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Ellis Tucci
Hidden History is a bi-weekly podcast by Ellis Tucci that covers the unknown, and often intentionally hidden, parts of our history. Whether it's on the CIA’s secret armies, the Lavender Scare, or the end of history itself, Hidden History has you covered. Follow Hidden History on Twitter: https://twitter.com/HiddnHistoryPod or support the show on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/hiddenhistorypod
In July 1933, two mysterious men approached one of the most decorated soldiers in American history with what initially appeared to be a simple proposal. He didn’t know it at the time, but Major General Smedley Butler, whose prominent career mirrored the rise of the American Empire, was being recruited into a sordid plan to overthrow President Franklin Roosevelt, and bring fascism to the United States. In this episode, take a deep look at the rise and expansion of Imperial America, and the time we came within a hair’s breadth of losing democracy.
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The Plot to Seize the White House, by Jules Archer: Link
Gangsters of Capitalism: Smedley Butler, the Marines, and the Making and Breaking of America’s Empire, by Jonathan Katz: Link
Maverick Marine: General Smedley D. Butler and the Contradictions of American Military History: Link
Websites
McKinley and the Spanish-American War: Link
The Signaling at Cuzco Well: Link
Marine Lieutenant Colonel Robert W. Huntington to Marine Colonel Charles Heywood, 6/17/1898: Link
Battle of Manila Bay, 1 May 1898: Link
Theodore Roosevelt, “The Strenuous Life” (10 April 1899): Link
Theodore Roosevelt: Confident Imperialist: Link
Review: Not so Benevolent Assimilation: The Philippine-American War: Link
McKinley's Benevolent Assimilation Proclamation: Link
The Insular Cases: A Comparative Historical Study of Puerto Rico, Hawai‘i, and the Philippines: Link
ASKS GEN. BUTLER TO EXPLAIN SPEECH; Secretary Adams Calls for a Full Report on His References to Nicaraguan Policy. NAVY OFFICIALS SILENT Stimson Also Refuses Comment on the General's Reputed Remarks at Pittsburgh Dec. 5.: Link
Mark Twain, To the Person Sitting in Darkness: Link
Gunboat USS Petrel: Link
Gunboat Callao: Link
The Opium Wars in China: Link
Yellow River Floods, Los Angeles Herald, Volume 26, Number 48, 17 November 1898: Link
Great Flood of the Huang-Ho River: Link
Wilhelm II: "Hun Speech" (1900): Link
Mahan, a “Place in the Sun,” and Germany's Quest for Sea Power: Link
The Liscum Bowl: Link
General Jacob H. Smith & the Philippine War’s Samar Campaign: Link
The Water Cure: Link
The Lobby- The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914: Link
Hepburn Suspects a Plot to Delay Building Canal: Link
Bunau-Varilla, Russia, and the Panama Canal: Link
The Strange Affair of the Taking of the Panama Canal Zone: Link
USS Nashville (PG 7) and the Building of the Panama Canal: Link
A Roundtable on John M. Thompson, Great Power Rising: Theodore Roosevelt and the Politics of U.S. Foreign Policy: Link
The New Japanese Treaty of Commerce and Navigation: Link
Gentlemen’s Agreement of 1907-1908: Link
Hemispheric Orientalism and the 1907 Pacific Coast Race Riots: Link
Museum of the City of San Francisco, Japanese and Korean Exclusion League- 1906: Link
Merchants, Mining, and Concessions on Nicaragua's Mosquito Coast: Reassessing the American Presence, 1893-1912: Link
American Policy in Nicaragua- Dawson Agreements—Brown Brothers Loan: Link
A Note on the Bryan-Chamorro Treaty and German Interest in a Nicaraguan Canal, 1914: Link
Riot at Cocoa Grove, Panama City, July 4, 1912: Link
The Wilson Administration and Panama, 1913-1921: Link
The Minister of the Netherlands to the Secretary of State- Determining Indemnities Owed to the United States by Panama: Link
CANAL IS OPENED BY WILSON'S FINGER; Gamboa Dike Blown Away as President in Washington Presses Button.: Link
U.S. ambassador plots against Mexican president, Feb. 16, 1913: Link
Henry Lane Wilson and the Overthrow of Madero: Link
El Porfiriato (1877-1911): Link
The structural evolution of the Golden Lane, Tampico embayment, Mexico: Link
Oil and Revolution in Mexico- Chapter 2: The Great Mexican Oil Boom: Link
Mr. De In Mexico: Link
Address to a Joint Session of Congress on the Tampico Incident: Link
April 20, 1914: Message Regarding Tampico Incident: Link
TWE Remembers: The Tampico Incident: Link
The Banana Wars: United States Intervention in the Caribbean, 1898–1934: Link
'Take Veracruz at Once'- USNI: Link
The Battle of Veracruz and the Medal of Honor: Link
How the U.S. Came to Dominate Haiti: Seizing the Gold: Link
Invade Haiti, Wall Street Urged. The U.S. Obliged.: Link
'The Greatest Heist In History': How Haiti Was Forced To Pay Reparations For Freedom: Link
How the U.S. Came to Dominate Haiti: Military Occupation: Link
HAITI, SMEDLEY BUTLER, AND THE RISE OF AMERICAN EMPIRE: Link
Freedom and Sovereignty: Notes on 1826 Haitian Rural Code: Link
The U.S. Occupation of Haiti, 1915-1934: Link
Americans and Chinese Communists, 1927–1945: A Persuading Encounter: Link
1927: 'China Marines' in Shanghai (photo): Link
Smedley D. Butler and Prohibition Enforcement in Philadelphia, 1924-1925: Link
The Machine, the Mayor, and the Marine:The Battle over Prohibition in Philadelphia, 1924–1925: Link
General Butler Cleans Up: Link
BUTLER NEAR BLOWS WITH A MAGISTRATE; Former Wants Philadelphia Ritz-Carlten Patrons to Tell About Liquor Seizure.: Link
An Alternative to Kuomintang—Communist Collaboration: Sun Yat-sen and Hong Kong, January–June 1923: Link
The Nationalist Party in Power: Unification of China Under Kuomintang Programs: Link
The Birth of Communist Party and Soviet Constitution between China and Hungary: Link
Soviet Diplomacy and the First United Front in China: Link
Before and After the May Fourth Movement: Link
Principles and Profits: Standard Oil Responds to Chinese Nationalism, 1925-1927: Link
SS PRESIDENT MCKINLEY Painting: Link
December 7, 1929, Buffalo Courier-Express, Author Asks for Senate Quiz of Butler's Speech; Sinclair Lewis says general confirmed charges against marines in Haiti, Nicaragua: Link
A Mussolini Alfa Romeo Mystery: Link
Interview with E.Z. Dimitman, June 23, 1982: Link
Bonus Army- Oregon Encyclopedia: Link
Walter W. Waters, Commander of the Bonus Expeditionary Force: Link
Fox Movietone News Collection- Butler addresses demonstration--outtakes: Link
Smedley Butler’s fiery speech to World War I veterans is still relevant today: Link
Bonus Expeditionary Forces March on Washington- National Park Service: Link
Zangara's Attempted Assassination of Franklin D. Roosevelt: Link
Roosevelt's Gold Program: Link
War Is A Racket (1935) Full Text: Link
The American Legion 15th National Convention: official program, 1933: Link
He Put the Funds in Our Foundation: How Robert Sterling Clark Got His Money: Link
“Every Citizen a Sentinel! Every Home a Sentry Box!” The Sentinels of the Republic and the Gendered Origins of Free-Market Conservatism: Link
Gerald L. K. Smith: Minister of Hate: Link
The National Committee to Uphold Constitutional Government, 1937-1941: Link
The Nye Revelations: Link
FDR and the Nye Committee: A Reassessment: Link
Frantz Fanon, Concerning Violence: Link
On April 5, 1976, the richest man in the world died of medical neglect on board a jet bound for Houston. At the time of his death, Howard Hughes had not been seen in public for nearly twenty years. With a massive fortune that enabled his worsening mental disorders, Hughes, once famous the world over, receded from the public eye, and for the last decades of his life, ruled a vast and often unsuccessful business empire confined entirely to his bed. In time the expansive and opaque system that Hughes engineered to ensure his own isolation grew out of his own control, and as he sat in his penthouse, seeing only seven people in fifteen years, an army of self serving executives made decisions on his affairs entirely without his knowledge. While Hughes seemed to lose money on every transaction, he made a lot of his employees and their friends very wealthy. This story is a tragedy- the tale of a man who was both created and destroyed thanks to his proximity to great wealth, culminating in his own death in conditions so deplorable his corpse had to be identified via fingerprint by the FBI. In his 70 years, Howard Hughes can certainly be said to have left a colorful mark on American history. This is that story.
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Books
Howard Hughes: His Life and Madness: Link
Howard, the Amazing Mr. Hughes: Link
Hughes: The Private Diaries, Memos and Letters: Link
Howard Hughes: Power, Paranoia, and Palace Intrigue, Revised and Expanded: Link
Websites
Howard Hughes Lives: Link
A Peek Into the Mind of Howard Hughes: Link
This Day in Aviation History, April 17, 1944: Link
Howard Hughes Memo Disclosed In Controversy Over Gift to Nixon: Link
The Secret Memos of Howard Hughes: Link
Thomas Quits Post As Chief of T.W.A.; Charles S. Thomas Resigns Post As Trans-World Airlines Chief: Link
Hughes’ Neighbor Fed Up, Leaves Hotel in London: Link
Hughes and 4 Associates Indicted in Air West Case: Link
Hughes Estate Agrees to Pay Airline's Stockholders $30 Million: Link
Prize-Winning 'Muckraker' Jack Anderson Dies: Link
SUSPECT GIVES UP IN HUGHES THEFT: Link
Howard Hughes at the End: Contradictions in Accounts: Link
Jury Divvies Howard Hughes' Fortune After an Heir Raid in Texas Court: Link
Music
Howard Hughes’ Blues, performed by John Hartford: Link
On June 5, 1968, Robert Kennedy was gunned down in the back room of a hotel kitchen just minutes after it seemed he had secured the 1968 Democratic nomination for President. The man changed with, and sentenced to death for, Kennedy’s murder was a 24 year old Palestinian American named Sirhan Sirhan. From the very beginning, it was clear that something was wrong with official story. In this episode, we dive deep and reexamine the evidence of the case to determine who really killed Robert Kennedy.
