My History Can Beat Up Your Politics
636 episodes - English - Latest episode: 11 days ago - ★★★★★ - 1.1K ratingsSince 2006, this podcast has been using history to elevate today's political debates. "The perfect antidote to bloviating talking heads, My History is thoughtful, nuanced, and highly engaging." -Columbia Journalism Review
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NOT RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT:: Part Three - Aaron Burr, Stephen Douglas, James Monroe and Others
April 08, 2024 04:00 - 59 minutesDid Aaron Burr try to run for President on the sly, while claiming he didn't? What about that dinner with Jefferson? Did Stephen Douglas stump when he said he was "just visiting his mom?" Did President Monroe actually have a campaign for President in 1820? More to the point did he actually get a vote cast against him? (This one is different from what you may have learned in history class). This, and other stories of that American tradition of not running for President. Learn more about your a...
NOT RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT: Part Two - The Case of Mario Cuomo
April 01, 2024 04:00 - 34 minutesThey called him the "Hamlet on the Hudson." What series on people not running for President in American history would be complete without the former governor of New York Mario Cuomo. He was famous for coming ever-so-close to running for President. And then, not running. In one case, he left a plane on a tarmac for reporters to watch for hours. Was it politics? Was it bad timing? Was it preference for state government? What about those mob ties [real or imagined] that were talked about? An...
NOT RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT: Part One - Horatio Seymour, Horace Greeley and Others
March 25, 2024 04:00 - 55 minutesOne thing Horatio Seymour made clear was that he was not running for President. He made it clear by saying not only he would not run but that he "must not be President." His party simply didn't care. And so, there he was on the ballot. In this three-part series we look at people not running for President, not knowing they were running, or in the case of Greeley unable to finish the run because, well, they were not alive. You'll find that not running for President (but announcing it) is almost...
Brown vs. The Board of Ed, Swain, PICS Decision, Busing and School Integration
March 18, 2024 04:00 - 54 minutesThe Supreme Court said in 1954 that segregated schools were inherently illegal. It took decades to fully address the problem. While events in the South are often discussed, events North also are important to focus on to understand the history. This cast blends modern events with a cast from 2007 talking about Brown, Brown III, Swain, PIC and the associated decisions. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Sputnik Lands in Wisconsin and Other Stories
March 07, 2024 05:00 - 23 minutesExtras from the Student Loans episode. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
A History of Student Loans and Higher Ed Financing in the U.S.
March 05, 2024 00:23 - 1 hourRe running this episode from 2022. There's been no letdown in the relevancy of this topic since then. College costs have been an issue since the founding of the Republic, as we discuss in this issue, And equally, the desire to provide education to young minds has been strong. What's different about the era we live in is that college is closely associated with debt. Debt that cannot be removed by bankruptcy, and debt that is now considered a national problem. We look at student loans, their hi...
The French Revolution and America with Will Clark of "Grey History: The French Revolution and Napoleon Podcast"
February 26, 2024 05:00 - 1 hourIn this episode, I talk to fellow Airwave Media podcaster Will Clark of Grey History about the French Revolution and how it shaped American history, how American politicians reacted to it at the time, 100 years ago, and today. We also get into 'grey areas' of the French Revolution: things that we think about it that may be wrong, exaggerated, or even right on target. ABOUT GREY HISTORY Grey History is a podcast dedicated to exploring the ambiguities of the past. Too often history is presente...
