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History As It Happens — 607 episodes
Structures of 'Forever War,' Revisited
Origins of Israel's Lobby
Meet Roy Cohn, Donald Trump's Mentor
'The Battle of Algiers' 60 Years On
Iraq Between Washington and Tehran (Bonus)
Myanmar's Long, Long, Long Civil War
American Empires
What Happened at Camp David?
Joseph Ellis' "Tragic Side"
America250! George Washington's World
What Alan Greenspan Left Us (Bonus)
America250! Antislavery and the American Revolution
What a Time To Be an American: The Bicentennial
Gordon Wood's Remarkable Legacy (Bonus)
Journalism in the Age of Trump
The Meteorologist Who Saved D-Day
Everyday Watergate
Cold War Liberalism Redux
Dealing with Iran, Obama to Trump (Bonus)
America250! Lincoln and the Declaration
The Nakba: 1947 to Present
America250! Civics and Conflict
Regime Change: Kennedy and Diem in Vietnam
The Trump-Xi Summit (Bonus)
Were the Nazis Socialists?
Zionism and Israel's Self-Destruction
Whose Strait of Hormuz? (Bonus)
Lebanon's Long Agony
The First Palestinian Uprising
Paul Kennedy's Prophecy
Madman Diplomacy, Nixon to Trump
Chernobyl, 40 Years On
Where's Russia?
What is Greater Israel?
Giulio Douhet's Kind of War
Goodbye, Orbán (Bonus)
American Suez
Martyrs and Survivors: The Iran-Iraq War
Antony Beevor's 'Rasputin' (Bonus)
The Limits of Power
Israel Annexes the West Bank
Kharg Island, Carter, and 'Eagle Claw' (Bonus)
Eyewitness to Annihilation
Regime Change: Israel in Lebanon 1982
Khamenei's Revolution
Peace Through Strength? War Is Our Gospel
Misunderstanding Iran (Bonus)
You Say You Want a Coalition?
Neoliberalism, Revisited
Turkey-Iran-Israel (Bonus)
Douglas Kelley's Warning From Nuremberg
The Changing Face of Battle
Iran and the Laws of War (Bonus)
America250! Origins of American Empire
Special Episode: A War of Choice on Iran
Four Years of War: Late Putinism
Four Years of War: The Limits of History
Iran War Madness (Bonus)
German Hegemony
China's Last War
The Truth at Nuremberg
Bring on the Nukes (Bonus)
America250! Ideas of the American Revolution
American Fascism, American Hitlers
Why Brzezinski Matters
Origins of the ICE Machine
Is It Fascism Now? (Bonus)
What is Realism?
Wrath of the Ayatollahs
International Gangsterism (Bonus)
America250! Thomas Paine's "Common Sense"
Why Greenland? FDR to Trump
Understanding Oil (Bonus)
No Blood For Bananas
Did You Say Monroe Doctrine? Oh, Donroe!
Hollowing Out Holocaust Memory
Special Ep: Kidnapping Maduro
Best of HAIH: Due Process? Executive Order 9066
Best of HAIH: Enemies Lists
2025 Year in Review
Wolverines! The Paranoid Politics of 'Red Dawn'
What is Neoliberalism? (Bonus)
Marwan Barghouti and the Crisis of Palestinian Nationalism
Remembering 'Meathead' (Bonus)
Who Was James Garfield?
From Bandits to Narco-Terrorists
The Riddle of Robert McNamara
Ken Burns' Revolution
Peace, Putin Style (Bonus)
King Philip's War
Party of Reagan
Deciphering Iraq's Elections (Bonus)
Party of Lincoln
Assassinating Rabin / Killing Peace
MBS Comes to Washington (Bonus)
Conservatives at a Crossroads (or Crack-up?)
