Today in the History of Freedom: Recent Episodes

Emily

A collection of stories about the advances and retreats of freedom through human history.

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Hold your applause until the end.

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Open seating, Southwest style.

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Unelectable, too.

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This one takes the prize.

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Industry's not-so-brave stance to protect their own.

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An undesirable walk of fame.

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Leroy?

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A colony that wasn't even that has to lead the way.

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$%@!$!!!!

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Worst pub crawl ever.

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Shut up and drive?

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The empire did strike back.

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Or both, if you're lucky.

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The church might have preferred ghouls.

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They gave it the boot.

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Give me your huddled masses.

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Act like a patriot, or else.

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The greatest Love Story ever told, in Boston.

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You are now free to move about the country.

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After all the years, the Hungarians have suddenly had enough.

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2 nasty 2 say here.

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And a little inside out.

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Get a match.

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Ground zero for pumpkin spice IPAs.

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He literally wrote the book on that legal code.

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Segregation wasn't just a southern problem.

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He was a noncommittal kind of Titan.

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Austria takes home the gold.

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You do hear these people sing.

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I'm the writer!

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A man arrives at his hometown... 17 years after being born.

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It's a long way for a loaf.

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Mexico pitches its own tent.

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Too black for Africa, somehow.

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The night that launched a thousand t-shirts.

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America's longest war begins.

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It was not exactly love at first sight.

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The Mises touch?

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The World Turn'd Upside Down, that day.

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Raise a glass, or bottle.

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The return of the nine.

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Just that little ol' law that changed all the other laws.

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I have not yet begun to quote great lines.

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A hail to Hale.

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No Kum-munism, more like.

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We all still found Serenity.

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The whole pitiful affair comes to an end.

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The big finale for the little document.

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Turns out, you can fight death.  Parts of it, anyway.

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Even their bigotry was mathematical and methodical.

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Most fruitful night of imprisonment, ever.

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Ole nearly Missed out on this student.

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Biko puts the mind over matter.

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Wallace and the English meet on a bridge; it doesn't end well for the English.

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Lafayette watches some seeds take root.

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Six feet under wasn't far enough.

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Most tourists come to see it all, but he was happy to show it all.

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Don't bring a knife to a you-know-what.

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An anarchist picks the wrong target.

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A clean shave is a tax save.

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Dear Sir...

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Genocide lurks in the deep countryside.

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Wear this bullseye, or else.

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Workers stand up to the so-called workers paradise.

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He was thur-good for the courts, better for the people.

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Unlocke the Enlightenment.

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Washington and Lincoln both hear a King speak.

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Proclaim unto all the land.

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Because what else would Willie ride on?

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Nazis lose their grip on the City of Lights, and so the darkness recedes.

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I will have my freedom fries tur-go, thank you.

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Neither man, nor stove, nor cartoon character, but the state.

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The Big Fella on a little island.

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Spring ends in August, according to the USSR almanac.

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The eternal bromance begins.

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Take me out to the ballgame, on a Sunday please.

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The original women's right to choose.

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This ain't no Three Little Pigs fairy tale.

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Talk about a divorce settlement.

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3 days of peace and love that turned into 30 years of cultural references.

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Come hang out with the Sons of Liberty.

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Why did the Americans cross the wall?

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A tiny island tears itself in two.

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What's the password, Hedy?

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Hungary's Schindler plays out his own real movie.

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Kick the continent.

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Finally, we really won't have Dick Nixon to kick around anymore.

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Most people just take the elevators.

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It just might change the wwworld.

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Poland hits the limit for being kicked around.

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Marriage comes back swinging.

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The lion roars out loud.

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Finally, the famous painting gets a life model.

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A hard-fought war is won on at least one island.

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A teen sets out for glory.

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Would you like freedom fries with your burgess?

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Tragedy waits on the porch for pickup.

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Head of the revolution loses his head.

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What kind of person gets exiled from the exiles?

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Of people that is, not strategies.

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Green wins, as usual.

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The gateway to all American scandals.

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Anything but ordinary.

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JRB 37 teeters under the weight of its hubris.

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On the seventh day, God rested his case.

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A man alters the course of woman's history.

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Back to that simple small meeting.

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The troop finds glory in retreat.

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Which way to freedom?

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Half of America suddenly notice they are, in fact, half of America.

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On the topic of windows and nails.

