My History Can Beat Up Your Politics
Since 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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FDR's Newsreels, Coolidge's Microphone - Presid...
Some Presidents have mastered a certain kind of media or another. We look at this in this episode.
45 min
427
The Whole 'Do Nothing Congress' Gambit
38 min
428
A Cast from 2011 - Obama, Egypt, More..
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47 min
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The Boston Police Strike of 1919 and Public Sec...
From 2011.
27 min
430
Game Time in Politics and The Court
38 min
431
F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby. Fitzge...
a bit from the now public Great Gatsby
7 min
432
Tucson Shooting and American Political Violence
A tragic event has Bruce thinking about political violence and history
18 min
433
A Little About Anarchism
and communism, and a few other things (from 2011)
2 min
434
Does the Challenger Even Matter?
The last days of Ford and Carter 76 illustrates how close an election can get when the President is not popular but not unpopular. When it's a sitting President - does the person the party picks even matter or is it all about the Incumbent?...
62 min
435
Does a President Lose the Presidency When they ...
There appears to be a trend that when Presidents lose the House, the party loses the next Presidential Election.
14 min
436
Autopsy of a Midterm 2010
24 min
437
The Forgotten Other Great Depression (1893)
40 min
438
Clayton's Meetings and Other Thoughts
When is a meeting not a meeting? When it's a Clayton's Meeting
46 min
439
Bicameral Thoughts: Reflection on the 2010 Midt...
Bicameral Thoughts: Reflection on the 2010 Midterm Results
26 min
440
Heller Decision on Guns and the 2A
looking at the decision, its meaning, its interpretation.
30 min
441
Should A President Campaign in Midterms?
History Doesn't Look Kindly on it, and at least one advisor told a President to attack a country instead
18 min
442
Social Security, Civil War Pensions
While Social Security was developed in the 1930's, it's possible to say that there were always some mechanisms for older persons, though not universal ones.
36 min
443
Al Haig and Other Stories
21 min
444
How the Battle for California Statehood Define...
All About Statehood. What it means, how did Hawaii and Alaska get added, why aren't there more states?
43 min
445
Nobel Prize, Clue of '62? Minicare
Nobel Prize, Clue of '62? Minicare
26 min
446
Is Healthcare a "Second Third Rail" of American...
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28 min
447
How Primary Became a Verb
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25 min
448
Famous Brokered Conventions
from 2008
51 min
449
You Don't Take on Sitting Presidents Anymore, B...
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34 min
450
The Aughts the Ohs, Burr, Fox, Cuba, Taxes
a bit about these subjects as a decade turns.
59 min