History As It Happens
Uncovering the historical origins of current events. Everything happening today comes from something.
History As It Happens
Uncovering the historical origins of current events. Everything happening today comes from something.
About History As It Happens
Uncovering the historical origins of current events. Everything happening today comes from something.
Discover how the past shapes the present with the best historians in the world. Everything happening today comes from something, somewhere.
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Recent Episodes
Where's Russia?
History As It Happens • Apr 24, 2026
What is Greater Israel?
History As It Happens • Apr 21, 2026
Giulio Douhet's Kind of War
History As It Happens • Apr 17, 2026
Bonus Ep! Goodbye, Orbán
History As It Happens • Apr 15, 2026
American Suez
History As It Happens • Apr 14, 2026
Martyrs and Survivors: The Iran-Iraq War
History As It Happens • Apr 10, 2026
Bonus Ep! Antony Beevor's 'Rasputin'
History As It Happens • Apr 8, 2026
The Limits of Power
History As It Happens • Apr 7, 2026
Israel Annexes the West Bank
History As It Happens • Apr 3, 2026
Bonus Ep! Kharg Island, Carter, Khomeini, and 'Eagle Claw'
History As It Happens • Apr 1, 2026
Eyewitness to Annihilation
History As It Happens • Mar 31, 2026
Regime Change: Israel in Lebanon 1982
History As It Happens • Mar 27, 2026
Khamenei's Revolution
History As It Happens • Mar 24, 2026
Peace Through Strength? War Is Our Gospel
History As It Happens • Mar 20, 2026
Bonus Ep! Misunderstanding Iran
History As It Happens • Mar 18, 2026
You Say You Want a Coalition?
History As It Happens • Mar 17, 2026
Neoliberalism, Revisited
History As It Happens • Mar 13, 2026
Bonus Ep! Turkey-Iran-Israel
History As It Happens • Mar 11, 2026
Douglas Kelley's Warning From Nuremberg
History As It Happens • Mar 10, 2026
The Changing Face of Battle
History As It Happens • Mar 6, 2026
Bonus Ep! Iran and the Laws of War
History As It Happens • Mar 4, 2026
America250! Origins of American Empire
History As It Happens • Mar 3, 2026
Special Episode: A War of Choice on Iran
History As It Happens • Feb 28, 2026
Four Years of War: Late Putinism
History As It Happens • Feb 27, 2026
Four Years of War: The Limits of History
History As It Happens • Feb 24, 2026
Bonus Ep! Iran War Madness
History As It Happens • Feb 20, 2026
German Hegemony
History As It Happens • Feb 20, 2026
China's Last War
History As It Happens • Feb 17, 2026
The Truth at Nuremberg
History As It Happens • Feb 13, 2026
Bonus Ep! Bring on the Nukes
History As It Happens • Feb 11, 2026
America250! Ideas of the American Revolution
History As It Happens • Feb 9, 2026
American Fascism, American Hitlers
History As It Happens • Feb 6, 2026
Why Brzezinski Matters
History As It Happens • Feb 3, 2026
Origins of the ICE Machine
History As It Happens • Jan 30, 2026
Bonus Ep! Is It Fascism Now?
History As It Happens • Jan 28, 2026
What is Realism?
History As It Happens • Jan 27, 2026
Wrath of the Ayatollahs
History As It Happens • Jan 23, 2026
Bonus Ep! International Gangsterism
History As It Happens • Jan 21, 2026
America250! Thomas Paine's "Common Sense"
History As It Happens • Jan 20, 2026
Why Greenland? FDR to Trump
History As It Happens • Jan 16, 2026
Bonus Ep! Understanding Oil
History As It Happens • Jan 14, 2026
No Blood For Bananas
History As It Happens • Jan 13, 2026
Did You Say Monroe Doctrine? Oh, Donroe!
History As It Happens • Jan 9, 2026
Hollowing Out Holocaust Memory
History As It Happens • Jan 6, 2026
Special Ep: Kidnapping Maduro
History As It Happens • Jan 3, 2026
Best of HAIH: Due Process? Executive Order 9066
History As It Happens • Jan 1, 2026
Best of HAIH: Enemies Lists
History As It Happens • Dec 31, 2025
2025 Year in Review
History As It Happens • Dec 26, 2025
Wolverines! The Paranoid Politics of 'Red Dawn'
History As It Happens • Dec 23, 2025
Bonus Ep! What is Neoliberalism?
History As It Happens • Dec 22, 2025
Marwan Barghouti and the Crisis of Palestinian Nationalism
History As It Happens • Dec 19, 2025
Bonus Ep! Remembering 'Meathead': Rob Reiner's Amazing Career
History As It Happens • Dec 17, 2025
Who Was James Garfield?
History As It Happens • Dec 16, 2025
From Bandits to Narco-Terrorists
History As It Happens • Dec 12, 2025
The Riddle of Robert McNamara
History As It Happens • Dec 9, 2025
Ken Burns' Revolution
History As It Happens • Dec 4, 2025
Bonus Ep! Peace, Putin Style
History As It Happens • Dec 3, 2025
King Philip's War
History As It Happens • Dec 2, 2025
Party of Reagan
History As It Happens • Nov 28, 2025
Bonus Ep! Deciphering Iraq's Elections
History As It Happens • Nov 26, 2025
Party of Lincoln
History As It Happens • Nov 25, 2025
Assassinating Rabin / Killing Peace
History As It Happens • Nov 21, 2025
Bonus Ep! MBS Comes to Washington
History As It Happens • Nov 20, 2025
Conservatives at a Crossroads (or Crack-up?)
