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Marchers for the Equal Rights Amount, holding banner that reads "Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex"

The Equal Rights Amendment: Then and Now

… ERA has garnered both passionate supporters and ardent opponents. ( Image Source ) … larger story of women's history in the United States. Via phone from Miami University, we have Dr. Kimberly Hamlin, an … professor of History and director of the American Studies program, specializing on gender, women, and science.   …

What's All Happening at the Zoo?

… supposedly prohibited the sale of Marius despite offers, one of which exceeded half a million dollars. Yet keeping … even have gorilla enclosures in the first place? It should come as no surprise that zoos make headlines. According to a … did the number of animals behind bars. When the ancient, medieval, and early-modern upper classes fell in love with …

Baptized in the Jordan: Restoring a Holy River

… a tall figure with shoulder-length hair and a beard, intoned a hymn and the pilgrims joined in, bowing their heads … five meters away on the opposite shore, two Jordanian soldiers looked on from the shelter of a reed-covered platform … Francesca de Châtel, 2013. According to the Yardenit website , this is one of the only places along the Jordan …
Photo from 1890 of the first OSU football team

Taylor Branch on the Crisis of College Sports

… Collegiate Athletic Association, or NCAA. In addition to completing the monumental  King Era Trilogy , Branch has … Welcome to History Talk , the history podcast for everyone produced by Origins . I'm your host, Patrick Potyondy. … Leticia Wiggins. You can find our podcasts and more at our website, origins.osu.edu, on iTunes, and on SoundCloud. And …
Stenciled graffiti of a priest pursuing two children

Secrecy and Celibacy: The Catholic Church and Sexual Abuse

… orders. But while clerical abuse has only recently become a news item, it has a much longer history. This month, … at Miami University. Professor de Boer is a specialist in medieval and early modern Europe and is the author of this … of them were settled out of court for substantial sums of money in order to keep them quiet. The court records of those …
President Biden, standing in front of a blue flag with an eagle emblem

First 100 Days of the Biden Administration: Insights from History

… Department of History hold a conversation about the first one hundred days of the Biden administration. Host: Margaret … Professor, Department of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies Peter Mansoor, Professor and General Raymond E. Mason … at the 100-day mark? What things still need to be done? What can we learn from history to help us make sense of …

'The Energy of a Bright Tomorrow': The Rise of Nuclear Power in Japan

… 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 … destructive capability. After first scaring his audience, he pivoted and offered a solution: the development …
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 … not perfect but it had the hallmarks of a scientific law, one that would hold true through new discoveries and against all challenges. One of the unique aspects of Mendeleev’s table was the gaps …
book cover of Empire of Cotton - A Global History

Top Ten Origins: Summer 2018 Must Reads

… The joy of reading comes in all seasons, but many people specifically like to … I can help you. Analyzing and teaching books are large components of my job, and, honestly, I like putting together … picked books that are relatively accessible to a general audience, and they’re texts which I thought would engage …
pile of syringes

The Global War on Drugs

… Dr. Nicholas Breyfogle   Hello, and welcome to The Global War on Drugs brought to you by the … that cannabis is a weed. In reality, it's the opposite. Its one species name, Cannabis sativa, literally means "fiber … drawn from dozens of anthropological and archaeological studies, indigenous groups ingested datura medicinally and …
Tank in Syria

The Syrian Civil War: Alawites, Women's Rights, and the Arab Spring

… hope you enjoy what you find. I'm Leticia Wiggins, one of your co-hosts and welcome to this week's History … Fate of Syria," which can be found on the origins osu.edu website. Thanks for joining us, Ayse. Ayse … involvement." What do we mean by that? If we mean, soldiers on foot, Patrick Scharfe  Ground forces. Ayse …

A Pact with the Devil? The United States and the Fate of Modern Haiti

One year ago, on January 12, 2010, a devastating earthquake … dying lay beneath the rubble and remains of their homes and communities, American televangelist Pat Robertson stated … Boukman's revolt quickly blossomed into the largest, bloodiest slave uprising in history. By the end of September, …
Tiger

Caged: Humans and Animals at the Zoo

… of zoos, humans and other animals.   Brenna Miller   Via phone we have Dr. Daniel Vandersomers, a postdoctoral fellow … and cultural history, micro history, film, agrarian studies, violence and animal studies.   Dr. Tracy McDonald   … Blisset. Song and band information can be found on our website. You can find our podcast and more on our website

Fear and Loathing Around the World: The Rise of the New Populism

… 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 … message needed to be more welcoming to younger, non-white audiences, particularly on issues of immigration and social …
Dreamcatchers shown against the sky

Re-storying the Experiences of Indigenous College Students

… Dr. Lucy Murphy  Hello, welcome to "Re-storying the Experiences of Indigenous College … Indigenous Arts and Humanities Grant and American Indian Studies at The Ohio State University. My name is Lucy Murphy. … "Listen with three ears, two on the sides of my head, and one in my heart, to bring the heart and mind together." We …
Ludwig van Beethoven in front of sheet music from his first symphony.

Beethoven’s First Symphony

… Burgtheater Theater. It was the dawn of a new century, one in which advances in science, industrialization, … the aristocracy-based patronage system, which had sustained composers for generations.  Now, middle-class audiences flocked to public concert halls to applaud the …
Women at the Women's March in DC with signs: "Can't Believe We STILL Have to Protest", "Keep your Hands and Laws Off my Body", "RAPE CULTURE" with a line through it

The Long History of #MeToo

… new allegations against powerful men emerge as more women come forward. But, while many are heralding the rise of the … harassment in the US and the movements to fight it. Via phone we have historian Dr. Kimberly Hamlin from Miami … Ohio State University's Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Department, where she specializes in African American …
The so-called "Elgin Marbles," on display in the British Museum

Classics and the Alt-Right Conundrum

… the alt rights appropriation of classical history. On the phone, we have Denise McCoskey, a professor of classics and affiliate of black world studies at Miami University in Ohio. She's the author of "Race: … and let me just give props to Curtis. He's in charge of a website. Now, that's been tracking a really wide range of …

Cops and Robbers? The Roots of Anti-Doping Policies in Olympic Sport

… 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 … about what effects the substances might have on athletes’ bodies. Certainly there were those who disagreed, and at times …

The Roots of Venezuela's Failing State

… to an oil bonanza, the government was able to spend more money (in absolute terms) from 1974 to 1979 than in its … in the last year on what people are calling “ the Maduro Diet ,” a scathing reference to current president Nicolás … in 2016. Diphtheria, once thought eradicated, has made a comeback . By some estimates, 2.5 million people have left …