Disco Demolition and The First South Carolina Primary
February 22, 2024 15:17 - 44 minutesFrom 2020 - A look at 1980's first South Carolina primary and its intended role at the time as a firewall for conservative politics. We also look at how disco sucked, Dylan went Christian and some events that happened at the same time, all unrelated but in their own way meaningful. Lee Rosevere's excellent Music for Podcasts featured on the episode; We are part of Airwave Media Network Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Whistlestop Train Campaigns w/ Edward Segal
February 19, 2024 05:00 - 31 minutesWith Edward Segal, author of Whistle-Stop Politics, we talk about the unique method of campaigning for President - by train. And why it's not just a thing of the past. See more about Edward's book here: https://edwardsegal.com/whistle-stop-politics/ We are part of Airwave Media Network For more train politics stories, more 1988 election stories, and other things, join our Patreon - http://www.patreon.com/mhcbuyp Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
One More Story About The 1988 Presidential Election, and a Show Update
February 15, 2024 05:00 - 6 minutesDukakis gets a less than helpful piece of advice from a friend. A surprising VP choice. Plus, an update on the show. JOIN The Patreon for My History Can Beat Up Your Politics and Become one of the elite listeners who get extra tidbits, special episodes and sometimes previews. http:www.patreon.com/mhcbuyp It can be as little as $3 per month. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
You Break Everybody's Back: The 1988 Presidential Election - Part 6, Theoretical Dukakis
February 12, 2024 05:00 - 1 hourIn our final episode of our six-part series on the 1988 Presidential Election, Vice President Bush has a lead over Mike Dukakis. It's close enough for a comeback though, and more than a few have suggestions for a different Dukakis message. A series of mistakes will doom the campaign. And that is the traditional way the story is told. But we suggest there they may been an invisible election going on under the surface. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
You Break Everybody's Back: The 1988 Presidential Election - Part 5, Squishy Lead
February 05, 2024 05:00 - 1 hourMichael Dukakis secures the nomination, unifies his party and has a well-regarded convention. He's seventeen points ahead in the polls. Is it real? Even his own campaign staff thinks it may not be. A story in Reader's Digest is troubling. In New Orleans, Bush fires back, while dealing with questions about his choice for number two. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
You Break Everybody's Back: The 1988 Presidential Election, Part 4 - Showdown In New York
January 22, 2024 15:31 - 1 hourWith a split southern primary day, the Democrats have no clear leader. Team Dukakis would like to have been thought of as the leader, but Illinois and Michigan spoiled that. Only one state can settle things. And the Big Three Democratic campaigns settle on New York. Millions of dollars, frenetic debates, subways and hot dogs. It's all fun and games until New York City's mayor gets involved. Meanwhile, Bush is rapidly securing his nomination, but no one can tell Bob Dole that. He still has a f...
You Break Everybody's Back: The 1988 Presidential Election, Part 3 - Attack Videotape
January 15, 2024 05:00 - 1 hourIn the wake of a front-runner's withdrawal, the campaigns struggle to get traction and block rival campaigns. The best weapon. An attack videotape. A story of three attack videotapes. One sent to a reporter which took out a major player in the campaign. Another in the snows of New Hampshire that saved a candidate, and a third that kept a campaign alive. Also a video that was never sent that should have been sent. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
You Break Everybody's Back: The 1988 Presidential Election - Part 2 [You Slayed My Dragon]
January 08, 2024 05:00 - 1 hourGary Hart, the frontrunner in the Democratic side of the 1988 race, hits a major setback. Not only his he hurt, but so are all the people who wanted to have the chance to beat him. Now what? Jump Ball, says an aide of new candidate Joe Biden. Biden hopes to fill the gap, with his appeal to Baby Boomers will carry him forward. Al Gore enter the race, swinging at everyone. Dick Gephardt comes up with a zero-to-hero TV ad. Bush just can't get through to country people. Learn more about your a...
You Break Everybody's Back: The 1988 Presidential Election, Part 1 - Anybody's Race
January 02, 2024 05:00 - 55 minutesIn our first episode of our series on the 1988 Presidential Election: a cornfield prognosticator, men of the cloth, a young upstart, a senator with big glasses, a casino king, a prince of the polls and more than a few watching from the outside, thinking about maybe getting in. Who will succeed Reagan? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Update on UK Politics with Stephen Byrne
December 24, 2023 05:00 - 59 minutesWe talk to Stephen Byrne, host of Whats Am Politics about events in the United Kingdom with some contrasts to politics in the United States. In the UK currently, the government is very unpopular but there's nothing they or anyone else can do about it for at least six months, and probably a year. Meanwhile, a man labelled 'Mr. Boring' might become the country's leader. And a major third party in Parliament, the Scottish National Party, may be decimated in the next election due to intra party c...
