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Hey there newspeelers,
This is Adel, your host at the History Behind News podcast.
We are preparing a great program for the 2nd half of our 4th season, which will start in a few weeks - just in time to cover the history behind the issues that matter for the 2024 presidential election.
Here are some examples of what you can expect:
► I will be interviewing an expert who has correctly predicted US presidential elections for decades, and I'll ask him: who will win the 2024 election? President Biden or former President Trump?
► I'll also speak with the editor of a book that published in June 2024, a book that is very relevant to the 2024 presidential election: Generational Politics in the United States - From the Silents to Gen Z and Beyond.
►I'll talk to another expert about the history of polling, and why do pollsters so often get it wrong?
►Another expert will tell us about the voting history of rural America. And why Republican politicians, particularly Mr. Trump, seem to be winning the hearts and minds of America's rural voters.
►In addition, I will speak with an internationally renowned expert on China about his latest book: China's Age of Abundance - Origins, Ascendance and Aftermath.
He believes that China's economic miracle has ended, and that trouble lays ahead. Of course, I'll ask him what that means for America.
While the History Behind News audio podcast is on a break, you should definitely check out our YouTube channel (also visit our Scholar Unravel Middle East YouTube channel), where we are busy producing documentary-style videos of our audio podcasts.
See you guys in a few weeks.
I hope you enjoy your summer.
Adel
Host of the History Behind News podcast
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What is Decoration Day? Did the South celebrate the 4th of July?
As it turns out, the history of the 4th of July is not that straightforward. For example, it took about a century for the recognition of our Independence Day as a federal holiday. And for some 80 years after the Civil war, some parts of the South, including Vicksburg, did not celebrate the 4th of July. It took WWII to create a new sense of nationalism, including the national celebration of the 4th of July. To better understand the history of our Independence Day, I spoke with Dr. Thomas Balcerski, a professor of history at Eastern Connecticut StateUniversity. For the academic year of 2022-2023, Dr. Balcerski was the Ray Allen Billington Visiting Professor in U.S. History at Occidental College and a Long-Term Fellow at the Huntington Library.
Dr. Balcerski has taught courses on early American history, U.S. Presidents and First Ladies, and the history of the Democratic Party, from Thomas Jefferson toJoe Biden. To learn more about Dr. Balcerski, you can visit his academic home pages at Oxy and Eastern CT.
By the way, be sure to listen to my conversation in S3E1 with Prof. Joel Richard Paul, he told me something very interesting about the 4th of July - that the reason we celebrate 4th of July is because Thomas Jefferson made it a national holiday, in a self-serving way, to elevate the Declaration of Independence. He added that it was Chief Justice Marshall, President Jefferson's chief detractor and also first cousin, who elevated the Constitution over the Declaration of Independence... But the 4th of July's celebration continued and grow in prominence in our culture. This fascinating episode is available here: https://bit.ly/HbN-S3E1
I hope you enjoy these episodes.
Adel
Host of the History Behind News podcast
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►My guest claims that Mr. Musk's compensation is $0! How is this possible? ►What are the different components of a CEO's pay package?►Why have CEO salaries stayed constant for decades?
►Why did CEO stock options significantly increase in the 1990s?►Why did CEO pay for performance dramatically increase after 2006? ►Who determines CEO pay? And how? The answer and the story behind it are more complex than you might think. ►Who is driving the push to regulate CEO pay? Politicians or shareholders?
My guest is intimately familiar with Mr. Musk's pay package. Not only is he an expert on executive compensation, but he also testified in Mr. Musk's Delaware trial on behalf of Telsa.
🚩About My Guest:
Professor Kevin Murphy is a nationally known expert on executive compensation. He teaches Corporate Finance and Compensation, Incentives and Governance in the University of Southern California - USC - Marshall School of Business, where he was named chair of the department of finance and business economics and holds the E. Morgan Stanley Chair in Business Administration.
Prof. Murphy helped the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission - the SEC - formulate disclosure rules for top management pay. And his study examining the salary trends of top executives set a benchmark in finance research.
Prior to joining USC in 1995, he was on the faculty at the Harvard Business School and the University of Rochester’s Simon School of Business.
Prof. Murphy is the author of The Economics of Executive Compensation. And as I mentioned in the opening, he is quite knowledgeable with Mr. Musk's pay package and the legal challenges against it, because he testified on Tesla's behalf at the Delaware trial.
🚩Dr. Barry Eichengreen's fascinating discussion of the history of sovereign and national debts - from Medieval Europe to modern America. I am recommending this episode because America's national debt is becoming a gigantic issue, politically and economically. For example, did you know that in the current fiscal year, the U.S. government will pay $892 billion to service our national debt? $892 is more than what we spend on defense and close to what we spend on Medicare!