History As It Happens • Nov 18, 2025
Presidents vs. the Press
History As It Happens • Nov 14, 2025
Playing With Dynamite
History As It Happens • Nov 11, 2025
Dick Cheney's Ruinous Legacy
History As It Happens • Nov 7, 2025
'Glory' and the Real Robert Gould Shaw
History As It Happens • Nov 4, 2025
Noriega and New World Order
History As It Happens • Oct 31, 2025
Bonus Ep! Who Was Carl Schmitt?
History As It Happens • Oct 29, 2025
Rumors of a King
History As It Happens • Oct 28, 2025
Hannah Arendt and Trump 2.0
History As It Happens • Oct 24, 2025
When Socialists Ran American Cities
History As It Happens • Oct 21, 2025
Bonus Ep! What Happened to Journalism?
History As It Happens • Oct 19, 2025
Germany and the End of History
History As It Happens • Oct 17, 2025
Russia and Syria
History As It Happens • Oct 14, 2025
Bob Ames, Reagan, and the Two-State Solution
History As It Happens • Oct 10, 2025
Bonus Ep! Pete Hegseth and Wounded Knee
History As It Happens • Oct 8, 2025
Before and After Hamas
History As It Happens • Oct 7, 2025
TR to Trump: America and Venezuela
History As It Happens • Oct 3, 2025
Bonus Ep! Moldova's Elections / Europe's Future
History As It Happens • Oct 1, 2025
Kleptocracy and Genocide in Sudan
History As It Happens • Sep 30, 2025
Israel and the Right to Exist
History As It Happens • Sep 26, 2025
Bonus Ep! Free Speech in America
History As It Happens • Sep 24, 2025
The Name of Barbarism
History As It Happens • Sep 23, 2025
Weimar America, Revisited
History As It Happens • Sep 19, 2025
Bonus Ep! Russia-Ukraine War w/ Mark Galeotti
History As It Happens • Sep 17, 2025
Balfour's Bloody Legacy
History As It Happens • Sep 16, 2025
New Episodes! Coming Soon.
History As It Happens • Sep 10, 2025
1945: America's Global Age
History As It Happens • Aug 19, 2025
1945: National Security State
History As It Happens • Aug 15, 2025
1945: How the Axis Might've Won
History As It Happens • Aug 12, 2025
1945: Unconditional Surrender
History As It Happens • Aug 8, 2025
1945: Hitler's War
History As It Happens • Aug 5, 2025
Trump and the Structures of 'Forever War'
History As It Happens • Aug 1, 2025
Owl of Minerva
History As It Happens • Jul 29, 2025
Living Hell in Haiti
History As It Happens • Jul 25, 2025
The Putin Dance (Clinton to Trump)
History As It Happens • Jul 22, 2025
The Scopes Trial and Rural America
History As It Happens • Jul 18, 2025
Trump and the American Century
History As It Happens • Jul 15, 2025
New Battle for Gettysburg
History As It Happens • Jul 11, 2025
Obama and Libya
History As It Happens • Jul 8, 2025
Democrats Lost in the Wilderness
History As It Happens • Jul 4, 2025
Bombing and Starving International Law
History As It Happens • Jul 1, 2025
DOGE and the Books (Bonus Episode)
History As It Happens • Jun 29, 2025
Visions of Mushroom Clouds
History As It Happens • Jun 27, 2025
Cornered Ayatollahs
History As It Happens • Jun 24, 2025
HAIH at the U.S. Army War College, Part 2
History As It Happens • Jun 20, 2025
HAIH at the U.S. Army War College, Part 1
History As It Happens • Jun 17, 2025
Nayib Bukele and the Death of El Salvador's Democracy
History As It Happens • Jun 13, 2025
The Palestinians' Economic Catastrophe
History As It Happens • Jun 10, 2025
D-Day in Film
History As It Happens • Jun 6, 2025
Lincoln and Habeas Corpus
History As It Happens • Jun 3, 2025
Presidential Peacemakers
History As It Happens • May 30, 2025
The Ideas Behind Trump 2.0
History As It Happens • May 27, 2025
What is Chinese Communism?
History As It Happens • May 23, 2025
Antony Beevor on the Unsettled Legacies of WWII
History As It Happens • May 20, 2025
India and Pakistan's Forever War
History As It Happens • May 16, 2025
What Happened to the Palestinian Authority?
History As It Happens • May 13, 2025
Due Process? Executive Order 9066
History As It Happens • May 9, 2025
Inside the Nazi Mind
History As It Happens • May 6, 2025
1775 Independence Days
History As It Happens • May 2, 2025
Defeat in Vietnam: Consequences
History As It Happens • Apr 29, 2025
Defeat in Vietnam: Resistance
History As It Happens • Apr 25, 2025
Defeat in Vietnam: Origins
History As It Happens • Apr 22, 2025
Origins of a Trade War
History As It Happens • Apr 18, 2025
What Is Antisemitism?
History As It Happens • Apr 15, 2025
From Atatürk to Erdo?an
History As It Happens • Apr 11, 2025
Appomattox
History As It Happens • Apr 8, 2025
O No Canada! (McKinley-Trump Tariffs)
History As It Happens • Apr 4, 2025
The JFK Files
History As It Happens • Apr 1, 2025
Alien Enemies
History As It Happens • Mar 28, 2025
Enemies Lists
History As It Happens • Mar 25, 2025
5 Years After Covid
History As It Happens • Mar 21, 2025
The Rise and Demise of U.S.A.I.D.
