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History Talk, the history podcast from Origins: Current Events in Historical Perspective — 271 episodes
Jamaican Independence
Waitangi Day: The Complicated Story
The Greco-Turkish War
The 14th Amendment
The Ghosts of Peleliu: The Intertwined Traumatic Memories of a World War II Battle
The Duel Between Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton
Redemption: MacArthur and the Campaign for the Philippines
Who was Typhoid Mary?
The Battle of Bosworth Field
The 1992 Los Angeles Rebellion
The Children of the Mississippi Freedom Summer, an Interview with Allison Mitchell and Special Guest Dr. Anthony Harris
Allison Mitchell and special guest Dr. Anthony Harris, a Picturing Black History Interview
President James Garfield's Assassination
The Discovery of Pluto
Ten Iconic World Series
Gwangju Then and Now
Project Blue Book: America's Obsession with UFOs
1066: The Normans Conquer England
War of the Pacific, 1879-1884: Chile vs. Peru & Bolivia
American Gothic Reimagined, an Interview with Barbara DuMetz
Michael Santiago, a Picturing Black History Interview
The Bhopal Chemical Gas Disaster
The Legacy of the Magna Carta
The Birth of Peronism
Top 10 Popes Before 1500
The Trump Administration’s Domestic Policies: Insights from History
Trump's Foreign Policy in Historical Perspective
Albert Hofmann and the Discovery of LSD
Justice for the Rwandan Genocide
The Great Fire of Rome
The Tunguska Mystery Explosion
Early Encounters with Penguins
10 Great World War II Films
Haile Selassie I and an Independent Ethiopia
Joseph Smith and the Book of Mormon
The Berlin Airlift
The Founding of the People's Republic of China
The Story of Poinsettia Day and U.S.-Mexico Relations
Remembering Bhopal: The World's Worst Industrial Disaster
What was Wrong with the Judges at the Salem Witch Trials?
Our Top 10 Historical Musicals
Postwar Decolonization and its Discontents
Congolese Rumba: Soundtrack to African Political Struggle
The Very Modern Alice In Wonderland
Solar Eclipses in American History
The 1956 Hungarian Revolution
The Battle For Manila
The Historical Dominance of the Electric Car
SpaghettiOs and the Age of Processed Foods
Operation Barbarossa
Mariner 9: Our 1st Steps to Mars
The 1st Modern Olympic Games, Athens 1896
The Marshall Plan
The Ludlow Massacre: Fighting for Workers’ Rights, 1914
History's Top Spies
Making Sense of South Korean Politics
Martin Luther and the Protestant Reformation
Idi Amin's Uganda
Gorillas in the Mist: The Life and Legacy of Dian Fossey
Operation Wetback: The Roots of Immigrant Deportations Today
Rumble in the Jungle: The 1974 Foreman / Ali Heavyweight Title Fight
Betty Friedan's "The Feminine Mystique"
The First Insulin Injection for Diabetes
The Nuremberg Judgment
Remembering Roman Emperor Augustus
From College Towns into Knowledge Towns: On the Future of Town/Gown Relations
Why Did Japan Attack Pearl Harbor?
Defining Refugees
The Mother of Rock and Roll: Sister Rosetta Tharpe
The Sandino Manifesto and the Birth of the Nicaraguan Revolution
The Versailles Treaty Fight
The Evian Accords: An Uncertain Peace
Between Two Worlds: Jewish War Brides After the Holocaust
The 1848 German Revolutions
The United States and the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict, Historical Perspectives
America's National Parks: 10 Moments of Insight
The Seventeen Point Agreement: China’s Occupation of Tibet
Country Capitalism: How Corporations from the American South Remade Our Economy and the Planet
The Provisional Irish Republican Army
The Remarkable Life of Robert Smalls
Japan's Meiji Restoration
The 19th Amendment: Women's Right to Vote
The Beatles, Rock, and Race in America
Stonewall and the Unfinished Gay Revolution
The Sterilization of Carrie Buck
The Boston Massacre
The Dawes Act
1588: the Spanish Armada Still Loses
The Cossacks, Ukraine’s Paradigmatic Warriors
The Religious Roots of the War in Ukrain
Politics, Cinema, and Liberation in Burkina Faso
The Kent State Massacre
November 11, 1918: The End of World War I?
