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Cover of Living I Was Your Plague: Martin Luther's World and Legacy by Lyndal Roper.

The Legacy of Luther

Review of Living I Was Your Plague: Martin Luther’s World and Legacy, by Lyndal Roper (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2021)
… The prominent reformer, Martin Luther boasts the most complex legacy of his contemporaries because of how he … Martin Luther’s World and Legacy grapples with Luther’s complicated legacy through a series of brilliantly … Lutherjahr . She details how the Lutheran Church, German officials, and some historians framed Luther as wholly …

Hacer América and the American Dream: Global Migration and the Americas

… violent encounters with criminal gangs and corrupt officials. The images of these children herded into … while other jurisdictions declared these children unwelcome. A U.S. Border Patrol poster placed around the border … was contributed by unauthorized residents, has been deposited into the “Earnings Suspense File” of the Social …
American soldiers land near Algiers

Torch: The Allied Invasion of French North Africa, 1942

… invaded beaches and ports across French North Africa. Officially opening a long-awaited second front against the Axis, operation Torch constituted the biggest and most complex amphibious landing to that point in world history.  … terrain separated the invasion’s three proposed landing sites in Morocco and Algeria. Stormy winter forecasts …
Artifact from Benin

Who Owns the Past? Museums and Cultural Heritage Repatriation

… In November 2018, a report commissioned by French President Emannuel Macron called for … of Native American remains by American museums to the complicated provenance of Greek and Roman antiquities held … Lauren Henry:   Welcome to History Talk , the podcast that brings together …
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? … Lauren Henry   Welcome to History Talk , the podcast that brings together …
Women suffragists marching on Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington D.C., March 3, 1913.

The First Time Women Marched on Washington

… of the 1913 march had their organizational act together. Communicating via a federated national organization called … While in D.C., suffragists made themselves heard to elected officials using methods that seem quaint and exhausting … about women voting. The organizers of the 1913 parade accomplished all this in the face of obstacles that those of …
March on Washington

The Unfinished Struggle: Civil Rights and the March on Washington

… On August 28th, America will commemorate the anniversary of the March on Washington for … John Lewis (chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee), Martin Luther King, Jr. (president of the … the problem of underrepresentation for black elected officials who account for a dismal 1.7% of the total elected …

Media and Politics in the Age of Trump

… will likely preoccupy future historians for years to come. While a number of factors contributed to his … of Trump that greatly advantaged his campaign over his competitors’, especially in the primary season’s early days. … headlines such as “Venom, Sensationalism, Attacks on Honest Officials, Distorted News, and Appeals to Passion.” The …
Antichristus, a woodcut by Lucas Cranach the Elder: the pope depicted as the Antichrist, using his temporal power to grant authority to a generously contributing ruler.

The Bible as a Political Tool

… The 5,280-pound monument of the Ten Commandments installed by the Alabama Supreme Court Chief … political, ends. Indeed, English may be America’s unofficial first language but, to all intents and purposes, Hebrew (in translation of course) comes a close second.   Moore’s claim that the Ten …
U.S. Supreme Court building.

Tearing Down the “Wall of Separation between Church and State”

… inaccurate, always misapplied metaphor that unnecessarily complicates our thinking surrounding religion and politics.  … "prayers for the protection and blessing of the Common Father and Creator of man." Most other Founders … Amendment easier for the diverse states to digest. Even an official establishment of religion at the state level was …
Marker: "90 Miles to Cuba. Southernmost Point, Continental USA. Key West, FL"

Rethinking Cuba Libre

…   Leticia Wiggins  Welcome to History Talk , the history podcast for everyone from … power and control in Cuban affairs up until, at least officially, up until 1934, when President Roosevelt finally … Wiggins. You can find our podcasts and more at our website, origins.osu.edu , on iTunes and on SoundCloud, and as …
Cerro Rico of Potosí, c.1603. Courtesy Hispanic Society of America

“Mountains of Water:” The Great 1626 Potosí Flood

… Andean workers plus an even larger number of llamas, Potosí officials oversaw construction of a vast system of dams and … structures made from this earthen material were common throughout the Andes, and they were generally … But they had to be constantly monitored and maintained by communal work parties. More importantly, “champería” dams …
A photo of the Great Synagogue of Rome.

The Catholic Church and the Holocaust

… “Christianize” the Holocaust in order to play down Catholic complicity in Nazi atrocities. This controversy comes at a … a priority of his papacy. He is the first pope to have visited one of the chief synagogues of Rome. Under his … because they had killed Christ, a position that was not officially condemned until 1965. This is not to say that …
Dian Fossey with mountain gorilla.

Dian Fossey: Conservationist in the Mist

… Jane Goodall and Birute Galdikas – three women who would become affectionately known as the “trimates.” Fossey’s … to put her life on the line to confront powerful government officials, local tribal leadership and poachers. This latter … local communities. Boabeng-Fiema Monkey Sanctuary, Ghana: Site of the author's research and a growing ecotourism …
Vigil commemorating the 20th anniversary of the 1989 massacre

New Protests in China Won’t Be the Last

… a way to use history when trying to make sense of China’s complicated present. Another kind of continuity between 1989 … for a time when China was more isolated. Some even complained about their nation’s entrance into the World … called for free elections, but more complained that official corruption was destroying the nation. This idea …
President Bill Clinton, First Lady Hillary Clinton, and Chelsea Clinton in 1993.

Why Clinton Will Survive

… over the Clinton scandal. Yet overlooked in the stampede to compare Bill Clinton to Richard Nixon is the fact that … exuding false empathy, who utterly lacks the requisite character necessary to preside in the Oval Office. … with the investigators delving into private acts as well as official duties. Radical Republicans in Congress intensively …
A contractor for the U.S. Army kicking in a door during Operation IRAQI FREEDOM.

From King George the Third to the Third President George: Mercenaries are Still a Bad Idea

… Time, transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to complete the Works of Death, Desolation, and Tyranny already … unworthy the Head of a civilized Nation.” Jefferson’s complaint might easily be uttered by Iraqis and others who … been hired by Department of State to be bodyguards for U.S. officials in Iraq, including the U.S. Ambassador. Thus we …
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 … important work along with a number of other Latina elected officials throughout the country, either holding some type … Oranjudio. Song and band information can be found on our website, and we encourage our listeners to visit episode …
A photograph from the tumultuous German-Czech border in 1938 during World War II. The Sudetenland had long been a hotspot of contact between the two groups.

The Space In Between

Review of Cleansing the Czechoslovak Borderlands: Migration, Environment, and Health in the Former Sudetenland, by Eagle Glassheim (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2016)
A pro-union demonstration in Romania, 2009. The flag translates to "Moldova Our Sister"

Moldova and Romania: A Long and Complicated Relationship

… Anderson famously defined nationalism as an “imagined community” binding together a widespread group of people … year, the territory that is today the Republic of Moldova—comprising the majority of the region known then as … Russian became both the lingua franca and declared the official language. Religion also became a target of …

A New Congo Crisis?

… for current president Joseph Kabila to step down. It has become a cliché to contrast the Congo’s tremendous economic … region before. With only a small number of colonial state officials to administer an area of over 900,000 square miles, Leopold II relied on a set of colonial companies to help run this vast territory. A map of the …