Pop: Culture and History: Recent Episodes
Cheryl Boswell
Learn about American History as you would in a traditional college course setting, but in a very nontraditional way! From pre-colonial Native Americans all the way to the present, and covering everything in between with the American Revolution, discussion and debate of slavery throughout the 19th century, technological innovations, the Women's and Civil Rights movements, and of course every major war throughout American history. Also covered are seemingly random facts and trivia, but its origin and history shall be explained.
Kicking off the second season of Pop: Culture and History with the origin of Memorial Day through Union, Confederate and African American celebrations. Have a question? Tweet it to me @CherylBoswell1
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Look at Barack Obama’s second presidential term and the 2016 election
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Examines the Clinton years during the 1990s and the beginnings of the war on terrorism, focusing on the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq
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Examine the rise of conservatism in America, going through the Ford, Carter, Reagan, and Bush presidencies
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Uncover the gritty details and events of the war in Vietnam and what happened in the Watergate hotel during Nixon’s administration.
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Explored the Eisenhower administration and the Kennedy years, and learn about Castro, Krushchev and JFK in the Cuban Missile Crisis along with the space race!
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Containment, Korea, and McCarthyism-oh my! Dive into the roots of the American containment policy, the Truman Doctrine, the Marshall Plan, the Korean War, Eisenhower, McCarthy and the Rosenberg spy trial.
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Dive into the Montgomery bus boycott, student sit-ins, protests and more with the civil rights movement and presidencies of JFK and LBJ
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Dive into the 1920s with the automotive industry, consumerism, the American literature expats, Harlem Renaissance, flappers, Jazz, the Scopes Monkey Trial, the new KKK, and the Great Crash
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A glimpse into the circumstances and events surrounding WWII
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Dive into an explained history of the events and circumstances surrounding the Great Depression ranging from the 1932 Hoover vs FDR election, programs of the New Deal, groups covered and left out of its programs, and what it’s lasting impact on American society is.
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Explains events that took place during the presidencies of Teddy Roosevelt, Taft and Wilson, preparations for WWI, what happened in America and abroad during the war, the 1918-1919 Influenza pandemic, and the Communist Red Scare that followed the war.
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Explains the origin of black/darkness as bad dating back to Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy from the Italian Renaissance. Check out my Twitter at @CherylBoswell1
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