Kathrin gets to sit down with Dr. DJ Kinney, a historian who looks into dangerous chapters in history without flinching, to talk about hope and cynicism in a changing world. DJ Kinney researches, produces and hosts The Cold War Vault podcast, which looks at this secretive period of history and peels back the curtain to reveal the humanity within.

There’s a lot going on in the world right now. No matter when you read this, something is going on in the world. Maybe there’s something shaking up your life. Maybe your world has undergone a slow, tectonic shift over several years or a sudden, massive upheaval.  Yet however change happens around us, we are left trying to find our way through the history we remember, the present we might not recognize, and a future we can hardly imagine. Yet we keep going on, hoping that we can look back on our lives to understand what has transpired. 

Here are some links to what we discussed in our conversation:

About The Cold War Vault
The three-part series of the Cold War Vault, The Otters of Amchitka:
                     The Otters of Amchitka, Part 1, 2 & 3

 Clay Lamps through history at the Milwaukee Public Museum:
                Oil Lamp Classifications
                Image of Byzantine slipper lamp

Pliny the Elder & Pompeii:  “A Voyage into Catastrophe: Pompeii and the Roman Navy” by Will Mather, Western Australia Museum
"The Destruction of Pompeii, 79 AD," EyeWitness to History, www.eyewitnesstohistory.com (1999)
The “Great Man Theory” of History
“Is There Still Value in ‘Great Man’ History?”, Four articles about the Great Man Theory of history in History Today

“The Great Man Theory”, Villanova University 

History doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes,” Fall 2018 Ohio Wesleyan University Feature by Richard North Patterson  

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