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From College Towns into Knowledge Towns: On the Future of Town/Gown Relations
March 14, 2024 17:30 - 1 hour - 83.1 MBThe COVID-19 pandemic accelerated existing trends that put at risk the viability of many colleges and universities, as well as that of the towns and cities in which they are located. With the post-COVID-19 shift to more remote work, and millions of people moving to more affordable and livable cities, a place that wants to attract talent will require a thriving academic environment. This represents a new opportunity for “town and gown” to create dynamic, thriving communities. Associate Profes...
Between Two Worlds: Jewish War Brides After the Holocaust
January 25, 2024 14:52 - 57 minutes - 79.2 MBFacing the harrowing task of rebuilding a life in the wake of the Holocaust, many Jewish survivors, community and religious leaders, and Allied soldiers viewed marriage between Jewish women and military personnel as a way to move forward after unspeakable loss. Proponents believed that these unions were more than just a ticket out of war-torn Europe: they would help the Jewish people repopulate after the attempted annihilation of European Jewry. Historian Robin Judd, whose grandmother survi...
The United States and the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict, Historical Perspectives
November 27, 2023 20:05 - 58 minutes - 80.1 MBConflict has defined Arab-Israeli relationships for many decades, with the interstate warfare of the 1940s-1980s giving way in the 1990s and after to a roiling confrontation between the State of Israel and the Palestinian people of the Israeli-occupied territories. Since the 1940s, the United States has striven to contain, manage, or resolve the conflict, with some notable successes and numerous pronounced failures. While not without precedent, the crisis that erupted in early October 2023 ...
Country Capitalism: How Corporations from the American South Remade Our Economy and the Planet
October 17, 2023 18:31 - 58 minutes - 80.3 MBThe rural roads that led to our planet-changing global economy ran through the American South. Acclaimed scholar Bart Elmore explores that region's impact on the interconnected histories of business and ecological change. He uses the histories of five southern firms—Coca-Cola, Delta Airlines, Walmart, FedEx and Bank of America—to investigate the environmental impact of our have-it-now, fly-by-night, buy-on-credit global economy. Drawing on exclusive interviews with company executives, corpo...
1588: the Spanish Armada Still Loses
May 18, 2023 18:42 - 1 hour - 87.2 MBJoin world-renowned historian Geoffrey Parker for a definitive history of the Spanish Armada. In July 1588 the Spanish Armada sailed from Corunna to conquer England. Three weeks later an English fireship attack in the Channel—and then a fierce naval battle—foiled the planned invasion. Many myths still surround these events. The genius of Sir Francis Drake is exalted, while Spain’s efforts are belittled. But what really happened during that fateful encounter? In his recent book, Armada, (co-a...
Politics, Cinema, and Liberation in Burkina Faso
April 27, 2023 17:28 - 1 hour - 83.5 MBOn August 4, 1983, Captain Thomas Sankara led a coalition of radical military officers, communist activists, labor leaders, and militant students to overtake the government of the Republic of Upper Volta. Almost immediately following the coup’s success, the small West African country—renamed Burkina Faso, or Land of the Dignified People—gained international attention as it charted a new path toward social, economic, cultural, and political development based on its people’s needs rather than ...
Water Crisis on the Blue Planet: What Water’s Past tells us about Humanity’s Future
March 24, 2023 14:05 - 1 hour - 90.9 MBAcross human history and throughout this very diverse planet, water has defined every aspect of human life: from the molecular, biological and ecological to the cultural, religious, economic and political. Water stands at the foundation of most of what we do as humans. At the same time, water resources — the need for clean and accessible water supplies for drinking, agriculture and power production — will likely represent one of the most complicated dilemmas of the twenty-first century. In...
Silent Spring Revolution, a Conversation with Douglas Brinkley
February 27, 2023 20:19 - 1 hour - 86.2 MBNew York Times bestselling author and acclaimed presidential historian Douglas Brinkley talks about his new book, "Silent Spring Revolution," which chronicles the rise of environmental activism during the Long Sixties (1960-1973), telling the story of an indomitable generation that saved the natural world under the leadership of John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, and Richard Nixon. With the detonation of the Trinity explosion in the New Mexico desert in 1945, the United States took control ...
