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The historiography of Malcolm X
The way in which Malcolm X and the Black Power movement has been interpreted and understood over time has changed as academics grappled with his legacy and interrogated his autobiography, published p…
Published on 7 months, 2 weeks ago
America's post war rise and fall
In the aftermath of the Second World War, America had half the world's wealth and a quarter of its GDP. By the 1970s its position as an economic powerhouse without competitor had slipped away and it …
Published on 7 months, 2 weeks ago
Britain in an age of crisis 2001-2025
The period of the last 25 years in Britain has been one of continual crisis and disaster, from the Iraq War to the financial crisis to Brexit and covid. Britain has been transformed by these disaster…
Published on 7 months, 2 weeks ago
A Chinese Century?
America's de-industrialisation, offshoring, its battle to maintain dollar supremacy whilst also restoring itself to being a net exporter have led to historic crises from which there appear to be no e…
Published on 7 months, 2 weeks ago
Hollywood, witch hunts and class struggle in LA
In this episode of the Explaining History podcast we speak with the writer Dennis Broe whose new book The Dark Ages, explores the second Hollywood anti communist purge of 1951. We talk about Hollywoo…
Published on 7 months, 3 weeks ago
Last flight out of Saigon - a story from the last days of the Vietnam War
Fifty years ago, the longest imperial war of the 20th Century ended with the fall of Saigon and the victory of the North Vietnamese in the reunification of Vietnam. Miki Nguyen's account of his famil…
Published on 7 months, 4 weeks ago
China's Neoliberal Turn 1978-89
How did China embrace its own hybrid form of market capitalism with state control after the death of Mao in 1976? How did China avoid the economic shock therapy that devastated the USSR and become a …
Published on 9 months ago
Tariffs, Brexit and the great reorientation
Britain's political class have realised that the writing is on the wall for them in the past week as Trump's tariffs as imposed. This podcast explores the contemporary state of international affairs …
Published on 9 months ago
Changing interpretations on the Nation of Islam
Scholarship of the Black Power Movement in general and the Nation of Islam in particular has been harder to accumulate than that on the main Civil Rights Movement led by Dr Martin Luther King and the…
Published on 9 months ago
The decline of US Liberal Internationalism
Since the beginning of the 21st Century, American internationalism has been in crisis and Trump's recent verbal and economic threats towards allies has accelerated this trend. This podcast explores A…
Published on 9 months, 1 week ago