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Nancy Reagan speaking at a "Just Say No" Rally.

The “Modern” War on Drugs (Prologued, Season 2, Episode 1)

… we could, you know, leave the house and not really have to come back until it was time for dinner. We could ride our … she decides to give in and have some fun and does drugs and dies. Brionna Mendoza (laughing) Oh my god. What kind of … the presidency in 1989, he continued the policies he had supervised as Reagan's vice president: a military approach …
Greek troops with a machine gun during the war

The Greco-Turkish War

… Greco-Turkish war erupted. The war resulted in the largest compulsory population exchange in history up to that time (2 … warfare slowed the Greek Army’s progression, and Greek soldiers’ acts of violence against Muslim villagers created … of Sangarios River (or Battle of Sakarya) in 1921. Greek soldiers retreating in 1922. The military operation lasted 24 …
President Bush makes remarks in 2006 during a press conference in the Rose Garden about Iran's nuclear ambitions and discusses North Korea's nuclear test.

After 50 Years, a Great Military Debate Resumes

… whether the United States should send troops to Europe and commit itself to acting in concert with NATO allies.  … Senator Robert A. Taft (R-Ohio) led the forces against this commitment. The Taftites were not isolationists. They wanted … cannot be heard. Ira Chernus is a professor of religious studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder and a writer …
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 … Rhodes. Song and band information can be found on our website. You can find our podcasts and more on our website, …
bowl of pills with a black background

The Past and Future of the Global War on Drugs (Prologued, Season 2, Finale)

… on Prologued...   Alexander Aviña  So it's a really, like, complex, messy matrix, right? So I don't want to say that … 19th and 20th centuries. And there are many other case studies that we simply didn't have the time to examine and … know, prescribed by doctors, and they, you know, were ingredients in products like Coca-Cola. But as immigration picked …
Crowds of people in Kyiv, Ukraine

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

… Leticia Wiggins  Welcome to History Talk , the history podcast for everyone … of the nation that Catherine had begun. Many, many died and many were killed. Then in 1954, Khrushchev … and Leticia Wiggins. Find our podcasts and more at our website, origins.osu.edu . And you can find us on Twitter, …
Crowd photo of protests in Hong Kong

Hong Kong and China: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

… Kong. The demonstrators' demands have also expanded to encompass an investigation into police brutality, the … government, and Beijing? How did Hong Kong’s autonomy come about in the first place, and how might it be at risk? … people how to engage in peaceful nonviolent civil disobedience. So there were a number of steps leading up to this, …
Rodin's "The Thinker"

Reaching Beyond the Ivory Tower

… Patrick Potyondy   Welcome to History Talk , the history podcast for everyone, … with the public from teaching, to writing for a popular audience. We'll even question the value of public intellectual … and many more, as the Times calls them hits on its website.   Patrick Potyondy   And so just to wrap up, do you …
Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife before their assassinations in Sarajevo.

The Enduring Lesson of Sarajevo

… invasion, the Iraqi military could engage in house-to-house combat or terrorist attacks against U.S. troops in Baghdad … warfare. “We’ll be home for Christmas!” shouted the soldiers as they boarded trains for the front. The blinkered …
Image of Shirley Chishorm, Hillary Clinton, Condaleeza Rice, and Kamala Harris

The New Normal (Prologued, Season 1, Episode 8)

… my guests are historians. We look back and study what has come before and  this …this is a decidedly forward looking … only on that, then they went and found that a lot of studies are done only on men, because women, it'd be more of an … Oranjudio. Song and band information can be found on our website, and we encourage our listeners to visit episode …
A Uyghur hunter in Kashgar, 2005.

Xinjiang: From Autonomy to Dystopia

… did China launch this campaign of incarceration and close supervision? The answer lies in a long struggle between the … more recently, of settler colonialism. It is also based on competing visions of history and of who belongs to the land. … the number is closer to 45%. In the 1950s, demobilized soldiers were settled on the land, and during the Cultural …

Justice Denied: The Killing of Trayvon Martin in Historical Perspective

… Tallahassee hours earlier. Waiting for the verdict had become unbearable. On the charge of second-degree murder, the … “How do I explain this to my young boys??” tweeted NBA superstar Dwyane Wade. Others used social media to express … their noses cut off, the flesh cut from their jaws, their bodies scraped and their privates cut out. The blood flowed in …
Cartoon from Puck: The Bosses of the Senate

Buying American Elections?

… national politics as much as many fear? The answer is more complicated than you might think. Check out a lesson plan … Patrick Potyondy  Welcome to History Talk , produced by Origins: Current Events … Wiggins. Song and band information can be found on our website. You can find our podcasts and more at our website, …

A Century of Sanctions

… administration has added more than 1,000 individuals and companies to sanctions lists. The president has gloried in … Japanese occupation currency used in the Dutch East Indies in 1942. In July 1941, after Japan invaded Indonesia, … Interests Section offices in Havana, Cuba. The Cuban soldier calls out to the aggressive Uncle Sam, “Imperialist …
Team photo of a soccer team

The Politics of International Sport

… to defeat Hitler’s squad after being told, “If you win, you die.” Tommie Smith and John Carlos raising gloved hands in … in putting the nation on display on the global stage. And coming up, Brazil : about to host to the 2014 World Cup and … and Leticia Wiggins. Find our podcasts and more at our website, origins.osu.edu , and you can find us on Twitter, …

Learning to Love the Nuclear Pariah: From China to North Korea

… An estimate compiled by the nation’s intelligence services reaches the … Taiwan in 1958 ( left ). A 1958 poster showing Chinese soldiers invading Taiwan ( right ). The Taiwan Strait crises … Soviet friends, “world opinion” would have to follow the superpowers’ lead. He even suggested that, if all else …

The UN, the WHO, and the Future of U.S. Diplomacy

… through an American-friendly model. These multilateral bodies allowed Washington officials to portray self-interested … policies as altruistic during the ideological competition of the Cold War. But these institutions and … with the Soviet Union, the United States had to prove the superiority of its capitalist, democratic system. It needed …
IRA gunmen in Northern Ireland

From the Cold War to the War on Terror

… dates back well into the Cold War. How did terrorism become a focal point of U.S. foreign policy? How did earlier … deeper history tell us about what terrorism is, how our common assumptions about it might be wrong, and how we … these ideas, and there are a lot of historical case studies, such as the IRA, where this has actually happened. We …
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 … wants to harness U.S. security to space technology and the computer revolution. This will lead to another costly trap. … have to be paid. Ira Chernus is a professor of religious studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder and a writer …

An Enemy Until You Need A Friend: The Role of "Big Government" in American History

… merely create a postal system, the most important means of communication at the turn of the 19 th century. It … to raise capital. The first transcontinental railroad was completed in 1869, and it simply wouldn’t have happened … rail against the New Deal it isn’t the mortgage subsidies or the SEC they have in mind, it’s the social welfare …