Presidents vs. the Press
Playing With Dynamite
Dick Cheney's Ruinous Legacy
'Glory' and the Real Robert Gould Shaw
Noriega and New World Order
Who Was Carl Schmitt? (Bonus)
Rumors of a King
Hannah Arendt and Trump 2.0
When Socialists Ran American Cities
What Happened to Journalism? (Bonus)
Germany and the End of History
Russia and Syria
Bob Ames, Reagan, and the Two-State Solution
Pete Hegseth and Wounded Knee (Bonus)
Before and After Hamas
TR to Trump: America and Venezuela
Moldova's Elections / Europe's Future (Bonus)
Kleptocracy and Genocide in Sudan
Israel and the Right to Exist
Free Speech in America (Bonus)
The Name of Barbarism
Weimar America, Revisited
Russia-Ukraine War w/ Mark Galeotti (Bonus)
Balfour's Bloody Legacy
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1945: America's Global Age
1945: National Security State
1945: How the Axis Might've Won
1945: Unconditional Surrender
1945: Hitler's War
Trump and the Structures of 'Forever War'
Owl of Minerva
Living Hell in Haiti
The Putin Dance (Clinton to Trump)
The Scopes Trial and Rural America
Trump and the American Century
New Battle for Gettysburg
Obama and Libya
Democrats Lost in the Wilderness
Bombing and Starving International Law
DOGE and the Books (Bonus Episode)
Visions of Mushroom Clouds
Cornered Ayatollahs
HAIH at the U.S. Army War College, Part 2
HAIH at the U.S. Army War College, Part 1
Nayib Bukele and the Death of El Salvador's Democracy
The Palestinians' Economic Catastrophe
D-Day in Film
Lincoln and Habeas Corpus
Presidential Peacemakers
The Ideas Behind Trump 2.0
What is Chinese Communism?
Antony Beevor on the Unsettled Legacies of WWII
India and Pakistan's Forever War
What Happened to the Palestinian Authority?
Due Process? Executive Order 9066
Inside the Nazi Mind
1775 Independence Days
Defeat in Vietnam: Consequences
Defeat in Vietnam: Resistance
Defeat in Vietnam: Origins
Origins of a Trade War
What Is Antisemitism?
From Atatürk to Erdoğan
Appomattox
O No Canada! (McKinley-Trump Tariffs)
The JFK Files
Alien Enemies
Enemies Lists
5 Years After Covid
The Rise and Demise of U.S.A.I.D.
Army of Europe
Who Are AfD?
Yalta, Yalta, Yalta!
Sharon's Disengagement (Gaza 2005)
3 Years of War: Ukraine's Story
3 Years of War: Russia in the World
3 Years of War: Origins
On Virtue
Smoot-Hawley Redux
Trump, Gaza, and the Palestinians
The Day of the Dictator (Is Not Over)
What Happened to Worker Solidarity?
Trump and Birthright Citizenship
The Question of Genocide, Revisited
Jimmy Carter, the Shah, and the Ayatollah
Biden in History
Trumpism After Trump, Revisited
Trump and the Panama Canal
The Folly of Mass Deportation
To Love the Bomb
Consequences of President Carter
2024 Year in Review
Back in the USSR
The Christmas Truce
Religious Right and Left: Archie Bunker to Donald Trump
Georgia Between the Kremlin and the West
Goodbye Assad / Hello Who?
The "New Economy"
World War Ukraine
Is It Genocide?
The Crisis of Liberalism
Evolution of Thanksgiving
Reconsidering Reagan
Oblivion in the Age of Trump
We Have Met the Enemy
Understanding the Rise of Hitler
NAFTA's Long Shadow
American Democracy
Election of 2016
Best of HAIH: Election of 1980
Best of HAIH: Origins of Russia's War in Ukraine
Best of HAIH: 1948
Best of HAIH: Slavery and the Constitution
Best of HAIH: Palestinians and the "Rules-Based Order"
Best of HAIH: Oppenheimer — Dropping the Bomb
Israel's War: The "New" Middle East
Israel's War: Past and Future of Hamas
The Looming Quagmire
Russia's Exiles
Nation-Building or Nation-Wrecking
Why the Electoral College?
Biden Doctrine, Revisited
Election of 2008
1967 and the West Bank Today
What Happened to the Israeli Left?