History As It Happens • Mar 18, 2025
Army of Europe
History As It Happens • Mar 14, 2025
Who Are AfD?
History As It Happens • Mar 11, 2025
Yalta, Yalta, Yalta!
History As It Happens • Mar 7, 2025
Sharon's Disengagement (Gaza 2005)
History As It Happens • Mar 4, 2025
3 Years of War: Ukraine's Story
History As It Happens • Feb 28, 2025
3 Years of War: Russia in the World
History As It Happens • Feb 25, 2025
3 Years of War: Origins
History As It Happens • Feb 21, 2025
On Virtue
History As It Happens • Feb 18, 2025
Smoot-Hawley Redux
History As It Happens • Feb 14, 2025
Trump, Gaza, and the Palestinians
History As It Happens • Feb 11, 2025
The Day of the Dictator (Is Not Over)
History As It Happens • Feb 7, 2025
What Happened to Worker Solidarity?
History As It Happens • Feb 4, 2025
Trump and Birthright Citizenship
History As It Happens • Jan 31, 2025
The Question of Genocide, Revisited
History As It Happens • Jan 28, 2025
Jimmy Carter, the Shah, and the Ayatollah
History As It Happens • Jan 24, 2025
Biden in History
History As It Happens • Jan 21, 2025
Trumpism After Trump, Revisited
History As It Happens • Jan 17, 2025
Trump and the Panama Canal
History As It Happens • Jan 14, 2025
The Folly of Mass Deportation
History As It Happens • Jan 10, 2025
To Love the Bomb
History As It Happens • Jan 7, 2025
Consequences of President Carter
History As It Happens • Jan 3, 2025
2024 Year in Review
History As It Happens • Dec 31, 2024
Back in the USSR
History As It Happens • Dec 27, 2024
The Christmas Truce
History As It Happens • Dec 24, 2024
Religious Right and Left: Archie Bunker to Donald Trump
History As It Happens • Dec 20, 2024
Georgia Between the Kremlin and the West
History As It Happens • Dec 17, 2024
Goodbye Assad / Hello Who?
History As It Happens • Dec 13, 2024
The "New Economy"
History As It Happens • Dec 10, 2024
World War Ukraine
History As It Happens • Dec 6, 2024
Is It Genocide?
History As It Happens • Dec 3, 2024
The Crisis of Liberalism
History As It Happens • Nov 29, 2024
Evolution of Thanksgiving
History As It Happens • Nov 26, 2024
Reconsidering Reagan
History As It Happens • Nov 22, 2024
Oblivion in the Age of Trump
History As It Happens • Nov 19, 2024
We Have Met the Enemy
History As It Happens • Nov 15, 2024
Understanding the Rise of Hitler
History As It Happens • Nov 12, 2024
NAFTA's Long Shadow
History As It Happens • Nov 8, 2024
American Democracy
History As It Happens • Nov 5, 2024
Election of 2016
History As It Happens • Nov 1, 2024
Best of HAIH: Election of 1980
History As It Happens • Oct 26, 2024
Best of HAIH: Origins of Russia's War in Ukraine
History As It Happens • Oct 23, 2024
Best of HAIH: 1948
History As It Happens • Oct 21, 2024
Best of HAIH: Slavery and the Constitution
History As It Happens • Oct 18, 2024
Best of HAIH: Palestinians and the "Rules-Based Order"
History As It Happens • Oct 16, 2024
Best of HAIH: Oppenheimer — Dropping the Bomb
History As It Happens • Oct 14, 2024
Israel's War: The "New" Middle East
History As It Happens • Oct 10, 2024
Israel's War: Past and Future of Hamas
History As It Happens • Oct 7, 2024
The Looming Quagmire
History As It Happens • Oct 3, 2024
Russia's Exiles
History As It Happens • Oct 1, 2024
Nation-Building or Nation-Wrecking
History As It Happens • Sep 26, 2024
Why the Electoral College?
History As It Happens • Sep 24, 2024
Biden Doctrine, Revisited
History As It Happens • Sep 19, 2024
Election of 2008
History As It Happens • Sep 17, 2024
1967 and the West Bank Today
History As It Happens • Sep 12, 2024
What Happened to the Israeli Left?
History As It Happens • Sep 10, 2024
The Sorrow of Sudan
History As It Happens • Sep 5, 2024
A Peace Plan For Ukraine, Revisited
History As It Happens • Sep 3, 2024
HAIH On Location! Lindsay Chervinsky on "Making the Presidency"
History As It Happens • Aug 29, 2024
HAIH On Location! Inside the George Washington Presidential Library at Mount Vernon
History As It Happens • Aug 27, 2024
Bombs Away! Nixon's Lawless Legacy
History As It Happens • Aug 22, 2024
No One Votes For Vice President
History As It Happens • Aug 20, 2024
Election of 1800
History As It Happens • Aug 15, 2024
Humanizing Hitler
History As It Happens • Aug 13, 2024
Hezbollah
History As It Happens • Aug 8, 2024
Middle East on the Brink
History As It Happens • Aug 6, 2024
Supreme Court vs. Founders
History As It Happens • Aug 1, 2024
What's Economic Nationalism?
History As It Happens • Jul 30, 2024
Aficionado of Exits
History As It Happens • Jul 25, 2024
Open Convention
History As It Happens • Jul 23, 2024
Traditions of Violence
History As It Happens • Jul 18, 2024
The Madness of Political Violence
History As It Happens • Jul 15, 2024
Election of 2000
History As It Happens • Jul 11, 2024
Europe's Turbulent Politics
History As It Happens • Jul 9, 2024
What If? The British Won the Revolutionary War?
