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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Sell Your Horse - America in The 1890's: Part 3...
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Sell Your Horse - America in The 1890's Part 2 ...
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Sell Your Horse - America in The 1890's: Part ...
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Warm Bucket: Vice President John Nance Garner
We 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. 
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Bunch of Topics: House Speakers, Kaiser Permane...
The 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.
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Lebanon 1983 and Other Stories
A 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? advertising@airwavemedia.com
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Chief Black Hawk and The "Black Hawk War" Part...
NOTE - 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.
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Chief Black Hawk and The "Black Hawk War" Part I
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Carter 1981
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History Favors Running Incumbent Presidents, Wh...
There 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 President to a candidate is risky and rare in American history. -Most Importantly: The incumbent President is always running anyway. If not on the ballot, in the election issues and discussion, and the party candidate will have to run on that President's record anyway. We also get into the age issue with some snippets of MHCBUYP's 2008 episode on age and the Presidency. That's right from 2008, where we defended a Republican candidate.
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Carter 1979
In 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 advertising@airwavemedia.com
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Carter 1977
Can 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.
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We Did It Because It Was Fun: The Surprising 19...
Four 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.
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Washington and The Bill of Rights: A Mystery
George Washington was highly influential in constructing a Constitution, but less so when it comes to the Bill of Rights. A few of them he even found unnecessary. We just don't know which ones. We talk about Washington's role in the convention, his...
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John Quincy Adams w/ Bob Crawford of The Road t...
With 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.
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Running For President From Prison
The 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.
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Eyewitness Accounts of Columbine, Jonestown, La...
Learn something new about major news events from the people there. We talk to Joshua 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 member of the rock band Queen, and the so-called father of podcasting.
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The Cute Little Third Amendment
It'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 way I predicted on this cast).
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17 Years of My History Can Beat Up Your Politic...
It'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.
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Stop Talking About Momentum: The Race for Presi...
It 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 a
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Three Point Two: The Story of New Deal Beer, Sc...
Before 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.
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JFK at 106 – Searching for The True Kennedy (In...
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 shoul
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The Man in the Cave and Other Stories of The Si...
You 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.
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Playing Cards With the Signers of The Declarati...
Break your news bubble and see biases in coverage clearly -Download our sponsor Ground News's App at - Ground.News/myhistory All about Signers in this one. We talk to Jason Petri, listener to MHCBUYP about his playing card deck project, and we discuss: :the lives of the signers What can Button Gwinnett, Stephen Hopkins or Thomas Heyward Jr. do for us? The importance of the Declaration, even when the country hasn't lived up always to the aspiration (with help from a former president for a good interpretation). The history of the actual document, and how it was saved from British capture. A reminder - we are part of Airwave Media Podcast Network - Check out great shows at airwavemedia.com Songs by Lee Rosevere - https://leerosevere.bandcamp.com/ and Kevin MacLeod who has excellent jazz music opens our episode up.https://kevinmacleod.bandcamp.com/
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Extras from the "Undeniably Unconsecutive" Grov...
Campaign songs, Kangaroo Ballots, The Dapper Governor Hill. More Burke Cockran and Churchill. Everything we left out of the podcast episode about Governor Cleveland's second non-consecutive term. If you haven't listened to that episode yet, we suggest listening to it first. For extras on previous podcasts, sign up for our Patreon.
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