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Skipped HistoryA Cartoonist is Keeping Organizing at the ForefrontA few weeks ago, I sent out a poll asking what kind of history would be most helpful to learn about as we enter another Trump era. Over half of respondents answered “activism we can emulate.” (Shoutout to the 8% of you who selected “quit crying and entertain me!”)In light of the survey results, I thought I’d share a more recent, grassroots history lesson, courtesy of New Yorker cartoonist Sofia Warren. Sofia is the author of Radical: My Year with a Socialist Senator, a graphic memoir about her experience embedded with New York State Senator Julia Salazar du...
2024-12-1330 min
Skipped HistoryDrawing on John Lewis’ ExampleEarlier this week, I spoke with Professor David Greenberg about his new biography, John Lewis: A Life. I was curious about lesser-known sides of the iconic activist, whose steadfast commitment to nonviolence was both admired and critiqued during the Civil Rights Movement. Lewis “wasn’t without his flaws,” Professor Greenberg told me, but he grew into “a reminder that America had been through worse and not only survived but improved.” I’ll be drawing on that lesson more than ever in the months and years ahead—that is, as you’ll see, when I’m not politely vandalizing right-wing politicians’ cars...
2024-11-1538 min
Skipped HistoryHow We Got Here — and How We Begin to Get Out of HereDr. Lauren Lassabe Shepherd (University of New Orleans) is the author of Resistance from the Right: Conservatives and the Campus Wars in Modern America. She’s also the host of the American Campus Podcast. Her work, which has appeared in various national publications, traces the modern conservative movement to campus wars in the late 1960s. In her estimation, neither Trump nor the conservative agenda is actually very popular. The question is how we can advance policies that are. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bo...
2024-11-0832 min
Skipped HistoryVoting Like Your Life Depends On ItIn our last interview before the election, I spoke with Professor Elizabeth Hinton, whose work has been instrumental in shaping my understanding of inequality and urban violence. Professor Hinton highlights how leaders of both political parties have long known “what’s required to meaningfully address the problems of poverty and racism,” but time after time, have opted for more politically palatable short-term solutions. The result? Continued over-policing and stratification.In Professor Hinton’s mind, Kamala Harris doesn’t offer the kind of structural transformation we need, but in a choice between her and Donald Trump—well, let’s just say Pro...
2024-11-0137 min
Skipped HistoryCatching Up to a Cherokee and Muscogee Understanding of the GovernmentMy guest today is Rebecca Nagle, an award-winning journalist and citizen of Cherokee Nation, and the author of By the Fire We Carry: The Generations-Long Fight for Justice on Native Land. Rebecca details the history of violence, dispossession, and resistance behind a monumental Supreme Court case decided in 2020. The case resulted in the restoration of tribal land, but it’s not exactly all unicorns and rainbows now. Rather, in Rebecca’s words, the victory reveals “what can happen when the U.S. government follows the law, even though it has a tendency not to.” This is a public...
2024-10-2538 min
Skipped HistoryA History of Living in Harm’s Way on the GulfAmid the anxious wait for Hurricane Milton last week, I asked Professor Jack E. Davis if he’d come back on Skipped History to review some storm history. In The Gulf: The Making of an American Sea, Professor Davis explores how and why Americans began to build on the Gulf Coast. The aftermath of one hurricane in particular generated a practice of trying to overcome, rather than retreat from, extreme weather. Over 120 years later, Professor Davis insists we need a moratorium on building near the water.Jack is a history professor at the University of Florida specializing in...
2024-10-1834 min
Skipped HistoryDigging Ourselves Out of a Giant Gun HoleThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit skippedhistory.substack.comIn our latest interview on the election, I spoke to Professor Drew McKevitt about guns. The gun problem feels insurmountable—in just one example, a new report from Everytown found that “the number of gun violence incidents on school grounds in 2024 so far has outpaced the total number of incidents in all of 2023.”But as Drew recounts, the feeling that g…
2024-10-1118 min
Skipped HistoryA Brief Environmental History of the World, Told Through FoodIn The Burning Earth, Professor Sunil Amrith delivers a global, history-spanning account of our planet’s environment. One subject he comes back to over and over again is food: rice, sugar, wheat, meat, and more. I asked him about the societal impact of each crop and why he believes there’s no faster way to slow the climate crisis “than changing food systems and agriculture.”Sunil Amrith is the Renu and Anand Dhawan Professor of History and professor in the School of the Environment at Yale University. He’s the author of five books and a recipient of multipl...
