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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Notes of 1884: Thoughts on That Election, and the Current One
Blaine's Faint, Washington's Flu, Defoe's London and SARS: Stories of Health and Sickness and Politics
The 1880 Election and The Morey Letter: a Tale of October Surprise, Immigration, Memes and Counter Memes and Nothing to Do with Today's Politics
King Corn, Story of Ethanol (from 2013)
Operation Eagle Claw and the 1979 Iran Embassy Storming
Partisanship, 1850's Style w/ Josh Mensch, co-author of The Lincoln Conspiracy
A Powder Keg About to Explode: Newark, NJ 1967
The Cabinet, George Washington's Creation, with Lindsay M. Chervinsky
What The Great Depression Felt Like, And Other Things