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Why everyone should watch out for Indonesia
Indonesia is the world's fourth biggest country by population and is projected to have the world's fourth biggest economy within a few decades. Its... (2024)
The division of Cyprus looks indefinite
Cyprus. Fifty years of division. There seems no prospect for the reunification of the island, half a century after turkey invaded the north. The i... (2024)
Democracy in Latin America. Chile’s crisis is not over yet
Political tumult is now the norm in the country | The Americas (2024)
How Canada invented ‘American’ football, baseball, basketball and hockey - CBC Sports
North America's favourite sports all have Canadian roots - CBC Sports Longform (2023)
Chile is still haunted by the coup in September 1973
Latin American history. Half a century later. Chile is still haunted by the coup in 1973, and is at odds over how to mark it. Gabriel Boric, th... (2023)
Why Israel is becoming a partisan cause in the United States | The Economist
It goes to the essence of the Jewish state, and of the American one | United States (2023)
The North Side Skull & Bone Gang - Mardi Gras
Past the crowds and balconies of Bourbon Street, Mardi Gras Day has started the same way since 1819, with a neighborhood tradition as unexpected as... (2023)
New Orleans Northside Skull and Bone Gang on Mardi Gras - The Atlantic - The Atlantic
For 200 years, this Mardi Gras krewe has kicked off the festival at the crack of dawn with a very important message. (2023)
Misconceptions About the Civil War | Mental Floss
The Civil War remains one of the most important chapters in American history. But the conflict itself was more complex than North vs. South. (2021)
Riddle solved: Why was Roman concrete so durable? | MIT News
Researchers have discovered ancient Roman concrete-manufacturing strategies that incorporated self-healing. Applying this knowledge toward modern c... (2023)
Why Are Egypt's Treasures Housed Overseas? | History | Smithsonian Magazine
On the eve of the opening of the Grand Egyptian Museum, some of the country's artifacts, from the Rosetta Stone to the bust of Nefertiti, remain ov... (2022)
The Human Family's Earliest Ancestors | Science| Smithsonian Magazine
Studies of hominid fossils, like 4.4-million-year-old "Ardi," are changing ideas about human origins (2022)
The Meaning of Juneteenth | Harvard Graduate School of Education
Historian Jarvis Givens on freedom celebrations, Black aspiration, and the continuing pursuit of justice. (2022)
Enlightenment Now: A summary
The theme of Enlightenment Now is contained in its subtitle: it is that reason, science and humanism lead to progress. The corollary is: keep it up! (2018)
Opinion | Inequality and the Piketty Accounting Error - WSJ
The stock-market crash, not high FDR-era taxes, caused the ‘great leveling’ of the middle 20th century. By Phillip W. Magness and Vincent Gelos... (2022)
Breaking out of the Malthusian trap: How pandemics allow us to understand why our ancestors were stuck in poverty
For much of human history, our ancestors were trapped in an economy in which incomes were determined by the size of the population. The Industrial ... (2022)
This god shoots love darts, but no, it's not Cupid - The Conversation
Kamadeva, also known as Madana, is the Hindu god of love, desire and infatuation. (2022)
What the mythical Cupid can teach us about the meaning of love and desire - The Conversation
A scholar of early Greek classics explains what the myth of the weapon-carrying god of love, Cupid, a child of the gods of love and war, conveys a... (2022)
The 'real' St. Valentine was no patron of love - The Conversation
Valentine’s Day originated as a feast to celebrate the decapitation of a third-century Christian martyr, or perhaps two. It took a gruesome path to... (2022)
In most countries, democracy is a recent achievement. Dictatorship is far from a distant memory
How old are democracies across the world? To some young people living in democracies, authoritarianism may seem like a long-forgotten part of th... (2022)
Mortality in the past – around half died as children - Our World in Data
In our long history, how likely was it that our ancestors died as children? Historical studies suggest that around one-quarter of infants died in t... (2021)
Our history is a battle against the microbes. How vaccines allowed us to protect ourselves
Our history is a battle against the microbes: we lost terribly before science, public health, and vaccines allowed us to protect ourselves - Our Wo... (2021)
