Best American Indian Movement Podcasts (2024)

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The American Indian Movement Part 3 57:37

6d ago57:37

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In our final episode of our AIM series, we go into one of the most pivotal moments in Native history – the Wounded Knee Occupation of 1973. In this show we will take you, the listener on a journey through the origins, motivations, and lasting impact of this landmark event. The American Indian Movement (AIM), founded in 1968, emerges as a powerful f…

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Which Statues Should We Take Down? How To Fairly Judge Historical Figures by Today’s Standards 39:03

3m ago39:03

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In the United States, questions of how we celebrate – or condemn – leaders in the past have never been more contentious. In 2017, a statue of Robert E. Lee was removed – leading to a race riot and terrorist attack. But in 2020, statues of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Christopher Columbus, and even Ulysses S. Grant were defaced or toppled. A…

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The 160-Minute Race to Save the Titanic 49:04

8m ago49:04

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One hundred and sixty minutes. That is all the time rescuers would have before the largest ship in the world slipped beneath the icy Atlantic. There was amazing heroism and astounding incompetence against the backdrop of the most advanced ship in history sinking by inches with luminaries from all over the world. It is a story of a network of wirele…

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Vikings Went Everywhere in the Middle Ages, From Baghdad to Constantinople to….. Oklahoma? 42:48

4d ago42:48

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Scandinavia has always been a world apart. For millennia Norwegians, Danes, Finns, and Swedes lived a remote and rugged existence among the fjords and peaks of the land of the midnight sun. But when they finally left their homeland in search of opportunity, these wanderers—including the most famous, the Vikings—would reshape Europe and beyond. Thei…

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The 15-Hour Work Week Was Standard For Nearly All of History. What Happened? 34:54

10d ago34:54

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There’s nothing in human DNA that makes the 40-hour workweek a biological necessity. In fact, for much of human history, 15 hours of work a week was the standard, followed by leisure time with family and fellow tribe members, telling stories, painting, dancing, and everything else. Work was a means to an end, and nothing else. So what happened? Why…

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Pancho Villa’s 1916 Raid on New Mexico: The Pearl Harbor Bombing of Its Time 51:04

11d ago51:04

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Before 9/11, before Pearl Harbor, another unsuspected foreign attack on the United States shocked the nation and forever altered the course of history. In 1916, Pancho Villa, a guerrilla fighter who commanded an ever-changing force of conscripts in northern Mexico, attached a border town in New Mexico. It was a raid that angered Americans, and Pres…

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A Radical Abolitionist Youth Movement Consumed America in 1860, Elected Lincoln, Then Disappeared Completely 43:49

17d ago43:49

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At the start of the 1860 presidential campaign, a handful of fired-up young Northerners appeared as bodyguards to defend anti-slavery stump speakers from frequent attacks. The group called themselves the Wide Awakes. Soon, hundreds of thousands of young white and black men, and a number of women, were organizing boisterous, uniformed, torch-bearing…

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The American Indian Movement Part 2 1:06:13

13d ago1:06:13

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AIM sought to address issues such as treaty rights, land rights, tribal sovereignty, and the broader social, economic, and political injustices faced by Indigenous communities. Raymond Yellow Thunder and Wesley Bulltail were both victims of racial violence, and their cases highlight some of the challenges faced by Natives and the response from AIM.…

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Socrates May Have Been Executed For Revealing Secrets of Athens’ Religious Rituals 43:13

18d ago43:13

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The influence of the ancient Greek philosopher Socrates has been profound. Even today, over two thousand years after his death, he remains one of the most renowned humans to have ever lived—and his death remains one of the greatest unsolved mysteries. There is another side to this story: impiety, lack of reverence for the gods, was a religious crim…

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The Age of Discovery Through American-Indian Eyes 44:17

20d ago44:17

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A millennium ago, North American cities rivaled urban centers around the world in size. So, when Europeans arrived in the sixteenth century, they encountered societies they did not understand, having developed differently from their own, and whose power they often underestimated. And no civilization came to a halt when a few wandering explorers arr…

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"AIM" The American Indian Movement Part 1 1:04:15

