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How do historians create their histories? What role do the historian's viewpoint and method play in what we accept as truth? Answer these questions and more as you go inside the minds of our greatest historians and explore the idea of written history as it has shaped humanity's story over 2,000 years

HisStory Williams interviews local businesses, organizations, and independent artists. In this podcast, he also talks about digital media and its influence on pop culture. Join him as he interviews several history makers and ask them what they believe motivates culture and how the media, we consume affects us. Don't Forget to subscribe to the podcast See podvine.com/privacy-policy for podcast listener privacy info.

Aiming to inspire, educate, and entertain women and girls around the world, Big Blend Radio’s ”Women Making History” podcast celebrates women in the past, present, and future, while also sharing success tips on living a happy and successful personal and professional life. New and ”From the Vault” interview episodes aIr almost daily, plus we host a Themed Show or Panel Discussion every 4th Wednesday at 12pm PST / 3pm EST.

Step into the worlds of the filmmakers who reshaped cinema forever. Filmmaking Giants tells the stories of visionaries who transformed moving pictures into the most powerful art form of the modern age. From D. W. Griffith’s groundbreaking continuity editing to Sergei Eisenstein’s explosive montage, from F. W. Murnau’s haunting shadows to Jean Renoir’s humanist eye, from Orson Welles’s innovations in sound and space to Alfred Hitchcock’s mastery of suspense—this season brings you ten giants whose influence still shapes every frame we see.We travel further: Akira Kurosawa’s ...

Black leaders, entrepreneurs, and innovators share strategies for closing wealth gaps, confronting health inequity, and building generational impact—right now, in real time. Hosts Liz and Porter bring you bi-weekly conversations with changemakers making Black history today. From Dallas to national stages, hear from pharmacists confronting medical distrust, artists creating healing spaces, educators using AI for equity, business leaders building supplier diversity, and entrepreneurs turning viral success into sustainable careers. New episodes every other Thursday. Follow for updates.

Examining a series of El Niño-induced droughts and the famines that they spawned around the globe in the last third of the 19th century, Mike Davis discloses the intimate, baleful relationship between imperial arrogance and natural incident that combined to produce some of the worst tragedies in human history. Late Victorian Holocausts focuses on three zones of drought and subsequent famine: India, Northern China, and Northeastern Brazil.

This stimulating collection of essays in an autobiographical framework encompasses Gerda Lerner's theoretical writing and her organizational work in transforming the history profession and in establishing Women's History as a mainstream field.

In A Secret History, we uncover the true origin of the United States of America and explore the occult origins of its signs and symbols - discovering that Freemasonic and Illuminati secret societies are responsible for how we live our daily lives in this modern world. Discover the ruling elite who have been orchestrating the world we know for centuries and who sparked a global revolution and created the most powerful nation on the planet - a grand design put into action and still present today.

Emmy-winning actor and Broadway legend André de Shields narrates Making..., an original podcast from The HISTORY® Channel. Each season takes listeners inside the lives of history’s greatest figures and examines the events that forged these legends.Making Teddy takes you inside the life of a man who went from the big city to life on the frontier, from leading a cavalry unit in the Spanish-American War to leading the entire country from the White House. Each episode will bring together leading historians, authors and journalists to paint in vivid detail the forces that shaped Theodore ...

By the end of World War I, the skyrocketing divorce rate in the United States had generated a deep-seated anxiety about marriage. This fear drove middle-class couples to seek advice, both professional and popular, in order to strengthen their relationships. In Making Marriage Work, historian Kristin Celello offers an insightful and wide-ranging account of marriage and divorce in America in the 20th century, focusing on the development of the idea of marriage as "work."

"History in the Making: The War in Ukraine" with Mark McNamee provides a comprehensive exploration of the ongoing conflict in Ukraine. Host Mark, drawing from his extensive background in Eastern European studies and professional experience, offers a nuanced perspective on the region's significance. Through a blend of macro-level analysis and personal narratives, listeners gain insight into life in wartime Ukraine and the resilience of its people. Tune in to uncover the untold stories of Ukraine and understand the historical moment unfolding before us.

When I started the conversation series ”Ukraine - History in the Making” I could have never imagined where this journey would lead me. It all started in March 2023 after I got home from an exchange stay in Chile and felt, that I had to do more for Ukraine, than what I did on my social media accounts and on the streets in the spring and summer of 2022. I think most of us remember that initial period after Ruzzia’s the full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Speaking from a European/Danish point of view it was a time of big fear, desperation and uncertainty, but also a time of high hopes, energy ...

Intimate, personal portraits of both known and long-forgotten champions, heroes, and witnesses to history brought to you from rare archival interviews.

"Comprendre pour agir" est une série de podcasts du Département de la Seine-Saint-Denis, coordonné par Frédérique Le Goff et Julien Florès (Direction des données, des études et des connaissances). Son ambition : diffuser largement les savoirs produits par le Département, à travers un format court et un discours accessible, qui invite les auditeurs à aller plus loin en consultant les ressources associées (rapports, synthèses, tableaux de bord, etc.). Chaque épisode établit le lien entre la connaissance et l’action publique départementale sur un sujet clé en Seine-Saint-Denis....

"Aleppo Evacuation Effort Restarts, and Assad Calls It History in the Making" is from the December 15, 2016 World section of The New York Times. It was written by Ben Hubbard and Hwaida Saad and narrated by Keith Sellon-Wright.

The Declaration of Independence identified two core principles—independence and equality—that defined the American Revolution and the nation forged in 1776. Jefferson believed that each new generation of Americans would have to look to the "experience of the present" rather than the "wisdom" of the past to interpret and apply these principles in new and progressive ways.

In Making the Second Ghetto, Arnold Hirsch argues that in the post-depression years Chicago was a "pioneer in developing concepts and devices" for housing segregation. Hirsch shows that the legal framework for the national urban renewal effort was forged in the heat generated by the racial struggles waged on Chicago's South Side.

Making War at Fort Hood offers an illuminating look at war through the daily lives of the people whose job it is to produce it. Kenneth MacLeish conducted a year of intensive fieldwork among soldiers and their families at and around the US Army's Fort Hood in central Texas. He shows how war's reach extends far beyond the battlefield into military communities where violence is as routine, boring, and normal as it is shocking and traumatic.

Winner of the 2024 George Orwell Award for Distinguished Contribution to Honesty and Clarity in Public Language, given by the National Council of Teachers of English "Making Americans shines a light on the barriers that immigrant students in the US face—and shares some inspiring stories about...

Dans les quartiers populaires, près d’une personne sur sept vit en situation d’insécurité alimentaire, soit trois fois plus qu’ailleurs. L’insécurité alimentaire, c’est l’incapacité d’accéder à une nourriture suffisante, saine et nutritive. Avec l’envolée des prix, l’éloignement des commerces bio et la multiplication des fast-foods à bas coût, les habitants des quartiers populaires restent aujourd’hui privés d’une offre alimentaire de qualité. Partout en France, les Jardins de Cocagne font de l’alimentation un levier pour créer du lien social et garantir ...