World War II Memory in Putin's Russia
December 14, 2022 19:19 - 59 minutes - 81.3 MBRussian President Vladimir Putin has gone to extraordinary lengths to commemorate the Second World War. Even though the war ended over 77 years ago, Putin has made World War II memory central to contemporary Russian national identity. This talk will explore how war remembrance serves Putin’s interests, including with regard to his war in Ukraine. Panelists: David L. Hoffmann, College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor, Department of History, The Ohio State University and Nich...
How does Ideology Drive U.S. Foreign Relations?
December 05, 2022 16:22 - 1 hour - 82.8 MBThe United States was a nation forged in the ideological fires of a democratic revolution to overturn monarchy and imperial control. Yet many American leaders and citizens ever since have denied or rejected a foreign policy guided by ideology. Why? If ideas and ideologies help us to order and explain the world, often serving as rationales for (in)action as well as explanations for success or failure, how does the history of U.S. foreign relations appear differently when viewed through the l...
Sweet Fuel: The Remarkable Story of Brazilian Ethanol
May 23, 2022 18:55 - 58 minutes - 81 MBAs the hazards of carbon emissions increase and governments around the world seek to reduce reliance on fossil fuels, the 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 a century: Brazil. Its sugarcane-based ethanol is the most efficient biofuel on the global fuel market, and the South American nation is the largest biofuel exporter in the world. In this t...
And Water for All
May 06, 2022 13:05 - 54 minutes - 51 MB...And Water For All is an educational documentary about water affordability in Ohio. The film aims to amplify the voices of those who work toward providing clean, affordable water for all. Even though the movie is set in Ohio, many of its lessons will be relevant for those concerned with water affordability in other places. This project was made possible by the support of the School of Environment and Natural Resources and the Ohio Water Resources Center at The Ohio State University.
Understanding the War in Ukraine: Insights from the Recent Past, 1991—Present
April 25, 2022 15:38 - 1 hour - 57.3 MBOhio State University History Professor David Hoffmann examines some key moments in recent Russian and Ukrainian history, with particular attention to the breakup of the Soviet Union, Putin’s rise to power in Russia, and the 2014 Revolution in Ukraine. Speaker | David L. Hoffmann, College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor of History. Professor Hoffmann is a specialist in Russian and Soviet history, with a particular focus on the political, social, and cultural history of Stalini...
Seed Money: Monsanto's Past and Our Food Future
April 22, 2022 12:00 - 1 hour - 141 MBBart Elmore takes us on an authoritative and eye-opening journey into how the company Monsanto came to have outsized influence over our food system. Monsanto, a St. Louis chemical firm that became the world’s largest maker of genetically engineered seeds, merged with German pharma-biotech giant Bayer in 2018―but its Roundup Ready® seeds, introduced twenty-five years ago, are still reshaping the farms that feed us. Elmore examines Monsanto’s astounding evolution from a scrappy chemical startu...
Picturing Black History
March 23, 2022 17:15 - 59 minutes - 135 MBLearn about an exciting new collaboration that marries photographs and words to bring Black history to life. Picturing Black History (https://www.picturingblackhistory.org/) is a collaborative project between Getty Images and Ohio State’s Origins: Current Events in Historical Perspective (http://origins.osu.edu) that contributes to the ongoing public dialogue on the significance of Black history and Black life. The project embraces the power of images to capture stories of oppression and res...
The Russian Invasion of Ukraine
March 01, 2022 16:23 - 1 hour - 55.8 MBThe Russian invasion of Ukraine has been described as a “a crime against peace” and “Europe’s Darkest Hour” since World War II. It is an attack that is sure to restructure the international order along with the lives of all Ukrainian citizens. Our panelists assist us in understanding these tragic and world-changing events. This webinar addresses the following questions: Why has Russia invaded and why now? How have Ukrainians responded to the threat of war and to the pressures from Russia ...
The Gospel of Judas: The Rediscovery of the Earliest Gnostic Gospel
February 24, 2022 20:10 - 58 minutes - 53.8 MBIn 2006 a small group of historians startled the world by announcing the discovery and publication of a Gospel of Judas. Could the disciple who betrayed Jesus be a hero? Sixteen years later we can see the true significance of this strange text, which reveals to us the amazing diversity of Christianity only one hundred years after Jesus. A presentation by David Brakke, Professor and Joe R. Engle Chair in the History of Christianity at The Ohio State University. Moderated by Nicholas Breyfogl...