The Sorrow of Sudan
A Peace Plan For Ukraine, Revisited
HAIH On Location! Lindsay Chervinsky on "Making the Presidency"
HAIH On Location! Inside the George Washington Presidential Library at Mount Vernon
Bombs Away! Nixon's Lawless Legacy
No One Votes For Vice President
Election of 1800
Humanizing Hitler
Hezbollah
Middle East on the Brink
Supreme Court vs. Founders
What's Economic Nationalism?
Aficionado of Exits
Open Convention
Traditions of Violence
The Madness of Political Violence
Election of 2000
Europe's Turbulent Politics
What If? The British Won the Revolutionary War?
The Chennault Affair
What the Commies Really Wanted
Palestinians and the "Rules-Based Order"
Myanmar on the Brink
Election of 1932
Do Not Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor
Trumpism After the Conviction
Memories of the Liberation (D-Day at 80)
Saddam And His American Friends
Last Gasp of the Lost Cause
Death of Raisi / Future of Iran
Defeating Democracy, Searching For Fascism
The British Mandate
Special Relationship: Why the U.S. Chose Israel
Recovering Kennan
What Is Intifada?
Elections of 1860 and 1864
The Fascism Distraction
What Is Zionism?
An Ally in the South China Sea
When Reagan Pressured Israel
Trump Against the Founders
Origins of Our Border Crisis
Who's ISIS-K?
Still Bombing Baghdad
Election of 1992
After Arafat
Too Old (Or Young) To Be President
Securing Ukraine / Negotiating With Putin?
Debs (Running For President From Prison)
Anarchy in Haiti
Netanyahu's War
Historians vs. Trump, Revisited
After Putin
Election of 1980
Who Was Alexei Navalny?
Strangelove at 60
Two Years of War w/ Michael Kimmage and Mark Galeotti
Two Years of War w/ Yaroslav Trofimov
Rwanda's Genocide, 30 Years On
All We Are Saying Is Give War A Chance
Auschwitz Through Nazi Eyes
Historians vs. Trump
Skokie
Fascists, Fascists Everywhere
The Economy, Stupid!
Beyond Taiwan
Who Are the Houthis?
China's Real Historians
Life and Death in Gaza
Hitler Enters the Race
Hold Your Nose and Vote For Humphrey
Biden's Foreign Policy, Year Four
2023 Year in Review, Part 2
2023 Year in Review, Part 1
Bonus Ep! Ukraine War Update w/ Michael Kimmage
Collapse of the USSR, Revisited
Saving Napoleon
Recovering Rustin
Ordinary Men / Extraordinary Crimes
From Beirut to Gaza City
Diplomat / Intellectual / War Criminal?
What If? Slavery Without the Civil War
The Cold War Liberals
HAIH Live! The Kennedy Coup
Turkey on Thanksgiving
The Question of Genocide
Russia in the Middle East
How Wars Are Lost
Why Peace Failed (Oslo Accords at 30)
From 9/11 to 10/7: Know Your Enemy
Ike's Assassins
The Oil Weapon
Bidenomics
1948
Putin's Forever War
Israel's Neighborhood
Hamas
Nut House
Spies, Spies, Spies!
Nixon May Have Been Right (About Russia)
The Rise of Poland
Recovering a Vanished World
Chile's Coup
Collapse of Trust
What If? Kennedy and Vietnam
War for Donbas / War for Ukraine
The Mug Shot
Putin's Mafia State
Counteroffensive
Operation Ajax
The Radicalism of the March on Washington
Oppenheimer: The Missed Opportunity
Oppenheimer: Dropping the Bomb
Oppenheimer: New Weapon, New Age
Florida's Slavery Lesson
Origins of U.S. Empire
Strike
Russia and Cuba, Together Again
George's Farewell
Korea's Forever War
Clarence Thomas and the Fourteenth Amendment
Whole and Free: NATO and Ukraine
Witches No More
Otto and Miep
Bonus Ep! Our Radical Declaration w/ Denver Brunsman
Our Radical Declaration w/ Annette Gordon-Reed & Joseph Ellis
Our Radical Declaration w/ Jack Rakove
Our Radical Declaration w/ Sean Wilentz & Jim Oakes
Prigozhin vs. Putin
The Jeju Incident
The End of Trumpism? Revisited
Two-State Fantasy: Israel and the Palestinians
Finding Imad Mughniyeh
The Plumbers
After D-Day
From Grozny to Bakhmut
Constitutional Myth
Kissinger and Cambodia
King's Socialism
Multipolarity
From Saddam to the Sanctions
Khrushchev's Gamble, Putin's Hubris
Section 4
HAIH at Monticello, Part 2: The History Wars
HAIH at Monticello, Part 1: What Jefferson Wanted
The Next Crimean War
A Decent Interval
The Daniloff Affair
Heritage of Treason
Decade of Drift?