You can also watch our podcasts:
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I hope you enjoy these episodes. Adel Aali Adel, host & producerHistory Behind News podcast
Attribution, links and license for the theme music in this podcast: The Success by Keys of Moon | https://soundcloud.com/keysofmoon. Musicpromoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com. Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0): https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. Support: please consider supporting our program at any amount you like. Scholars in Your Inbox? 125 scholars and counting! So don't miss HbN guest scholars’ weekly takes on the history behind our news.--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/history-behind-news/support -
►Who will win the 2024 presidential election? ►Did my guest correctly predict the 2000 presidential election? ►What does it mean to be conservative?
►Is Donald Trump a conservative? ►How are most experts misunderstanding the history of America's conservatism? ►How are most experts misunderstanding an important part of modern Jewish American history?
My guest has correctly predicted the outcome of every U.S. presidential election since 1984. In this episode, I ask him to predict the 2024 election?
We also talk about FDR's record of helping or harming European Jews in the years leading up to WWII.
🚩About My Guest:
Dr. Allan Lichtman is a Distinguished Professor of History at American University in Washington, D.C.
He has lectured in the US and internationally and provided commentary for major US and foreign networks and leading newspapers and magazines across the world. He has also been an expert witness in some 100 civil and voting rights cases. Dr. Litchman was listed as # 85 among the 100 most influential geopolitical experts in the world and received the lifetime achievement award from the Who's Who.
He has written many books, including the folllowing that we discuss in this episode:
1st: White Protestant Nation: The Rise of the American Conservative Movement,
2nd: FDR and the Jews, and
3rd: Predicting the Next President: The Keys to the White House, 2024.
And here is Dr. Lichtman's YouTube channel, where you can tune in to watch live conversations with him.
🚩Prof. Gerhardt's discusion of the 1892 rematch election between Pres. Harrison and former Pres. Cleveland. He also discusses presidents Jackson and Nixon, and questions re president Trump's potential constituional challenges. 🎧 https://bit.ly/HbN-S2E41
You can also watch our podcasts:
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I hope you enjoy these episodes. Adel Aali Adel, host & producerHistory Behind News podcast
Image attribution: "Predicting the Next President" is the cover image of Dr. Lichtman's upcoming book. This image was provided to us by Dr. Lichtman. attribution, links and license for the theme music in this podcast: The Success by Keys of Moon | https://soundcloud.com/keysofmoon. Musicpromoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com. Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0): https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. Support: please consider supporting our program at any amount you like. Scholars in Your Inbox? 125 scholars and counting! So don't miss HbN guest scholars’ weekly takes on the history behind our news.
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►Georgia is a country between two civilizations - Europe & Asia, and Islam and Christianity
►Until the Russians came, Georgia had maintained its status as an independent state. ►Georgia has punched above its weight under Russian and Soviet rule - prime example: Stalin, the most powerful Soviet leader, was Georgian!
In this conversation, Dr. Jones takes us from the ancient and Medieval history of Georgia, including its conflicts with Islamic empires and kingdoms, to its modern period of independence, and its struggle to realign itself with Europe.
🚩About My Guest:
Dr. Stephen Jones is the Director of the Program on Georgian Studies at the Davis Center of Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University. He is also a Professor of Modern Georgian History at Ilia State University in Tbilisi, Georgia. Dr. Jones is a foreign member of the Georgian Academy of Sciences and received an honorary doctorate from Tbilisi State University in 2012 and from Ilia State University in 2018.
He has written many books on Georgia’s history, including the following:
1st: Socialism in Georgian Colors: The European Road to Social Democracy, 1883-1917,
2nd: Georgia: A Political History Since Independence,
3rd: The Birth of Modern Georgia: The First Georgian Republic and Its Successors, 1918-2010, and
4th: War and Revolution in the Caucasus: Georgia Ablaze.
🚩Dr. Rafe Blaufarb's history of Napoleon: 🎧 https://bit.ly/HbN-S4E3
You can also watch our podcasts:
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I hope you enjoy these episodes. Adel Aali Adel, host & producerHistory Behind News podcast
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►How we gambled before ash economy?
►Are religion and gambling somehow connected?
►How did risk-taking change after humanity settled down? ►How did 2nd chances - the concept of starting again - develop in America's gambling? ►Why did Las Vegas and Atlantic City seesaw on legalizing gambling?