The Global War on Drugs
February 01, 2022 18:42 - 58 minutes - 53.2 MBOur panel of historians reevaluates what we think we know about the War on Drugs. When and where did it really begin? Why has it persisted? And perhaps most importantly, will we ever be able to quit? They uncover how the centuries-long history of global drug prohibition prologues today's discussions of drug use, abuse, and legalization. Panel: Dr. Isaac Peter Campos, Associate Professor of History, University of Cincinnati Brionna Mendoza, Doctoral candidate in History, Ohio State Uni...
Cultural Diplomacy and the Global Cold War
December 15, 2021 20:51 - 56 minutes - 90.4 MBDuring the Cold War, cultural diplomacy emerged as an important aspect of relations between states across the globe. Exhibitions, concerts, performances, book readings, and film screenings captured the ideological message of each side, as they showed conflicting “ways of life” in the global Cold War context. Based on Theodora Dragostinova’s recent book, The Cold War from the Margins: A Small Socialist State on the Global Cultural Scene, this talk interrogates the importance of Cold War cultu...
China and Africa: Historical Perspectives on a Rising Power
November 18, 2021 17:08 - 59 minutes - 137 MBChina has expanded its global presence over the last decade much to the concern of U.S. officials. Africa is a major recipient of this new influence, building on Cold War relationships first forged during an earlier era of Sino-American competition. Yet looking at Chinese engagement in Africa over the last 50 years reveals that increased power has transformed Beijing’s foreign policies and strained its global relationships. Panel: Nicholas Breyfogle (Moderator) | Associate Professor, Depar...
Ideas of Race and Racism in History
October 15, 2021 17:40 - 1 hour - 150 MBThe issues of race and racism remain as urgent as ever to our national conversation. Four scholars discuss such questions as: Since Race does not exist as a biological reality, what then is race and where did the idea develop from? What is racism? How have race and racism been used by societies to justify discrimination, oppression, and social exclusion? How did racism manifest in different national and historical contexts? How have American and World history in the modern eras been defined ...
Reproductive Politics and the Making of Modern India
September 14, 2021 14:06 - 58 minutes - 46.8 MBBeginning in the late nineteenth century, India played a pivotal role in global conversations about population and reproduction. In this talk about her new book, Reproductive Politics and the Making of Modern India, Sreenivas demonstrates how colonial administrators, postcolonial development experts, nationalists, eugenicists, feminists, and family planners all aimed to reform reproduction to transform both individual bodies and the body politic. Across the political spectrum, people insiste...
Leaving Zion: Jewish Emigration from Palestine and Israel after World War II
August 20, 2021 20:58 - 57 minutes - 52.9 MBThe story of Israel's foundation has often been told from the perspective of Jewish immigration to the Land of Israel. In this presentation, Ori Yehudai turns this historical narrative on its head, focusing on Jewish out-migration from Palestine and Israel between 1945 and the late 1950s. Based on previously unexamined primary sources collected from twenty-two archives in six countries, he will talk about how, despite the dominant view that displaced Jews should settle in the Jewish homeland...
Diet for a Large Planet: What has led to our current diet?
June 14, 2021 16:03 - 1 hour - 41.9 MBWe are facing a world food crisis of unparalleled proportions. Our reliance on unsustainable dietary choices and agricultural systems is causing problems both for human health and the health of our planet. Solutions from lab-grown food to vegan diets to strictly local food consumption are often discussed, but a central question remains: how did we get to this point? Join Ohio State History Professor Chris Otter as he takes us back over the last 200 years to explore how we developed our curr...
First 100 Days of the Biden Administration: Insights from History
May 07, 2021 14:25 - 1 hour - 41.8 MBFaculty experts from the Ohio State University Department of History hold a conversation about the first one hundred days of the Biden administration. Panelists: Maysan Haydar, Lecturer and Graduate Student, Department of History Treva Lindsey, Associate Professor, Department of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies Peter Mansoor, Professor and General Raymond E. Mason Jr. Chair in Military History, Department of History Margaret Newell, Professor, Department of History Joseph Parrott,...
"Pale Blue Dot": History of Our Environment
April 23, 2021 18:30 - 1 hour - 46.1 MBEminent environmental historians from the Ohio State University Department of History share how environmental history informs our shared future in a world confronted by pandemics, climate change, droughts and floods, unstable food supplies, changing energy needs, and the threats of pollutants and toxins. Panelists: -Nicholas Breyfogle, Associate Professor, Department of History; Director, Goldberg Center -Kip Curtis, Associate Professor, Department of History -Jennifer Eaglin, Assistant ...
