My History Can Beat Up Your Politics

My History Can Beat Up Your Politics

Author: Bruce Carlson Language: English Episodes: 100
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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
Episodes
FRIENDLY SKIES - The Story of Airline Deregulation [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 55:17
A Democratic President and a liberal Senator push a free-market reform in the late 1970s that affects us all today. We look at the story of the Airline Deregulation Act of 1978. Among the topics - legroom politics, cold…
BECOMING NATIONS AGAIN, w/ Adam Crepelle [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 36:07
"It shouldn't be that hard" says our guest. Americans first recognized Indians as tribes and as nations, at least at a national level. North America's indigenous peoples had government and effective government before eur…
THE HEADSHAKE THAT CHANGED HISTORY And Other Stories [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 18:45
We depart from our Chester Arthur Series briefly with a focus on the moment Garfield was shot, and how a quick action by James Blaine, Secretary of State and no political friend to Arthur, might have changed history. Lea…
ALCATRAZ AND THE AMERICAN INDIAN MOVEMENT OF 1969 [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 50:50
The 1969 occupation of the former federal prison by Native American activists was the beginning of a movement and a shift in perception that lives on today. http://www.myhistorycanbeatupyourpolitics.com/alcatraz.mp3 We d…
KENT STATE 1970: AFTER THE SHOOTINGS [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:06:09
In this episode, we talk about everything that happens after that moment when four students were killed at a protest at a college (only two were participating in the protest). Opinion wasn't universally with the slain st…
GROVER CLEVELANDS THREE WARNINGS ABOUT TARIFFS [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 22:20
The 22nd and 24th President staked his first re-election bid opposing tariffs. There were reasons. He felt they increased prices on all goods, including non-imports, he thought they were limited in benefit to working peo…
FEDERAL JUDGES AND PRESIDENTS [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:10:38
Federal judges and Presidents have clashed in the past. It's rarely been cheery. As executive power exists only within the frame of law, this should be expected. There are freak events where Presidents have ignored judic…
"REGO" - AL GORE'S REINVENTING GOVERNMENT 1993 [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 27:37
It was clunky, and a little Office Space-like. And it cut federal jobs. But then-Vice President Al Gore's "REGO" program was different in many ways from "DOGE" -The 1993 program was bipartisan, considered [cuts were iden…
SKOKIE, NEO-NAZIS, FREE SPEECH AND SAFETY [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 35:09
A look at the Neo Nazi rally in Skokie, IL in 1977 and the resulting Supreme Court Case and the ACLU's role. In recent days Skokie has been brought up; and a look at the history of events is useful. We look at Louis Bran…

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