🚩About My Guest:
Dr. David Schwartz is UNLV's ombuds and also a professor in the Dept. of History. Previously, he was the director of Schwartz was director of the Center for Gaming Research within University Libraries. In recognition of his role in promoting the preservation of Las Vegas History, in 2021 Dr. Schwartz was given a History Preservation Award by the Historic Preservation Commission of the City of Las Vegas.
More about Dr. Schwart:
his academic and personal homepages
He is the author of several books, including the following:
Roll the Bones: The History of Gambling, At the Sands: The Casino That Shaped Classic Las Vegas, Brought the Rat Pack Together, and Went Out With a Bang, Grandissimo: The First Emperor of Las Vegas, and Boardwalk Playground: The Making, Unmaking, & Remaking of Atlantic City.🚩Dr. Podany's history of ancient Mesopotamia: 🎧 https://bit.ly/UME-S1E10
You can also watch our podcasts:
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I hope you enjoy these episodes. Adel Aali Adel, host & producerHistory Behind News podcast
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"The continent's most violent country" is a phrase used in BBC News this week.
In this episode, my guest scholar, Dr. Carmen Martinez Novo, takes us through the history of Ecuador's indigenous peoples and their struggles for equal rights and environmental rights, including an almost three-decade lawsuit against Chevron (initially Texaco). Of course, in this conversation, Dr. Martinez Novo will peel the history behind Ecuador's current state of violence - unprecedented for once a peaceful country.
Dr. Martinez Novo is the author of Undoing Multiculturalism: Resource Extraction and Indigenous Rights in Ecuador (2021), which we discuss in this episode.
And here is my conversation with Dr. Claudio Fuentes about Chile's modern history: https://bit.ly/HbN-S2E38s
You can also watch our podcasts:
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📽️YouTube.com/@UnravellingTheMiddleEast
I hope you enjoy these episodes. Adel Aali Adel, host & producerHistory Behind News podcast
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Families with second pregnancies were punished. Quiet often, mothers who became pregnant again were forced to abort - even in the third trimester. But now... China's government is promoting multiple pregnancies. There are even beauty pageants... for pregnant mothers.
In this episode, a replay of its original recording in 2021, my guest scholar peels the history behind this news - the history of China's One-Child Policy.
🚩About My Guest:
Dr. Feng Wang is a professor of sociology at the University of California, Irvine - UCI.
He has research interests in contemporary Chinese society and comparative demographic processes and social inequality in state socialism. He is the recipient of many academic distinctions, honors and awards for his research and books, too many to list here.
He is the author of many books, including the following:
China's Age of Abundances: Origins, Ascendence and Aftermath, Convergence to Very Low Fertility in East Asia: Processes, Causes, and Implications, and One Quarter of Humanity: Malthusian Mythology and Chinese Realities, 1700-2000.Erosion of China's government institutions:
Be sure to listen to my conversation with Dr. Susan Shirk (🎧https://bit.ly/HbN-S2E36s) about President Xi and his ascendence to power. As I mentioned in this episode, China's government under Xi is frighteningly transforming into personalized statecraft.
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I hope you enjoy these episodes. Adel Aali Adel, host & producerHistory Behind News podcast
►The cover image of this episode is "A propaganda painting in Guangdong Province promotes the idea of a nuclear family with a single child. The text reads "Planned child birth is everyone's responsibility."" It is provided by Clpro2 (own work) on Wikipedia under CC BY-SA 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Clpro2&action=edit&redlink=1File:PlannedBirthCeramicPaintings-Xinhui.Jpg. In Wikipedia. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:PlannedBirthCeramicPaintings-Xinhui.jpg
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Denmark was once Europe's greatest Protestant power. But just in a span of two or so decades, it was reduced to a has-been. How did this happen? And what lessons are there for America?
In addition, Denmark's monarchy is quite informal and highly approachable, particularly when compared with the British monarchy.
🚩About My Guest:
Dr. Paul Douglas Lockhart is a professor of history at Wright State University. He teaches courses in military history, early modern Europe, and Scandinavia in its “Age of Greatness.” In 2022, he was elected to membership in the Royal Society for Danish History, in recognition of his contributions to the study of Danish history, which is a rare accolade for a foreign scholar.
He is the author of several books, two of which we discuss in this episode:
Denmark, 1513–1660: The Rise and Decline of a Renaissance Monarchy, and Frederik II and the Protestant Cause: Denmark's Role in the Wars of Religion, 1559–1596.History of the Ottoman Empire and Europe's exploration of the Americas:
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🎧 https://bit.ly/UME-Apple
History of Sweden: https://bit.ly/HbN-S3E33
You can also watch our podcasts:
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I hope you enjoy these episodes. Adel Aali Adel, host & producerHistory Behind News podcast
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►How did the mighty Sasanian Persian Empire fall to the Muslim Arabs?