From the Transatlantic Telephone to the iPhone
April 22, 2021 14:09 - 9 minutes - 9.34 MBThe real origins of the iPhone’s power stems from the pioneering efforts of communication innovators that preceded the AT&T engineers of the 1920s. The story of wired long-distance communication really begins with the Western Union post-diggers who laid the first American transcontinental telegraph in 1861 and the Atlantic Telegraph Company that dropped the first transatlantic telegraph cable into the Atlantic Ocean in 1858. Listen to this podcast to learn more about the history of the telep...
Re-storying the Experiences of Indigenous College Students
April 21, 2021 19:27 - 55 minutes - 44.7 MBShannon Gonzales-Miller, PhD, shares her dissertation research project that sought to examine the experiences of identity erasure, invisibility and hyper visibility for Urban Indian, graduate students who attended an historically and predominately white public university. She considers how prevailing, monolithic descriptions of Native students influences the classroom experiences of non-Reservation Native students. A transcript is available at https://origins.osu.edu/transcripts/re-storying...
Medieval Women's Rights: Setting the Stage for Today
April 21, 2021 13:43 - 59 minutes - 54.1 MBThe medieval church gave birth to the misogynistic rhetoric that continues to hinder women’s progress in the West today, but it also witnessed the first real “feminist” rumblings of discontent. Medieval women were not content to be victims of oppression: they challenged the rhetoric, and when that didn’t work, they found ways to work around it. In this podcast, historian Sara Butler speaks about women in the Middle Ages and how they faced many of the same challenges that we do today. Sara B...
Reclaiming My Family's Story: Cultural Trauma & Indigenous Ways of Knowing
April 21, 2021 13:35 - 56 minutes - 38.7 MBThis presentation is an Indigenous autoethnographic study of a family’s story of survival through the Native American boarding school system. Although this project was in a part an academic exercise, it was also an effort to reclaim pieces of a family’s experience that was purposefully silenced and erased from mainstream hegemonic nationalist narratives. Speaker: Melissa Beard Jacob, PhD | Intercultural Specialist, Native American and Indigenous Student Initiatives, Office of Student Life ...
The Global History of HIV
February 09, 2021 17:18 - 56 minutes - 52.4 MBOn World AIDS Day 2020, in the midst of another pandemic, Ohio State University History Professor Thomas McDow presented a close look at the historical factors that shaped the global spread of HIV, from equatorial Africa to the world. Thomas F. McDow is a specialist in African History at Ohio State University. He co-teaches a course with a microbiologist on the global history and science of HIV and is writing a history of HIV in Tanzania. Posted: December 4, 2020 Connect with us! Email: ...
Election 2020: Insights from History
February 09, 2021 17:16 - 59 minutes - 55.1 MBOhio State University Department of History faculty experts discuss the historical context of Election 2020. Panelists include: Paula Baker, Associate Professor, Department of History; Nicholas Breyfogle, Associate Professor, Department of History and Director of the Goldberg Center; Susan Hartman, Professor Emerita, Department of History; Clay Howard, Associate Professor, Department of History; and Hasan Kwame Jeffries, Associate Professor, Department of History Posted: December 1, 2020 C...
Indigenous Peoples' Day: A Conversation
February 09, 2021 17:13 - 30 minutes - 28 MBOhio State University experts Melissa Beard Jacob, Ph.D., and Associate Professor Daniel Rivers discuss Indigenous Peoples' Day and the history of Indigenous People. Dr. Jacob is the Intercultural Specialist for Native American and indigenous Students and Dr. Rivers is a faculty member in the Department of History. Posted: October 14, 2020 Connect with us! Email: [email protected] Twitter: @OriginsOSU Instagram: @OriginsOSU Facebook: @OriginsOSU Find transcripts, background reading, and...
