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Black women marching with signs supporting integration

Race in the Classroom: Teaching Civil Rights

… Leticia Wiggins   This is your host Leticia Wiggins and welcome to History Talk , the history podcast for everyone … you know, they don't want to be in these majority Black audiences. And I said, well, you know what, this is actually a … Wiggins. Song and band information can be found on our website. You can find our podcasts and more at our website
voting button by Steve Rainwater, Flickr, CC BY-SA 2.0

Race and Voting, Past and Present

… anything, should we do about it? The first episode is the easy one. Barring somebody from the polls on the explicit … phone line or to check registration lists on a laptop computer. But very few majority-black districts received the … White and Hispanic districts enjoyed greater access to the computers, so they also had an easier time verifying their …

'The World's Worst Humanitarian Crisis': Understanding the Darfur Conflict

… called it "genocide." The violence and destruction is often compared to the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. These tragic events have riveted the international community and attracted unprecedented media attention. … much of the coverage tends to perpetuate the old (and easy) stereotypes about Africa as a continent that is …
IRA gunmen in Northern Ireland

From the Cold War to the War on Terror

… dates back well into the Cold War. How did terrorism become a focal point of U.S. foreign policy? How did earlier … deeper history tell us about what terrorism is, how our common assumptions about it might be wrong, and how we … these ideas, and there are a lot of historical case studies, such as the IRA, where this has actually happened. We …
People holding signs: "More Mental Health Care + Less Jail Time" and "Support Mental Health - It's the Right Thing to Do"

Mental Health and American Society

… Jessica Vinas-Nelson   Welcome to History Talk the podcast that brings together a … temptation to say, "Well, I mean, how many people in the audience might have had this experience growing up?" You know, … Vinas-Nelson, song and band information can be found on our website. You can find our podcasts and more on our website

Outdoing Panama: Turkey’s ‘Crazy’ Plan to Build an Istanbul Canal

… on the Bosporus—a strait crowded not only with urban commuters and pleasure craft, but Russian oil tankers … Canal, the Suez and the Corinth Canal in Greece cannot even compete!" The project outlined by Erdogan calls for a 45-50 … and deadlocked traffic. In 1987, Prime Minister Turgut Ozal, who led Turkey after a nasty 1980 military coup …
Djiboutian workers fill bags with wheat destined for Ethiopia, provided by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), at the Port of Djibouti, Africa, Jan. 7, 2013.

The Birth and Death of USAID

… in the beginning of 2025, still working in the name of the commitment that President John F. Kennedy had made in 1961 … was a problem; others argued that the agricultural subsidies affluent nations paid their famers negated the value of … of foreign aid had imagined. The staff of USAID soldiered on, looking for ways to make a difference but …
Photograph of a mock-up of the Little Boy nuclear weapon dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, in August 1945. This was the first photograph of the Little Boy bomb casing to ever be released by the U.S. government (it was declassified in 1960).

Sowing Nuclear Seeds of Division

… inventing new “nukes” and new ways to deliver them. He felt compelled to build almost all of them, lest the Russians get … wants to harness U.S. security to space technology and the computer revolution. This will lead to another costly trap. … have to be paid. Ira Chernus is a professor of religious studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder and a writer …

An Enemy Until You Need A Friend: The Role of "Big Government" in American History

… merely create a postal system, the most important means of communication at the turn of the 19 th century. It … to raise capital. The first transcontinental railroad was completed in 1869, and it simply wouldn’t have happened … rail against the New Deal it isn’t the mortgage subsidies or the SEC they have in mind, it’s the social welfare …
King Amanullah Khan of Afghanistan.

