http://www.theworld.org A history podcast from PRI's The World--each week we'll pick a topic in the news and hit rewind, delving into the past for a bit more context. Hosted by The World's Jeb Sharp. en-us Copyright 2009 PRI's The World Public Radio International Public Radio International theworld@pri.org 60 no http://www.theworld.org/images/rss/rss_how_we_got_here.jpg http://www.theworld.org http://media.theworld.org/pod/history/history40.MP3 http://media.theworld.org/pod/history/history40.MP3 Andrew Gordon, Michelle Gelfand, Erica Hirshler no 17:02 Tue, 16 March 2010 17:00:00 EDT history, politics, foreign news, international news, PRI's The World, BBC, WGBH, public radio http://media.theworld.org/pod/history/history39.mp3 http://media.theworld.org/pod/history/history39.mp3 The World's Marco Werman interviews Stephen Kinzer about his forthcoming book Reset no 14:17 Fri, 26 February 2010 17:00:00 EDT history, politics, foreign news, international news, PRI's The World, BBC, WGBH, public radio http://media.theworld.org/pod/history/history38.mp3 http://media.theworld.org/pod/history/history38.mp3 A compilation of recent World radio stories all with historical angles no 13:11 Tue, 23 February 2010 17:00:00 EDT history, politics, foreign news, international news, PRI's The World, BBC, WGBH, public radio http://media.theworld.org/pod/history/history37.mp3 http://media.theworld.org/pod/history/history37.mp3 We continue our exploration of Haitian history into the 19th and 20th centuries no 45:53 Fri, 05 February 2010 17:00:00 EDT history, politics, foreign news, international news, PRI's The World, BBC, WGBH, public radio http://media.theworld.org/pod/history/history36.mp3 http://media.theworld.org/pod/history/history36.mp3 Alex Gallafent on Haiti and vodou and Laurent Dubois on the Haitian revolution no 35:01 Fri, 29 January 2010 17:00:00 EDT history, politics, foreign news, international news, PRI's The World, BBC, WGBH, public radio http://64.71.145.108/pod/history/history35.MP3 http://64.71.145.108/pod/history/history35.MP3 A look at the archaeology and history of Yemen with McGuire Gibson, Bernard Haykel and Thomas Kuehn no 48:51 Tue, 19 January 2010 17:00:00 EDT history, politics, foreign news, international news, PRI's The World, BBC, WGBH, public radio http://64.71.145.108/pod/history/history34.MP3 http://64.71.145.108/pod/history/history34.MP3 Maziar Bahari talks about his new film, An Iranian Odyssey: Mossadegh, Oil, and the 1953 CIA Coup no 27:11 Thu, 14 January 2010 17:00:00 EDT history, politics, foreign news, international news, PRI's The World, BBC, WGBH, public radio http://64.71.145.108/pod/history/history33.mp3 http://64.71.145.108/pod/history/history33.mp3 Five stories commemorating the fall of the Berlin Wall on November 9, 1989 no 28:55 Mon, 09 November 2009 16:00:00 EDT history, politics, foreign news, international news, PRI's The World, BBC, WGBH, public radio http://64.71.145.108/pod/history/history32.mp3 http://64.71.145.108/pod/history/history32.mp3 Soviet women who flew combat missions in WWII, revisiting the Iranian hostage crisis, and the early days of Pakistan no 36:18 Fri, 06 November 2009 16:00:00 EDT history, politics, foreign news, international news, PRI's The World, BBC, WGBH, public radio http://64.71.145.108/pod/history/history31.mp3 http://64.71.145.108/pod/history/history31.mp3 Gerry Hadden on Nazi traitors, Alex Gallafent on Hamid Karzai then and now, and a bit of Guinean history no 20:53 Thu, 22 October 2009 16:00:00 EDT history, politics, foreign news, international news, PRI's The World, BBC, WGBH, public radio http://64.71.145.108/pod/history/history30.mp3 http://64.71.145.108/pod/history/history30.mp3 Marco Werman interviews James David Robenalt about his new book The Harding Affair: Love and Espionage During the Great War no 26:58 Mon, 12 October 2009 15:00:00 EDT