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History Behind News Program Adel Aali, History Behind News
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Investigative History with Scholars: 125 scholars and counting help us better understand our news through the perspective of history. Others cover the news. We uncover the history behind it.
This is Adel Aali, host and executive producer of the History Behind News program and podcast (https://historybehindnews.com), which I started to provide a better understanding of news through history. And I am committed to making history that is researched and written by scholars accessible and enjoyable to everyone. Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/history-behind-news/support
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S4E15: Predicting Presidential Elections and Debunking Histories of Conservatism & Jewish Americans
►Who will win the 2024 presidential election?
►Did my guest correctly predict the 2000 presidential election?
►What does it mean to be conservative?
►Is Donald Trump a conservative?
►How are most experts misunderstanding the history of America's conservatism?
►How are most experts misunderstanding an important part of modern Jewish American history?
My guest has correctly predicted the outcome of every U.S. presidential election since 1984. In this episode, I ask him to predict the 2024 election?
We also talk about FDR's record of helping or harming European Jews in the years leading up to WWII.
🚩About My Guest:
Dr. Allan Lichtman is a Distinguished Professor of History at American University in Washington, D.C.
He has lectured in the US and internationally and provided commentary for major US and foreign networks and leading newspapers and magazines across the world. He has also been an expert witness in some 100 civil and voting rights cases. Dr. Litchman was listed as # 85 among the 100 most influential geopolitical experts in the world and received the lifetime achievement award from the Who's Who.
He has written many books, including the folllowing that we discuss in this episode:
1st: White Protestant Nation: The Rise of the American Conservative Movement,
2nd: FDR and the Jews, and
3rd: Predicting the Next President: The Keys to the White House, 2024.
And here is Dr. Lichtman's YouTube channel, where you can tune in to watch live conversations with him.
🚩Prof. Gerhardt's discusion of the 1892 rematch election between Pres. Harrison and former Pres. Cleveland. He also discusses presidents Jackson and Nixon, and questions re president Trump's potential constituional challenges.
🎧 https://bit.ly/HbN-S2E41
You can also watch our podcasts:
📽️YouTube.com/@HistoryBehindNews
📽️YouTube.com/@UnravellingTheMiddleEast
I hope you enjoy these episodes.
Adel Aali
Adel, host & producer
History Behind News podcast
Image attribution: "Predicting the Next President" is the cover image of Dr. Lichtman's upcoming book. This image was provided to us by Dr. Lichtman.
attribution, links and license for the theme music in this podcast: The Success by Keys of Moon | https://soundcloud.com/keysofmoon. Music
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S4E14: Georgia's Existential Moment - Join EU or return to Russia's Orbit? History of a country caught at the crossroads of civilizations!
►Georgia is a country between two civilizations - Europe & Asia, and Islam and Christianity
►Until the Russians came, Georgia had maintained its status as an independent state.
►Georgia has punched above its weight under Russian and Soviet rule - prime example: Stalin, the most powerful Soviet leader, was Georgian!
In this conversation, Dr. Jones takes us from the ancient and Medieval history of Georgia, including its conflicts with Islamic empires and kingdoms, to its modern period of independence, and its struggle to realign itself with Europe.
🚩About My Guest:
Dr. Stephen Jones is the Director of the Program on Georgian Studies at the Davis Center of Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University. He is also a Professor of Modern Georgian History at Ilia State University in Tbilisi, Georgia. Dr. Jones is a foreign member of the Georgian Academy of Sciences and received an honorary doctorate from Tbilisi State University in 2012 and from Ilia State University in 2018.
He has written many books on Georgia’s history, including the following:
1st: Socialism in Georgian Colors: The European Road to Social Democracy, 1883-1917,
2nd: Georgia: A Political History Since Independence,
3rd: The Birth of Modern Georgia: The First Georgian Republic and Its Successors, 1918-2010, and
4th: War and Revolution in the Caucasus: Georgia Ablaze.
🚩Dr. Rafe Blaufarb's history of Napoleon:
🎧 https://bit.ly/HbN-S4E3
You can also watch our podcasts:
📽️YouTube.com/@HistoryBehindNews
📽️YouTube.com/@UnravellingTheMiddleEast
I hope you enjoy these episodes.
