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Trump Recognizes Jerusalem as Israel’s Capital and Orders U.S. Embassy to Move - The New York Times
Ignoring warnings from diplomats around the world, President Trump reverses decades of American policy toward the contested city. (2017)
Brexit explodes the ambiguity that underpins Northern Ireland - Charlemagne
CROSSING the border between Northern Ireland and his home in the south always left the young Gabriel D’Arcy sweating. But that is because he was in... (2017)
'It didn't feel momentous at all,' says developer who sent world's 1st text message 25 years ago
When Neil Papworth sent the world's first text message 25 years ago, he had no idea what a big deal it was... "On Dec. 3, 1992, at the tender ag... (2017)
Once upon a time, IBM branch offices ruled the computing world
IEEE Annals of the History of Computing | IEEE Computer Society By Lori Cameron and Michael Martinez “Now a researcher recovers this lost chapt... (2017)
World War I Warships Were Protected By This Cubist Camouflage | WIRED
Dazzle camouflage used to save warships from enemy targeters during World War I. Now it's back in San Diego. (2017)
The legacies of 1917 – Eurozine
What does the Bolshevik revolution, whose 100th anniversary falls this week, mean for Russia? Historian Orlando Figes speaks to the editor of Euroz... (2017)
When Gas Masks Were an Inescapable Part of Everyday Life
“It may be a little irksome at first, but you’ll soon get used to it.” "The vast majority of people watching this newsreel in Britain at the tim... (2017)
The Model Book of Calligraphy (1561–1596)
Pages from a remarkable book, the result of a collaboration across many decades between a master scribe, the Croatian-born Georg Bocskay, and Flemi... (2017)
What the Stoics did for us
Could a 2,300-year-old Graeco-Roman philosophy be the key to a happy 21st-century life? "Stoic theory embraces the humanist emphasis on an ethic... (2017)
The growth of the European community - Daily chart
Mapping the expansion of the European project ON APRIL 18th 1951, exalted by the trappings of empire, ministers from West Germany, Italy, France... (2017)
The EU’s Eastern Partnership - Disappointed suitors
THE question of where Europe’s eastern border lies has bedevilled statesmen for centuries. It has proved equally difficult for the European Union, ... (2017)
Is India a country or a continent? - Banyan
It is more integrated than the European Union, but less unified than the United States "IN A speech to London’s Constitutional Club in 1931, Win... (2017)
Buddy cops - NATO and the European Union
THEIR headquarters are separated only by a three-kilometre taxi ride across Brussels, and over the years they have declared their shared interests ... (2017)
The fog of politics - European defence
TERRORISM, Russian bullying, chaos in the Middle East and the possibility of a President Donald Trump: it is no surprise that the European Union wa... (2017)
Explaining Britain’s vote to leave the EU - Britain and the European Union
Brexit: Why Britain Voted to Leave the European Union. By Harold Clarke, Matthew Goodwin and Paul Whiteley.Cambridge University Press; 256 pages; ... (2017)
The European Union’s delicate political economy - Free exchange
GREECE’S marathon crisis is at least instructive. Past flare-ups have illustrated a textbook’s worth of economic principles. The latest episode—a d... (2017)
The future of the European Union - Creaking at 60
Special Report from The Economist: "THE EUROPEAN PROJECT has sometimes given the impression of being in perpetual crisis... (2017)
The significance of the Treaty of Rome - The Economist explains
ON MARCH 25th the European Union’s heads of government will gather in the glorious Sala Degli Orazi e Curiazi of Rome’s Palazzo dei Conservatori to... (2017)
Italian pipe organs, Europe’s oldest, are making a return - They’ll be Bach
But Italy lacks enough trained organists to play them IN MAY, a Dutch organist named Pieter van Dijk performed a selection of baroque pieces in ... (2017)
The ups and downs of two Italian rivals | The Economist
ROME and Milan are like France and England, Oxford and Cambridge, the Knicks and the Bulls. Rivalries range from politics to television, from food ... (2017)
The Shape of Rome
Rome’s layers: ancient, Medieval, Renaissance, modern, all jumbled together in an insoluble stack of meaning and contradictions. And that road. ... (2017)
The cultural resonance of Italy’s Alpini - Mountain men
EVERY winter, town squares all over Europe are filled by the hum of Christmas choirs. Towns in northern Italy follow this tradition too, but with a... (2017)
Milan’s beloved but endangered dialect - Losing language
THE 2015 World's Fair, held in Milan, was an unexpected success. It showcased a sleek, self-confident city, all trendy architecture and eco-friendl... (2017)