history, politics, foreign news, international news, PRI's The World, BBC, WGBH, public radio http://64.71.145.108/pod/history/history29.mp3 http://64.71.145.108/pod/history/history29.mp3 Haleh Esfandiari, Peter Maass, Roy Romanow, Anne-Marie Goetz. no 46:53 Thu, 01 October 2009 15:00:00 EDT history, politics, foreign news, international news, PRI's The World, BBC, WGBH, public radio http://64.71.145.108/pod/history/history28.mp3 http://64.71.145.108/pod/history/history28.mp3 Author Jonathan Schell and historian Lawrence Wittner on the history of the nuclear disarmament movement. no 32:26 Fri, 25 September 2009 13:00:00 EDT history, politics, foreign news, international news, PRI's The World, BBC, WGBH, public radio http://64.71.145.108/pod/history/history27.mp3 http://64.71.145.108/pod/history/history27.mp3 The history behind the new U.N. agency for women, a comparison of U.S. debt then and now, and Bertolt Brecht on New York after the 1929 crash. no 29:34 Mon, 21 September 2009 12:00:00 EDT history, politics, foreign news, international news, PRI's The World, BBC, WGBH, public radio http://64.71.145.108/pod/history/history26.mp3 http://64.71.145.108/pod/history/history26.mp3 Svetlana Savranskaya on Russian interpretations of history, Laura Lynch on a reunion of Holocaust survivors, and Marco Werman revisits the musical past of Gabon's new president. no 15:03 Tue, 08 September 2009 16:00:00 EDT history, politics, foreign news, international news, PRI's The World, BBC, WGBH, public radio http://64.71.145.108/pod/history/history25.mp3 http://64.71.145.108/pod/history/history25.mp3 Ted Kennedy's anti-apartheid legacy, Tracy Kidder's new book Strength in What Remains and a new museum in Warsaw dedicated to the history of Jews in Poland. no 29:59 Fri, 28 August 2009 13:00:00 EDT history, politics, foreign news, international news, PRI's The World, BBC, WGBH, public radio http://64.71.145.108/pod/history/history24.mp3 http://64.71.145.108/pod/history/history24.mp3 A notorious warlord, General Abdul Rashid Dostum, returns from exile to campaign for President Karzai. We look at the history of warlordism in Afghanistan and the implications of Dostum's return. no 21:31 Wed, 19 August 2009 9:00:00 EDT history, politics, foreign news, international news, PRI's The World, BBC, WGBH, public radio http://64.71.145.108/pod/history/history23.mp3 http://64.71.145.108/pod/history/history23.mp3 Journalist Otto Pohl goes back to Moscow to find out who shot him in 1993, Charles Sennott re-examines The Taliban, and Warren Kozak talks about his new biography of General Curtis LeMay. no 56:45 Tue, 05 August 2009 16:00:00 EDT history, politics, foreign news, international news, PRI's The World, BBC, WGBH, public radio http://64.71.145.108/pod/history/history22.mp3 http://64.71.145.108/pod/history/history22.mp3 Former U.S. Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara dies at the age of 93. We look back on his legacy as an architect of the Vietnam War, and his subsequent soul-searching about that role. no 12:19 Tue, 07 July 2009 11:00:00 EDT history, politics, foreign news, international news, PRI's The World, BBC, WGBH, public radio http://64.71.145.108/pod/history/history21.mp3 http://64.71.145.108/pod/history/history21.mp3 As U.S. forces pull back from Iraqi cities, we look back at Britain's attempts to disentangle from Iraq decades earlier. no 16:02 Tue, 30 June 2009 14:00:00 EDT history, politics, foreign news, international news, PRI's The World, BBC, WGBH, public radio http://www.theworld.org/pod/history/history20.mp3 http://www.theworld.org/pod/history/history20.mp3 As the crisis in Iran deepens, we explore the history of past protest movements there. no 35:24 Fri, 19 June 2009 13:00:00 EDT history, politics, foreign news, international news, PRI's The World, BBC, WGBH, public radio http://www.theworld.org/pod/history/history19.mp3 