History Behind News Program
Others cover the news. We uncover the history behind it. We make in-depth history researched and written by eminent scholars enjoyable and accessible to everyone. Our motto: "bridging scholarly works to everyday news." Adel Aali, podcast host, is a former attorney & healthcare entrepreneur with a long and deep passion for history. Adel started this program to provide a better understanding of news through history. More here: https://HistoryBehindNews.com/ Watch this program on YouTube: https://bit.ly/HbN-YT-Sub We appreciate your financial support of our program: https://historybehindnews.
Episodes
Why Dec. 25? Why so much Christmas conflict & controversy in Christianity's history? Why is Christmas so important to Christianity? And to America?
In this episode, I ask my guest, Dr. Carey Roberts, the following questions:
►Why is Christmas such a grand celebration? What does this tell us about Christianity?
►Did it take a while for Christmas to take a central role in Christianity
►What's the difference between rec...
Will Prime Minister Takaichi be a champion for women's rights?
🚩Analyzing American Revolution - a new podcast series by History Behind News Program.
🚩In this interview:
►Women's Nudity in 19th-century Japan
►Victorian Europe's Perception of Women
►What is significant about the year 1868?
►Japan's sudden rush to...
Prof. Silverman describes the first Thanksgiving: an accidental feast between frenemies that was never repeated.
How much is our Thanksgiving tradition based on real events that transpired sometime in the fall of 1621 in Plymouth, Massachusetts? And why does it matter anyway?
Don't all nations have feel-good traditions that are partly based on facts, but mostly predicated on myths?
Professor David Silverman answers these quest...
How Gerrymandering has backfired on its proponents.
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🚩About My 197th Guest Scholar:
Dr. Shawn Donahue is a professor of Political Science at the University of Buffalo, where a primary part of his research focuses on redistricting, representation, partisan and racial gerrymandering as well as voting rights and campaig...
Ed Koch. Donald Trump. Rudy Giuliani. Al Sharpton. Spike Lee. And more. They were the tabloid gods of New York at a pivotal time in the City's modern history - a time when several issues erupted into crises that caused chaos in NYC and made national headlines. And we discuss them in this interview because many of those issues persist to this day, and continue to polarize NYC's population and politics.
Venezuela was once a liberal democracy with close geopolitical relations with the United States. So what happened?
This is the story of Venezuela's devolution from democracy to dictatorship, and from cooperation with America to coups and open conflict.
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In this interview:
►How did the Cold War affect US-Venezuela relations?
►...
Exceptions to & exapnsions of Freedom of Speech.
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In this interview:
►Was the First Amendment really the first?
►Why does the First Amendment only mention Congress?
►Did our Founders believe the President has no power to restrict freedom of speech?
►To our Founders and their British counterparts, was freedom of press more conseq...
Congress, and not the presidency, used to be the predominant power of the U.S. government. In this interview, we discuss the history of how politics, populism and polarization changed the balance of power in our government.
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In this interview:
►Where does the Constitutional principle of the "separation of powers" and "coequal" branches ...
On-again off again. Hot and cold. That's how I would describe more than 75 years of America's relationship with India. It's a story that seesaws between extremely close cooperation and virtually full ruptures and severe sanctions. And the goal of this interview is to learn from history how Pres. Trump's 50% tariffs may impact our relations with India now!
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U.S. interventions in Brazilian politics since the 19th century & Bolsonaro's 27-year prison term.
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🚩In this interview:
►How do Brazilians perceive the U.S.?
►Do Brazilians watch American TV shows? Do they listen to our music?
►Brazilians to Americans: why don't you know more about us!
►A Tropical Version of the U.S.?
►Brazilians' "weird" r...
New York Fashion Week is here. But what is fashion? And what is American fashion?
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🚩In this interview:
►What can be considered unfashionable?
►In the old days, did kings and queens set fashion trends?
►Do you have a fashion group?
►Did you say you don't think about clothes? If yes, then you do!
►Is fashion aspirational?
►Ralph Lauren
►Fashion duri...
How do presidents pay for White House renovations, furnishings and other expenses?
Pres. Trump will be building a big beautiful ballroom for the White House. And you will note from this interview, the need for additional space in the executive mansion is not at all new. Many presidents have asked for it.
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🚩In this interview:
►Who manages the White Hou...
Bath, England, is celebrating Jane Austen - 250 years of her life and legacy.
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Do any of these titles sound familiar to you?
►"Pride and Prejudice"
►"Sense and Sensibility"
►"Persuasion"
►"Emma"
►"Mansfield Park"
►"Sanditon"
If so, you definitely want to hear this interview - the stories and history of Jane Austen's life and legacy.
🚩About My 186th Guest Schol...
Public broadcast federal funding has been completely cut. Our federal government will no longer fund public broadcasting. Pres. Trump has ordered the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) to cease any funding to PBS or NPR. In addition, he signed Congressional bill that clawed back already approved CPB funding.
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🚩In this interview:
►What defines public br...
Japan's history of public health, imperial rise and nationalism. And also, story of a Japanese company's commercial invasion of America.
🚩In this interview:
►What does it mean to be modern?
►Japan's 'modernization' - 1860s to 1910s.
►4 requirements for modernization of Japanese toilets
►disease prevention, e.g., cholera in Japan
►Japan - the rise of a 'clean' empire
►Is Japan's history of cleanliness true?
►Black Gold: Japan's cen...
Why do some presidential sexual relations become major scandals while others don't even make the news?
🚩In this interview:
►Are presidential love affairs different than sexual relations?
►What defines a scandal? The nature of the act or the politics of the moment?
►JFK's sexual relations
►FDR's love affairs
►Cleveland's sex scandals and great love story
►Clinton's sexual relations
►Jackson's scandals - heartbreak & Cabinet's shut...
As Pres. Trump and Pres. Putin meet in Alaska to negotiate a potential peace deal between Russia and Ukraine, I speak with scholars of Russia and ask them these questions:
►Who is Putin?
►What event had the biggest impact on his worldview?
►Is he an ideological man?
►Does he love Russia?
►Is he a risktaker?
►Does he fear that Russians will revolt against him?
►Does he want to be remembered in history as Putin the Great? Actually, th...
As Pres. Trump & Putin meet in Alaska, without Pres. Zelensky, to discuss a peace deal in the Russian-Ukrainian War, it is not at all certain that any land will in fact be swapped for peace, as suggested by Pres. Trump. But one thing is for certain - that Pres. Putin will not, ever, swap Crimea for any land in Ukraine.
In this episode, my guest and I discuss the history of Crimea and the Crimean Tatars.
🚩About My 182nd Guest S...
Tower of London to Alligator Alcatraz: how constitutionalism came to America and became Americanized.
🚩In this interview:
►What is due process? Is it a legal right or privilege?
►How are procedural and substantive due process different?
►Is due process in the Constitution?
►Do immigrants have due process rights?
►Is due process essentially about fear?
►What is Magna Carta?
►Does due process come from Magna Carta?
►Magna Carta was ...
Is America undermining the rules-based international order? Are we jeopardizing the stability and predictability of the very system that we built for the world?
🚩In this interview:
►What is national security?
►What is America's "special relationship" with Britain?
►In 1916, why did Britain worry about Pres. Wilson's foreign policy?
►Did FDR bring about the end of British Empire?
►How has America benefited from this "special relati...
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