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Cyprus. Fifty years of division. There seems no prospect for the reunification of the island, half a century after turkey invaded the north. The i... (2024)
Political tumult is now the norm in the country | The Americas (2024)
Latin American history. Half a century later. Chile is still haunted by the coup in 1973, and is at odds over how to mark it. Gabriel Boric, th... (2023)
This piece of pseudo-profanity is what's known as a taboo deformation—a word we say when we don't want to say the word. (2018)
How the fruit got a bad rap from the beginning A nickname for the fruit was the “poison apple” because it was thought that aristocrats got sick ... (2020)
How the EU started speaking French when it comes to the economy (2020)
North America's largest-known Mexican cookbook collection inspires both tears and restaurant dishes. (2020)
As the influenza pandemic swept across the United States in 1918 and 1919, masks took a role in political and cultural wars. (2020)
In the 1800s, farmers cultivated mushrooms in abandoned quarries underneath the French capital. Within these catacombs, in dark, cavernous chamb... (2017)
This blog, and the four that will follow it, draw on Part 1 of my 2016 book, The Great Convergence.In 1957, my father published a book called Econo... (2020)
Sure, you know Germany has pretzels and France has baguettes; but do you know how these carby delights came to be? Learn the history of bread from ... (2020)
The toll of history’s worst epidemic surpasses all the military deaths in World War I and World War II combined. And it may have begun in the Unite... (2020)
The fear is similar, but the medical reality is not. (2020)
From turmeric in Nicaragua to cardamom in Guatemala, nonnative ingredients are redefining trade routes and making unexpected connections across lands. (2019)
For all of its gloomy words, and despite Springsteen's left-wing politics, “Born in the U.S.A.” became an American anthem. The song roars. It defie... (2019)
With Will Smith, Chris Hadfield, Jerry Linenger, Mae C. Jemison. The extraordinary story of Earth and why it is special and uniquely brimming with ... (2019)
There are strong parallels between organised abuse of Facebook and FB’s attempts to respond, in the last 24 months, and malware on Windows and Offi... (2019)
How American Cities Got Their Libraries: A visual exploration of how a critical piece of social infrastructure came to be. (2019)
On Socialism - In the age of A.O.C., the lesson must be learned again. (2019)
The years from the end of World War II into the 1970s were ones of substantial economic growth and broadly shared prosperity. Beginning in the 1970... (2011)
Directed by Gary Hustwit. With Manfred Schulz, Massimo Vignelli, Rick Poynor, Wim Crouwel. A documentary about typography, graphic design, and glo... (2018)
In Gary Hustwit’s highly anticipated new documentary “Rams,” the legendary industrial designer indicts the world he helped create. (2018)
Two decades ago, a Swiss inventor laid the foundation for the big mobility innovation of 2018. (2018)
An in-depth conversation with one of the designers of the original iPhone. (2018)
At the end of November 2012, Atul Kapadia and Sujeet Kumar hosted the staff of their startup company for a holiday lunch of Mexican food at a Palo ... (2018)
The race to get the world’s first plane in the sky was a hard fought battle between The Wright Brothers and a lesser-known gentleman by the name of... (2018)
Violence and rampant crime have driven asylum seekers from El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras to the United States, which is seeking to help addr... (2018)
EUROPE has slipped into a form of “civil war,” fears Emmanuel Macron, France's president. The trenches have been dug, the weapons loaded, the front... (2018)
DURING the worst days of the euro-zone debt crisis, the fear was that bond-market turmoil in places such as Greece and Spain would spread to Italy.... (2018)
Nobody knows what the first animal looked like. But many of its genes are still present in humans today... (2018)
Singapore has transformed itself from a colonial trading port to a buzzing financial center in just a matter of decades. It’s been held up as an ex... (2024)
Why Indonesia's Economy Matters and Its Unexpected Growth | Indonesian Economy (2023)
Mumbai, India’s Transforming MEGACITYFive transportation megaprojects are under construction throughout Mumbai, a city of 25 million. This short do... (2023)
Why West Virginia is so Poor (2023)
