Four hundred years ago, on August 20, 1619, a ship carrying about 20 enslaved Africans arrived in the British colony of Virginia. Though the United States did not even exist yet, their arrival marked its foundation, the beginning of the system of slavery on which the country was built. Dr. Jeffries examines the development of enslavement in the Americas and the many ways the legacy of slavery continues to shape and define life in the United States.

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Dr. Hasan Kwame Jeffries was born in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn, New York. After graduating from Midwood High School in 1990, he headed south, enrolling at Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia, the nation’s leading institution for educating African American men. He earned an MA in American history in 1997, and a PhD in American history with a specialization in African American history in 2002, both from Duke University. Since arriving at Ohio State, Hasan has taught graduate and undergraduate seminars on the Civil Rights and Black Power Movement, and surveys in African American and American history.

There are plenty of small changes parents can make around the house to eliminate waste & choose more sustainable options. Bexley resident Rebecca Ness and friends offer tips & tricks that work well for the modern family!

The NBC comedy The Good Place is currently airing its fourth and final season. Among the laughs and zany situations, viewers have encountered the big questions of philosophy, examining what it means to be a good person and what we owe each other. Nate Jackson, Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Capital University, discusses some of the principles of philosophy and ethics covered in the show.

On July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong became the first man to step foot on the moon, fulfilling a promise made by John F. Kennedy over eight years earlier. To commemorate the 50th anniversary of this historic moment, Dr. Robert O. Harmon, the Perkins-Howard Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Ohio Wesleyan University, talks about how we got to the moon and what we learned to guide us in the future of space exploration. 

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Multimedia links from Dr. Harmon's presentation can be found below:

 

Neil Armstrong steps onto the Moon - https://youtu.be/L9Go_j_i6o8

 

Sputnik newsreel - https://youtu.be/850xfa9lKVE

 

JFK moon speech at Rice University - https://youtu.be/th5A6ZQ28pE

 

Discovery News video about the role of a Jewish American and Ex-Nazis - https://youtu.be/VW2KTX0zg5g

 

Tom Lehrer sings "Werner von Braun" - https://youtu.be/TjDEsGZLbio

 

Knitting to the Moon! - https://youtu.be/f2ZCVnk-oRU

 

Great Minds: Margaret Hamilton - https://youtu.be/PPLDZMjgaf8

 

Dr. Harmon's presentation - 

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1nBJNH_MkE67tcRJuMaDrF-umyow8HK0z_EbHZjF6mfs/edit?usp=sharing

Fifty years after the summer of 1969, Woodstock and Altamont remain symbols of the hope and despair generated by the counterculture. The concerts also reflected the diversity and complexity of the sounds of the Sixties. Professor Michael Flamm of Ohio Wesleyan University, author of In the Heat of the Summer: The New York Riots of 1964 and the War on Crime, explores the impact of demography and technology on the music of a generation from the British Invasion and Motown to protest songs and psychedelic rock.

250 years ago this month, Napoleon Bonaparte was born on the small island of Corsica. Perhaps one of the most divisive figures in history, he rose to become the Emperor of France before being exiled to Elba and later Saint Helena. Dr. Andrew Anderson, lecturer at The Ohio State University, talks about his life and legacy.

June 2019 marks the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Riot that marked the birth of the modern LGBT rights movement. It is also the 4th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark decision on same-sex marriage, Obergefell v. Hodges. Ohio State historian Clayton Howard discusses the history behind these two important events, including homophile societies during the early Cold War, gay liberation in the late 1960s and 1970s, lesbian feminism, the AIDS crisis, and the push for same-sex marriage at the end of the twentieth century.

Content Advisory: This recording contains an excerpt from a speech which contains explicit language.

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Clayton Howard earned his PhD from the University of Michigan in 2010, and he is a specialist in postwar U.S. history. His research interests include the histories of American cities, suburbs, gender, sexuality, and politics.  Before coming to Ohio State, he taught at the University of New Hampshire and the College of the Holy Cross.

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Beyond Hidden Figures is a discussion and celebration of Black women in science, politics, literature, and the arts who made huge impacts but have gone unrecognized. The film and novel Hidden Figures introduced us to the three Black women behind NASA's first astronaut launch. In this presentation, Dr. Lindsey will go beyond this story and introduce important Black women whose work in various fields has gone - until now - largely unrecognized. 

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Dr. Treva Lindsey is an associate professor of Women's Gender and Sexuality Studies at the Ohio State University.

Dr. Lindsey specializes in African American women’s history, black popular and expressive culture, black feminism(s), hip hop studies, critical race and gender theory, and sexual politics. Her first book is Colored No More: Reinventing Black Womanhood in Washington D.C. She has published in The Journal of Pan-African Studies, Souls, African and Black Diaspora, The Journal of African American Studies, African American Review, The Journal of African American History, Meridians: Feminism, Race, Transnationalism, Urban Education, The Black Scholar, Feminist Studies, Signs, and the edited collection, Escape from New York: The New Negro Renaissance Beyond Harlem. She was the inaugural Equity for Women and Girls of Color Fellow at Harvard University (2016-2017). She is currently working on her next book project tentatively titled, Hear Our Screams: Black Women, Violence, and The Struggle for Justice.

She is also the recipient of several awards and fellowships from the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, the Social Science Research Council, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Emory University, the National Women’s Studies Association, the Coca Cola Critical Difference for Women Grant, the Center for Arts and Humanities at the University of Missouri and the College of Arts and Sciences at The Ohio State University. Dr. Lindsey was the inaugural recipient of the University of Missouri Faculty Achievement in Diversity Award. She is the co-editor of a forthcoming collection on the future of Black Popular Culture Studies (NYU Press). Dr. Lindsey is also the current co-chair of the Women of Color Leadership Project for the National Women's Studies Association. She is building a strong online presence by guest contributing to  Al Jazeera, BET, Complex Magazine, Cosmopolitan, HuffPost Live, NPR, The Root, and The Marc Steiner Show.

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Has American politics fallen into a state of dysfunction? Can it ever be fixed? These are the questions that motivate journalist and political commentator Michael Tomasky's examination into the origins of our polarized nation. In his latest book, If We Can Keep It: How the Republic Collapsed and How It Might Be Saved, Tomasky offers an agenda for how we can help fix our broken political system.

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Michael Tomasky is a columnist, political commentator, journalist, and author. He is the editor in chief of Democracy: a Journal of Ideas, a special correspondent for The Daily Beast, and a contributor to The New York Times and the The New York Review of Books. 

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How did Black History Month begin and why is it important? Dr. Hasan Kwame Jeffries, Associate Professor of History at The Ohio State University, discusses Black History and the formation of Black History Month. Offered in partnership with the Bexley Minority Parent Alliance.

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Dr. Jeffries was born in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn, New York. After graduating from Midwood High School in 1990, he headed south, enrolling at Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia, the nation’s leading institution for educating African American men. He then earned a MA in American history in 1997, and a PhD in American history with a specialization in African American history in 2002, both from Duke University. His current book project, entitled Stealing Home: Ebbets Field and Black Working Class Life in Post-Civil Rights New York, explores the struggle of working class African Americans to secure and enjoy their freedom rights.

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