"the lesson i would want everyone to take from the story of the first world war uh is that human life is not cheap um that all of the warring powers thought that just by throwing more men and more mate..."

"let's start with a big and difficult question how did world war one start on the one hand world war one started uh because of a series of events in the summer of 1914 that brought sort of the major po..."

"so how did us enter the war who was the president what was the dynamics involved and um could it have stayed out to answer your last question first yes right um that the united states could have uh co..."

"did world war one give birth to the military industrial complex in the united states so war profiteering expanding of the war machine in order to financially benefit a lot of parties involved so i gue..."

"parallels between world war one and the war in ukraine the reason i bring it up is because you mentioned sort of there was a hunger for war a capacity for war that was already established and the diff..."

"what's the difference between world war one and the civil war in terms of how they defined what it means to be an american but also uh the american citizens relationship with the war um what what the ..."

"so world war one was supposed to be the war to end all wars and it didn't how did how did world war one pave the way to world war ii every nation probably has their own story in this trajectory toward..."

"let me ask about nationalism which i think is at the core of i want you poster is nationalism destructive or empowering to a nation and we can use different words like patriotism which is in many ways..."

"about our presidents you are taking on the uh impossibly difficult task of teaching a course in uh in a couple of years here or in one year called the history of american presidential elections so if ..."

"destroy our nation that seems to be like the message of every single election um as i'm doing trump hands um do you think donald trump what do you think about the 2024 election do you think donald tru..."

"the book bound by war that describes a century of war in the pacific so looking at this slice of geography and power so most crucially through the partnership between the united states and the philipp..."

"ask a big ridiculous question because we talked about uh sort of presidential elections um now this is objectively definitively you have to answer one person who's the greatest president in american h..."

"uh let me ask for advice do you have um advice for for young folks as they uh uh because you mentioned the the folks you're teaching they don't even they don't know what it's like to have waited on th..."

"uh what's the meaning of life why are we here this whole project that history studies and analyzes as if as if there's a point of the whole thing what is the point all the wars all the presidents all ..."