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Who Killed Robert Kennedy? | Al Jazeera World: Link
The Second Gun: Link
June 5, 1968: Robert F. Kennedy's last speech: Link
The Bobby Kennedy assassination tape: Were 13 shots fired or only 8?: Link
Pease, Lisa. A Lie Too Big to Fail: The Real History of the Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy. United States: Feral House, (n.d.).
Did L.A. police and prosecutors bungle the Bobby Kennedy assassination?: Link
New Evidence Implicates CIA, LAPD, FBI and Mafia as Plotters in Elaborate “Hit” Plan to Prevent RFK From Ever Reaching White House: Link
New evidence challenges official picture of Kennedy shooting: Link
RFK Assassination Witness Denies Recanting ‘Polka Dot Dress’ Story: Link
Man gets 8-year sentence on weapons charge: Link
The Robert Kennedy Assassination: Link
How did a shootout between two undercover cops on an LA freeway in 1997 lead to the discovery, and subsequent coverup, of one of the largest and most sinister networks of police crime and corruption in modern American History? Learn about Kevin Gaines, Suge Knight, Versace shirts, bank robberies, drug dealer cops, the Rampart Scandal, and more in this episode of Hidden History.
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PBS, Rampart Scandal Timeline: Link
PBS, The Outcome Of Rampart Scandal Investigations: Link
The Murder of the Notorious B.I.G.: Link
Cop Shoot Cop: Link
4 Officers Back Tales of Parties After Shootings: Link
Rafael Perez’s Statement to the court: Link
Mugshots: Rafael Perez - LAPD's Notorius Cop: Link
LAPD Detective Frank Lyga on Killing Police Officer Kevin Gaines: Link
Ex-LAPD Officer Sentenced in Bank of America Robbery - Los Angeles Times: Link
Ex-LAPD Officer Is Stabbed in Prison - Los Angeles Times: Link
2nd-Oldest Barracks in U.S. Closes : Marines Won't Be Defending Maine Anymore - Los Angeles Times: Link
A Brief History of the Consent Decree: Link
What happens when your home is built on top of 20,000 tons of toxic chemical and radioactive waste? What about the park? The playground? Your child’s school? These questions were all too real for the residents of one sleepy Niagara Falls suburb, little they know they were in the fight of their lives. Learn more about the Love Canal disaster in this week’s episode.
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Making Love Canal: Link
Love Canal & Lois Gibbs 35 Years Later: Link
ABC News Close-Up: The Killing Ground (1979): Link
Residents say Love Canal chemicals continue to make them sick: Link
A history of the Love Canal disaster, 1893 to 1998: Link
There’s No Love Lost for Entrepreneur Who Envisioned Model City: Link
The International Boundary Water Treaty: Link
Love Canal - Public Health Time Bomb: Link
Love Canal: A Special Report to the Governor & Legislature: April 1981: Link
Lawsuits: Love Canal still oozes 35 years later: Link
On February 29, 2004, American troops landed in Haiti to depose the country’s first democratically elected president. Who was Jean-Bertrand Aristide, why was he overthrown by two (2) US-backed coups, and what role does it play in the context of greater US-Haiti relations?
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Lest we forget the Ottawa Initiative on Haiti: Link
New documents detail how Canada helped plan 2004 coup d’état in Haiti: Link
The other regime change: Link
A Haitian Leader of Paramilitaries Was Paid by C.I.A.: Link
Reparation day: Link
An Interview with Jean-Bertrand Aristide: Link
U.S. is Still Undermining Haiti: Link
Bush’s man for Cuba author of the Haitian disaster: Link
Haiti Human Rights Investigation: November 11-21, 2004: Link
The 2004 coup d’état in Haiti: Canada’s legacy: Link
Aristide says U.S. deposed him in 'coup d'etat': Link
Aristide accuses U.S. of forcing his ouster: Link
In Haiti: Link
An Interview with Robert Fatton: Link
25 Years After 'Operation Uphold Democracy,' Experts Say the Oft-Forgotten U.S. Military Intervention Still Shapes Life in Haiti: Link
You’ve seen it- a black flag bearing the silhouette of a forlorn prisoner, emblazoned with the letters POW MIA. The enduring myth of the missing Vietnam POWs, symbolized by this flag, is a conspiracy theory that has persisted into the current day, but its roots can be traced back to the political schemes of Richard Nixon. What’s the story behind the POW MIA flag and the right wing mass movement that inspired it?
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The Enduring Cult of the Vietnam ‘Missing in Action’: Link
The Story Behind the POW/MIA Flag: Link
The Myth of the Lost POWs: Link
Prisoners of hope : exploiting the POW/MIA myth in America: Link
The Vietnam myth that gave us all those ‘Rambo’ movies: Link
Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency: Link
Review: Nixon as Madman: Link
VIETNAM: The Other Prisoners: Link
Americans Missing In Southeast Asia, Final Report: Link
Colonel Gritz's Dubious Mission: Link
On July 16, 1976, the worst nuclear accident in American history- the second worst in the world- took place at a uranium mill in Navajo Nation. 94,000,000 gallons of nuclear sludge, and over 1000 tons of uranium tailings rushed into the Puerco River when an dam failed at the United Nuclear Corporation’s Church Rock Mine. Though the disaster poisoned thousands of Navajo people in the surrounding areas, contaminating hundreds of square miles with cancer causing radioactive waste, the victims were given $2000 each and left to die. UNC would go on to clean up just 1% of the spill, and to this day 85% of the radiation remains. What was the Church Rock Mill disaster, and why have you probably never heard of it?
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Navajos Battle for Environmental Justice, Church Rock Spill: Link
Forgotten nuclear accident in Church Rock: Link
Remembering the largest radioactive spill in U.S. history: Link
Church Rock, America’s Forgotten Nuclear Disaster, Is Still Poisoning Navajo Lands 40 Years Later: Link
On Poisoned Ground: Link
Navajo Nation: Cleaning Up Abandoned Uranium Mines: Link
Uranium Processing: Link
A Brief History of: The Church Rock Uranium Mill Disaster (Short Documentary): Link
How the US poisoned Navajo Nation: Link
UNC Resources At Odds With New Mexico Over Uranium: Link
Northeast Church Rock Mine: Link
On November 10, 1995, the government of Nigeria, at the urging of Royal Dutch Shell, executed nine environmental and indigenous rights activists known as the Ogoni 9. They had fought nonviolently to protect their ancestral home: a 400 square mile area of the Niger River Delta known as Ogoniland, which had been turned into hell on earth by decades of oil extraction. Who were the Ogoni 9, how did they fight back, and has there been any justice for these terrible crimes?
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Nigeria: Ogoni 9 activists remembered 25 years on: Link
Remembering Nigeria’s Ogoni 9, Murdered for Their Organizing Against Shell: Link
Nigeria: Shell complicit in the arbitrary executions of Ogoni Nine as writ served in Dutch court: Link
Dutch court will hear widows' case against Shell over deaths of Ogoni Nine: Link
The Case Against Shell: The Hanging of Ken Saro-Wiwa: Link
The final Trial of Ken Saro-Wiwa: Link
Faces Of Africa Ken Saro-Wiwa: All For My People: Link
Long-term effects of oil spills in Bodo, Nigeria: Link
Ken Saro-Wiwa / Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People: Link
Cleaning up Nigerian oil pollution could take 30 years, cost billions – UN: Link
Ogoni Bill of Rights: Link
Ken Saro-Wiwa trial proceedings to resume without adequate legal defense: Link
THE KEN SARO-WIWA TRIAL: A JUDICIAL TRAVESTY THAT MADE NIGERIA A COMMONWEALTH PARIAH: Link
It took five tries to hang Saro-Wiwa: Link
Ken-Saro Wiwa Killer Judge Becomes Acting Chief Judge Of Nigeria: Link
In August 1996, investigative reporter Gary Webb published a series of three articles that shined light on a vast network of international cocaine smuggling that had both caused to crack epidemic, and was sanctioned by the CIA. Though his reporting was meticulous and factual, major newspapers engaged in a massive campaign to discredit him and his work, culminating in Webb’s blacklisting from journalism followed by a tragic end. How was the CIA involved in the crack trade, what was Dark Alliance, and why was it suppressed? Find out in this episode.