The Brazilian city of Manaus sits alone in the middle of the Amazon, and yet it still grew to become the seventh largest city in the country. So wh... (2023)
Rampant inflation, a booming black market for US dollars and crippling debt - welcome to Argentina, one of the world's most dysfunctional economies... (2023)
Samsung’s Dangerous Dominance over South Korea (2023)
Why Silicon Valley is here. One radio engineer had a plan. And it worked. (2023)
Why Were Things So Terrible In the 17th Century - General Crisis Theory (2023)
Why do societies fail? With lessons from the Norse of Iron Age Greenland, deforested Easter Island and present-day Montana, Jared Diamond ... (2023)
In this video, we trace the evolution of the European Union since the end of WWII until Brexit.-------- (2023)
France secretly owns 14 countries, neocolonial Africa (2023)
Why 82% of Mexico is Empty (2023)
Taking up half the continent of South America, Brazil is host to vast array of landscapes and biomes - from the steamy Amazon Rainforests, to the s... (2023)
Rick Steves' The Holy Land: Israelis and Palestinians Today (2023)
In 1961 the Indian army marched into Portuguese Goa and after two days of fighting formally annexed it into the country. Given that the world large... (2023)
Cyprus, like many countries, isn't whole. However unlike most nations which are split, it's split into three parts with Cyprus itself holding the s... (2023)
Why did Russia sell Alaska to America? (Short Animated Documentary) (2023)
The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Birth of the Balkans (Short Documentary) (2023)
Why didn't the Ottomans conquer Persia?The Ottoman Empire secured its place as one of the most powerful and large empires throughout its 600 years ... (2023)
This is the story of Iran, once known as Persia. In this video, I explore the long history of Iran through to the controversial present, the divers... (2023)
Why was Turkey Neutral in WW2? (2023)
Why wasn't Thailand Colonized?As the powers of Europe began to grow and expand throughout the world’s history, colonialism became the forefront of ... (2023)
THE HISTORY OF INDIA in 12 Minutes - Part 1 (2023)
In 1808, Napoleon's rivalry with Britain led to an ill-fated intervention in Portugal and Spain, that sparked a nationalist revolt against the Fren... (2023)
The Second Balkan War - Explained in 10 minutes (2023)
The First Balkan War - Explained in 10 minutes (2023)
How did Brazil Become a Country?Once Portugal realized that this newfound land was on their side of the Tordesillas line, the initial goal was to e... (2023)
Perpetual Crisis: Why Argentina is not rich (2022)
Join Indian YouTuber @Dhruv Rathee and his wife Juli as they show you Old Delhi, Dhruv’s home turf in India. The walled city was founded more than ... (2022)
Our cover this week warns against the damage that will be inflicted by America’s impending tariffs on steel and aluminium. For the first time in de... (2018)
Scott Horton is the director of the Libertarian Institute, editorial director of Antiwar.com, host of The Scott Horton Show, co-host of Provoked, a... (2025)
Listen to this episode from Lex Fridman Podcast on Spotify. Gregory Aldrete is a historian specializing in ancient Rome and military history.Thank ... (2024)
In anticipation of Super Bowl LII (Go Eagles), we're revisiting an old episode about the surprising history of how the game came to be. It's the en... (2023)
Listen to this episode from 99% Invisible on Spotify. Victorian nurse Florence Nightingale (played in this episode by her distant cous... (2021)
Listen to this episode from Go For Broke on Spotify. Venture capitalists and tech entrepreneurs chasing big payouts helped inflate the dot-com ... (2020)
There’s an old apartment building in South Minneapolis that looks totally out of place. It’s in a residential neighborhood with small bungalows and... (2020)
Ben and James continue to discuss the differences between platforms and aggregators, including Facebook, Microsoft, Apple, Google, Netflix, Amazon,... (2019)
In his book (and podcast), Brian McCullough chronicles the history and evolution of the internet -- from college kids in a basement and the dot-com... (2018)
The seeds of the apparently sudden collapse of Venezuela’s once-proud oil industry were sown two decades ago. (2018)
Svalbard is a remote Norwegian archipelago with reindeer, Arctic foxes and only around 2,500 humans — but it is also home to a vault containing see... (2018)
