Understanding Warren G. Harding
Crikey. Most people don’t know much about President Warren G. Harding and his corrupt administration, but they should! A fascinating life and, um, a fascinating look at how corruption and …
Myths
Thanksgiving: History and Myth
By 1849, Sarah Josepha Buell Hale was an enormously successful teacher, writer, and editor in Boston. She wrote dramatic novels and magazine articles, and edited various important journals, especially The …
Lydia Maria Child: Woman Crush Wednesday
Join us on this Woman Crush Wednesday discussion of Lydia Maria Child, one of nineteenth-century America’s most courageous abolitionists. She started her career as a beloved and self-sufficient female author …
“Wayward Sisters, Depart in Peace” – Winfield Scott: Quote or No Quote?
Politics in the United States is often divisive. Just in the few short years that this show has graced the podcast world, we have seen a drastic increase in violent …
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Vernon Burton: Historians as Legal Expert Witnesses
Dr. Vernon Burton tells us about his experiences as an expert witness in civil rights and voting legal cases. It’s a fascinating look into how the work of historians can …
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Roland Freisler – Piece of Sh*t Saturday
Hitler’s Hanging Judge, Roland Freisler, was truly one of the worst pieces of sh*t in a regime that wasn’t lacking in those. Professor Philip Nash enlightens us about one of …
The 1914 Sarajevo Assassination and the Road to World War I
Dr. Paul Miller-Melamed tells us the story of the assassination of Archduke Franz in 1914. And he enlightens us on the crucial context of the events that led to World …
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US Nuclear Testing in the Marshall Islands
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Walter Pincus exposes the darkest secret in American nuclear history―sixty-seven nuclear tests in the Marshall Islands that wiped out a people and their land. This is an …
Obama: the Black President
Professor Claude Clegg’s new book, The Black President, is the first interpretative, comprehensive history of Barack Obama’s presidency in its entirety. He explains some of the major themes in the …
Understanding the Cuban Missile Crisis
Buzzkill Genius Dr. Philip Nash brings us a fabulous (and very relevant) show on the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962. There’s so much more to those events than the standard …