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Lydia Walker

Postwar Decolonization and its Discontents

… is available Open Access for free download on the Cambridge website .  The Moderator of this event is Nicholas … and I'll be your host and moderator today. Welcome to everyone, and thank you so much for joining us.  After the Second … at the Russian Center for International Security Studies. She is the author of States in Waiting from Cambridge …
Two vials of modern insulin named Actrapid (left) and NovoRapid (right) by the manufacturers.

The First Insulin Injection as a Treatment for Diabetes

… As of 2020, the CDC estimates that just over one in ten Americans has diabetes, a chronic condition that can have serious, life-threatening complications if left untreated. Diabetes is caused when the … concoctions of herbs and seeds and, by the 18th century, dietary changes. In 1870, French pharmacist Apollinaire …
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Sweet Fuel: The Remarkable Story of Brazilian Ethanol

… search for clean and affordable alternate energies has become an increasing priority in the twenty-first century. However, one nation has already been producing such a fuel for almost … Center Co-sponsors: The Center for Latin American Studies, https://clas.osu.edu/ The Sustainability Institute, …
Melissa Drexler on trial

Infanticide: Something New Under the Sun?

… What would cause an apparently normal young woman to commit such a brutal act? Some commentators believe they … replaced by moral relativism; Drexler’s actions are merely one result of years of moral decay. George Will, in his … society. Stephen A. Allen is a doctoral candidate in the Medieval Institute at the University of Notre Dame and a …
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The New Normal (Prologued, Season 1, Episode 8)

… of in the, I think was like in the late 90s. Like you saw one of these. And then 20 years later, now, you see another … only on that, then they went and found that a lot of studies are done only on men, because women, it'd be more of an … Oranjudio. Song and band information can be found on our website, and we encourage our listeners to visit episode …
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America's Infrastructure Challenge

… and what it can tell us about  changing conceptions of the common good. In addition, host Patrick Potyondy interviews … This is Patrick Potyondy. And I'm speaking over the phone with Tom Smith, Executive Director of the American … big federal involvement in infrastructure would be subsidies for the railroads in the nineteenth century.   Dr. …
Pope Leo XIV in the popemobile at his inauguration, 2025.

Faith, History, and the City of God in the 21st Century

… Rome . If  warnings of the imminent rise of superhuman AI come to pass, he may be the last pontiff crowned during the … These times “present a challenge for all of us but it is one that we should not run away from.” Quoting Saint Augustine, he encouraged his audience: “Let us live well and the times will be good. We are …
the cover of a Captain America comic book

Captain America: Changing Conscience of a Nation

… a red, white, and blue clad figure holding a shield in one hand and using the other to punch Adolf Hitler square in … an experimental program meant to create an army of super soldiers to defeat the Nazis, only to become the program’s sole … “good war.” Four-color McCarthyism could not pull enough coins from adolescent pockets to prevent the superhero …
Cover A Revolution in Taste The Rise of French Cuisine, 1650–1800 by Susan Pinkard.

Bon Appetit, Historically Speaking

Review of A Revolution in Taste: The Rise of French Cuisine, 1650-1800 , by Susan Pinkard (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2009)
"Glory to victorious Red Army soldier!" by Dmitrii Stakhievich Moor, 1920

The October Revolution in Russia

…   One hundred years ago, in wartime Petrograd, Russian … Over the next three years, the Bolsheviks (soon renamed Communists) would have to win power in a bloody civil war … given the senseless slaughter of millions of soldiers during the First World War, the October Revolution …
The Norwegians Land in Iceland 872 by Oscar Wergeland (1877).

Why We Love the Vikings

… vanished. There were many “ends” to the Viking Age, but one most often cited is the correlation between the spread … ties were also immensely important, for one often needed community support at the assembly to win a legal case. Thus, … was not the first one to do so, his work found a captive audience: the Victorians loved Vikings.  In previous …
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

… 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 … rapidly since the 1950s. The African Sahel countries face one of the most hostile climate situations in the world, one
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Climate Change: Insights from History

… Hello, everyone and welcome from the College of Arts and Sciences. Thank you so … for their sponsorship. And again, thank you to the audience for joining us, for excellent questions and, you …

How Public and Private Enterprise Have Built American Infrastructure

… ongoing capital campaign. Workers survey the damage after a commuter train crashed into a passenger car near Valhalla, … reports focused narrowly on transportation, which is only one of the many infrastructures that have made possible the … banking expansion, and offering direct and indirect subsidies to speed up development. The mixed approach to …
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The Past and Future of the Global War on Drugs (Prologued, Season 2, Finale)

… on Prologued...   Alexander Aviña  So it's a really, like, complex, messy matrix, right? So I don't want to say that …   Brionna Mendoza  We examined how policymakers and practitioners entangled fighting the drug war with fighting the Cold … 19th and 20th centuries. And there are many other case studies that we simply didn't have the time to examine and …
The Great Wall of China: Perhaps the greatest collection of walls in human history.

Top Ten Origins: History's Great Walls, Good Neighbors or Bad Policy?

… talk by some American politicians about Mexican immigrants coming to the United States, people around the world are … Doré's English Bible. The Biblical Wall of Jericho is one of the earliest examples of a defensive wall constructed … 7825 BCE. The most famous Wall of Jericho, however, is the one mentioned in the Biblical account of the wall that the …
Entrance gate of Auschwitz Concentration Camp, "Work Sets You Free," 2013

At the Movies: “Canaries,” A Review of Denial

… of the sort espoused by Richard Rorty. The maneuver is a common one from the perspective of positivism. In The Demon-Haunted … of the world. In L.A. Story (1991), he critiques the superficial nature of Los Angeles by invoking a wide array … Media/Journalism/Communications …
A judge's gavel resting in front of legal books.

Windows and the Bench: Microsoft and the Judges

… Microsoft is one of the preeminent firms of the Information Age. But its … industrial power in the Railroad Age. Like so many complex cases decided under that statute, this one will take years for a final resolution. The substance of …