Maritime Exchange Networks and Urban-Centered States in Ancient East Africa
Presented by Chapurukha Kusimba, American University, at the Center for Historical Research, Department of History at The Ohio State University on October 31, 2014.
Presented by Chapurukha Kusimba, American University, at the Center for Historical Research, Department of History at The Ohio State University on October 31, 2014.
Recent mass shootings have turned American attention to the nation’s mental health system, its perceived failings, and it's potential to stem the tide of mass violence. However, Americans have a long history of pointing to mental illness as a panacea for solving social problems and an equally lengthy history of criticizing the treatment of those considered mentally ill.
Take a tour of duty with Ohio State University military history professor and former top advisor to General Petraeus, Dr. Peter Mansoor. Recorded by WOSU at The Ohio State University.
"Gland-feelers, Researchers, and Elusive Patients: Perspectives on Sleeping Sickness Control in East Africa" presented by Mari Webel, Postdoctoral Fellow in African studies and Global Health, Emory Univeristy at the Center for Historical Research, Department of History, The Ohio State University on Feb. 1, 2013.
On January 15, 2016, Professor Caroline Schroeder, The University of the Pacific, presented, "Monks and Their Children: Family and Familial Renunciation in Late Antique Egypt" at the Center for Historical Research in the Department of History at The Ohio State University.
Created by Katherine O'Harra. This video is a digital project completed as part of Professor Lilia Fernandez's History 4015: Research in Modern U.S. History course at Ohio State University in the spring of 2015.
As the struggle between members of the Standing Rock Reservation and their allies against the Dakota Access Pipeline coninues, History Talk takes a look at the long-term patterns of Native American relations with the U.S. government. Hosts Jessica Blissit and Brenna Miller and guests David Nichols, Christine Ballengee Morris, and Daniel Rivers discuss the specific environmental and sovereignty concerns surrounding construction of the DAPL, as well as how this issue fits into the larger history of Native American treaties, resistance, and protests.
By all accounts, the emergence of global capitalism in the eighteenth or nineteenth centuries marked a crucial transformation in the human relationship with consumer goods. Our relationship with goods, however, is far older. Goods were present at the making of humanity itself early in the Pleistocene, and over the ensuing millennia they became caught up in our cultures, our patterns of communication, and even our nervous systems.