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… 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 …

… its captain hostage. U.S. military sharpshooters brought the incident to a relatively quick end, killing three of the … the 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 …

… 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 …

… discounted as “fly-over country”—had a national moment. The Washington Post published the Pandora Papers , revealing … An event in December 2021 in Sioux Falls went viral when teachers at a minor league hockey game scrambled on … The Sturgis Motorcycle Rally and the Costs of Neoliberalism …

… 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 …

… 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 the … The Election of 1860 and Secession — to Preserve Slavery …

… 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, …

… 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 …

… 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), …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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) …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… With his election as president of Turkey in August of 2014, the spectacular career of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has entered a … group known as Hizmet (“Service”) led by Fethullah Gülen was shattered in 2013 when Gülen-linked prosecutors uncovered evidence of …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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 …