19 Episodes

  1. Partition’s Ghost: How Pakistan Became a Deep State

    Published: 5/28/2025
  2. Vulgarians at the Gate: How Censors Lost the Culture War

    Published: 5/14/2025
  3. How North Korea Got the Nuke

    Published: 4/30/2025
  4. The Opium War: The Original Trade War

    Published: 4/16/2025
  5. Orientalism: How One Book Fueled 50 Years of Campus Unrest

    Published: 4/2/2025
  6. Luigi Mangione & The History of Bourgeois Terrorism

    Published: 3/19/2025
  7. How A Strange Group of Heroes Defeated Russia

    Published: 3/5/2025
  8. Why We Can't Escape JFK Conspiracy Theories

    Published: 2/19/2025
  9. Paradise Burning

    Published: 2/5/2025
  10. Trump’s Populism Isn’t a Sideshow. It’s as American as Apple Pie.

    Published: 1/22/2025
  11. Introducing: Breaking History

    Published: 1/14/2025
  12. Why Jews Wrote Your Favorite Christmas Songs (From the Honestly Archives)

    Published: 1/14/2025
  13. Resistance or Opposition: Which Route Should the Democrats Take? (From the Honestly Archives)

    Published: 1/14/2025
  14. Trump and the Art of the Bullshitter (From the Honestly Archives)

    Published: 1/14/2025
  15. The Hundred Year Holy War (From the Honestly Archives)

    Published: 1/14/2025
  16. How Republics Unravel: From Rome to…America? (From the Honestly Archives)

    Published: 1/14/2025
  17. Kamala Harris and the Election of Laughter and Forgetting (From the Honestly Archives)

    Published: 1/14/2025
  18. When Students Become Terrorists (From the Honestly Archives)

    Published: 1/14/2025
  19. When a President Drops Out: What Biden Can Learn from 1968 (From the Honestly Archives)

    Published: 1/14/2025

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Sometimes the news moves so fast, you have to look closely to know if you’ve seen it before. And that’s what this show is about. Breaking History breaks down the news, by breaking down history. We cover everything from LBJ and the Roman Republic to Donald Trump and the chaos at Columbia. This twice a month show from The Free Press delivers the best historians, authors, and reporters by mining the archives of human experience to figure out the present. George Santayana wrote, “Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” Tune in to Breaking History to resist the repetition.