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Comic from the Brooklyn Daily Eagle Sun.

“A New and Deadly Menace” (Prologued, Season 2, Episode 2)

… drugs, we find that stories of drug wars are actually quite commonplace. Ultimately, these drug wars, waged across … and the Origins of Mexico’s War on Drugs , Dr. Campos studies how Mexico’s anti-drug attitudes, in many ways, predate … them being basically locked in either a prison or a soldiers’ barracks, which was kind of like a prison because …

Killing the Arctic

… or the shrinking of the Aral Sea? These, too, rank as tragedies of the highest order. The Arctic, defined as the lowest … patterns in the south, Arctic meteorology has increasingly come to affect them. The Arctic’s terminal decline, then, … host of animals were used for food—auks and puffins proved easy targets, as did the eggs of dozens of bird species—and …
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 …
a can of Spaghetti-Os

Spaghetti in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction

… every piece was in place for this circular pasta to become a staple of the American diet. By 2010, over 150 million cans of SpaghettiOs were … they stress that food is more than daily calories? It isn’t easy to predict. My bet, however, is that we haven’t seen …

Public Debt, Private Wealth: A History of Central Banks

… in order to separate it from the scandalous collapse of a commercial bank that had strong financial links to the king. … remittance of funds without having to use banknotes or coins. Emergency wartime arrangements were also extended to … and 2013. Indeed, we were still living with the barely studied consequences of the financial crisis of 2008 when the …
In Mauritania, Aissata Abdoul Diop shows how the maize ears have dried in the drought stricken garden, 2012. 

Hunger Is Not Eradicated: The Food Crisis in Africa

… history.”  The phrase “ global polycrisis ” captures the complexity of events driving up world hunger over the past … polycrisis, people in these states suffer and some even die as a result of starvation.  The Long History of Food … 10% of a population of perhaps 10 million people died. In Sudan 2 million people died from starvation and …

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 … bloc and a few South American allies. In less politicized bodies such as the WHO, Western countries dominated senior …

Re-mapping American Politics: The Redistricting Revolution Fifty Years Later

… thereby over-ruling earlier decisions that courts were not competent to decide such political questions. Two years … differ somewhat between federal and state legislative bodies, but the basic rules (reapportion after every census … to produce child-friendly results. For example, support for easy gun ownership is strongest there, and that can be …
Cover A Revolution in Taste The Rise of French Cuisine, 1650–1800 by Susan Pinkard.

Bon Appetit, Historically Speaking

Review of A Revolution in Taste: The Rise of French Cuisine, 1650-1800 , by Susan Pinkard (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2009)
… someone discussing the importance of fresh and local ingredients.  Many cookbooks published in past ten years promise … like a recent fad, but in fact concerns about local ingredients and simple cooking methods began centuries ago.  … debates about food in the Enlightenment.  These books combine descriptions of food and ingredients with innovative …

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 …

Russia, America, and the Conspiratorial Worldview

… It is impossible to imagine a Soviet citizen who lived and died without encountering at least one of Efimov’s images. … War I and after the 1917 Revolution and to signal their commitment to the new Bolshevik cause.   Mikhail, the elder … cartoonists, Efimov “remains a true teacher.” Efimov died in 2008, shortly after his 108 th birthday. The …
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, …
General Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1945.

Second-Guessing Hiroshima?

… Hiroshima, the personal pilot of General Douglas MacArthur, commander of Allied forces in the Pacific, recorded in his … monster." In 1963 President Eisenhower, the Allied commander in Europe during World War II, recalled, as he did … critics must, necessarily, be liberals or pacifists. The comments of men such as Hoover and Eisenhower, leading …
Students at the Tuberculosis Sanitorium, Phoenix Indian School, ca. 1890-1910.

Early American Contagions

… measles, typhus, and influenza decimated Indigenous communities in the Americas is a commonly held one. Like so … one’s breast, etc. there was indeed perishing, many indeed died of it.” Aztec victims of a sixteenth-century epidemic. … stark disparities are not because germs affect Indigenous bodies differently. Across the nation, by late May 2020, …
The words "Equal Justice Under Law" which are inscribed on the front of the U.S. Supreme Court building in Washington, D.C.

The Ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment

… too much about it." (Library of Congress) But that did not come to pass. The “no state shall” language was ideally … easier to argue that denial of rights inhibits interstate commerce than to rely on the Fourteenth Amendment. The … Amendments before the House of Representatives Judiciary Committee. (Library of Congress) Slowly, they interpreted …

As Cuba and the United States Reengage: The Presence of the Past

… without understanding what preceded it. “There is a complicated history between the United States and Cuba,” … we have kept our unswerving loyalty to those who died in defense of our principles since the beginning of our … caption on the original read: "Taking Cuba from Spain was easy. Preserving it from over-zealous Cuban patriots is …
Pamphlet of "Virginia Women Opposed to Suffrage"

Equal Suffrage Awaits Trial (Prologued, Season 1, Episode 3)

… clubs and launched multiyear protests. While sharing a common goal, these efforts were not without internal … and these women come together and found the International Ladies Garment Workers Union, and they organize strikes and … Oranjudio. Song and band information can be found on our website, and we encourage our listeners to visit episode …

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 … war rather than matching the communist giants soldier-for-soldier and gun-for-gun. Both times, Sino-American …
Nanci Pelosi standing at a podium with many people behind and beside her

The Contentious ACA

… Leticia Wiggins   Welcome to History Talk Produced by Origins , a project of the … I just jump in here because I wonder, I feel like it's an easy charge to dismiss for liberals and you know, Goldwater … Breyfogle. Our executive producer is David Staley. Our website manager and technical advisor is Mitchell Shelton. …
Afar community animal health worker describing the appearance and characteristics of rinderpest in cattle (photo credit: ILRI/Jeff Mariner).

The Second Disease Eradication: Rinderpest

… On its “Milestones in UN History” website, the United Nations features smallpox eradication, … a stunning achievement and that description of how it was accomplished feels especially poignant today when faith in … often killing between 30% and 90% of those infected. They died miserable deaths. Pope Clement XI’s personal physician, …
Black women marching with signs supporting integration

Race in the Classroom: Teaching Civil Rights

… Leticia Wiggins   This is your host Leticia Wiggins and welcome to History Talk , the history podcast for everyone … you know, they don't want to be in these majority Black audiences. And I said, well, you know what, this is actually a … Wiggins. Song and band information can be found on our website. You can find our podcasts and more at our website
voting button by Steve Rainwater, Flickr, CC BY-SA 2.0

Race and Voting, Past and Present

… anything, should we do about it? The first episode is the easy one. Barring somebody from the polls on the explicit … phone line or to check registration lists on a laptop computer. But very few majority-black districts received the … White and Hispanic districts enjoyed greater access to the computers, so they also had an easier time verifying their …

'The World's Worst Humanitarian Crisis': Understanding the Darfur Conflict

… called it "genocide." The violence and destruction is often compared to the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. These tragic events have riveted the international community and attracted unprecedented media attention. … much of the coverage tends to perpetuate the old (and easy) stereotypes about Africa as a continent that is …