Machiavelli - The Prince, Quotes & The Art of War - HISTORY
Niccolo Machiavelli was a diplomat, politician and writer in Renaissance Italy whose most infamous quotes come from his books The Prince and The Ar... (2021)
How did Europe become the richest part of the world? | Aeon Essays
In a time of great powers and empires, just one region of the world experienced extraordinary economic growth. How? How and why did the modern w... (2021)
AP US History Exam Review 2021 | Study Guides, Trivia, Lives | Fiveable
Fiveable's APUSH community covers every unit and period w/ study guides and livestream exam prep! Find community and study socially on Fiveable! (2021)
How does progress happen? - Vox
The discipline of "progress studies" wants to figure out what drives discoveries and inventions so we can supercharge human flourishing. (2021)
THE NEW PURITANS - Mob Justice Is Trampling Democratic Discourse - The Atlantic
By Anne Applebaum Social codes are changing, in many ways for the better. But for those whose behavior doesn’t adapt fast enough to the new nor... (2021)
We've Been Telling the Alamo Story Wrong for Nearly 200 Years. Now It's Time to Correct the Record
So much of what we “know” about the battle at the Alamo is provably wrong (2021)
Germany is apologising for crimes a century ago in Namibia | The Economist
The slaughter of the Herero was genocide, says Berlin | Europe (2021)
The way it makes her feel - Renata Flores, a Peruvian singer, embraces her Quechua heritage
Catchy lyrics in the idiom of the Inca Empire | The Americas (2021)
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)
Why did the US give up the Panama Canal? (Short Animated Documentary)
In 1977 Jimmy Carter agreed to the United States returning the Panama Canal back to Panama by 2000. He agreed to the transfer in return for nothing... (2023)
Modern Marvels: The Construction of the Panama Canal (S1, E3) | Full Episode | History
Love Modern Marvels? Stay up to date on all of your favorite History shows at https://history.com/schedule.Chronicles one of the most incredible en... (2023)
Why 82% of Mexico is Empty
Why 82% of Mexico is Empty (2023)
Why didn't Vichy France join the Axis? (Short Animated Documentary)
When France fell to Germany (and Italy if you're feeling generous) it mostly became a client state of Berlin. Despite this France never tried to jo... (2023)
Poland Rediscovered: Kraków, Auschwitz, and Warsaw
Rick Steves' Europe Travel Guide | Kraków's bubbly Baroque and cobbled charm is emerging as the exciting "next Prague." Nearby, a visit to Auschwit... (2023)
The reason Japan attacked Pearl Harbor in WWII
Japan attacked the U.S Pacific Fleet at its base at Pearl Harbor on the 7th of December 1941, but what led to that decision? Why did the Japanese a... (2023)
Basque Country - Northern Spain, Southern France
Rick Steves' Europe Travel Guide | The homeland of the proud and resilient Basque people is split between France and Spain. From our San Sebastián ... (2023)
Why is South Tyrol a part of Italy and not Austria? (Short Animated Documentary)
Austria (and Austria-Hungary) used to own South Tyrol which despite being majority German-Speaking is today a part of Italy. So how did this come t... (2023)
Why didn't Canada join the American Revolution? (Short Animated Documentary)
Why didn't Canada join the American Revolution? (Short Animated Documentary) (2023)
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)
Missing Chapter - Vox | Podcast
Today, Explained on Spotify. A forgotten protest movement in a seaside Florida town helped end legal segregation in the United States. Vox’s Ra... (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)
The Worst Way to Start a City - 99% Invisible
The area that is now Oklahoma was once a place called Indian Territory. Beginning in the 1800s, the U.S. government designated the land in the Grea... (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)
Gerrymandering - 99% Invisible
The way we draw our political districts has a huge effect on U.S. politics, but the process is also greatly misunderstood. Gerrymandering has 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)
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)
Boom Town: The Fantastical Saga of Oklahoma City, by Sam Anderson
Oklahoma City and Its Chaotic Founding, Its Apocalyptic Weather, Its Purloined Basketball Team, and the Dream of Becoming a World-class Metropolis ... (2018)
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)
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)
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)