The mosque in the cathedral - Spanish identity politics
WITH its Moorish arches and golden mihrab, the mosque-cathedral of Córdoba is one of the top tourist destinations in Spain. (2017)
Robert Goodwin on 16th-century Spain - Quick Study
ROBERT GOODWIN is research fellow at University College London and author of “Crossing the Continent 1527-1540” (2009) and “Spain: The Centre of th... (2017)
Global power - Spain’s golden age
Spain: The Centre of the World 1519-1682. By Robert Goodwin. Bloomsbury; 587 pages; $40 and £30. HABSBURG Spain in the 16th century was the world’... (2017)
The parable of Gibraltar and Britain - Bagehot
DAWN’S rays crest the palm and date fronds. Lights on the African coast pulsate gently through the February haze. In the shadows falling from the s... (2017)
Apartheid, or just apart? - France and its Muslims
WITH home-made rabbit pâté and fresh cuts of meat, Rémy Mirleau’s boucherie typifies local France, like the tricolour above the town hall. But in T... (2017)
How multilingual is France? | The Economist
“HOW can you be expected to govern a country that has 246 kinds of cheese?”, Charles de Gaulle once famously complained of France. In the wake of t... (2017)
France, secularism and religion
Emmanuel Macron has a history buff’s view of Islam and religious strife. America’s founding fathers, influenced by the French enlightenment, we... (2017)
Russia's Geography Problem
This video was based on a chapter of the book “Prisoners of Geography” by Tim Marshall. It’s the best book I’ve read so far in 2017 so I highly enc... (2017)
Russia's Geographic Challenge
Stratfor explains the geographic impetus behind Russia's need for regional dominance and its implications for global politics. About Stratfor: Stra... (2017)
Why is Black Friday Called Black Friday?
When did Black Friday start, and why do we dislike it so much? Good Mythical Morning Episode 209! SUBSCRIBE for daily episodes: http://bit.ly/subrl... (2017)
TED ed: The rise and fall of the Berlin Wall - Konrad H. Jarausch
On August 13, 1961, construction workers began tearing up streets and erecting barriers in Berlin. This night marked the beginning of one of histor... (2017)
The Animated History of Germany
YouTube: The Animated History of Germany (2017)
Halloween History | National Geographic
Halloween isn't just costumes and candy; it's a cultural holiday rich in tradition | National Geographic: Nat... (2017)
Puerto Rico: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
LastWeekTonight, 2016 "Puerto Rico is suffering a massive debt crisis. Lin-Manuel Miranda joins John Oliver to call for relief. (2017)
Capitalism and the Dutch East India Company
Crash Course World History 229: John Green teaches you about the Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie, doing business as the VOC, also known as the Du... (2017)
Nationalism vs Globalism: the new political divide | Yuval Noah Harari - TED Talks
TED Published on Feb 21, 2017 How do we make sense of today's political divisions? In a wide-ranging conversation full of insight, historian Yu... (2017)
Switzerland, Norway and Iceland REFUSE to join the EU. Why?
Switzerland, Norway, and Iceland: three nations with deep European roots that remain outside the European Union, despite their geographical and cul... (2024)
How Singapore Got So Crazy Rich
Singapore has transformed itself from a colonial trading port to a buzzing financial center in just a matter of decades. It’s been held up as an ex... (2024)
The Guianas: South America's Weirdest Countries?
At the top of South America are three small territories. Until about ten years ago, not a single road connected them to the outside world. They are... (2024)
Why Indonesia's Economy Matters and Its Unexpected Growth | Indonesian Economy
Why Indonesia's Economy Matters and Its Unexpected Growth | Indonesian Economy (2023)
Mumbai, India's Transforming MEGACITY
Mumbai, India’s Transforming MEGACITYFive transportation megaprojects are under construction throughout Mumbai, a city of 25 million. This short do... (2023)
Why West Virginia is so Poor
Why West Virginia is so Poor (2023)
Manaus: Why Brazil Built a City in the Middle of the Amazon
The Brazilian city of Manaus sits alone in the middle of the Amazon, and yet it still grew to become the seventh largest city in the country. So wh... (2023)
Why is Argentina’s economy such a mess?
Rampant inflation, a booming black market for US dollars and crippling debt - welcome to Argentina, one of the world's most dysfunctional economies... (2023)
Samsung’s Dangerous Dominance over South Korea
Samsung’s Dangerous Dominance over South Korea (2023)
Why Silicon Valley is here
Why Silicon Valley is here. One radio engineer had a plan. And it worked. (2023)
Rwanda to become the next Singapore?
