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Martin Di Caro

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Martin Di Caro was the host of the History As It Happens podcast at The Washington Times.

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From left, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, United States President Joe Biden, Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and NATO Deputy Secretary General Mircea Geoana stand during a meeting of the NATO-Ukraine Council during a NATO summit in Vilnius, Lithuania, Wednesday, July 12, 2023. NATO leaders gathered Wednesday to launch a highly symbolic new forum for ties with Ukraine, after committing to provide the country with more military assistance for fighting Russia but only vague assurances of future membership. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin)

History As It Happens: Ukraine and NATO

Talk of Ukraine joining NATO has come and gone for more than 30 years. The most recent position to wait until the war ends may not bear fruit, either.

July 17, 2023
In this Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2023 photo, a brick memorializing Alice 'Alse' Young is placed in a town Heritage Bricks installation in Windsor, Conn. Young was the first person on record to be executed in the 13 colonies for witchcraft. Now, more than 375 years later, amateur historians, researchers and descendants of the accused witches and their accusers, from across the U.S., are urging Connecticut officials to officially acknowledge this dark period of the state's colonial history and posthumously exonerate those wrongfully accused and punished. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill)

History As It Happens: Witches no more

Connecticut's move to exonerate 12 people wrongfully accused of witchcraft in the 1600s recalls one of the most bizarre and terrifying chapters in American history.

July 12, 2023
Dr. Otto Frank holds the Golden Pan award, given for the sale of one million copies of the famous paperback, "The Diary of Anne Frank". A high school along Florida’s Atlantic Coast has removed a graphic novel based on the diary of Anne Frank after a leader of a conservative group challenged it, claiming it minimized the Holocaust. “Anne Frank’s Diary: The Graphic Adaptation” was removed from a library at Vero Beach High School after a leader of Moms for Liberty in Indian River County raised an objection. (AP Photo/Dave Caulkin, file)

History As It Happens: Otto and Miep

A new TV series dramatizes the loving friendship between Otto Frank and the young Dutch woman who tried to hide his family from the Nazis.

July 10, 2023
FILE - German prisoners of war are led away by Allied forces from Utah Beach, near Sainte-Mere-Eglise, on June 6, 1944, during landing operations at the Normandy coast, France. The D-Day invasion that helped change the course of World War II was unprecedented in scale and audacity. Veterans and world dignitaries are commemorating the 79th anniversary of the operation. (AP Photo, File)

History As It Happens: After D-Day

The central place of the invasion of Normandy in popular memory overshadows the enormous difficulties and utter brutality encountered by the Allies after June 6, 1944.

June 5, 2023
'Mercy: Humanity in War'   by Cathal J. Nolan (book cover)

BOOK REVIEW: ‘Mercy: Humanity in War’

Most Americans do not know the name Franz Stigler. In late 1943, in the air war over Germany, Stigler climbed into the cockpit of his Messerschmitt Bf-109 to pursue a badly damaged B-17.

May 25, 2023
A large group gathers to watch a wreath-laying ceremony at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial on Martin Luther King Jr. Day in Washington, Monday, Jan. 16, 2023. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

History As It Happens: King’s socialism

Martin Luther King's philosophy saw racism, materialism, and militarism as interrelated problems. So why is his criticism of American capitalism overlooked today?

May 22, 2023