►What happened in the Persian Empire on February 9, in the year 628? ►Where is the tomb of the last Sasanian King of kings?
Were the Achaemenid and Sasanian Empires Persian or Iranian? What's the significance of these terms in the context of the past? How about now? Or in the 20th century, when Persia officially changed its name to Iran?
🚩About My Guest:
Dr. Khodadad Rezakhani is a lecturer and a senior research fellow at Leiden University. He is a historian of Global Late Antiquity and Early Middle Ages, with a focus on Central and West Asia from 500-700 CE. His research focuses on the Sasanian and Early Islamic economy of the Near East.
History of Yemen and the Houthis:
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I hope you enjoy these episodes. Adel Aali Adel, host & producerHistory Behind News podcast
Map of the Sasanian Empire at its greatest extent in 621 CE. The Sasanian Empirelasted from 624 to 651 CE. This map reflects the Persians conquest underShahanshah (King of kings) Khosrow II (570-628, r. 590 & 591-628). NoIranian Shah had achieved such immense territorial gains since Cyrus the Great(600 BCE to 530 BCE). This map is provided by Keeby101: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Keeby101, on Wikipedia: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sasanian_Empire_621_A.D.jpg#/media/File:Sasanian_Empire_621_A.D.jpg, under license CC BY-SA 3.0 ttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/. Reflective effect has been added to the bottom portion of the map, and itsedges have been rounded. Derafsh Kaviani: Sasanian royal standard that was derived from a mythological Iranianblacksmith-turned-hero (Kaveh) against a demon-like foreign ruler. PublicDomain image. 🎵 attribution, links and license for the theme music in this podcast: The Success by Keys of Moon | https://soundcloud.com/keysofmoon. Musicpromoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com. Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0): https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. Santur: Arpegio performed on a Persian santur, recorded with an oktava mk012 mic. Thispiece has been edited into shorter segments, its volume adjusted, and played in different parts of this podcast. https://freesound.org/people/nsmusic/sounds/259692/ Music available on https://freesound.org/ Creative Commons / Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0 DEED) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Scholars in Your Inbox? 125 scholars and counting! So don't miss HbN guest scholars’ weekly takes on the history behind our news.--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/history-behind-news/support -
World War I was a major turning point for America's conspiracy theories. Before WWI, conspiracy theories targeted minorities and marginalized groups. But after WWI, conspiracy theories became about our government, about the Deep State.
My guest for this episode is Dr. Kathryn Olmsted, a professor at the History Dept of UC Davis. She is the author of many books on America's conspiracy theories, including two books that wediscuss: (1) Challenging the Secret Government:The Post-Watergate Investigations of the CIA and FBI, and (2) Real Enemies: Conspiracy Theories and American Democracy, World War I to 9/11.
Was the ancient Middle East a troubled region?
You can listen to this fantastic episode at Unravelling the Middle East podcast:
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🎧 https://bit.ly/UME-Apple
You can also watch our podcasts:
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I hope you enjoy these episodes. Adel Aali Adel, host & producerHistory Behind News podcast
Taylor Swift's image attribution: this image is of Ms. Swift at the 2023 MTV Video Music Awards. It is provided by iHeartRadioCA on Wikipedia under a CC BY 3.0 license. The image has been trimmed so that its narrower. US $1 bill image: "The Eye of Providence, or the all-seeing eye of God, seen here on the US$1 bill, has been taken by some to be evidence of a conspiracy involving the Founding Fathers of the United States and the Illuminati." (Public Domain). Image of the Twin Towers - the World Trade Center. "The nature of the collapse of the two World Trade Center towers and the nearby 7 World Trade Center (in this photo, the brown building to the left of the towers) is a major focus of 9/11 conspiracy theories." Image provided by Jeffmock on Wikipedia (Public Domain). U.S. propaganda poster calling for revenge for Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor, which later became the subject of varying conspiracy theories. (Public Domain). 🎵 attribution, links and license for the theme music in this podcast: The Success by Keys of Moon | https://soundcloud.com/keysofmoon. Musicpromoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com. Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0): https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. Santur: Arpegio performed on a Persian santur, recorded with an oktava mk012 mic. Thispiece has been edited into shorter segments, its volume adjusted, and played in different parts of this podcast. https://freesound.org/people/nsmusic/sounds/259692/ Music available on https://freesound.org/ Creative Commons / Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0 DEED) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Scholars in Your Inbox? 125 scholars and counting! So don't miss HbN guest scholars’ weekly takes on the history behind our news.--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/history-behind-news/support -
Out of the 3 major trade routes in the Middle East before the Suez Canal, 2 traversed through Yemen. No wonder the Sasanian Persians, the Ottomans, the Portuguese and the British all occupied and attempted to colonize Yemen.