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Say Hello to Rick Ross: Link
Dark Alliance, Part I, America's 'crack' plague has roots in Nicaragua war: Link
Dark Alliance, Part II, Shadowy origins of 'crack' epidemic: Link
Dark Alliance, Part III, War on drugs has unequal impact on black Americans: Link
How the CIA Watched Over the Destruction of Gary Webb: Link
CIA-Contra Crack Cocaine Controversy, Chapter 2, Part I: Link
CIA Reading Room, Managing a Nightmare: CIA Public Affairs and the Drug Conspiracy Story: Link
Gary Webb: In His Own Words (2002) | CIA Cocaine Dark Alliance: Link
Freeway Rick Ross Interview About CIA Involvement: Link
Written in Pain: Link
Episode 121: From 1945 to 1959, the United States brought 1600 Nazi scientists to America in order to leverage their knowledge against the Soviets. Many were unrepentant war criminals who had played active roles in the slave trade and the Holocaust almost all were given American citizenship and died peacefully as free men. How did this secret Nazi rescue program impact our modern world? How did the American government whitewash its role? (Hint: it’s anti-Communism)
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Annie Jacobsen, "Operation Paperclip": Link
Secret Agenda: The United States Government, Nazi Scientists, and Project Paperclip, 1945 to 1990: Link
U.S. coverup of Nazi scientists: Link
Alsos, Samuel A. Goudsmit: Link
Fighting Justice at Dachau: U.S. War Crimes Trial Policies and Cold War Politics in the Concentration Camp Trial of 'Nordhausen-Dora', 1947: Link
United States Army Investigation and Trial Records of War Criminals United Stales of America r. Kurt Andrae et al. (and Related Cases) April 27, 1945-June 11, 1958: Link
Remembering the Space Age, Chapter 5: Creating a Memory of the German Rocket Program for the Cold War: Link
Dr. Theodor H. Benzinger, 94, Inventor of the Ear Thermometer: Link
A Scientist's Nazi-Era Past Haunts Prestigious Space Prize: Link
How 2 Pro-Nazi Nobelists Attacked Einstein’s "Jewish Science" [Excerpt]: Link
Combined Intelligence Objectives Sub-Committee (CIOS) Reports, 1944 - 1945: Link
Wernher von Braun, the SS, and Concentration Camp Labor: Questions of Moral, Political, and Criminal Responsibility: Link
Thalidomide’s Secret Past: The Link with Nazi Germany: Link
Episode 120: Part 2 of 2. Throughout the Cold War, the CIA maintained a vast web of secret publications that it used to influence public thought and perceptions of the United States. Meanwhile back home, it funded successful attempts to remove politics and philosophy from American creative writing. Find out how the CIA manipulated writing and literature to its own anticommunist aims in this episode.
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How Iowa Flattened Literature: Link
How the CIA Helped Shape the Creative Writing Scene in America: Linkl
Saunders, Frances Stonor. The cultural cold war: The CIA and the world of arts and letters. New Press, The, 2013.
The CIA and the Cultural Cold War Revisited: Link
Pablo Neruda: the hidden story behind winning the Nobel: Link
The Paris Review: Boris Pasternak, The Art of Fiction No. 25: Link
Whitney, Joel. Finks: How the CIA Tricked the World's Best Writers. OR Books, 2017.
‘Workshops of Empire,’ by Eric Bennett: Link
Bennett, Eric. Workshops of Empire: Stegner, Engle, and American Creative Writing during the Cold War. University of Iowa Press, 2015.
Episode 119: Part 1 of 2. Throughout the 1950s, the CIA, through a number of secret fronts, provided funding and publicity for abstract modern art in the United States. Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko became arrows in the Cold War quiver, as the Agency turned them, and scores of other modern artists into unwitting agents of American propaganda. How and why did the CIA accomplish this, and what does it mean for the relationship between modernism and politics?
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How MoMA and the CIA Conspired to Use Unwitting Artists to Promote American Propaganda During the Cold War: Link
Art For Art’s Sake: Link
Modern art was CIA 'weapon': Link
How the CIA Secretly Used Jackson Pollock to Fight the Cold War: Link
The New American Painting, 1959: Link
The new American painting, as shown in eight European countries, 1958-1959: Link
An Era-Defining 1930s Mural of American Excess and Industry Is Revived: Link
Dickstein, Morris. Dancing in the dark: A cultural history of the Great Depression. WW Norton & Company, 2009.
Alfred Barr, ‘Introduction’, in The New American Painting, 1959: Link
The CIA and the Cultural Cold War Revisited: Link
Episode 118: Part 2 of 2. The American War in Afghanistan was defined by its cruelty, inhumanity, and futility. This episode takes a look at the history of Afghanistan in the 21st century, consumed by the shadow of America’s longest war.
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The Other Afghan Women: Link
The Kill Team Photos: Link
The CIA’s Afghan Death Squads: Link
US Marine sniper unit photographed with 'Nazi SS' flag: Link
The Taliban Peace Deal Might Have Been Had Many Years and Thousands of Lives Ago: Link
Bush rejects Taliban offer to hand Bin Laden over: Link
Obama's Pentagon Covered Up War Crimes in Afghanistan, Says Amnesty International: Link
US threatens to arrest ICC judges if they pursue Americans for Afghan war crimes: Link
Years later, a flattened Afghan village reflects on U.S. bombardment: Link
Spy in Disguise: Link
The Informants: Link
FACTSHEET: THE NYPD MUSLIM SURVEILLANCE PROGRAM: Link
THE NOT-ABOUT-IRAQI-OIL IRAQI OIL MAP: Link
The U.S. War in Afghanistan: Link
Agreement for Bringing Peace to Afghanistan: Link
Training Quick and Staffing Unfinished, Army Units Brace for Surging Taliban: Link
In Reversal, Obama Says U.S. Soldiers Will Stay in Afghanistan to 2017: Link
US soldiers 'killed Afghan civilians for sport and collected fingers as trophies': Link
U.S. Soldiers Told to Ignore Sexual Abuse of Boys by Afghan Allies: Link
Times Investigation: In U.S. Drone Strike, Evidence Suggests No ISIS Bomb: Link
Episode 117: It’s known as “The Graveyard of Empires,” and its history certainly lives up to the nickname— as news about Afghanistan is plastered across television screens throughout America, let’s take a look at the history of the country so many know so little about. Part 1 of 2.
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The Other Afghan Women: Link
The Kill Team Photos: Link
The CIA’s Afghan Death Squads: Link
US Marine sniper unit photographed with 'Nazi SS' flag: Link
The Taliban Peace Deal Might Have Been Had Many Years and Thousands of Lives Ago: Link
Remembering the Saur Revolution: Link
The Taliban indoctrinates kids with jihadist textbooks paid for by the U.S.: Link
Bush rejects Taliban offer to hand Bin Laden over: Link
Geopolitics, profit, and poppies: how the CIA turned Afghanistan into a failed narco-state: Link
Life of the Amir Dost Mohammad Khan of Kabul: Link
“If She Escapes She Will Publish Everything”: Lady Sale and the Media Frenzy of the First Anglo-Afghan War (1839–1842): Link
The Saur Revolution and After: Link
The Causes of the Second Anglo-Afghan War, a Probe into the Reality of the International Relations in Central Asia in the Second Half of the 19th Century: Link
Government and Society in Afghanistan: The Reign of Amir ‘Abd Al-Rahman Khan: Link
Storm-333: KGB and Spetsnaz seize Kabul, Soviet-Afghan War 1979: Link
Episode 116: On July 3, 1988, the USS Vincennes, an American cruiser, sailed into Iranian waters and launched a surface to air missile at Iran Air Flight 655, which it supposedly mistook for a fighter jet. Out of the 290 on board non survived. What were the events that led up to July 3rd, and how did the American government respond?
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George HW Bush and Ali Akbar Velayati address the United Nations: Link
The 8th Minute: The 'Forgotten' US Shootdown of Iranian Airliner Flight 655: Link
July 4, 1988 CBS News - Downing of Iran Air Flight 655 & Reagan & Ayatollah's Responses: Link
REAGAN APOLOGIZED TO IRAN FOR DOWNING OF JETLINER: Link
Iran Air Flight 655 and Beyond: Free Passage, Mistaken Self-Defense, and State Responsibility (Paywall): Link
The Downing of Iran Air Flight 655: Highlighting the Need for International Adjudication of Damages (Paywall): Link
Storm Center: The U.S.S. Vincennes and Iran Air Flight 655: Link
Iran remembers 290 passengers of Iran Air flight 655: Link
Episode 115: Throughout the Cold War, the United States, through the CIA, funded, supplied, and protected a vast continental network of right-wing death squads that spanned South America. This genocidal collaboration between the CIA and six US-backed dictatorships was known as Operation Condor. In its wake, it left 80,000 dead, and 400,000 more disappeared into secret prisons. Learn about the life and legacy of Operation Condor in this week’s episode.
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Reviewed Work: State Violence and Genocide in Latin America: The Cold War Years (Paywall): Link
Argentina and “Los Desaparecidos”: Link
Kissinger backed dirty war against left in Argentina: Link
The Chicago Boys in Chile: Economic Freedom's Awful Toll: Link
My Case Against Pinochet: Link
Terror on Embassy Row, Revisited: Link
‘This was not an accident. This was a bomb.’: Link
The Regime of Alfredo Stroessner (Paywall): Link
How Paraguay's 'Archive of Terror' put Operation Condor in focus: Link
Episode 114: On November 14, 1974, a labor activist and chemical worker named Karen Silkwood left a union meeting and set out to blow the whistle to a reporter from the New York Times. She was never seen alive again. Who killed Karen Silkwood?
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Museum remembers Karen Silkwood: Link
The Killing of Karen Silkwood: The Story Behind The Kerr-McGee Plutonium Case, Second Edition: Link
Public Health and the Law, the Case of Karen Silkwood: Link
Lamar University, notable alumni: Link
Forty years later, Silkwood's children reflect: Link
Nuclear Fuel Plant Mystery- Nature Magazine, 1975: Link
Karen Silkwood: Disillusioned: Link
Karen Silkwood Was Right in Plutonium Scandal- Rolling Stone, 1977: Link
Malignant Giant: The Nuclear Industry’s Terrible Power and How It Silenced Karen Silkwood: Link
The Life and Accidental (?) Death of Karen Silkwood: Link
Episode 113: Throughout the Cold War the CIA organized, funded, and supplied a network of secret armies across Europe. Recruited from fascist anti-Communist circles, these groups wove a vast web domestic terrorism— carrying out bombing campaigns, massacres, military coups, and more, all in the name of freedom, democracy, and keeping the Left out of office. Learn more about the infamous and insidious Operation Gladio in this week’s episode.
