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Trumped Up Trial. Australia's Knife Problem
Annette on America - April 19, 2024 15:29 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsAmericans are stressed out. Surprise, surprise! Trump's trumped-up trial. Australia's knife problem. (Hint: Take away guns, and people STILL find a way to kill each other.)
Eugene Debs - Part 6
Gadfly - April 19, 2024 10:00 - 1 hourHey, y'all! We are finally at the end of our Debs-a-thon and oooh lordy does it kind of sad. Join us as Eugene makes one last valiant attempt to bring Socialism to America only to be met with the most insurmountable odds possible.
A Conversation with U.S. Archivist Colleen Shogan
JFK35 - A podcast by the JFK Library Foundation - April 18, 2024 12:21 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 45 ratingsIn 1934, the National Archives and Records Administration was created to oversee the protection and dissemination of governmental and historic records of the United States. In this episode, we speak with the Dr. Colleen Shogan, the 11th Archivist of the United States.
Why History Matters: Gun Violence
Then & Now - April 17, 2024 16:00 - 1 hourGun violence has become deeply ingrained in the historical fabric of the United States, intertwined with the principles outlined in the Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, which grants individuals the right to keep and bear arms. This amendment is frequently invoked in debates surrounding...
D. J. Taylor, "Who Is Big Brother?: A Reader's Guide to George Orwell" (Yale UP, 2024)
New Books in History - April 17, 2024 08:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★ - 187 ratingsAn intellectual who hated intellectuals, a socialist who didn't trust the state--our foremost political essayist and author of Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four was a man of stark, puzzling contradictions. Knowing Orwell's life and reading Orwell's works produces just as many questions as it a...
Thor Rydin, "The Works and Times of Johan Huizinga (1872-1945): Writing History in the Age of Collapse" (Amsterdam UP, 2023)
New Books in History - April 17, 2024 08:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★ - 187 ratingsThor Rydin joins to talk about his new book, The Works and Times of Johan Huizinga (1872- 1945): Writing History in the Age of Collapse (Amsterdam UP, 2023). This book offers a new perspective on the Dutch cultural historian Johan Huizinga (1872-1945), who remains one of the most famous European ...
Eve Golden, "Strictly Dynamite: The Sensational Life of Lupe Velez" (UP of Kentucky, 2023)
New Books in History - April 17, 2024 08:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★ - 187 ratingsBefore Salma Hayek, Eva Longoria, and Penelope Cruz, there was Lupe Velez―one of the first Latin-American stars to sweep past the xenophobia of old Hollywood and pave the way for future icons from around the world. Her career began in the silent era, when her beauty was enough to make it onto the...
Liz Tregenza, "Wholesale Couture: London and Beyond, 1930-70" (Bloombury, 2023)
New Books in History - April 17, 2024 08:00 - 52 minutes ★★★★ - 187 ratingsWholesale Couture: London and Beyond, 1930-70 (Bloomsbury, 2023) by Dr. Liz Tregenza seeks to revise the notion that wholesale couturiers were simply copyists and demonstrate the complexities of their design processes and business strategies. This term has fallen out of usage; however, it was use...
Philip Freeman, "Two Lives of Saint Brigid" (Four Courts Press, 2024)
New Books in History - April 17, 2024 08:00 - 24 minutes ★★★★ - 187 ratingsSt. Brigid is the earliest and best-known of the female saints of Ireland. In the generation after St. Patrick, she established a monastery for men and women at Kildare which became one of the most powerful and influential centres of the Church in early Ireland. The stories of Brigid's life and ...
Jerry Grillo, "Big Cat: The Life of Baseball Hall of Famer Johnny Mize" (U Nebraska Press, 2024)
New Books in History - April 17, 2024 08:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 187 ratingsJohnny Mize was one of the greatest hitters in baseball’s golden age of great hitters. Born and raised in tiny Demorest, Georgia, in the northeast Georgia mountains, Mize emerged from the heart of Dixie as a Bunyonesque slugger, a quiet but sharp-witted man from a broken home who became a profess...
All World Leaders MUST be clinically EVIL!! Why?