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Tyranny's crown Jewel crumbles to dust.

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Go northwest, young man!

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A s-s-s-park light the fire.

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A city and a people are cut apart.

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It'll be a hot time in the old courthouse tonight.

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The civil rights booster shot.

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The Declaration is introduced to the people it's meant to represent.

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Life is a harsh mistress.

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Anne gets frank with the world through her words.

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Grown-ups finally get treated like grown-ups.

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Finally, the finished product.

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Always the hardest part for any author.

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Headcount, before we lose our heads.

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Dickinson and Adams spent their whole lives on debate team for this.

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Snowden's prequel.

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Korea joins the party.

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Like giving that report to the whole class, except serious.

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So that's what freedom sounds like.

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Come Heller or high water, guns are a right.

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Professional politician Adams gives some thought to the profession of politics.

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The elephant dips its trunk into democracy.

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This woman sets out to defend her little pink castle.

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Houston, no problem.

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The room where dinner happened.

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The teenthiest holiday that got big, fast.

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Worst team up in the history of trade.

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Held on Breeds Hill for your neighborhood convenience.

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The man on the bridge can see clearly ahead.

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The grandfather of all charters, the great white whale.

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Wave hi, Old Glory.

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Miranda and Arizona collide; people win.

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Tear down this (not-so-big, not-so-beautiful) wall!

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Tiny state, big help.

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Motion carried, now the real fun begins.

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But who was really on trial?

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The most famous year in fiction.

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If the preamble was gunpowder, Lee just lit the match.

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Allies take the plunge.

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A rebel goes down, without a fight.

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Tanks and students collide, and the students do not win.

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Tanks and students close to collision.

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Further down the road to democracy, or not.

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Turn right onto Civil Liberties and just go straight forward.

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Cars, back in the USSR?

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Rosemary, that's for remembrance.

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Give me liberty, or give me death!

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Spy, famous spy.

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Like Twitter, on the water.

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Exactly what it sounds like.

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Or a very unconventional constitution?

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Just put your whatchamacallit right there on the dotted line.

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Founding Father has trouble finding his way.

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If you love something, let it go.

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If anyone objects to this union, speak now...

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On... a podcast.

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On the importance of being honest - with yourself.

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Forget polio for what really crippled him.

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Turns out, school choice mattered.

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America flirts with her first temptation on the Dark Side.

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The preamble to the prelude to the revolution.

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Join, or die.  Like, literally.

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or, HUAC the heck.

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A fish called Andr-a

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Pitting Englishmen against tyranny.

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They should have tried reading books instead of burning them.

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A snake rears its not-so-ugly head.

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Everybody had that rebellious phase.

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In my review of myself, I see I have been very good this year.

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It's tough living in the middle.

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Celebrate Cinco de Mayo with a bunch of monkeys.

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May the Fourth be with them, indeed.

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What were the first 33?

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We don't need no censorship, actually.

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More like 100 suckers.

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The first day of the first president of the first democracy.

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Freedom was just the first step.

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And only the criminals will have the guns.

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Turns out Haiti hated slavery.

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James scrapes out a narrow foothold.

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Just Cowperthwaite-a-minute, before you go meddling in the economy.

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The Apples of Catholicism did not mesh well with the Oranges of the Dutch.

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Live free or write hard.

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Or lack of one, anyway.

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Heavy traffic in the gulf stream, northbound, plan accordingly.

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Out on the green at dawn, par five.

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Who's coming, again?

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So it started an era, apparently.

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Forget buying the stamp from commissary.

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The story of the square begins here.

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Art inspires life, eventually.

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Renaissance man arrives slightly late for the Renaissance.

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Resolved: We leave.

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White Walker, dead ahead.

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Virginia is for who, exactly?

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It would bring no relief nor be all that appropriate.

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From being property to owning it.

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Add salt to taste.

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The defendant, Critic of All, steps forward.

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Some day, some bloody Sunday.

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Are we or are we not our own worst witness?

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Wilson reaches for glory while kids reach for their guns.

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Take a puff.  Quick.

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The third in the new trilogy.

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I am but a humble podcast.

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The real debate is whether you can wear white shoes after it.

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Europe gets a Spain-sized preview of the coming meltdown.

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In case the first three didn't make it clear enough.

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Little island, big heart.

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Home of the Catholic Free.

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Three times is NOT the charm.

