Resistance from the Right: Conservatives and the Campus Wars in Modern America
When thinking of campus protests, most Americans think of left-wing students marching and shouting. Dr. Lauren Lassabe Shepherd shows, however, that right-wing students and groups have protested very ...
5 Dec 202342min
Quote or No Quote? Who Said “If you don’t have anything nice to say, come and sit here by me”?
“If you don’t have anything nice to say, come and sit here by me,” is one of the best snarky-isms ever uttered. But who said it? Dorothy Parker? Joan Crawford? Lady Buzzkill? Hear the full story, and ...
29 Nov 20234min
1932: Politics, Protests, and Electioneering in a Crucial American Year
Veteran journalist and commentator, Scott Martelle, describes the fevered political year of 1932. Farmers’ strikes, industrial difficulties, marches and protests by military veterans, women’s rights p...
28 Nov 202332min
Thanksgiving History and Myth
Who invented American Thanksgiving, and when did they invent it? The Pilgrims in 1621? Abe Lincoln in 1863? FDR in 1939? Turns out there were a lot of cooks involved in making the traditional American...
22 Nov 20239min
Democracy Dies in Darkness? Philadelphia and Paris in the 1780s
As both American and French revolutionaries sought to fashion representative government in the late 1780s, they faced a dilemma. In a context where gaining public trust seemed to demand transparency, ...
21 Nov 202333min
Ben Franklin and the Turkey - Thanksgiving Myths!
One of the legendary stories that reappear during Thanksgiving season is that no less a luminary and Founder than Ben Franklin thought that the bald eagle was an improper choice as the national bird a...
20 Nov 20238min
Thanksgiving Popcorn - MiniMyth!
As the pilgrims pushed their chairs back from the first Thanksgiving table, their stomachs full of turkey and potatoes, Squanto appeared with bushels of popped corn and spilled it out on the tables fo...
17 Nov 20234min
Medieval Myths
Did medieval people have bad teeth and poor hygiene? Did they all die before they were 40? And what was the actual story about Lady Godiva? Jo Hedwig Teeuwisse, the Fake History Hunter, takes us on a ...
14 Nov 202341min
