Then and Now: Global History and Culture
487 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 2 ratings"Then and Now" connects events from the past with today's news headlines. Current episodes are history topics from my global culture and history course.
In 2006, the podcast started with students in my introductory global history and culture course at the Univ of Minn. Previous episodes reviewed history topics, special music episodes connecting a country's culture with its music, interviews with voices of students and community members as they were part of historical events, and other topics. Episodes featured independent music artists. Share comments about the podcast with David Arendale, [email protected]
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(Bonus) 1989 Tiananmen Square Protest Overview
March 24, 2022 06:15 - 3.4 MB application/pdf(Bonus) This document presents the 1989 Tiananmen Square protest with its origins, events, and consequences.
(Bonus) Overview of Nonviolent Resistance
March 24, 2022 06:05 - 1.18 MB application/pdf(Bonus) An overview of nonviolent resistance and protest movement from history. Principles of these past events inspired the students in their China protest that sought reform, not a revolution in society.
Communism: Tiananmen Square Protest, 6 of 6
March 24, 2022 06:00 - 36 minutes - 33.1 MBS15-E06 Topics: Tiananmen Square nonviolent protest and brutal suppression, Tank Man, inspiration for nonviolent protest. The following links allow you to subscribe: iTunes and Apple Podcast, Amazon Music/Audible, Castbox.fm, Deezer, Facebook, Gaana, Google Podcast, iHeartRadio, Player.fm, Radio Public, Samsung Listen, Stitcher, TuneIn, Twitter, Vurbl, and YouTube. Automatically available through these podcast apps: Castamatic, iCatcher, Overcast, Pocket Casts, RSSRadio, and more. ...
(Bonus) The Red Guard of Mao
March 17, 2022 06:15 - 719 KB application/pdf(Bonus) The Red Guard was used by Mao to both educate the masses and enforce control over them.
(Bonus) Cultural Revolution in China
March 17, 2022 06:10 - 3.13 MB application/pdf(Bonus) The Cultural Revolution in China was a means by which Mao wanted to transform society. It was a brutal process of change for society.
(Bonus) Bourgeoisie as the Enemy
March 17, 2022 06:05 - 788 KB application/pdf(Bonus) Lenin and Mao identified the bourgeoisie class as the enemy of desired change in their societies.
Communism: Violence Justified for Change, 5 of 6
March 17, 2022 06:00 - 9 minutes - 9.06 MBS15-E05 Topics: justification by Lenin and Mao for violence to cause desired change, the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution in China, role of the Red Guard in China, attack on the bourgeoisie. The following links allow you to subscribe: iTunes and Apple Podcast, Amazon Music/Audible, Castbox.fm, Deezer, Facebook, Gaana, Google Podcast, iHeartRadio, Player.fm, Radio Public, Samsung Listen, Stitcher, TuneIn, Twitter, Vurbl, and YouTube. Automatically available through these podcas...
(Bonus) The Little Red Book
March 10, 2022 06:15 - 670 KB application/pdf(Bonus) Mao's The Little Red Book was an essential tool for educating and transforming China's life and traditions.
(Bonus) Land Reform Movement in China
March 10, 2022 06:10 - 698 KB application/pdf(Bonus) Mao believed that land reform was essential for change in China for the masses.
(Bonus) Peasant Movement in Hunan
March 10, 2022 06:06 - 374 KB application/pdf(Bonus) The report on the Peasant Movement in Hunan was important to Mao's political beliefs and plans for change.
(Bonus) Biography of Mao Zedong
March 10, 2022 06:05 - 3.55 MB application/pdf(Bonus) Biography of Mao Zedong
Communism: China under Communism, 4 of 6
March 10, 2022 06:00 - 8 minutes - 8.21 MBS15-E04 Topics: biography of Mao, justification for short term violence for change, importance of The Little Red Book, use of the Red Guard for change, The Peasant’s Movement in Hunan, land reform movement. The following links allow you to subscribe: iTunes and Apple Podcast, Amazon Music/Audible, Castbox.fm, Deezer, Facebook, Gaana, Google Podcast, iHeartRadio, Player.fm, Radio Public, Samsung Listen, Stitcher, TuneIn, Twitter, Vurbl, and YouTube. Automatically available through t...
