History Talk

Peter Mansoor discusses his new book, Redemption: MacArthur and the Campaign for the Philippines, focusing on the strategic and operational decisions made by American and Japanese leaders, the organization of military forces, air and naval actions, intelligence, logistics, and guerrilla warfare. Redemption is both a campaign history and a study in the strategic leadership of General of the Army Douglas MacArthur, for both aspects are required to understand the totality of the largest American campaign in the Pacific during World War II. This talk explores the complexities of the Philippines campaign and MacArthur's role in it.
Peter R. Mansoor, Professor, General Raymond E. Mason Jr. Chair in Military History
Nicholas Breyfogle (Moderator), Professor of History and Director, Goldberg Center for Excellence in Teaching, The Ohio State University.

In this talk, OSU Professor Cabanes, who undertook several research trips to Palau between 2017 and 2023, explores the intertwined memories—American, Japanese, and Palauan—of one of the most violent battles of the Pacific War. The battle of Peleliu devastated local communities, remade landscapes, and took the lives of thousands of U.S. Marines and Japanese soldiers. Cabanes meditates on the nature of memory and forgetting, the presence of the past in the present, and the challenges of writing histories shaped by trauma.
Bruno Cabanes, Professor and Donald G. & Mary A. Dunn Chair in Modern Military History
Nicholas Breyfogle (Moderator), Professor of History and Director, Goldberg Center for Excellence in Teaching, The Ohio State University

Ohio State faculty experts hold a conversation that puts American domestic policy changes during the first 100 days of the second Trump administration into historical perspective.
Panel Members: 
Bart Elmore, Professor of History, The Ohio State University
Maria Hammack, Assistant Professor of History, The Ohio State University
Clay Howard, Associate Professor of History, The Ohio State University
Daniel Rivers, Associate Professor of History, The Ohio State University
 
Nicholas Breyfogle (Moderator), Professor of History and Director, Goldberg Center for Excellence in Teaching, The Ohio State University.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 videos and podcasts. For more information about Origins: Current Events in Historical Perspective, please visit origins.osu.edu.

Ohio State faculty experts hold a conversation that puts American foreign policy changes during the first 100 days of the second Trump administration into historical perspective.Panel Members:Peter L. Hahn, Distinguished University Professor of History, The Ohio State UniversityMitchell Lerner, Professor of History and Director of the East Asian Studies Center, The Ohio State UniversityJennifer Mitzen, Professor of Political Science, The Ohio State UniversityChristopher McKnight Nichols, Wayne Woodrow Hayes Chair in National Security Studies and Professor of History, The Ohio State University Dorothy Noyes (Moderator), Director, Mershon Center for International Security Studies, Arts & Sciences Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Studies

Who doesn’t love penguins? Join Ellen Arnold to learn about the many different roles that penguins took on as Europeans first began to encounter them in the mid-1500s, from quirky oddity to salvation for the starving. Over the course of the following centuries, Europeans had many different interactions with penguins, and these shaped how they understood what the birds were. Sailors and scientists alike brought back accounts of the strange birds, which were only slowly understood to be unique to the South.
Featuring Ellen Arnold, an environmental historian and Senior Lecturer in the Ohio State University Department of History.
Moderated by Nicholas Breyfogle, Professor of History and Director of the Harvey Goldberg Center for Excellence in Teaching.