1980 - A Hostage Mom Goes to Iran
December 21, 2023 05:00 - 23 minutesFed up with the US government's efforts to rescue her son being held hostage, Barbara Timm, mother of a Marine guard at the US Embassy at Iran, goes directly to Tehran. We tell her story. We are part of Airwave Media Network Advertise? [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The Jacksonians and Their Role in Today's Politics - John Ellis
December 18, 2023 05:00 - 57 minutesWe talk with John Ellis of News Corp, NBC, Boston Globe and currently at news-items.com, to discuss his theory on today's politics. Jacksonians, a group of people who behave in ways the media has misjudged are the force beyond today's polls numbers. We also took a bit about calling states for networks in elections, something Ellis had a role in in the 2000 election. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The Asterisk: Bush vs. Reagan in Iowa 1980
December 11, 2023 05:00 - 1 hourIn 1980, George Bush did the impossible. He went from three percent in the polls, an asterisk in the polls, as he called himself, to defeating front-runner Ronald Reagan in the Iowa caucuses. The issue: electability, moderation, and age. The event upset a rage and nearly changed history. Indeed, it put the Bush name into politics. We discuss what happened and how it might provide insight into today's races. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Secrecy and Democracy with Dr. Katlyn Carter of Notre Dame
December 04, 2023 05:00 - 50 minutesWe hear the phrase democracy dies in darkness and how important transparency is - but is it really? After all the Continental Congress and Constitutional Convention met in private. Bruce talks with Dr. Katlyn Carter of Notre Dame about the history of secrecy and democracy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Mississippi Bans Sesame Street (From the Useless Information Podcast)
November 27, 2023 05:00 - 32 minutesFrom the excellent Useless Information podcast, the story of the development of educational television in Mississippi, and the exclusion of one particular program. For more information on Useless Information podcast, please go to www.uselessinformation.org Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Best Rabbit: Dan Quayle
November 20, 2023 05:00 - 43 minutesDan Quayle's name conjures up images of late-night comedian jokes and verbal gaffes, but he may have offered a little-known service to the President he served. In this episode, we discuss George H.W. Bush's vice president, including his ups and downs, and even his recent role in advising Mike Pence during the Jan 6, 2021 events. Music by Lee Rosevere and Theme Song by Chris Novembrino We are part of Airwave Media Network - check out Ben Franklin's World, Tea Time History, Redacted History,...
Special Episode: Three Ways You Can Help My History Can Beat Up Your Politics (Hint: All of them are Free)
November 17, 2023 21:26 - 13 minutesWe've launched the Fall of USSR as its own podcast to attract new listeners, and I'd like some help. That and a show update of what I am working on. Thanks for listening. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Sell Your Horse - America in The 1890's: Part 5 [Imperialism Just Kind of Happens]
November 13, 2023 05:00 - 1 hourThe Spanish American War, from Spain's point of view. Journalism gets yellow. Roosevelt makes a charge. He gets help from a group that he doesn't acknowledge very well. A little bit about the deconstruction of Reconstruction. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Sell Your Horse - America in The 1890's: Part 4 [The Republic For Which It Stands]
November 09, 2023 05:00 - 49 minutesAmerica is growing, in unison. Time for a pledge. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Move My Bill! A History of Discharge Petitions
November 06, 2023 05:00 - 37 minutesIt is a rarely used tactic, but when it works, it can do big things, like moving a bill through Congress even if the Speaker doesn't support it. From civil rights to gun show loopholes, from budget balancing to debt ceilings, we look at the Discharge Petition. And why it's become important for GOP conservatives in the 90's and for Democrats today. We are part of Airwave Media Network (www.airwavemedia.com) Music by Lee Rosevere and his MUSIC FOR PODCASTS Learn more about your ad choices. Visi...