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Evolution in Europe; Italy Discloses Its Web Of Cold War Guerrillas: Link
Three jailed for 1969 Milan bomb: Link
Terrorists 'helped by CIA' to stop rise of left in Italy: Link
The Explosion of Italian Terrorism and the Piazza Fontana Massacre as Seen by the United States: Link
50 years since the Piazza Fontana bombing and Italy is still facing-up to its ‘years of lead: Link
Italian Neofascism: The Strategy of Tension and the Politics of Nonreconciliation: Link
Western State-Sponsored Terrorism and the Strategy of Tension: Link
CIA Organized Secret Army in Western Europe: Link
Greece: Answering to History: Link
William Blum, Killing Hope: U.S. Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II
United States and NATO inspired 'psychological warfare operations' against the 'Kurdish communist threat' in Turkey: Link
Turkey's "Deep-State" and the Ergenekon Conundrum: Link
Episode 112: On May 31, 1889, a 60 foot wall of water tore through the city of Johnstown, destroying everything in its path. In the end, over 2,000 lay dead, and all so some rich guys could catch a couple fish.
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Revisiting the Timing and Events Leading to and Causing the Johnstown Flood of 1889: Link
DISASTER TOURISM AND THE MELODRAMA OF AUTHENTICITY: REVISITING THE 1889 JOHNSTOWN FLOOD: Link
Official History of the Johnstown Flood: Link
Dam-Breach hydrology of the Johnstown flood of 1889–challenging the findings of the 1891 investigation report: Link
South Fork Dam: Link
An overview of the 1889 tragedy: Link
Statistics about the great disaster: Link
Henry C Frick, World Heritage Encyclopedia: Link
Capital, Labor and Lawyers: The Changing Roles and Rising Influence of the Pittsburgh Bar during the Gilded Age: Link
Episode 111: On November 28, 1978, former City Supervisor Dan White snuck into San Francisco City Hall and assassinated Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk, the first widely known openly gay politician in America. Who was Harvey Milk, rise through the ranks of city politics, why was he assassinated, and what was the infamous “Twinkie Defense” employed at his trial?
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Dan White's audio confession after killing Harvey Milk & George Moscone: Link
Official biography of Harvey Milk: Link
Forty years after his death, Harvey Milk's legacy still lives on: Link
The Last Words of Harvey Milk [Full Audio Clip]: Link
The Mayor of Castro Street: The Life and Times of Harvey Milk: Link
San Francisco Voters Information Pamphlet, General Election, 1976: Link
How The 1975 Community Congress Reshaped San Francisco Politics: Link
40 years ago, San Francisco adopted historic gay rights law: Link
Daniel James White Trial: 1979: Link
The Legacy of Dan White: Link
Harvey Milk, Hero and Martyr: Link
The Times of Harvey Milk: Link
Episode 110: It’s been 36 years since the Philadelphia Police Department dropped two bombs on the roof of a house in West Philadelphia, killing 11 people, including five children, in an attempt to destroy the environmentalist Black liberation group MOVE. What were the events of that led up to the MOVE Bombing, and has anyone ever faced any consequences for this act of state terror?
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On a Move- website of the MOVE Organization: Link
The day Philadelphia bombed its own people: Link
I'm From Philly. 30 Years Later, I'm Still Trying To Make Sense Of The MOVE Bombing: Link
PHILADELPHIAS CHIEF SAYS HE WANTED FIRE TO BURN: Link
The day police bombed a city street: can scars of 1985 Move atrocity be healed?: Link
MOVE Bombing at 30: "Barbaric" 1985 Philadelphia Police Attack Killed 11 & Burned a Neighborhood: Link
LET THE FIRE BURN: Link
'This is huge': black liberationist speaks out after her 40 years in prison: Link
MOVE Documentary 1978 Confrontation Video - Shootout: Link
Thirty Years Later, MOVE Still Hurts: Link
William Richmond, fire commissioner: Link
Philadelphia discovers the cremated remains of MOVE bombing victims after a city health official's resignation: Link
Remains of children killed in MOVE bombing sat in a box at Penn Museum for decades: Link
Episode 109: On Easter Sunday, 1873, a band of Klansmen and Confederate veterans committed one of the most sickening acts of violence of the Reconstruction era. In the Colfax Massacre white supremacists murdered mover 100 people in an attempt to overturn to Louisiana gubernatorial election of 1872, and cement the grip of white supremacy over the South
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The 1873 Colfax Massacre Crippled the Reconstruction Era: Link
The Colfax Massacre (1873): Link
The failure of Reconstruction was a ruthless act of sabotage: Link
What If Reconstruction Hadn’t Failed?: Link
Democracy and the Origins of the American Regulatory State, Chapter 5. The Election of 1868: Link
Enforcing the Fifteenth Amendment, 1870-1877: Link
Enforcing the Enforcement Acts: The Department of Justice in Northern Mississippi, 1870-1890: Link
The Day Freedom Died: The Colfax Massacre, the Supreme Court, and the Betrayal of Reconstruction: Link
The Colfax Massacre: The Untold Story of Black Power, White Terror, and the Death of Reconstruction: Link
The Colfax Massacre a Forgotten Chapter of Violence: Link
Find a Grave, Colfax Riot Memorial: Link
“The Liberty of the Nation is in Jeopardy”: Views on the Battle of Liberty Place F ty Place From Beyond Dixie: Link
Episode 108: In the 1850s and 1860s, the young city of Chicago was blighted by disease, its growth hampered by its lack of a sewer system. In order to solve the city’s constant public health crises, a group of engineers concocted a plan that would be unthinkable today: physically lifting an entire city out of the muck.
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Chicago’s ‘sunken’ homes are remnants of a bold effort to raise the city out of the mud: Link
It Happened in Chicago: Link
Raising and Watering a City: Ellis Sylvester Chesbrough and Chicago's First Sanitation System: Link
Boom, Bust, and Recovery in Early Chicago, 1835–1850: Link
Chicago's waste lands: refuse disposal and urban growth, 1840-1990: Link
Episode 107: Let’s take a ride through history while examining the state of American transit infrastructure, the lost streetcars of the past, and the 1940s corporate conspiracy that may have stripped transit from your city.
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Report Card on America’s Infrastructure: Link
Railroads in the Late 19th Century: Link
The world’s first electric streetcar: Link
Impact on Transit Patronage of Cessation or Inauguration of Rail Service: Link
Peter Yorke and the 1907 San Francisco Carmen's Strike: Link
The PHILADELPHIA TRACTION MONOPOLY AND THE PENNSYLVANIA CONSTITUTION OF 1874: THE PROSTITUTION OF AN IDEAL: Link
Moving the Masses: Urban Public Transit in New York, Boston, and Philadelphia, 1880-1912: Link
Bloody Tuesday: Link
Streetcars, A History: Link
Engineering Invention: Frank J. Sprague and the U.S. Electrical Industry: Link
United States v. National City Lines(1948): Link
United States v. National City Lines, Inc.(1949): Link
United States v. National City Lines, Inc.(1951): Link
Episode 106: At 2:25 AM on November 28, 1953, a CIA bacteriologist and chemical warfare specialist named Frank Olson got up, and ran across a dark room in his underwear, dodging two beds, to hurdle through a closed window with the blinds closed and the curtains drawn, falling 10 stories to his death. At least…that’s the official story. Frank Olson was an unwitting participant in a covert operation called MKULTRA, a two decade long crusade to develop mind control through non-consensual human experimentation. Increasingly disillusioned with his work at the CIA, and intimately knowledgeable of both MKULTRA and American use of biological weapons, Frank Olson was the man who knew too much.
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The Montreal Experiments: brainwashing and the ethics of psychiatric experimentation: Link
The past Porton Down can't hide: Link
Kinzer, Stephen. Poisoner in chief: Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA search for mind control. Henry Holt, 2019.
The CIA's Secret Quest For Mind Control: Torture, LSD And A 'Poisoner In Chief': Link
Hooper, Troy. "Operation Midnight Climax: How the CIA Dosed SF Citizens with LSD." SF Weekly (2012).
Criminal Poisoning: Clinical and Forensic Perspectives: Link
Wolves, Jackals, and Foxes: The Assassins Who Changed History: Link
Codename Artichoke, The CIA's Secret Experiments on Humans: Link
Six decades later, sons seek answers on death of Detrick scientist: Link
Episode 105: Unfortunately, America has a long history of unethical medical experimentation, a tradition that’s caused mass suffering around the globe, and served to massively decrease trust in medicine. This episode covers the CIA’s fake Pakistani vaccination program, the Guatemalan Syphilis Experiments, and the Cincinnati Radiation Experiments.
