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Diocletian's Camp in Palmyra

Understanding the Middle East

… publicized lecture — “It Takes a Historian to Understand the Middle East…Doesn’t It?” —  Jane Hathaway  of Ohio … policymakers who seem unable to offer sound strategies for the Mideast. In this episode, hosts Leticia Wiggins and … out a lesson plan based on this article: Foreign Policy and the 3 Branches of Government ,  Syrian Crisis & American …

Pirates of Puntland, Somalia

… its captain hostage. U.S. military sharpshooters brought the incident to a relatively quick end, killing three of thethe most spectacular attack came on November 15, 2008 when pirates boarded the Saudi owned Sirius Star, a … The negotiations for the Ukrainian ship Faina , which was transporting 33 T-72 tanks, 150 grenade launchers, 6 …
Some of the subjects in the Guatemalan experiments

The Guatemala Inoculation Experiments

The Guatemala inoculation experiments entailed a series of … war effort The Guatemalan studies only fully became public when they were accidentally discovered in 2010. The U.S. … supported the experiments. The Guatemalan government was also complicit and received compensation for its …
These false killer whales were part of an MSE in Flinders Bay, Australia, July of 1986.

Washed Ashore: Marine Mammals from Medieval Times to Today

… February 2015,  198 pilot whales stranded  in Golden Bay on the northern coast of New Zealand’s South Island. Hundreds … religious ways but their treatment of the beached mammals was very different. In the year 674, St. Philibert founded … full: Map of the Ile de Noirmoutier.   And at another time, when a great famine had begun to constrain the territory of …
"The National Game. Three Outs and One Run." Drawing depicting the four candidates of the 1860 United States presidential election (L to R): John Bell, Stephen Douglas, John C. Breckinridge, and Abraham Lincoln. The artist is comparing the election to a baseball game.

The Election of 1860 and Secession — to Preserve Slavery

When news of Abraham Lincoln's election to the presidency reached South Carolina on Nov. 8, 1860, … to protect "their institutions, from Abolition rule in Washington?"   Autumn 2010 marks the sesquicentennial of theThe Election of 1860 and Secession — to Preserve Slavery …
Haze obscuring image of rooftops in China

The Greening of China?

… As the world considers how to respond to climate change, China has emerged as the great paradox. With its fast-growing economy, China has become the leading producer of CO2 (though not on a per-capita … certainly predate the reform period, going back to 1949, when China's water resources were aggressively developed, …
A 1940s photo of a church in Kansas.

Those Who Abuse the Past Are Bound to Misunderstand It

… Americans love their history, but seldom think historically. The problem is … use history to justify their views. So what do they do when the past disappoints? Or when historians tell them … tried to answer the question of whether the United States was founded as a Christian nation. I never know how my …
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

… Since the 1950s, there have been dramatic decreases in the … 2.5 billion people to 8 billion.   Yet in November 2022, when the human population reached 8 billion, the United … In 1996, at the first World Food Congress, the goal line was set at 2010. The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), …
Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill Final Vote.

True Bipartisanship Is Not Love and Kisses

… we admitted a sad truth: bipartisanship is a noble idea in theory, but it fails in practice. The doomed reform package …   Obama’s conciliatory impulses, mind you, are good ones. When James Madison prepared a plan for the Constitution in … the position Obama holds today: that excessive partisanship was a serious problem for any republic. In fact, the

Private Matter or Public Crisis? Defining and Responding to Domestic Violence

… 15, 2014, NFL star Ray Rice and Janay Palmer, who were then engaged, were both arrested on assault charges in … an unconscious Palmer out of the hotel elevator. Rice was indicted on third degree aggravated assault charges, to … incident, however, erupted again in early September 2014, when TMZ released another video, this one of the fight that …
Headline in The Philadelphia Inquirer of November 16, 1919, reporting the first use of cloture by the United States Senate.

The Founders Cared about the Majority Principle

When the Senate reconvenes Jan. 24 it will have to decide whether … follow Tea Party members right back to the founding era when it took only a simple majority to stop debate or pass a … rule; the power would be transferred to the minority."   It wasn't until the late 1830s that a few senator saw the
Nancy Reagan speaking at a "Just Say No" Rally.

The “Modern” War on Drugs (Prologued, Season 2, Episode 1)

… On the season premiere, we explore the idea of the "modern" War on Drugs waged by Richard Nixon … 1980s.  As we will see, the development of the US drug war was deeply informed by experiences abroad...and to … The “Modern” War on Drugs (Prologued, Season 2, Episode 1) …
Two women in black hijab in Yemen

Yemen: Inside The Forgotten War

… After more than four years of war, Yemen teeters on the brink of what the European Union has described as “the world's largest humanitarian crisis.” Conservative … origins of of the conflict really began during the 1960s when the Republic was first started and marginalizing these …

Frenemies: Iran and America since 1900

… American eyes have been riveted on North Africa and the Middle East these past months. The popular protests that … and Twitter helped spread the word in June 2009 that Iran was teetering on the brink of revolution, and as in Libya, … clash between civilization and barbarism, much as they did when Benjamin Labaree was gunned down in a mountain pass 500 …
Early OSU football game

4th and Goal? The Past of the American University and the Future of the NCAA

… Listen as History Talk  explores the relationship between American university sports and the National Collegiate Athletic Association, or NCAA. In … hosts Patrick Potyondy and Leticia Wiggins and chew on the definition of amateurism, talk over the growth of … of ironic quotation marks around the word amateur, right when you try to describe it, because it has always been …
a billboard with flags of many countries and the word Peace on it.

A Conscientious Objector Looks Back

… Edwards, finishing rowed his mattress hi, only weapon. the story,.•seems to notice If you Edward finishing the … [Conscientious Objector], your notice it. Ericthe Edwards was working an orderly at University Vietnam War. as Enc … gla.s, IV bottles at passer,by in Edwards remembers that when went for of conscientious objectors. Most government …
Turkish soldiers standing over skeletal remains during Armenian Genocide

Armenians, Turks, and the Genocide Question

… April 24, 2015 marks the commemoration of the 100 th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide. Beginning … thousand and 1.5 million Armenian people. The result was the physical annihilation of the Armenian communities … to massacres most particularly in 1894 1896 actually a time when my grandmother and her family left the area. The
North Korea's prime minister Kim Il-sung and China's premier Zhou Enlai tour Beijing in 1958.

China Holds the Key to the North Korea Problem

… As the international community struggles to respond effectively … falls squarely on China.   The way that the United Nations was originally designed explains why, today, China alone has … international action that might precipitate a world war.   When Great Britain and the United States developed the first …

History, Memory, and the Art of Protest in Belarus

… Protests continue to sweep across Belarus. By the end of 2020, more than 30,000 people had been arrested, … election (right). “I cannot understand how we could stop when people have suffered and continue to suffer,” one woman … divisions of Belarus. Modern Belarusian nationalism was one of the most recent to appear in Europe. The first …