History Written By The Losers: Recent Episodes
History Written By The Losers
Join us as we take a deep dive into history, but with a little change: from the viewpoint of the oppressed, the forgotten, and the lost. From times of war, to peace, to everything in between, come with us as we discover what the losers really have to say.
How much is a college degree really worth? Is higher education still considered a vehicle for social mobility in the modern era? What barriers to accessing college still have legacies that extend into modern admissions and education? Join us as we educate ourselves on the answers to all of these questions and more in order to discover who wins and loses in the game of higher education.
Check out the following links for more information:
https://www.britannica.com/topic/education/Lay-education-and-the-lower-schools#ref47520https://www.mastersavenue.com/articles-guides/good-to-know/the-10-oldest-universities-in-the-worldhttps://dailyhistory.org/How_did_higher_education_develop_in_the_United_Stateshttps://scholar.harvard.edu/goldin/files/the_shaping_of_higher_education_the_formative_years_in_the_united_states_1890-1940.pdfhttps://www.npr.org/2014/03/18/290868013/how-the-cost-of-college-went-from-affordable-to-sky-highwww.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2018/09/why-is-college-so-expensive-in-america/569884/https://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/higher-ed-gamma/11-lessons-history-higher-edhttps://www.nas.org/academic-questions/20/2/review_the_chosen_the_hidden_history_of_admission_and_exclusion_by_jerome_karabel
After a break, we are back with a new episode about one of the most prevalent modern day issues: abortion. Our conversation isn't meant to change opinions or force beliefs- we simply seek to explore to broader history behind reproductive healthcare through a lens that many of us don't often look through. Join us on this journey as we uncover a piece of the history that may be the key to our futures.
As always, check out the following links for more information:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10297561/
https://www.plannedparenthoodaction.org/issues/abortion/abortion-central-history-reproductive-health-care-america
https://www.cnn.com/2016/06/23/health/abortion-history-in-united-states/index.html
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12340403/
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/roe-v-wade-the-tumultuous-history-that-led-to-the-landmark-ruling
https://www.americanprogress.org/article/scarlet-letters-getting-the-history-of-abortion-and-contraception-right/
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/roe-v-wade-the-tumultuous-history-that-led-to-the-landmark-ruling
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2022/05/10/abortion-history-right-white-evangelical-1970s-00031480
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8274866/
https://www.npr.org/2022/05/08/1097514184/how-abortion-became-a-mobilizing-issue-among-the-religious-right
https://www.guttmacher.org/state-policy/explore/state-policies-later-abortions
We kick off the new year by discussing the very topic that inspired us to start this podcast: school curricula in the US. The history of the history we teach is in schools is intriguing, surprising, and occasionally hilarious. Join as as we look back on it from the losers' point of view!
Join us for our November episode as we break down misconceptions about Native Americans-- from Central and South America. The Aztecs and Incas had incredibly complex cultures, but most of that has been lost in the narrative written by those who took their land. We'll piece together everything we do know about these empires to trace their true histories.
Join us for a spooky episode and Season 3 opener as we discuss witch trials throughout history. Starting in the Middle Ages and continuing into present day, witch hunts have been shrouded in mystery for many. We discuss all of the hideen details and finally discover why witches are much more than just a Halloween costume.
Thank you for all of your support on Season 2! We hope you enjoy hearing the history of this season through our bloopers!
As a thank you for all of your support on Season 2, we're releasing some extra content that never made our final cuts. From Season 2- Episode 9, here's our conversation on frontier genocide.
Check out the following link for more information:https://www.facinghistory.org/holocaust-and-human-behavior/chapter-2/imperialism-conquest-and-mass-murder
We're currently living through one of the deadliest pandemics in history. But what can previous outbreaks teach us about handling the coronavirus? Join us as we travel back to the earliest epidemics and move through time to learn about plagues that wiped out entire populations (and pick up some tips for how to handle ours).
Check out the following links for more information:
https://www.history.com/topics/middle-ages/pandemics-timeline
https://www.publichealthonline.org/worst-global-pandemics-in-history/
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/05/black-death-fatal-flu-past-pandemics-show-why-people-margins-suffer-most
https://www.pbs.org/gunsgermssteel/variables/smallpox.html
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/04/disease-has-never-been-just-disease-native-americans/610852/
https://www.history.com/news/1918-pandemic-spanish-flu-censorship
https://www.chop.edu/centers-programs/vaccine-education-center/vaccine-history/developments-by-yearhttps://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019/covid-19-vaccines
The U. S. Civil Rights Movement, anti-apartheid protests, fight for Indian independence, and women's suffrage campaigns are all generally characterized by the nonviolent change they enacted. But if we look a little deeper, we can find bloody battle scars that have been buried beneath the rest of the history. Join us as we learn about Gandhi's violent counterparts, feminist bombers, the Black Panthers (not the ones from Wakanda), and some of the most notable violent resistance movements around the world.
