5 stories commemorating the fall of the Berlin Wall.

Check out the latest episode of my history podcast here.

Check out the latest episode of the history podcast:  Marco Werman of PRI’s The World interviews James David Robenalt about his new book The Harding Affair: Love and Espionage during the Great War. Robenalt is a Cleveland lawyer with deep roots in Ohio. He was lucky enough to get his hands on a microfiche copy of Harding’s love letters to his mistress; the originals are still under seal in the Library of Congress. The resulting tale is full of surprises, about Harding, about his lover Carrie Phillips, and about the politics and foreign relations of the day.

This week’s stories:

Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize October 9

Herta Muller wins Nobel Liberature Prize October 8

The Vietnam Analogy October 7

Afpak Strategy October 6

Afghan Vote Recount October 5

This is great–as much for the audio journalists out there as those who listen to them:

http://niemanstoryboard.us/2009/09/29/8-reasons-to-put-noise-in-your-narrative/

New history podcast is up–long versions of my interviews this week with Haleh Esfandiari, author of My Prison, My Home and Peter Maass who wrote Crude World: The Violent Twilight of Oil.  There’s also an interview with the Canadian health care expert and former politician Roy Romanow on the origins of the Canadian system. Finally an excerpt that didn’t make it into the radio segment from my interview Tuesday with Anne-Marie Goetz of UNIFEM, The UN Development Fund for Women, about rape as a weapon of war.  I include it in the history podcast  because Goetz includes a great deal of historical perspective in answering the question of why it’s so urgent to address epidemic levels of sexual violence in conflict and post-conflict zones around the world.  More info on HWGH#29 at www.theworld.org/history as soon as I have time to post there.

An amazing book by an amazing woman. Here’s my interview with Haleh Esfandiari on PRI’s The World today. A longer version will go in the next episode of my How We Got Here podcast which I hope to get out by the end of the week.

Some good stuff on the show today; here’s the audio.

Sorry for the lack of posts. Here are a few recent links:

I hosted today’s show; here’s the audio.

Check out especially the interview with Peter Maass on his new book Crude World: The Violent Twilight of Oil.

Here’s How We Got Here #28 on the nuclear disarmament movement and a shorter radio story on same.

Visit the How We Got Here page anytime by going to http:// www.theworld.org/history. Lots of links there on the left to various things including the How We Got Here Facebook Group which is great fun and growing steadily.

Here’s my story on the new UN women’s agency which is also one of the topics in How We Got Here #27.

How We Got Here #26 on the 70th anniversary of the beginning of WWII.

I hosted PRI’s The World again on Friday August 28th. It gave me the opportunity to interview human rights lawyer Rebecca Hamilton about her recent month-long research trip to Sudan, which included a trip to Darfur. She’s immersed in a really interesting book project on the Darfur advocacy movement and was able to win rare access to a wide range of actors inside Sudan. Here’s the link to the audio of our interview: