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Things Done Changed

6 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 5 years ago - ★★★★★ - 9 ratings

Things Done Changed is a political and cultural history of America in the 1990s.

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Episodes

5| Thirty Years' War

November 09, 2018 01:40 - 47 minutes - 54.8 MB

The long American war in the Middle East begins. 

4| Culture War

October 26, 2018 12:00 - 47 minutes - 56.7 MB

The culture war begins. 

3| The End of of HIS Story

October 12, 2018 12:00 - 25 minutes - 30.9 MB

Rap music, still a young genre, finally sees chart-topping success in 1990, beginning to reach its way now into the suburbs and onto mainstream airwaves. But it's also in 1990 that hip hop solidifies itself as what Public Enemy rapper Chuck D called "black people's CNN," giving voice to black frustration and anger. That mounting black anger in 1990 finds expression in a new marriage of hip hop and American Islam. 

2| The End of History, pt. 2

September 28, 2018 00:37 - 36 minutes - 44.6 MB

President Bush searches for ways to describe this new American power after the Cold War. He joins Fukuyama, Governor Bill Clinton and even Janet Jackson in imagining a world in which borders matter less and less.  The American television landscape will also begin to see dramatic changes at the beginning of the decade.  Please support Things Done Changed on Patreon! https://www.pateon.com/thingsdonechanged       

1| The End of History, pt. 1

September 14, 2018 01:06 - 32 minutes - 37.5 MB

The end of the Cold War inaugurates a new epoch: With the collapse of the Soviet Union, the United States is poised to become the first uncontested global imperial power in the history of humankind. The American victory over the Soviets also establishes capitalism as a global system, arguably a more important development than the emergence of the US as the world’s only global superpower. With the sudden, if unsurprising, collapse of the Soviet Union underway, America finds itself searching...

Introduction

September 02, 2018 16:51 - 2 minutes - 4.63 MB

Welcome to Things Done Changed: America in the '90s, beginning September 14!  Follow the podcast on Facebook here. Follow on Twitter: @ninetiespod And please consider supporting the podcast on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thingsdonechanged