History Does You Podcast
1) The Italian Renaissance featuring Dr. Catherine Fletcher
The period between 1492--resonant for a number of reasons--and 1571, when the Ottoman navy was defeated in the Battle of Lepanto, embraces what we know as the Renaissance, one of the most dynamic and ...Show More
2) Road to the American Revolution featuring Dr. Mary Beth Norton
1774 was the critical, and often overlooked, period when colonists traditionally loyal to King George III began their discordant “discussions” that led them to their acceptance of the inevitability of...Show More
3) The Battle of Aachen
The Battle of Aachen was a major combat action of World War II, fought by American and German forces in and around Aachen, Germany, between 2–21 October 1944. The city had been incorporated into the S...Show More
4) The U.S.-China Relationship: Chinese Grand Strategy featuring Dr. Dan Bluementhal
Once the darling of U.S. statesmen, corporate elites, and academics, the People's Republic of China has evolved into America's most challenging strategic competitor. Its future appears increasingly dy...Show More
The U.S.-China Relationship: Chinese Grand Strategy featuring Dr. Dan Bluementhal
23:47 | Mar 21st, 2021
5) The U.S.-China Relationship: Xi Jinping featuring Dr. Elizabeth Economy
Chinese leader Xi Jinping has unleashed a powerful set of political and economic reforms: the centralization of power under Xi, himself, the expansion of the Communist Party's role in Chinese politica...Show More
6) The U.S.-China Relationship: Lessons of Thucydides featuring Dr. Andrew Novo
Few books have had a wider sustained impact than Thucydides’ History of the Peloponnesian War. More than 2,500 years after it was written, Thucydides is still read by academics, students, and pol...Show More
The U.S.-China Relationship: Lessons of Thucydides featuring Dr. Andrew Novo
38:10 | Feb 28th, 2021
7) The U.S.-China Relationship: Civil War, Korean War and the Nixon Opening featuring Daniel Kurtz-Phelan
At the end of World War II, General George Marshall took on what he thought was a final mission―this time not to win a war, but to stop one. In China, conflict between Communists and Nationalists thre...Show More
8) The U.S.-China relationship: The Basics of U.S. Foreign Policy in Asia featuring Dr. Zack Cooper
The U.S.-China relationship is increasingly becoming under scrutiny because of China's increasingly powerful economy and military. The relationship between the two countries has been complex, and vari...Show More
9) Road to Vietnam featuring Dr. Brian VanDeMark
The Road to the Vietnam War has been scrutinized by historians for decades offering a variety of explanations on how the U.S. became involved a war that most concluded was unwinnable by 1966, only a y...Show More
10) Germany and Austria-Hungary in World War I featuring Dr. Alexander Watson
There is the saying that, "History is written by the victors". For the Central Powers, the First World War started with high hopes for an easy victory. But those hopes soon deteriorated as Germany's a...Show More