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Will that be liberty or death on the side?

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Burke the trend.

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Back for a retry.

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The little book that started the big war.

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C right into the House.

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More like Amnesty Island.

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They could finally tell when they weren't wanted.

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While in the same neighborhood as Guilford...

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On the road to Yorktown.

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Turn right at Gettysburg, can't miss?

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Russia blows its last chance, literally.

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Just a pinch.

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Ratcheting up the hatchet.

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Meet the Conductor.

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Another Adam becomes the father of all.

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Rule #1: Don't Panic

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A lot of people set off on a very long journey.

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Dredfully short-sighted decision accelerates the Civil War.

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They slayed their own chances more than actual people.

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Will pens the future of one colony.

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Men compromise with others' lives.

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The lone star rises.

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USA 1.0

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GOP: "I was born in a log cabin."

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2-2 means 2 terms, and don't you forget it.

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The last in the big trilogy.

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Revolving up to the next level.

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Real friendship emerges.

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Not much of a friend-ship after all.

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Don't hit the snooze button on this prez just yet.

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How to destroy a country in ten easy steps.

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Riding down under to get people out from under.  

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Order 66, meet 9066.

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You better Huck Finnish it before class tomorrow.

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The Catholic Church sure didn't want to talk about Bruno.

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Generosity, or just shuffling some seeds around?

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A true angel of mercy.  

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International love note, ahoy.

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And yet he moved.

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That's where you don't want to go, to get away from it all.  

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Another ones bites the... sand.

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Would you like some dumfries with that freedom?

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With great power comes great encroachment.

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Also, sure to be known as James the Worst.

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All the way down the Nile-ssissippi

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Pack this.  

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On the causality of wisdom of thought and freedom of same.

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The most taxing of codicils.  

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007, license to... braid?

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Yelp record: slowest service ever.  

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Comrade Mickey D, welcome!

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Monticello's garden runs deep and long.

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Maybe it should have been Race v Alabama.

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What are you gonna do tonight, Cato?... Same thing I do every night, my friend.  Write a letter.

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Turns out winning a war, not work, will set you free.  

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On your left.  

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Denial is just a thing people in power do in Egypt.

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I really do think I can.

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No taxation without representation?  How about, no tax ON representation?

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Big Mac, stand back.

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What good does it do to speak up if you can't do it with someone?

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What liberty lovers should do is, like, unionize or something.

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Even lowlanders can aim high.

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If it please the court...

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The most interesting battle in a very uninteresting place.

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JanuaDry for everyone, whether they like it or not.  

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Hello, podcasters.

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Nice and to the point.  

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And you can have any salary you want to, so long as it's black.  Or white.  

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Where new rights go to die. 

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Who else can fight-fight the bad-bad?  

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He was a real Paine in the government's ass.  

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Big bad corporation vs little guy - but who's really the villain?

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Your guide to Austria, or at least its economics.  

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Talk about cracking the code.

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Spring came early in '68.

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Maybe it was the glasses that helped him see ahead of his time.

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Wilson copies more than Europe's wars.

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The one thing we should always declare a trade war on.

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It was one lit NYE.

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Stepping out.

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Meet the fist.

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Iron fist, velvet glove.

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George sets a couple of precedents this week.

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Turn right at Trenton to reach war's victory.

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Caesar had his Rubicon.

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If you build it ...

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These are the times that try mens' souls.

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His heart did not, in fact, grow three sizes that day.  

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The worst of the worst on the naughty list gets what's coming to him.  

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Back of the bus?  How bout 'none of the bus'?

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The revolution begins - in a box.  

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Someone points out the concentration camps are the wrong side of the Atlantic.

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Generally speaking, this is terrible.

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One lump or two?

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Happy 10th, literally.  

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The lesser-known prequel.

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Talk about crossing from the wrong side of the tracks.  

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The oldest civilization in the world catches on to the newest trend.

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Welcome to the Gulag.  

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How to eat fried justice?

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One woman dares to bare in the name of fair.  

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Some countries got a dose of Russia a little earlier than most.

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Chickpea, the statesman.

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Lucky #13 finally states the obvious out loud.

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Closing Time... for stupid laws.

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The rebellion begins to organize.

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Facts are stubborn after all.

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"Fine."  

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Oh, she parked it.

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Living is the number one cause of dying, also.

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Rebel with a cause!