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Arguing History
Scholarly discussions of controversial historical topics.
November 24, 2023
The Idea of "Central Europe" from Naumann to Kundera
Central Europe has long been infamous as a region beset by war, a place where empires clashed and world wars began. In The Middle Kingdoms: A New Hist…
October 16, 2023
The Gaza War in Military-Historical Perspective
In this interview military historian Jeremy Black examines ongoing Israeli-Hamas conflict in Israel and the Gaza Strip in historical perspective. Blac…
June 13, 2023
Socialist Cultures and Politics of Secularism and Atheism
Two new books on secularism and atheism in German and Soviet socialist cultures are reshaping scholarly understandings of the relationship between soc…
June 10, 2023
New Histories of Violence in and around the Second World War
Why does state-led and intercommunal violence occur? How do past episodes of mass violence reverberate in the present? How do victims and perpetrators…
May 20, 2023
Empires after World War II: The Cases of the USSR and France
Where lay the fissures of Soviet power in Eastern Europe during the Cold War? Why did France fail in its postwar efforts to make its African colonies …
February 28, 2023
Soviet Hippies and German “Other ‘68ers”
On first glance, Soviet hippies would seem to have little in common with right-wing student protestors in West Germany in 1968. Yet as Juliane Fürst a…
February 21, 2023
Rethinking the End of the Russian and Habsburg Empires
Historians often think of World War I and the period surrounding it as the acme of nationalism in European politics. In two very different books, Josh…
January 3, 2023
The Russo-Ukrainian War from a Military Point of View
On February 24 2022, Vladimir Putin shocked the world by invading Ukraine. In this short interview, veteran military historian Jeremy Black looks at t…
October 6, 2022
On the Life and Legacy of Queen Elizabeth II
Queen Elizabeth II died on September 8, 2022. She reigned for 70 years, longer than any other British sovereign. In this interview, Charles Coutinho d…
September 21, 2022
How Should We Remember Winston Churchill?
How should we remember the complicated figure of Winston Churchill? Was he (in the words of Prime Minister Harold Macmillan) "The greatest Englishman …
June 21, 2022
Ukrainian Nationalism in Historical Context
In the midst of the ongoing war between the Russian Federation and Ukraine, it is vital that the lay-educated public understand the historical origins…
June 3, 2022
Are We Entering a "Neo-Medieval" Era?
Our world is being marked by a transition of epochs towards a more “Neo-Medieval” era. What is even meant by “Neo-Medieval”? Greg Lewicki argues that …
May 24, 2022
Putin's War on Ukraine in Historical Perspective
With the war in Ukraine showing no signs of stopping anytime soon, it was thought a worthwhile idea to have an informed discussion with four expert hi…
October 19, 2021
The Darker Angels of Our Nature
In The Better Angels of Our Nature Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker argued that modern history has witnessed a dramatic decline in human violence of…
September 30, 2021
Why did the US Fail in Afghanistan?
With its ultimate debacle in August 2021, a discussion of the twenty-year military involvement of America and the West in Afghanistan is most timely. …
March 5, 2021
Clio's Battles
To write history is to consider how to explicate the past, to weigh the myriad possible approaches to the past, and to come to terms with how the past…
July 21, 2020
The Cold War as History
The Cold War, the on again and off again confrontation between the West and the Soviet Union is one of the most famous historical episodes of the shor…
June 11, 2020
Why Did the Allies Win World War One?
The Great War was perhaps the greatest single upheaval of the 20th century. While World War II saw more lives lost, in terms of the shock to European/…
April 27, 2020
Why Did the Allies Win World War II?
Why did the Allies win World War II? In the this podcast of Arguing History, Professor of History Emeritus at Exeter University, Jeremy Black and D…
March 12, 2020
The Origins of World War One
Who or what originated and/or caused the Great War from breaking out in July 1914? Was it Serbia with its expansionist and aggressive designs on Austr…