Dan talks to Ruth Ben-Ghiat about what the history of Italian Fascism can teach us about the modern political landscape.
On 29 August 1867, Karl Heinrich Ulrichs stood in front of the Congress of German Jurists in Munich and urged them not to extend sodomy laws across the soon to be unified Germany.
He was booed off stage, but this stands as the earliest public queer protest in history. Similarly, his definition o...
Two weeks before the 2020 U.S. presidential election, Richard Brookhiser joined me on the podcast to discuss Trump and presidential history.
Dan talks to Sarah Churchwell, whose new book - Behold, America! - discusses the history of the phrases "the American Dream" and "America First", and what they mean in Trump's America.