In this episode our guest scholar, Dr. Charles Schmitz, will explain the rise of Houthis in the context of Yemen's religion and history, going back to the 9th century. Dr. Schmitz is a professor at Towson University and a non-resident scholar at the Middle East Institute.
This episode will be published in two parts on Feb. 15 and 16 at our sister podcast - Unravelling the Middle East, which you can follow via these links:
⏩ https://bit.ly/UME-Spotify
⏩ https://bit.ly/UME-Apple
You can also see me and our guest scholars engaged in conversation about the Middle East on our YouTube channel:
https://www.youtube.com/@UnravellingtheMiddleEast
And on Wed., Feb. 21, a guest scholar of America's conspiracy theories will speak about the Taylor Swift/Kelce MAGA political conspiracy theories in the context of our history.
I hope you enjoy these episodes. Adel Aali
Adel, host & producerHistory Behind News podcast
Image: Areas controlled by Houthi movement in 2024, colored green. Provided by Borysk5 (own work) on Wikipedia under CC BY-SA 4.0 license. 🎵 attribution, links and license for the theme music in this podcast: The Success by Keys of Moon | https://soundcloud.com/keysofmoon. Musicpromoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com. Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0): https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. Santur: Arpegio performed on a Persian santur, recorded with an oktava mk012 mic. Thispiece has been edited into shorter segments, its volume adjusted, and played in different parts of this podcast. https://freesound.org/people/nsmusic/sounds/259692/ Music available on https://freesound.org/ Creative Commons / Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0 DEED) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Scholars in Your Inbox? 125 scholars and counting! So don't miss HbN guest scholars’ weekly takes on the history behind our news.--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/history-behind-news/support -
Argentina used to be Latin America's largest economy - but no longer! Mismanagement and politics have led to several national defaults and, by some measures, Argentina has the highest inflation in the world! To better understand Argentina's economic challenges, I spoke with Dr. Gabriel Palazzo (also visit his personal homepage and X.com account) - a development economist from Latin America exploring questions crucial to improving quality of life and well-being in developing economies. He is a Research Officer at the Institute of Development Studies in England. Prior to this appointment, Dr. Palazzo was a professor of advanced macroeconomics at the University of Bueno Aires.
You may want to listen to the following episodes as well:
1. How America became militarily entangled in the Middle East:
https://bit.ly/UME-S1E3
https://bit.ly/UME-S1E4
2. History of Chile's democracy and constitutional crisis:
https://bit.ly/HbN-S2E38s
I hope you enjoy these episodes. Adel Aali
Adel, host & producerHistory Behind News podcast
Host, Unravelling the Middle East: Spotify: https://bit.ly/UME-SpotifyApple: https://bit.ly/UME-Apple
Image: Javier Milei en el Salón Blanco el día de su jura como tal. By Cancillería Argentina in Wikipedia under CC BY 2.0 license. Image was not altered in any way - only set in a colored background and podcast logo placed below it. 🎵 attribution, links and license for the theme music in this podcast: The Success by Keys of Moon | https://soundcloud.com/keysofmoon. Musicpromoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com. Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0): https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. Santur: Arpegio performed on a Persian santur, recorded with an oktava mk012 mic. Thispiece has been edited into shorter segments, its volume adjusted, and played in different parts of this podcast. https://freesound.org/people/nsmusic/sounds/259692/ Music available on https://freesound.org/ Creative Commons / Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0 DEED) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Scholars in Your Inbox? 125 scholars and counting! So don't miss HbN guest scholars’ weekly takes on the history behind our news.--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/history-behind-news/support -
While Ms. Nikki Haley was reluctant to say the "S" word (read slavery), we all know that slavery caused the Civil War. In this episode, we discuss whether slavery was the Civil War's immediate cause or its underlying cause.The in-depth analysis of this history is important for our current political moment because race is placed in front and center. For example, did you know that not all Southern states seceded? Or that most Northerners were deeply racist? Or that some slave states, such as Maryland, did not secede and that the Emancipation Proclamation did not apply to them? To learn more about the history of the Civil War, I spoke with Mr. Roger Lowenstein (https://rogerlowenstein.com/), a former reporter for The Wall Street Journal for more than a decade. He is a historian and his writings and writings about his books appear in The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, Fortune, the New York Times, Atlantic, the Washington Post, and many other publications. He has written several books, including New York Times bestsellers… about different important personalities and periods in the economic and financial history of the U.S. He is the author of Ways and Means, Lincoln and His Cabinet and the Financing of the Civil War, which was the Winner of the Harold Holzer Lincoln Forum Book Prize. You might also be interested in my prior conversation with Mr. Lowenstein, during which he compared the US Civil War with the current war in Ukraine. Specifically, we talked about cotton and plantation owners in the South and Russia's tycoons and oil in Russia. Listen here: https://bit.ly/HbN-S2E14sI hope you enjoy these episodes. Adel Aali