2024-10-0451 min
Skipped HistoryIsrael’s Reliance on the Greatest Powers in World HistoryThe timing for today’s interview, I think, needs no introduction. Professor Rashid Khalidi details Israel’s long history of relying on outside powers to build a Jewish state: first, the British, and now, of course, the U.S. That record reveals the sizable influence outside forces have today to end the violence unfolding in Palestine (and now Lebanon). Public opinion shifting against Israel suggests to Professor Khalidi that “both sides are almost fated to have to figure out how to reconcile,” though as you’ll see, that’s not exactly a source of hope for him right now.Profess...
2024-09-2455 min
Skipped HistoryThe Origins of the Assault on Public EducationWhy are conservatives so hellbent on dismantling public education? Project 2025 calls for the Department of Education to be eliminated. It further suggests that education policy should “follow the path outlined by Milton Friedman in 1955, wherein education is publicly funded but education decisions are made by families.”As Jennifer C. Berkshire and Jack Schneider reveal, the assault on public schools “has never been just about education.” Rather, it connects back to resistance to the integration of schools and a long-running war on unions. And in our interview, Jennifer and Jack examine how the attempted privatization of schools would essentia...
2024-09-1356 min
Skipped HistoryIt's Not a Period — It's a KamalaThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit skippedhistory.substack.comIn our latest interview about the 2024 election, I welcomed Professor Kellie Carter Jackson back to Skipped History. In past conversations, Professor Carter Jackson and I explored lessons from Black abolitionists and the effectiveness of violent resistance. Both topics came up again as we discussed Professor Carter Jackson’s excitement over Kamala Harri…
2024-09-0622 min
Skipped HistoryCorrecting the Invisibility of LatinoLandAs conversations about Latino voters heat up, I spoke with Marie Arana about her book, LatinoLand: A Portrait of America's Largest and Least Understood Minority. Marie details the centrality of Latinos to the economy, how Republicans are making inroads courting Latino communities, and how the “government has often treated Latinos as an afterthought.” This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit skippedhistory.substack.com/subscribe
2024-08-3034 min
Skipped HistoryThe DNC: Change or More of the Same?This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit skippedhistory.substack.comSoon after it ended, I debriefed the DNC with Kevin Kruse, a history professor at Princeton. We discussed the evident joy of the convention, why speakers went light on policy, and heavy on Trump attacks. We also explored the inroads the left has made on the Democratic agenda—with glaring exceptions like Gaza. Overall, I was maybe more skeptical of how m…
2024-08-2315 min
Skipped HistoryThe Awakening of Chicago’s Political ConsciousnessWith the DNC coming up in Chicago next week, I thought it’d be fun to dive into the Windy City’s history. I spoke with Professor Scott Berg about one of Chicago’s defining events: the Great Chicago Fire of 1871.Professor Berg (George Mason University) is the author of The Burning of the World: The Great Chicago Fire and the War for a City's Soul. We discussed how Chicago was in its adolescence heading into the fire—and how, when immigrants were scapegoated in the resulting chaos, the working class pushed back, forming “a lasting political sensibilit...