Water Crisis on the Blue Planet: What Water’s Past tells us about Humanity’s Future
Andy Warhol’s Campbell’s Soup Cans, 1962
Captain America: Changing Conscience of a Nation
“No Victor and No Vanquished” - The Biafran War
Silent Spring Revolution, a Conversation with Douglas Brinkley
The Guatemala Inoculation Experiments
The Suez Crisis of 1956
Season II Trailer: The Global War on Drugs
Season 2, 6. The Past and Future of the Global War on Drugs
Season 2, 5. Counterinsurgency and Drugs in Cold War Thailand and Mexico
Season 2, 4. Afghanistan, Drugs, and the Cold War
Season 2, 3. Devising a Drug-Free World
Season 2, 2. "A New and Deadly Menace"
Season 2, 1. The "Modern" War on Drugs
The Nature of World War II
West Ukraine's War Stories: A New Chapter?
Fly Me to the Moon
The Second Opium War
World War II Memory in Putin's Russia
Liu Bang, from Peasant Rebel to Emperor
How does Ideology Drive U.S. Foreign Relations?
Süleyman the Magnificent
The Greek Civil War, 1946-1949
The Bangladesh Liberation War
Remembering Rachel Carson’s "Silent Spring"
Ukrainian Architecture at War
The Bataan Death March
Ukrainian Theater On The Soviet Stage
The Fall of Tenochtitlan
Taras Shevchenko, Poet of Ukraine
Ukraine in War and Revolution
Soviet Ukraine in a Nutshell
Heroes Never Die: The Legacies of Euromaidan
The Origins of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
Ukraine: The Breadbasket of Europe
Rus Not Russia
The Murdered Churchwomen in El Salvador
The Tour de France and The Yellow Jersey
Magellan and Elcano: The First Circumnavigation of the Earth
Sweet Fuel: The Remarkable Story of Brazilian Ethanol
Copernicus, Galileo, and the Catholic Church
And Water for All
Understanding the War in Ukraine: Insights from the Recent Past, 1991—Present
Seed Money: Monsanto's Past and Our Food Future
Gavrilo Princip and the Beginning of World War I
Picturing Black History
The Russian Invasion of Ukraine
The Gospel of Judas: The Rediscovery of the Earliest Gnostic Gospel
Bombing Hiroshima
The Global War on Drugs
Mendeleev's Periodic Table
Cultural Diplomacy and the Global Cold War
COVID, the New Deal, and the Importance of Leadership
Early American Contagions
The People Power Revolution, Philippines 1986
China and Africa: Historical Perspectives on a Rising Power
Climate Change: Top Ten Things to Know
The Death of Franco
Ideas of Race and Racism in History
What HIV Teaches Us: The Need for Affordable Health Care
Reproductive Politics and the Making of Modern India
Leaving Zion: Jewish Emigration from Palestine and Israel after World War II
Srebrenica and Its Memory
Diet for a Large Planet
First 100 Days of the Biden Administration: Insights from History
"Pale Blue Dot": History of Our Environment
From the Transatlantic Telephone to the iPhone
Re-storying the Experiences of Indigenous College Students
Reclaiming My Family's Story: Cultural Trauma & Indigenous Ways of Knowing
Medieval Women's Rights: Setting the Stage for Today
Migration and Mobility: Yesterday and Today
The Global History of HIV
Stalingrad: The Turning Point of World War II in Europe
History Talk Presents Prologued: Episode 8--The New Normal
History Talk Presents Prologued: Episode 7--"Earn your Spurs"
History Talk Presents Prologued: Episode 6--Mom & Apple Pie
History Talk Presents Prologued: Episode 5--A Slut from East Toledo
History Talk Presents Prologued: Episode 4--So...What Now?
History Talk Presents Prologued: Episode 3--Equal Suffrage Awaits Trial
History Talk Presents Prologued: Episode 2--"I Have Many Things to Say"
History Talk Presents Prologued: Episode 1--The Way We Never Were
History Talk Presents Prologued: Season 1 Trailer
Election 2020: Insights from History
Indigenous Peoples' Day: A Conversation
Going Viral: COVID Conspiracies in Historical Perspective
The Blame Game: The USSR's Response to HIV/AIDS
Climate Change: Insights From History
What's "Natural" on the Galapagos Islands?