(Bonus) Protest Tactics in Poland Uprising
March 03, 2022 06:09 - 20 KB application/pdf(Bonus) The document provides an outline of the various protest tactics used during the Poland uprising.
(Bonus) Biography of Lech Walesa
March 03, 2022 06:06 - 1.5 MB application/pdf(Bonus) The biography of Lech Walesa provides background about the major leader of the Poland protest movement.
(Bonus) Soviet Invasion of Poland
March 03, 2022 06:05 - 1.63 MB application/pdf(Bonus) The article details the invasion of Poland by the Soviet Union.
(Bonus) History of Poland and Russia Relations
March 03, 2022 06:04 - 1010 KB application/pdf(Bonus) Poland has been dominated by Russia and then the Soviet Union for hundreds of years.
Communism: Poland Breaks Away, 3 of 6
March 03, 2022 06:00 - 36 minutes - 32.9 MBS15-E03 Topics: cycle of revolution, nonviolent protest of Dr. Martin Luther King and Gandhi, analysis of the Poland protest, and Lech Walensa. The following links allow you to subscribe: iTunes and Apple Podcast, Amazon Music/Audible, Castbox.fm, Deezer, Facebook, Gaana, Google Podcast, iHeartRadio, Player.fm, Radio Public, Samsung Listen, Stitcher, TuneIn, Twitter, Vurbl, and YouTube. Automatically available through these podcast apps: Castamatic, iCatcher, Overcast, Pocket Casts...
(Bonus) The Berlin Wall in Germany
February 24, 2022 06:05 - 2.22 MB application/pdf(Bonus) The Berlin Wall in Germany was a symbol of the Cold War period. Rather than keeping Allied troops from invading, it was designed to keep citizens of Germany and other Communist countries from escaping.
(Bonus) Biography of Nikita Khrushchev
February 24, 2022 06:05 - 2.43 MB application/pdf(Bonus) Biography of Nikita Khrushchev. He is actually a moderate who is quickly pushed out of power by hardline Communist leaders.
(Bonus) Strategic Defense initiative
February 24, 2022 06:05 - 1.34 MB application/pdf(Bonus) The Strategic Defense Initiative was a proposal by the U.S. to build an anti-missile defense system to protect from a Soviet nuclear attack. It frightened the Soviet Union since they feared a preemptive attack by the U.S. The SDI system was only a proposal stated by President Reagan that helped to force the Soviets to negotiate for a de-escalation of the nuclear arms race.
Communism: Life After Stalin, 2 of 6
February 24, 2022 06:01 - 16 minutes - 15.5 MBS15-E02 Topics: Destalinization, Nikita Khrushchev, Berlin Wall, Brandenburg Gate and President Reagan, and Strategic Defense Initiative. The following links allow you to subscribe: iTunes and Apple Podcast, Amazon Music/Audible, Castbox.fm, Deezer, Facebook, Gaana, Google Podcast, iHeartRadio, Player.fm, Radio Public, Samsung Listen, Stitcher, TuneIn, Twitter, Vurbl, and YouTube. Automatically available through these podcast apps: Castamatic, iCatcher, Overcast, Pocket Casts, RSSR...
(Bonus) Poison Laboratory of the Soviet Union
February 21, 2022 21:58 - 487 KB application/pdf(Bonus) This article describes how the Soviet Union developed poisons for political murder around the world.
(Bonus) Foreign Relations of the Soviet Unioin
February 21, 2022 21:56 - 1.79 MB application/pdf(Bonus) This is an overview of the plan by the Soviet Union to relate with the world community and spread their power.
(Bonus) Gosplan, Stalin's Restructure Plan
February 21, 2022 21:54 - 413 KB application/pdf(Bonus) The Gosplan was the comprehensive plan by Stalin to restructure the Soviet Union.