Check out the following links for more information:
https://www.history.com/topics/civil-rights-movement/black-panthers
https://www.npr.org/transcripts/986561396
https://www.history.com/news/free-school-breakfast-black-panther-party
https://www.facinghistory.org/confronting-apartheid/chapter-3/introduction
https://www.sahistory.org.za/article/armed-struggle-anti-apartheid-struggle-accelerates-1984-1990
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/01/magazine/the-forgotten-colonial-forces-of-world-war-ii.html
https://www.asianstudies.org/publications/eaa/archives/give-me-blood-and-i-will-give-you-freedom-bhagat-singh-subhas-chandra-bose-and-the-uses-of-violence-in-indias-independence-movement/
https://www.bl.uk/votes-for-women/articles/suffragettes-violence-and-militancy#
https://acleddata.com/2020/09/03/demonstrations-political-violence-in-america-new-data-for-summer-2020/
https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2019/02/why-nonviolent-resistance-beats-violent-force-in-effecting-social-political-change/
To celebrate June as Pride Month, we delve into the history of the LGBTQ+ community and the advances they have made in spite of oppression throughout large portions of history. We do our best to answer why Pride Month is so important by going through history from the very first queer figures all they way to modern issues faced by the community.
Check out the following links for more information:
https://www.glaad.org/publications/pridekit
https://www.history.ac.uk/library/collections/sexuality#lgbtq-general-works
https://americanhistory.si.edu/blog/queer-coins?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OSayCanYouSee+%28O+Say+Can+You+See%3F-+National+Museum+of+American+History+Blog%29
https://www.apa.org/pi/lgbt/resources/history
https://www.lgbtqhistory.org/lgbt-rights-timeline-in-american-history/
https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/black-history-month-17-lgbtq-black-pioneers-who-made-history-n1130856
https://www.avert.org/professionals/hiv-social-issues/homophobiahttps://www.thetrevorproject.org/
In February 1899, Rudyard Kipling wrote and published a poem about his beliefs on the duty of the white man to 'educate' and 'civilize' other cultures and countries. We discuss how those lines, and the doctrine of imperialism it fueled, had real effects on the world as we know it, as well as how the "White Man's Burden" is still alive in the minds of people today.
Check out the following links for more information:
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5478/
http://peacehistory-usfp.org/1898-1899
https://scholarblogs.emory.edu/violenceinafrica/sample-page/the-philosophy-of-colonialism-civilization-christianity-and-commerce/
https://nzhistory.govt.nz/culture/pre-1840-contact/frontier-of-chaos
https://pulitzercenter.org/projects/signs-your-identity-forced-assimilation-education-indigenous-youth
https://www.nyudri.org/aidwatcharchive/2009/09/how-the-british-invented-%E2%80%9Cdevelopment%E2%80%9D-to-keep-the-empire-and-substitute-for-racism
https://projecthumanities.asu.edu/content/cultural-appropriation
https://intentionaltravelers.com/problems-with-mission-trips/https://synapse.ucsf.edu/articles/2016/05/10/do-healthcare-mission-trips-cause-more-harm-good
From ancient times to present day, women have served as leaders in just about every way. Listen along as we uncover some of their most remarkable hidden histories and attempt to answer the question on all of our minds: "Do countries really do better when women are leading them?"
Check out the following links for more information:
https://www.thoughtco.com/ancient-women-rulers-3528391
https://www.thoughtco.com/queen-anna-nzinga-3529747
https://www.britannica.com/list/6-of-the-first-women-heads-of-state
https://www.history.com/news/women-leaders-elected
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/28/opinion/sunday/suffrage-movement-racism-black-women.html
https://www.unwomen.org/en/what-we-do/leadership-and-political-participation/facts-and-figures
https://hbr.org/2019/02/research-are-women-better-at-leading-diverse-countries-than-men
https://qz.com/1877836/do-countries-with-female-leaders-truly-fare-better-with-covid-19/
https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20210108-why-do-we-still-distrust-women-leaders
Do we really know what we're eating? Do we know what it took to get to this point? Join us as we journey from the Columbian Exchange to the Age of Industrialization to the crazy diet fads of today and stop to learn about the people who were left behind and left out as one of the most vital resources for life became a commodity and an industry.
