Many have been sceptical of Freud's claim that unconscious desires control our lives. Yet recent studies show the conscious brain processes only a tiny fraction of the brain as a whole. Are hidden desires and secret thoughts driving our...

On 13 September 1759, on the Plains of Abraham near the city of Quebec, an outnumbered British army fought a battle that would change the history of the world: the Battle of Quebec. For the past three years, Britain and France were...

What is the effect of war on elections? Benjamin Franklin famously wrote: “Nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.”, but he forgot one thing – Presidential elections!

Clothing is ultimately just fabric designed to cover our bodies. So why was it illegal for women to wear men's clothing and for men to wear women's clothing? And why is it still illegal in some parts of the world?

In English literature, an owl usually indicates that death and tragedy are close at hand.
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As the world descended into The Great War, a freshly enlisted Edward Thomas drew upon this literary tradition to create "The Owl." In...

Lawrence Summers discusses the reemergence of inflation, monetary policy and risks the markets currently face.

I often get asked who my favourite historical figure is, and I can think of no person who represented the moral endurance and strength of Emma Goldman. Let's hear her story and maybe she'll be your favourite historical figure too.

In 1979, the murder of five communist protestors sealed an alliance between America's two largest factions of the far-right, the Ku Klux Klan and Neo-Nazis. This event says a lot about the state's reply to right-wing violence and the...

He's back. Tom Holland sits down with Dan to talk about the history of Christianity, and how the religion has shaped morality in Western civilisation to this day.

From The United States being invaded. . . twice, to Russia planning to wipe China off the map with nukes! These military operation would have changed history entirely.

Anatole Kaletsky, Associate Editor of the The Times, moderates the first panel of INET's Bretton Woods Conference on April 8, 2011: The Emerging Economic and Political Order: What Lies Ahead? Part 2 of 5 with Harold James, Professor of...

In this video we ask: Can Shinto Become a Global Religion?

Arthur ‘Bomber’ Harris has been compared to Stalin, Pol Pot and even Hitler. However author Jeremy Black defends Harris against accusations of committing war crimes via his carpet-bombing strategy in the latest episode of History Defended.

Dominic Cummings, Johnson's Chief Advisor, is an interesting character. He's been called a genius by Johnson, a dark political manipulator by the media and a career psychopath by Cameron. In this video, we take a look at his blog to find...

From the Olympics to the UN we celebrate national identity and culture. Yet nations are typically the source of warfare and conflict. Would we be better to get rid of nations and borders in favour of a wider, ultimately global,...

The New York Times’ Binyamin Appelbaum explains the role Democratic presidents, from Kennedy to Obama, in moving economic policy to the right
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INET President Rob Johnson sits down with The New York Times’ Binyamin Appelbaum...

In the third part of this four-part INET "From the Director's Chair" interview, INET Executive Director Robert Johnson talks with Journal of Post Keynesian Economics co-founder Paul Davidson about Davidson's book The Keynes Solution:...

Also known as the Great War, World War I was a horrific world conflict that lasted for roughly four years (1914-1918). You know a bit about WWI from history class: the assassination of Franz Ferdinand, "the War to End All Wars," Allied...

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1930 and the Challenge of the Depression for Economic Thinking: Friedrich Hayek versu<br/>s John Maynard Keynes.

Tens of thousands of sailors and Marines are currently involved in the biggest U.S. naval exercise in a generation, spanning 17 different time zones, as they prepare for possible future conflict with China or Russia.

From the hulls of ships to the sides of trucks to the walls of bathroom stalls across the world - and even engraved into national monuments - one iconic phrase has appeared in seemingly every place across the globe: "Kilroy was here."

In this episode of Gravity Assist, Jim Green talks with New Horizons Principal Investigator Alan Stern about what we’ve learned about Kuiper Belt object 2014 MU69.

Dr. Scott Ellsworth, University of Michigan, teaches courses on African American history, Southern literature, race and sports, and crime and justice in contemporary U.S. society. Trained as a historian, he received his Ph.D from Duke...

NYU historian Professor Thomas Sugrue, addressing the Institute’s conference on race and economics, makes the case that in Detroit’s history scholars will find the story of many of America’s industrial cities.



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