History Talk, the history podcast from Origins: Current Events in Historical Perspective

We 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 current diet heavy in meat, wheat, and sugar. He’ll explore how the British played a significant role in making red meat, white bread, and sugar the diet of choice—linked to wealth, luxury, and power—and how dietary choices connect to the pressing issues of climate change and food supply.

Panelists:

-Nicholas Breyfogle | Associate Professor, Department of History; Director, Goldberg Center

-Chris Otter | Professor, Department of History

A transcript of this podcast is available at https://origins.osu.edu/transcripts/diet-for-a-large-planet.

This is a production of Origins: Current Events in Historical Perspective at the Goldberg Center in the Department of History at The Ohio State University and the Department of History at Miami University in partnership with the Bexley Public Library. Be sure to subscribe to our channel to receive updates about our podcasts. For more information about Origins: Current Events in Historical Perspective, please visit origins.osu.edu.

We thank the Stanton Foundation for their funding of this and other Origins projects. thestantonfoundation.org/

Faculty experts from the Ohio State University Department of History hold a conversation about the first one hundred days of the Biden administration.

An in-text version of this episode can be found at: https://origins.osu.edu/index.php/historytalk/first-100-days-biden-administration-insights-history

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, Assistant Professor, Department of History

This is a production of Origins: Current Events in Historical Perspective at the Goldberg Center in the Department of History at The Ohio State University and the Department of History at Miami University. Be sure to subscribe to our channel to receive updates about our podcasts. For more information about Origins: Current Events in Historical Perspective, please visit origins.osu.edu.

We thank the Stanton Foundation for their funding of this and other Origins projects. thestantonfoundation.org/

Eminent 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.

An in-text version of this episode can be found at:https://origins.osu.edu/index.php/historytalk/pale-blue-dot-history-our-environment

Panelists:

-Nicholas Breyfogle, Associate Professor, Department of History; Director, Goldberg Center

-Kip Curtis, Associate Professor, Department of History

-Jennifer Eaglin, Assistant Professor, Department of History

-Bart Elmore, Associate Professor, Department of History

This is a production of the College of Arts & Sciences and Origins: Current Events in Historical Perspective at the Goldberg Center in the Department of History at The Ohio State University and the Department of History at Miami University. Be sure to subscribe to our channel to receive updates about our podcasts. For more information about Origins: Current Events in Historical Perspective, please visit http://origins.osu.edu.

We thank the Stanton Foundation for their funding of this and other Origins projects. http://thestantonfoundation.org/

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The 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 telephone.

Written by Bart Elmore. Narration by Dr. Nicholas B. Breyfogle. A textual version of this video is available at https://go.osu.edu/telephonehistory​

This is a production of Origins: Current Events in Historical Perspective at the Goldberg Center in the Department of History at The Ohio State University and the Department of History at Miami University. Be sure to subscribe to our channel to receive updates about our podcasts. For more information about Origins: Current Events in Historical Perspective, please visit http://origins.osu.edu​.

Video production by Laura Seeger and Dr. Nicholas B. Breyfogle. Video Production Assistance by Kristin Osborne. Audio production by Paul Kotheimer, College of Arts & Sciences Academic Technology Services. The Origins' editorial team includes Editors Nicholas Breyfogle, Steven Conn and David Steigerwald; Managing Editors Lauren Henry, Sarah Paxton and Brionna Mendoza; Associate Editor: Kristin Osborne

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Shannon 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 of this podcast is available at: https://origins.osu.edu/transcripts/re-storying-my-indigenous-familys-story

This is a production of Origins: Current Events in Historical Perspective at the Goldberg Center in the Department of History at The Ohio State University and the Department of History at Miami University. Be sure to subscribe to our channel to receive updates about our podcasts. For more information about Origins: Current Events in Historical Perspective, please visit origins.osu.edu.

We thank the Stanton Foundation for their funding of this and other Origins projects. thestantonfoundation.org/

This 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 Multicultural Center | The Ohio State University

This event is presented in partnership with Ohio State Newark Earthworks Center, American Indian Studies, and the Department of History.

A transcript of this audio is available at https://origins.osu.edu/transcripts/reclaiming-my-familys-story.

The 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. Listen to historian Sara Butler, Professor and King George III Chair in British History at Ohio State University, speak about women in the Middle Ages and learn how they faced many of the same challenges that we do today.

This lecture is presented by the Bexley Public Library and the Ohio State University College of Arts & Sciences along with the History Department's Clio Society and Origins: Current Events in Historical Perspective. Additional funding is made possible by the Stanton Foundation.

An in-text version of this episode can be found at: https://origins.osu.edu/index.php/historytalk/medieval-womens-rights-setting-stage-today

With more than 80 million forcibly displaced people in the world and another 260-plus million international migrants, humans today seem to be on the move. Debates over immigration and refugee policy in the U.S., Europe, and across the world have become fierce and deeply divisive, to say the least, and will surely continue to dominate politics in the coming years. All the while, lives are in the balance as people around the globe take the often difficult decision to set off to make a new home in another country. History allows us a glimpse at the motivations and predicaments people on the move face today and in the future.

This is a production of Origins: Current Events in Historical Perspective at the Goldberg Center in the Department of History at The Ohio State University and the Department of History at Miami University. Be sure to subscribe to our channel to receive updates about our podcasts. For more information about Origins: Current Events in Historical Perspective, please visit origins.osu.edu.

An in-text version of this episode can be found at: https://origins.osu.edu/index.php/historytalk/migration-and-mobility-yesterday-and-today

We thank the Stanton Foundation for their funding of this and other Origins projects. thestantonfoundation.org/

On 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.

This is a production of Origins: Current Events in Historical Perspective at the Goldberg Center in the Department of History at The Ohio State University and the Department of History at Miami University. Be sure to subscribe to our channel to receive updates about our podcasts. For more information about Origins: Current Events in Historical Perspective, please visit origins.osu.edu.

An in-text version of this episode can be found at: https://origins.osu.edu/index.php/historytalk/global-history-hiv

We thank the Stanton Foundation for their funding of this and other Origins projects. thestantonfoundation.org/

This content is made possible, in part, by Ohio Humanities, a state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Any views, findings, conclusions or recommendations expressed in this content do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities.

In August 1942, the most famous battle of the Second World War began. More than four million combatants fought in the gargantuan struggle at Stalingrad between the Nazi and Soviet armies. Over 1.8 million became casualties. More Soviet soldiers died in the five-month battle than Americans in the entire war. But by February 2, 1943, when the Germans trapped in the city surrendered, it was clear that the momentum on the Eastern Front had shifted. The Germans would never fully recover.

An in-text version of this episode can be found at: https://origins.osu.edu/index.php/milestones/august-2017-stalingrad-75-turning-point-world-war-ii-europe