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Coronavirus Attitude Tracker Survey Pakistan: Link
How Drone Strikes and a Fake Vaccination Program Have Inhibited Polio Eradication in Pakistan: An Analysis of National Level Data: Link
CIA organised fake vaccination drive to get Osama bin Laden's family DNA: Link
In Pakistan, Legacy of Fake CIA Vaccination Programs Leads to Vaccine Hesitancy: Link
Experimentation on Prisoners: Persistent Dilemmas in Rights and Regulations: Link
The Army tested 'germ warfare' on the NYC subway by smashing lightbulbs full of bacteria: Link
In the Name of Science: A History of Secret Programs, Medical Research, and Human Experimentation: Link
Acres of Skin: Human Experiments at Holmesburg Prison: Link
The Treatment: The Story of Those Who Died in the Cincinnati Radiation Tests: Link
A little too much of the buchenwald touch? Military radiation research at the university of Cincinnati, 1960–1972: Link
Worse Than Tuskegee: Link
Judge dismisses $1 billion Guatemalan syphilis experiment case against Hopkins, others: Link
Black Americans Are Getting COVID Vaccines at Lower Rates Than White Americans: Link
Episode 104: Some call it "The Forgotten War," and they definitely have a point- the Korean War has not been memorialized in the American memory, it had neither the scale of World War II, nor the cultural impact of Vietnam. Make no mistake: brutal, horrifying, and influential, the Korean War is more important than you know. This episode takes a look at the history of the Korean Conflict, and how America's heinous war crimes helped shape a century of foreign policy.
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Land Reform, Collectivisation and the Peasants in North Korea: Link
Tehran 1943: military strategy and military policy: Link
Race and Migration in Imperial Japan: Link
Imperial Japan at Its Zenith: Link
Imperial Japan and National Identities in Asia, 1895-1945: Link
The Impact of the Korean War on the Cold War: Link
The Origins of the Korean War: Second Edition: Link
NO GUN RI: Official Narrative and Inconvenient Truths: Link
The Bridge at No Gun Ri: A Hidden Nightmare from the Korean War: Link
The United States' Role in the Korea Jeju April 3rd Tragedy and its Responsibility for 'Social Healing Through Justice': Link
The United States and Biological Warfare: Secrets from the Early Cold War and Korea: Link
Williams, Peter, and David Wallace. Unit 731: Japan's secret biological warfare in World War II. New York: Free Press, 1989. Harvard
Letter on Korean War Massacre Reveals Plan to Shoot Refugees Historian Discovers U.S. Envoy's Writings Relating to No Gun Ri: Link
Pentagon withheld document from report on Korean War killings: Link
Episode 103: During the Great Depression, as millions of Americans went hungry, and 2/3rds of families were in poverty, famers across the country destroyed their crops- burning wheat, cracking eggs, and pouring out milk. This episode explores the history of the Agricultural Adjustment Act, and asks: what kind of society would burn food while its people starve?
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Portland police officers ‘guarding’ Fred Meyer dumpsters as residents seek discarded food: Link
AGRICULTURAL ADJUSTMENT ACT (1933, REAUTHORIZED 1938): Link
New Deal, Third: Link
Statistical Abstract of the United States: 1935: Link
From the Great Depression to Today, a Long History of Food Destruction in the Face of Hunger: Link
HUNGER IN AMERICA: The Definitions, Scope, Causes, History and Status of the Problem of Hunger in the United States: Link
Hunger in America: Link
What Causes Capitalist Crises: Under-Consumption or Overproduction?: Link
Episode 102: From 1943 to 1944, as a result of decades of exploitative colonial policy, and intentional neglect from the British government, a terrible famine gripped the colonial Indian province of Bengal. Estimates bring the death toll in Bengal alone to three million people. This episode covers the history of colonial rule in India, and the intentional engineering of the genocidal Bengal Famine, the brutality of which has been compared to the Holocaust.
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The Great Bengal Famine: Link
Honourable Company: A History of the English East India Company: Link
The East India Company 1784 - 1834: Link
The Illustrated History of the British Empire in India and the East: Link
Colonial Frontiers of the Georgian State: East India Company's Rule in India: Link
The Lion and the Tiger: The Rise and Fall of the British Raj, 1600-1947: Link
The Passing of Empire: The Mughal Case: Link
Government by Committee: An Essay on the British Constitution: Link
Hungry Bengal: War, Famine and the End of Empire: Link
Imperial Airs: Leo Amery, Air Power and Empire, 1873–1945: Link
Episode 101: From 1950 to 1954, as a part of his rabid anti-Communist crusade, a notorious liar and habitually drunk Senator from Wisconsin, Joseph McCarthy, led a crusade against homosexuals in the American government that would influence anti-gay policy all the way up until the 1990s. What was the Lavender Scare, why did it happen, and what does it say about the nature of propaganda?
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U.S. Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy Speaks in Wheeling: Link
The Reagan administration's unbelievable response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic: Link
The Lavender Scare: The Cold War Persecution of Gays and Lesbians in the Federal Government: Link
America’s Cold War Empire: Exporting the Lavender Scare: Link
Communist and Homosexual: The FBI, Harry Hay, and the Secret Side of the Lavender Scare, 1943–1961: Link
Joe McCarthy and the Press: Link
Fifties Feds, Fags, and Femmes: Link
PERVERTS CALLED GOVERNMENT PERIL; Gabrielson, G.O.P. Chief, Says They Are as Dangerous as Reds--Truman's Trip Hit Gabrielson Warns Industry: Link
Episode 100: On February 20th, 1939, twenty thousand American Nazis held a rally in Madison Square Garden, declaring George Washington as the “first fascist.” How did Nazi movements come to thrive in the United States, and what were the social and historical conditions that paved the way for their success?
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Hitler's American Model: The United States and the Making of Nazi Race Law: Link
Nazi action T4 euthanasia programme: historical research, individual life stories and the culture of remembrance: Link
The Nazi Connection: Eugenics, American Racism, and German National Socialism: Link
The Horrifying American Roots of Nazi Eugenics: Link
Legalizing Hate: The Significance of the Nuremburg Laws and the post-War Nuremburg Trials: Link
Henry Ford and "The International Jew": Link
Henry Ford and the Jews : The Mass Production of Hate: Link
Anti-Semitism and American History: Link
Cannistraro, Philip V. Blackshirts in Little Italy: Italian Americans and Fascism, 1921-1929. Vol. 17. Bordighera Incorporated, 1999.
Wolf, Cameron. "Fritz Kuhn's Nazi America: Kuhn's Growth and Destruction of the German American Bund in the 1930s." PhD diss., Department of History, University of Kansas, 2019.
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Veil of Protection: Operation Paperclip and the Contrasting Fates of Wernher von Braun and Arthur Rudolph: Link
American Fuehrer: George Lincoln Rockwell and the American Nazi Party: Link
The dialectics of historical fantasy: The ideology of George Lincoln Rockwell: Link
Dr. Space: The Life of Wernher von Braun: Link
Becoming a Racist: Women in Contemporary Ku Klux Klan and Neo-Nazi Groups: Link
The Beast Reawakens: Fascism's Resurgence from Hitler's Spymasters to Today’s Neo-Nazi Groups and Right Wing Extremists: Link
Reichsrock: The International Web of White-Power and Neo-Nazi Hate Music: Link
Episode 99: This week’s episode is about COINTELPRO, the secret, illegal spying and assassination program orchestrated by the FBI from 1956 to (technically) 1971, and the 1999 trail that established that the United States Government was likely part of a conspiracy to assassinate Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Complete Transcript of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Assassination Conspiracy Trial, November 15 to December 8, 1999: Link
COINTELPRO: The Untold American Story: Link
Domestic terrorism: Notes on the state system of oppression: Link
Peter Bohmer, Faculty at Evergreen State College: Link
The COINTELPRO Papers: Link
“Character Assassins”: How the FBI Used the Issue of Homosexuality against the Black Freedom Struggle: Link
Berlet, Chip. "Re–framing dissent as criminal subversion." CovertAction Quarterly 41 (1992): 35-41.
Novick, Michael. Blue by Day, White by Night: Organized White Supremacist Groups in Law Enforcement Agencies. PART, 1991.
The King Trial: Link
Episode 96: This week’s episode talks about the history of American empire and international intervention, the creation of the “Banana Republic,” the Spanish American War, and the aggressive imperial policy of 1900s America.
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Empire, Public Goods, and the Roosevelt Corollary: Link
The Roosevelt Corollary: Link
Bevins, Vincent. The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World. Hachette UK, 2020.
The Banana Wars: United States Intervention in the Caribbean, 1898–1934: Link
The Making of the Monroe Doctrine: Link
The Monroe Doctrine: Meanings and Implications: Link
Banana Wars: Power, Production, and History in the Americas: Link
Banana Wars: The Price of Free Trade: A Caribbean Perspective: Link
American Business and the Spanish-American War: Link
An Army for Empire: The United States Army in the Spanish-American War: Link
Episode 96:This week’s episode is a decidedly less-gruesome tale about a big catalogue, a little book, and a red-nosed reindeer.
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Robert L. May: https://rb.gy/2qwdgw
1944: The Removal of Sewell Avery: https://rb.gy/kprjpc
Montgomery Ward & Co. Catalogue and Buyers' Guide 1895: https://rb.gy/37bf8o
The House that Came in the Mail: https://rb.gy/cmkena
Episode 96:This week’s episode is about Walter J. Freeman. Jr., the surgeon without surgical training who pioneered a brutal procedure that was used to punish the women of the 1950s for stepping out of line. Let’s talk about the gruesome and brutal history of lobotomy.
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Psychosurgery, ethics, and media: a history of Walter Freeman and the lobotomy: Link
'My Lobotomy': Howard Dully's Journey: Link
He was bad, so they put an ice pick in his brain...: Link
The First Lobotomy in the US Happened at George Washington University: Link
Most lobotomies were done on women: Link
Diagnosing Womanhood: Lessons Learned from Gender Bias in 20th Century Psychiatry: Link
(F)ailing women in psychiatry: lessons from a painful past: Link
Race and Gender in the Selection of Patients for Lobotomy: Link
Madwives: Schizophrenic Women in the 1950s: Link
50 Years Ago, Doctors Called Domestic Violence 'Therapy': Link
Napa State Hospital to get a history of its very own: Link
Black Women, Mental Hospitals, and Public Housing — A California Carceral Story: Link
Women Who Defied Gender Roles Were Once Imprisoned In Asylums: Link
1950 Census of Institutional Population: Link
Walter Freeman and James Watts collection: Link
Episode 94: This week’s episode is about the unrelenting agony of the American experience. Happy stuff.