2024-08-1657 min
Skipped HistoryHolding on to Hope that Kamala Will Be DifferentThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit skippedhistory.substack.comIn our latest interview with a historian about the 2024 election, I welcomed Professor Mehrsa Baradaran back to Skipped History. An authority on inequality and banking history, I asked for her thoughts on Kamala Harris, Tim Walz, and what she sees at stake in the election. For Professor Baradaran, it’s about more than policy—“it’s about whether we trust…
2024-08-0914 min
Skipped HistoryThe Right Has Been Weird for a Long TimeThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit skippedhistory.substack.comIn the first of our series of interviews with historians about the 2024 election, I spoke with Professor Matt Dallek, author of Birchers: How the John Birch Society Radicalized the American Right. Professor Dallek examines how the John Birch Society (JBS), a far-right group active in the 1960s, came to shape Republican politics today. Professor Dallek a…
2024-08-0207 min
Skipped HistoryThe Early Olympics and a Century-Long Obsession with GenderThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit skippedhistory.substack.comThe Olympics officially start tonight! To learn about the origins of the games — and their forgotten history of exclusion — I spoke with Michael Waters, author of The Other Olympians: Fascism, Queerness, and the Making of Modern Sports.In his book and in conversation, Michael explores a handful of athletes whose transitions made headlines in the 1930s. …
2024-07-2611 min
Skipped HistoryLearning from the Many Missteps Along the MississippiAmid the political headlines over the last few weeks, one piece of news went under the radar: how freaking hot it’s been. To bring us back to earth, I thought I’d share a recent conversation with journalist Boyce Upholt about the Mississippi River.In The Great River: The Making and Unmaking of the Mississippi, Boyce delivers a winding history of the “chaos” of the river, and American efforts to tame it. In conversation, we discussed the ever-changing nature of the Mississippi and the transformation of surrounding areas from Indigenous homeland into private property. There are lessons...
2024-07-1940 min
Skipped HistoryThe Democrats Have Shot Themselves in the Foot BeforeThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit skippedhistory.substack.comA Democratic Party in crisis during an election year. A Republican candidate who believed the president was above the law. Police crackdowns on protests over American imperialism. Surprisingly, I’m not talking about 2024, but 1968, another time that Democrats held the DNC in Chicago. To learn more about that summer’s convention, and how infighting tanke…
2024-07-1204 min
Skipped HistoryThe Question at the Core of the Debate Last NightThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit skippedhistory.substack.comEarlier today, I spoke with Dr. Carly Goodman about last night’s presidential debate. We tried to make some sense of the madness together.Dr. Goodman is a historian, editor, and the award-winning author of Dreamland: America’s Immigration Lottery in an Age of Restriction. Her expertise in immigration history helped us get to a question at the core of th…
2024-06-2804 min
Skipped HistoryIndigenous Belonging and the Swamp Forests of North CarolinaPreviously, we’ve explored Native history on national and regional levels. Professor Ryan E. Emanuel’s book, On the Swamp: Fighting for Indigenous Environmental Justice, offers a chance to take a more granular view.In his book, and in conversation, Professor Emanuel traces the history of his tribe, the Lumbee, in Eastern North Carolina. He reveals how the colonial project that began hundreds of years ago continues. If the Lumbee are to survive, he concludes, “We've got to figure out a way to continue to belong to our homelands.” This is a public episode. If you'd...
2024-06-2136 min
Skipped HistoryViolence Isn’t the Answer — Or Is It?This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit skippedhistory.substack.comIn We Refuse: A Forceful History of Black Resistance, and in conversation, Professor Kellie Carter Jackson highlights stories of Black refusal. Sometimes, refusal takes the form of violent resistance. Other times, it’s an impromptu electric slide in the middle of a protest. Either way, Professor Carter Jackson moves us away “from the rightness or wrongn…
2024-06-1423 min
Skipped HistoryOligarchy and US-Sponsored War in El SalvadorEarlier this week, President Biden closed the border to asylum seekers, many of whom are Salvadoran. To learn about their history and how it “ties into a bigger picture of U.S. imperialism in the hemisphere,” I spoke with Daniel Alvarenga, a Salvadoran journalist and the host of HUMO: Murder and Silence in El Salvador. As Daniel reveals, the U.S. doesn’t have the best track record of dealing with the problems it helped create in Central America. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonu...
2024-06-0736 min
Skipped HistoryIt’s Time to Take DARE a Little More SeriouslyChances are you’ve seen the DARE logo — on a t-shirt, a bumper sticker, a license plate, or maybe a street sign. In DARE to Say No: Policing and the War on Drugs in Schools, and in conversation, Professor Max Felker-Kantor (Ball State University) traces the history of the ubiquitous tough-on-drugs program. It's almost too easy to make fun of DARE (almost), but as Professor Felker-Kantor reveals, law enforcement had a very serious goal: to legitimize a deeper police presence in schools, and by and large, they succeeded. This is a public episode. If you'd like to di...
