The Pizza Effect and National Pizza Day
Feb 9th is National Pizza Day in the USA! This is a good time to learn about the "pizza effect." It helps explain why assumptions about the history and development of certain cultural practices and tr...
8 Mar 202119min
History of Concentration Camps
The development of concentration camps in world history is both compelling and distressing. Award-winning author and journalist, Andrea Pitzer, explains how and why human societies have come to use th...
6 Mar 202152min
"The Deviant's War": the Homosexual vs. the United States of America
Professor Eric Cervini tells us the secret history of the fight for gay rights that began a generation before Stonewall. Above all, it is a story of America (and Washington) at a cultural and sexual c...
23 Feb 202124min
Appeasement and “Guilty Women” in Inter-War Britain
Professor Julie Gottlieb deepens our understanding of the crisis between World War I and World War 2 in Britain. She shows us how crucial female public opinion was to the development of foreign policy...
18 Feb 202134min
Presidential Impeachment — Encore Episode!
The Trump second impeachment trial has started. This is a good time to re-visit our episode from 2018. Why is impeachment so complicated, and what's the history behind each way to get a dangerous, cri...
9 Feb 202150min
Daughters of Yalta: the Churchills, the Roosevelts, and the Harrimans in 1945
Catherine Grace Katz joins us to tell the story of three intelligent and glamorous young women (Sarah Churchill, Anna Roosevelt, and Kathleen Harriman) who accompanied their famous fathers to the Yalt...
2 Feb 202131min
"Robert E. Lee and Me" - General Ty Seidule
General Ty Seidule returns to the Buzzkill Institute to talk about his wonderful new book, "Robert E. Lee and Me: a Southerner's Reckoning with the Myth of the Lost Cause." This is required listening ...
28 Jan 202133min
The Unknown Martin Luther King - Encore Episode!
Martin Luther King did so much more for American society, and wanted so much more from the US government and US elite, than most people realize. Popular history has airbrushed out far too much about h...
17 Jan 202140min
