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Stand Up is a daily podcast that I book,host,edit, post and promote new episodes with brilliant guests every day. Please subscribe now for as little as 5$ and gain access to a community of over 700 awesome, curious, kind, funny, brilliant, generous souls Check out StandUpwithPete.com to learn more My interview with Kenneth Davis begins at 39 mins after the news THE WORLD IN BOOKS: 52 Works of Great Short Nonfiction One of the “Most Anticipated” books of Fall 2024 (The Millions) “A wealth of succinct, entertaining advice.” (Kirkus Reviews)   A delightful, inspiring, and idea-rich selection of fifty-two of the best, most important short nonfiction works of all time—from Plato to Michael Pollan and Dante to Joan Didion—chosen by historian, lifelong reader, and bestselling author of Don't Know Much About History.   From ancient times to the present day, The World in Books offers a wide-ranging historical education through pleasure reading—and a fantastic introduction to some of the most thought-provoking, profound, and interesting nonfiction works of all time. From Sun Tzu's The Art of War to bell hooks's All About Love, as well as such recent classics as Barbara Ehrenreich's Nickel and Dimed and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's We Should All Be Feminists, Davis's guide suggests a world of nonfiction books and explains just why they're so historically meaningful and culturally relevant today.   The perfect guide for the modern-day reader, these fifty-two selections provide an ideal way to explore some of the most enduring, influential books ever published, introducing us anew to world-shaping historical figures, events, and ideas. Kenneth C. Davis is the author of Don't Know Much About® History, which spent 35 consecutive weeks on The New York Times bestseller list, and gave rise to the Don't Know Much About® series of books and audios, which has a combined in-print total of some 4.7-million copies. In September 2020, Don't Know Much About® History: Anniversary Edition was released by HarperCollins. A  revised, updated, and expanded edition of the book that started the series thirty years ago, it presents a complete survey of American history, from before the arrival of Columbus in 1492 right through the events of the past decade –from 9/11 through the election of Barack Obama and the first years of his administration. This 30th anniversary edition included a new preface, “From the Era of Broken Trust to the Era of Broken Democracy.” Davis is also the author of the New York Times bestseller America's Hidden History: Untold Tales of the First Pilgrims, Fighting Women, and Forgotten Founders Who Shaped a Nation.   In September 2016, his book IN THE SHADOW OF LIBERTY: The Hidden History of Slavery, Four Presidents, and Five Black Lives was published to critical acclaim. In May 2018, MORE DEADLY THAN WAR: The Hidden History of the Spanish Flu and The First World War was published. In October 2020, STRONGMAN: The Rise of Five Dictators and the Fall of Democracy was released. In November 2022, Scribner published Great Short Books: A Year of Reading–Briefly.   For more than 30 years, Kenneth C. Davis has proven that Americans don't hate history, just the dull version they slept through in class. But many of them want to know now because their kids are asking them questions they can't answer. Davis's approach is to refresh us on the subjects we should have learned in school. He does it by busting myths, setting the record straight, and always remembering that fun is not a four-letter word. The Stand Up Community Chat is always active with other Stand Up Subscribers on the Discord Platform.   Join us Thursday's at 8EST for our Weekly Happy Hour Hangout!  Pete on Threads Pete on Tik Tok Pete on YouTube Pete on Twitter Pete On Instagram Pete Personal FB page Stand Up with Pete FB page All things Jon Carroll Follow and Support Pete Coe

