Episode guest: Nathan Brown

Plus, the origins of ‘ethnic cleansing’

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Episode guest: James Oakes

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Episode guest: Martin Shaw

Pulitzer Prize winning war correspondent Azmat Khan says the Pentagon still obfuscates, lies, and manipulates the truth about civilian deaths in war

Episode guest: Jeremi Suri

Sixty years after the film premiered, and 23 years after its screening at the Pentagon, its lessons are as relevant as ever

Sixty years after the film premiered, and 23 years after its screening at the Pentagon, its lessons are as relevant as ever

Podcast Episode · History As It Happens · September 11 · 58m

Learn how the past shapes the present with the world's best historians. Everything happening today comes from something, somewhere, so let's start thinking historically about current events. History A...

Episode guest: Mark LeVine

Episode guest: Alexander Aviña

The goal of eliminating any potential or future threats, real or imaginary, will all but inevitably dehumanize and create new enemies

In an interview with RS, the senator discusses Israeli influence in the US, whether Libya was a mistake, and more

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Podcast Episode · History As It Happens · August 11 · 44m

In a wide-ranging interview with RS, the hawkish historian talks primacy, neoconservatives, and why he opposes the war in Iran

The world is aflame with endless wars and racial strife. Some societies are tearing themselves apart as mass migration fuels a nationalist backlash. Since the nineteenth century, ethnic nationalism ha...

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