Current Events

Prologued Podcast:

Prologued is a serial-style history podcast, created by Origins: Current Events in Historical Perspective, that offers in-depth discussions of the historical roots of the world today—a past that has often been lost, ignored, or misconstrued.

Season 2 examines The Global War on Drugs and asks: When and where did the War on Drugs really begin? Join us as we explore how a century of drug wars fought around the world informs today's conversations about marijuana use, abuse, and legalization.

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Content by country:

ARGENTINA:

• Blue, Black, and Green: Inflation and the Fate of Argentina by Carlos S. Dimas
• Argentina’s Day of Loyalty and the Birth of Peronism by Steven Hyland
• Cholera and Argentina: Insights for COVID-19 by Carlos S. Dimas

BOLIVIA:

• Once More, Bolivians Seek Independence by Jeremy Ravl Mumford

CHILE:

• In Historical Truths, the Road to an Open Society by Derek Charles Catsam 

COLOMBIA:

• Colombia: On the Brink of Peace with the FARC by Steven L. Taylor

CUBA:

• Major Players: Nat King Cole Meets Baseball Legend Orestes Minoso by Christopher Shell
• African Americans, Anti-Racism, and Cuba by Christopher Shell
• Easing up on Cuba by Henry Butterfield Ryan
• Who is Responsible for the Elian Gonzalez Case?  by Joseph J. Gonzelez
• Cuba in Focus--Again by Henry Butterfield Ryan
• Nixon and China, Bush and Cuba? by Stephen A. Allen
• What Happened When We Stayed the Course in Cuba by Joseph J. Gonzelez
• Guantanamo for Beginners by Jeffrey Vernon
• As Cuba and the United States Reengage: The Presence of the Past by Louis A. Perez Jr. 
• Rethinking Cuba Libre by Patrick P. Potyondy and Leticia R. Wiggins
• Baseball Without Borders by Alexander Halght 
• U.S. and Cuban Relations (Grade 9-12 lesson plan, cartoon, PPT and timeline)
• A Postcard from Havana, Cuba by Amanda Lawson
• Black Activism, Cuba, and Anti-Racism by Kyle Michl

DOMINICAN REPUBLIC:

• The Dominican Republic and the United States: A Baseball History by Andrew Mitchel

ECUADOR:

• What's 'Natural' on the Galapagos Islands? by David Bernstein

EL SALVADOR:

• The Murdered Churchwomen in El Salvador by Stephanie M. Huezo

GUATEMALA:

• The Guatemala Inoculation Experiments by Lydia Dixon

HONDURAS:

• Honduras, TPS, and U.S. Policy by Brenna Miller, Jessica Viñas-Nelson (Guests: Dana Frank, Katherine Borland) 

MEXICO:

• The 1975 Mexico City World Conference on Women by Gisel Valladares
• The Fall of Tenochtitlan by Diego Javier Luis
• Broken Promises in Mexico by Francis Adams
• Mexico's Great Transition by James M. Banner Jr. 
• Immigrant Deportations Today and the Continuing Legacy of 'Operation Wetback' by Delia Fernández
• A Postcard from Mexico City by Gisel Valladares
• Shifting Borders: The Many Sides of U.S.-Mexican Relations by Brenna Miller, Jessica Viñas-Nelson (Guests: Dr. Elena Albarrán, Dr. Mathew Coleman, Dr. Lilia Fernández)
• A Postcard From Chichén Itzá by Amanda Lawson
• A Postcard From Oaxaca, Mexico by Eric Michael Rhodes
• 'Juntos Haremos Historia': AMLO and Mexico's Fourth Transformation by Lauren Henry, Eric Michael Rhodes (Guests Elena Jackson Albarrán, Reyna Esquivel-King)

NICARAGUA:

• The Sandino Manigesto and the Birth of the Nicaraguan Revolution by Craig Vernlest

PANAMA:

• The Sack of Panama: Captain Morgan and the Battle for the Caribbean by Patrick Crawford

VENEZUELA:

• What's Really At Stake in the Venezuelan Election by Elliot Young
• An End to Interventionism in Venezula by Nikolas Kozloff
• The Roots of Venezuela's Failing State by John Polga-Heclmovich

AFFILIATED WITH MULTIPLE COUNTRIES:

• Populism and Anti-Americanism in Modern Latin America by Justin Lance
• A New Cold War in the Caribbean? by Nikolas Kozloff
• The Shifting Terrain of Latin American Drug Trafficking by Steven Hyland 
• No Julian Castro without Mother Rosie Castro by Cynthia E. Orozco
• Bartolomé de las Casas and 500 Years of Racial Injustice by Dani Anthony
• Hacer América and the American Dream: Global Migration and the Americas by Steven Hyland 
• The Amazon Rainforest under Threat by Stanley E. Blake
• The Theological Third Way in Latin America by Amanda Lawson
• The Missing 'Third' of the Third World by Brionna Mendoza
• Yearning to Breathe Free: The American Immigration Story by Maysan Haydar 
• Episodes of Ambivalent Empire by Richard Marsh