Rwanda to become the next Singapore? (2023)
Bosnia: The Worst War You Never Learned About
Bosnia: The Worst War You Never Learned About (2023)
Why Portuguese Food is Hiding Everywhere
Cultures and cuisines inspire each other all around the world, especially in the last few decades. But Portugal seems to be a special case. It's a ... (2023)
Why Were Things So Terrible In the 17th Century - General Crisis Theory
Why Were Things So Terrible In the 17th Century - General Crisis Theory (2023)
German Reunification Explained
German Reunification almost didn't happen. It was opposed by nearly all world leaders. (2023)
How was Switzerland Formed? -The History of Switzerland
How was Switzerland Formed? -The History of Switzerland (2023)
TED Talk: Why societies collapse | Jared Diamond
Why do societies fail? With lessons from the Norse of Iron Age Greenland, deforested Easter Island and present-day Montana, Jared Diamond ... (2023)
Yalta Conference: Winston Churchill's CRAZY Post-War Plan For Germany
Yalta Conference: Winston Churchill's CRAZY Post-War Plan For Germany (2023)
The European Union - Summary on a Map
In this video, we trace the evolution of the European Union since the end of WWII until Brexit.-------- (2023)
World War I - Summary on a Map
Let's retrace on a map a summary of WWI, the so-called "Great War". This video summarises the period since the rise of nationalism in the middle of... (2023)
France secretly owns 14 countries, neocolonial Africa
France secretly owns 14 countries, neocolonial Africa (2023)
How Fake Money Saved Brazil : Planet Money : NPR
An economist and his grad-school buddies tricked the people of Brazil into saving the country's economy. Twenty years ago, Brazil's inflation... (2017)
#443 – Gregory Aldrete: The Roman Empire - Rise and Fall of Ancient Rome - Lex Fridman Podcast | Podcast on Spotify
Listen to this episode from Lex Fridman Podcast on Spotify. Gregory Aldrete is a historian specializing in ancient Rome and military history.Thank ... (2024)
Ghosts of Football Past
In anticipation of Super Bowl LII (Go Eagles), we're revisiting an old episode about the surprising history of how the game came to be. It's the en... (2023)
The Re-Militarization of Germany - The Daily | Podcast on Spotify
Listen to this episode from The Daily on Spotify. In the decades after World War II and the atrocities of the Holocaust, Germany deliberately under... (2023)
506- Monumental Diplomacy - Namibia and North Korean art - 99% Invisible | Podcast on Spotify
In downtown Windhoek, Namibia -- at the intersection of Fidel Castro Street and Robert Mugabe Avenue -- there's an imposing gold building with an a... (2023)
What Happened The One Time the U.S. Paid Off The Entire National Debt : Planet Money : NPR
There was one time the U.S. federal government stopped borrowing and paid off every penny of national debt. It did not end well… (2021)
Florence Nightingale: Data Viz Pioneer - 99% Invisible | Podcast on Spotify
Listen to this episode from 99% Invisible on Spotify. Victorian nurse Florence Nightingale (played in this episode by her distant cous... (2021)
Lighting the Stock Market on Fire - Vox Media | Podcast
Listen to this episode from Go For Broke on Spotify. Venture capitalists and tech entrepreneurs chasing big payouts helped inflate the dot-com ... (2020)
99% Invisible Podcast - Valley of the Fallen - Franco, Spain and Civil War History
About an hour northwest of Madrid, an enormous stone crucifix rises 500 feet out of a rocky mountaintop. It’s so big you can see it from miles away... (2020)
The Infantorium
There’s an old apartment building in South Minneapolis that looks totally out of place. It’s in a residential neighborhood with small bungalows and... (2020)
Return of the Yokai - Roman Mars - 99% Invisible Podcast
Listen to this episode from 99% Invisible on Spotify. In the US, mascots are used to pump up crowds at sporting events, or for traumat... (2020)
The history of vaccines and how they work : Planet Money
We've only made vaccines for so many diseases. Let's look at the history. | Subscribe to our weekly newsletter here. (2020)
'Ghost' DNA In West Africans Complicates Story Of Human Origins
Modern genomes from Nigeria and Sierra Leone show signals that scientists call "ghost" DNA — from an unknown human ancestor. That means that prehis... (2020)
The CIA's Secret Quest For Mind Control: Torture, LSD And A 'Poisoner In Chief' - NPR
Journalist Stephen Kinzer reveals how CIA chemist Sidney Gottlieb worked in the 1950s and early '60s to develop mind control drugs and deadly toxin... (2019)
Part 5: Can Liberal Democracy Survive in Europe? - The New York Times - 2019
In the final chapter of our series, we find that many who are rejecting the political system and values that underpin the European Union feel the s... (2019)
Part 4: Poland’s Culture Wars - The New York Times - 2019