Alternative History - April 16, 2024 08:59 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsI ask the all important questions.... must world leaders be clinically evil and brutal? Even western liberal democratic world leaders must be EVIL. Listen on. thx for listening Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Felipe Fernández-Armesto and Manuel Lucena Giraldo, "How the Spanish Empire Was Built: A 400 Year History" (Reaktion, 2024)
New Books in History - April 16, 2024 08:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 187 ratingsSixteenth-century Spain was small, poor, disunited and sparsely populated. Yet the Spaniards and their allies built the largest empire the world had ever seen. How did they achieve this? In How the Spanish Empire Was Built: a 400-year History (Reaktion, 2024) Dr. Felipe Fernández-Armesto and Dr. ...
Kerry Wallach, "Traces of a Jewish Artist: The Lost Life and Work of Rahel Szalit" (Penn State UP, 2024)
New Books in History - April 16, 2024 08:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 187 ratingsGraphic artist, illustrator, painter, and cartoonist Rahel Szalit (1888-1942) was among the best-known Jewish women artists in Weimar Berlin. But after she was arrested by the French police and then murdered by the Nazis at Auschwitz, she was all but lost to history, and most of her paintings hav...
Jorell Meléndez-Badillo, "Puerto Rico: A National History" (Princeton UP, 2024)
New Books in History - April 16, 2024 08:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★ - 187 ratingsPuerto Rico is a Spanish-speaking territory of the United States with a history shaped by conquest and resistance. For centuries, Puerto Ricans have crafted and negotiated complex ideas about nationhood. Jorell Meléndez-Badillo provides a new history of Puerto Rico that gives voice to the archipe...
Victoria Flexner and Jay Reifel, "A History of the World in 10 Dinners: 2,000 Years, 100 Recipes" (Rizoli, 2023)
New Books in History - April 16, 2024 08:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★ - 187 ratingsFor every lover of food culture, A History of the World in 10 Dinners: 2,000 Years, 100 Recipes (Rizzoli, 2023) by Victoria Flexner and Jay Reifel presents scrupulously researched and accessible cookbook presents one-of-a-kind dinner parties inspired by seminal moments in culinary history. In ten...
S8 E2: The Mind and Politics
Unlimited Opinions - Philosophy, Theology, Linguistics, & More - April 16, 2024 02:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsIn this episode, we discuss George Lakoff's completely analytical, opinion-free, 100% objective explanation of what he views as the role of cognitive linguists in examining liberal and conservative worldviews. We discuss whether or not unconscious thoughts truly exist, the importance of categori...
S8 E2: The Mind and Politics
Unlimited Opinions - Philosophy, Theology, Linguistics, & More - April 16, 2024 02:00 - 1 hourIn this episode, we discuss George Lakoff's completely analytical, opinion-free, 100% objective explanation of what he views as the role of cognitive linguists in examining liberal and conservative worldviews. We discuss whether or not unconscious thoughts truly exist, the importance of categori...
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38.) Gerald Ford 1974-1977
[Abridged] Presidential Histories - April 15, 2024 20:00 - 48 minutes"Our long national nightmare is over." - Gerald Ford, August 9, 1974 ~~~ Gerald Ford is the only person in American history to reach the vice presidency and the presidency without being elected to either. Despite this, he was a popular president - for 1 month. But then he pardoned Nixon, and i...
Poetry in Oklahoma City (featuring Red Dirt Poetry)
Metropolitan Library System Podcast - April 15, 2024 11:00 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsApril is poetry month, so on this month's podcast we're joined by poets Durell Carter and Yoko Hill to talk about their organization, Red Dirt Poetry, and the wealth of talented poets currently writing in Oklahoma.
Miriam Piilonen, "Theorizing Music Evolution: Darwin, Spencer, and the Limits of the Human" (Oxford UP, 2024)
New Books in History - April 15, 2024 08:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 187 ratingsWhat did historical evolutionists such as Charles Darwin and Herbert Spencer have to say about music? What role did music play in their evolutionary theories? What were the values and limits of these evolutionist turns of thought, and in what ways have they endured in present-day music research? ...
