History As It Happens: What if? Slavery without the Civil War
If the Civil War hadn't happened, how long would slavery have survived in the United States? The way you approach the question may say something about your politics.
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History As It Happens: The Cold War liberals
The struggle against the USSR may have ended more than 30 years ago, but Cold War liberals are still looking for a global crusade rather than reforming liberalism as home, says a Yale historian.
History As It Happens: Turkey on Thanksgiving
Why did turkey become the traditional Thanksgiving dinner? It has less to do with the Pilgrims than Sarah Josepha Hale.
History As It Happens: The question of genocide
The eruption of war in Israel has led to allegations of genocide on both sides of the conflict. A leading scholar of genocide says this debate misses something important about the nature of modern warfare.
History As It Happens: The Kennedy Coup. A conversation with Ken Hughes
University of Virginia Miller Center historian Ken Hughes joins Martin Di Cary to discuss his new research revealing President Kennedy's central role in the coup that toppled a U.S. ally in Southeast Asia.
History As It Happens: Russia in the Middle East
As war rages in Gaza, Vladimir Putin is trying to revive Russia's stature in an old Soviet playground.
History As It Happens: How wars are lost
Eminent historian Andrew Roberts says political and military leaders must grasp four key strategic concepts if they are to prevail in war.
History As It Happens: Why peace failed
Thirty years after the historic signing of the Oslo Accords, the potential for peace between Jews and Arabs is a distant memory. But as war rages anew today, the two-state solution is getting another hearing.
History As It Happens: From 9/11 to 10/7
The Hamas attack on Oct. 7 that killed 1,400 Israelis is drawing comparisons to the al Qaeda strikes against the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. These comparisons are misguided.
History As It Happens: Ike's assassins
In the summer of 1960, President Eisenhower told the CIA to assassinate a democratically-elected leader in Africa. A new book reckons with this shameful chapter of the Cold War.
History As It Happens: The oil weapon
Fifty years after the Yom Kippur War led to the Arab oil embargo, there is little reason to believe history will repeat itself as war rages in the Middle East once more.
History As It Happens: Bidenomics
President Biden has made ameliorating income inequality a primary goal of his economic agenda. Standing in his way are long-term structural changes in global capitalism.
History As It Happens: 1948 and the Jewish-Arab conflict
The Israel-Hamas war is the latest iteration of a decades-long conflict that began in 1948. As then, today's war is fundamentally about land.
History As It Happens: Putin's 'forever war'
Russia's autocratic ruler is embracing "forever war" as the organizing principle of his regime, says historian Mark Galeotti. This means Putin sees himself at war not only with Ukraine but against the West itself.
History As It Happens: Israel's neighborhood
The outbreak of war between Israel and Hamas may reverse the changing political landscape of the Middle East.
History As It Happens: The rise of Hamas
The Islamic movement's origins date to the first Palestinian uprising of the late 1980s, but its ultimate goal of destroying the state of Israel hasn't changed.
History As It Happens: House of chaos
The ouster of Rep. Kevin McCarthy from the Speaker's office has plunged the U.S. House into a leaderless void. But political crackup is hardly unprecedented in Washington.
History As It Happens: Spies, spies, spies!
A new history of the intelligence war reveals astonishing levels of Russian and Chinese infiltration of the U.S government and commercial enterprises.
History As It Happens: Nixon may have been right (about Yeltsin's Russia)
A month before he died, Richard Nixon sent President Clinton prescient advice on dealing with Yeltsin's Russia. Nixon's memo was confidential until now.
History As It Happens: The rise of Poland
Poland views itself as a burgeoning military and economic force. The gray days of Soviet Communism are ancient history.
History As It Happens: Recovering a vanished world
Author Jacob Mikanowski says there is more to Eastern Europe than stories of war, genocide, and human misery.