(Bonus) Biography of Joseph Stalin
February 21, 2022 21:53 - 2.26 MB application/pdf(Bonus) Biography of Joseph Stalin.
(Bonus) PowerPoint Slides for Communism Lectures
February 21, 2022 21:51 - 600 KB application/pdf(Bonus) These are the PowerPoint slides that accompany the lectures on communism.
(Bonus) Readings for Communism Unit
February 21, 2022 21:49 - 91.3 KB application/pdf(Bonus) These are the readings that accompany the unit on communism in China and Russia.
Communism: Stalin Consolidates Power, 1 of 6
February 21, 2022 21:41 - 27 minutes - 25.2 MBS15-E01 Topics: interaction of economic and political theories; phases of the Russian revolution; Russia restructures under Stalin, Stalin’s Gosplan; role of the Secret Police; and biography of Stalin. The following links allow you to subscribe: iTunes and Apple Podcast, Amazon Music/Audible, Castbox.fm, Deezer, Facebook, Gaana, Google Podcast, iHeartRadio, Player.fm, Radio Public, Samsung Listen, Stitcher, TuneIn, Twitter, Vurbl, and YouTube. Automatically available through these ...
(Bonus) The Russian Civil War
January 06, 2022 08:00 - 2.72 MB application/pdf(Bonus) The Russian Civil War 7 November 1917 –16 June 1923) was a multi-party civil war in the former Russian Empire sparked by the overthrowing of the monarchy and a new republican government's failure to maintain stability, as many factions vied to determine Russia's political future, resulting in the formation of the communist Soviet Union on most of its territory. Its finale marked the end of the Russian Revolution, which was one of the key events of the 20th-century.
(Bonus) The October Revolution
January 06, 2022 07:00 - 1.48 MB application/pdf(Bonus) The October Revolution, officially known as the Great October Socialist Revolution[b] under the Soviet Union, also known as the Bolshevik Coup, the Bolshevik Revolution, the October Uprising, the October Coup or Red October, was a revolution in Russia led by the Bolshevik Party of Vladimir Lenin that was instrumental in the larger Russian Revolution of 1917–1923. It was the second revolutionary change of government in Russia in 1917. It took place through an armed insurrection in Pet...
(Bonus) Biography of Lenin
January 06, 2022 06:30 - 4.3 MB application/pdf(Bonus) Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (22 April [O.S. 10 April] 1870 –21 January 1924), better known by his alias Lenin, was a Russian revolutionary, politician, and political theorist. He served as the first and founding head of government of Soviet Russia from 1917 to 1924 and of the Soviet Union from 1922 to 1924. Under his administration, Russia, and later the Soviet Union, became a one-party socialist state governed by the Soviet Communist Party. A Marxist, he developed a variant of Communist...
WWI, Catalyst for Russian Communist Revolution, 5 of 5
January 06, 2022 06:00 - 25 minutes - 34.8 MBS14-E19 Topics: Immediate and long-term causes of the revolution, phases of the Communist Revolution, and Communist civil war. PDF documents: The October Revolution, Russian Civil War, and Vladimir Lenin biography. The following links allow you to subscribe: iTunes and Apple Podcast, Amazon Music/Audible, Castbox.fm, Deezer, Facebook, Gaana, Google Podcast, iHeartRadio, Player.fm, Radio Public, Samsung Listen, Stitcher, TuneIn, Twitter, Vurbl, and YouTube. Automatically available through ...
(Bonus) WWI: Treaty of Versailles
December 30, 2021 07:30 - 2.63 MB application/pdf(Bonus) The Treaty of Versailles was the most important of the peace treaties that brought World War I to an end. The Treaty ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers. It was signed on 28 June 1919 in the Palace of Versailles, exactly five years after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, which led to the war. The other Central Powers on the German side signed separate treaties. Although the armistice, signed on 11 November 1918, ended the actual fighting, it took...