History As It Happens • Jul 4, 2024
The Chennault Affair
History As It Happens • Jul 2, 2024
What the Commies Really Wanted
History As It Happens • Jun 27, 2024
Palestinians and the "Rules-Based Order"
History As It Happens • Jun 25, 2024
Myanmar on the Brink
History As It Happens • Jun 20, 2024
Election of 1932
History As It Happens • Jun 17, 2024
Do Not Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor
History As It Happens • Jun 13, 2024
Trumpism After the Conviction
History As It Happens • Jun 11, 2024
Memories of the Liberation (D-Day at 80)
History As It Happens • Jun 6, 2024
Saddam And His American Friends
History As It Happens • Jun 4, 2024
Last Gasp of the Lost Cause
History As It Happens • May 30, 2024
Death of Raisi / Future of Iran
History As It Happens • May 28, 2024
Defeating Democracy, Searching For Fascism
History As It Happens • May 23, 2024
The British Mandate
History As It Happens • May 21, 2024
Special Relationship: Why the U.S. Chose Israel
History As It Happens • May 16, 2024
Recovering Kennan
History As It Happens • May 14, 2024
What Is Intifada?
History As It Happens • May 9, 2024
Elections of 1860 and 1864
History As It Happens • May 7, 2024
The Fascism Distraction
History As It Happens • May 2, 2024
What Is Zionism?
History As It Happens • Apr 30, 2024
An Ally in the South China Sea
History As It Happens • Apr 25, 2024
When Reagan Pressured Israel
History As It Happens • Apr 23, 2024
Trump Against the Founders
History As It Happens • Apr 18, 2024
Origins of Our Border Crisis
History As It Happens • Apr 16, 2024
Who's ISIS-K?
History As It Happens • Apr 11, 2024
Still Bombing Baghdad
History As It Happens • Apr 9, 2024
Election of 1992
History As It Happens • Apr 4, 2024
After Arafat
History As It Happens • Apr 2, 2024
Too Old (Or Young) To Be President
History As It Happens • Mar 28, 2024
Securing Ukraine / Negotiating With Putin?
History As It Happens • Mar 26, 2024
Debs (Running For President From Prison)
History As It Happens • Mar 21, 2024
Anarchy in Haiti
History As It Happens • Mar 19, 2024
Netanyahu's War
History As It Happens • Mar 14, 2024
Historians vs. Trump, Revisited
History As It Happens • Mar 12, 2024
After Putin
History As It Happens • Mar 7, 2024
Election of 1980
History As It Happens • Mar 4, 2024
Who Was Alexei Navalny?
History As It Happens • Feb 29, 2024
Strangelove at 60
History As It Happens • Feb 27, 2024
Two Years of War w/ Michael Kimmage and Mark Galeotti
History As It Happens • Feb 22, 2024
Two Years of War w/ Yaroslav Trofimov
History As It Happens • Feb 20, 2024
Rwanda's Genocide, 30 Years On
History As It Happens • Feb 15, 2024
All We Are Saying Is Give War A Chance
History As It Happens • Feb 13, 2024
Auschwitz Through Nazi Eyes
History As It Happens • Feb 8, 2024
Historians vs. Trump
History As It Happens • Feb 6, 2024
Skokie
History As It Happens • Feb 1, 2024
Fascists, Fascists Everywhere
History As It Happens • Jan 30, 2024
The Economy, Stupid!
History As It Happens • Jan 25, 2024
Beyond Taiwan
History As It Happens • Jan 23, 2024
Who Are the Houthis?
History As It Happens • Jan 18, 2024
China's Real Historians
History As It Happens • Jan 16, 2024
Life and Death in Gaza
History As It Happens • Jan 11, 2024
Hitler Enters the Race
History As It Happens • Jan 9, 2024
Hold Your Nose and Vote For Humphrey
History As It Happens • Jan 4, 2024
Biden's Foreign Policy, Year Four
History As It Happens • Jan 2, 2024
2023 Year in Review, Part 2
History As It Happens • Dec 28, 2023
2023 Year in Review, Part 1
History As It Happens • Dec 26, 2023
Bonus Ep! Ukraine War Update w/ Michael Kimmage
History As It Happens • Dec 24, 2023
Collapse of the USSR, Revisited
History As It Happens • Dec 21, 2023
Saving Napoleon
History As It Happens • Dec 19, 2023
Recovering Rustin
History As It Happens • Dec 14, 2023
Ordinary Men / Extraordinary Crimes
History As It Happens • Dec 12, 2023
From Beirut to Gaza City
History As It Happens • Dec 7, 2023
Diplomat / Intellectual / War Criminal?
History As It Happens • Dec 4, 2023
What If? Slavery Without the Civil War
History As It Happens • Nov 30, 2023
The Cold War Liberals
History As It Happens • Nov 28, 2023
HAIH Live! The Kennedy Coup
History As It Happens • Nov 26, 2023
Turkey on Thanksgiving
History As It Happens • Nov 23, 2023
The Question of Genocide
History As It Happens • Nov 21, 2023
Russia in the Middle East
History As It Happens • Nov 16, 2023
How Wars Are Lost
History As It Happens • Nov 14, 2023
Why Peace Failed (Oslo Accords at 30)
History As It Happens • Nov 9, 2023
From 9/11 to 10/7: Know Your Enemy
History As It Happens • Nov 7, 2023
Ike's Assassins
History As It Happens • Nov 2, 2023
The Oil Weapon
History As It Happens • Oct 31, 2023
Bidenomics
History As It Happens • Oct 26, 2023
1948
History As It Happens • Oct 24, 2023
Putin's Forever War
History As It Happens • Oct 19, 2023
Israel's Neighborhood
History As It Happens • Oct 17, 2023
Hamas
History As It Happens • Oct 12, 2023
Nut House
History As It Happens • Oct 10, 2023
Spies, Spies, Spies!