2024-05-2445 min
Skipped HistoryThe Myth that Jewish Bankers Secretly Run the WorldThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit skippedhistory.substack.comTo contextualize conversations about antisemitism today, I spoke with Daniel Schulman, a bestselling author and Mother Jones' deputy editor for news and politics. In The Money Kings: The Epic Story of the Jewish Immigrants who Transformed Wall Street and Shaped Modern America, and in conversation, Dan explores various figures who unleashed antisemitism …
2024-05-1721 min
Skipped HistoryThe Cancerous Growth of a Neoliberal War MachineWhoa, Nelly — one of my favorite authors, Mehrsa Baradaran, just published a new book, The Quiet Coup: Neoliberalism and the Looting of America. In The Quiet Coup, and in conversation, Professor Baradaran (UC Irvine Law) traces how backlash to integrating schools led to the rise of neoliberal economic theory — which was essentially one giant excuse to maintain the status quo. As neoliberals accrued more power, they eradicated check after check on capitalism, ultimately leading to a quiet, legal coup and the growth of a cancerous war machine. This is a public episode. If you'd like to disc...
2024-05-1047 min
Skipped HistoryWhy Universities Crack Down on ProtestorsAs college administrators call the police on pro-Palestinian protestors around the country, I asked Dr. Lauren Lassabe Shepherd if she’d explore some of the history behind crackdowns on students. Dr. Shepherd, a historian and teacher at the University of New Orleans, kindly agreed.In her book, Resistance from the Right: Conservatives and the Campus Wars in Modern America, and in conversation, Dr. Shepherd examines waves of student protests in the late ‘60s and early ‘70s. Echoing what we’re seeing today, some of the biggest standoffs occurred at Columbia. Then, and now, administrators took an increasingly punitive...
2024-04-2629 min
Skipped HistoryUrban Native America, and How Europeans Got It So, So WrongThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit skippedhistory.substack.comGrowing up, we’re often taught that there’s a natural societal progression from hunting and gathering, to farming, and then to towns and cities. But as Professor Kathleen DuVal (UNC-Chapel Hill) illuminates in Native Nations, and in conversation, that conception is very Eurocentric. It obscures, among many things, the vast landscape of Native American c…
2024-04-1917 min
Skipped HistoryThe History of (Not) Paying Your TaxesHere in the States, Monday is Tax Day. I haven’t filed mine yet, partly because if you wait till the last minute, it only takes a minute, and also because I recently spoke with Michael J. Graetz about the history of Americans paying their taxes. In The Power to Destroy: How the Antitax Movement Hijacked America, and in conversation, Professor Graetz traces the rise of the antitax movement to 1978, when a “perfect storm” led to a tax revolt still unfolding today. Professor Graetz is a professor emeritus of law at Columbia and Yale law schools.
2024-04-1249 min
Skipped HistoryThe Way-Too-Vibrant History of American IlliberalismThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit skippedhistory.substack.comIf you think there’s a strong American liberal tradition, wait till you hear about the other side of the coin from Professor Steven Hahn. In Illiberal America, and in conversation, Professor Hahn traces illiberal ideas and political currents from hundreds of years ago through the present day. His recasting of history shows, in his words, “what we're up …
2024-04-0521 min
Skipped HistoryThe Goodies, the Baddies, and the Baggies: U.S. Disaster Relief Since 1812Immigration has been in the news week after week after week… after week after week after week. As a point of comparison, I thought we’d explore the history of U.S. humanitarian assistance, not at the border but in the countries immigrants often leave. In conversation, and in Catastrophic Diplomacy, Professor Julia Irwin (LSU) reveals that our government’s treatment of foreign citizens, even in their home countries, has rarely been motivated by a pure desire to help. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bon...
