Dec 2023

UNLOCKED - The Christmas Truce of World War I w/ Terri Blom Crocker

Merry (early) Christmas! Danny and Derek speak with historian Terri Blom Crocker to discuss the reality of the mythologized Christmas Truce of 1914, when soldiers in World War I made various agreements to cease fighting. Check out Terri's book The Christmas Truce: Myth, Memory, a ... Show More

58m 5s

Yesterday

News - Iran Talks Under Strike Threat, Mexico Cartel Killed, Pakistan Attack in Afghanistan

Subscribe now to skip the ads and get all of our episodes. Warner Brothers shamefully won’t consider Danny and Derek’s aggressive offer. In this week’s news: U.S.-Iran nuclear talks resume in Geneva amid reports that the White House is weighing strike options (0:54), plus Trump c ... Show More

49m 19s

Feb 24

E238 - On the Brink with Iran w/ Dalia Dassa Kaye

Subscribe now to skip the ads and get all of our episodes. Derek and Danny are joined by Dalia Dassa Kaye to talk about the decades-long hostility between the U.S. and Iran and the current escalation between the two countries. They talk about the odds of war and the absence of cl ... Show More

1h 9m

Nov 2024

The Spanish-American War

In April 1898 the United States declared war on Spain. By the end of the war that December, the Spanish had lost their centuries-old colonial empire and the US had emerged as a power in the Pacific. Join Don as he speaks to Christopher McKnight Nichols, Professor of ... Show More

42m 58s

Jul 2024

168. Teddy Roosevelt Takes on the Old World

In 1898, whilst his boss was on a break at the osteopath, Teddy Roosevelt basically started a war. A master of the press, he managed to whip up war fever amongst jingoists in Congress, leading the United States to declare war on imperial Spain. Building on an established independ ... Show More

50m 27s

Nov 11

985 - The Murder Inc. Doctrine feat. Greg Grandin (11/10/25)

As we inch closer to war with Venezuela, historian Greg Grandin returns to Chapo for a history lesson about the War on Drugs as well as Venezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution. We also talk about the US’s long-running economic interests and petty feuds in Latin America, particularly re ... Show More

56m 57s

Nov 2024

Oligarchy, Empire, Revolution w/ Hilary Goodfriend & Jorge Cuéllar

Featuring Hilary Goodfriend and Jorge Cuéllar on the history of Central America. This is the first episode in a two-part series covering the late-19th and early-20th century rise of export-crop oligarchies and constant US intervention, the US-backed separation of Panama from Colo ... Show More

1h 55m

Jun 2024

Francisco de Miranda, Part 2

Part two of our episode on Francisco de Miranda covers his travels after he left North America following the American Revolution, and explores his involvement with the French revolution before he focused on independence for Latin American colonies. Research:</st ... Show More

45m 4s

Jul 2021

Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall, "Slave Revolt on Screen: The Haitian Revolution in Film and Video Games" (UP of Mississippi, 2021)

Michel-Rolph Trouillot wrote that “the silencing of the Haitian Revolution is only a chapter within a narrative of global domination. It is part of the history of the West and it is likely to persist, even in attenuated form, as long as the history of the West is not retold in wa ... Show More

1h 10m

Jul 2025

Part Two: Antonio Salazar: The Smartest Fascist Dictator

Antonio Salazar spends his post-war years helping the CIA learn how to torture people and starting a disastrous war with a large portion of Africa. Then he dies! Hooray! Sources:Antonio Salazar de Oliveira of Portugal and his Estado Novo Antonio Salazar: A Quiet Autocrat Who Held ... Show More

1h 14m

May 2024

The Original America First Movement

Eliot and Eric welcome Jacob Heilbrunn, editor of The National Interest, non-resident fellow at the Atlantic Council's Eurasia Center, and author of America Last: The Right's Century Long Romance with Foreign Dictators. They discuss the origin story of "America First" during the ... Show More

48m 32s

Mar 2021

Spanish Civil War Interview Series 18: Memory and the Civil War with Tom Wardle

On this episode of our Spanish Civil War Interview Series I was joined by Tom Wardle. Tom's research focuses on memory activism and how the Spanish Civil War is remembered, and how that memory is fought over, in modern day Spain. When discussing history it can be easy to fall int ... Show More

35m 49s

Jun 2024

Laura Gómez, "Inventing Latinos: A New Story of American Racism" (The New Press, 2020)

Latinos have long influenced everything from electoral politics to popular culture, yet many people instinctively regard them as recent immigrants rather than a longstanding racial group. In Inventing Latinos: A New Story of American Racism (The New Press, 2020), Laura Gómez, a l ... Show More

1h 3m

E216 - A New History of the Americas, Pt...