Adel, host & producerHistory Behind News podcast
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Image: Gov. Nikki Haley official portrait. Public Domain. 🎵 attribution, links and license for the theme music in this podcast: The Success by Keys of Moon | https://soundcloud.com/keysofmoon. Musicpromoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com. Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0): https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. Santur: Arpegio performed on a Persian santur, recorded with an oktava mk012 mic. Thispiece has been edited into shorter segments, its volume adjusted, and played in different parts of this podcast. https://freesound.org/people/nsmusic/sounds/259692/ Music available on https://freesound.org/ Creative Commons / Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0 DEED) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Scholars in Your Inbox? 125 scholars and counting! So don't miss HbN guest scholars’ weekly takes on the history behind our news.--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/history-behind-news/support -
In a brief order this week, the US Supreme Court restored federal government access to and control of the border.
In response to the Supreme Court's order, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said this: “I will continue to defend Texas’ constitutional authority to secure the border”.
So here is my question: does the Constitution give Governor Abbot, or any state governor for that matter, the authority to control our country's international borders?
To better understand the history of the tension between US states and our federal government when it comes to immigration, which is a highly polarizing issue now, I spoke with Mr. Gulasekaram, who at the time of this recording, was a Professor of Law at the Santa Clara University School of Law, where he taught Constitutional Law and Immigration Law. He now teaches at the University of Colorado, Boulder law school: https://lawweb.colorado.edu/profiles/profile.jsp?id=1126
Prof. Gulasekaram is co-author of the leading immigration law casebook used in law schools, Immigration & Citizenship: Process and Policy. And he is also co-author of The New Immigration Federalism - a book that provides an in-depth empirical and theoretical analysis of the resurgence of state and local immigration lawmaking, which is the subject of our conversation in this episode.
Prof. Gulasekaram is also the co-founder of the World Children’s Initiative, a non-profit organization dedicated to improving health and educational infrastructure for children in developing areas around the world.
You may also be interested in an earlier episode, in which, my guest, Prof. Jennifer Chacon, answers this question: do immigrants commit more crime than native-born Americans? Listen here: https://bit.ly/HbN-S3E18
I hope you enjoy these episodes.
Adel, host & producerHistory Behind News podcast & on YouTubehttps://historybehindnews.com/ Unravelling the Middle East: This new special series - an in-depth history and analysis of the Middle East - will launch in late January. Get Unravelling the Middle East on Spotify: https://bit.ly/UME-SpotifyApple: https://bit.ly/UME-AppleGoogle: https://bit.ly/UME-Google
Image: Construction of a floating barrier in the Rio Grande near Eagle Pass as part of Texas's Operation Lone Star. The image was taken by a USBP drone. Public Domain. 🎵 attribution, links and license for the theme music in this podcast: The Success by Keys of Moon | https://soundcloud.com/keysofmoon. Musicpromoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com. Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0): https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. Santur: Arpegio performed on a Persian santur, recorded with an oktava mk012 mic. Thispiece has been edited into shorter segments, its volume adjusted, and played in different parts of this podcast. https://freesound.org/people/nsmusic/sounds/259692/ Music available on https://freesound.org/ Creative Commons / Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0 DEED) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Scholars in Your Inbox? 125 scholars and counting! So don't miss HbN guest scholars’ weekly takes on the history behind our news.--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/history-behind-news/support -
Did you know, that Napoleon was born only a year after his homeland Corsica, was conquered by France? And that at the time of his birth, his father was fighting with the Corsican army against the French? And get this: when Napoleon moved to France around the age of 10, this future Emperor of the French could not yet speak French.To better understand Napoleon, his world, his rise to power and his transformation of France in many ways, I spoke with Dr. Rafe Blaufarb of Florida State University. He is a professor of history, a Ben Weider Eminent Scholar of Napoleonic Studies and the director of the Institute On Napoleon and the French Revolution - one of a kind institute in the United States, which we also talk about in this episode. Dr. Blaufarb is the author of many books, including the following: "Napoleon: A Symbol for an Age"; "The Revolutionary Atlantic: Republican Visions, 1760-1830"; "The Great Demarcation: The French Revolution and the Invention of Modern Property"; and "The French Army, 1750-1820: Careers, Talent, Merit".To learn more about him, please visit the following: https://history.fsu.edu/person/rafe-blaufarb
