My History Can Beat Up Your Politics

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History #231

Since 2006, this podcast has been using history to elevate today's political debates. "The perfect antidote to bloviating talking heads, My History is thoughtful, nuanced, and highly engaging." -Columbia Journalism Review

KENT STATE 1970: AFTER THE SHOOTINGS
Apr 28, 2025 – 01:06:09
SO THESE FIVE GUYS WALK INTO A HOTEL: THE PLAZA ACCORD
Apr 25, 2025 – 48:33
Lexington and Concord: What You May Not Know
Apr 21, 2025 – 38:55
Listen Now — Fiasco: Iran-Contra
Apr 14, 2025 – 43:48
LINCOLN'S LAND IN IOWA - Now on Patreon
Apr 11, 2025 – 05:01
GROVER CLEVELANDS THREE WARNINGS ABOUT TARIFFS
Apr 10, 2025 – 22:20
SMOOT: THE MAN BEHIND THE SMOOT-HAWLEY TARIFF
Apr 3, 2025 – 53:26
NOW ON THE PATREON: CHESTER ARTHUR, PART THREE - "I WILL ACCEPT!"
Mar 25, 2025 – 03:14
FEDERAL JUDGES AND PRESIDENTS
Mar 25, 2025 – 01:11:38
CANNABIS AND SAMUEL J. TILDEN
Mar 18, 2025 – 46:33
THEODORE ROOSEVELT ON PEACE, There is No Mary Todd Lincoln and Other Stories
Mar 17, 2025 – 42:06
ASHAMED IN THE DAY OF JUDGEMENT - Resistance to Jackson Indian Removal Policy in its Time
Mar 6, 2025 – 48:34
Now on The Patreon - Chester Arthur, Part 2- Stalwarts!
Mar 5, 2025 – 02:28
"REGO" - AL GORE'S REINVENTING GOVERNMENT 1993
Mar 5, 2025 – 28:37
Now on the Patreon: Chester Arthur's Early Years, and More
Feb 25, 2025 – 03:54
THE WORLD iS CHANGING, BUT HISTORY IS STILL USEFUL -DON'T THROW OUT THE BOOKS YET
Feb 25, 2025 – 36:07
PRESIDENTIAL ASSISTANTS AND AIDES "Separated By a Swinging Door"
Feb 17, 2025 – 01:45:58
D.C. REPRESENTATION: A Love Story
Feb 16, 2025 – 01:16:06
Now on the Patreon: Franklin Roosevelt Takes on Jimmy Walker
Feb 14, 2025 – 04:04
Show Update 2/9/2025
Feb 9, 2025 – 02:14
AN "INDUSTRIAL SELMA" AND OTHER STORIES - FINAL OF THE ARK OF COMMERCE SERIES
Feb 6, 2025 – 01:32:43
MAKE IT STOP (Stopping Commerce with Embargoes, Takeovers and Other Methods)- THE ARK OF COMMERCE
Feb 3, 2025 – 01:18:15
NIXON AND IMPOUNDMENT, NOT SPENDING FUNDS, CONGRESS AND COURTS
Jan 29, 2025 – 24:49
WONG KIM ARK, BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP, THE CHARMING BETSEY AND THE SAND LOT PROTESTS
Jan 29, 2025 – 43:59
MEASURE EVERYTHING: THE ARK OF COMMERCE
Jan 20, 2025 – 01:28:32
THE RACE OF CITIES - EXTRA EPISODE - GET IT ON THE PATREON
Jan 11, 2025 – 06:10
DOLLARS IN THE AIR - THE ARK OF COMMERCE
Jan 10, 2025 – 01:12:57
SHOPPING WITH MRS. LINCOLN - THE ARK OF COMMERCE
Jan 6, 2025 – 01:11:12
LOCO: ARK OF COMMERCE SERIES - A HISTORY OF LAND COMMERCE
Jan 3, 2025 – 01:45:11
JIMMY CARTER EPHEMERA
Dec 29, 2024 – 48:09
TERRIBLE TUESDAY 1987 ("It Was Almost as Bad as Black Monday") THE ARK OF COMMERCE
Dec 27, 2024 – 55:56
IF BY SEA- THE ARK OF COMMERCE
Dec 23, 2024 – 01:39:13
BLACK MONDAY 1987 AND THE PRICE OF EGGS: ARK OF COMMERCE Series
Dec 19, 2024 – 59:03
CRASH PARTY 1929 - THE "ARK" OF COMMERCE
Dec 17, 2024 – 01:36:14
ARK OF COMMERCE SERIES COMING W/ EXTRA EPISODE ON PATREON. ALSO PARDONS AND MORE
Dec 12, 2024 – 35:07
"I DON'T WANT TO TRICK YOU" The Lyndon Johnson - Richard Nixon Presidential Transition
Dec 9, 2024 – 01:07:33
THEY WILL JUBILATE! - WHAT IT WAS LIKE AFTER CLEVELAND'S SECOND NON-CONSECUTIVE ELECTION, NOV 1892.
Dec 2, 2024 – 33:19
FROM ZOE BAIRD TO SWING VOTERS TO INFLATION PERCEPTION - I'M GOING TO TALK ABOUT A BUNCH OF THINGS FOR A WHILE
Nov 26, 2024 – 52:03
THE TIME OF ADJOURMENT CLAUSE AND PRESIDENTIAL POWER
Nov 17, 2024 – 24:25
STOCKHOLM SYNDROME? HOW A CITY KEPT ITS NAME AND LINCOLN - THREE QUICK STORIES
Nov 14, 2024 – 23:58
WHAT I SAID BACK IN 2016 ABOUT THAT ELECTION: SEEMS SUPRISINGLY RELEVANT?
Nov 10, 2024 – 31:31
NATIONAL VAHALLA: ALL ABOUT STATUES, MONUMENTS, STATUE REMOVAL
Nov 1, 2024 – 01:01:03
SKOKIE, NEO-NAZIS, FREE SPEECH AND SAFETY
Oct 30, 2024 – 36:09
THE FINAL DAYS OF THE 1968 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION
Oct 28, 2024 – 58:49
THE MYSTERY OF IMPEACHMENT - HOW IT WORKS, WHAT HAPPENED in 1868 AND MORE
Oct 27, 2024 – 01:21:27
VICE PRESIDENTS AS CANDIDATES FOR PRESIDENT: A LOOK AT HISTORY WITH DAVID PRIESS OF CHATTER PODCAST
Oct 24, 2024 – 54:06
THE 1848 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION: PART 2 - PENNSYLVANIA IS THE KEY BATTLE-GROUND, THE "BONE AND SINEW" OF THE ELECTION
Oct 21, 2024 – 01:16:22
THE 1848 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION: PART 1- RUN, ROUGH AND READY
Oct 14, 2024 – 01:21:15
GROVER CLEVELAND'S NON-CONSECUTIVE SECOND TERM: Undeniably Un-consecutive, The Election of 1892
Oct 7, 2024 – 01:09:11
The 1796 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION: "Placing us in a Point of Opposition to Each Other"
Oct 7, 2024 – 37:35