Posts Tagged ‘History’
Churchill: a Life in the News
Professor Richard Toye tells us how Churchill’s long life and career developed in parallel with the changes in the development of modern media and news. Churchill’s first career was as a journalist and author, and it stayed with him as a second vocation as he moved through his life in the military, in politics, and…
Read MoreJ. Marion Sims and Medical Experimentation on Enslaved Women
Advanced Placement student researchers from Caddo Parish Magnet High School in Shreveport, Louisiana explain their research into the career of J. Marion Sims. His medical experiments on enslaved women during the 19th century are still controversial. In addition, they discuss Sims’s legacy in the 20th and 21st centuries. Important listening! Episode #372. —Buzzkill Bookshelf Harriet…
Read MoreAlbert Battel: From Nazi Officer to Righteous Among Nations
Your favorite Professor, Philip Nash, tells about Albert Battel, a German Army lieutenant and lawyer recognized for his resistance during World War II to the Nazi plans for the 1942 liquidation of a Jewish ghetto in Poland. Battel was posthumously recognized by the State of Israel as “Righteous Among the Nations” in 1981. Listen to…
Read MoreLeague of Wives: the Women Who Took on the US Government to Bring Their Husbands Home
Historian Heath Hardage Lee tells us the remarkable story of Sybil Stockdale, Jane Denton, Louise Mulligan, and other wives of American Navy and Air Force pilots who pressured the LBJ and Nixon administrations to get their POW husbands freed during the Vietnam War. Listen to this story of highly sophisticated, persistent, and dedicated political activism!…
Read MoreArleen Lorrance “Be the Change…” Special Episode!
Our Quote or No Quote episodes come roaring back with the most important person we’ve ever interviewed — Arleen Lorrance, the teacher and social innovator who created the “be the change you want to see happen” idea. As “be the change you want to see in the world,” this idea is usually attributed to Gandhi,…
Read MoreThe Fuse that Helped Win World War II
The “proximity fuse” was a technological marvel of its time. Produced under enormous time pressure and urgency to save lives, it is often called one of the three most important technological advances that helped win World War II. Award-winning author Jamie Holmes talks to us about it and his new book, 12 Seconds of Silence:…
Read MoreHitler and Gun Control
Did Hitler disarm the German citizenry as a way to make it easy to control them? Were Jews and other minorities targeted for gun confiscation so that they could be exterminated? Professor Philip Nash explains this _very_ complicated issue, and busts many myths about Hitler and “gun control.”—Buzzkill Bookshelf Robert Gellately, Backing Hitler: Consent and…
Read MoreAnte Pavelic – Piece of Sh*t Saturday
It’s hard to be a bigger POS than Ante Pavelic, the fascist ultranationalist and dictator who was one of the worst war criminals in Europe during the 1930s and 1940. The Nazi SS even tried to rein in his excesses! Professor Nash explains all! BTW, it’s a brutal episode, so don’t let the Buzzlings listen.…
Read MoreIdeological Exclusion and Deportation in US History
Dr. Julia Rose Kraut explains the history of American laws used to bar or expel foreigners based on their beliefs and associations. Immigration history is more complicated than most of us think. Listen and learn! —Buzzkill Bookshelf Julia Rose Kraut, Threat of Dissent: A History of Ideological Exclusion and Deportation in the United States In…
Read MoreEuropean Nationalists and the Confederacy
Professor Ann Tucker explains that white American southerners closely analyzed European nationalist movements 1830-1860. This led them to conceive of a separate southern nation, and helped them try to defend and legitimize the Confederacy. This great episode presents a new angle on Confederate nationalism, and refutes the myth that southern enslavers were intellectually isolated and…
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