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History As It Happens

Nov 7, 2025

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Dick Cheney died on Nov. 3. From the 1970s onward, he held several powerful posts as White House chief of staff, a Wyoming congressman, Secretary of Defense, and a private-sector...


Nov 4, 2025

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History As It Happens returns to the movies! In this episode, historian Kevin Levin discusses the 1989 film Glory, a moving portrayal of one of the first Black fighting regiments of the...


Oct 31, 2025

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The U.S.-led military coalition that expelled Saddam Hussein’s armies from Kuwait in 1990-91 is usually remembered as the first major conflict of a post-Cold War world. But it was...


Oct 29, 2025

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Carl Schmitt was a German legal theorist who joined the Nazi Party after Hitler achieved power. Schmitt supplied legal justifications for the Third Reich as it crushed all opposition and persecuted Jews. Yet long after he collaborated...


Oct 28, 2025

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The "No Kings" protests across America were aimed at President Donald Trump's mounting abuses of power, based on the idea that he's acting like an elected monarch 250 years after the framers of the Constitution...