2024-03-2938 min
Skipped HistoryWhy Choosing to Have Kids Feels Harder Than EverThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit skippedhistory.substack.comIn Without Children: The Long History of Not Being a Mother, and in conversation, Professor Peggy O’Donnell Heffington traces the collapse of once-common communal methods of childrearing. Her words contextualize why having kids — or choosing not to — feels so challenging for Americans in particular.Professor Heffington teaches gender and women’s history…
2024-03-2227 min
Skipped HistoryThe Most Powerful Narco-State You’ve Never Heard OfIn conversation, and in Narcotopia: In Search of the Asian Drug Cartel that Survived the CIA, investigative journalist Patrick Winn traces the history of Wa State. For decades, Patrick reveals, the CIA worked with the Wa, turning a small, little-known Indigenous group in Southeast Asia into one of the most powerful and least understood drug producers in the world. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit skippedhistory.substack.com/subscribe
2024-03-1551 min
Skipped HistoryThe Improbable Path to Curing TuberculosisWith the CDC set to end the 5-day isolation period for Covid, as well as rates of disease transmission spiking in Ukraine and Gaza, I thought it a poignant time to explore the history of one of the world’s most infectious diseases: tuberculosis. In her book, The Black Angels: The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis, and in conversation, author Maria Smilios traces the twists and turns of the journey to curing TB, and why too many people still go without treatment today. This is a public episode. If you'd lik...
2024-02-1633 min
Skipped HistoryThe Rise and Fall of the “Gay Gene”With attacks on LGBTQ+ rights exploding, I spoke to Professor Joanna Wuest about scapegoating of the LGBTQ+ community over the years and how science has helped hasten reform — even if, sometimes, the science hasn’t been so sound.Joanna Wuest is an Assistant Professor of Politics at Mount Holyoke College and a sociolegal scholar specializing in LGBTQ+ and reproductive rights, religion, and health. Professor Wuest is the author of Born This Way: Science, Citizenship, and Inequality in the American LGBTQ+ Movement. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subs...
2024-02-0230 min
Skipped HistoryWhen the Government Kind of Almost Confiscated GunsWith guns in the news a lot of late — Wayne LaPierre recently announced his resignation from the NRA and, yesterday, the DOJ concluded an investigation that found “unimaginable failure” with police in Uvalde — I spoke with Professor Andrew C. McKevitt of Louisiana Tech. In Gun Country: Gun Capitalism, Culture, and Control in Cold War America, Professor McKevitt traces many of the origins of our gun culture to the years following World War II. Then, one entrepreneur made a lot of money flooding the market with guns, and Congress arrived at arguably its most consequential crossroads in addressing our gun p...
2024-01-1937 min
Skipped HistoryTo Defeat Fascism in 2024, Get CreativeTo prepare for the tumultuous year ahead, I asked Heather Cox Richardson about the rise of fascism in the U.S. and how Americans have resisted it in the past. In her words, “We are living in another time of testing.” Her advice? Stay focused and get creative.Heather is a professor of U.S. history at Boston College. She’s the author of Letters from an American, the most popular Substack newsletter, which chronicles current events in the larger context of American history. Heather has also written seven books on history and politics, including most recently, Democr...
2024-01-0531 min
Skipped HistoryThe NYPD and Policing's "Small Toolkit"With New York Mayor Eric Adams deploying discriminatory police tactics — not to mention insisting that asylum seekers “will destroy New York City” — it felt like a good time to explore the early history of the NYPD. In his new book, Police and the Empire City, and in conversation, Dr. Matthew Guariglia reveals how biased perceptions of race and ethnicity shaped policing in New York (and beyond) from the outset.Dr. Guariglia is an Affiliated Scholar at the University of California College of the Law, San Francisco, and a Senior Policy Analyst at the Electronic Frontier Foundation. His bylines...
2023-12-0135 min
Skipped HistoryThe Invention of Contemporary ThanksgivingAhead of Thanksgiving, I spoke with Professor Anne Blue Wills about the invention of the holiday as we know it today. In her article, “Pilgrims and Progress: How Magazines Made Thanksgiving,” and in conversation, Professor Wills chronicles how nineteenth-century women’s magazines —and one magazine editor in particular — created contemporary Thanksgiving. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit skippedhistory.substack.com/subscribe
2023-11-1731 min
Skipped HistoryThe Fading Lessons of the Crack EpidemicAs the U.S. enters a “fourth wave” of the opioid crisis, I spoke with journalist and author Donovan X. Ramsey about the crack epidemic. In his book, When Crack Was King: A People's History of a Misunderstood Era, and in conversation, Donovan details how the epidemic began, why government policies were ineffective, and how lessons from the crack era are fading from memory.Donovan’s reporting has appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, GQ, WSJ Magazine, Ebony, and Essence, among other outlets. He has been a staff reporter at the Los Angeles Times, NewsOne, and th...
