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Understanding News Through History in our weekly podcast conversations with scholars.

231 Scholar-Interviews

bridging scholarly works to everyday news

bridging scholarly works to everyday news

bridging scholarly works to everyday news

bridging scholarly works to everyday news

bridging scholarly works to everyday news

bridging scholarly works to everyday news

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New York City Mayoral Election 


Jonathan Mahler 

New York Times Magazine 


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History behind News

Others cover the news. 

We uncover the history behind it. 

 

We do this in weekly podcast conversations with eminent scholars and historians who explain and analyze the history behind current events. And we call this peeling the history behind our news.


Why is this important? Because news in America lacks historical perspective.


With more than 195 guest scholars hosted by Adel Aali, HbN is now in its 5th season with new episodes every Friday at 5 a.m.,  U.S. Eastern Time. 


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History behind news program is available on Apple Podcast.
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History Behind News program is available on Amazon music podcast.
History behind news program is available on iHeart Radio.
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History behind news program is available on Sticher (Pandora).
History behind news program is available on Radio Public.
History Behind News podcast is available on Overcast
  • History behind news program is available on Radio Public.
  • History Behind News podcast is available on Overcast
  • History behind news program is available on Apple Podcast.
  • History behind news program is available on Spotify.
  • History Behind News program is available on Amazon music podcast.
  • History behind news program is available on iHeart Radio.
  • History behind news program is available on Google.
  • History behind news program is available on Sticher (Pandora).
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  • History Behind News podcast is available on Overcast
  • History behind news program is available on Apple Podcast.
  • History behind news program is available on Spotify.

HbN Topics:

Adel Aali, History Behind News host, interviews scholars about U.S. international relations.
Adel Aali, History Behind News podcast series on economy, infrastructure, patents and technology.
Adel Aali, History Behind News podcast series on environment, science and medicine.
Adel Aali, History Behind News podcast series on U.S. politics and journalism.
Adel Aali, History Behind News podcast series on U.S. history and culture.
Adel Aali, History Behind News podcast series on women's rights.
Adel Aali, History Behind News podcast series on race and immigration.
Adel Aali, History Behind News podcast series on China and rest of Asia.
Adel Aali, History Behind News podcast series on Europe's history.
Adel Aali, History Behind News podcast series on Ukraine and Russia.
Adel Aali, History Behind News podcast series on military and war.
Adel Aali, History Behind News podcast series on the Americas.
Adel Aali, History Behind News podcast series on Africa.
Adel Aali, History Behind News podcast special series on the Middle East.
Adel Aali, host of History Behind News program discusses hstory of religion with scholars.

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HbN Special Series

Adel Aali, host of Scholars Unravel Middle East podcast

From Ancient Empires To Modern Nations

 A message for Middle Eastern Americans: Don't let U.S. news media or Hollywood tell your story. And don't follow people who read a few books and are suddenly experts. In this program, I bring you the sources of Middle East analysis and history - 195 scholars (and counting) who distill their decades of research into an hour conversation with me to unravel the misperceptions that divide East and West and to clarify our common misconceptions about the Middle East - from its ancient empires to modern nations. 


Visit our Middle East page for details.  

Scholars Unravel Middle East

195 Scholars & Counting

Our more than 195 podcast guests who have helped us interpret news and current events through the perspective of history are scholars from these and many other prestigious institutions: 


Our guests are scholars in prestigious institutions, such as Oxford, Yale, Caltech, Harvard, MIT, Stanford, the Hoover Institution, the American Enterprise Institute, Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, King's College London, Princeton University, Notre Dame, Dartmouth College, Columbia University, the Atlantic Council, Duke, Amherst College, University of Michigan, Rhodes College, Northwestern Law, Vanderbilt University, US Naval War College, Air Command and Staff College, Marine Corp University, UVA, Johns Hopkins, Cornell, NYU, Rice, University of Chicago, White House Historical Association, Baylor University, USC, UC Berkeley, UCSF, UCI, UCSD, UC Davis, UCR, Tel Aviv University, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the Israel Democracy Institute, University of Aberdeen, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, University of Navarra, University of Seville, Helsinki University, Diego Portales University (Chile), Lund University (Sweden), University of Edinburgh, Near East University (Türkiye), Cardiff University, the Free University of Berlin and many others. 


Our guests include Pulitzer Prize winners, renowned documentary producers, current and former senior reporters at The Wall Street Journal, former White House advisors and other high-ranking government officials. Many have testified in Congressional hearings and others frequently contribute to major media outlets and widely read publications, ranging from the BBC, NPR, PBS and CNN to The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times.

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