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Thousands in Texas line up in cars to receive food before Thanksgiving: https://rb.gy/f2bxhu
A 2-mile line in Arizona. A four-hour wait in Ohio. Millions seek help to avoid going hungry on Thanksgiving.: https://rb.gy/axwydv
Millions of Americans Expect to Lose Their Homes as Covid Rages: https://rb.gy/lt2o0k
Average monthly apartment rent in the United States from September 2016 to February 2020: https://rb.gy/xtj8vr
Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk among US billionaires getting richer during coronavirus pandemic: https://rb.gy/q7clnm
Never mind the 1 percent, let's talk about the 0.01 percent: https://rb.gy/dov4ti
Yelp data shows 60% of business closures due to the coronavirus pandemic are now permanent: https://rb.gy/hs1azt
Up to 90% of minority and women owners shut out of Paycheck Protection Program, experts fear: https://rb.gy/44cei2
Pelosi: ‘We Have Time’ For Stimulus, $908 Billion Framework ‘Just A Start’ And Government Will Not Shut Down: https://rb.gy/h3zvvk
Potbelly, Shake Shack, Axios: Here Are All The Companies Returning PPP Money After Public Backlash: https://rb.gy/wrn2lx
Billionaire Kanye West's Yeezy Received A Multimillion-Dollar PPP Loan: https://rb.gy/rhwrwp
How the COVID-19 Bailout Gave Wall Street a No-Lose Casino: https://rb.gy/pydlyd
'It was not a mistake': Nancy Pelosi defends her rejection of the Trump administration's $1.8 trillion stimulus offer after throwing support behind a relief package half its size: https://rb.gy/nlznsl
Democratic Socialists of America: https://rb.gy/giagaq
Episode 94: This episode talks about the beginnings of the First World War, Serbian conspiracies, the doomed campaign in Gallipoli, and a fate worse than death.
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Gallipoli: https://rb.gy/wcjiyu
Searching for Gavrilo Princip: https://rb.gy/2lam6j
The Russian Secret Service and King Alexander Obrenović of Serbia (1900-1903): https://rb.gy/8ljzx5
Serbia and the Serbs: https://rb.gy/uilegw
Crime, Suicide, and the Anti‐Hero: “Waltzing Matilda” in Australia: https://rb.gy/wh5jzt
Scottish Transnational Discourse of the Great War: A Genealogy of Eric Bogle’s “And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda” and Hugh MacDiarmid’s “At the Cenotaph”: https://rb.gy/4bqdul
Episode 93: In a world where the vast majority of corporate maneuvering is invisible to the average person, how have the actions of one specific sector, the chemical industry, unknowingly impacted each of our lives? What current problems can we trace back the actions of the chemical companies of the past? How do companies that poison the public get away with it? Is there any hope that in the near future, such companies will be held responsible and made to pay for their crimes?
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The Secret History of Lead: https://rb.gy/vgsejg
DuPont’s Museum of Disastrous Chemistry Continues to Spread Its Poison: https://rb.gy/5fe3ik
DuPont Made Billions Polluting Tap Water With PFAS; Will Now Make More Cleaning It Up: https://rb.gy/mpxipr
How DuPont may avoid paying to clean up a toxic 'forever chemical': https://rb.gy/zfxfju
Companies deny responsibility for toxic ‘forever chemicals’ contamination: https://rb.gy/nmwlpg
Libby asbestos case goes to Supreme Court: https://rb.gy/zrx6dz
Libby, Asbestos.com : https://rb.gy/fq8hg9
Md. Firm Accused Of Asbestos Coverup: https://rb.gy/6gfwve
Biden EPA Transition Team Member Helped DuPont Dodge Responsibility for POFA: https://rb.gy/wmk6dr
Episode 92: Let’s talk about centrism, the election, the records of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, anti-activism within the democratic party, and the future of politics.
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S.256 - Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005: https://rb.gy/8d8li4
The Crime-Bill Debate Shows How Short Americans’ Memories Are: https://rb.gy/ezxnay
‘Lock the S.O.B.s Up’: Joe Biden and the Era of Mass Incarceration: https://rb.gy/rolfal
Kamala Harris laughed about jailing parents over truancy. But it's not funny: https://rb.gy/ddljov
The Story Behind Kamala Harris' Truancy Program: https://rb.gy/rfobwo
Kamala Harris Is Being Ripped for Past Stand Against the Trans Community: https://rb.gy/ttqpws
How Kamala Harris' death penalty decisions broke hearts on both sides: https://rb.gy/32klfs
Five times prosecutor Kamala Harris got the wrong guy: https://rb.gy/tyzkja
Kamala Harris’ A.G. Office Tried to Keep Inmates Locked Up for Cheap Labor: https://rb.gy/urzzkm
Joe Biden: America Needs the Republican Party: https://rb.gy/rudvdy
Sen. Mitt Romney (R) Utah won't say whether he voted for Joe Biden: "That's in the rearview mirror: https://rb.gy/29d3ju
Spanberger criticizes Democrats' strategy in caucus call: https://rb.gy/g84nhg
Episode 91: In this episode, let’s talk about the worst industrial accident in American history, and the worst industrial accident in human history, both caused by the endless greed of the same company: Union Carbide.
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More Chemical Leaks at W.Va. Plant Disclosed by Union Carbide Corp.: https://rb.gy/wkumnz
Union Carbide Buys Back Troubled West Virginia Plant: https://rb.gy/a1undl
Toxic Cloud Leaks at Carbide Plant in West Virginia: https://rb.gy/6f51qi
Before Black Lung, The Hawks Nest Tunnel Disaster Killed Hundreds: https://rb.gy/p3b4pb
The Bhopal Disaster of 1984: https://rb.gy/r5iqvn
Union Carbide Corp. reports earnings for Qtr to Dec 31: https://rb.gy/k4gtjb
Episode 90: It’s time to talk about the right to, and commodification of, water, Daniel Day Lewis, and why you should hate Nestle for what they’ve done to our world.
The music featured in this episode is This is the Day, by The The
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Corporate Human Rights Benchmark, 2019 Findings: https://rb.gy/skm0p1
Nestle USA, Inc v. John Doe: https://rb.gy/ixegfo
Class action lawsuit filed against Nestle for child slavery on cocoa harvest in West African farms: https://rb.gy/ol6bid
Nestlé admits to forced labour in its seafood supply chain in Thailand: https://rb.gy/htwefx
Nestle, Infant Formula, and Excuses: The Regulation of Commercial Advertising in Developing Nations: https://rb.gy/2mvdbr
Nestle to respond to baby milk criticism in coming days: https://rb.gy/0tcccr
Nestle suspended from sustainable palm oil group following conduct breaches: https://rb.gy/kwrgk2
Nestle and Unilever ‘linked to Indonesian forest fires engulfing southeast Asia in noxious haze’: https://rb.gy/vpi6bw
Pepsico, Unilever and Nestlé accused of complicity in illegal rainforest destruction: https://rb.gy/z0yovo
Nestle, Ethiopia Reach Deal Ending Embarrassing Fight: https://rb.gy/micghi
Nestle demanding $6 million from Ethiopia: https://rb.gy/swn04d
The right to water versus the CEO of Nestle: https://rb.gy/okann2
Nestlé Chairman Peter Brabeck Says We Don’t Have a Right to Water, Believes We Do Have a Right to Water and Everyone’s Confused: https://rb.gy/gkecnc
United Nations, Water for Life Decade: https://rb.gy/rj5y2f
Nestlé pays $200 a year to bottle water near Flint – where water is undrinkable: https://rb.gy/fkfphu
Your bottled water may be stolen from a national forest: https://rb.gy/njvruq
Nestle has been bottling and selling water it has no right to in drought-stricken California, state says: https://rb.gy/mr3x1x
Nestle bottled water operations spark protests amid California drought: https://rb.gy/uahb3v
Episode 89: This episode takes on the many different forms of housing discrimination, the systems that encourage it, and how we can put an end to it.
The music featured in this episode is Comin’ Home Baby, by Mel Tormé
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Exploiting Race and Space: Subprime Lending as Housing Discrimination: https://rb.gy/xz7uvz
Redlining and the Home Owners' Loan Corporation: https://rb.gy/zqiawa
Examining the Black-White Wealth Gap: https://rb.gy/hghk0o
Impact of the US Housing Crisis on the Racial Wealth Gap Across Generations: https://rb.gy/vaado3
The relationship between LGBT inclusion and economic development: https://rb.gy/i8r96w
Opening Doors: An Investigation into Barriers to Senior Housing for Same-Sex Couples: https://rb.gy/ywfa1p
Lending Practices to Same-Sex Borrowers: https://rb.gy/lwoujs
Don’t Make Housing for the Poor too Cozy, Carson Warns: https://rb.gy/nqimd8
I Won the Housing Lottery & Got a Poor Door: https://rb.gy/0udice
Financialization of Housing: https://rb.gy/ufibp5
Episode 88: Will we ever reach a time in humanity’s existence where our ideological evolution just…stops? Is it possible to settle on one set of rules until the end of time? Are we living through the “End of History?”