2023-11-0336 min
Skipped HistoryThe Chilling History of the AR-15Not long ago, I interviewed reporters Cameron McWhirter and Zusha Elinson of The Wall Street Journal about their new book, American Gun: The True Story of the AR-15. I hoped a topical moment to share our interview, which traces how the gun came to be used in mass shootings, wouldn’t arrive for a long time. Alas, a gunman in Maine thought otherwise.I’ll note that, while the search for the gunman continues, it’s unclear exactly what kind of semi-automatic rifle he used. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discus...
2023-10-2736 min
Skipped History"Awakening the Ashes" of Anti-colonialismIn Awakening the Ashes: An Intellectual History of the Haitian Revolution, Professor Marlene Daut traces the modern understanding of freedom and equality to Haiti. I thought today would be a good time to share a conversation I had with her. Haiti has low-key been in the news of late, with yet another foreign “security mission” arriving. Further, many of the dynamics Haitians fought against are, sadly, on full display on the global stage today.Professor Daut is a professor of French and African Diaspora Studies at Yale. She writes about the history of the Haitian Revolution, literary cult...
2023-10-2027 min
Skipped HistoryUrgent Lessons for the Next Generation of ProtestersIn If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution, journalist Vincent Bevins chronicles recent uprisings around the world—and why so many of them went awry. In his book, and in conversation, we trace some of the lessons that the next generation of protesters in the US can draw from their peers’ efforts around the world. Vincent also details why the best time to get involved in changing the world is now. Note: the late Senator Dianne Feinstein comes up briefly toward the end of our conversation as part of a broader point about the p...
2023-10-0637 min
Skipped HistoryThe Enslaved Women Who Fought BackIn Brooding Over Bloody Revenge: Enslaved Women's Lethal Resistance, Professor Nikki M. Taylor (Howard University) tells seven different stories about enslaved women who refused to tolerate injustice any longer. In her book, and in conversation, Professor Taylor sheds light on why these women committed lethal acts of resistance and how women trafficked today sometimes resort to the same. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit skippedhistory.substack.com/subscribe
2023-09-2933 min
Skipped HistoryRecentering American History with Michael HarriotIn this week’s interview, commentator Michael Harriot delivers a reframing of U.S. history centered around the Black experience. The title of his forthcoming book, Black AF History, The Un-Whitewashed Story of America, gives you a sense of his approach to investigating the past. Michael is a columnist at theGrio.com where he covers the intersection of race, politics, and culture. Michael’s work has appeared in The Washington Post, The Atlantic, NBC, and BET. Michael is a political commentator on MSNBC and CNN and has been honored by the National Association of Black Journalists. He’s also...
2023-09-1528 min
Skipped HistoryWhy Labor’s Cause is EternalWith Labor Day around the corner, and 2023 on pace to be one of the most significant years for work stoppages in recent history, I spoke to Kim Kelly, an independent journalist, author, and organizer. Kim has been a regular labor columnist for Teen Vogue since 2018, and her writing on labor, class, politics, and culture has appeared in The New Republic, The Washington Post, and The New York Times, among many others. Kim is also the author of Fight Like Hell, a book of intersectional labor history (now in paperback!). In her book, and in conversation, Kim chronicles t...
2023-09-0131 min
Skipped HistoryPlunder and Resistance in the Old NorthwestAmid a growing body of scholarship revealing that Native peoples didn’t simply vanish from their homelands, as the old stereotype suggests, I spoke to Michael John Witgen, a citizen of the Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior Ojibwe and the author of Seeing Red: Indigenous Land, American Expansion, and the Political Economy of Plunder in North America.Michael is a professor in the Department of History and the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race at Columbia. Seeing Red was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in history. In the book, and in conversation, Professor Wi...