http://www.theworld.org/pod/history/history19.mp3 Africa's longest-serving leader died this week; we look at his country, his life, and his legacy. no 29:57 Fri, 12 June 2009 13:00:00 EDT history, politics, foreign news, international news, PRI's The World, BBC, WGBH, public radio http://www.theworld.org/pod/history/history18.mp3 http://www.theworld.org/pod/history/history18.mp3 This week's episode offers a compilation of stories--the British car industry 40 years ago, the politics of memory in China, and a journey into the heart of Czech immigrant culture in New York City. no 28:22 Fri, 05 June 2009 15:45:00 EDT history, politics, foreign news, international news, PRI's The World, BBC, WGBH, public radio http://www.theworld.org/pod/history/history17.mp3 http://www.theworld.org/pod/history/history17.mp3 The BBC's James Miles and The Lost Voices of Tiananmen Square. no 47:20 Fri, 29 May 2009 13:45:00 EDT history, politics, foreign news, international news, PRI's The World, BBC, WGBH, public radio http://www.theworld.org/pod/history/history16.mp3 http://www.theworld.org/pod/history/history16.mp3 The World's Clark Boyd introduces us to a graphic novel about Afghanistan in the war-torn 1980's. no 21:20 Tue, 19 May 2009 16:05:00 EDT history, politics, foreign news, international news, PRI's The World, BBC, WGBH, public radio http://www.theworld.org/pod/history/history15.MP3 http://www.theworld.org/pod/history/history15.MP3 Jeb Sharp speaks with David Vine about his book Island of Shame: The Secret History of the U.S. Military Base on Diego Garcia. Find out more at www.theworld.org. no 24:15 Mon, 11 May 2009 16:05:00 EDT history, politics, foreign news, international news, PRI's The World, BBC, WGBH, public radio http://www.theworld.org/pod/history/history14.mp3 http://www.theworld.org/pod/history/history14.mp3 In Episode 14 Jeb Sharp speaks with Marilyn B. Young about her book Bombing Civilians: A Twentieth-Century History. Find out more at www.theworld.org. no 28:10 Mon, 04 May 2009 16:05:00 EDT history, politics, foreign news, international news, PRI's The World, BBC, WGBH, public radio http://www.theworld.org/pod/history/history13.mp3 http://www.theworld.org/pod/history/history13.mp3 In Episode 13 Jeb Sharp speaks with Mia Farrow about her oral history project The Darfur Archives. Find out more at www.theworld.org. no 32:19 Fri, 24 Apr 2009 17:05:00 EDT history, politics, foreign news, international news, PRI's The World, BBC, WGBH, public radio http://www.theworld.org/pod/history/history12.mp3 http://www.theworld.org/pod/history/history12.mp3 In Episode 12 Marco Werman interviews David Paul Nickles about his book "Under the Wire: How the Telegraph Changed Diplomacy." Find out more at www.theworld.org. no 08:02 Fri, 17 Apr 2009 17:45:00 EDT history, politics, foreign news, international news, PRI's The World, BBC, WGBH, public radio http://www.theworld.org/pod/history/history11.mp3 http://www.theworld.org/pod/history/history11.mp3 This week on How We Got Here Jeb Sharp looks at how the Rwandan genocide is remembered and memorialized. Find out more at www.theworld.org. no 12:48 Thu, 09 Apr 2009 16:15:00 EDT history, politics, foreign news, international news, PRI's The World, BBC, WGBH, public radio http://www.theworld.org/pod/history/history10.mp3 http://www.theworld.org/pod/history/history10.mp3 This week on How We Got Here Svetlana Savranskaya of The National Security Archive examines parallels between the Soviet experience in Afghanistan and the US-led intervention today. Find out more at www.theworld.org. no 25:24 Thu, 02 Apr 2009 15:15:00 EDT history, politics, foreign news, international news, PRI's The World, BBC, WGBH, public radio http://www.theworld.org/pod/history/history9.mp3 http://www.theworld.org/pod/history/history9.mp3 This week on How We Got Here Clark Boyd takes us to Guatemala and the archives