What happened to the laugh track? For nearly five decades, it was ubiquitous, simulating in-person audience experiences in home living rooms. But b... (2018)
On this day in 2008, an 85-year-old investment bank became the very public face of the financial crisis. Only a $29 billion loan guarantee from the... (2018)
Yesterday we examined the financials that lead to the fall of Bear Stearns, and now we're going to look at the human side: A couple of unlikely Wal... (2018)
NPR podcast- 3/19/2018 “former Fed Chair Ben Bernanke, former Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and Timothy Geithner, former president of the New... (2018)
At Hemingway's Home Outside Havana, An Effort To Preserve Artifacts Of His Life In Cuba Ernest Hemingway lived at Finca Vigía for two decades be... (2018)
In announcing new protections on steel and aluminum imports, President Trump said he was acting in the interest of national security. But could the... (2018)
In the late 1920s, the Ford Motor Company bought up millions of acres of land in Brazil. They loaded boats with machinery and supplies, and shipped... (2018)
"A surreal, lyrical work of narrative nonfiction that portrays how the largest domestic oil discovery in half a century transformed a forgotten cor... (2018)
New York Times Readers’ Pick: Top 100 Books of the 21st Century New York Times Bestseller A Summer Reading Pick for President Barack Obama, Bill Ga... (2024)
Drawing on his own incarceration and exile, as well as on evidence from more than 200 fellow prisoners and Soviet archives, Aleksandr I. Solzhenits... (2021)
Peter Watson's hugely ambitious and stimulating history of ideas from deep antiquity to the present day—from the invention of writing, mathematics,... (2021)
The Manual book. Read 131 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. Life's Missing Instruction Manual Epictetus (c. 50-135 CE) was br... (2021)
Meditations book. Read 7,002 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. Written in Greek by the only Roman emperor who was also a phil... (2021)
In the ten years since its publication in 1988, Stephen Hawking's classic work has become a landmark volume in scientific writing, with more than n... (2020)
START-UP NATION addresses the trillion dollar question: How is it that Israel-- a country of 7.1 million, only 60 years old, surrounded by enemies,... (2020)
The Complete Maus book. Read 7,135 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. Combined for the first time here are Maus I: A Survivor'... (2020)
The Complete Persepolis book. Read 7,446 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. Here, in one volume: Marjane Satrapi's best-sellin... (2020)
Earning the Rockies book. Read 238 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. An incisive portrait of the American landscape that show... (2020)
Hillbilly Elegy book. Read 25,407 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. From a former marine and Yale Law School graduate, a powe... (2020)
Yuval Noah Harari, author of the critically-acclaimed New York Times bestseller and international phenomenon Sapiens, returns with an equally origi... (2019)
100,000 years ago, at least six human species inhabited the earth. Today there is just one. Us. Homo sapiens. How did our species succeed in the... (2019)
Man's Search for Meaning has 231,979 ratings and 12,175 reviews. Frank said: After I read this book, which I finished many, many years ago, I had b... (2018)
"An alternative to the Acemoglu/Robinson thesis. Economic history owes a lot to geographic endowment; for example, Africa lacked large mammals that... (2018)
" If the Baldwin book doesn’t convince you of the importance of trade, this account of its historical role should. It is no coincidence that the gr... (2018)
"An essential book for understanding how modern trade works via global supply chains. An antidote to the protectionist nonsense being peddled by so... (2018)
"This is the story of the Great Depression as told through the lives of the central bankers who tried and failed to deal with the crisis. As one, M... (2018)
When 38 jetliners bound for the United States were forced to land at Gander International Airport in Canada by the closing of U.S. airspace on Sept... (2018)
The 1619 Project, inaugurated with a special issue of The New York Times Magazine, challenges us to reframe U.S. history by marking the year when t... (2020)
years of history. free. online. awesome. Teach a mind-blowing history course that harnesses your students' natural curiosity about our world. ... (2021)