Check out the following links for more information:
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/121026-human-cooking-evolution-raw-food-health-science
http://www.foodsystemprimer.org/food-production/industrialization-of-agriculture/
https://www.eater.com/2019/1/25/18197352/american-farming-racism-us-agriculture-history
https://thecounter.org/usda-black-farmers-discrimination-tom-vilsack-reparations-civil-rights/
https://blog.ucsusa.org/karen-perry-stillerman/big-food-companies-spend-big-money-in-hopes-of-shaping-the-dietary-guidelines-for-americans
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/09/13/493739074/50-years-ago-sugar-industry-quietly-paid-scientists-to-point-blame-at-fat
https://www.theverge.com/2016/1/7/10726606/2015-us-dietary-guidelines-meat-and-soda-lobbying-power
https://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/flash/2015/from-corgis-to-corn-a-brief-look-at-the-long-history-of-gmo-technology/
https://skyterrawellness.com/history-of-dieting-part-2/
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/rebuilding-the-food-pyramid/#:~:text=After%201992%20more%20and%20more,complex%20carbohydrates%20good%20for%20you.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2021/03/13/how-covid-relief-bill-aims-to-help-socially-disadvantaged-farmers/4637103001/
Listen along as we delve deep into what the second World War looked like from the losing side. Joining us throughout the episode is leading expert on the Holocaust and Modern Germany, Dr. Donald McKale (author of Hitler’s Shadow War, Hitler: The Survival Myth, and War by Revolution, and a professor emeritus at Clemson University). From post-war attitudes, to the atomic bombs, to key battles, we'll finally get to learn about WWII's hidden history.
Check out the following links for more information:
https://hub.jhu.edu/magazine/2015/summer/germany-japan-reconciliation/https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/04/atom-bomb-pr/523413/
https://theconversation.com/the-little-known-history-of-secrecy-and-censorship-in-wake-of-atomic-bombings-45213
https://www.pri.org/stories/2019-03-26/seven-decades-after-bomb-children-hiroshima-victims-still-worry-about-hidden
To celebrate February as Black History Month, we've lined up some special features on important Black figures who have shaped our world– some who you may know, and many you've probably never heard of. Join us to celebrate their historical achievements in the "Lost Losers" extra!
Check out the following links for more information:
https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/black-history-facts
https://www.biography.com/news/claudette-colvin-rosa-parks-bus-boycott
https://www.nationalpeanutboard.org/news/16-surprising-facts-about-george-washington-carver.htm#:~:text=George%20Washington%20Carver%20was%20the%20first%20African%20American%20to%20have,the%20World's%20Fair%20in%201893.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/education/2021/02/07/black-history-month-utah-school-backlash-ogden-naacp/4429616001/
With all of the major issues we face, it's easy to imagine the end of the world, whether it be by fire, storm, virus, war, or even aliens. But history has shown us that when they collapse, civilizations often do so in similar ways. Join us as we discover why some of the strongest societies fell and what their declines can teach us about our own!
Check out the following links for more information:
https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2020/02/new-clues-about-how-and-why-the-maya-culture-collapsed/
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/why-did-the-mayan-civilization-collapse-a-new-study-points-to-deforestation-and-climate-change-30863026/
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zxn3r82/articles/z8b987h
https://courses.lumenlearning.com/suny-hccc-worldcivilization/chapter/disappearance-of-the-indus-valley-civilization/
https://www.forbes.com/sites/priyashukla/2019/02/28/human-poop-reveals-that-climate-change-caused-the-fall-of-cahokia-a-medieval-native-american-city/?sh=bc568ee40bef
https://www.bnd.com/news/local/article227245269.html
https://www.sapiens.org/archaeology/easter-island-demise/
https://www.nature.com/news/easter-island-statues-walked-out-of-quarry-1.11613#:~:text=Easter%20Island's%20gargantuan%20stone%20statues,Journal%20of%20Archaeological%20Science1.
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/11/why-did-greenland-s-vikings-disappear
Join us as we discuss the wars that nobody talks about and how they shape our larger historical narrative in more ways than we understand.
Check out the following links for more information:
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/81988/6-american-wars-you-didnt-learn-about-school
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/8/27/1870917/-Hidden-History-The-Watermelon-War
https://medium.com/history-of-yesterday/u-s-invasion-of-korea-1871-5755b375a458
https://allthatsinteresting.com/banana-wars
https://www.arcgis.com/apps/Cascade/index.html?appid=e275b96e5120481daed9b0ba533f9721
https://www.uen.org/utah_history_encyclopedia/p/POSEY_WAR.shtml
Join us in this quick extra, the first edition in our bonus episode series, The Lost Losers. Originally recorded during our War on Drugs episode (S2:E2), we discuss the stigma around prisons and what it's really like living behind bars. Be sure to tune in!