Kevin Lambert, "Symbols and Things: Material Mathematics in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2021)
New Books in History - April 15, 2024 08:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 187 ratingsThe stereotype of the solitary mathematician is widespread, but practicing users and producers of mathematics know well that our work depends heavily on our historical and contemporary fellow travelers. Yet we may not appreciate how our work also extends beyond us into our physical and societal e...
Steven Ujifusa, "The Last Ships from Hamburg: Business, Rivalry, and the Race to Save Russia's Jews on the Eve of World War I" (HarperCollins, 2023)
New Books in History - April 15, 2024 08:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 187 ratingsOver thirty years, from 1890 to 1921, 2.5 million Jews, fleeing discrimination and violence in their homelands of Eastern Europe, arrived in the United States. Many sailed on steamships from Hamburg. This mass exodus was facilitated by three businessmen whose involvement in the Jewish-American na...
Melvin L. Rogers, "The Darkened Light of Faith: Race, Democracy, and Freedom in African American Political Thought" (Princeton UP, 2023)
New Books in History - April 15, 2024 08:00 - 54 minutes ★★★★ - 187 ratingsPolitical Theorist Melvin L. Rogers has a deep and rich new book delving into the work of a host of different African American political thinkers. But this work is much more than an exploration of some of the writings by African American thinkers, it importantly tells the story of America. The Da...
Annaliese Jacobs Claydon, "Arctic Circles and Imperial Knowledge: The Franklin Family, Indigenous Intermediaries, and the Politics of Truth" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
New Books in History - April 15, 2024 08:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 187 ratingsIn 1845 an expedition led by Sir John Franklin vanished in the Canadian Arctic. The enduring obsession with the Franklin mystery, and in particular Inuit information about its fate, is partly due to the ways in which information was circulated in these imperial spaces. Arctic Circles and Imperial...
Festival Round Up Gloucester History Festival Special Series
History with Jackson - April 14, 2024 18:07 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 49 ratingsThis weekend we have been at Gloucester History Festival and in this episode of our Festival Special Series Jackson and Abbey round up the Gloucester History Festival on the podcast! To find out more about Gloucester History Festival head to: https://www.gloucesterhistoryfestival.co.uk/ Or he...
Sarah Smyth Gloucester History Festival
History with Jackson - April 14, 2024 14:00 - 7 minutes ★★★★★ - 49 ratingsToday we are at Gloucester History Festival and in this episode of our Festival Special Series Jackson talks to Festival Curator Sarah Smyth about Gloucester History Festival and the Festival's approach to history! To find out more about Gloucester History Festival head to: https://www.gloucest...
Dom Joly Gloucester History Festival Special Series
History with Jackson - April 14, 2024 13:00 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 49 ratingsToday we are at Gloucester History Festival and in this episode of our Festival Special Series Jackson talks to Dom Joly about Conspiracy Theories from his book 'The Conspiracy Tourist' that you can find here https://www.amazon.co.uk/Conspiracy-Tourist-Alternative-Fact-finding-Trip/dp/1472146689...
Estelle Paranque Gloucester History Festival Special Series
History with Jackson - April 14, 2024 12:00 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 49 ratingsToday we are at Gloucester History Festival and in this episode of our Festival Special Series Jackson talks to Estelle Paranque about Anne Boleyn, and her upcoming book 'Thorns, Lust and Glory: The betrayal of Anne Boleyn'! To find out more about Gloucester History Festival head to: https://ww...
Round Up Day Two with History Rage's Paul Bavill Gloucester History Festival Special Series
History with Jackson - April 14, 2024 10:29 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 49 ratingsToday we are Gloucester History Festival and in this episode of our Festival Special Series Jackson, Abbey and Paul Bavill from History Rage round up Day Two of the Gloucester History Festival! To find out more about Gloucester History Festival head to: https://www.gloucesterhistoryfestival.co....
Joseph H. Holland, "Make Your Own History: Timeless Truths from Black American Trailblazers" (Dafina, 2023)
New Books in History - April 14, 2024 08:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 187 ratingsOne hundred and twenty Black leaders, innovators, and entrepreneurs share their wisdom and experience across the centuries in Make Your Own History: Timeless Truths from Black American Trailblazers (Dafina, 2023), an inspiring collection of exemplary Black voices--past and present, familiar and u...
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