https://infr.history.fsu.edu/Also, listen to Prof. Gildea of Oxford University explain the long history of French rebellions, revolts and revolutions: https://bit.ly/HbN-S3E13I hope you enjoy these episodes. Adel, host & producerHistory Behind News podcast & on YouTubehttps://historybehindnews.com/ Unravelling the Middle East: This new special series - an in-depth history and analysis of the Middle East - will launch in late January. Get Unravelling the Middle East on Spotify: https://bit.ly/UME-SpotifyApple: https://bit.ly/UME-AppleGoogle: https://bit.ly/UME-Google
Napoleon. Jacques-Louis David - The Emperor Napoleon in His Study at the Tuileries - Google Art Project. Public Domain. Available on Wikimedia. 🎵 attribution, links and license for the theme music in this podcast: The Success by Keys of Moon | https://soundcloud.com/keysofmoon. Musicpromoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com. Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0): https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. Santur: Arpegio performed on a Persian santur, recorded with an oktava mk012 mic. Thispiece has been edited into shorter segments, its volume adjusted, and played in different parts of this podcast. https://freesound.org/people/nsmusic/sounds/259692/ Music available on https://freesound.org/ Creative Commons / Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0 DEED) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Scholars in Your Inbox? 125 scholars and counting! So don't miss HbN guest scholars’ weekly takes on the history behind our news. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/history-behind-news/support -
Not the damsel in distress. Not the desirable woman who will raise your kids and take care of the home. These are the stories of the nymphomaniacs, the nasty and creepy women, the Femme Fatales.
A string of recent films are casting prominent actresses, in dark, creepy, nasty characters. One example is the movie May December, which received four nominations for this pastweekend's Golden Globe Awards.
You can read more about cinema actresses in this recent WSJ article: "In Hollywood, It’s the Golden Age of the Creepy Woman".
So to better understand the history of women in Cinema - not just in Hollywood, from their stereotypical roles to more creative and perhaps more liberating roles, I spoke with Prof. Thomas Doherty and Prof. Maggie Hennefeld, who essentially ran the program by asking each other wonderful question that, frankly, I hadn't even thought about.
Prof. Doherty is a cultural historian with a special interest in Hollywood cinema. He is a professor of American Studies at Brandeis University. He guest-participated in our program last year and talked about the Magic of Hollywood, and also compared TV's disruption of Hollywood in the 1950s with AI's disruption now.
Prof. Hennefeld is a McKnight Presidential Fellow and Associate Professor of Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities.
I hope you enjoy these episodes.
Adel, host & producer
History Behind News podcast & on YouTube
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Image attribution: The "Vamp" (Theda Bara) in "A Fool There Was", a 1915 silent film drama in which she seduces and ruins a wealthy family man, John Schuyler (Edward José). Public Domain. 🎵 attribution, links and license for the theme music in this podcast: The Success by Keys of Moon | https://soundcloud.com/keysofmoon. Musicpromoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com. Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0): https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. Santur: Arpegio performed on a Persian santur, recorded with an oktava mk012 mic. Thispiece has been edited into shorter segments, its volume adjusted, and played in different parts of this podcast. https://freesound.org/people/nsmusic/sounds/259692/ Music available on https://freesound.org/ Creative Commons / Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0 DEED) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Scholars in Your Inbox? 125 scholars and counting! So don't miss HbN guest scholars’ weekly takes on the history behind our news. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/history-behind-news/support -
The chaos of 2023 Congressional politics in perspective of history - that's the subject of my conversation with Dr. David Schultz in this episode, during which I ask him the following questions:
What stood out for him in the political chaos of 2023? What period of American history resembles our current moment? Whatever happened to decorum and statesmanship in Congress? What does he mean by the hyper-masculine nature of Trumpism? How does Taylor Swift's music relate to current politics? What is Politainment? What do Europeans think of America's politics now? Because Dr. Schultz has correctly projected every US presidential election for more than two decades, I ask him: who is going to win?Dr. Schultz is a Distinguished University Professor in the Departments of Political Science, Environmental Studies, and Legal Studies at Hamline University. He is also an adjunct professor of Law at the University of Minnesota and at the University of St. Thomas. He is a four-time Fulbright scholar who has taught extensively in Europe and Asia, and the winner of the Leslie A. Whittington National Award for excellence in public affairs teaching.