Check out the following links for more information:
https://newrepublic.com/article/153473/everyday-brutality-americas-prisons
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/riot-at-attica-prison
https://timeline.com/attica-riot-prison-conditions-fbfdf96620f9
We dive deep into one of the most important and controversial topics of this day and age: American Democracy. Listen along to this special episode as we break down each part of the USA's election and democratic process and decide whether or not America is the nation that the Founding Fathers envisioned it could be. No matter what country you're from, it's sure to be an episode full of discoveries.
Check out the following links for more information:
https://www.thoughtco.com/compromises-of-the-constitutional-convention-105428
https://www.history.com/news/how-the-great-compromise-affects-politics-today
https://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2013/02/26/the-constitutions-immoral-compromise/the-union-wasnt-worth-the-three-fifths-compromise-on-slavery
https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=17988106
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2020/1/30/20997046/constitution-electoral-college-senate-popular-vote-trump
https://www.vox.com/21142223/electoral-college-2020-election-jesse-wegman
https://www.history.com/news/how-the-party-of-lincoln-won-over-the-once-democratic-south
https://www.pbs.org/independentlens/unreasonableman/twoparty.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2019/07/26/what-we-get-wrong-about-southern-strategy/
https://grist.org/politics/asymmetrical-polarization-the-lefts-gone-left-but-the-rights-gone-nuts/
https://nlihc.org/resource/history-voter-suppression
https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/citizens-united-explained
https://www.opensecrets.org/pacs/pacfaq.php
https://fortune.com/2020/11/06/stacey-abrams-georgia-flips-blue-biden-harris-organizers-progressives/
Ever wonder where all this law and order rhetoric comes from or why Black and Hispanic incarceration rates are so much higher than those of other races (in America)? Join us as we dig deep into our history with the War on Drugs and try to answer these questions, and more, together. As always, there's more to the story than you may think.
Check out the following links for more information:
https://www.britannica.com/topic/war-on-drugs
https://www.vox.com/2016/5/8/18089368/war-on-drugs-marijuana-cocaine-heroin-meth
https://www.cato.org/publications/policy-analysis/four-decades-counting-continued-failure-war-drugs
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https://www.drugpolicy.org/issues/race-and-drug-war
https://www.naacp.org/criminal-justice-fact-sheet/
https://www.aclu.org/issues/smart-justice/mass-incarceration
https://www.ncsl.org/research/health/state-medical-marijuana-laws.aspx
Kick off Season 2 with us as we talk about the stories of the Native Americans that we don't often hear, and discuss how we can help in fixing some of these injustices.
Check out the following links for more information:
https://www.culturalsurvival.org/publications/cultural-survival-quarterly/struggle-hawaiian-sovereignty-introduction
https://www.tribunal1965.org/en/atrocities-against-native-americans/
https://www.nationalgeographic.org/encyclopedia/native-americans-colonial-america/#:~:text=During%20the%20colonial%20period%2C%20Native,through%20both%20warfare%20and%20diplomacy.&text=Some%20famous%20alliances%20were%20formed,Indian%20War%20of%201754%E2%80%931763.
https://www.history.com/topics/native-american-history/trail-of-tears
https://www.nps.gov/trte/planyourvisit/index.htm
https://minorityrights.org/minorities/alaska-natives/
https://www.powwows.com/issues-and-problems-facing-native-americans-today/
To thank all of our listeners for their support on our first season, we wanted to release something special. Enjoy our bloopers!
How much trust do you put into published medical research? How much trust should you give it? Cap off our season with us as we explore the dark secrets of research and blurry lines of bioethics that have all too often been crossed.
The fall of the Soviet Union has always been lauded as a great win for the democratic and capitalistic world. But what really happened once one of the world's largest empires finally collapsed? Join us as we explore the vast number of conflicts that sprung from the eminent defeat of the USSR.
Come with us as we uncover a part of the rich history of the cradle of civilization: Africa. Moving across the continent, we learn about the hidden stories of independence movements in countries like South Africa, Algeria, Guinea, and more!
Come and join us as we discuss the true reason the sun never sets on the British Empire. Moving around the world and throughout time, we talk about the real effects that the country that once governed 1/4 of the world had on the people and land they 'conquered' and 'colonized'.
Join us this week for a deeper look at our school system in America and who loses out because of the way it is set up. We bust some myths, crack some jokes, and, as always, learn something new!
This week, we continue on our last episode's discussion of immigration into America. Come with us as we discover everything from the hidden pain of Japanese-Americans, how Mexicans-Americans were exploited during World War II, the surge of immigrants in the 60's, the effects of 9/11, and more!
This week, we discuss whether America lives up to its name of "The Melting Pot" and the real forces working against immigrants in the late 19th and early 20th century.
We kick off our first episode with two infamous men: Robert E. Lee and John C. Calhoun. Let's take a deeper look at these men from the perspective of those they oppressed and discover their ongoing impact on modern-day society.
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