History Reconsidered is a weekly podcast dedicated to taking a deep dive into historical issues and events and relating them to the modern world. It is hosted by Sumantra Maitra and Jarrett Stepman.
Dr. Sumantra Maitra is a senior editor at The American Conservative, a senior contributor to The Federalist, a senior fellow at the Center for Renewing America, and an elected, Associate Fellow at the Royal Historical Society, London. His book, “Sources of Russian Aggression” (Lexington-Rowman & Littlefield) is scheduled to be published in 2024.
Jarrett Stepman is a columnist for The Daily Signal and was a 2018 Lincoln Fellow with the Claremont Institute. He’s spent over a decade in media and wrote “The War on History: The Conspiracy to Rewrite America’s Past,” a book about how a cultural revolution aims at discrediting the foundations of the United States and the West.
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History Reconsidered is a weekly podcast dedicated to taking a deep dive into historical issues and events and relating them to the modern world. It is hosted by Sumantra Maitra and Jarrett Stepman.
Dr. Sumantra Maitra is a senior editor at The American Conservative, a senior contributor to The Federalist, a senior fellow at the Center for Renewing America, and an elected, Associate Fellow at the Royal Historical Society, London. His book, “Sources of Russian Aggression” (Lexington-Rowman & Littlefield) is scheduled to be published in 2024.
Jarrett Stepman is a columnist for The Daily Signal and was a 2018 Lincoln Fellow with the Claremont Institute. He’s spent over a decade in media and wrote “The War on History: The Conspiracy to Rewrite America’s Past,” a book about how a cultural revolution aims at discrediting the foundations of the United States and the West.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
On this week's episode of History Reconsidered, Sumantra Maitra and Jarrett Stepman talk about the aftermath of World War I and its connection to World War II.
They talk about the view from Europe, a continent devastated by war, yet still powerful and the center of global affairs. The war had not only destroyed the lives of millions, it killed off several once-powerful empires too. In Russia, a revolution took place that would threaten civilization in the decades to come.
Perhaps more importantly, the United States found itself in a unique and new position. The country had long been one of the world's great powers, in many ways the greatest power, but had not involved itself so deeply in global affairs as it did in the Great War. What was the right path forward? How could the U.S. keep to its cherished ideals but ensure that another great war wouldn't take place? Wilson believed he had the answer.
Maitra and Stepman talk about the legacy of World War I, the worldview of Woodrow Wilson, and much more.
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