Kenneth C. Davis is the author of Don't Know Much About® History, which spent 35 consecutive weeks on The New York Times bestseller list, and gave rise to the Don't Know Much About® series of books and audios, which has a combined in-print total of some 4.7-million copies. In September 2020, Don't Know Much About® History: Anniversary Edition was released by HarperCollins. A  revised, updated, and expanded edition of the book that started the series thirty years ago, it presents a complete survey of American history, from before the arrival of Columbus in 1492 right through the events of the past decade –from 9/11 through the election of Barack Obama and the first years of his administration. This 30th anniversary edition included a new preface, “From the Era of Broken Trust to the Era of Broken Democracy.” Davis is also the author of the New York Times bestseller America's Hidden History: Untold Tales of the First Pilgrims, Fighting Women, and Forgotten Founders Who Shaped a Nation. In September 2016, his book IN THE SHADOW OF LIBERTY: The Hidden History of Slavery, Four Presidents, and Five Black Lives was published to critical acclaim. In May 2018, MORE DEADLY THAN WAR: The Hidden History of the Spanish Flu and The First World War was published. In October 2020, STRONGMAN: The Rise of Five Dictators and the Fall of Democracy was released. In November 2022, Scribner published Great Short Books: A Year of Reading–Briefly. For more than 30 years, Kenneth C. Davis has proven that Americans don't hate history, just the dull version they slept through in class. But many of them want to know now because their kids are asking them questions they can't answer. Davis's approach is to refresh us on the subjects we should have learned in school. He does it by busting myths, setting the record straight, and always remembering that fun is not a four-letter word. The Stand Up Community Chat is always active with other Stand Up Subscribers on the Discord Platform.   The Stand Up Community Chat is always active with other Stand Up Subscribers on the Discord Platform.  Join us Thursday's at 8EST for our Weekly Happy Hour Hangout!  Pete on Threads Pete on Tik Tok Pete on YouTube Pete on Twitter Pete On Instagram Pete Personal FB page Stand Up with Pete FB page All things Jon Carroll Follow and Support Pete Coe  

Thank You  to Brady Gibney for giving me the great idea to replay some of my favorite shows while I am off this week Today is Memorial Day So I'm re posting my Conversation with my favorite historian Kenneth C. Davis is the author of Don't Know Much About® History, which spent 35 consecutive weeks on The New York Times bestseller list, and gave rise to the Don't Know Much About® series of books and audios, which has a combined in-print total of some 4.7-million copies. In September 2020, Don't Know Much About® History: Anniversary Edition was released by HarperCollins. A  revised, updated, and expanded edition of the book that started the series thirty years ago, it presents a complete survey of American history, from before the arrival of Columbus in 1492 right through the events of the past decade –from 9/11 through the election of Barack Obama and the first years of his administration. This 30th anniversary edition included a new preface, “From the Era of Broken Trust to the Era of Broken Democracy.” Davis is also the author of the New York Times bestseller America's Hidden History: Untold Tales of the First Pilgrims, Fighting Women, and Forgotten Founders Who Shaped a Nation. In September 2016, his book IN THE SHADOW OF LIBERTY: The Hidden History of Slavery, Four Presidents, and Five Black Lives was published to critical acclaim. In May 2018, MORE DEADLY THAN WAR: The Hidden History of the Spanish Flu and The First World War was published. In October 2020, STRONGMAN: The Rise of Five Dictators and the Fall of Democracy was released. In November 2022, Scribner published Great Short Books: A Year of Reading–Briefly. For more than 30 years, Kenneth C. Davis has proven that Americans don't hate history, just the dull version they slept through in class. But many of them want to know now because their kids are asking them questions they can't answer. Davis's approach is to refresh us on the subjects we should have learned in school. He does it by busting myths, setting the record straight, and always remembering that fun is not a four-letter word. Other points of note: •Davis has spoken about teaching history to teachers' groups, such as the National Council for the Social Studies, and state and regional Social Studies conferences in Florida, New York, Maine, Connecticut, Vermont, and Massachusetts. Davis uses technology to reach out to schools and teachers. He has visited hundreds of schools around the country and the world via Skype, Zoom and other online platforms Davis speaks to both adult and student audiences. He regularly visits schools, and has spoken at such venues as the American Museum of Natural History, the New-York Historical Society, the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia, James Madison's Montpelier, James Monroe's Ash-Lawn Highland, and the Smithsonian Institution. He is available for school visits and speaking engagements Contact Kenneth C. Davis is a frequent media guest who has appeared on many television and radio shows, including NPR, CBS This Morning, C-Span, and CNN. He has been a commentator for “All Things Considered” and has written for the New York Times, Washington Post, CNN.com, and Smithsonian Magazine. (See Articles) Davis has become an “Educator” with Ted-Ed, collaborating on the production of short animated videos for classroom use. Davis lives and works in New York City

Additional Reading:The 1918-1919 Influenza Pandemic in the Age of COVID-19: Supporting Materials for Teachers (Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era).Alfred Crosby, America's Forgotten Pandemic: The Influenza of 1918 (2nd ed., 2003).Christopher Capozzola, Uncle Sam Wants You: World War I and the Making of the Modern American Citizen (2010).Roundtable with Christopher McKnight Nichols, Nancy Bristow, E. Thomas Ewing, Joseph M. Gabriel, Benjamin C. Montoya and Elizabeth Outka “Reconsidering the 1918–19 Influenza Pandemic in the Age of COVID-19” Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 19, no. 4: 642-672.Elizabeth Outka, Viral Modernism: The Influenza Pandemic and Interwar Literature (2019).Kenneth Davis, More Deadly Than War: The Hidden History of the Spanish Flu and the First World War (2018).Host Suggestion:Sarah Churchwell, Behold America: The Entangled History of America First and the American Dream (2019). See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Kenneth C. Davis joins host T. J. O'Hara on Deconstructed to talk about his book, More Deadly Than War: The Hidden History of the Spanish Flu and the First World War. Mr. Davis is a renowned author and historian whose books are well-researched and extremely informative. His book does a deep dive into the 1918 influenza pandemic that killed more people than World War I, World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War combined at a time when the world was already in turmoil. Mr. Davis provides insights into how incredibly deadly the “Spanish Flu” was… and how it had nothing to do with Spain. He explains the limitations of science at the time and the global issues that exacerbated the spread of the virus. If you think COVID-19 is a challenge, consider trying to address it in the middle of a world war without even a basic understanding of what a virus actually is. T. J. and Mr. Davis talk about the remarkable parallels between the last pandemic to sweep through the United States and the current one. Many of the same preventive measures still apply. Mr. Davis discusses the advantages we have today with respect to the available science, the number of doctors, nurses, and hospitals we now enjoy, and the superior communication capabilities we have to enlighten the public. Correspondingly, he exposes the fact that we have also made many of the same mistakes. One of the more crippling similarities is the exposure of both viruses to political manipulation. Propaganda entered into the equation in 1918 to keep the money flowing to support the war effort. While we are thankfully not experiencing a global war at this time, we did experience the current pandemic during a presidential election cycle. Listen to the interview and form your own conclusions about how COVID-19 may have been exploited for political purposes.

A special treat as we close out this consequential year: a history and civics news quiz. Listen to our callers answer questions from the citizenship test, and see how well you'd do. On Today's Show:2020 was a year for the history books. For today's show, Kenneth C. Davis, author of the "Don't Know Much About History" series and most recently, "More Deadly Than War: The Hidden History of the Spanish Flu and the First World War," brings his best historical quiz questions for the listeners, from OTHER important eras of American history, including questions on civics, one-term presidents and more.

As 2020 draws to a close, enjoy this dive into history with some of our favorite guests: Kenneth C. Davis, author of the "Don't Know Much About" series and the young adult history, More Deadly Than War: The Hidden History of the Spanish Flu and the First World War (Henry Holt and Co., 2018), talks about one unintended consequence of the 1918 Spanish Flu epidemic; As part of the Books That Changed My Mind series, hear from two historians who wrote mind-changing books: Isabel Wilkerson (The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration) and Stephanie Coontz (The Way We Never Were: American Families And The Nostalgia Trap). From water tanks to public school door knobs, from the Anthora coffee cup to the black and white cookie, Sam Roberts, urban affairs correspondent for The New York Times, and now the author of A History of New York in 101 Objects (Simon & Schuster, 2014), presents a history of the five boroughs through intriguing artifacts.  Note: Follow along with the "slide show" at the link below. David Blight, professor of American history and director of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at Yale University, talks about his book Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom (Simon & Schuster, 2018). Stokely Carmichael was a controversial figure in black rights, straddling both the non-violent and Black Panther movements. In his biography of Carmichael, Stokely: A Life, Peniel Joseph, now professor of history and director of the Center for the Study of Race and Democracy at the University of Texas at Austin and the author of The Sword and the Shield: The Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. (Basic Books, 2020), traces Carmichael’s life and what it says about the struggles for black power. Ann Powers, NPR Music critic and correspondent, talks about the evolution of popular music in America and her book, Good Booty: Love and Sex, Black and White, Body and Soul in American Music (Dey Street Books, 2017). These interviews were edited slightly for time, the original versions are available here: What the Spanish Flu Had to do With Women's Suffrage (Mar. 9, 2018) Books That Changed My Mind: History (Nov. 13, 2014) New York in 101 Objects (Sept. 23, 2014) The Life of Frederick Douglass (Jan. 11, 2019) Stokely Carmichael's Life (Mar. 5, 2014) How Pop Music Influences Americans (Aug. 22, 2017)  

