stating outright that … China would do now that its second Communist “Emperor” had died. As the debate over the so-called “China threat” to …
Statue and Ukrainian Flag

The Russian Invasion of Ukraine

… Director, Center for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, The Ohio State University •    Shawn Conroy, PhD … Student, Center for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, The Ohio State University •    Myroslava Mudrak, … you by the Center for Slavic East European and Eurasian Studies, the College of Arts and Sciences and the Goldberg …
Film poster for Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge (1995).

Top Ten Origins: Bollywood Films

… were Bollywood films. In recent decades, Bollywood has become popular across the world with sizeable audiences in East Asia, North America, Africa, and the Middle … villages. A blockbuster film that was received well by audience and critics, Lagaan was nominated for an Academy …
Photograph of a mock-up of the Little Boy nuclear weapon dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, in August 1945. This was the first photograph of the Little Boy bomb casing to ever be released by the U.S. government (it was declassified in 1960).

Sowing Nuclear Seeds of Division

… inventing new “nukes” and new ways to deliver them. He felt compelled to build almost all of them, lest the Russians get … the program is in place, they will stop carping and start buying. Generals around the world will want those new … have to be paid. Ira Chernus is a professor of religious studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder and a writer …
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 … of intense familiarity with distance.  This is the "compound" that makes the celebrity sacred in modern society: … effects and costume, its revelation of intimacy, of the bodies and spirits of those it pictures, it serves to mimic …