Sell Your Horse - America in The 1890's: Part 3 [A Voyage to Other Worlds]
November 02, 2023 04:00 - 27 minutesAttempts to fly, science fiction, and new economic theories. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Sell Your Horse - America in The 1890's Part 2 [Tin Man[
October 30, 2023 04:00 - 49 minutesPopulism rears its head. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Sell Your Horse - America in The 1890's: Part 1 [Mauve Decade]
October 25, 2023 04:00 - 1 hourA look back at the decade when America got modern. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Warm Bucket: Vice President John Nance Garner
October 22, 2023 04:00 - 43 minutesWe look at the Vice President who - maybe - described the office as a "bucket of warm spit." He also may have been its most powerful occupant up to his time, and he's responsible in a little way for making two President's careers. He's also the first Vice President to campaign against the President, though since the President wasn't officially campaigning at the time, perhaps it doesn't count. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Bunch of Topics: House Speakers, Kaiser Permanente, Post Office History, and Poets
October 17, 2023 04:00 - 54 minutesThe poet Joyce Kilmer and his story of romantic poetry and war. Removing speakers (while Kevin McCarthy is the first speaker vacated by motion, there have been others who have been pressured out) and with Kaiser Permanente in the news a bit about that unique organization, and a view from a visiting French philosopher in the 1940s. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Lebanon 1983 and Other Stories
October 16, 2023 04:00 - 47 minutesA look at Reagan's intervention in Lebanon in 1983, from a podcast back in 2009. We also look at Wilson' intervention in Mexico in 1913 We are part of airwave media newtork want to advertise? [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Chief Black Hawk and The "Black Hawk War" Part Two
October 12, 2023 04:00 - 52 minutesNOTE - if you haven't listened to Part I of our series on Black Hawk you'll want to listen. This is a two-parter. In the second episode. Chief Black Hawk has an improbable victory, and it sets the stage for all-out conflict. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Chief Black Hawk and The "Black Hawk War" Part I
October 09, 2023 04:00 - 40 minutesIn 1832, a renegade chief crossed the Mississippi river. In his view, it was simply to get back to his cornfields. But the United States considered it an invasion, and reacted accordingly, and at first, badly, leading to deaths on both sides. It was, according to the general that led troops in the war, a mistake. But it would make the careers of Abraham Lincoln, Jefferson Davis and Zachary Taylor and open up western settlement. Yet if Black Hawk was an enemy, why was he embraced by those that...
Carter 1981
October 02, 2023 04:00 - 1 hourA President becomes a former President. But not before one of the toughest final days of a Presidency. We are part of Airwave Media Network - www.airwavemedia.com Advertise? [email protected] We have a patreon if you'd like to support us - see www.myhistorycanbeatupyourpolitics.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
History Favors Running Incumbent Presidents, Whenever Possible
September 26, 2023 13:24 - 48 minutesThere is a lot of discussion about to run Biden or run someone else. I can't tell you who you should vote for President, or who you'd prefer to lead your country, but if you look at chances of a party winning or losing an election - History could not be clearer - parties should run an incumbent if they at all can run an incumbent. -Incumbents win 2/3rds of the time in American History -Incumbents can affect news and command news in a much greater way than party candidates -Passing off from a ...
Carter 1979
September 18, 2023 04:00 - 1 hourIn the third year of the Presidency, Jimmy Carter wrestles with combining the principles of his first term with realities of the American economy amid myriad domestic struggles, two hostage-taking incidents, and a intraparty political rival. He attempts to make a speech that will reconnect him with the American people. We are part of Airwave Media Network To advertise, email [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Carter 1977
September 11, 2023 04:00 - 1 hourCan the Presidency be done differently? Can a President be less Imperial, more of a citizen, turning the thermostat down in the White House and carrying his own bags? In many ways, Jimmy Carter approached 1977 seeing himself in this light. We look at the first year of Carter's Presidency. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
We Did It Because It Was Fun: The Surprising 1964 New Hampshire Primary
September 04, 2023 04:00 - 42 minutesFour volunteers decided to run their friend's dad for President. The reason: they liked hanging out together and working on something fun. The result may have changed history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Washington and The Bill of Rights: A Mystery