Dr. Schultz is the author of more than 200 articles and 45 books on various aspects of American politics, election law, and the media and politics. In this episode, we talk about one of his books: Trumpism: American Politics In The Age of Politainment.
Also, listen to Dr. Schultz explain America's polarized politics and its impact on US elections: https://bit.ly/HbN-S2E39s
I hope you enjoy these episodes.
Adel, host & producer
History Behind News podcast & on YouTube
Unravelling the Middle East:
This new special series - an in-depth history and analysis of the Middle East - will launch in late January. Get Unravelling the Middle East Spotify, Apple, Castbox, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music or Radio Public.
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🎵 attribution, links and license for the theme music in this podcast: The Success by Keys of Moon | https://soundcloud.com/keysofmoon. Musicpromoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com. Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0): https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. Santur: Arpegio performed on a Persian santur, recorded with an oktava mk012 mic. Thispiece has been edited into shorter segments, its volume adjusted, and played in different parts of this podcast. https://freesound.org/people/nsmusic/sounds/259692/ Music available on https://freesound.org/ Creative Commons / Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0 DEED) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Photo of the Cleaver family from the television program Leave it to Beaver. From left: Hugh Beaumont (Ward), Tony Dow (Wally), Barbara Billingsley (June), Jerry Mathers (Theodore AKA "Beaver"). Public Domain, available on Wikimedia. According to historian John Fea, many Trump followers find common ground with others who seek refuge from change by urging a return to a utopian Leave it to Beaver version of America that never actually existed. Scholars in Your Inbox? 125 scholars and counting! So don't miss HbN guest scholars’ weekly takes on the history behind our news. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/history-behind-news/support -
Fireworks and wild parties on Christmas Eve? Does this sound strange to you? Well, it wasn't strange to many Americans of our past. Yet, it was highly offensive to many others.
How America began to celebrate Christmas and celebrate as it does now, is a multicultural story written by many immigrant groups - from the Pilgrims of the 1620s to the Protestants of the 1960s. And then... there is the story behind December 25th. Why the 25th? Why December? Why not March or April? The latter two more historical sense. My guest, Dr. Roberts is a Professor of History and Online Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Liberty University. His research interests include early American intellectual and economic history. He has lectured and published widely in the fields of the American Founding, monetary and banking history, American intellectual life, and Southern literature. He has been a ruling elder in the Presbyterian Church of America and the Evangelical Presbyterian Church.
Here is the White House Historical Association, which tells the history of Christmas at the White House.
Also, listen to the real history of Thanksgiving as told by Dr. David Silverman of George Washington University: https://bit.ly/HbN-S3E46
I hope you enjoy this episode.
Adel, host & producer
History Behind News podcast & on YouTube
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🎵 attribution, links and license for the theme music in this podcast: The Success by Keys of Moon | https://soundcloud.com/keysofmoon. Musicpromoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com. Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0): https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. Scholars in Your Inbox? 125 scholars and counting! So don't miss HbN guest scholars’ weekly takes on the history behind our news. Santur: Arpegio performed on a Persian santur, recorded with an oktava mk012 mic. Thispiece has been edited into shorter segments, its volume adjusted, and played in different parts of this podcast. https://freesound.org/people/nsmusic/sounds/259692/ Music available on https://freesound.org/ Creative Commons / Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0 DEED) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/history-behind-news/support -
Rosalynn Smith Carter - was she America's 49th First Lady? Or 50th? Or 41st? The answer depends on who is counted among this elite group of powerful unelected women. Here is my sources for these numbers:
49th: White House Historical Association
50th: National Park Service
41st: the White House
In this episode, I discuss the history of America's First Ladies with Dr. Kathrine Jellison of Ohio University.
And here is my conversation with Prof. Michael Gerhardt who compared former President Trump with former presidents Jackson, Cleveland and Nixon.
I hope you enjoy this episode.
Adel, host & producer
History Behind News podcast & on YouTube
Unravelling the Middle East:
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🎵 attribution, links and license for the theme music in this podcast: The Success by Keys of Moon | https://soundcloud.com/keysofmoon. Musicpromoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com. Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0): https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. Scholars in Your Inbox? 125 scholars and counting! So don't miss HbN guest scholars’ weekly takes on the history behind our news. Image: First Ladies Nancy Reagan, Ladybird Johnson, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Rosalyn Carter, Betty Ford, and Barbara Bush sit together at the National Garden Gala, 'A Tribute to America's First Ladies. This picture was taken one week before the death of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. Created May 11, 1994. By Barbara Kinney on Wikimedia. Public Domain.--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/history-behind-news/support - Show more