Afghanistan, Drugs, and the Cold War (Prologued, Season 2, Episode 4)

… WWII, the United States began to boldly pursue a global community modeled upon American political, economic, and … menace seeking to snuff out America’s light. The godless Communists, American logic went, would stop at nothing to … half million refugees, hundreds of thousands of people have died from war and conflict and instability, Afghanistan has …

The Dominican Republic and the United States: A Baseball History

… Over the past century, baseball has become a truly global game. The sport debuted at the Olympics … on these plantations were seasonal workers from the West Indies, where cricket had been much more popular. These … way to the Supreme Court, was the advent of young—and thus cheaper—players, many of whom came from overseas. MLB teams …
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

… 78 whales restranded the following day, and at least 100 died. Although the exact cause of the stranding remains … and tied to ropes and anchors off the bay, left to decompose within the ecosystem. Europeans who lived in the … bears its name. At some point in the following decade (he died in 684), a group of 237 porpoises was involved in a …
Judas kissing Jesus

The Gospel of Judas: The Rediscovery of the Earliest Gnostic Gospel

… Nicholas Breyfogle Hello, and welcome to The Gospel of Judas: The Rediscovery of the Earliest … Ohio State University. He received his PhD in religious studies from Yale and taught at Indiana University for 19 years before coming to Ohio State in 2012. He studies and teaches the history and literature of ancient …
The Beatles arrive in 1964 to meet their new fans in America.

50 Years Ago: the Beatles, Rock, and Race in America

… would help define American life for generations to come. In 1964, the relatively new musical genre of rock and … left to hold it up. By the early 1960s, Buddy Holly had died in a plane crash, Elvis was making movies, Chuck Berry … what [they] used to play at the Crawdaddy, a regular diet of Jimmy Reed, Bo Diddley, Muddy Waters with some Slim …
A painting of the Rubicon scene from the mid-nineteenth century: Gustave Boulanger, Jules-César arrivé au Rubicon.

Julius Caesar Crosses the Rubicon

… Gaul, or today’s Emilia Romagna—the statesman and accomplished general Julius Caesar crossed the little Rubicon … However, when their third ally, Marcus Crassus, died shortly after the death of Julia, Caesar’s daughter and … Caesar crossed the river, uttering his famous phrase, “the die is cast,” which Appian wrote that he spoke “like a man …

Beware of Greeks Bearing Gifts: How Neo-Nazis and Ancient Greeks Met in Charlottesville

… years now, those of us who study the ancient world have become progressively aware that American Neo-Nazis, white … Evropa to the prominent display of the Parthenon on the website of the Neo-Nazi forum Stormfront, classical texts … dumpster summer of racism ” confined to classics alone as medieval historians , too, found themselves increasingly …
Booker T. Washington

Picturing Black History

… Daniela Edmeier   Hello everyone and welcome to picturing Black History Webinar today brought to you … to demonstrate how sharing our visual pasts can allow our audiences to contextualize and understand the present. So we … articles that our authors discussed today, please visit our website at picturingblackhistory.org. Stay safe and healthy …
Eight women in US politics

Women in American Politics

… Patrick Potyondy  Welcome to History Talk the podcast that brings together a … I'm an Associate Professor of History and American Studies at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. I specialize in … Sokolsky. Song and band information can be found on our website. You can find our podcasts and more at our website
Maurycy Gottlieb - Jews Praying in the Synagogue on Yom Kippur.

Yom Kippur: A First Step to Peace

… All of those meanings are now reflected in the Jewish community’s ambivalent view of the Middle East conflict. … in the first century C.E. A movement to rebuild it has become a rallying point for far-right Jewish nationalists, who … Mideast peace. Ira Chernus is a professor of religious studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder and a writer …
Tommie Smith and John Carlos protesting at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City.

Ten Protests in Sports History

… in American sport involved white athletes refusing to compete against or alongside African-Americans. On at least … especially on issues such as retirement pensions, per diems, and other workplace considerations. Owners and … as the platonic ideal of the political celebrity, it is easy to forget how polarizing a figure he was at the time. …

Syria's Islamic Movement and the 2011-12 Uprising

… population walked out of the Istanbul meeting as well, complaining that the SNC had no intention of setting up a … the proposed Transitional Authority in Syria, evoked the medieval Islamic ceremony of swearing public allegiance to the … inside Syria local militias composed largely of former soldiers launched attacks against Ba'th Party offices, military …

What We Talk About When We Talk About Confederate Monuments

… the violence had already begun. But the worst was yet to come. Saturday’s rally was scheduled to start at noon, but … the Right rally ( top left ). Virginia National Guard soldiers and Virginia State Police in the aftermath of the … United Daughters of the Confederacy. The UDC commissioned Gutzon Borglam, better known for his work at Mount Rushmore, …