The music featured in this episode is Gassenhauer, by Carl Orff
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The End of History?: https://www.embl.de/aboutus/science_society/discussion/discussion_2006/ref1-22june06.pdf
Episode 87: The grand lesson of this episode is: it’s ok to laugh about Trump getting Covid.
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Episode 86: Let’s talk about Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the legacy of the Supreme Court, involuntary sterilization, and a chilling court case from 1927.
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Episode 85: In this episode, it’s time to talk about the overwhelming bleakness that comes with being a young person today, the knowing destruction of our world by fossil fuel companies, useless politicians full of empty platitudes, and why meaningful social progress is impossible under capitalism.
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Episode 84: On July 12th, 1979, disco died in a stadium in Chicago. Let’s talk about the social history of disco music, and the nature of reactionary movements.
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Episode 83: It’s time to reevaluate the presidency of Barack Obama and discuss the dangers of a “return to normalcy.”
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Episode 82: This episode takes a look at the American surveillance state's ultimate goal of crushing political movements, the Disposition Matrix, and the drone war.
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Episode 81: This episode examines an infamous ride in an almost 20 year old video game, and explores how it can be an allegory for the cruelty inherent within social systems.
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Episode 80: On the night of May 22nd, 1942, Black American troops who had been the victims of brutal racism from their white commanding officers finally decided to take matters into their own hands. What happened next was hidden from the public for 70 years.
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Episode 79: In a culture where our founding fathers are revered as gods, what does it mean for our knowledge to be based on a lie? This episode explores monuments, both physical and cultural, as a means of propaganda, with special attention paid to Mt. Rushmore and the ever-popular musical, Hamilton.
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Episode 78: In 1917, thousands of Black Americans joined the Army in hopes that their sacrifices during World War One would guarantee them civil rights at home. The horrors of the Western Front would never prepare them for the terrors of the Red Summer.
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Episode 77: In Casco Bay, off the coast of Southern Maine, sits a tiny hunk of rock, and though it’s only .06 square miles, Malaga Island holds a terrible secret.
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Episode 76: A man was lynched yesterday in Palmdale, California. His name was Robert Fuller. This week’s episode is an angry examination of the murders of Robert Fuller, Chauvis Carter, sundown towns, police abolition, Southern Exceptionalism and the Troxler Fading.
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8:46- Dave Chappelle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tR6mKcBbT4
Episode 75: America is ridden with terminal white supremacy. It pervades every aspect of our society, and leaves nothing untouched. Hidden History is committed to the destruction of white supremacy, the defunding of the police, and the struggle for justice.
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Episode 74: As protests envelop a failed nation, debased and poisoned by white supremacy, authoritarianism, and greed, we take a look at the Wilmington Insurrection of 1898, a brutal white supremacist coup that overthrew the government of a North Carolina city.
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Episode 73: In a society where more and more pressure is placed on young people to attend top colleges, how does the college essay serve as a means for commodifying personal pain?
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Episode 72: In 1975 a senate committee chaired by Frank Church uncovered vast and terrifying abuses of the American public by the FBI, CIA, and NSA. From guns that can give the target a lethal heart attack three days later, to ruthless spying and assassinations of political opponents, it begs the age old question of who watches the watchmen.
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Church Committee Report: https://www.aarclibrary.org/publib/contents/church/contents_church_reports.htm
Pike Committee Report: https://www.maryferrell.org/php/showlist.php?docset=1918
Episode 71: In August 2005, Hurricane Katrina tore through the Gulf Coast leaving death and destruction in its wake. Almost 15 years later, millions of people still live with the impact of the storm and the government's decision to simply let them drown.
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Further Reading: https://www.propublica.org/article/post-katrina-white-vigilantes-shot-african-americans-with-impunity
Episode 70: What do Jim Croce, Jimmy Carter, Fred Hampton, and Richard Nixon have in common? Anything? Am I just messing with you? That’s probably something I would do, but there’s only one way to find out.
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Episode 69: When faced with a world filled with mystery and uncertainty, how can we come to recognize the truth?
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Episode 68: Old Aesop once told a fable of a noble lion who befriended a young man after he removed a thorn from its paw. Can kindness really soothe the savage beast? Will our individual actions change the hearts of those who wish to destroy us?
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Episode 67: The truth is, the game was rigged from the start.
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Episode 66: You’ve all heard it said, haughtily no doubt, by people who wear beige turtlenecks and use words like “vellichor,” that the word “utopia” means both “good place” and “no place.” I’m not going to waste your time with that kind of bullshit this week. Instead, I’m talking about the role of the Utopian society in American history, and the implications of social engineering.
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Episode 65: An old Japanese legend says that whoever folds a thousand paper cranes in a year is granted a wish by the gods. This episode tells a story of hope in the face of senseless violence.
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Episode 64: Joe Biden is among the weakest candidates ever put forth by the Democratic Party. Taking into account policies like the 2002 AUMF, 2005 Bankruptcy Bill, the CCCA, NAFTA, the Hyde Amendment, Helms Amendment, and the 1994 Cime Bill, paired with his history of lying and inappropriate behavior, how can Biden reasonably expect to inspire voters? The problems he campaigns against are those of his own making.
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Episode 63: What is the human capacity for evil? This week I talk about the Mỹ Lai Massacre, the Nuremberg inkblot tests, the Philippine-American War, the Highway of Death, and the war criminal Eddie Gallagher.
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Episode 62: This week the topic is the nasty and brutish American for-profit healthcare system, and why Medicare for All is the only morally conscionable policy alternative. I talk with Scott Desnoyers, who lost his son because of a $20 insurance dispute.
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Episode 61: In 1911 a baseball team made up of death row inmates took to the field. They were promised that, as long as they kept winning games, they would all stay alive. In 1944, a fourteen year old boy in South Carolina was executed for a crime he didn’t commit. This episode explores the cultural role of death and capital punishment in American society.
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Episode 60: This episode explores the economic history of Fordism. What exactly is it? How has it impacted the ways in which we live and work? Most importantly, what inspired Henry Ford to build a failed utopia in the middle of the Brazilian jungle?
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Episode 59: This episode examines the political history of folk and country music, the notion of the American Heartland, and the dominating power of culture.
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Episode 58: Let's talk about the creation of the Industrial Revolution factory and its impact of labor relations.
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Episode 57: This week I take a look at the role of militarism and propaganda as seen through the lens of media depictions of the American military and the proliferation of military recruiting tools.
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Episode 56: In 1954, in an attempt to differentiate America from the atheistic USSR, the words “under God” were added to the pledge of allegiance. This episode takes a look at the hypocrisy of Cold War culture, governmental deception, the nature of cultural dominance, and what it means to be a patriot.
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Episode 55: The final part in a multi part series on racial violence, this episode examines the legacy of economic discrimination, the criminalisation of poverty, and the link between racism and capitalism. Are the two inseparable?
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Episode 54: The second part in a multi part series on racial violence, this episode covers the colonial legacy of white supremacy, and analyzes the destructive nature of the social binary.
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Episode 53: The first part in a multi part series on racial violence, this episode explores the history of the 1921 Tulsa Massacre, the racial influences that led to the founding of the city, and the structural legacy of white supremacy.
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Episode 52: The final entry in a multi-part series on labor, let's wrap things up by talking about the 1981 PATCO strike, the Volcker shock, and Ronald Reagan.
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Episode 51: The fourth entry in a multi-part series on labor, this episode covers labor developments from 1920 to 1947. Beginning with the Oahu Sugar Strike of 1920, and ending with the Taft-Hartley Act, it’s time to talk about the Columbine Mine Massacre, the Loray Mill Strike, and right to work laws.
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Episode 50: The third entry in a multi-part series on labor, this is the longest and most in-depth episode of the show yet. Let's learn about anti-union violence, leftism, and anarchism from 1870-1920. It's time to talk about the Bay View Massacre, the Long Depression, the Knights of Labor, the 1892 Homestead Strike, the LA Times bombing, the murder of Frank Little, and much much more.
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Episode 49: The second episode in a multi-part series, this episode examines the history and implications of Mercantilist theory, as well as the manifestations of early labor organizations as seen in the Philadelphia GTU Strike of 1835
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Episode 48: Let's talk a little bit about union history. The first episode in this multi-part series covers organized labor in ancient times, as well as common misconceptions about an early labor group.
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Episode 47: The Bush Administration's War on Terror has left a conspicuous black mark on the American mind. Meanwhile, the legacy of George W. Bush is in the process of being rehabilitated, let's find out why that's a very bad idea. In the process, maybe we can apply a critical lens to American foreign policy and consider the impacts of American imperialism and militarism.
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Episode 46: In this week’s episode let’s talk about the rise and fall of Anita Bryant, a former country singer, evangelical Christian, and the orange juice industry’s most notable homophobic bigot.
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Episode 45: On September 13th, 1916, an elephant was sentenced to a hanging death by an angry mob and an opportunistic circus owner. What can the death of Mary the elephant tell us about the expectations we hold for others?
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Episode 44: The Civil War was one of the most destructive wars in American history- more soldiers died in the Civil War than the sum total of all previous American war casualties. Let's talk about the human cost of war.
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Episode 43: There are few things more ubiquitously American than the hot dog. This classic fast food has far more history than it seems- let's talk about the hot dog as a cultural vessel for the shared experiences of Greek and Macedonian immigrants in the 1900s, and as a target for American anxieties about our food.
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Episode 42: In this week’s episode, learn about Georgism, LVTs, the Law of Rent, the spread of ideas, and how the idea for the world’s most popular (and most hated) board game was stolen from a Midwestern Quaker woman.
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Episode 41: Learn about the story of Evelyn Nesbit, a teenage model and actress who was repeatedly brutalized and controlled by the rich and powerful monsters of 1900s New York.