History As It Happens • Oct 5, 2023
Nixon May Have Been Right (About Russia)
History As It Happens • Oct 3, 2023
The Rise of Poland
History As It Happens • Sep 28, 2023
Recovering a Vanished World
History As It Happens • Sep 26, 2023
Chile's Coup
History As It Happens • Sep 21, 2023
Collapse of Trust
History As It Happens • Sep 19, 2023
What If? Kennedy and Vietnam
History As It Happens • Sep 14, 2023
War for Donbas / War for Ukraine
History As It Happens • Sep 12, 2023
The Mug Shot
History As It Happens • Sep 7, 2023
Putin's Mafia State
History As It Happens • Sep 5, 2023
Counteroffensive
History As It Happens • Aug 31, 2023
Operation Ajax
History As It Happens • Aug 29, 2023
The Radicalism of the March on Washington
History As It Happens • Aug 24, 2023
Oppenheimer: The Missed Opportunity
History As It Happens • Aug 22, 2023
Oppenheimer: Dropping the Bomb
History As It Happens • Aug 17, 2023
Oppenheimer: New Weapon, New Age
History As It Happens • Aug 15, 2023
Florida's Slavery Lesson
History As It Happens • Aug 10, 2023
Origins of U.S. Empire
History As It Happens • Aug 8, 2023
Strike
History As It Happens • Aug 3, 2023
Russia and Cuba, Together Again
History As It Happens • Aug 1, 2023
George's Farewell
History As It Happens • Jul 27, 2023
Korea's Forever War
History As It Happens • Jul 25, 2023
Clarence Thomas and the Fourteenth Amendment
History As It Happens • Jul 20, 2023
Whole and Free: NATO and Ukraine
History As It Happens • Jul 18, 2023
Witches No More
History As It Happens • Jul 13, 2023
Otto and Miep
History As It Happens • Jul 11, 2023
Bonus Ep! Our Radical Declaration w/ Denver Brunsman
History As It Happens • Jul 9, 2023
Our Radical Declaration w/ Annette Gordon-Reed & Joseph Ellis
History As It Happens • Jul 6, 2023
Our Radical Declaration w/ Jack Rakove
History As It Happens • Jul 4, 2023
Our Radical Declaration w/ Sean Wilentz & Jim Oakes
History As It Happens • Jun 29, 2023
Prigozhin vs. Putin
History As It Happens • Jun 26, 2023
The Jeju Incident
History As It Happens • Jun 22, 2023
The End of Trumpism? Revisited
History As It Happens • Jun 20, 2023
Two-State Fantasy: Israel and the Palestinians
History As It Happens • Jun 15, 2023
Finding Imad Mughniyeh
History As It Happens • Jun 13, 2023
The Plumbers
History As It Happens • Jun 8, 2023
After D-Day
History As It Happens • Jun 6, 2023
From Grozny to Bakhmut
History As It Happens • Jun 1, 2023
Constitutional Myth
History As It Happens • May 30, 2023
Kissinger and Cambodia
History As It Happens • May 25, 2023
King's Socialism
History As It Happens • May 23, 2023
Multipolarity
History As It Happens • May 18, 2023
From Saddam to the Sanctions
History As It Happens • May 16, 2023
Khrushchev's Gamble, Putin's Hubris
History As It Happens • May 11, 2023
Section 4
History As It Happens • May 9, 2023
HAIH at Monticello, Part 2: The History Wars
History As It Happens • May 4, 2023
HAIH at Monticello, Part 1: What Jefferson Wanted
History As It Happens • May 2, 2023
The Next Crimean War
History As It Happens • Apr 27, 2023
A Decent Interval
History As It Happens • Apr 25, 2023
The Daniloff Affair
History As It Happens • Apr 20, 2023
Heritage of Treason
History As It Happens • Apr 18, 2023
Decade of Drift?
History As It Happens • Apr 13, 2023
Pardon Me, Mr. President
History As It Happens • Apr 11, 2023
The Long 1960s
History As It Happens • Apr 6, 2023
Star Wars
History As It Happens • Apr 4, 2023
Waco
History As It Happens • Mar 30, 2023
Enter Beijing
History As It Happens • Mar 28, 2023
Bonus Ep! The Iraq War w/ Melvyn Leffler
History As It Happens • Mar 25, 2023
The Iraq War w/ Ghaith Abdul-Ahad
History As It Happens • Mar 23, 2023
The Iraq War w/ Andrew Bacevich
History As It Happens • Mar 20, 2023
WWWFB(uckley)D?
