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: Oppenheimer and the decision to drop the bomb
Christopher Nolan's blockbuster film has revived interest in a contentious debate about Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
History As It Happens: Oppenheimer, new weapon, new age
The "most terrible weapon" built under the leadership of Robert Oppenheimer ushered in a new age whose consequences continue to threaten human co-existence.
History As It Happens: Florida's slavery lesson
The one item causing a political uproar is not the most important problem in Florida's new African American social studies curriculum.
History As It Happens: Origins of U.S. empire
A new exhibit at the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery compels us to reflect on the roots of America's global hegemony.
History As It Happens: Labor strikes back
2023 is the year of the strike, as tens of thousands of American workers are fed up with their employers.
History As It Happens: Russia and Cuba, together again
Russia, seeking allies as its war in Ukraine drags on, is turning to an old friend.
History As It Happens: George Washington's farewell
Washington biographer Alexis Coe says the first president's Farewell Address is "shockingly modern" and relevant to our current problems.
History As It Happens: Korea's forever war
Peace remains a distant possibility 70 years after the Korean War armistice.
History As It Happens: Clarence Thomas and the 14th Amendment
Were Reconstruction-era legislation and constitutional amendments "race-neutral"?
History As It Happens: Ukraine and NATO
Talk of Ukraine joining NATO has come and gone for more than 30 years. The most recent position to wait until the war ends may not bear fruit, either.
History As It Happens: Witches no more
Connecticut's move to exonerate 12 people wrongfully accused of witchcraft in the 1600s recalls one of the most bizarre and terrifying chapters in American history.
History As It Happens: Otto and Miep
A new TV series dramatizes the loving friendship between Otto Frank and the young Dutch woman who tried to hide his family from the Nazis.
History As It Happens: Our radical Declaration, part three
Annette Gordon-Reed and Joseph Ellis discuss the paradoxes of the American Revolution.
History As It Happens: Our radical Declaration, part two
Historian Jack Rakove explains the pragmatic as well as ideological concerns that drove the final decision to break from Great Britain.
History As It Happens: Our radical Declaration, part one
Historians Sean Wilentz and Jim Oakes assess the radical idea of egalitarianism at the heart of the Revolutionary cause.
History As It Happens: Prigozhin vs. Putin
Yevgeny Prigozhin's short-lived military mutiny exposed dangerous cracks in the Putin autocracy.
History As It Happens: Ghosts of the Jeju incident
Some South Koreans say the U.S. was complicit in the bloody suppression of a left-wing uprising in the earliest years of the Cold War.
History As It Happens: The end of Trumpism? Revisited
No matter what he says, does, or is accused of, Donald Trump's popularity among Republicans remains steadfast.
History As It Happens: What happened to the two-state solution?
Four scholars argue Israel now exists as a "one-state reality" where Palestinians live in conditions akin to apartheid.
History As It Happens: Finding Imad Mughniyeh
A new Showtime series spotlights a Hezbollah leader whom most people had never heard of, but who left a bloody mark on world events.