The nationalist governing party says it’s in favor of democracy — just not the kind represented by the European Union. We look at how it is reshapi... (2019)
La Sagrada Família - 99% Invisible
The line to enter Barcelona’s most famous church often stretches around the block. La Sagrada Família, designed by Antoni Gaudí, draws so many peop... (2019)
Platforms Versus Aggregators | Exponent podcast - Episode 152
Ben and James continue to discuss the differences between platforms and aggregators, including Facebook, Microsoft, Apple, Google, Netflix, Amazon,... (2019)
a16z Podcast: How the Internet Happened – Andreessen Horowitz
In his book (and podcast), Brian McCullough chronicles the history and evolution of the internet -- from college kids in a basement and the dot-com... (2018)
How Yellow Fever Turned New Orleans Into The 'City Of The Dead' : NPR
Some years the virus would wipe out a tenth of the population, earning New Orleans the nickname "Necropolis." The gruesome disease killed thousands... (2018)
After the Storm: Marking 120 Years Since the U.S. Invasion of Puerto Rico | The Takeaway | WNYC Studios
Today, on the 120th anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Puerto Rico, author Esmeralda Santiago joins The Takeaway to discuss the invasion ... (2018)
How Venezuela Struck It Poor – Foreign Policy (with audio track)
The seeds of the apparently sudden collapse of Venezuela’s once-proud oil industry were sown two decades ago. (2018)
Madeleine Albright on fascism - The Economist asks
AMERICA'S first female secretary of state on how populism can slide into fascism, what Kim Jong Il and Vladimir Putin were like in person, and what... (2018)
1. How the 1990 World Cup Saved English Soccer - Gimlet Media
The story of how one summer, and one World Cup, changed English football forever. (2018)
The Vault -Seed food bank - 99% Invisible
Svalbard is a remote Norwegian archipelago with reindeer, Arctic foxes and only around 2,500 humans — but it is also home to a vault containing see... (2018)
The Laff Box - 99% Invisible
What happened to the laugh track? For nearly five decades, it was ubiquitous, simulating in-person audience experiences in home living rooms. But b... (2018)
Airships and the Future that Never Was - 99% Invisible
They are hulking, but graceful — human-made whales that float in the air. For over a century, lighter-than-air vehicles have captured the public im... (2018)
Bear Stearns fell 10 years ago today - NPR Marketplace on Apple Podcasts
On this day in 2008, an 85-year-old investment bank became the very public face of the financial crisis. Only a $29 billion loan guarantee from the... (2018)
A match made at Bear Stearns - NPR Marketplace on Apple Podcasts
Yesterday we examined the financials that lead to the fall of Bear Stearns, and now we're going to look at the human side: A couple of unlikely Wal... (2018)
2008 Financial Crisis (10 years later): NPR Marketplace on Apple Podcasts
NPR podcast- 3/19/2018 “former Fed Chair Ben Bernanke, former Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and Timothy Geithner, former president of the New... (2018)
Sapiens, by Yuval Noah Harari
New York Times Readers’ Pick: Top 100 Books of the 21st Century New York Times Bestseller A Summer Reading Pick for President Barack Obama, Bill Ga... (2024)
The Daughters of Yalta
"The story of the fascinating and fateful "daughter diplomacy" of Anna Roosevelt, Sarah Churchill, and Kathleen Harriman, three glamorous young wom... (2023)
The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956
Drawing on his own incarceration and exile, as well as on evidence from more than 200 fellow prisoners and Soviet archives, Aleksandr I. Solzhenits... (2021)
Ideas: a history of thought and invention, from fire to Freud
Peter Watson's hugely ambitious and stimulating history of ideas from deep antiquity to the present day—from the invention of writing, mathematics,... (2021)
Origin Story: A Big History of Everything - by David Christian
A captivating history of the universe -- from before the dawn of time through the far reaches of the distant future. Most historians study the s... (2021)
The Manual: A Philosopher's Guide to Life (Stoic Philosophy Book 1)
The Manual book. Read 131 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. Life's Missing Instruction Manual Epictetus (c. 50-135 CE) was br... (2021)
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
Meditations book. Read 7,002 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. Written in Greek by the only Roman emperor who was also a phil... (2021)
The Narrow Corridor: States, Societies, and the Fate of Liberty - by Daron Acemoğlu
The Narrow Corridor book. Read 107 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. 'A must-read. Acemoglu and Robinson are intellectual hea... (2020)
A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking
In the ten years since its publication in 1988, Stephen Hawking's classic work has become a landmark volume in scientific writing, with more than n... (2020)
