Malcolm Browne and the Self Immolation of Thích Quảng Đức
Ray Boomhower joins us to discuss how the most unlikely of war correspondents, Malcolm W. Browne, became the only Western reporter to capture Buddhist monk Thích Quảng Đức's horrific self-immolation o...
28 Maj 202434min
Churchill’s Wartime Speeches: the Untold Story
Professor Richard Toye explains the background and context of Winston Churchill's famous World War II speeches, from how they were written, to how they were delivered, to how the public reacted. Not o...
21 Maj 202429min
Was the Wild West as Wild as the Myths Say?
“The Wild West,” is one of the strongest conceptions in American history. But “where” was the west? How “wild” was it? “Who” settled it? Did settlers build the west with their hands? How many of the s...
14 Maj 202433min
The Myth of Colorblind Christians
Dr. Jesse Curtis shows us how white evangelicals in the 20th century US grew their own institutions and created an evangelical form of whiteness, infusing the politics of colorblindness with sacred fe...
7 Maj 202432min
Americans Bailing Out the French
Donald Trump talks about Americans being "suckers" to their allies. Is Uncle Sam really "Uncle Sucker"? Did the United States really “bail the French out in two world wars,” or is it a blustering, big...
30 Apr 202441min
British Dandies: Engendering Scandal and Fashioning a Nation
Well-dressed men have played a distinctive part in the cultural and political life of Britain over several centuries. But unlike the twenty-first-century hipster, the British dandies provoked intense ...
23 Apr 202436min
Once a King: The Lost Memoir of Edward VIII
Jane Marguerite Tippett discusses her new book about Edward VIII, the English king who abdicated the throne in 1936 for the woman he loved, the American socialite Wallis Simpson. She describes the com...
16 Apr 202448min
The False Cause: Fraud, Fabrication, and White Supremacy in Confederate Memory
Professor Adam Domby explains why the Lost Cause of the Confederacy is full of fraud, fabrication, and white supremacy. And he analyzes how it is expressed in statuary, memory, and commemoration in th...
9 Apr 202442min
