Storytime! in History: Recent Episodes
Miss Gitlin
Scholars! Today we start in Iran and ends with the Fall of the Berlin Wall! It's a crazy one!
“We’re eyeball to eyeball…and I think the other fellow just blinked.”—Secretary of State Dean Rusk to National Security Advisor McGeorge Bundy upon learning that Soviet ships headed toward Cuba had stopped dead in the water, October 24, 1962.
Hey history scholars, it's WWII time. This is an overview and examination of the main events of the Second World War so strap in for a rough one. Starting with Japan in Manchuria and ending with the atomic bombs, World War II looms large in our memory and on the History Channel. Join me for a class!
Welcome back students of history! This episode for World History we will be talking about World War I, or the Great War. Today's theme music features a song written for WWI and is especially ironic...
Hellooooo history students. Welcome back to another US History episode where we talk Ruth Snyder, Sacco and Vanzetti, and how a bunch of Notre Dame students took on the KKK. It's America in the 1920s, stuff you might not have known happened! Stick around for the outdo music for a nice zinger.
“The sun never set on the British empire, an Indian nationalist later sardonically commented, because even God couldn’t trust the Englishman in the dark”
― Shashi Tharoor, An Era of Darkness.
Join us today for an episode on Imperialism in India, or LAST topic in the Imperialism mini-unit. Next we'll move on to WWI and that whole mess...
We've made it to Japan, everyone. Plus, I have a special guest on this one and our theme is....a little different.
Well you thought politics today turn nasty, it's not a new phenomenon! Listen in to the story behind why third parties can be so contentious and how two best friends turned into bitter enemies that cost them both the presidency!
Goooooood morning, history students! Tune in for this episode on how imperialism changed Vietnam including a pirate attack, oppression, and some meanderings about communist uprisings. Stick around at the end for a little Easter egg that made me a little emotional and tell me if you got it!