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America's Infrastructure Challenge

… A highway bridge collapses in Minnesota, lead poisons the water of Flint, Michigan, and Americans are reminded of … how it has reached such a perilous state, and what it can tell us about changing conceptions of the … report continued. So we said, let's start our own. And we did that in 1998, to continue that on, and we then issued …

How Public and Private Enterprise Have Built American Infrastructure

… In 2015, the Business Round Table, a lobbying organization promoting … Networks in the United States by county ( right ). What is clear, though, is that when the government invests … automobiles instead of horses and wagons as this driver did in 1910 ( left ). The 1904-04 Montgomery Ward & Co. …

Treaties and Sovereign Performances, from Westphalia to Standing Rock

… Since April 2016, members of the Great Sioux Nation have been protesting, through … died along the 1,200 mile journey. Indian treaty-makers did not always concern themselves with the question of who … further Indian treaty-making, as a preliminary to assuming what the Supreme Court called (in Lone Wolf vs. Hitchco*ck …

So...what now? (Prologued, Season 1, Episode 4)

… With the August 18, 1920 ratification, women's suffrage was now … many women in the US were still barred from voting and that what is, and is not, a "women's issue" varied radically, … Prologued . (music) Susan Hartmann Well, in some ways, it didn't represent an abrupt change. Sarah Paxton That is Dr. …

Influenza Pandemics Now, Then, and Again

… In the spring of 2003 I collapsed at a college debating … While those deaths were tragic, they were a fraction of what was feared. The signs in 2003 had been ominous for … was due for another nightmarish pandemic. That pandemic didn't materialize, but it did generate a large-scale …

Top Ten Origins: Flu

… getting your flu shot, but you should. On January 28, 2017 the U.S. Centers for Disease Control declared that seasonal influenza had reached an epidemic level and the number of cases of flu has continued to rise since. … N 1 ) under the microscope. Scholars have found records of what appears to be epidemic influenza dating at least as far …

Water Crisis on the Blue Planet: What Water’s Past tells us about Humanity’s Future

… planet, water has defined every aspect of human life: from the molecular, biological and ecological to the cultural, … and political. Water stands at the foundation of most of what we do as humans. At the same time, water resources — … is to kind of think about the sort of question of well, how did we get here? How did we get to this point where water is …

The Treaty of Waitangi

… On February 6, New Zealanders will mark Waitangi Day on the 180th anniversary of the signing of the Treaty of … British Crown claimed sovereignty over the country, citing what it claimed was the free consent of over 500 rangatira … dispatched an expedition to purchase land, sold land it didn’t possess to prospective migrants, and packed them off …

Nuclear Tensions, Nuclear Weapons, and a Long History of Nuclear War

… In the last year, tensions between the U.S. and North Korea, a false nuclear missile alert in Hawaii, … should we be about nuclear weapons and who has them? How did the U.S. become so central in efforts to control them? …

“What I Did On My Summer Vacation,” by the President

… of this month at his ranch in Crawford, Tex. By fleeing the White House, he continues a tradition of more than 200 … of ordinary citizens affected by his wartime decisions. Nor did the always accessible president shut the doors of his … Health … U.S. Civil War/Reconstruction … “What I Did On My Summer Vacation,” by the President …

The Seventeen Point Agreement: China’s Occupation of Tibet

… On May 23rd 1951, the "Seventeen Point Agreement of the Central People’s Government and the Local Government of Tibet on Measures for the … the Indian army clashed in the Galwan valley. The agreement did provide a range of rights to Tibetans pertaining to …

What the Internet Will Bring Us

… What is the internet? Is it a technological godsend? Is the internet … brought technology to bear on people’s lives in new and remarkable ways. When the Union Pacific met up with the … could possibly come true. Like the internet, the railroad did change, speed up, and alter the world. But no matter the …

The Blame Game: The USSR’s Response to HIV/AIDS

… On the surface, HIV/AIDS and COVID-19 seem as dissimilar as two viruses could … of 1987, there were fifteen known cases of HIV/AIDS in the USSR. By 1990, that official number had grown to around 565. … response in casting blame on foreigners. When Soviets did turn their attention to their fellow citizens, they took …

What Will the Internet Bring?

… This lesson plan focuses on comparing the spread of information due to both railroads and the internet, and how they are similar, but also different. This lesson focuses on the Origins article “What the Internet Will Bring Us.” This article comes from …

What About the WMDs that DO Exist?

… According to the authoritative Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, there … States, Russia, Britain, France, China, India, Pakistan and Israel). And a ninth (North Korea) might have some as … safer if there were fewer nuclear Weapons — or none? That’s what poll after poll has shown that the public thinks. And …

Blue, Black, and Green: Inflation and the Fate of Argentina

… Inflation has long been the great scourge of Argentina and its people. From 1944 to … the broker will provide the daily exchange rate of what Argentineans call the Dólar Blue (DB). Directly … trade with England. Growth in the economy through trade did not translate into broader, more sustainable economic …

The Versailles Treaty Fight

Besides the Wilsonian internationalists, who wanted the Treaty and Covenant ratified unchanged, there were those who wanted to add so-called reservations to the treaties: conditions to U.S. acceptance and participation in the League.

… Besides the Wilsonian internationalists, who wanted the Treaty and Covenant ratified unchanged, there were those who wanted …

Inflation — Fighting the Last War

… You know the old cliché about generals going into battle: They are … particularly remarkable about that statement. It repeats what many conservatives have been saying for a long time: … Curve described a historical moment — the 1970s — but did not predict the future very well. As often happens, …

Re-storying the Experiences of Indigenous College Students

… her dissertation research project that sought to examine the experiences of identity erasure, invisibility and hyper … of students. Her research project sought to examine what can be learned about culturally-centered pedagogy is … Indian I had in mind." And I encountered that much like he did over the course of my life, that I know that I'm not …

The Versailles Treaty Fight

… The organization created to end war, the League of Nations, … Allies of the First World War, plus heads of state and ministers from over forty countries across the globe, … for America in upholding the postwar order. They simply disagreed with Wilson on the conditions of doing so. This set …

The Russian Invasion of Ukraine

… The Russian invasion of Ukraine has been described as a “a … of war and to the pressures from Russia over the years? What role does Russian and Ukrainian nationalism play in … The Ohio State University • Shawn Conroy, PhD Candidate, History, The Ohio State University • Marianna …

What Bill Ford Is Learning from Great-Grandpa

… has announced its “Way Forward” restructuring plan, does the auto maker have a real future? Without doubt. Can its current chairman and CEO, William Clay Ford, Jr., finally stop its growing … & Labor … Infrastructure/Transportation … United States … What Bill Ford Is Learning from Great-Grandpa …

"Pale Blue Dot": History of Our Environment

… Eminent environmental historians from the Ohio State University Department of History share how … extinctions and the threats of pollutants and toxins, what insights from environmental history can be learned to … think it's important to acknowledge that history, Earth Day did not come, just kind of emerge out. 20 million people …

Infanticide: Something New Under the Sun?

… An 18-year-girl gives birth at the prom, allegedly suffocates or strangles her baby, leaves … nationwide discussion. People asked, how could this happen? What would cause an apparently normal young woman to commit … modern American society. Stephen A. Allen is a doctoral candidate in the Medieval Institute at the University of Notre …