One Hundred Years of Women and the Vote
The Liberation of Paris
China and the Black Liberation Struggle in America
The Ancient Roman Origins of Government Disaster Response
The Black Death and Its Aftermath
The Respirator and Cloth Mask
Corona in Context: Lessons from the SARS Pandemic of 2003
Pandemics: Past, Present, and Future
The 1918 Flu Pandemic
International Women's Day - March 8th
Top Ten Origins: Vaccinations
The Amritsar Massacre (1919)
India Pakistan Partition
Hong Kong and China: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
The October Revolution in Russia
From Poll Taxes to Partisan Gerrymandering: Voter Disenfranchisement in the United States
"Juntos Haremos Historia": AMLO and Mexico's Fourth Transformation
Elizabeth Cady Stanton: Wife, Mother, Revolutionary Thinker
Sudan: Popular Protests, Today and Yesterday
Bartolomé de las Casas and 500 Years of Racial Injustice
Storming The Bastille
Yemen: Inside the Forgotten War
The Assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
White Supremacist Violence - An Origins Top Ten
Brexit, and the Dividing of a United Kingdom
Secrecy and Celibacy: The Catholic Church and Sexual Abuse
Top Ten Origins: History's Great Walls, Good Neighbors or Bad Policy?
Top Ten Origins: D-Day
The Execution of Louis XVI
Who Owns the Past? Museums and Cultural Heritage Repatriation
HIV/AIDS: Past, Present and Future
Brazil, Bolsonaro, and the Politics of Nostalgia
Searching for Wakanda: The African Roots of the Black Panther Story
Classics and the Alt-Right Conundrum
From Cold War to War on Terror
Nuclear Tensions, Nuclear Weapons, and a Long History of Nuclear War
Confederate Monuments and the Peace and Justice Memorial
Honduras, TPS, and U.S. Policy
Mental Health and American Society
Politics and Protests on College Campuses
The Long History of #MeToo
Legacies of World War I
The Long View of Sports Protests
From Romanovs to Reds: Russia's Revolutions at 100
The Sixth Extinction and Our Unraveling World
Shifting Borders: The Many Sides of U.S.-Mexican Relations
Russia and the World
Fault Lines: The Urban-Rural Divide in America
The Equal Rights Amendment: Then and Now
Caged: Animals and Humans at the Zoo
Native American Sovereignty and the Dakota Access Pipeline
Greening of China?
North Korea: The Myth of a Hermit Kingdom
America's Post-Election Political Landscape
Hooked: Drugs, Prohibition, and American Cities
Historian Jefferson Cowie on Deindustrialization, Trade, and the 2016 Presidential Election
Beyond the Veil: Women in the Mideast and North Africa
Women In American Politics
Sub-Saharan Africa
The War On Terror
History Talk - The EU. Past, Present, And Future
America's Infrastructure Challenge
Reproductive Rights And Reproductive Justice
Food For Thought: Diet in History
Climate Change and Human Life
Road to Europe: The 2015 Migration Crisis
The Politics Of India
Understanding the Middle East
Buying American Elections?
Violence Against Women
Armenians, Turks, And The Genocide Question
Afghanistan: Past and Prospects
A Long View of Policing in America
Rethinking Cuba Libre
The People's Pope and the Changing Face of Catholicism
Race In The Classroom: Teaching Civil Rights
Putting Race on Display: The National Civil Rights Museum
1989: The Year That Changed It All
4th and Goal? The Past of the American University and the Future of the NCAA
Taylor Branch on the Crisis of College Sports
Memories Of The Great War
The Debate Over Same-Sex Marriage and LGBTQ Rights
The Terrors of Suicide Bombing
The Politics of International Sport
The Fate of Crimea, the Future of Ukraine, Part II
The Fate of Crimea, the Future of Ukraine, Part I
Reaching Beyond the Ivory Tower
The Syrian Civil War: Alawites, Women's Rights, and the Arab Spring
America's Big Brother
The Contentious ACA