My History Can Beat Up Your Politics

In the third year of the Presidency, Jimmy Carter wrestles with combining the principles of his first term with realities of the American economy amid myriad domestic struggles, two hostage-taking inc...

29 Aug 20251h 40min

Can the Presidency be done differently? Can a President be less Imperial, more of a citizen, turning the thermostat down in the White House and carrying his own bags? In many ways, Jimmy Carter approa...

28 Aug 20251h 21min

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 - leg...

31 Juli 202555min

"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 g...

28 Juli 202536min

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 ...

22 Juli 202518min

As the name says, about inkeeps and bunch of stories from books and clippings. Patreon - http://www.patreon.com/mhcbuyp (Amos Ellmaker is the VP Candidate of the 1832 anti-masonic party) Lear...

17 Juni 20251h

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.c...

17 Juni 202550min

There's a thought that Springsteen should not be in politics. His young adult story says, he always was. Thoughts about a few current topics. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adcho...

26 Maj 202539min