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Book Review: Reagan: American Icon by Iwan Morgan
Reviewing the new biography of Ronald Reagan, US president and figurehead of the conservative revolution.
Explaining History helps you understand the…
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Europe's Age of Catastrophe 1914-1945
A combination of factors in the aftermath of the First World War - ethnic nationalism and racism, capitalism in crisis and resurgent class conflict m…
8 years, 9 months ago
Book Review: The Winchester - legend of the west
Review of Laura Trevelyan's biography of the Winchester repeating rifle
Explaining History helps you understand the 20th Century through critical con…
8 years, 10 months ago
The Myth of Hitler's Economic Success
In this podcast, I examine the facade of economic growth in Nazi Germany and using the work of historians Adam Tooze and Richard J Evans, examine the…
8 years, 10 months ago
Britain's Forgotten Depression 1920-21
In the immediate aftermath of the First World War, hopes of an economic boom in Britain were shortlived. Instead, the country was plunged into econom…
8 years, 10 months ago
Book Review: Gotham Rising
This Wednesday's review is Gotham Rising, a cultural history of New York in the 1930s, by Jules Stewart
Explaining History helps you understand the 2…
8 years, 10 months ago
Mao and the Red Guards: 1966.
In 1966, Mao returned from four years in the political wilderness to enact the Cultural Revolution, inspiring millions of young people to carry out …
8 years, 10 months ago
Palestine, India and Britain: Two partitions and the end of empire
Exhausted by the Second World War, Britain was desperate to hold on to influence in the Middle East and yet policy makers were anxious to withdraw fr…
8 years, 10 months ago
Book Review: Black Power and the American People
This week's book review is an excellent and incisive analysis of the cultural history of black power in America by Rafael Torrubia.
Explaining Histor…
8 years, 10 months ago
Public Opinion and International Relations 1890-1914
In the decades before the First World War, the role that public opinion and the press in forming the foreign policy of European powers became conside…
8 years, 10 months ago