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… on the Bosporus—a strait crowded not only with urban commuters and pleasure craft, but Russian oil tankers … west of Istanbul. The canal would bypass the Bosporus , the site of multiple shipping accidents, and link the Black Sea … list of grandiose construction projects that cram the volumes of human history. Canals throughout history have long …

… religious aura of rivers enhanced the status of riverine communities” (31). Rivers were ascribed human qualities and … the ancient world were lived and experienced in very local, site-specific ways. The annual flood on the Nile was an … lamented for their destruction. The study of Roman rivers comes with difficulties, however. There are only so many …

… with his nutty words: the way the Bush administration has compromised American foreign policy and jeopardized world … in 1962 when the Soviets agreed to dismantle weapons sites in Cuba. Given Kennedy's brinksmanship, however, … bring countries like Venezuela and Russia together. To his credit, Barack Obama has been less bellicose. At the height …

… William B. Ross died while governor in October 1924 from complications following an emergency appendectomy. The … own.  In Texas, the Legislature impeached its governor, James E. Ferguson, in 1917 and subsequently barred him from … office. October 1974 saw the passage of the federal Equal Credit Opportunity Act (ECOA), which barred certain types of …

… Brenna Miller    Welcome to History Talk the podcast that brings together a … it specifically in a national ceremonial role, is generally credited to have happened for the first time at the 1918 … Song and band information can be found on our website. You can find our podcasts and more on our website at …

… not. Usually they move in different directions, but sometimes they converge to produce disasters like the one we’re … consequences to explain how individual ambition served the common good. It’s not from the benevolence of the butcher, … intend to stimulate American consumption with the cheap credit their savings created.   When Republican and …

… number of letters that prove he was no dummy. A historian’s complaint, however, is larger than chagrin at the number of … exemplar of this sort of leadership who got his vote four times. Franklin D. Roosevelt twice sensed that the direction … He squandered this opportunity and instead led in the opposite direction, toward economic and population expansion …

… sides their full due, we will be honoring only a bloodless, comforting reflection of the whole troubling man.  Most … greatest triumph, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, the black community of Watts in Los Angeles erupted in riots. More … the striking sanitation workers, when he was killed. This message of resisting economic, social and military …

… the Supreme Court and amidst growing public criticism. To compound the confusion, Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu, sitting … and political experience should not be dismissed, the loyalty of Netanyahu’s adherents has deeper historical and … of large numbers of Palestinian Arabs from their homes. The mass immigration was a fulfillment of the Zionist …

… with a column praising the strategic savvy and tactical competence of abdicated Alaska governor Sarah Palin. Broder … policy, 2) state-run, state-subsidized systems of commodity credit and storage, and 3) state regulation of the … Revolt" (1954), "Pseudo-Conservatism Revisited" (1964), and "The Paranoid Style in American Politics" …

… other hand, speak piously of keeping politics out of sports competition. I am frequently asked, "Must politics be a part … vexed question of Tibet. Although the "Free Tibet" Internet site calls for full boycott, most other protestors seem … audience. Now TV audiences are cajoled: "Leave your other credit cards at home because these Games belong to OUR …

… 9/11, reveals a great deal about the phenomenon we have come to know as suicide bombing. First, a radical left-wing … the group’s rank and file. Members of the group pledged loyalty first to Prabhakaran personally and only secondarily … 2000s brought no tangible political benefits. Quite the opposite: by 2003, Israeli officials were intercepting the …

… than those of India and Russia, and with nearly two times the per-capita income of China, Brazil is on track to become a major force in … $60 billion, the IMF stepped in with $30.4 billion stand-by credit. In an unprecedented move, the IMF agreement was …

… Jessica Vinas-Nelson  Welcome to History Talk , the podcast that brings together a … anger and sadness and horror and disappointment and fury, poured into the streets, because that's the only way that … Song and band information can be found on our website. You can find our podcasts and more on our website at …

… The left side of the American political-entertainment complex has passed the time since the 2012 election watching … to decide, based on the “issues” put before them. Party loyalty in the overall electorate, however, has been … and new economic issues – particularly those related to credit, debt, commodity prices, and deflation – began to cut …

… a year into Trump’s second term, his own supporters have become suspicious that even his Justice Department has joined … more than a fifth higher than the nation’s gross domestic product (GDP), with payments on the debt the fastest … defense, Medicare, or Medicaid. As a result,  Moody’s credit rating agency downgraded the United States’s credit …

… "For insight into the complicated and complicating events ... , one needs … Patrick R. Potyondy Leticia R. Wiggins Sarah Brady Siff James Helicke Lawrence Bowdish Glenn Kranking Hannah Blubaugh … Miller , Leticia R. Wiggins and Patrick R. Potyondy Music Credits for History Talk Song: "Star-Crossed" Band: The End …

… Jessica Blissit   Welcome to History Talk , the podcast that brings together a … nations and other things like that. And really the opposite seems to be happening, at least in relation to the west … and repression, and in some cases, sort of buying over the loyalty of the elites in Pyongyang, but there's much less I …

… maps, opposition swells, culminating in lawsuits and, at times, judicial rulings requiring legislatures to try again. … thereby over-ruling earlier decisions that courts were not competent to decide such political questions. Two years … two-party competition opened. Much more effort was poured by both sides almost everywhere into redistricting …

… John Ashcroft asks for authority to hold non-citizens incommunicado indefinitely if the government regards them as a … he says, is at stake. If the administration’s proposal becomes law, security measures will increase. But freedom will … against those who opposed the war or the administration. Disloyalty was charged against those who didn’t buy enough …

… Since the economic crisis we’re now in is being compared to the Great Depression, the solutions being … top 10 percent, the middle class has survived largely on credit cards and home equity loans. Now millions have no way … Depression for nearly half a century. We are in our current mess in large measure because we dismantled that system. …

… and a staggering landmark in human population growth combined to give new urgency to the existential question of … supported them. We, by contrast, have arrived at the opposite situation: our individual lives are far more healthy … some measure shaped by shifting climatic conditions, at times interwoven with the onslaught of disease and epidemics . …

… As national governments and the global scientific community struggle to contain the spread of the coronavirus … In particular, American society witnessed an incredible outpouring of unfounded rumors around the influenza pandemic at … by the submarine stories) or else harbored so little loyalty to the U.S. that they had actively spread it within …