History As It Happens
357 episodes - English - Latest episode: 4 days ago - ★★★★★ - 41 ratingsThis is a podcast for people who want to think historically about current events. Everything happening today comes from something, somewhere. The past shapes the present. 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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Impeachment, Nixon to Trump
February 04, 2021 11:30 - 28 minutes - 13 MBThe historian who drafted an open letter, signed by more than 1,000 scholars, calling for Donald Trump's impeachment explains why experts on the past should weigh in on the present. A must-listen, as the Senate prepares for the fourth presidential impeachment trial -- in this case, of an ex-President. There seems little doubt Donald Trump will be acquitted. Since Watergate, Americans politics have become more polarized and the media more partisan. Historian David Greenberg weighs in on the c...
The GameStop Revolution
February 02, 2021 12:00 - 20 minutes - 9.25 MBA decade after the Occupy Wall Street protesters called out the reckless greed that brought down the economy, a different kind of anti-Wall Street, populist uprising is happening online -- on comment threads and in trading apps -- and these protesters are dumping equal parts money and defiance into their cause. The GameStop revolution also speaks to general frustration with the state of work in America.
Recovering the Radical King
January 28, 2021 11:00 - 21 minutes - 28.9 MBKing sharply criticized capitalism. He condemned the Vietnam War, referring to the U.S. government “as the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today” in a powerful oration at a historic church in New York in 1967, a year before his death. King pointedly criticized white moderates who were “more devoted to ‘order’ than to justice.” Recovering the full profile of King’s activism and worldview is important because the events of our time resemble the tumultuous 1960s.
The First 1,000 Days
January 26, 2021 11:00 - 19 minutes - 26.9 MBThe fate of President Biden's ambitious legislative agenda will depend on whether Congress embraces his FDR-like call for bold government action to deal not only with the immediate economic fallout of the pandemic during his first 100 days in office, but long running inequities in American society that will require work extending well into his term — more like 1,000 days and beyond.
Trumpism After Trump
January 21, 2021 11:00 - 17 minutes - 8.07 MBDonald Trump is out of power but it seems certain Americans will continue to talk and think about him, at least in the short term. How long what is already called Trumpism remains a force in American politics may depend on the strength of the Trump narrative of a stolen election. Historian Edward Ayers joins us to explain the power of narrative in the American past and present.
Inauguration
January 19, 2021 11:00 - 19 minutes - 26.3 MBThe peaceful transition of power is a pillar of American democracy. But 2021 begins with a fear of violence hanging over Washington as Joseph Biden prepares to take the oath of office. Like Lincoln in 1861, Biden is inheriting a crisis which, although different in many respects from the Secession Winter, will confront his new administration with enormous problems. In ‘Inauguration,’ the premier episode of ‘History As It Happens,’ host Martin Di Caro talks to Washington Times White House repo...
Welcome to 'History As It Happens'
January 12, 2021 22:24 - 1 minute - 2.12 MBJournalists write the first draft of history. They also view our present times through the prism of the past. While it seems certain that future historians will consider the events of this era of American history extraordinary, we need not wait however many years for the arrival of their books before trying to make sense of our current controversies. The recent past can shed fresh light on today’s events. ‘History As It Happens’ reports the news in historical context. ‘History As It Happ...