Climate Change: Insights from History
February 09, 2021 17:10 - 27 minutes - 25.8 MBA conversation with Ohio State University Department of History faculty members, John Brooke, Jennifer Eaglin and Samuel White about the historical context of climate change. Posted: September 29, 2020 Connect with us! Email: [email protected] Twitter: @OriginsOSU Instagram: @OriginsOSU Facebook: @OriginsOSU Find transcripts, background reading, and more at origins.osu.edu A transcript of this podcast is available at https://origins.osu.edu/historytalk/climate-change-insights-history
One Hundred Years of Women and the Vote
February 09, 2021 17:09 - 57 minutes - 53.4 MBOn the centennial of the ratification of the 19th Amendment the Ohio State University College of Arts and Sciences hosted a conversation with a panel of experts. They discussed the legacy of enfranchisement, especially for women of color; the ongoing gender disparity in elected officials; and how history informs the 2020 election. Panelists included: Susan Hartmann, professor emerita, Department of History; Treva Lindsey, associate professor, Department of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studi...
China and the Black Liberation Struggle in America
February 09, 2021 17:05 - 40 minutes - 37.3 MBFrom Mao Zedong to Martin Luther King Jr., China has a long and complex history of interaction with African American movements for equal rights. Please join Ohio State University’s Melvin Barnes Jr. and Princeton University’s James Watson-Krips as they discuss Barnes’ research on the history of Chinese-African American interactions from the Civil Rights Movement to Black Lives Matter. Posted: July 2020 Connect with us! Email: [email protected] Twitter: @OriginsOSU Instagram: @OriginsOSU ...
Pandemics: Past, Present, Future
February 09, 2021 17:02 - 57 minutes - 53.4 MBFrom Plague to Influenza and HIV, learn about the history of global pandemics in order to better understand the current coronavirus pandemic, a panel discussion with John Brooke, Jim Harris, Thomas McDow, Erin Moore, and Kristina Sessa. Posted: May 2020 Connect with us! Email: [email protected] Twitter: @OriginsOSU Instagram: @OriginsOSU Facebook: @OriginsOSU Find transcripts, background reading, and more at origins.osu.edu A transcript of this podcast is available at https://origins....
Hong Kong and China: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
February 09, 2021 16:58 - 45 minutes - 41.8 MBIn early June 2019, residents of Hong Kong took to the streets to protest proposed legislation by the Hong Kong government that would enable extradition from the city to mainland China. Over the ensuing months, heavy-handed tactics by the police only swelled the movement, which has grown to involve over a million residents of Hong Kong. The demonstrators' demands have also expanded to encompass an investigation into police brutality, the resignation of Chief Executive Carrie Lam and the esta...
From Poll Taxes to Partisan Gerrymandering: Voter Disenfranchisement in the United States
February 09, 2021 16:56 - 40 minutes - 37.4 MBVoting is perhaps the most fundamental act of democratic citizenship. In a democracy, our political leaders receive their mandate, and the system itself derives its legitimacy, from the people who elect them. In the United States, however, the right to vote has never been extended universally. Although the franchise has expanded to include many more citizens since 1776, these gains have come haltingly and unevenly. Even as women gained suffrage, African Americans were kept from the polls in ...
"Juntos Haremos Historia": AMLO and Mexico's Fourth Transformation
February 09, 2021 16:51 - 42 minutes - 39.2 MBAndrés Manuel López Obrador (a.k.a.AMLO) rode to the presidency in 2018 by promising Mexico "juntos haremos historia" ("together we will make history"). Pundits have fallen over themselves trying to categorize AMLO, refering to him variously as Mexico's Jeremy Corbyn and Mexico's Donald Trump. AMLO's keen sense of his country's history has found expression in his promise to inaugurate the country's "fourth transformation." In doing so, he has positioned himself squarely in the pantheon of Me...
Sudan: Popular Protests, Today and Yesterday
February 09, 2021 16:47 - 37 minutes - 35.1 MBIn April 2019, four months of sustained protests throughout Sudan culminated in the ousting of President Omar al-Bashir, who had ruled the country since taking office in a 1989 military coup. Originally a response to the spiraling cost of living, demonstrators soon widened their criticisms to encompass the full impact of Bashir’s three decades in power: brutal political repression, economic stagnation, and civil war in the country’s west and south. In the end, the huge crowds who took to the...
Yemen: Inside the Forgotten War
February 09, 2021 16:43 - 46 minutes - 43.3 MBAfter 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 estimates count at least 10,000 civilian deaths in the ongoing conflict, with millions more threatened by disease and famine. Yet for many in the West, Yemen remains a forgotten war, despite the fact that the Saudi-backed forces fighting the northern Houthi rebels continue to deploy weapons produced in the United States and in Europ...