Pardon Me, Mr. President
The Long 1960s
Star Wars
Waco
Enter Beijing
Bonus Ep! The Iraq War w/ Melvyn Leffler
The Iraq War w/ Ghaith Abdul-Ahad
The Iraq War w/ Andrew Bacevich
WWWFB(uckley)D?
Turkey's Man-Made Disaster
Three Years of Covid
Evangelicals and the Road to Trump
Best of HAIH: Frederick Douglass and the 4th of July
Best of HAIH: The Munich Fallacy
One Year of War w/ Anatol Lieven
One Year of War w/ Michael Kimmage
The 1619 Hustle
America's Man in Pakistan
Hurricane of Lies
Bursting China's Balloon
The Burden of German History
When Ukraine Had Nukes
When the Press Was Partisan
Church Committee(s)
A World Without US?
Useless Resolution
House Divided w/ Manisha Sinha
House Divided w/ Sean Wilentz
Biden Doctrine
Understanding Emancipation at 160
Putin Problems
The Munich Fallacy
Voices of Iran
Commercialization of Christmas
Voices of China
One-Term Presidents
Bonus Episode! HAIH Live w/ David Silverman
Reagan's Vision
The First 'America Firsters'
History Makers
The End of Trumpism?
When Volcker Ruled
Antony Beevor on the Tragedy of Russia's Wars
Getting Wilson Wrong
The Taiwan Conundrum
Buchanan's Party
Flirting with Armageddon
When America Failed the Jews
The War That Never Ended
HAIH at Mt. Vernon, Part 2: The History Wars
HAIH at Mt. Vernon, Part 1: What Washington Wanted
The "Fake" Populists
From Mussolini to Meloni
Wars of Soviet Succession
Annexation
What the U.N. Cannot Do
The Queen's Empire
Semi-fascism?
The Carter Comparison
Resurrecting John Brown: When Is Violence Justified?
The Man Who Ended Communism
Taliban Redux
Ayman al-Zawahiri and Future of al-Qaeda
The Espionage Act
Ex-Presidents
Why War Doesn't Work
Slavery and the Constitution: Kevin Roberts
The Problem With Prohibitions
New World Order
Our Wall of Separation
What We Owe Grant
Forgotten Afghanistan
The Declinists
George Wallace Populism
1979
Phyllis Schlafly Prevails
To Cede or Not To Cede
Patterns
The Right to Privacy, 1789 to ?
Frederick Douglass and the 4th of July
January 6 in the Shadow of Watergate
Is Putin a Fascist?
An Impossible Divorce
Bonus Episode! HAIH Live w/ Michael Kimmage
The Fate of Res Publica
Andrew Bacevich Has Seen This Movie Before
Choosing War
What Went Wrong on D-Day (And How the Germans Nearly Won)
How Democrats Lost Blue-Collar Labor
Dred Scott, the Worst Ruling Ever
NATO Forever
America's First Replacement Theorists
The History of Abortion
Slavery and the Constitution: Kate Masur
Elon Musk and Our Free Speech Wars
China's "Zero COVID" Fantasy
To End a War
The Looming Conflict
Vladimir the Historian
Nuclear Terror Redux, or How I Learned to Stop...
The Problem of War Crimes
Why Yeltsin Chose Putin
Francis Fukuyama Says Liberalism is in Peril
Slavery and the Constitution: Sean Wilentz & James Oakes
Obama and Russia
A Peace Plan For Ukraine
The Abasement of SCOTUS
Democracies & Dictatorships
Why Kyiv May Fall
Slavery and the Constitution: Alan Taylor
This New Cold War
Why Russian Democracy Failed
Bonus Episode! HAIH Live w/ Michael Kazin
Putin and the American Right
The Chinese Century?
