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HAIH at Monticello, Part 2: The History Wars
This is the second in a two-part series of conversations recorded at Thomas Jefferson's Monticello as History As It Happens goes on location, with sp…
2 years, 11 months ago
HAIH at Monticello, Part 1: What Jefferson Wanted
This is the first in a two-part series of conversations recorded at Thomas Jefferson's Monticello as History As It Happens goes on location, with spe…
2 years, 11 months ago
The Next Crimean War
As Ukraine prepares to launch its spring offensive to break the stalemate against the Russian invaders, it's unclear if Ukrainian forces will be able…
2 years, 11 months ago
A Decent Interval
Fifty years ago the U.S. agreed to withdraw the last of its forces from Vietnam. After years of excruciating negotiations held as the combatants lost…
2 years, 11 months ago
The Daniloff Affair
Nearly 40 years before Russian security agents arrested Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich and falsely charged him with spying, the KGB di…
2 years, 11 months ago
Heritage of Treason
April is Confederate Heritage Month in Mississippi. Since the Confederacy was created by secession with the aim of protecting human chattel slavery, …
2 years, 11 months ago
Decade of Drift?
The 1990s began with the collapse of the Soviet Union and expulsion of Saddam Hussein's armies from Kuwait. As the world's only superpower, the U.S. …
3 years ago
Pardon Me, Mr. President
Few things in life, let alone politics, are truly unprecedented. When it comes to the American presidency, Donald Trump did make history as the first…
3 years ago
The Long 1960s
Historian Michael Kazin, a distinguished scholar of the American left, says American politics are caught in "the long 1960s." For decades Congress ha…
3 years ago
Star Wars
Forty years ago, 'Return of the Jedi' opened in movie theaters, but 1983 also was a big year for another kind of 'Star Wars.' Two months before the m…
3 years ago