History As It Happens • Mar 16, 2023
Turkey's Man-Made Disaster
History As It Happens • Mar 14, 2023
Three Years of Covid
History As It Happens • Mar 9, 2023
Evangelicals and the Road to Trump
History As It Happens • Mar 7, 2023
Best of HAIH: Frederick Douglass and the 4th of July
History As It Happens • Mar 2, 2023
Best of HAIH: The Munich Fallacy
History As It Happens • Feb 28, 2023
One Year of War w/ Anatol Lieven
History As It Happens • Feb 23, 2023
One Year of War w/ Michael Kimmage
History As It Happens • Feb 21, 2023
The 1619 Hustle
History As It Happens • Feb 16, 2023
America's Man in Pakistan
History As It Happens • Feb 14, 2023
Hurricane of Lies
History As It Happens • Feb 9, 2023
Bursting China's Balloon
History As It Happens • Feb 6, 2023
The Burden of German History
History As It Happens • Feb 2, 2023
When Ukraine Had Nukes
History As It Happens • Jan 31, 2023
When the Press Was Partisan
History As It Happens • Jan 26, 2023
Church Committee(s)
History As It Happens • Jan 24, 2023
A World Without US?
History As It Happens • Jan 19, 2023
Useless Resolution
History As It Happens • Jan 17, 2023
House Divided w/ Manisha Sinha
History As It Happens • Jan 12, 2023
House Divided w/ Sean Wilentz
History As It Happens • Jan 10, 2023
Biden Doctrine
History As It Happens • Jan 5, 2023
Understanding Emancipation at 160
History As It Happens • Jan 2, 2023
Putin Problems
History As It Happens • Dec 15, 2022
The Munich Fallacy
History As It Happens • Dec 13, 2022
Voices of Iran
History As It Happens • Dec 8, 2022
Commercialization of Christmas
History As It Happens • Dec 6, 2022
Voices of China
History As It Happens • Dec 1, 2022
One-Term Presidents
History As It Happens • Nov 29, 2022
Bonus Episode! HAIH Live w/ David Silverman
History As It Happens • Nov 28, 2022
Reagan's Vision
History As It Happens • Nov 24, 2022
The First 'America Firsters'
History As It Happens • Nov 22, 2022
History Makers
History As It Happens • Nov 17, 2022
The End of Trumpism?
History As It Happens • Nov 15, 2022
When Volcker Ruled
History As It Happens • Nov 10, 2022
Antony Beevor on the Tragedy of Russia's Wars
History As It Happens • Nov 8, 2022
Getting Wilson Wrong
History As It Happens • Nov 3, 2022
The Taiwan Conundrum
History As It Happens • Nov 1, 2022
Buchanan's Party
History As It Happens • Oct 27, 2022
Flirting with Armageddon
History As It Happens • Oct 25, 2022
When America Failed the Jews
History As It Happens • Oct 20, 2022
The War That Never Ended
History As It Happens • Oct 18, 2022
HAIH at Mt. Vernon, Part 2: The History Wars
History As It Happens • Oct 13, 2022
HAIH at Mt. Vernon, Part 1: What Washington Wanted
History As It Happens • Oct 11, 2022
The "Fake" Populists
History As It Happens • Oct 6, 2022
From Mussolini to Meloni
History As It Happens • Oct 4, 2022
Wars of Soviet Succession
History As It Happens • Sep 29, 2022
Annexation
History As It Happens • Sep 27, 2022
What the U.N. Cannot Do
History As It Happens • Sep 22, 2022
The Queen's Empire
History As It Happens • Sep 20, 2022
Semi-fascism?
History As It Happens • Sep 15, 2022
The Carter Comparison
History As It Happens • Sep 13, 2022
Resurrecting John Brown: When Is Violence Justified?
History As It Happens • Sep 8, 2022
The Man Who Ended Communism
History As It Happens • Sep 6, 2022
Taliban Redux
History As It Happens • Sep 1, 2022
Peter Bergen on Ayman al-Zawahiri and Future of al-Qaeda
History As It Happens • Aug 30, 2022
The Espionage Act
History As It Happens • Aug 25, 2022
Ex-Presidents
History As It Happens • Aug 23, 2022
Why War Doesn't Work
History As It Happens • Aug 18, 2022
Slavery and the Constitution: Kevin Roberts
History As It Happens • Aug 16, 2022
The Problem With Prohibitions
History As It Happens • Aug 11, 2022
New World Order
History As It Happens • Aug 9, 2022
Our Wall of Separation
History As It Happens • Aug 4, 2022
What We Owe Grant
History As It Happens • Aug 2, 2022
Forgotten Afghanistan
History As It Happens • Jul 28, 2022
The Declinists
History As It Happens • Jul 26, 2022
George Wallace Populism
History As It Happens • Jul 21, 2022
1979
History As It Happens • Jul 19, 2022
Phyllis Schlafly Prevails
History As It Happens • Jul 14, 2022
To Cede or Not To Cede
History As It Happens • Jul 12, 2022
Patterns
History As It Happens • Jul 7, 2022
The Right to Privacy, 1789 to ?
History As It Happens • Jul 5, 2022
Frederick Douglass and the 4th of July
History As It Happens • Jun 30, 2022
January 6 in the Shadow of Watergate
History As It Happens • Jun 28, 2022
Is Putin a Fascist?
