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Send us a Text Message.This episode continues our discussion of the Nakba and the Israeli War of Independence, covering the initial phases of the civil war between Jews and Arabs in Palestine from November 1947 to March 1948. The episode highli
Send us a Text Message.In this episode we begin our discussion of the Nakba and the Israeli War of Independence - twin events that lie at the heart of so many of the political dynamics of the region today. On the one hand, 1948 marked the reali
Send us a Text Message.After a period of relative calm during World War II, the need to resettle Jewish survivors from the Holocaust once more inflamed tensions in Palestine - this time between Britain and the Zionists. In this episode we discu
Send us a Text Message.In this episode we explore the history of the region during the Second World War. On the one hand, this moment represented something of a pause in tensions between the British, Zionists and Arabs, as the three sides worke
Send us a Text Message.In this episode we explore the history of the Arab Revolt (1936-39), the first attempt to solve the political crisis in Palestine through armed, organized violence. As we'll see, the revolt proved to be a massive failure,
Send us a Text Message.In this episode of our series on the history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict we examine the period of the British Mandate, essentially the moment when the split between the Jewish and Arab communities of Palestine beg
Send us a Text Message.This episode explores the history of Israel/Palestine during the First World War - a time when divisions between the local Jewish and Arab communities began to harden. On the one hand, both peoples suffered under the stra
Send us a Text Message.In this second episode, we start to explore the history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, starting with the initial wave of large-scale Jewish migrations in the early 1880s. The episode highlights the complexity of ide
Send us a Text Message.In this episode, the first of several on the history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, we reflect on some of the dominant narratives being used to understand the current crisis in Israel/Palestine. Topics include the
Send us a Text Message.A brief discussion of books to help you understand the causes of the current crisis in Ukraine. Topics covered include: Intro & significance of the topic (0:50); Honorable mentions: Timothy Snyder (8:58); Anne Applebaum
Send us a Text Message. Fascism. The name has long been understood as the antithesis of democratic society. In this episode - the first of several exploring the topic, we examine the rise of fascism in Italy in the early 1920s. Topics cov
Send us a Text Message.Before 1900, few Europeans associated sexual preferences or desires with identity. One engaged in a variety of sexual acts with various partners, some licit (like your spouse in order to procreate), some illicit (outside
Send us a Text Message. Continuing on the theme of change and modernity, this episode focuses on the evolution of gender expectations across the beginning of the Twentieth Century. In particular the episode charts the emergence of the "New Woma
Send us a Text Message.After a nice summer History Off the Page returns for season 3! This short update talks about future episodes in the upcoming season (1:03), ways to support the show (6:12), Spotify's new Q&A feature (8:27), book and mov
Send us a Text Message.In the first half of this episode (Part I) we discussed how new inventions like the airplane restored Europeans' faith in the power of science, rationality and more broadly European civilization. In the second part of t
Send us a Text Message.Living at the start of the digital age, it's not hard to imagine the ways in which new technologies lead to social change. This episode charts perhaps the three most important inventions of the 20th century: cars, airpla
Send us a Text Message.This episode continues our theme of the emergence of modernity in 1920s, focusing on the rise of the metropolis. As we'll see, the metropolis was more than just a big city, it meant experiencing mass society for the first
Send us a Text Message.In our last two episodes we looked at how waves of political violence swept over post-World War I Europe. But not all revolutions are political. In this episode, we investigate revolutions in art, architecture, film and
Send us a Text Message. As we saw in our last episode, the foundation of European society after World War I was supposed to be national self-determination. All peoples would be free to form their own national states, and nations would treat eac
Send us a Text Message.In January 1918, American President Woodrow Wilson laid out his vision for a durable peace settlement that would end the Great War. Abandoning traditional diplomatic practices that called on losing powers to make territor
Send us a Text Message.In the second episode of our series on Stalinism, we try to get a better sense of what everyday life was like outside of repression. In particular, we'll focus on Stalin's attempt to industrialize the Soviet Union, to tr
Send us a Text Message.Born as Ioseb Jughashvili, this son of a cobbler would strike fear in the hearts of millions as the Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin. In the first episode of this two part series, learn how Stalin built perhaps history’s mos
Send us a Text Message.As previously discussed, the Enlightenment envisioned a future where reason could be used to stamp out the imperfections of human society, creating lasting peace and prosperity. But can reason go too far? In this episode
Send us a Text Message.In our last episode, we saw how Christmas by the early modern period (c. 1600) had become a raucous affair, a time when social relations inverted and moral standards were usually relaxed. This is a far cry from our mode
Send us a Text Message.Christmas: perhaps the most anticipated day of the year. A time for faith and family, for Santa Claus, Christmas Trees and a warm glass of eggnog or glühwein consumed whilst listening to carolers sing classic songs. This
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