August 31, 2023 13:41 - 31 minutesGeorge Washington was highly influential in constructing a Constitution, but less so when it comes to the Bill of Rights. A few of them he said in one letter, he even found unnecessary. We just don't know which ones. We talk about Washington's role in the convention, his influence on government and what clues he gave in his politics of silence. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
John Quincy Adams w/ Bob Crawford of The Road to Now Podcast
August 28, 2023 04:00 - 1 hourWith Bob Crawford, co-host of Road to Now Podcast and bassist for The Avett Brothers, we talk about the sixth President, John Quincy Adams. Bob's knowledge of this not well-known President shines through in the interview. He's recently completed a series FORTUNATE SON on JQA. We discuss not only his Presidency, but his post-Presidency. We also discuss Bob and Bruce's college experiences and New Jersey and national politics. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Running For President From Prison
August 21, 2023 04:00 - 41 minutesThe story of Eugene Debs and another case where a Presidential candidate ran from prison and compare - as well as contrast - with the current politics. Also a bit about experimental TV. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Eyewitness Accounts of Columbine, Jonestown, Lake Placid Olympics, Pablo Escobar and Other Events with Josh Cohen of "Eyewitness History Podcast"
August 14, 2023 04:00 - 1 hourLearn something new about major news events from the people there. We talk to Josh Cohen of Eyewitness History Podcast (https://www.parthenonpodcast.com/eyewitness-history/). The excerpts from his interviews manage to knock down some of the myths about major historical events and news stories. We start with the principal of Columbine High School, there on that terrible day, and we go to the newsman covering The Lake Placid Olympics in 1980. We also talk to a Jonestown Massacre survivor, a mem...
The Cute Little Third Amendment
August 07, 2023 04:00 - 38 minutesIt's not every day people sit around and talk about the 3rd amendment. And yet, it was important in its time. And is used sometimes to refer to an array of rights. What is quarter? What are soldiers? What does this little amendment mean today, if anything? A re-broadcast of our episode on the Third Amendment about quartering soldiers, starting with. And a look at legal battles in fairly recent history and then one that occurred right after I recorded the episode. (which was resolved in the wa...
17 Years of My History Can Beat Up Your Politics, Show Update, Reagan and the 1960 Actors Strike, the 28 Amendments? And more..
August 02, 2023 01:09 - 41 minutesIt's been 17 years since we first hooked up that Radio Shack mic to a giant Dell desktop tower and made a show about politics and the history of today. Thanks for the listens. I talk about a change in my life related to the show and about the last actor's strike, and the ERA and the primaries. Update - no indictment talk on this one, episode already recorded. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Stop Talking About Momentum: The Race for President 1984
July 24, 2023 16:00 - 1 hourIt wasn't supposed to be a race. Gary Hart, Walter Mondale, Jesse Jackson, John Glenn battle to take on Ronald Reagan in 1984. As do some other candidates. We look at the race that year and mine it for any insights into 2020 and American politics in general. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Three Point Two: The Story of New Deal Beer, Science, Government and Common Sense
July 17, 2023 04:00 - 53 minutesBefore Prohibition could be repealed but after many Americans had grown tired of it, a novel political trick was tried - declaring beer was OK. Well a certain kind of beer, called 3.2. It only lasted eight months, though in many states it lasted longer and in one American state, is still law. We look at this forgotten part of the New Deal and how it provides an example of the role of science in American politics. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
JFK at 106 – Searching for The True Kennedy (Interview with Thomas Oliphant)
July 10, 2023 11:15 - 58 minutesA replay of our interview with Thomas Oliphant: Will the real JFK please stand up. What image should we have today of the 35th President. Our interview with author and Boston Globe reporter Thomas Oliphant, about his book Road to Camelot Inside JFKs Five Year Campaign. We talk about how we should view the President who will turn 100 this month. Music by Lee Rosevere and Theme Song by Chris Novembrino We are part of Airwave Media Network - check out Ben Franklin's World, Tea Time History, Red...
The Man in the Cave and Other Stories of The Signers of the Declaration of Independence
July 04, 2023 13:00 - 5 hoursYou only think you know them. Ironworkers, militia captains, lawyers, preachers, tinsmiths and. Names still unknown mixed with Mayflower descendants. Powerful and unknown men. Rich and poor men. In the longest MHCBUYP episode, of course based largely on our They Signed Podcast of years ago, this is the story of the declaration's signers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices