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To consider the long and contentious connections of Crimea, Ukraine and Russia and the dangers for them and the wider world going forward, For Your Ears Only was joined by Dr. Steven Miner, Director of Ohio University’s Contemporary History Institute and an expert on Russian Soviet and Eastern European history. […]

Dr. Steve Miner, Professor of History and Director of the Contemporary History Institute at Ohio University, was interviewed by Canada’s CTV News Today on April 21 as Vice President Joe Biden was in Kiev for the highest-level visit yet from a U.S. official since the start of the crisis in […]

Gerald Goodwin has been awarded the Baker Peace Fellowship for 2013-14. He is completing his dissertation that focuses on the experiences of African Americans in the military during the Vietnam era (1965-1973) and more specifically the ways in which issues deriving from “race” shaped that experience. His research looks at […]

By George Mauzy From Compass “We’re accustomed to seeing the coordination of military operations and national policy in the First World War in terms of civil-military relations,” said author and historian Sir Hew Strachan as he kicked off the 2014 Baker Peace Conference. In his keynote speech, “Military Operations & […]

Why did the United States and Europe impose new sanctions on 11 Russian officials today? How can freezing assets and banning visas affect the diplomatic efforts? David Satter described the oligarchs that rule Russia—and until recent weeks ruled Ukraine—and how they unscrupulously amassed their wealth—such as the assets targeted today. […]

“If we are talking about Ukrainians making their own choice, they need support from the outside world, and they need it united,” said Dr. Steven Miner on CBC Canadian Radio. CBC interviewed Miner, Professor of History and Director of the Contemporary History Institute at Ohio University, Feb. 26 on “Vested […]

Months before debate erupted over the concept of the “imperial presidency” and “executive orders,” Dr. Kevin Mattson was at the Roosevelt Institute in Ireland detailing a view that the power asserted by FDR and used by LBJ was undermined by the Vietnam War—and that liberals are unlikely to sustain its […]