Best of HAIH: Frederick Douglass and the 4th of July
This episode was first published on June 30, 2022. New episodes of History As It Happens will resume next Tuesday, March 7, 2023. Make sure to sign up for our weekly newsletter at historyasithappens.c...
2 Mar 20231h 9min
Best of HAIH: The Munich Fallacy
This episode was first published on Dec. 13, 2022. New episodes of History As It Happens are coming soon. Since British prime minister Neville Chamberlain attempted to avoid war with Hitler in 1938, t...
28 Feb 202357min
One Year of War w/ Anatol Lieven
This is the second episode in a two-part series marking the anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, which began on February 24, 2022. The war in Eastern Europe will determine whether Ukraine c...
23 Feb 202357min
One Year of War w/ Michael Kimmage
This is the first episode in a two-part series marking the anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, which began on February 24, 2022. One year ago, Russian president Vladimir Putin may have bel...
21 Feb 202351min
The 1619 Hustle
No publication in recent memory has provoked more debate and political hand-wringing than the New York Times' 1619 Project. Much of the attention has focused on its specious claims that "some colonist...
16 Feb 20231h
America's Man in Pakistan
Most Americans hadn't seen or heard the name of former Pakistani military ruler Pervez Musharraf for many years before news broke of his death earlier this month. Musharraf had been ill, living a quie...
14 Feb 202337min
Hurricane of Lies
Seventy-three years ago today, Wisconsin Senator Joseph McCarthy delivered a watershed speech in his young political career in Wheeling, West Virginia. He told the Republican Women's Club that he knew...
9 Feb 202351min
Bursting China's Balloon
China's decision to fly a surveillance balloon over the United States led Secretary of State Antony Blinken to postpone his trip to Beijing at a time when U.S.-China relations are at a historic low po...
6 Feb 202347min
