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Cover of "Our Hemisphere"? The United States in Latin America, from 1776 to the Twenty-First Century by Britta H. Crandall and Russell C. Crandall.

Episodes of Ambivalent Empire

Review of “Our Hemisphere”? The United States in Latin America, from 1776 to the Twenty-First Century by : Britta H. Crandall and Russell C. Crandall (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2021)
… quote is the point of departure for Britta and Russell Crandall's survey of the nearly two and half centuries of the … century, officials sometimes demonstrated a broad commitment to republican and democratic principles. For … policymakers’ professions of freedom and democracy were expedients to cover instances in which they desired — or …
Marchers for the Equal Rights Amount, holding banner that reads "Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex"

The Equal Rights Amendment: Then and Now

… In March 2017 Nevada became the first state in 40 years to ratify the Equal … professor of History and director of the American Studies program, specializing on gender, women, and science.   … Blissit. Song and band information can be found on our website. You can find our podcast and more on our website, …

Two Popes and a Primate: The Changing Face of Global Christianity

… of 2013. Thanks to the explosion of electronic forms of communication, even since the election of Benedict in 2005, … of two female juvenile inmates in a traditional Maundy Thursday ritual, contrasted vividly with the traditionally regal manner of Benedict. The dizzying combination of medieval ritual and pageantry with flashing cell phones and …
A group of children in Sub-Saharan Africa

Sub-Saharan Africa

… of History Talk , scholars Ousman Kobo , Amy Pate , and Amanda Robinson discuss ethnicity, nationality, and religion in … intersection of culture and politics. In the past, I've studied the relationship between nationalism and ethnic group … be a Christian, the other would be a Muslim. So there's no points to expect religious war in Africa. But we also have …
Troops of the French 2nd Armored Division parade down the Champs-Élysées on 26 August 1944

The Liberation of Paris

… four years of Nazi occupation. Following a week of guerilla combat between Resistance fighters and the occupying German … Fourth Infantry Division. The following morning, General Dietrich von Choltitz, the German military governor and … first tanks of Leclerc’s army had just rolled up to Notre-Dame. And then all the bells of all the churches rang in the …
President Biden, standing in front of a blue flag with an eagle emblem

First 100 Days of the Biden Administration: Insights from History

… of History hold a conversation about the first one hundred days of the Biden administration. Host: Margaret Newell, … Professor, Department of History Panelists: Maysan Haydar, Lecturer and Graduate Student, Department of History … Professor, Department of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies Peter Mansoor, Professor and General Raymond E. Mason …
Nanci Pelosi standing at a podium with many people behind and beside her

The Contentious ACA

… policy in the United States—specifically the Affordable Care Act, also known pejoratively and positively as … Leticia Wiggins   Welcome to History Talk Produced by Origins , a project of the … Breyfogle. Our executive producer is David Staley. Our website manager and technical advisor is Mitchell Shelton. …
A group of men and women. The women hold signs that say "My Body, My Choice"

Reproductive Rights and Reproductive Justice

… they evolved over time? When, how, and why did abortion become such a controversial topic in the United States? How … throughout history, and what makes our situation today different? Join us as we address these and other … are Mytheli Sreenivas, associate professor of Women's Studies and History at Ohio State University, Allison Norris, a …
Pieter Bruegel the Elder's 1562 painting "The Triumph of Death" depicts the turmoil Europe experienced as a result of the plague.

The Black Death and its Aftermath

… most devastating pandemic in world history. It was a descendant of the ancient plague that had afflicted Rome, from 541 … came into Mediterranean ports by ship. But, it is also becoming clear that small pools of plague had been established … rural and urban: the daughter of King Edward III of England died of the plague in the summer of 1348. But quickly—at …
In 2014, the debate about the underlying causes of "long, hot summers" remerged with the high-profile police killings of Michael Brown, Tamir Rice, Eric Garner, and others.

Long Hot Summers and Separate Societies

Review of Separate and Unequal: The Kerner Commission and the Unraveling of American Liberalism, by Steven M. Gillon (New York: Basic Books, 2018)
… Do the police reify inequality by targeting low-income communities of color or are they the “thin blue line” … and law enforcement. But the Commission’s ideological binary coalesced around two figures, in Gillon’s telling: … by the Commission. The job of designing them was given to David Ginsburg. He and his team agreed that a sense of …

Dry Days Down Under: Australia and the World Water Crisis

… is a self-reinforcing event. How, we should ask, has it come to all this? Australia's water woes are, in part, a … 91 million to 54 million—and almost 5 million cattle died. In 1903, horrifying dust storms raged. Similar major … dramatic decline in rainfall in Perth since the 1970s also points to a more fundamental change in climate. From …

A Pact with the Devil? The United States and the Fate of Modern Haiti

… earthquake struck the island nation of Haiti. The following day, as tens of thousands of the dead and dying lay beneath the rubble and remains of their homes and communities, American televangelist Pat Robertson stated … Boukman's revolt quickly blossomed into the largest, bloodiest slave uprising in history. By the end of September, …
And Water for All - stylized image of hands with water behind them

... And Water for All

An educational documentary about water affordability
… For All is an educational documentary about water affordability in Ohio. The film aims to amplify the voices of … done it with these water and sewer systems that have become ubiquitous in our lifetimes.   Nicholas Breyfogle  The … tells us what parameters we have to test for, what sampling points at the plant we have to... if it's the raw influent, …
The Prima Porta Statue shows a powerful and youthful Augustus making an address

Celebrating Roman Emperor Augustus

… August 19, 14 CE, the most influential man in Roman history died. Augustus began his career by fomenting a civil war, … forming a military junta, then violently eliminating any competition before fighting the other members of the junta. … so distant from our own time that it is often hard for us today to understand him or to imagine what it meant to live in …
Bruce Lee

The Original Street Fighting Man

Review of Striking Distance: Bruce Lee and the Dawn of Martial Arts in America, by Charles Russo Lincoln, NE, University of Nebraska Press, 2016)
… practiced. According to Russo, Lee “had the specific agenda of advocating for a modern and more effective approach to … arts. Beginning in 1954 at the age of thirteen Lee studied the Wing Chun style of kung fu in Hong Kong under … after Lee challenged anyone who doubted his word to come to his studio in Oakland. Russo makes his case by …
a billboard with flags of many countries and the word Peace on it.

A Conscientious Objector Looks Back

… TALKINGABOUT TODAY A Conscientious Back A ConscientiousObjector … were symbolic munYou would the announcement over the intercom: .. Youhear would hear the announcement sentiment was … are equal in about the way the hippies had been treatsoldier and leave him there to die? It would to attend anti-war …
Two Nord Stream pipes are welded together on the Castoro Sei pipelaying vessel in preparation for laying them beneath the Baltic Sea, 2011.

The Environmental Threat of Russia’s Nord Stream 2 Pipeline

… superpower status. Its narrowing, unstable economy has become dependent on the export of a single commodity: energy. … projects that are poorly regulated and ecologically damaging. We should take these environmental concerns … around 12 km from the accident site. In this animation, diesel oil is visible in the Ambarnaya River on both May 31 …