Martin Di Caro

History As It Happens: The British Mandate In an for Foreign Affairs, the Israeli historian Tom Segev argues that a peaceful resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is impossible. As early as 1919, the future prime minister David Ben-G...

In this episode (2024), Tom Segev traces the origins of today's war to the era of the British mandate. By facilitating the creation of a Jewish homeland in what was then an Arab-majority country, the British laid the groundwork for decades of bloodshed.

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History As It Happens: Trump and the Structures of 'Forever War' Since 1945, has there been an antiwar U.S. president? Is it even possible to be an antiwar president when one has at his disposal history's most powerful war machine and is expected to maintain Americ...

I joined History As It Happens to expand on my argument that Trump faces a structural bind that inhibits him from being a peacemaker. Thanks for the fun conversation, @martindicaro.bsky.social. sites.libsyn.com/317972/trump...

History As It Happens: Owl of Minerva (Getting the Cold War Right) For half a century, the Cold War defined global politics. Contested by two superpowers with opposing ideologies and interests, it touched nearly every part of the globe. It threatened nuclear war, and...

Look around the world, and it’s self-evident why we must continue to reassess the verdict of 1991.

My conversation with Vlad Zubok and Sergey Radchenko:

Inspired by Zubok's new book, "The World of the Cold War."

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History As It Happens: Trump and the Structures of 'Forever War' Since 1945, has there been an antiwar U.S. president? Is it even possible to be an antiwar president when one has at his disposal history's most powerful war machine and is expected to maintain Americ...

Presidents can promise to be peacemakers, but the structures of U.S. primacy tilt toward war and violence.

My conversation w/ historian @stephenwertheim on why it's so difficult for the U.S. to avoid "entanglements."

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History As It Happens: Living Hell in Haiti Has Haiti passed the point of no return? Nearly 5,000 people have been killed in gang violence since last October, according to the U.N. Gangs control an estimated 90 percent of the capital, Port-au-P...

Much of the world’s attention is on Gaza, but we must not forget other parts of the globe where people are suffering from violence and hunger.

Haiti, not far from U.S. shores, is completely unraveling:

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History As It Happens: Owl of Minerva (Getting the Cold War Right) For half a century, the Cold War defined global politics. Contested by two superpowers with opposing ideologies and interests, it touched nearly every part of the globe. It threatened nuclear war, and...

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History As It Happens: Living Hell in Haiti Has Haiti passed the point of no return? Nearly 5,000 people have been killed in gang violence since last October, according to the U.N. Gangs control an estimated 90 percent of the capital, Port-au-P...

The United States used to invade Haiti -- in 1915, 1994, and 2004.

Today, there is no appetite for sending in the Marines to restore order in a country engulfed by violent anarchy.

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Dancing with Putin Plus, Haiti's point of no return

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History As It Happens: Living Hell in Haiti Has Haiti passed the point of no return? Nearly 5,000 people have been killed in gang violence since last October, according to the U.N. Gangs control an estimated 90 percent of the capital, Port-au-P...

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History As It Happens: The Putin Dance (Clinton to Trump) Russian President Vladimir Putin has contended with five U.S. presidents, from Bill Clinton in 2000 to Donald Trump today. Each American leader had the stated aim of improving U.S.-Russian relations b...

We can detect a pattern.

U.S. presidents since 2000 have sought to cooperate with Putin and Russia on areas of common interest.

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History As It Happens: The Putin Dance (Clinton to Trump) Russian President Vladimir Putin has contended with five U.S. presidents, from Bill Clinton in 2000 to Donald Trump today. Each American leader had the stated aim of improving U.S.-Russian relations b...

Trump is changing his tune a bit on Putin. Will it work?
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History As It Happens: The Putin Dance (Clinton to Trump) Russian President Vladimir Putin has contended with five U.S. presidents, from Bill Clinton in 2000 to Donald Trump today. Each American leader had the stated aim of improving U.S.-Russian relations b...

Trump is the fifth American president to contend with Putin. Can he fare better than his predecessors?

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History As It Happens: Democrats Lost in the Wilderness The Democratic Party controls none of the three branches of government, has no apparent leader, and is deeply unpopular. An NBC News poll says only 27 percent of registered voters have a positive view...

The NY mayoral primary win by Zohran Mamdani is intensifying the fight over the Democratic Party’s future. Which way should the party go?

In this episode, I speak to Sean Wilentz about the last time the Democrats were lost in the wilderness...

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History As It Happens: Trump and the American Century Is President Donald Trump augmenting or undermining the sources of American power? Trade wars against U.S. allies, an immigration crackdown, and slashing the federal workforce are but three ways the a...

Is President Trump augmenting or undermining American power and influence?

Political theorist Robert Keohane says Trump leans too heavily on coercion, disrupting patterns of interdependence the U.S. relies on.

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History As It Happens: Trump and the American Century Is President Donald Trump augmenting or undermining the sources of American power? Trade wars against U.S. allies, an immigration crackdown, and slashing the federal workforce are but three ways the a...

Is President Trump undermining or augmenting U.S. power and influence?

