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The rise and fall of the New Deal Era Part Two
In today's episode of the The Explaining History podcast we revisit Gary Gerstle's Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Era. Here we explore the New Deal …
1 year, 6 months ago
America's War on Prostitution 1870-1930
Why did American reformers and missionaries seek to eliminate prostitution worldwide at the end of the 19th Century and the start of the 20th? In thi…
1 year, 6 months ago
AQA Revolution and Dictatorship: Russia 1917-53 (part 2)
This episode is for all students of A Level Russian history, and it follows the AQA syllabus. In this episode we will explore the revolutionary ideas…
1 year, 6 months ago
Black American consumer rights during World War Two
In this episode of the Explaining History podcast we explore A Consumer's Republic by Lizbeth Cohen, an excellent exploration of the development of c…
1 year, 6 months ago
War, Nation and Indentity in Israel 1948-73
As the ongoing genocide in Gaza now spreads to war with Hezbollah in Lebanon and the mass bombing of Lebanese citizens, this podcast is the first of …
1 year, 6 months ago
The German General Staff and army - 1914
The German General Staff in 1914 was widely thought to be the best organised institution for waging war that the western world has ever produced. Its…
1 year, 6 months ago
AQA Revolution and Dictatorship: Russia 1917-53
This episode is for all students of A Level Russian history, and it follows the AQA syllabus. In this episode we will explore the context to Russia o…
1 year, 6 months ago
The rise and fall of the New Deal Era Part One
During the 1930s Franklin Roosevelt stabilised American capitalism using state power, regulation, the empowerment of organised labour and the regulat…
1 year, 6 months ago
With the Beatles 1940-1970
This week we hear from the eminent rock music author and biographer Patrick Humphries whose new book With The Beatles is a complete history of the gr…
1 year, 6 months ago
Chile: 9:11.73
In 1973 the democratically elected socialist government of President Salvador Allende was overthrown in a violent US backed military coup led by gene…
1 year, 7 months ago