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Episode 40: Take a look inside the brutal human experimentation that went on for 23 years behind the walls of a prison in one of America’s largest cities. With cruelty that has been compared to the Holocaust, it’s about time we talk about Holmesburg.
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Episode 39: This week take a look at two perfectly similar versions of paradise separated by half a millennium.
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Episode 38: It’s the Fourth of July, and today we’re taking a look at the most infamous prison riot in America history, as well as the systems that lead to its eruption. Only through an examination of our past can we build a better future for all.
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Episode 37: New York City has one of the most extensive subway systems in the world, and at times, it seems, the most irritating. How did the MTA come to be, and how did it get to where it is now?
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Episode 36: June is Pride Month, so this week, let's take a look at the social concept of "the spinster" and "the old maid," and examine how they relate to same-sex relationships in early America.
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Episode 35: The year is 1893, and you’re living in a small settlement in the New Mexico territory . Health care in your town is not the best. There seems to be no solution in sight outside of an early grave. But then something changes...a wagon comes to town, and with it, a traveling troupe of entertainers singing the virtues of oils, liniments, and balms that they say can cure what ails. Do you believe them? And what exactly is in the miracle elixirs that they call “patent medicine?”
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Episode 34: If you had to convey vitally important information to our descendants thousands of years from now, how would you do it? Would you carve your message into stone or cast it in metal? Would you create a series of signs and symbols that represented the meaning of your information? What if understanding this message meant the difference between life and death?
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Episode 33: Ever heard that urban legend about how NASA spent huge sums of money to develop a pen that wrote in space, while to Soviet Union used pencils? Yeah, turns out that’s a myth. In the first episode of Season 3 find out a little bit about the history of writing in space.
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Episode 32: Is the built world inherently political? Do we shape our buildings or do our buildings shape us? Get some food for thought in the experimental final episode of season 2.
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Episode 31: The circus in its modern form has been an institution in Western culture for over a quarter of a millennium, and traces its historic influences back even further. This week, learn about one of the things that made the circus what it was: its music.
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Episode 30: The Mediterranean during the Bronze Age was a bastion of civilization; massive cities with decadent palaces dotted the coastal territories, while art, literacy, and trade flourished, creating an unparalleled standard of living. In the span of 50 years, almost all of it would be gone. What was it that brought these spectacular civilizations to their knees?
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Episode 29: From 1896 to 1899 over 100,000 people poured into the forests of the Canadian Yukon in search of gold. Though few found it, the Klondike Gold Rush has maintained a place in the American collective imagination. Find out about the rush that captivated a country, and inspired artists for generations to come.
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Episode 28: In the mid 1800s, as American pioneers pushed the native population further and further westward, the Chief of thee Duwamish Tribe, a man named Seattle, gave a beautiful and sentimental plea for environmentalism and native rights. There’s only one problem…it may have never happened. In this week’s episode learn about the founding of a city, and a speech that took on a life of its own.
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Episode 27: Though it only existed in its most well known form in the 1980s, Government Cheese has left a lasting impact on the collective American mind. In this week’s episode learn how this farm subsidy eventually became a highly political issue, and a sign of American urban poverty.
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Episode 26: Why play someone for the short con when you can play them for the long one? At the turn of the last century, two con artists pulled off a series of incredibly audacious scams that were so incredible that they forever changed what it meant to be a con man. Buckle up, I’ve got a bridge to sell you.
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Episode 25: It was the worst environmental disaster you’ve never heard of. Over the course of 4 years, hundreds of thousands of gallons of oil contaminated with a deadly chemical were sprayed on the streets of a small Missouri town, and nobody was the wiser.
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Episode 24: The 1970s was a decade of many, many things. One of them was music, and in 1979 a group of "hip hoppers" from Englewood, New Jersey released a single that turned the world on its head, setting this new genre on its way to eventually become the most popular in the world.
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Episode 23: Here be monsters! Throughout the 1800s, small farming communities fell victim to what they believed to be frequent attacks from undead relatives come to drain their blood. What they mistook for a vampire problem was really a tuberculosis problem, and in their attempts to stop the spread of the vampire scourge, they would result to drastic and gruesome measures. Tune into this week’s episode to learn about one of the more dramatic results of medical ignorance.
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Episode 22: This week's episode is a combination of three short stories that couldn't quite make it into a full episode. Tune in to learn about the government of the strongest of the Native American nation, the roving horseback librarians of 1930s Kentucky, and time when all American nuclear launch codes were 00000000.
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Episode 21: Part 2 of 3 In the beginning, Bob Moses was an uncompromising idealist determined to restructure and reform government to greater benefit mankind. As he grew older, that idealism was slowly chipped away by his experiences with the governments of New York City and New York State. In the search for the power to make his dreams come true, Robert Moses the idealist was replaced by Robert Moses the politician.
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Episode 20: Part 1 of 3 To some, he was a genius, to others, he condemned the American city to a slow and arduous death. He was Robert Moses, the “master builder,“ and with his iron will, economic resources, and unchallenged political power, he shaped New York in accordance with his vision. The age of the car had arrived.
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Episode 19: On February 19th, 1942, the Canadian city of Winnipeg became one of the scores of places to fall to Nazi Blitzkrieg, and after it was overrun and occupied by hordes of Nazi soldiers, it became the first of the Greater Reich’s holdings in North America. Wait, what?
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Episode 18: Remember that time a Soviet dictator tried to assassinate an American movie star? Yeah neither do we, let's take a look inside the insidious world of KGB assassins, secret plots, and presumably, lots and lots of cowboy hats.
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Episode 17: Part 3 of a 3 part series on labor relations in industrial America.As the Coal Wars came to a close in the 1930s, there was one conflict that lasted for almost a decade straight. Welcome to Bloody Harlan County.
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Episode 16: Part 2 of a 3 part series on labor relations in industrial America. In late August, 1921, West Virginia was rocked by the largest armed uprising since the Civil War. More than one million rounds were fired, and over one hundred people died. So…what happened?
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Episode 15: Part 1 of a 3 part series on labor relations in industrial America. Bisbee, Arizona is a quintessential small town, and it often ranked among one of the coolest small towns in America, yet behind it’s vibrant historic downtown and its popular attractions, Bisbee hides a troubled past…
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Episode 14: 100 years ago, the most lethal war in the history of mankind had the side effect of creating the discipline of modern plastic surgery, as well as advancing the art of prosthetic production. In this week's episode, learn about Anna Coleman Ladd, Harold Gillies, the Great War, and of course, the blue bench.
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Episode 13: On September 11th, 1973, a military coup in Chile overthrew the world's first democratically elected Marxist president, Salvador Allende. As the new military dictatorship was dismantling Chilean democracy, they came across a small, futuristic room that projected absolute power. Learn about the history and context for Salvador Allende's Project Cybersyn in this week's episode.
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Episode 12: For many Americans, joking is a way of life, and practical jokes are the bread and butter. Tune in this week to hear about the chronology of joking from ancient Rome to now, and learn about the people that made practical joking what it is today.
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Episode 11:Though it may seem unlikely, the simple banana has helped shape the modern world, as well as the modern diet. Tune into this week's episode of Hidden History to learn how a piece of fruit has brought nations to their knees
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Episode 10:What happens when people who live in isolation suddenly come into contact with the most powerful military force in the world? More importantly, what happens to the original community's society and economy once those new visitors leave for good? Find out in Hidden History's 10th episode: In John We Trust.
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Episode 9:For over fifty years color photographs were developed in accordance with the strict guidelines laid out in Kodak's Shirley Card system. This episode explores the technology behind cameras and photo development, as well as the history of the Shirley Card, the problems it created, and how they were eventually solved.
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Episode 8:Nuclear power has existed, in one form or another, for almost 80 years. In the intervening decades, nuclear science has progressed spectacularly, and sometimes terrifyingly. How did we get from a reactors that output half a watt to reactors that can power entire cities? And what happens when those huge reactors go super critical?
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Episode 7:Before the .mp3, 8-track, and LP record, people listened to their favorite music on etched wax cylinders. What happened to them, and why don't we use them today? Find out on Hidden History's 7th Episode about the life and death of early music technology.
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Episode 6:From chemotherapy to advanced medical X-rays, radiation has changed the way we live our lives, but it hasn't always been for the better. In this episode of Hidden History, learn about the darker side of early radioactive technology, from the the tragically infamous Radium Girls to the shoe-fitting fluoroscope.
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Episode 5:For over 70 years, the price of a bottle of Coca-Cola was pinned at 5 cents. The nickel coke lasted through a depression, two world wars, massive inflation, the introduction of Pepsi, and much more. Episode 5 goes into one of the most notable examples of psychological branding association in the history of the United States.
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Episode 4:Since its discovery thousands of years ago, up until 1856, the color purple was associated with royalty, power, and wealth. A completely accidental discovery changed all that. Learn about the color of everyday life on this week's episode of Hidden History.
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Episode 3:Tune in this week to hear about the hidden history behind H.B. Reese and one of America's favorite candies, the Reese's Cup, as well as the local legend Milton Hershey, the pragmatic candy wizard who dreamed of building the sweetest place on earth.
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Episode 2:Electronic is among one of the most popular genres of modern music- it's existed in various incarnations since the first electronically synthesized sounds almost 100 years ago. How did it get from a series of primitive beeps and buzzes on a computer the size of a room to the commercially successful genre it is today? Find out on Hidden History's second episode.
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Episode 1: Founded in the late 1950s, the radical fringe political group, the John Birch Society, quickly grew to dominate right-wing discourse (and embody midcentury cartoonish McCarthyism) during the height of the Cold War, but... what exactly was it, and what happened to it?
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