Listen to everything from the beginning at davidrovics.com/ahistoryoftheworld or just start with this one!

1950-1970

US/UN invasion of Korea and war with China

The Red Scare and the execution of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg

The Cuban Revolution

The Cuban Missile Crisis

Texaco/Chevron’s destruction of the Ecuadorian Amazon

The Six Day War and the Israeli attack on the NSA spy ship, the USS Liberty

The My Lai Massacre in Vietnam

The antiwar movement in the US and around the world

Martin Luther King, Jr assassination and the Poor People’s March on Washington

Anti-Catholic pogroms and refugee crisis in Ireland

Columbia Eagle Mutiny

Kent State Massacre

Listen to everything from the beginning at davidrovics.com/ahistoryoftheworld or just start with this one!

1943-1949

The arrests and executions of German communists such as Hamburg city councilor, Franz Jacob

The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

The boatlift of the Danish Jews to Sweden

The Dutch resistance and the killing of Henk Streefkerk

The Normandy landings

The liberation of Katharina Jacob and other Ravensbruck prisoners by the Red Army

The US nuclear attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki

The expulsion of 750,000 Palestinians from Palestine, the Naqba

The Berlin Airlift of 1948-49

My year in review.

1933-1941. Listen to everything from the beginning at davidrovics.com/ahistoryoftheworld or just start with this one!

Merry Christmas to all my fellow canceled people. If you're in the club, you'll probably identify with most of the lines in this song, I'll wager -- if you get a chance to hear the song in the first place, that is.

This episode covers events that took place from 1917-1921.

There's no need to start at the beginning, necessarily, but all the episodes out so far can be found at davidrovics.com/ahistoryoftheworld, along with notes on each of them.

Here's the second episode of A History of the World According to David Rovics. This one covers events from 1846-1916.

The first two podcasts are up now at davidrovics.com/ahistoryoftheworld, and the rest will all be up there eventually, free for anyone to download. I would venture to say it's a really good bunch of podcasts, that could be especially good to share with folks who may just discovering people's history or radical politics.

For paid subscribers, 16 episodes are already up. They can be found in the Everything folder -- if you're a CSA member, whether you signed up through Substack, Patreon, Bandcamp, or at davidrovics.com/subscribe, you should have gotten a welcome email with the link to the Everything folder, but feel free to contact me if you need that again!

I did a bit of an impromptu live broadcast today, on the occasion of realizing I'd be alone in the apartment on a Sunday.

This is the first episode in my new podcast series, A History of the World According to David Rovics. In this series, I take on history, starting with what we Americans call the Colonial Era, then working our way forward, tightening up the timeline as we go.

I'll upload new episodes every so often, gratis, here and on other platforms, including at davidrovics.com/history.

For those who are able to become paid subscribers, those who can join my Community-Supported Art program are the folks who make it possible for me to keep doing what I do. If you're already a paid subscriber, thank you! (These posts always go out to everyone, either way...)

The first ten episodes are already up, for CSA members. They can be found in the Everything folder. If you're a CSA member, whether you signed up through Substack, Patreon, Bandcamp, or at davidrovics.com/subscribe, you should have gotten a welcome email with the link to the Everything folder, but feel free to contact me if you need that again!