Subject: History
We the people: The 500-year battle over who is American
“We the People.” The Constitution begins with those deceptively simple words, but how do Americans define that ‘We’? In We the People, Ben Railton argues […]
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This day in presidential history
For each of the 365 days of the year, Brandus offers fascinating facts, historical anecdotes, and pithy quotations from and about all the presidents of […]
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The plateau
During World War II, French villagers offered safe harbor to countless strangers – mostly children – as they fled for their lives. The same place […]
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The pandemic century: One hundred years of panic, hysteria, and hubris
Chronicles the last century of scientific struggle against deadly contagious disease–from the 1918 Spanish influenza pandemic to the recent SARS, Ebola and Zika epidemics–examining related […]
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Moments of truth: a photographer’s experience of Kent State 1970
Working as a photographer for the Kent State University student newspaper and yearbook, Howard Ruffner was a college sophomore when the tragic shootings of May […]
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Disrupt, discredit, and divide: How the new FBI damages our democracy
Former special agent Mike German’s Disrupt, Discredit, and Divide tells the story of the transformation of the FBI after the 9/11 attacks from a law enforcement agency, […]
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We called it the home: vignettes and memories from my 13 years in the Ohio soldiers’ and sailors’ orphans’ home
At just five years old, Janice Daulbaugh, along with her three siblings, was sent to the Ohio Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Orphans’ Home in Xenia, Ohio. […]
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See Jane Win: The Inspiring Story of the Women Changing American Politics
From an award-winning journalist covering gender and politics comes an inside look at the female candidates fighting back and winning elections in the crucial 2018 […]
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America’s reluctant prince: the life of John F. Kennedy Jr.
Through the lens of their decades-long friendship and including exclusive interviews and details from previously classified documents, noted historian and New York Times bestselling author […]
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Sparks flew: WOSU’s century on the air
Sparks Flew is a rich story of creative, tenacious men and women working in a new medium that commercial enterprises soon dominated. At any moment in […]
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