Adel Aali
Adel, host & producer
History Behind News podcast
🎵 attribution, links and license for the theme music in this podcast: The Success by Keys of Moon | https://soundcloud.com/keysofmoon. Music
promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com. Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0): https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
Support: please consider supporting our program at any amount you like.
Scholars in Your Inbox? 125 scholars and counting! So don't miss HbN guest scholars’ weekly takes on the history behind our news.
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S4E13: History of gambling - from divination rituals to Caesar Crossing the Rubicon to steamboats and Vegas
►How we gambled before ash economy?
►Are religion and gambling somehow connected?
►How did risk-taking change after humanity settled down?
►How did 2nd chances - the concept of starting again - develop in America's gambling?
►Why did Las Vegas and Atlantic City seesaw on legalizing gambling?
🚩About My Guest:
Dr. David Schwartz is UNLV's ombuds and also a professor in the Dept. of History. Previously, he was the director of Schwartz was director of the Center for Gaming Research within University Libraries. In recognition of his role in promoting the preservation of Las Vegas History, in 2021 Dr. Schwartz was given a History Preservation Award by the Historic Preservation Commission of the City of Las Vegas.
More about Dr. Schwart:
his academic and personal homepages
He is the author of several books, including the following:
Roll the Bones: The History of Gambling,
At the Sands: The Casino That Shaped Classic Las Vegas, Brought the Rat Pack Together, and Went Out With a Bang,
Grandissimo: The First Emperor of Las Vegas, and
Boardwalk Playground: The Making, Unmaking, & Remaking of Atlantic City.
🚩Dr. Podany's history of ancient Mesopotamia:
🎧 https://bit.ly/UME-S1E10
You can also watch our podcasts:
📽️YouTube.com/@HistoryBehindNews
📽️YouTube.com/@UnravellingTheMiddleEast
I hope you enjoy these episodes.
Adel Aali
Adel, host & producer
History Behind News podcast
🎵 attribution, links and license for the theme music in this podcast: The Success by Keys of Moon | https://soundcloud.com/keysofmoon. Music
promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com. Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0): https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
Support: please consider supporting our program at any amount you like.
Scholars in Your Inbox? 125 scholars and counting! So don't miss HbN guest scholars’ weekly takes on the history behind our news.
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S4E12: Ecuador's "Anti-crime" Referendum - Military Patrolling Streets. Counterintuitive & Paradoxical Story of How A Once Peaceful, Multicultural Country Got Here
"The continent's most violent country" is a phrase used in BBC News this week.
In this episode, my guest scholar, Dr. Carmen Martinez Novo, takes us through the history of Ecuador's indigenous peoples and their struggles for equal rights and environmental rights, including an almost three-decade lawsuit against Chevron (initially Texaco). Of course, in this conversation, Dr. Martinez Novo will peel the history behind Ecuador's current state of violence - unprecedented for once a peaceful country.
Dr. Martinez Novo is the author of Undoing Multiculturalism: Resource Extraction and Indigenous Rights in Ecuador (2021), which we discuss in this episode.
And here is my conversation with Dr. Claudio Fuentes about Chile's modern history: https://bit.ly/HbN-S2E38s
You can also watch our podcasts:
📽️YouTube.com/@HistoryBehindNews
📽️YouTube.com/@UnravellingTheMiddleEast
I hope you enjoy these episodes.
Adel Aali
Adel, host & producer
History Behind News podcast
🎵 attribution, links and license for the theme music in this podcast: The Success by Keys of Moon | https://soundcloud.com/keysofmoon. Music
promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com. Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0): https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
Support: please consider supporting our program at any amount you like.
Scholars in Your Inbox? 125 scholars and counting! So don't miss HbN guest scholars’ weekly takes on the history behind our news.
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S4E11: The Saga of China's Brutal One-Child Policy. And why China is now promoting 3 children!
Families with second pregnancies were punished. Quiet often, mothers who became pregnant again were forced to abort - even in the third trimester. But now... China's government is promoting multiple pregnancies. There are even beauty pageants... for pregnant mothers.