(Bonus) WWI: President Wilson's Fourteen Points
December 30, 2021 07:00 - 930 KB application/pdf(Bonus) The Fourteen Points was a statement of principles for peace that was to be used for peace negotiations in order to end World War I. The principles were outlined in a January 8, 1918 speech on war aims and peace terms to the United States Congress by President Woodrow Wilson. However, his main Allied colleagues (Georges Clemenceau of France, David Lloyd George of the United Kingdom, and Vittorio Orlando of Italy) were skeptical of the applicability of Wilsonian idealism.
(Bonus) WWI: Aftermath of the Great War
December 30, 2021 06:30 - 2.06 MB application/pdf(Bonus) The aftermath of World War I saw drastic political, cultural, economic, and social change across Eurasia, Africa, and even in areas outside those that were directly involved. Four empires collapsed due to the war, old countries were abolished, new ones were formed, boundaries were redrawn, international organizations were established, and many new and old ideologies took a firm hold in people's minds. World War I also had the effect of bringing political transformation to most of the...
WWI: One War Ends and Another Will Begin, 4 of 5
December 30, 2021 06:00 - 15 minutes - 21.9 MBS14-E18 Topics: WWI consequences, WWI bridges to WWII, the catalyst for Russian Communist Revolution, and Treaty of Versailles. PDF documents: Aftermath of WWI, President Wilson’s Fourteen Points, and Treaty of Versailles. The following links allow you to subscribe: iTunes and Apple Podcast, Amazon Music/Audible, Castbox.fm, Deezer, Facebook, Gaana, Google Podcast, iHeartRadio, Player.fm, Radio Public, Samsung Listen, Stitcher, TuneIn, Twitter, Vurbl, and YouTube. Automatically available ...
(Bonus) WWI, Meuse-Argonne Offensive
December 23, 2021 08:00 - 1.09 MB application/pdf(Bonus) The Meuse–Argonne offensive was a major part of the final Allied offensive of World War I that stretched along the entire Western Front. It was fought from September 26, 1918, until the Armistice of November 11, 1918, a total of 47 days. The Meuse–Argonne offensive was the largest in United States military history, involving 1.2 million American soldiers. It is the deadliest battle in American history, resulting in over 350,000 casualties including 28,000 German lives, 26,277 America...
(Bonus) WWI, U.S. Enters the War
December 23, 2021 07:30 - 1.84 MB application/pdf(Bonus) The American entry into World War I came in April 1917, more than two and a half years after the war began in Europe. Apart from an Anglophile element urging early support for the British and an anti-Tsarist element sympathizing with Germany's war against Russia, American public opinion had generally reflected a desire to stay out of the war: the sentiment for neutrality was particularly strong among Irish Americans, German Americans, and Scandinavian Americans, as well as among...
(Bonus) WWI: Battle of Verdun
December 23, 2021 07:00 - 3.74 MB application/pdf(Bonus) The Battle of Verdun was fought from 21 February to 18 December 1916 on the Western Front in France. The battle was the longest of the First World War and took place on the hills north of Verdun-sur-Meuse. The German 5th Army attacked the defenses of the Fortified Region of Verdun (RFV, Région Fortifiée de Verdun) and those of the French Second Army on the right (east) bank of the Meuse. Using the experience of the Second Battle of Champagne in 1915, the Germans planned to capture ...
(Bonus) WWI, Tanks on the Battlefield
December 23, 2021 06:30 - 1.02 MB application/pdf(Bonus) The development of tanks in World War I was a response to the stalemate that developed on the Western Front. Although vehicles that incorporated the basic principles of the tank (armour, firepower, and all-terrain mobility) had been projected in the decade or so before the War, it was the alarmingly heavy casualties of the start of its trench warfare that stimulated development. Research took place in both Great Britain and France, with Germany only belatedly following the Allies...