21d ago1:04:15

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In this episode we go over the greatest movement in American History... The American Indian Movement! They became the number 1 Native American advocacy group. Founded in 1968 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, AIM emerged in response to the widespread injustices and discrimination faced by Native Americans, including issues such as police brutality, high u…

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A Short History of the Sioux Wars (1862-1890) 25:22

26d ago25:22

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War, Conflict, Victory & Defeat. These are all aspects of life that some may have to face. This was true for the various groups of the Sioux Tribes. On today's bonus episode from "Key Battles of American History" join host James Early as he discusses the multiple wars that took place between 1862-1890, collectively known as "The Sioux Wars"…

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The Deerfield Massacre: The Infamous 1704 Indian Raid That Left Hundreds Dead and More Captured 38:44

29d ago38:44

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In an obscure village in western Massachusetts, there lies what once was the most revered but now totally forgotten relic from the history of early New England—the massive, tomahawk-scarred door that came to symbolize the notorious Deerfield Massacre. This impregnable barricade—known to early Americans as “The Old Indian Door”—constructed from doub…

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The Dangerous and Thrilling Life of a 19th-Century Whaler 46:49

27d ago46:49

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In mid-nineteenth century New England, Robert Armstrong was a young man with the world at his feet. His family was wealthy and gave him the opportunity to attend the nation’s first dental school. But Armstrong threw his future away, drinking himself into oblivion. Devoured by guilt and shame, in December 1849 he sold his dental instruments, his wat…

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Turtle Island Talk 2 1:01:03

28d ago1:01:03

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Welcome to the new Turtle island talk, our once a month episode about indigenous news. This week we go over the heartbreaking case of a nonbinary teen named Nex Benedict. They were a 16-year-old nonbinary student that died a day after an altercation in a high school girls' bathroom in Oklahoma. An autopsy report later said that Nex had died as a re…

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Fiorello LaGuardia: Immigrant Son and Ellis Island Interpreter Who Became America’s Mayor 41:02

1M ago41:02

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Fiorello LaGuardia was one of the twentieth century’s most colorful politicians―a 5’2’’ ball of energy who led New York as major during the Depression and World War Two, charming the media during press conference and fighting the dirty machine politics of the city. He was also quintessentially American: the son of Italian immigrants, who rose in so…

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How the West Tried and Failed to Stop the Russian Revolution 41:33

1M ago41:33

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The Allied Intervention into the Russian Civil War remains one of the most ambitious yet least talked about military ventures of the 20th century. Coinciding with the end of the first World War, some 180,000 troops from several countries including the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Japan, Italy, Greece, Poland, and Romania, among others…

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Jimmy Gomez, AKA Taboo from the Black Eyed Peas 1:25:57

1M ago1:25:57

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Today we have the honor to converse with Jimmy Gomez! Some of you might know him as Taboo; a member from the Multi platinum American hip hop group the Black Eyed Peas. However, he is so much more than that, he’s a Singer, Rapper, Dancer, Actor, DJ, Author, Designer, activist as well as a devoted husband & loving father. In todays conversation we ta…

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Kings Were Inevitable and Untouchable Until They Suddenly Weren’t After a Few 1700s Revolutions 42:51

1M ago42:51

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At the turn of the nineteenth century, two waves of revolutions swept the Atlantic world, disrupting the social order and ushering in a new democratic-republican experiment whose effects rippled across continents and centuries. The first wave of revolutions in the late 1700s (which included the much-celebrated American and French Revolutions and th…

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The Fall Of Japanese-held Hong Kong in January 1945 38:56

1M ago38:56

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Commander John Lamade started the war in 1941 a nervous pilot of an antiquated biplane. Just over three years later he was in the cockpit of a cutting-edge Hellcat about to lead a strike force of 80 aircraft through the turbulent skies above the South China Sea. His target: Hong Kong. As a storm of antiaircraft fire darkened the sky, watching from …

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Kaysera Stops Pretty Places Part 2 1:07:15

