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… 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 …

… 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 … Foster Dulles had sought to deter Sino-Soviet adventures cheaply by threatening immediate escalation to all-out …

… 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 …

… 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 … favored advanced industrialized economies that imported cheap raw materials from the Global South. Similar …

… the aristocracy-based patronage system, which had sustained composers for generations.  Now, middle-class audiences flocked to public concert halls to applaud the … the new bourgeois public demanded music, it was not easy for composers to find venues in which to showcase …

… 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, …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… On its “Milestones in UN History” website, the United Nations features smallpox eradication, … often killing between 30% and 90% of those infected. They died miserable deaths. Pope Clement XI’s personal physician, … of cattle of any age, conferred lifetime immunity, and was cheap and easy to produce. Its only weakness was that it …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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, …

… 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 …

… 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, …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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. …