Musings on History: Recent Episodes
Dana White
Musings on History is a podcast dedicated to the discussion of history from new angles and perspectives. All questions or comments can be sent to musingshistory@protonmail.com. Support the show (https://pod.fan/musings-on-history)
Are you a former Nazi Party member, Nazi scientist, or high-ranking former Wehrmacht officer in need of post-war employment? Well, does the US have the job opportunity for you!
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What really happened on the Eastern and Western fronts? How much of the "Iron Curtain" was a collaboration between Churchill and Stalin? Why did Japan put "731" on their first domestically produced F-16 fighter jet last year? Jadakiss knows...do you?
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Eenie, meanie, miney, moe, catch a Nazi by its toe... that's how some countries chose their side during World War II.
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In the conclusion to the History of Resistance series, I talk about individual acts of slave resistance as well as the non-violent ways that enslaved people conceptualized freedom.
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From ancient Greece to classical Japan, peasants, serfs, and slaves had had enough.
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IDC what y'all say, the University of al-Qarawiyyin is the world's first and oldest university.
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Coast to Coast, it's Space Ghost! Sike IDK, I'm running out of shit to put here. As the title suggests, we're talking about ancient civilizations in Africa.
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Once again, we gettin to it from the roota to the African toota as it were, covering the five major language groups of Africa and where you will hear them spoken.
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From the Sahara Desert to the Okavango Delta, we're gonna discuss the ever-changing climates of the African continent.
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In addition to containing the largest desert in the world, Africa is also home to some amazing bodies of freshwater.
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Going way back to the beginning for the inaugural episode of the Ancient Africa series. Musings is back, baby!
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In the final arc of his life, Dr. W.E.B. DuBois is as active as ever and finally puts a ring on it (it being Communism).
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BRICS...all white BRICS...off white BRICS...Xi just hit a lick, for 50 mo BRICS, ballin like a b**** with all these BRICS...
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Dr. W.E.B. DuBois writes his magnum opus and goes through his edgelord phase.
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W.E.B. DuBois made a coloring book.
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W.E.B. DuBois and Booker T. Washington have a petty off about the priorities of the Black race in America. There's also a bunch of race riots and conferences and I break down The Souls of Black Folk, chapter by chapter. S/O to Ida B. Wells-Barnett. IYKYK
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W.E.B. DuBois in his HBCU fuckboi era. Nah, I'm kidding.
W.E.B. DuBois Visual Biography located here: https://scribe.org/catalogue/web-du-bois-biography-four-voices
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Special Episode! The history of Haiti and Cuba's relationship with the US (hint: it's not great)
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A brief history of Poland, through the yellow eyes of Geralt of Rivia.
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A High Episcopalian attempts to distillate Hindu cosmology. Ion like det.
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I take the wizarding world of Harry James Potter to task.
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Technical difficulties be damned, we going to Westeros.
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Y'all have no idea how hard it is to come up with pithy and catchy things to say here. Anyway, embrace Catholic Marxism.
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What did the five fingers of the State say to the face? PRAY.
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The Christians of Europe fight one another for 100 years over trivialities.
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE BIRTHED YOUR WHOLE STYLE! Nah I'm kidding (I'm not). This episode is about the calls that are coming from within St. Peter's Basilica and all the ways the Catholic Church chose to ignore them. And the Renaissance, obviously.
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To fuck around is human, to find out, divine.
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The history of the Oriental Orthodox Churches of Egypt, Ethiopia, and Eritrea.
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There's a new kid on the Abrahamaic block and they do not fuck around. Also, paganism must go.
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Before Biggie v Tupac, there was Patriarchs v Popes. This episode discusses the original East Coast v West Coast beef, the ecclesiastical and geopolitical showdown between the Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church.
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In this episode, Jesus' divine backstory gets fleshed out. Mans got more retcons than Pietro and Wanda.
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From the caves and glens of the Levant to the world, the roots of Christianity are explored in their proper historical context.
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The history of Chinese socialism from 1949 to the present.
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I do a dab and dabble in a little post-structural analysis.
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Don't let the foxes make the rules for the henhouse.
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The end of an empire, the beginning of a revolution.
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Greatest statesman of an age or mass murderer? Women lie, men lie, numbers never do. Let's find out!
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The incredibly long and procedural history of Russian socialism. With a little snark, as a treat.
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The history of socialism in Europe. I know know, imagine how tired we are...
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A special episode and a GPSA (Ghetto Public Service Announcement) for y'all to STAY INSIDE AND WASH YOUR HANDS.
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The history of socialism around the world.
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The historical development of fascism.
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No, this isn't about your right to par-tay.
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Robert Moses is the devil and Jane Jacobs didn't know what she was talking about. All hail Ruth Glass, tho.
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In this episode I give a brief history of the word monopsony and how it is used to affect the labor market and the goods and services market.
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"Many men, wish death upon me, blood in my eye dawg and I can't see, I'm just be what I'm destined to be, and generals tryna take my life away..."- Simon Bolivar, probably
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In this episode, Bolivar liberates Ecuador and Peru, and creates the Republic of Bolivia. All in a day's work for the Libertador.
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In this episode, Simon Bolivar learns very quickly that revolutions are easy to start, hard to finish, and almost impossible to transition into governments.
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The Venezuelan general and soon to be Libertador gets a crash course on revolutionary tactics in this latest installment on the Lives of Three Generals.
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The last of the three generals, Simon Bolivar, gets his due as the Lives of Three Generals series reaches its climax.
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There are days that last lifetimes, and lifetimes that last days. Both are true about the famous Battle of Sekigahara, where Tokugawa Ieyasu will finally cement his hold on Japan, and on history.
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Tokugawa Ieyasu butts heads with Toyotomi Hideyoshi, spends some time farming, and plays chess while the regents play checkers.
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Tokugawa Ieyasu undergoes several name changes and alliances, until he finds the right fit.
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Exploring the life of Tokugawa Ieyasu, the legendary shogun of medieval Japan.
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They saw him rollin, they was hatin...
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Julius Caesar becomes un-fuck-wittable.
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In this episode, I will be re-introducing you to Julius Caesar, arguably one of the greatest Roman generals and politicians of all-time.
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In which I discuss one of my favorite Shakespearean sociopaths, King Richard III.
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In this episode, I break down the sociopolitical background that inspired Shakespeare's "Othello".
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Discussing Shakespeare's "The Tempest" from a historical perspective.
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