History As It Happens Podcast
This is a podcast for people who want to think historically about current events. History As It Happens, hosted by award-winning broadcaster Martin Di Caro, features interviews with today's top scholars and thinkers, interwoven with audio from history's archive. New episodes every Tuesday and Thursday.
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Recent Stories
History As It Happens: America and Israel's 'special relationship'
U.S. support for Israel has rarely been unconditional. The relationship has survived plenty of disagreements.
History As It Happens: Recovering Kennan
Historians debate whether George Kennan's Cold War policy of containment may be applied to Vladimir Putin's Russia.
History As It Happens: What is intifada?
An Arabic word chanted by some college antiwar protesters is disturbing university administrators and politicians.
History As It Happens: The elections of 1860 and 1864
Lincoln's victories forever shaped the course of American history.
History As It Happens: The fascism distraction
What explains the curious preoccupation with looking for fascism in American politics?
History As It Happens: What is Zionism?
Pro-Palestinian protesters on college campuses are denouncing Zionism. What do they mean?
History As It Happens: An ally in the South China Sea
The Philippines is strengthening its relationship with its oldest treaty ally, the United States. The two nations share a complex, close relationship dating to the late 1800s.
History As It Happens: When Reagan pressured Israel
During the 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon, President Reagan cut off shipments off cluster shells and pressured Israel to withdraw. Some today wonder why President Biden can't do the same.
History As It Happens: Trump v. Founders
Founding-era historians filed a brief with the Supreme Court arguing that the former president's claims of immunity have no basis in the Constitution or American history.
History As It Happens: Origins of a border crisis
Across Democratic and Republican administrations, U.S. policies have failed to deter migration to the southern border while fueling instability and violence in Central America.
History As It Happens: Who is ISIS-K?
The obscure group is making international headlines by committing spectacular acts of terrorism. What's its goal?
History As It Happens: Still bombing Baghdad
More than 21 years after toppling Saddam Hussein, the U.S. cannot extricate itself from the disaster it created in Iraq.
History As It Happens: The election of 1992
The populist currents that define politics today started to emerge in the first presidential election after the Cold War.
History As It Happens: After Arafat
The father of Palestinian nationalism died 20 years ago. Today his movement's aspirations appear as distant as ever from being realized.
History As It Happens: Too old to be president
Rarely has the age of the candidates been so prominent an issue in a presidential campaign.
History As It Happens: Securing Ukraine
Ukraine is losing a war of attrition against the Russian invasion, an analyst says. But Russia cannot conquer Ukraine, either.
History As It Happens: Running for president from prison
Little is truly unprecedented in American politics.
History As It Happens: Anarchy in Haiti
The island nation appears to be in an irreversible slide toward anarchy and violence. What happened to Haitian democracy?
History As It Happens: Netanyahu's war
For decades Benjamin Netanyahu has promised Israelis he would defend their security while seeking peace. As the war in Gaza grinds on, his legacy is in tatters.
History As It Happens: Historians vs. Trump, revisited
A constitutional scholar says the Supreme Court botched the history of the 14th Amendment in deciding the Colorado ballot case in favor of Donald J. Trump.