Episode 12 is here! The United States and Iran

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Iran Hostage Crisis student demonstration, (1979) Washington, D.C. U.S. News & World Report Magazine Photograph Collection.

This week Hilary and Geoff provide a little context for the often-torturous relationship between the United States and Iran. Join us as we discuss the beginnings of diplomatic contact between the countries in the nineteenth century, the rise of US involvement in the post-World War 2 Middle East, the first peace-time coup engineered by US intelligence, the Hostage Crisis, and more.

2019 – A look back

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The Dinkum Boy calendar was sent to the Patent Copyright office. The calendar even though produced in 1919 still shows patriotic fervor. Archives New Zealand Reference: PC4 1015/1919

An Incomplete History returns from winter break with a special episode. We discuss the biggest events of 2019 and put them into broader historical contexts. Join Hilary and Geoff as they try to predict what historians will consider important about the last year. What will historians ten, fifty, and a hundred years from now say about 2019? Join us for our take.