Podcast Episodes

A World Without US?

What if the U.S. had taken a more active and constructive role in international affairs after the First World War, rather than reject the Treaty of V…

3 years, 2 months ago

Useless Resolution

For all the legitimate concern about the fate of American democracy and our governing institutions, relatively little attention is paid to Congress' …

3 years, 2 months ago

House Divided w/ Manisha Sinha

As politics grew increasingly violent in the 1850s, Americans understood that unresolvable conflicts over the extension of slavery and the disproport…

3 years, 3 months ago

House Divided w/ Sean Wilentz

The election of California Rep. Kevin McCarthy as House speaker after five days and 15 ballots exposed divisions within the Republican Party that may…

3 years, 3 months ago

Biden Doctrine

As President Biden enters the third year of his presidency, his only obvious foreign policy success lies in Ukraine, where U.S. and NATO support has …

3 years, 3 months ago

Understanding Emancipation at 160

January 1 marked the 160th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation, a major step in a process of world historical importance, the abolition of s…

3 years, 3 months ago

Putin Problems

Note: This is the final episode of 2022. History As It Happens will be back with new episodes the first week of January, 2023. Enjoy the holidays!

In…

3 years, 4 months ago

The Munich Fallacy

Since British prime minister Neville Chamberlain attempted to avoid war with Hitler in 1938 by agreeing to carve up Czechoslovakia, the word appeasem…

3 years, 4 months ago

Voices of Iran

Since September thousands of ordinary Iranian citizens have risked their lives -- and hundreds have lost their lives -- protesting the ayatollahs' ru…

3 years, 4 months ago

Commercialization of Christmas

Merry Christmas! Or is it Happy Holidays?! Either way, the most intense shopping season of the year is underway. American consumers' senses are being…

3 years, 4 months ago