Start-up Nation: The Story of Israel's Economic Miracle by Dan Senor
START-UP NATION addresses the trillion dollar question: How is it that Israel-- a country of 7.1 million, only 60 years old, surrounded by enemies,... (2020)
The Complete Maus by Art Spiegelman
The Complete Maus book. Read 7,135 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. Combined for the first time here are Maus I: A Survivor'... (2020)
The Complete Persepolis (Persepolis, #1-4) by Marjane Satrapi
The Complete Persepolis book. Read 7,446 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. Here, in one volume: Marjane Satrapi's best-sellin... (2020)
Earning the Rockies: How Geography Shapes America's Role in the World by Robert D. Kaplan
Earning the Rockies book. Read 238 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. An incisive portrait of the American landscape that show... (2020)
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis by J.D. Vance
Hillbilly Elegy book. Read 25,407 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. From a former marine and Yale Law School graduate, a powe... (2020)
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow by Yuval Noah Harari
Yuval Noah Harari, author of the critically-acclaimed New York Times bestseller and international phenomenon Sapiens, returns with an equally origi... (2019)
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
100,000 years ago, at least six human species inhabited the earth. Today there is just one. Us. Homo sapiens. How did our species succeed in the... (2019)
This Land Is Our Land: How We Lost the Right to Roam and How to Take It Back by Ken Ilgunas
This Land Is Our Land has 47 ratings and 11 reviews. Letitia said: A thoughtful and informative argument for the idea that Americans should have th... (2018)
Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin - Kindle
Description: From the bestselling author of On Tyranny, the definitive history of Hitler's and Stalin's wars against the civilians of Europe in Wor... (2018)
Man's Search for Meaning - book by Viktor E. Frankl
Man's Search for Meaning has 231,979 ratings and 12,175 reviews. Frank said: After I read this book, which I finished many, many years ago, I had b... (2018)
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond
"An alternative to the Acemoglu/Robinson thesis. Economic history owes a lot to geographic endowment; for example, Africa lacked large mammals that... (2018)
Great American Outpost: Dreamers, Mavericks, and the Making of an Oil Frontier | IndieBound.org
"A surreal, lyrical work of narrative nonfiction that portrays how the largest domestic oil discovery in half a century transformed a forgotten cor... (2018)
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond
"An alternative to the Acemoglu/Robinson thesis. Economic history owes a lot to geographic endowment; for example, Africa lacked large mammals that... (2018)
A Splendid Exchange: How Trade Shaped the World from Prehistory to Today by William J. Bernstein
" If the Baldwin book doesn’t convince you of the importance of trade, this account of its historical role should. It is no coincidence that the gr... (2018)
The Great Convergence: Information Technology and the New Globalization by Richard Baldwin
"An essential book for understanding how modern trade works via global supply chains. An antidote to the protectionist nonsense being peddled by so... (2018)
Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World by Liaquat Ahamed
"This is the story of the Great Depression as told through the lives of the central bankers who tried and failed to deal with the crisis. As one, M... (2018)
The Day the World Came to Town: 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland by Jim DeFede
When 38 jetliners bound for the United States were forced to land at Gander International Airport in Canada by the closing of U.S. airspace on Sept... (2018)
Fatal Flight: The True Story of Britain's Last Great Airship by Bill Hammack
Fatal Flight brings vividly to life the year of operation of R.101, the last great British airship—a luxury liner three and a half times the length... (2018)
Big History - Curriculum - OER Open Education Resources
years of history. free. online. awesome. Teach a mind-blowing history course that harnesses your students' natural curiosity about our world. ... (2021)
Big History Project
Big questions about our Universe, our planet, life, and humanity. From the Big Bang to where we are going in the future, Big History covers it all.... (2021)
The 1619 Project Curriculum
The 1619 Project, inaugurated with a special issue of The New York Times Magazine, challenges us to reframe U.S. history by marking the year when t... (2020)
From Foraging to Food Shopping | Big History Project
What was it like for hunter-gathers? What were their favorite foods that they would go the extra mile to get their hands on? How are decisions like... (2020)