A special treat as we close out this consequential year: a history and civics news quiz. Listen to our callers answer questions from the citizenship test, and see how well you'd do. On Today's Show:2020 was a year for the history books. For today's show, Kenneth C. Davis, author of the "Don't Know Much About History" series and most recently, "More Deadly Than War: The Hidden History of the Spanish Flu and the First World War," brings his best historical quiz questions for the listeners, from OTHER important eras of American history, including questions on civics, one-term presidents and more.

2020 was a year for the history books. For today's show, Kenneth C. Davis, author of the "Don't Know Much About History" series and most recently, "More Deadly Than War: The Hidden History of the Spanish Flu and the First World War," brings his best historical quiz questions for the listeners, from OTHER important eras of American history, including questions on civics, one-term presidents and more.

Kenneth C. Davis, author of the "Don't Know Much About History" series and most recently, More Deadly Than War: The Hidden History of the Spanish Flu and the First World War, looks back at World War II, 75 years later. Today: VE Day.

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Our show’s resident Historian, Ken Davis. Author of the ”Don’t Know Much” series of books. His latest a book is; MORE DEADLY THAN WAR: The Hidden History of the Spanish Flu & the First World War. *Follow him on Twitter: @kennethcdavis or his website; DontKnowMuch.Com. Comparing 1918 to 2020 / Spanish Flu to Coronavirus.

Historian Kenneth C. Davis joins CBS News' Vladimir Duthiers to explain the lessons we can take away from the 1918 flu pandemic. His book, "More Deadly Than War: The Hidden History of the Spanish Flu and the First World War," delves into the spread and response to the flu pandemic and what we can can learn. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Historian Kenneth C. Davis joins CBS News' Vladimir Duthiers to explain the lessons we can take away from the 1918 flu pandemic. His book, "More Deadly Than War: The Hidden History of the Spanish Flu and the First World War," delves into the spread and response to the flu pandemic and what we can can learn.

Kenneth C. Davis is my favorite historian and I LOVE talking to him. I was hoping this conversation would give you calm and provide prospective on how much better we are in 2020 than 1918. Get all of Kens work at  https://dontknowmuch.com/ More Deadly Than War: The Hidden History of the Spanish Flu and the First World War  2018 marked the 100th anniversary of the worst disease outbreak in modern times: the Spanish flu, a story even more relevant today. This dramatic narrative, told through the stories and voices of the people caught in the deadly maelstrom, explores how this vast, global epidemic was intertwined with the horrors of World War I―and how it could happen again. Complete with photographs, period documents, modern research, and firsthand reports by medical professionals and survivors, More Deadly Than War provides captivating insight into a catastrophe that transformed America in the early twentieth century. Support me on patreon with a paid subscription at Patreon.com/petedominick  

In this episode Matt Crawford interviews Historian Kenneth C. Davis about his book More Deadly Than War: The Hidden History of the Spanish Flu and the First World War. This is the amazing story of a pandemic that killed more than two hundred million people and yet goes mostly unknown. Kenneth C. Davis introduces us to the Spanish Flu in a personal and riveting way. This book is a must read and an unbelievable true story.