Lenin, Stalin, Putin
The Road to War in Eastern Europe
When Both Parties Backed Voting Rights
The Rabbis Who Prayed For Democracy
Biden and the Betrayal of Yemen
'Not One Inch': Eastern Europe on the Precipice
Invisible Carnage
The Generation Gap
Two Years of COVID: What Have We Learned?
Slavery and the Constitution: Joseph Ellis
The Great Inflation
When America Built Big Things
Weimar America
The End of NATO
Back to 1776
Atoms for Iran
The Capitol Riot, One Year Later
Biden's Foreign Policy, Year Two
The Future of Work, Part 2
The Future of Work, Part 1
Christmas Day, 1991: Extinction of the USSR
Do We Need Heroes? Max Hastings on Winston Churchill
Let's Rank the Presidents! Part 2
Let's Rank the Presidents! Part 1
The Tyranny of the Minority
Pearl Harbor, 80 Years On
Misunderstanding Slavery: The 1619 Project's Egregious Errors
Putin's Gamble: Russia and Ukraine
Myths of the First Thanksgiving
Xi Jinping Forever
King George Was Not Mad
Critical Race Theory and the Fight Over History
Heading Toward Herd Immunity
The Conscience of an Anti-Trump Conservative
'New Deal' or No Deal? Biden's Dilemma
Nixon's Shadow
The Stunning Success of German Reunification
The Sorrow of Haiti
Bonus Episode! HAIH Live
Remembering Colin Powell
Origins of ROTC
How the U.S. Got Mired in the Middle East
The Quad
The Many Faces of Columbus
Our First Scourge
Ignoring Eisenhower
America's Longest War (No, not Afghanistan)
Forgetting the Holocaust
Who Was Osama bin Laden?
Paging General Washington
The Supremes
The Hubris of Post-9/11 Foreign Policy
The Law of Unintended Consequences
Forever War, But No Peace Movement
The Rise and Fall of Organized Labor
Understanding Jefferson
Arab Spring, 10 Years On
Embracing Defeat
Charlottesville Says Goodbye to the Confederacy
Orbán's Allure
Reconsidering Hiroshima and Nagasaki
The Virus Is Still In Charge
Cuba, Biden, and the Burden of History
Are We Reliving the 1850s?
Religion and the American Revolution
Understanding Populism
Vietnam Redux
Violence of the American Revolution
Emulating Mao
Black Activism and the Olympics
The Folly of American Empire
Bibi and 'The Bomb'
The Commission
Liberal Roots of the Republican Party
The Biggest Invasion Ever
Where America and Russia Went Wrong
D-Day: History and Memory
Why Third Parties Fail
Why Tulsa Was Forgotten
Biden's Foreign Policy
The Bitcoin Bubble
Never-Ending Conflict: Israel and the Palestinians
The Democrats' Comeback
The 1619 Project and America's Schools
Checking On Democracy
Facebook vs. Free Speech
Liz Cheney and the Future of Conservatism
Going Deeper on Immigration
Biden, Turkey, and the Armenian Genocide
McCarthyism Redux
The American Way of War
The Cold War, 30 Years On
Enter Taliban
D.C. Statehood
Jim Crow 2.0? The Fight For Voting Rights
Filibuster Explained
Woodrow Wilson's Epic Blunder
Chasing China
The Border Surge, or the Intractable Problem of Human Migration
Is American Capitalism Broken?
Where are the Black Republicans?
Biden, Khashoggi, and the messy U.S.-Saudi marriage
COVID-19, One Year Later
Ending the Forever War in Afghanistan
The Future of the GOP
Lincoln and the Woke Left
America and Iran
Crisis in Journalism
Understanding Fascism
QAnon and Conspiracy Theories in American Politics
Trump, Twitter, and free speech in the 21st century
Putin's Staying Power
Understanding Socialism
Impeachment, Nixon to Trump
The GameStop Revolution
Recovering the Radical King
The First 1,000 Days
Trumpism After Trump
Inauguration
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