In this episode, a replay of its original recording in 2021, my guest scholar peels the history behind this news - the history of China's One-Child Policy.
🚩About My Guest:
Dr. Feng Wang is a professor of sociology at the University of California, Irvine - UCI.
He has research interests in contemporary Chinese society and comparative demographic processes and social inequality in state socialism. He is the recipient of many academic distinctions, honors and awards for his research and books, too many to list here.
He is the author of many books, including the following:
China's Age of Abundances: Origins, Ascendence and Aftermath,
Convergence to Very Low Fertility in East Asia: Processes, Causes, and Implications, and
One Quarter of Humanity: Malthusian Mythology and Chinese Realities, 1700-2000.
Erosion of China's government institutions:
Be sure to listen to my conversation with Dr. Susan Shirk (🎧https://bit.ly/HbN-S2E36s) about President Xi and his ascendence to power. As I mentioned in this episode, China's government under Xi is frighteningly transforming into personalized statecraft.
You can also watch our podcasts:
📽️YouTube.com/@HistoryBehindNews
📽️YouTube.com/@UnravellingTheMiddleEast
I hope you enjoy these episodes.
Adel Aali
Adel, host & producer
History Behind News podcast
►The cover image of this episode is "A propaganda painting in Guangdong Province promotes the idea of a nuclear family with a single child. The text reads "Planned child birth is everyone's responsibility."" It is provided by Clpro2 (own work) on Wikipedia under CC BY-SA 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Clpro2&action=edit&redlink=1
File:PlannedBirthCeramicPaintings-Xinhui.Jpg. In Wikipedia. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:PlannedBirthCeramicPaintings-Xinhui.jpg
🎵 attribution, links and license for the theme music in this podcast: The Success by Keys of Moon | https://soundcloud.com/keysofmoon. Music
promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com. Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0): https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
Support: please consider supporting our program at any amount you like.
Scholars in Your Inbox? 125 scholars and counting! So don't miss HbN guest scholars’ weekly takes on the history behind our news.
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S4E10: How An Empire Declined in a "Flash" - The Longest Continuous Monarchy, Denmark's History
Denmark was once Europe's greatest Protestant power. But just in a span of two or so decades, it was reduced to a has-been. How did this happen? And what lessons are there for America?
In addition, Denmark's monarchy is quite informal and highly approachable, particularly when compared with the British monarchy.
🚩About My Guest:
Dr. Paul Douglas Lockhart is a professor of history at Wright State University. He teaches courses in military history, early modern Europe, and Scandinavia in its “Age of Greatness.” In 2022, he was elected to membership in the Royal Society for Danish History, in recognition of his contributions to the study of Danish history, which is a rare accolade for a foreign scholar.
He is the author of several books, two of which we discuss in this episode:
Denmark, 1513–1660: The Rise and Decline of a Renaissance Monarchy, and
Frederik II and the Protestant Cause: Denmark's Role in the Wars of Religion, 1559–1596.
History of the Ottoman Empire and Europe's exploration of the Americas:
🎧 https://bit.ly/UME-Spotify
🎧 https://bit.ly/UME-Apple
History of Sweden: https://bit.ly/HbN-S3E33
You can also watch our podcasts:
📽️YouTube.com/@HistoryBehindNews
📽️YouTube.com/@UnravellingTheMiddleEast
I hope you enjoy these episodes.
Adel Aali
Adel, host & producer
History Behind News podcast
🎵 attribution, links and license for the theme music in this podcast: The Success by Keys of Moon | https://soundcloud.com/keysofmoon. Music
promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com. Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0): https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
Santur: Arpegio performed on a Persian santur, recorded with an oktava mk012 mic. This
piece has been edited into shorter segments, its volume adjusted, and played in different parts of this podcast. https://freesound.org/people/nsmusic/sounds/259692/ Music available on https://freesound.org/ Creative Commons / Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0 DEED) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Scholars in Your Inbox? 125 scholars and counting! So don't miss HbN guest scholars’ weekly takes on the history behind our news.
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