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Labor Secretary Elaine Chao in 2005.

Written With the Blood of Miners

… the U.S. Congress and with the president’s signature will become law. While a new law represents a positive step for … — ongoing enforcement and oversight. The legislation comes in response to a horrific year for mine safety. All of … incident (362 dead miners). Federal regulators and mine officials like to point to the broad trend toward improved …
Print of "Galveston's Awful Calamity".

Galveston 1900: 125 Years After the Storm

… storm which these swells...told us in unerring language was coming.” —Dr. Isaac Cline Today, the National Weather … 38,000 had just that year had surpassed New Orleans to become the leading cotton port in the U.S. Travelers could get … or simply “floods.” Dr. Isaac Cline, the local forecast official and section director for the U.S. Weather Bureau …
Lindh photographed after being transported to Camp Rhino.

Walker’s Misguided — But No Traitor

… as taking up arms against the government or giving aid and comfort to its enemies. The offense is extremely serious and … constitute treason. Under Marshall’s standards, Walker has committed no treason. Of course Walker is wrong in the eyes … have been a French Legionnaire, because the cause — despite official neutrality — was popular. The filibusters in the …
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 …
Pullman Strike illustration

Top Ten Origins: American Workers and Strikes

… Socialist Congress meeting in Paris in July 1899. The comrades set the date in solidarity with organized workers … census, some 3,000 firms employed a third of the city’s 360,000 laborers. Seventy-five percent of the city’s … company police, big-city gangsters, and corrupt public officials, the miners responded in kind. The result was …
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 …
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 …
dollar bill with image of capitol building in front of it

Deeper Than the “Deep State”: Follow the Money

… a year into Trump’s second term, his own supporters have become suspicious that even his Justice Department has joined … using modern technology to monitor the public and elected officials. This was managed by what  David Wise and Thomas … another similar phrase in 1961, the “military-industrial complex,” showing less concern about secrecy than about …
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 …
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 … by then it was too difficult to roll things back. We had become too dependent. Worse, we had become too complacent. And … Europe’s General Data Privacy Regulations (GDPR), and by officially recognizing data privacy as a fundamental human …
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 …
An image showing slaves working on a plantation on the island of Antigua in the early 1800s.

After Abolition: Britain and the Slave Trade Since 1807

Review of After Abolition: Britain and the Slave Trade Since 1807, by Marika Sherwood (I.B. Tauris, 2007)
… slave trade. While the anniversary passed without too much comment in the United States, it was commemorated widely in Britain. Out of that cultural moment … in Africa were often slaves themselves. Even after it was officially prohibited, slavery continued under other names …
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 …
Protestors against the U.S. Trump administration voice their commitment to the world's dispossessed.

The Politics of Refugee Aid in America’s “Short Century”

Review of Benevolent Empire: U.S. Power, Humanitarianism, and the World's Dispossessed , by Stephen R. Porter Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017.
… U.S. Power, Humanitarianism, and the World’s Dispossessed comes at a time that many observers of U.S. domestic … has had a murky, even “schizophrenic,” view of its commitment to the world’s dispossessed. Although the United … public funds. Warren, however, recommended that immigration officials accept affidavits of financial sponsorship from …