of the former National Police for some historical sleuthing. Find out more at www.theworld.org. no 14:06 Fri, 27 Mar 2009 12:00:00 EDT history, politics, foreign news, international news, PRI's The World, BBC, WGBH, public radio http://www.theworld.org/pod/history/history8.mp3 http://www.theworld.org/pod/history/history8.mp3 This week on How We Got Here Lisa Mullins interviews Rashid Khalidi about his new book Sowing Crisis: The Cold War and American Dominance in the Middle East. Find out more at www.theworld.org/history-of-the-middle-east. no 21:54 Fri, 20 Mar 2009 12:00:00 EDT history, politics, foreign news, international news, PRI's The World, BBC, WGBH, public radio http://www.theworld.org/pod/history/history7.mp3 http://www.theworld.org/pod/history/history7.mp3 This week on How We Got Here Jeb Sharp looks at the life and times of Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir, now wanted on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity at the International Criminal Court in the Hague. Find out more at www.theworld.org/sudan. no 23:42 Thu, 12 Mar 2009 15:30:00 EDT history, politics, foreign news, international news, PRI's The World, BBC, WGBH, public radio http://www.theworld.org/pod/history/history6.mp3 http://www.theworld.org/pod/history/history6.mp3 As President Obama declares his plans for ending the war in Iraq, Jeb Sharp reports on how wars really end and comparisons between the war in Iraq and the American Civil War. Find out more at www.theworld.org/how_wars_end. no 25:30 Thu, 05 Mar 2009 09:00:00 EST history, politics, foreign news, international news, PRI's The World, BBC, WGBH, public radio http://www.theworld.org/pod/history/history5.mp3 http://www.theworld.org/pod/history/history5.mp3 The fifth installment of our weekly look at the history behind the headlines takes you to Bosnia. The World's Jeb Sharp reports on the destruction and subsequent restoration of a Bosnian mosque. Find out more at theworld.org. no 11:22 Thu, 26 Feb 2009 12:30:00 GMT history, politics, foreign news, international news, PRI's The World, BBC, WGBH, public radio http://www.theworld.org/pod/history/history4.mp3 http://www.theworld.org/pod/history/history4.mp3 In our fourth history-behind-the-news podcast Jeb Sharp discusses the genocide in Cambodia in the 1970's with The World's Mary Kay Magistad and anthropologist Susan Cook. Also we remember Alison Des Forges of Human Rights Watch: historian, human rights investigator and chronicler of the Rwandan genocide. Find out more at theworld.org. no 27:45 Thu, 19 Feb 2009 06:00:00 GMT history, politics, foreign news, international news, PRI's The World, BBC, WGBH, public radio http://www.theworld.org/pod/history/history3.mp3 http://www.theworld.org/pod/history/history3.mp3 In our third history-behind-the-news podcast, Jeb Sharp looks at the British experience in Afghanistan in the 19th century. Find out more at theworld.org. no 8:11 Thu, 12 Feb 2009 15:00:00 GMT history, politics, foreign news, international news, PRI's The World, BBC, WGBH, public radio http://www.theworld.org/pod/history/history2.mp3 http://www.theworld.org/pod/history/history2.mp3 In our second history-behind-the-news podcast, Jeb Sharp speaks with historian Amin Tarzi about the Khyber Pass linking Afghanistan and Pakistan. Find out more at theworld.org. no 19:28 Thu, 05 Feb 2009 13:00:00 GMT history, politics, foreign news, international news, PRI's The World, BBC, WGBH, public radio http://www.theworld.org/pod/history/history1.mp3 http://www.theworld.org/pod/history/history1.mp3 In our first history-behind-the-news podcast we go back to the 1953 coup in Iran to explore the roots of Iran's grievances against the United States. Find out more at theworld.org. no 18:39 Thu, 29 Jan 2009 18:00:00 GMT history, politics, foreign news, international news, PRI's The World, BBC, WGBH, public radio