Connected by Controversy with Chris White: Recent Episodes
Chris White
Professor of History and former Marine Chris White interviews authors specializing in controversial matters that connect us all.
Today's podcast with Drs Chaz Yingling and Tyler Parry is about the history of how "Man's Best Friend" has been used to enforce the color line. We discuss the vast implications of their article, "Slave Hounds and Abolition in the Americas," which they are turning into a book.
Their article:
https://academic.oup.com/past/article/246/1/69/5722095
The recent journalism that won the Pulitzer last year. They gave interviews with them and they cited their article:
https://www.indystar.com/in-depth/news/crime/2020/10/19/police-k-9-dog-bites-racism-indianapolis/5940236002/
https://www.al.com/news/2020/10/an-ugly-secret-in-alabama-police-dog-attacks.html
https://www.usatoday.com/in-depth/news/investigations/2020/10/02/police-use-of-force-dog-bite-k-9-investigation-excessive-force-arrests-lawsuits/5879123002/
https://www.themarshallproject.org/2021/06/11/the-marshall-project-wins-the-pulitzer-prize
Another recent article regarding the crisis of Texas border patrol chasing Haitian migrants on horseback (they engage their article and similar questions a bit):
Today we talk with the author of a new book about Marine General Smedley Butler, called, "Gangsters of Capitalism"
Today we talk to Eric Engle, a fellow West Virginian and Marshall grad about the reasons behind our atheism.
Another important episode contextualizing the Ukraine crisis, with University of Kentucky professor Dr. Karen Petrone.
A special episode today speaking about the Ukraine crisis and its many international implications with Dr. Michael Beckley, author of "Unrivaled: Why America will Remain the World's Sole Superpower" and coauthor of the forthcoming, "Danger Zone: The Coming Conflict with China" (with Hal Brands).
https://www.michaelbeckley.org/
In this episode we tackle a fundamental problem in our modern society: how to know what to eat. Casey Ruff is a personal trainer and wellness coach and host of the How to Make a Podcast Podcast and Boundless Body Radio, so he comes to us with real world, applicable, evidence-based, and testable fitness and nutrition knowledge gained from years of experience in the field. This episode is audio only.
https://www.myboundlessbody.com/
We talk to historian Dr. Dan Holbrook about the history of conspiracy theories in American History, based on his many times in which he taught the class at Marshall University. QAnon, JFK, and many others are covered here.
We talk to Dr. Aviva Chomsky about her latest book, Central America's Forgotten History: Revolution, Violence, and the Roots of Migration.
Today we speak with Dr. Alice Dreger, medical historian, journalist, and author of Galileo's Middle Finger: Heretics, Activists, and One Scholar's Search for Justice, with cohost Dr. Jonathan Day-Brown, Psychology Professor at Marshall University.
Show notes:
Links:
Dr. Dreger's spouse's update from this week about covid and the flu:
https://humanmedicine.msu.edu/Deans_Update/01.21.22.htm
Publication of her full interview with EO Wilson (only part of it was published in GMF):
https://quillette.com/2021/12/29/speaking-with-e-o-wilson/
Open access (free) article about what happened at the AAA with Chagnon and Neel:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3178026/
Fun piece co-written with her spouse about their son’s birth and following the data:
https://journalofethics.ama-assn.org/article/difference-between-science-and-technology-birth/2013-09
Dr. Dreger's brother’s art:
https://www.chrisdreger.com/
This is a two-part episode interviewing four community members responding to the recent Evangelical revivals in several West Virginia public schools.
Link to Channel 8 story:
https://wchstv.com/news/local/classrooms-made-to-attend-religious-revival-during-homeroom-at-huntington-high-school
Link to 9 minutes of the preacher's sermon at HHS:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=gqM5YgrkdA8&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR0x8baNAxw28GSShSoxmfJ3Th9swHvj62JTjBBbtpQ2VZdiEQpSh8e2JpE
This is a two-part episode interviewing four community members responding to the recent Evangelical revivals in several West Virginia public schools.
Link to Channel 8 story:
https://wchstv.com/news/local/classrooms-made-to-attend-religious-revival-during-homeroom-at-huntington-high-school
Link to 9 minutes of the preacher's sermon at HHS:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=gqM5YgrkdA8&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR0x8baNAxw28GSShSoxmfJ3Th9swHvj62JTjBBbtpQ2VZdiEQpSh8e2JpE
Today we discuss Professor Dr. Ada Ferrer's new book, Cuba: An American History, with cohost and women's baseball historian Dr. Kat Williams.
Dr. Benjamin T. Smith, History Professor at the University of Warwick, and author of "The Dope: The Real History of the Mexican Drug Trade," talks to us about the long history of the War on Drugs in Mexico.
Dr. Bacevich is a retired Army Colonel and Boston University History Professor and prolific author on the US role in the world over the past century. Today we talk about the power of taking an honest look at the destructive power of American Exceptionalism.
In this second episode with Joel Salatin, Keith and I talk to Joel about what it takes to transition from a corporatized food mentality to the Polyface Farm mentality.
https://www.polyfacefarms.com/
Today my friend Keith Brown and I speak to Joel Salatin, the "Christian Libertarian Environmentalist Capitalist Lunatic Farmer" and owner of Polyface Farms in Swope, VA all about the problems of the modern food system and how high technology and nature provide the only solutions toward food security. This is part 1 of 2.
https://www.polyfacefarms.com/
Today we talk to Palestinian American and Middle East Historian Dr. Rashid Khalidi, of Columbia University, about his book, The Hundred Years' War on Palestine.
Former New York Times reporter Philip Shenon talks with us about his research into what are probably the two most controversial government commissions of the century. He wrote two bestselling books, The Commission: The Uncensored History of the 9/11 Investigation and A Cruel and Shocking Act: The Secret History of the Kennedy Assassination. My friend and colleague, Dr. Dan Holbrook, who taught the history of conspiracy theories in US history for many years at Marshall University, co-hosts.
Similar topics:
American Exceptionalism: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1907524/episodes/9835988
Israel/Palestine: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1907524/episodes/9806263
Virologist Rich Condit covers a wide range of issues related to COVID over the past 2 years.
Show notes:
TWiV: https://www.microbe.tv/twiv/
COVID-19 Vaccine Townhalls : https://asv.org/vaccine-townhall/
The Media Bias Chart: https://adfontesmedia.com/
Boundless Body Radio: https://www.myboundlessbody.com/podcast-1