With Robert Keohane:

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History As It Happens: The Scopes Trial and Rural America One hundred years ago, in July 1925, a high school teacher in Dayton, Tennessee, was arrested for teaching evolution. John Scopes' guilt was never in doubt, but his sensational trial was the center of...

Christian fundamentalists rejected Darwin because they believed in the Bible’s creation story, but also because they feared teaching evolution would make brutes of their children. Scopes’ textbook had a chapter on eugenics.

History As It Happens: The Scopes Trial and Rural America One hundred years ago, in July 1925, a high school teacher in Dayton, Tennessee, was arrested for teaching evolution. John Scopes' guilt was never in doubt, but his sensational trial was the center of...

It was the first "trial of the century."

Historian Michael Kazin on why it matters 100 years on.

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History As It Happens: The Scopes Trial and Rural America One hundred years ago, in July 1925, a high school teacher in Dayton, Tennessee, was arrested for teaching evolution. John Scopes' guilt was never in doubt, but his sensational trial was the center of...

Christian fundamentalists rejected Darwin because they believed in the Bible’s creation story, but also because they feared teaching evolution would make brutes of their children. Scopes’ textbook had a chapter on eugenics.

History As It Happens: The Scopes Trial and Rural America One hundred years ago, in July 1925, a high school teacher in Dayton, Tennessee, was arrested for teaching evolution. John Scopes' guilt was never in doubt, but his sensational trial was the center of...

New episode! Let's have some of that old-time religion...

Why the Scopes 'monkey trial' still matters, with historian Michael Kazin...

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History As It Happens: Trump and the American Century Is President Donald Trump augmenting or undermining the sources of American power? Trade wars against U.S. allies, an immigration crackdown, and slashing the federal workforce are but three ways the a...

Is President Trump undermining or augmenting U.S. power and influence?

With Robert Keohane:

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History As It Happens: Trump and the American Century Is President Donald Trump augmenting or undermining the sources of American power? Trade wars against U.S. allies, an immigration crackdown, and slashing the federal workforce are but three ways the a...

Robert Keohane has long argued that international relations are not zero-sum conflicts alone. States look forward to cooperation because it benefits all.

How does the Trump administration square with his idea?

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History As It Happens: Democrats Lost in the Wilderness The Democratic Party controls none of the three branches of government, has no apparent leader, and is deeply unpopular. An NBC News poll says only 27 percent of registered voters have a positive view...

Sean Wilentz on the Democrats:

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History As It Happens: Trump and the American Century Is President Donald Trump augmenting or undermining the sources of American power? Trade wars against U.S. allies, an immigration crackdown, and slashing the federal workforce are but three ways the a...

Is President Trump augmenting or undermining American power and influence?

Political theorist Robert Keohane says Trump leans too heavily on coercion, disrupting patterns of interdependence the U.S. relies on.

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History As It Happens: The New Battle for Gettysburg President Trump's executive order to restore "truth and sanity to American history" targets esteemed institutions such as the Smithsonian and the National Park Service. It accuses them of promoting "a...

Thanks to @martindicaro.bsky.social for the chance to talk about the threat that the Trump administration poses to the National Park Service and public history. 🗃️ historyasithappens.libsyn.com/the-new-batt...

History As It Happens: The New Battle for Gettysburg President Trump's executive order to restore "truth and sanity to American history" targets esteemed institutions such as the Smithsonian and the National Park Service. It accuses them of promoting "a...

New episode:

How might President Trump’s order to “restore truth and sanity to American history” affect revered sites like Gettysburg National Military Park?

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History As It Happens: The Ideas Behind Trump 2.0 The theories of unrestrained executive power guiding the Trump administration's assault on the administrative state and its attitude toward the federal judiciary draw on a far-right intellectual tradi...

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History As It Happens: Democrats Lost in the Wilderness The Democratic Party controls none of the three branches of government, has no apparent leader, and is deeply unpopular. An NBC News poll says only 27 percent of registered voters have a positive view...

The NY mayoral primary win by Zohran Mamdani is intensifying the fight over the Democratic Party’s future. Which way should the party go?

In this episode, I speak to Sean Wilentz about the last time the Democrats were lost in the wilderness...

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History As It Happens: Obama and Libya This is a story about the unintended consequences of U.S. military interventionism. In 2011, President Obama decided to get involved in Libya's civil war. The U.S. and its NATO allies bombed Libyan di...

Gadhafi is long dead, but Libya remains a failed state.

As our country once again debates military intervention in the Middle East, we may want to reflect on Obama and Libya.

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History As It Happens: Obama and Libya This is a story about the unintended consequences of U.S. military interventionism. In 2011, President Obama decided to get involved in Libya's civil war. The U.S. and its NATO allies bombed Libyan di...

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History As It Happens: Obama and Libya This is a story about the unintended consequences of U.S. military interventionism. In 2011, President Obama decided to get involved in Libya's civil war. The U.S. and its NATO allies bombed Libyan di...

The bombing of Iran raised some problems:

What about the War Powers Act? Where's Congress? Unintended consequences of intervention?

Anyone remember Libya?

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