History As It Happens: The Know Nothings, America's first 'replacement theorists'
Fear that hordes of immigrants will reorder society has a long pedigree in U.S. politics. Before the Civil War, the first nativist movement targeted Catholics.
History As It Happens Podcast
This is a podcast for people who want to think historically about current events. History As It Happens, hosted by award-winning broadcaster Martin Di Caro, features interviews with today's top scholars and thinkers, interwoven with audio from history's archive. New episodes every Tuesday and Thursday.
Listen here or click the RSS icon
(
) below to subscribe. Available on Apple Podcasts, Google, Stitcher, TuneIn, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts.
For comments or feedback, email media@washingtontimes.com using the subject line "History As It Happens podcast."
Click HERE for more about Martin Di Caro.
Recent Stories
History As It Happens: Abortion before Roe
Long before Americans argued over whether the Constitution protected a right to privacy, historians say abortion was commonplace and unregulated. That began to change in the nineteenth century.
History As It Happens: Slavery and the Constitution
Pulitzer Prize finalist Kate Masur discusses her book, "Until Justice Be Done," and the struggle to repeal racist laws in the North before the Civil War. America's first civil rights movement saw the Constitution as its ally.
History As It Happens: Elon Musk and our free speech wars
When it comes to speech, most Americans agree the government may not censor. But in the cultural realm, there is no consensus on who can say what and where.
History As It Happens: China's COVID fanaticism
Chinese President Xi Jinping is showing an unbending, zealous approach in trying to eliminate a coronavirus that simply will not go away. And no one can stop him.
History As It Happens: To end a war, or the illusion of total victory
The war in Ukraine has entered a new phase with no end in sight. History tells us it may only end with negotiations, not outright victory.
History As It Happens: The looming Iranian conflict
The Biden administration's effort to revive the Iran nuclear accord may fail, opening the way to a new era of proliferation and conflict at a time when the U.S. is trying to hold together the old order.
History As It Happens: Vladimir the historian
Russia's dictator promotes a history of Ukraine dating to the tenth century that denies its people a national identity. It is a mountain of distortions.
History As It Happens: Nuclear terror redux
Since the Cold War ended, a cultural awareness around nuclear weapons faded. Russia's war in Ukraine is reviving it, and proliferation experts say the concerns are overdue.
History As It Happens: The problem of war crimes
In the 76 years since the Nuremberg trials set the standard for punishing individuals for crimes against humanity, successful prosecutions have proven difficult. The odds are against it in Ukraine.
History As It Happens: Why Yeltsin chose Putin, why Putin chose war
When Boris Yeltsin handpicked Vladimir Putin to be his successor in 1999, he was not a full-fledged autocrat. The events of the 2000s changed that.
History As It Happens: Francis Fukuyama says liberal democracy is in trouble
The acclaimed political scientist tells The Washington Times the war in Ukraine is of critical importance to democracies everywhere.
History As It Happens: Slavery and the Constitution
In the third installment of this occasional series, two major historians dismantle race-obsessed interpretations of the American founding. In the process, they recover the first conflicts over slavery and race that were sparked by the American Revolution.
History As It Happens: Obama and Russia
The former president argued Ukraine was not a core American interest. Has history proved him right or wrong?
History As It Happens: A peace plan for Ukraine
The Finnish-Soviet Treaty of 1948 and the Austrian State Treaty of 1955 might show the way out of the war in Eastern Europe -- if realism can prevail.
History As It Happens: The abasement of the Supreme Court
Always to some extent partisan, the Supreme Court confirmation process has devolved into all-out political theater, from Bork to Brown Jackson.
History As It Happens: Democracies and dictatorships
Hitler biographer Ian Kershaw says the 1930s bear few strong parallels with the war in Ukraine, but Russian President Vladimir Putin's aggression is a reminder of the inherent weaknesses of democracies in facing up to dictatorships.
History As It Happens: Why Kyiv may fall
Military historian Max Hastings fears Russia may batter its way to something Vladimir Putin can call victory, leaving Ukraine's capital in ruins in the process.
History As It Happens: Slavery and the Constitution
Alan Taylor discusses why the original compromises over slavery seem to overshadow abolition in our history wars.
History As It Happens: This new Cold War
Historian Mary Elise Sarotte says the U.S. and Russia are entering a new period of conflict without many of the guardrails that existed during the last Cold War. That makes a new "Cold War" more dangerous.
History As It Happens: Why Russian democracy failed
Before Vladimir Putin rose to power, Russia's transition from Soviet Communism to democracy and free market economics failed disastrously. Those failures help explain today's crisis.