1M ago1:07:15

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Welcome to Nightmares of the Americas Indigenous tales, where the harrowing reality of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women (MMIW) is brought to light. Our women and girls are vanishing at an alarming rate, yet their stories often go untold. According to the National Crime Information Center's data up to 2016, there have been 5,712 reported cases …

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Cristina Rocha, "Cool Christianity: Hillsong and the Fashioning of Cosmopolitan Identities" (Oxford UP, 2024) 1:04:13

1M ago1:04:13

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When did Christianity become cool? How did an Australian church conquer the world and expand into Brazil, a country with its own crop of powerful megachurches? In her exciting new book, Cool Christianity: Hillsong and the Fashioning of Cosmopolitan Identities (Oxford UP, 2023), anthropologist Cristina Rocha analyses the creation of a transnational …

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Emily Conroy-Krutz, "Missionary Diplomacy: Religion and Nineteenth-Century American Foreign Relations" (Cornell UP, 2024) 49:48

1M ago49:48

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Missionary Diplomacy: Religion and Nineteenth-Century American Foreign Relations (Cornell University Press, 2024) illuminates the crucial place of religion in nineteenth-century American diplomacy. From the 1810s through the 1920s, Protestant missionaries positioned themselves as key experts in the development of American relations in Asia, Africa,…

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WW1 German Spies Infiltrated America and Attempted to Start a Race War 34:34

2M ago34:34

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On January 30, 1918, a young man “with the appearance of a well-educated, debonair foreigner” arrived at the U.S. customs station in Nogales, Arizona, located on the border with Mexico. After politely informing the customs inspector that he had come to complete his draft registration questionnaire and meet a friend in San Francisco, he was approved…

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The Air Battles of the 1945 Eastern Front Forged Air Force Doctrines of the Cold War 38:10

2M ago38:10

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The last months of World War II on the Eastern Front saw a ferocious fight between two very different air forces. Soviet Air Force (VVS) Commander-in-Chief Alexander Novikov assembled 7,500 aircraft in three powerful air armies to support the final assault on Berlin. The Luftwaffe employed some of its most advanced weapons including the Me 262 jet …

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Kaysera Stops Pretty Places Part 1 47:23

2M ago47:23

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Our women and girls are being taken from us in an alarming way. As of 2016, the National Crime Information Center has reported 5,712 cases of missing American Indian and Alaska Native women and girls. Strikingly, the U.S Department of Justice missing persons database has only reported 116 cases. The majority of these murders are committed by non-Na…

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The First Pre-Columbian Explorers to Reach North America 10:52

2M ago10:52

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Have you ever wondered if there was a group to reach North America before Christopher Columbus? Find out more in today's bonus episode from another Parthenon podcast "History of North America." Join host Mark Vinet as he discusses the search for the first non-indigenous explorers to reach the North American continent prior to Christopher Columbus’ …

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A Classicist Believes that Homer Directly Dictated the Iliad, and Was Also an Excellent Horseman 53:18

2M ago53:18

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The Iliad is the world’s greatest epic poem—heroic battle and divine fate set against the Trojan War. Its beauty and profound bleakness are intensely moving, but great questions remain: Where, how, and when was it composed and why does it endure? To explore these questions is today’s guest, Robin Lane Fox, a scholar and teacher of Homer for over 40…

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In 1860, Damascus Nearly Committed Genocide Against Christians. How Did it Pull Back? 53:13

2M ago53:13

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On July 9, 1860, a violent mob swept through the Christian quarters of Damascus. For eight days, violence raged, leaving 5,000 Christians dead, thousands of shops looted, and churches, houses, and monasteries razed. The sudden and ferocious outbreak shocked the world, leaving Syrian Christians vulnerable and fearing renewed violence. Rogan is today…

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We're Back 57:04

2M ago57:04

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After a few weeks of sickness, the Behill brothers are back! Thank you to all of you for the good vibes and messages you sent our way; it really did help. We needed time for our voices to get back to normal. So, we're back! In this new episode, let's just chill and talk about some Indigenous news, events, and films. This is something we're going to…

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Silk: The History of a Fabric That Was Civilization’s First Burial Cloth, Body Armor, and Much More 41:46