Brexit: Dividing the United Kingdom
February 09, 2021 16:40 - 57 minutes - 53.3 MBOn June 23rd, 2016, 52% of voters in the United Kingdom stunned the British political and media establishment—and the entire world—by voting to leave the European Union. Nearly three years, later, however, the final outcome of Brexit remains uncertain. And issues that affect the lives of millions hang in the balance, from the rights of EU citizens living in the UK and Britons living in the EU, to the status of the land border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. In this mon...
Secrecy and Celibacy: The Catholic Church and Sexual Abuse
February 09, 2021 16:35 - 45 minutes - 41.8 MBOver the last two decades, the Catholic Church has been buffeted by a series of sexual abuse scandals. High-profile investigative reports have uncovered cases of sexual abuse of minors, both boys and girls, as well as nuns and adult women, by Catholic priests, bishops, and members of religious orders. But while clerical abuse has only recently become a news item, it has a much longer history. This month, your History Talk podcast hosts Lauren Henry and Eric Michael Rhodes speak with two exp...
Who Owns the Past? Museums and Cultural Heritage Repatriation
February 09, 2021 16:17 - 43 minutes - 40.1 MBIn November 2018, a report commissioned by French President Emannuel Macron called for artifacts taken to France during the heyday of European imperialism in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries to be returned to Africa, sending shockwaves throughout the museum world. “I cannot accept,” said Macron, “that a large part of the cultural heritage of several African countries is in France.” The expropriation of material culture has proven controversial in a variety of contexts, from the acquisi...
HIV/AIDS: Past, Present and Future
February 09, 2021 16:13 - 39 minutes - 36.3 MBIn the West, many think of HIV/AIDS as a phenomenon that began in the 1980s, when news first broke of a mysterious and highly deadly disease. In reality, however, the history of HIV/AIDS stretches back more than a hundred years, and has been shaped by some of the most important trends of the 20th century: from European colonialism in Africa, to the proxy conflicts fought between allies of the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War, to the globalization and economic neolibera...
Brazil, Bolsonaro, and the Politics of Nostalgia
February 09, 2021 16:10 - 44 minutes - 41.1 MBIn October 2018, Brazil elected far-right ideologue Jair Bolsonaro to the presidency. Bolsonaro, a retired military officer often called the "Trump of the Tropics," campaigned on a platform that mixed anti-corruption with open nostalgia for the military dictatorship that ruled Brazil from 1964 to 1985. On this month's History Talk podcast, your new hosts Eric Michael Rhodes and Lauren Henry speak with two experts — Jennifer Eaglin and Pedro Cantisano — about the rise of Bolsonaro, his place ...
Classics and the Alt-Right Conundrum
February 09, 2021 15:54 - 39 minutes - 36.8 MBExistential fears of “losing” what is seen as “Western Civilization” have animated many within what is considered the alt-right. However, the valorization of “western civilization” is often rooted in romanticized notions of ancient Greece and Rome, which alt-right groups have appropriated and promoted in recent propaganda. Why and how do nationalists in Europe and the U.S. draw contemporary connections to ancient Greece and Rome? What are the consequences of this for our understandings of th...
From the Cold War to the War on Terror
February 09, 2021 15:49 - 42 minutes - 39.7 MBThe September 11th attacks put terrorism in the forefront of American consciousness. Since then, the U.S. has waged a nearly ubiquitous global war on terror, that now reaches 76 countries and seems far from over. Although American thought on terrorism persistently goes back to 9/11 and 2001, U.S. interest and rhetoric on terrorism dates back well into the Cold War. How did terrorism become a focal point of U.S. foreign policy? How did earlier precedents shape how the U.S. fights terrorism an...
Nuclear Tensions, Nuclear Weapons, and a Long History of Nuclear War
February 09, 2021 15:44 - 52 minutes - 48.2 MBIn the last year, tensions between the U.S. and North Korea, a false nuclear missile alert in Hawaii, and debates over the Iran nuclear deal have renewed public attention to the development of nuclear weapons and armament and the potential for war. But from the Cold War, to the Cuban Missile Crisis, to Chinese nuclear tests in the 1960s, the U.S. and the world have frequently faced these fears, and attempted to place particular countries’ access to nuclear weapons technology under internatio...