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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Politics
1
OUR MEDIATED REPUBLIC, PART ONE
80 min
2
20 YEARS OF MY HISTORY CAN BEAT UP YOUR POLITICS
15 min
3
PROTEST: HOW CHANGE IS MADE -(From 2013) Montgo...
36 min
4
PRESIDENTS AND MIDDLE EAST: 1979 US EMBASSY IN ...
21 min
5
INFLATION: NIXON VERSUS PLYWOOD, LBJ AND COPPER
26 min
6
PROTEST, ARMS, RIGHTS: SHAYS' REBELLION
73 min
7
ZACHARY TAYLOR - Part 3 - We May Have to Recons...
81 min
8
ZACHARY TAYLOR - PART 2: What Do You Mean He Ha...
46 min
9
ZACHARY TAYLOR - Part 1 - He is Ready
56 min
10
CIVIL WAR: THE MAN WHO SOLD YORK, PENNSYLVANIA....
28 min
11
MIDTERMS: NIXON'S LONELY MIDTERM, 1970
40 min
12
PRESIDENTS, WAR AND BOMBING: THE NIXON ZILCH MEMO
21 min
13
EARLY TRUMP: Trump and Harrah's
19 min
14
PRESIDENT'S FAMILIES: CHESTER ARTHUR'S SON AND ...
21 min
15
TARIFFS: CHESTER ARTHUR TAKES AIM AT TARIFFS
17 min
16
ECONOMY: WHAT HAPPENED TO THE GOLD STANDARD?
19 min
17
STATUES AND STATUE REMOVAL : NATIONAL VAHALLA: ...
54 min
18
IMMIGRATION: SCOTUS BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP DECI...
21 min
19
PATRIOTISM: "WHY BRITAIN LOST" Whitelaw Reid 19...
56 min
20
GUNS: THE WORD "INFRINGE": History of a Word an...
49 min
21
WHAT HAPPENED TO THE DECLARATION after Signing?...
68 min
22
A SECOND LOOK AT THE EVENTS of 1776 w/ Tom McMi...
39 min
23
DEMOCRACY AND FASCISM: THOMAS WOLFE TURNS AGAIN...
39 min
24
PRESIDENTS IN PEACE AND WAR: Snack, Dessert, Di...
Nixon's first bombing campaigns had the names of mealtimes which seem to also correspond with the years of his first term: 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972. In this episode we look at Nixon, Kissinger and the Paris Peace Accords that ended the Vietnam War. In addition to providing some additional context for the Saigon 1975 situation so much in the news today, we revisit whether the accord was a sham peace or a true deal. The deal left hundreds of thousands of enemy troops in South Vietnam as U.S. troops exited. Could a better deal have been etched? Or could the same deal have been made sooner. And what about those leopard spots? The great debate over the negotiating table? and the dingy carpet? All this and more.
67 min
25
WAS WATERGATE A BIG DEAL?: Part III: Grand Jury...
31 min