2M ago41:46

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Silk—prized for its lightness, luminosity, and beauty—is also one of the strongest biological materials ever known. More than a century ago, it was used to make the first bulletproof vest, and yet science has barely even begun to tap its potential. As the technologies it has inspired—from sutures to pharmaceuticals, replacement body parts to hologr…

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Frank Lloyd Wrong – When America’s Greatest Architect Created His Masterpiece While Written-Off as a Has-Been 46:54

2M ago46:54

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Nobody blossomed late in life like Frank Lloyd Wright. He was written off as a has-been by middle age after a promising start. Between 1909 and 1929, Wright’s career was marked by personal turmoil and a roller coaster of career-related ups and downs. In these years, before he completed the buildings, we know him for today, Wright’s career was so fa…

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Frederick Rutland, Britain’s Most Beloved WW1 Pilot, Became a Spy for Imperial Japan 36:44

2M ago36:44

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Frederick Rutland was an accomplished aviator, British WWI war hero, and real-life James Bond. He was the first pilot to take off and land a plane on a ship, a decorated warrior for his feats of bravery and rescue, was trusted by the admirals of the Royal Navy, had a succession of aeronautical inventions, and designed the first modern aircraft carr…

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The Rise and Fall of the Global Age of Piracy (17-19th Centuries) 44:03

2M ago44:03

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Piracy didn’t spring into existence in the 18th century Caribbean. It has existed as long as there has been commercial shipping and people to steal the goods. There were medieval pirates. Vikings loved robbing ships in the Baltic and North Seas. The Romans dealt with pirates in the Mediterranean, and the Greeks and Carthaginians before them. Pirate…

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A WW2 Polish Diplomat Forged Thousands of Paraguayan Passports to Save Jews from the Holocaust 48:05

2M ago48:05

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Between 1940 and 1943, Polish diplomats based in Bern, Switzerland, engaged in a remarkable – and until now, almost completely untold – humanitarian operation. This operation was one of the largest actions to aid Jews of the entire war and far eclipsed the better-known efforts of Oskar Schindler. In concert with two Jewish activists, these diplomat…

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Stories From Captives on The Last Slave Ship to America 29:41

3M ago29:41

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The Clotilda was the last slave ship to land on American soil, docked in Mobile Bay, Alabama, in July 1860—more than half a century after the passage of a federal law banning the importation of slaves, and nine months before the beginning of the Civil War. Five of its passengers, ranging in age from two to nineteen when kidnapped, died between 1922…

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Gwyn McClelland, "Dangerous Memory in Nagasaki: Prayers, Protests and Catholic Survivor Narratives" (Routledge, 2019) 1:01:20

3M ago1:01:20

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On 9th August 1945, the US dropped the second atomic bomb on Nagasaki. Of the dead, approximately 8500 were Catholic Christians, representing over sixty percent of the community. In Dangerous Memory in Nagasaki: Prayers, Protests, and Catholic Survivor Narratives (Routledge, 2019), Gwyn McClelland presents a collective biography, where nine Catholi…

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Was Union Support in the Confederacy Actually Widespread? The Alabamans Who Fought for Sherman Say 'Yes' 49:24

3M ago49:24

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As the popular narrative goes, the Civil War was won when courageous Yankees triumphed over the South. But an aspect of the war that has remained little-known for 160 years is the Alabamian Union soldiers who played a decisive role in the Civil War, only to be scrubbed from the history books. One such group was the First Alabama Calvary, formed in …

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The Heroes, Legends, and Liars Who Fought in WW2 35:37

3M ago35:37

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Veterans of World War 2 are called the Greatest Generation for their uncommon courage and self-determination. Whether this descriptor is true or part of America’s self-mythologizing during the 20th century is a challenging question, one that Andrew Biggio, a veteran of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, worked to answer. Biggio found that many were …

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Chumash Oral Stories 46:37

3M ago46:37

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In this episode we jump back into oral traditions while we are at the tail end of winter. Winter is the time to tell stories, be with family, and remember the ones who have passes. We are thrilled to tell you a few Chumash oral traditions in this episode, where we jump into stories from the book "December's Child." Join us as we journey through the…

