Welcome! Here I will talk to a range of people on issues which interest me and I hope you, from religious slogans and wargaming to deeper political ideas to forgotten historical episodes. Bring up a chair, get comfortable, and enjoy! Avi
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Episode 76 (Stumbling Colossus, 47): Recovering the Lost Constitution
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Episode 75 (Stumbling Colossus, 46): Americans and Railroads – A Stormy Relationship
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Episode 74 (Stumbling Colossus, 45): The Rise and Fall of Saloon Culture
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Episode 73 (Stumbling Colossus, 44): The Railroad's Color Line
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Episode 72 (Stumbling Colossus, 43): The Golden Age of the "Hated" Railroads
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Episode 71 (Stumbling Colossus, 42): Did the “poor get poorer” while the “rich got richer”?
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Episode 70 (Stumbling Colossus, 41): Making a Nation Into a Neighborhood
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Episode 69 (Stumbling Colossus, 40): Ragtime
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Episode 68 (Stumbling Colossus, 39): Poetry for a Society in Motion
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Episode 63 (Pop Goes the Culture, 1): Video Game Music
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Episode 62 (Stumbling Colossus, 38): Gilded Age America – Democracy? Republic? Something Else?
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Episode 61 (Stumbling Colossus, 37): And the Band Went Marching On
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Professor Bryan Proksch looks at the overwhelming popularity of marching bands in the Gilded Age - who played, what they played, why they rose and why they fell. To read Professor Proksch's full documentary history, click here to buy the book: https://www.amazon.com/Golden-Age-American-Bands/dp/1622776275…
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Episode 60 (Stumbling Colossus, 36): The Mail Must Get Through
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Episode 59 (Stumbling Colossus, 35): Growing Small Town America
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Episode 58 (Stumbling Colossus, 34): Gustav Mahler's Musical New York
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Episode 58 (Stumbling Colossus, 33): Brother, Can You Spare A Dime (Novel)?
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Episode 57 (Stumbling Colossus, 32): A Glorious and Terrible Aftermath – The Grand Army of the Republic and Civil War Veterans in the Gilded Age
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Episode 56 (Stumbling Colossus, 31): Electing The Gilded Age Senate – Corrupt Bargain or Anti-Populist Bulwark?
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Episode 55 (Stumbling Colossus, 30): Anthony Comstock’s Crusade Against Lust – Doomed Madness or Moral Heroism?
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Episode 53 (Stumbling Colossus, 29): Protecting American Industry – Vital Lifeline or Political Racket?
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Episode 52 (Stumbling Colossus, 28): Let's Put on a Show, or Gilded Age Vaudeville
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Episode 52 (Stumbling Colossus, 27): Henry George: Prophet of American Modernity
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Episode 51 (Stumbling Colossus, 26): The Ever Closing Frontier
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Episode 49 (Stumbling Colossus, 25): The Last Lincoln Republican?
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Episode 48: Everett Dirksen's Republicanism
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Episode 47 (Stumbling Colossus, 24): The Gilded Democrat
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Episode 46: Robert Taft - Image and Reality
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Episode 45 (Stumbling Colossus, 23): Horatio Alger's Gilded Virtue
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Episode 43 (Stumbling Colossus, 22): The Gilded Midwest
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Episode 42 (Stumbling Colossus, 21): The Rise of the US Navy
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Episode 41 (Stumbling Colossus, 20): The Populist Alternative
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Prof. Charles Postel discusses the image and reality of the American Populist or People's Party - its ambitions and reams, failures and successes.By Avi Woolf
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Episode 40 (Stumbling Colossus, 19): Reed's House Rules
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Prof. Robert Klotz discusses the impact of Thomas Brackett Reed's majoritarian House rules on American politics.By Avi Woolf
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Episode 39 (Stumbling Colossus, 18): Controlling Urban Chaos
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Zoning Expert Nolan Gray discusses the good and bad of life before zoning in America - and whether we should go back.By Avi Woolf
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Episode 38 (Stumbling Colossus, 17): Gilded Germans
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Prof. Kampheofner discusses the trials and triumphs of one of America's lesser known major immigrant communities during the Gilded Age.By Avi Woolf
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Episode 37 (Stumbling Colossus, 16): Show Me the Money
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Dr. George Selgin discusses how money was issued and provided before, during, and after the Gilded Age.By Avi Woolf
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Episode 36 (Stumbling Colossus, 15): A More Moral Nation
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Professor Gaines Foster discusses the motives, challenges, successes, and failures of the Christian moral lobbyists during the Gilded Age.By Avi Woolf
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Episode 35 (Stumbling Colossus, 14): Jobbery vs. Snobbery
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Professor Joe Postell discusses the debate between party control and technocratic control of government during the Gilded and Progressive Ages.By Avi Woolf
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Episode 34 (Stumbling Colossus, 13): The Battle of the Classics
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Prof. Eric Adler discusses the first great debate on the importance of studying "the best that has been thought and said" - and what we can learn about it for today.By Avi Woolf
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Episode 33 (Stumbling Colossus, 12): Gilded Mutual Aid
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Dr. David Beito discusses the ways in which Gilded Age Americans of all classes helped each other out when the government stood aside.By Avi Woolf
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Episode 32 (Stumbling Colossus, 11): TR's Wars
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Dr. David Pietrusza is back to discuss Theodore Roosevelt's single minded focus on war - and his paradoxical avoidance of the same at critical moments.By Avi Woolf
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Episode 31 (Stumbling Colossus, 10): US Shipping and the Jones Act
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Colin Grabow of the CATO Institute discusses the law, history, and future of American internal shipping, from the Gilded Age to today.By Avi Woolf
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Episode 30 (Stumbling Colossus, 9): Gilded Age Education
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Independent historian Kerry Ellard discusses the chaos and order in America's emerging public school system during the Gilded and Progressive Ages.By Avi Woolf
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Episode 29 (Stumbling Colossus, 8): Rome and America
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Professor James Patterson discusses the trials and triumphs and divisions within American Catholicism during the Gilded Age.By Avi Woolf
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Episode 28 (Stumbling Colossus, 7): Gilded Age Jews
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Professor Jonathan Sarna discusses the profound changes in Jewish life, culture, politics, and demographics during the Gilded Age and beyond.By Avi Woolf
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Episode 27 (Stumbling Collosus, 6): The Gilded Supreme Court
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Professor David Bernstein discusses the legal thinking of an often misunderstood Supreme Court ruling, and the "road not taken" in constitutional jurisprudence.By Avi Woolf
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Episode 26 (Stumbling Collosus, 5): The US Army
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Professor Wayne Hsieh discusses the importance and struggles of the American Army throughout our era, including funding, training, and different kinds of missions.By Avi Woolf
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Episode 25 (Stumbling Colossus, 4): Gold in the Hills
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Dr. Bob Hutton discusses the politics, society and economy of Appalachia in the Gilded and Progressive Ages.By Avi Woolf
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Episode 24 (Stumbling Colossus, 3): Gilded, Dusty Texas
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Dr. Brian Cervantez discusses the diversity and change, ethos and mythos of Gilded and Progressive Age Texas.By Avi Woolf
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