Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchFlirting with Armageddon
Sixty Octobers ago the world narrowly avoided nuclear conflict. After 13 tense days, the Cuban Missile Crisis ended with a compromise deal rather tha…
3 years, 7 months ago
When America Failed the Jews
Years before Adolph Hitler obtained power, and in the decades before the Third Reich brought "the manufacture of mass death to its pitiless consummat…
3 years, 7 months ago
The War That Never Ended
One-hundred fifty-seven years after Appomattox, Americans are still grappling with a question that hung over the post-Civil War period: what kind of …
3 years, 7 months ago
HAIH at Mt. Vernon, Part 2: The History Wars
This is the second in a two-part series of conversations recorded at George Washington's Mount Vernon as History As It Happens goes on location, with…
3 years, 7 months ago
HAIH at Mt. Vernon, Part 1: What Washington Wanted
This is the first in a two-part series of conversations recorded at George Washington's Mount Vernon as History As It Happens goes on location, with …
3 years, 7 months ago
The "Fake" Populists
Why would a U.S. senator pen a polemical attack against a history professor? Florida Senator Marco Rubio labeled Princeton's Sean Wilentz a "cisgende…
3 years, 7 months ago
From Mussolini to Meloni
The Italian elections went in favor of a right-wing coalition led by Giorgia Meloni and her party, Brothers of Italy. After winning only four percent…
3 years, 8 months ago
Wars of Soviet Succession
War has been the rule in the former Soviet domains. The collapse of the USSR unleashed previously bottled-up ethnic and territorial conflicts. Some c…
3 years, 8 months ago
Annexation
Russia is trying to accomplish in a sham process what it can't achieve on the battlefield, which is to conquer eastern Ukraine. In Kremlin-engineered…
3 years, 8 months ago
What the U.N. Cannot Do
By design the United Nations cannot stop the war in Ukraine. The world body chartered in 1945 to promote peace and cooperation has a decidedly mixed …
3 years, 8 months ago