Sparks of History

Professor Andrei Zorin, Professor and chair of Russian at the University of Oxford, and award winning author of Leo Tolstoy, Critical Times, offers his unique deeply researched perspective on the life and times of Leo Tolstoy. What were the main influences on Tolstoy? What social positions did Tolstoy advocate? What made Tolstoy such a historic writer? How did Tolstoy view Jews and the Jewish peop...

In this gripping interview, David Nasaw, Professor of History at NYU and author of The Last Million, reveals how liberated Jewish holocaust survivors were placed in the same DP barracks with their former Nazi collaborator captors! It's a chilling tale of despair, absurdity and betrayal.  

In this gripping interview, David Nasaw, Professor of History at NYU and author of The Last Million, reveals how liberated Jewish holocaust survivors were placed in the same DP barracks with their former Nazi collaborator captors! It's a chilling tale of despair, absurdity and betrayal.  

Churchill was a Zionist. He called himself a Zionist. Even before World War I he met and interacted with Jews. He would have wanted to defend the Jewish State. With weapons and supplies. Israel, one could say, was Churchill’s creation. He helped create the mandate. And put into practice what the Balfour Declaration promised in 1917.  

Churchill was the person who saved us in 1940. Churchill understood that Nazism was uniquely evil, pure evil. You can’t be nice, you can’t appease Hitler. He understood the persecution of the Jews. He also understood the need to rearm and that Hitler was a serious threat to world peace He also understood that only when America would enter the war then the war would be won. Only Churchill realized...

Professor Edward Larson - Franklin & Washington   Professor of history / Hugh & Hazel Darling Chair in Law, Pepperdine University.

Professor Edward Larson - Franklin & Washington   Professor of history / Hugh & Hazel Darling Chair in Law, Pepperdine University.

Award winning author Nicholas A. Basbanes, author of numerous highly acclaimed books including: Cross of Snow: A Life of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, On Paper: The Everything of Its Two-Thousand-Year History, A World of Letters, Every Book its Reader: The Power of the Printed Word to Stir the World, A Splendor of Letters: The Permanence of Books in an Impermanent World, Among the Gently Mad: Perspe...

Award winning author Nicholas A. Basbanes, author of numerous highly acclaimed books including: Cross of Snow: A Life of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, On Paper: The Everything of Its Two-Thousand-Year History, A World of Letters, Every Book its Reader: The Power of the Printed Word to Stir the World, A Splendor of Letters: The Permanence of Books in an Impermanent World, Among the Gently Mad: Perspe...

Sir Isaac Newton was one of the greatest scientists of all time. He had a keen interest in authentic Jewish sources. Find out what Sir Isaac Newton learned from the Hebrew Bible and Maimonides, featuring: Robert Iliffe, Professor of History of Science at Oxford, General Editor of the Newton Project. Author of Priest and Nature, The Religious Worlds of Isaac Newton.  

Sir Isaac Newton was one of the greatest scientists of all time. He had a keen interest in authentic Jewish sources. Find out what Sir Isaac Newton learned from the Hebrew Bible and Maimonides, featuring: Robert Iliffe, Professor of History of Science at Oxford, General Editor of the Newton Project. Author of Priest and Nature, The Religious Worlds of Isaac Newton.  

Award winning historian, Marc Morris, provides his fascinating insights on Edward I A Great and Terrible King: Edward I and the Forging of Britain (2008) Including the 1290 Expulsion of England's Jews

Award winning historian, Marc Morris, provides his fascinating insights on Edward I A Great and Terrible King: Edward I and the Forging of Britain (2008) Including the 1290 Expulsion of England's Jews

In what the Wall Street Journal calls the “most comprehensive [John] Tyler biography in 80 years,” Dr. Leahy’s book, President Without a Party: The Life of John Tyler, profiles a leader that historians have long viewed as one of the nation’s least effective heads of state. It’s the first full¬-scale biography of Tyler in more than 50 years, and the first new academic study of him in eight decades....

Professor Nicolas McDowell, lecturer on Early Modern Literature and Thought, University of Exeter focuses on the literary, cultural and intellectual history of the period 1500-1750, with particular focus on the Civil Wars of the 17th-century. Professor McDowell is the award winning author of numerous books including: Poet of Revolution: The Making of John Milton The English Radical Imagination: Cu...

Daniel Boone - The Man & The Myth Noted author Tom Clavin presents: Blood and Treasure: Daniel Boone and the Fight for America's First Frontier,  

Daniel Boone - The Man & The Myth Noted author Tom Clavin presents: Blood and Treasure: Daniel Boone and the Fight for America's First Frontier,  

Professor Rosamond McKitterick from Cambridge, discusses her breakthrough work on Charlemagne.  

Professor Rosamond McKitterick from Cambridge, discusses her breakthrough work on Charlemagne.  

Professor Marion Turner, Tutorial Fellowship at Oxford, Trustee of the New Chaucer Society and recognized authority on late medieval secular literature and history discusses her groundbreaking work, Chaucer: A European Life (2019).

Professor Marion Turner, Tutorial Fellowship at Oxford, Trustee of the New Chaucer Society and recognized authority on late medieval secular literature and history discusses her groundbreaking work, Chaucer: A European Life (2019).

Dr. Philip Mansel has written 13 books on France and the Ottoman Empire, including: Constantinople: City of the World’s desire (1995) Splendour and Catastrophe on the Mediterranean (2010). Aleppo ; the Rise and Fall of Syria’s Great Merchant City (rev.ed. I B Tauris 2018) In this interview Dr. Mansel discuss his fascinating work: King of the World: the Life of Louis XIV (Penguin 2019) Noted histor...

Dr. Philip Mansel has written 13 books on France and the Ottoman Empire, including: Constantinople: City of the World’s desire (1995) Splendour and Catastrophe on the Mediterranean (2010). Aleppo ; the Rise and Fall of Syria’s Great Merchant City (rev.ed. I B Tauris 2018) In this interview Dr. Mansel discuss his fascinating work: King of the World: the Life of Louis XIV (Penguin 2019) Noted histor...

Sparks of History is proud to present Professor Tim Blanning, professor emeritus of modern European history at the University of Cambridge. Professor Blanning discussed his award winning book, Frederick the Great, King of Prussia. Who was Frederick the Great? What did Europe look like when Frederick became king? Who were the major powers at the time? Was Frederick a successful military leader? Wha...

Sparks of History is proud to present Professor Tim Blanning, professor emeritus of modern European history at the University of Cambridge. Professor Blanning discussed his award winning book, Frederick the Great, King of Prussia. Who was Frederick the Great? What did Europe look like when Frederick became king? Who were the major powers at the time? Was Frederick a successful military leader? Wha...