History As It Happens

by Martin Di Caro

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The Midterms and Iran (Bonus)

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Discover how the past shapes the present with the best historians in the world. Everything happening today comes from something, somewhere. History As It Happens features interviews with today's top scholars and thinkers, interwoven with audio from history's archive.

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The Midterms and Iran (Bonus)14 Nov 2026 · 14 min · Episode 649Episode guest: Trita Parsi
The Rise and Fall of Trumpism, Revisited13 Nov 2026 · 55 min · Episode 648Episode guest: Damon Linker
Imperial Overstretch10 Nov 2026 · 41 min · Episode 647Episode guest: Jeffrey Engel
The Kaliningrad Question6 Nov 2026 · 43 min · Episode 646Episode guest: Anatol Lieven
Biden, Israel, and Gaza's Destruction3 Nov 2026 · 36 min · Episode 645Episode guest: Akbar Shahid Ahmed
Reagan, Gorbachev, and Reykjavík30 Oct 2026 · 48 min · Episode 644Episode guest: Michael Kimmage
The Owl of Minerva Flies Again27 Oct 2026 · 53 min · Episode 643Episode guests: Vladislav Zubok and Daniel Bessner
The Israeli Elections (Bonus)25 Oct 2026 · 10 min · Episode 642Episode guest: Dahlia Scheindlin
The Inflation Dragon23 Oct 2026 · 47 min · Episode 641Episode guest: Nelson Lichtenstein
The Worst President? Meet Andrew Johnson20 Oct 2026 · 47 min · Episode 640Episode guest: Jim Oakes
Inside Trump's Mind (Bonus)18 Oct 2026 · 14 min · Episode 639Episode guest: Edward Luce
An Antiwar Speech For the Ages16 Oct 2026 · 33 min · Episode 638Episode guest: Michael Kazin
What the Saudis Knew About 9/11 (Bonus)14 Oct 2026 · 14 min · Episode 637Episode guest: Peter Bergen
Daniel Ortega and the Sandinistas13 Oct 2026 · 45 min · Episode 636Episode guest: Jeffrey Gould
Who's Running Iran? (Bonus)9 Oct 2026 · 7 min · Episode 635Episode guest: Trita Parsi
FDR's Fight With Fascism9 Oct 2026 · 1 h 5 min · Episode 634Episode guest: William Hitchcock
The Rise and Fall of Political Islam6 Oct 2026 · 38 min · Episode 633Episode guest: Nathan Brown
Thomas Jefferson's DNA (Bonus)2 Oct 2026 · 9 min · Episode 632Episode guest: Alan Taylor
The Worst President? Meet James Buchanan2 Oct 2026 · 42 min · Episode 631Episode guest: James Oakes
Origins of 'Ethnic Cleansing'29 Sep 2026 · 44 min · Episode 630Episode guest: Martin Shaw
War Criminals of Kosovo25 Sep 2026 · 32 min · Episode 629Episode guest: Alex Whiting
Russia vs. the West22 Sep 2026 · 40 min · Episode 628Episode guest: Hanna Notte
Origins of the Imperial Presidency18 Sep 2026 · 46 min · Episode 627Episode guest: Jeremi Suri
Here Come the Houthis (Bonus)16 Sep 2026 · 8 min · Episode 626Episode guest: Annelle Sheline
Martin at Monticello! Thomas Jefferson's World15 Sep 2026 · 35 min · Episode 625Episode guest: Brandon Dillard
25 Years of Terror11 Sep 2026 · 58 min · Episode 624Episode guest: Peter Bergen
Structures of 'Forever War,' Revisited8 Sep 2026 · 34 min · Episode 623Episode guest: Emma Ashford
Origins of Israel's Lobby4 Sep 2026 · 59 min · Episode 622Episode guests: Eli Clifton and Ian Lustick
Meet Roy Cohn, Donald Trump's Mentor1 Sep 2026 · 60 min · Episode 621Episode guest: Kai Bird
'The Battle of Algiers' 60 Years On28 Aug 2026 · 44 min · Episode 620Episode guest: Martin Evans
Iraq Between Washington and Tehran (Bonus)26 Aug 2026 · 6 min · Episode 619Episode guest: Adam Weinstein
Myanmar's Long, Long, Long Civil War25 Aug 2026 · 52 min · Episode 618Episode guest: Maitrii Aung-Thwin
American Empires21 Aug 2026 · 50 min · Episode 617Episode guest: Mark Kawar
What Happened at Camp David?18 Aug 2026 · 1 h 3 min · Episode 616Episode guest: Mark LeVine
Sen. Chris Van Hollen on Iran, Israel, and U.S. Hegemony14 Aug 2026 · 31 min · Episode 615This special episode features an exclusive interview with United States Senator Chris Van Hollen, a Maryland Democrat and potential 2028 presidential candidate. Congress'…
Quagmires11 Aug 2026 · 44 min · Episode 614Episode guest: Will Walldorf
Crushing Cuba, 1959 to Present7 Aug 2026 · 1 h 7 min · Episode 613Episode guest: Alexander Aviña
Blood and Soil: What is Ethnic Nationalism?4 Aug 2026 · 46 min · Episode 612Episode guest: Sune Haugbølle.
Sudan's Unrelenting Agony31 Jul 2026 · 34 min · Episode 611Episode guest: Alex de Waal
Saudi Nukes (Bonus)30 Jul 2026 · 7 min · Episode 610Episode guest: Joe Cirincione
Iran Update w/ Trita Parsi (Bonus)29 Jul 2026 · 6 min · Episode 609Episode guest: Trita Parsi
Joseph Ellis' "Tragic Side"28 Jul 2026 · 34 min · Episode 608Episode guest: Joseph Ellis
Congress' Slide Into Irrelevance24 Jul 2026 · 38 min · Episode 607Episode guest: Maya Kornberg
Liberal Patriotism21 Jul 2026 · 37 min · Episode 606Episode guest: Michael Kazin
Origins of a Forever War17 Jul 2026 · 38 min · Episode 605Episode guest: Anatol Lieven
Moby-Dick and Democracy14 Jul 2026 · 45 min · Episode 604Episode guest: Michael Kimmage
The Death of Lindsey Graham12 Jul 2026 · 18 min · Episode 603Episode guest: Jeremi Suri
Roger Griffin, From Fascism to Trumpism10 Jul 2026 · 58 min · Episode 602Episode guest: Roger Griffin
Why Mossadegh Matters7 Jul 2026 · 51 min · Episode 601Episode guest: Roham Alvandi
America250! Day in the Life of a Soldier3 Jul 2026 · 45 min · Episode 600Episode guest: Alan Taylor

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