Dec 19, 2023
Audio excerpts of Napoleon courtesy Sony Pictures and Apple Original Films.
Many historians have skewered Ridley Scott's Napoleon for inaccuracies and for failing to convey the monumental historical significance of its subject. In this episode, historian Alan Strauss-Schom, the founder of the French Colonial Historical...
Nov 16, 2023
What was Vladimir Putin doing hosting Hamas' representatives two weeks after the terrorist group massacred Israeli civilians? What are Russia’s interests in a region that was so important during the Cold War? Its interests may come down to Moscow's great power ambitions in a part of the globe where it has a long...
Sep 21, 2023
In the midst of a constitutional crisis, Chileans are also at odds over the legacy of one of the darkest days in their past. Fifty years ago, in September 1973, a military coup, welcomed but not directly instigated by the CIA, toppled the democratically-elected, socialist president Salvadore Allende. Army Gen. Augusto...
Aug 22, 2023
This is the final episode in a three-part series about “Oppenheimer” and the historical debates raised by the blockbuster film.
By the time he left office in early 1961, President Dwight Eisenhower had overseen the expansion of the nation’s nuclear arsenal to 20,000 weapons. The United States had dramatically...
Jul 9, 2023
This is a bonus episode in a three-part series on the
radicalism of the Declaration of Independence. The video version
will air on C-SPAN 2's American History TV on July 15.
George Washington University historian Denver Brunsman
joins Martin Di Caro in a conversation about the contested meanings
of the American...