WWI, Russians Leave and U.S. Arrives, 3 of 5
December 23, 2021 06:00 - 14 minutes - 20.5 MBS14-E17 Topics: tank warfare, Battle of Verdun, Meuse-Argonne Battle, Russians leave WWI, U.S. enters WWI, and armistice. PDF documents: U.S. entry to WWI, Battle of Verdun, Meuse-Argonne Offensive, and tanks in WWI. The following links allow you to subscribe: iTunes and Apple Podcast, Amazon Music/Audible, Castbox.fm, Deezer, Facebook, Gaana, Google Podcast, iHeartRadio, Player.fm, Radio Public, Samsung Listen, Stitcher, TuneIn, Twitter, Vurbl, and YouTube. Automatically available throug...
(Bonus) WWI: Aviation during the War
December 16, 2021 07:30 - 1.28 MB application/pdf(Bonus) World War I was the first major conflict involving the large-scale use of aircraft. Tethered observation balloons had already been employed in several wars, and would be used extensively for artillery spotting. Germany employed Zeppelins for reconnaissance over the North Sea and Baltic and also for strategic bombing raids over Britain and the Eastern Front. Airplanes were just coming into military use at the outset of the war. Initially, they were used mostly for reconnaissance. ...
(Bonus) WWI: Trench Warfare
December 16, 2021 07:00 - 2.61 MB application/pdf(Bonus) Trench warfare is a type of land warfare using occupied fighting lines largely comprising military trenches, in which troops are well-protected from the enemy's small arms fire and are substantially sheltered from artillery. Trench warfare became archetypically associated with World War I (1914–1918), when the Race to the Sea rapidly expanded trench use on the Western Front starting in September 1914. Trench warfare proliferated when a revolution in firepower was not matched by simil...
(Bonus) Technology During WWI
December 16, 2021 06:30 - 1.23 MB application/pdf(Bonus) Technology during World War I (1914–1918) reflected a trend toward industrialism and the application of mass-production methods to weapons and to the technology of warfare in general. This trend began at least fifty years prior to World War I during the American Civil War of 1861–1865, and continued through many smaller conflicts in which soldiers and strategists tested new weapons.
WWI, 1915-1916 in the Air, Land, and Sea, 2 of 5
December 16, 2021 06:00 - 24 minutes - 33.6 MBS14-E16 Topics: initial crisis, trench warfare, submarines, and WWI aircraft. PDF documents: WWI aviation, technology overview, and trench warfare. The following links allow you to subscribe: iTunes and Apple Podcast, Amazon Music/Audible, Castbox.fm, Deezer, Facebook, Gaana, Google Podcast, iHeartRadio, Player.fm, Radio Public, Samsung Listen, Stitcher, TuneIn, Twitter, Vurbl, and YouTube. Automatically available through these podcast apps: Castamatic, iCatcher, Overcast, Pocket Casts, R...
(Bonus) WWI: Causes of the War
December 09, 2021 19:46 - 2.17 MB application/pdf(Bonus) This article probes deeper into the complicated causes of WWI. The roots date back to the economic conflict of the Europeans beginning in the 1600s.
(Bonus) WWI: Overview of the War
December 09, 2021 19:42 - 4.79 MB application/pdf(Bonus) This Wikipedia article provides an overview of World War One.
(Bonus) WWI: Assigned Readings
December 09, 2021 19:39 - 88.4 KB application/pdf(Bonus) These are the assigned readings intended to accompany the WWI unit.
(Bonus) WWI: PowerPoint Slides for Lectures
December 09, 2021 19:36 - 5.66 MB application/pdf(Bonus) Follow along with the lectures using the PowerPoint slides I used for the sessions.
WWI, Roots of the Great War, 1 of 5
December 09, 2021 19:32 - 20 minutes - 28.1 MBS14-E15 This new unit explores WW I and the Russian Communist Revolution. Topics include: key history forces; and the role of nationalism, militarism, and propaganda. PDF documents: WWI overview, WWI causes, PowerPoint slides, and assigned readings. The following links allow you to subscribe: iTunes and Apple Podcast, Amazon Music/Audible, Castbox.fm, Deezer, Facebook, Gaana, Google Podcast, iHeartRadio, Player.fm, Radio Public, Samsung Listen, Stitcher, TuneIn, Twitter, Vurbl, and YouTub...