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Turning Okies Into New Dealers: How 1930s Technocrats Pushed Progressivism on Dust Bowl Refugees in Federal Farm Camps 38:45

3M ago38:45

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In the midst of the Great Depression, punished by crippling drought and deepening poverty, hundreds of thousands of families left the Great Plains and the Southwest to look for work in California’s rich agricultural valleys. In response to the scene of destitute white families living in filthy shelters built of cardboard, twigs, and refuse, reform-…

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Listener Tales 5 54:20

3M ago54:20

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Join us for our first Instagram live show. In this episode we read stories submitted by you the listener. From encounters with UFOs to sightings of Bigfoot, and encounters with the elusive little people, our listener share their most intriguing stories and encounters. Hear firsthand accounts of unexplained lights in the sky, mysterious creatures lu…

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Whistle-Stop Tours: When Trains Ruled American Presidential Elections 36:42

3M ago36:42

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For nearly two centuries, the beating heart of electoral politics was on the back of a train. William Jennings Bryan spoke to an estimated 5 million people from a train car in his 1896 presidential campaign. Yet memories of the pivotal role campaign trains played in American elections fade with the passing of each generation. Also forgotten are the…

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The Jewish Bankers Who Built Wall Street, Financed the American Century, and Spawned Countless Conspiracy Theories 42:50

3M ago42:50

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Joseph Seligman arrived in the United States in 1837, with the equivalent of $100 sewn into the lining of his pants. Then came the Lehman brothers, who would open a general store in Montgomery, Alabama. Not far behind were Solomon Loeb and Marcus Goldman, among the “Forty-Eighters” fleeing a Germany that had relegated Jews to an underclass. These i…

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Yanomami People of the Rainforest Part 2 1:14:13

3M ago1:14:13

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Trigger warning for todays episode, we will be discussing child abuse as well as sexual abuse. We will be giving you an additional trigger warning when we talk about these tragedies in the show so you know when you can skip if needed. Thank You Today, we're taking about the struggles faced by the Yanomami people in the heart of the Amazon rainfores…

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The Ghost Army of World War 2 41:39

3M ago41:39

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In the summer of 1944, a handpicked group of young GIs—including such future luminaries such as Bill Blass, Ellsworth Kelly, Arthur Singer, Victor Dowd, Art Kane, and Jack Masey—landed in France to conduct a secret mission. From Normandy to the Rhine, the 1,100 men of the 23rd Headquarters Special Troops, known as the Ghost Army, conjured up phony …

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How Free Time Transformed From Strolls Through Aristocratic Gardens to Doomscrolling on TikTok 31:30

3M ago31:30

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Free time, one of life’s most important commodities, often feels unfulfilling. But why? And how did leisure activities transition from strolling in the park for hours to “doomscrolling” on social media for thirty minutes? Despite the promise of modern industrialization, many people experience both a scarcity of free time and a disappointment in it.…

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Yanomami People of the Rainforest 58:56

3M ago58:56

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Join us as we journey into the heart of the Amazon rainforest as we explore the fascinating world of the Yanomami, an indigenous tribe with a rich cultural heritage. Discover the intricacies of their traditional lifestyle, from the food they eat to the profound connection they share with the natural environment. From foraging for fruits and nuts to…

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Everyday Life In a War Zone: How To Live For Years With Air Raid Sirens and Tanks in the Street 35:42

3M ago35:42

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What goes through the mind of a mother who must send her child to school across a minefield or the men who belong to groups of volunteer body collectors? When living in a warzone, such questions become part of the daily calculus of life. This is an everyday form of war that included provisioning fighters with military equipment they purchased thems…

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Behind the Bulldog: Winston Churchill's Public Image vs. Private Reality, Based on Those Who Knew Him 37:49

4M ago37:49

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Winston Churchill remains one of the most revered figures of the twentieth century, his name a byword for courageous leadership. But the Churchill we know today is a mixture of history and myth, authored by the man himself. Today’s guest, David Reynolds, author of “Mirrors of Greatness: Churchill and the Leaders Who Shaped Him,” re-evaluates Church…

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