History As It Happens • Jun 23, 2022
An Impossible Divorce
History As It Happens • Jun 21, 2022
Bonus Episode! HAIH Live w/ Michael Kimmage
History As It Happens • Jun 20, 2022
The Fate of Res Publica
History As It Happens • Jun 16, 2022
Andrew Bacevich Has Seen This Movie Before
History As It Happens • Jun 14, 2022
Choosing War
History As It Happens • Jun 9, 2022
What Went Wrong on D-Day (And How the Germans Nearly Won)
History As It Happens • Jun 6, 2022
How Democrats Lost Blue-Collar Labor
History As It Happens • Jun 2, 2022
Dred Scott, the Worst Ruling Ever
History As It Happens • May 31, 2022
NATO Forever
History As It Happens • May 26, 2022
America's First Replacement Theorists
History As It Happens • May 24, 2022
The History of Abortion
History As It Happens • May 19, 2022
Slavery and the Constitution: Kate Masur
History As It Happens • May 17, 2022
Elon Musk and Our Free Speech Wars
History As It Happens • May 12, 2022
China's "Zero COVID" Fantasy
History As It Happens • May 10, 2022
To End a War
History As It Happens • May 5, 2022
The Looming Conflict
History As It Happens • May 3, 2022
Vladimir the Historian
History As It Happens • Apr 28, 2022
Nuclear Terror Redux, or How I Learned to Stop...
History As It Happens • Apr 26, 2022
The Problem of War Crimes
History As It Happens • Apr 21, 2022
Why Yeltsin Chose Putin
History As It Happens • Apr 19, 2022
Francis Fukuyama Says Liberalism is in Peril
History As It Happens • Apr 14, 2022
Slavery and the Constitution: Sean Wilentz & James Oakes
History As It Happens • Apr 12, 2022
Obama and Russia
History As It Happens • Apr 7, 2022
A Peace Plan For Ukraine
History As It Happens • Apr 5, 2022
The Abasement of SCOTUS
History As It Happens • Mar 31, 2022
Democracies & Dictatorships
History As It Happens • Mar 29, 2022
Why Kyiv May Fall
History As It Happens • Mar 24, 2022
Slavery and the Constitution: Alan Taylor
History As It Happens • Mar 22, 2022
This New Cold War
History As It Happens • Mar 17, 2022
Why Russian Democracy Failed
History As It Happens • Mar 15, 2022
Bonus Episode! HAIH Live w/ Michael Kazin
History As It Happens • Mar 14, 2022
Putin and the American Right
History As It Happens • Mar 10, 2022
The Chinese Century?
History As It Happens • Mar 8, 2022
Lenin, Stalin, Putin
History As It Happens • Mar 3, 2022
The Road to War in Eastern Europe
History As It Happens • Mar 1, 2022
When Both Parties Backed Voting Rights
History As It Happens • Feb 24, 2022
The Rabbis Who Prayed For Democracy
History As It Happens • Feb 22, 2022
Biden and the Betrayal of Yemen
History As It Happens • Feb 17, 2022
'Not One Inch': Eastern Europe on the Precipice
History As It Happens • Feb 15, 2022
Invisible Carnage
History As It Happens • Feb 10, 2022
The Generation Gap
History As It Happens • Feb 8, 2022
Two Years of COVID: What Have We Learned?
History As It Happens • Feb 3, 2022
Slavery and the Constitution: Joseph Ellis
History As It Happens • Feb 1, 2022
The Great Inflation
History As It Happens • Jan 27, 2022
When America Built Big Things
History As It Happens • Jan 25, 2022
Weimar America
History As It Happens • Jan 20, 2022
The End of NATO
History As It Happens • Jan 18, 2022
Back to 1776
History As It Happens • Jan 13, 2022
Atoms for Iran
History As It Happens • Jan 11, 2022
The Capitol Riot, One Year Later
History As It Happens • Jan 6, 2022
Biden's Foreign Policy, Year Two
History As It Happens • Jan 4, 2022
The Future of Work, Part 2
History As It Happens • Dec 30, 2021
The Future of Work, Part 1
History As It Happens • Dec 28, 2021
Christmas Day, 1991: Extinction of the USSR
History As It Happens • Dec 23, 2021
Do We Need Heroes? Max Hastings on Winston Churchill
History As It Happens • Dec 21, 2021
Let's Rank the Presidents! Part 2
History As It Happens • Dec 16, 2021
Let's Rank the Presidents! Part 1
History As It Happens • Dec 14, 2021
The Tyranny of the Minority
History As It Happens • Dec 9, 2021
Pearl Harbor, 80 Years On
History As It Happens • Dec 7, 2021
Misunderstanding Slavery: The 1619 Project's Egregious Errors
History As It Happens • Dec 2, 2021
Putin's Gamble: Russia and Ukraine
History As It Happens • Nov 30, 2021
Myths of the First Thanksgiving
History As It Happens • Nov 25, 2021
Xi Jinping Forever
History As It Happens • Nov 23, 2021
King George Was Not Mad
History As It Happens • Nov 18, 2021
Critical Race Theory and the Fight Over History
History As It Happens • Nov 16, 2021
Heading Toward Herd Immunity
History As It Happens • Nov 11, 2021
The Conscience of an Anti-Trump Conservative
History As It Happens • Nov 9, 2021
'New Deal' or No Deal? Biden's Dilemma
History As It Happens • Nov 4, 2021
Nixon's Shadow
History As It Happens • Nov 2, 2021
The Stunning Success of German Reunification
History As It Happens • Oct 28, 2021
The Sorrow of Haiti
History As It Happens • Oct 26, 2021
Bonus Episode! HAIH Live
History As It Happens • Oct 24, 2021
Remembering Colin Powell
History As It Happens • Oct 21, 2021
Origins of ROTC
History As It Happens • Oct 19, 2021
How the U.S. Got Mired in the Middle East
History As It Happens • Oct 14, 2021
The Quad
History As It Happens • Oct 12, 2021
The Many Faces of Columbus
History As It Happens • Oct 7, 2021
Our First Scourge
History As It Happens • Oct 5, 2021
Ignoring Eisenhower
History As It Happens • Sep 30, 2021
America's Longest War (No, not Afghanistan)
History As It Happens • Sep 28, 2021
Forgetting the Holocaust
History As It Happens • Sep 23, 2021
Who Was Osama bin Laden? An interview with Peter Bergen
History As It Happens • Sep 21, 2021
Paging General Washington
History As It Happens • Sep 16, 2021
The Supremes
History As It Happens • Sep 14, 2021
The Hubris of Post-9/11 Foreign Policy
History As It Happens • Sep 9, 2021
The Law of Unintended Consequences
History As It Happens • Sep 7, 2021
Forever War, But No Peace Movement
History As It Happens • Sep 2, 2021
The Rise and Fall of Organized Labor
History As It Happens • Aug 31, 2021
Understanding Jefferson
History As It Happens • Aug 26, 2021
Arab Spring, 10 Years On
History As It Happens • Aug 24, 2021
Embracing Defeat
History As It Happens • Aug 19, 2021
Charlottesville Says Goodbye to the Confederacy
History As It Happens • Aug 17, 2021
Orbán's Allure
History As It Happens • Aug 12, 2021
Reconsidering Hiroshima and Nagasaki
History As It Happens • Aug 10, 2021
The Virus Is Still In Charge
History As It Happens • Aug 5, 2021
Cuba, Biden, and the Burden of History
History As It Happens • Aug 3, 2021
Are We Reliving the 1850s?
History As It Happens • Jul 29, 2021
Religion and the American Revolution
History As It Happens • Jul 27, 2021
Understanding Populism
History As It Happens • Jul 22, 2021
Vietnam Redux
History As It Happens • Jul 20, 2021
Violence of the American Revolution
History As It Happens • Jul 15, 2021
Emulating Mao
History As It Happens • Jul 13, 2021
Black Activism and the Olympics
History As It Happens • Jul 8, 2021
The Folly of American Empire
History As It Happens • Jul 6, 2021
Bibi and 'The Bomb'
History As It Happens • Jul 1, 2021
The Commission
History As It Happens • Jun 29, 2021
Liberal Roots of the Republican Party
History As It Happens • Jun 24, 2021
The Biggest Invasion Ever
History As It Happens • Jun 22, 2021
Where America and Russia Went Wrong
History As It Happens • Jun 17, 2021
D-Day: History and Memory
History As It Happens • Jun 15, 2021
Why Third Parties Fail
History As It Happens • Jun 10, 2021
Why Tulsa Was Forgotten
History As It Happens • Jun 8, 2021
Biden's Foreign Policy
History As It Happens • Jun 3, 2021
The Bitcoin Bubble
History As It Happens • Jun 1, 2021
Never-Ending Conflict: Israel and the Palestinians
History As It Happens • May 27, 2021
The Democrats' Comeback
History As It Happens • May 25, 2021
The 1619 Project and America's Schools
History As It Happens • May 20, 2021
Checking On Democracy
History As It Happens • May 18, 2021
Facebook vs. Free Speech
History As It Happens • May 13, 2021
Liz Cheney and the Future of Conservatism
History As It Happens • May 11, 2021
Going Deeper on Immigration
History As It Happens • May 6, 2021
Biden, Turkey, and the Armenian Genocide
History As It Happens • May 4, 2021
McCarthyism Redux
History As It Happens • Apr 29, 2021
The American Way of War
History As It Happens • Apr 27, 2021
The Cold War, 30 Years On
History As It Happens • Apr 22, 2021
Enter Taliban
History As It Happens • Apr 20, 2021
D.C. Statehood
History As It Happens • Apr 15, 2021
Jim Crow 2.0? The Fight For Voting Rights
History As It Happens • Apr 13, 2021
Filibuster Explained
History As It Happens • Apr 8, 2021
Woodrow Wilson's Epic Blunder
History As It Happens • Apr 6, 2021
Chasing China
History As It Happens • Apr 1, 2021
The Border Surge, or the Intractable Problem of Human Migration
History As It Happens • Mar 30, 2021
Is American Capitalism Broken?
History As It Happens • Mar 25, 2021
Where are the Black Republicans?
History As It Happens • Mar 23, 2021
Biden, Khashoggi, and the messy U.S.-Saudi marriage
History As It Happens • Mar 18, 2021
COVID-19, One Year Later
History As It Happens • Mar 16, 2021
Ending the Forever War in Afghanistan
History As It Happens • Mar 11, 2021
The Future of the GOP
History As It Happens • Mar 8, 2021
Lincoln and the Woke Left
History As It Happens • Mar 4, 2021
America and Iran
History As It Happens • Mar 2, 2021
Crisis in Journalism
History As It Happens • Feb 25, 2021
Understanding Fascism
History As It Happens • Feb 23, 2021
QAnon and Conspiracy Theories in American Politics
History As It Happens • Feb 18, 2021
Trump, Twitter, and free speech in the 21st century
History As It Happens • Feb 16, 2021
Putin's Staying Power
History As It Happens • Feb 11, 2021
Understanding Socialism
History As It Happens • Feb 9, 2021
Impeachment, Nixon to Trump
History As It Happens • Feb 4, 2021
The GameStop Revolution
History As It Happens • Feb 2, 2021
Recovering the Radical King
History As It Happens • Jan 28, 2021
The First 1,000 Days
History As It Happens • Jan 26, 2021
Trumpism After Trump
History As It Happens • Jan 21, 2021
Inauguration
History As It Happens • Jan 19, 2021
Welcome to 'History As It Happens'
History As It Happens • Jan 12, 2021
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