2023-08-1831 min
Skipped HistoryThe Diversity of Eastern Europe—and UkraineI’ve been inclined to steer clear of Ukraine in our interviews. This is a U.S. history newsletter, after all. But Eastern Europe has come up repeatedly in our explorations (for example, on Israel and the Diversity Visa), and I seized the chance to read Goodbye, Eastern Europe by Jacob Mikanowski to learn more. Truth be told, I was blown away, and I hope you find our conversation as enjoyable and educational as I did.Jacob is a historian, journalist, and critic. He’s written for The Atlantic, The Guardian, and The New York Times. He’s also...
2023-07-2139 min
Skipped HistoryThe History of America's Fitness ObsessionProfessor Natalia Mehlman Petrzela is a historian of contemporary American politics and culture at the New School. She’s the co-producer and host of the acclaimed podcast Welcome to Your Fantasy and the co-host of the Past Present podcast. She’s also a frequent media guest expert, public speaker, and contributor to outlets like the New York Times, the Washington Post, CNN, and the Atlantic. She’s the author of Classroom Wars: Language, Sex, and the Making of Modern Political Culture, and Fit Nation: The Gains and Pains of America’s Exercise Obsession, the subject of our conversation today.In...
2023-07-1430 min
Skipped HistoryThe Rise of Cable NewsThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit skippedhistory.substack.comI’m excited to share a conversation with Professor Kathryn Cramer Brownell. Professor Brownell teaches history at Purdue and is the author of 24/7 Politics: Cable Television and the Fragmenting of America from Watergate to Fox News. In conversation, we explored the origins of cable TV and cable news, dating back to the 1950s. I only watch the likes of M…
2023-06-3009 min
Skipped HistoryThe Tragedy and Redemption of Bald EaglesJack is a history professor at the University of Florida and the Rothman Family Chair in the Humanities, specializing in environmental history and sustainability studies. He’s the author or editor of ten books, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Gulf: The Making of an American Sea. His latest book, The Bald Eagle: The Improbable Journey of America’s Bird was the subject of our conversation. Professor Davis and I traced the rollercoaster history of bald eagles from abundance to near extinction (twice) and back again. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with...
2023-06-2331 min
Skipped HistoryHow the right-wing “fringe engulfed the center”With Super Tuesday coming up and Trump’s nomination all but secured, I thought I’d share a relevant interview that paying subscribers had early access to last year. In his book, Birchers: How the John Birch Society Radicalized the American Right, and in conversation, Professor Matthew Dallek illuminates the ongoing influence of a far-right group in the ‘60s called the John Birch Society.Professor Dallek is a historian at George Washington University. He’s a frequent national commentator and his articles and reviews have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Politico, The Atlantic, and nume...
2023-06-1627 min
Skipped History"The Myth of Milk as Superfood"This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit skippedhistory.substack.comI’ve long been interested in tracing food history, and Anne Mendelson’s book, Spoiled: The Myth of Milk as Superfood, offered an excellent opportunity.Anne is a food journalist and culinary historian. She was a contributing editor at Gourmet Magazine and has written for the New York Times Dining Section and the Los Angeles Times Food Section. She’s also…
2023-06-0907 min
Skipped HistoryThe Amnesia of Empire with Sathnam SangheraThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit skippedhistory.substack.comSathnam Sanghera is an award-winning journalist, historian, and writer for The Times in London. Empireland: How Imperialism Has Shaped Modern Britain, his third book, earned a variety of accolades, including being named a Book of the Year at the 2022 British Books Awards. Just before we spoke, Sathnam learned that he’s also now a fellow of the Royal His…
2023-06-0211 min
Skipped HistoryThe "Frankenstein" History of Student LoansThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit skippedhistory.substack.comI spoke with Josh Mitchell, author of The Debt Trap: How Student Loans Became a National Catastrophe, to learn the history behind Joe Biden’s decision to cancel hundreds of billions of dollars in student debt—and why, even in the unlikely chance that SCOTUS upholds Biden’s action, student debt will continue to rise.Josh writes about banking and finance …
2023-05-2610 min
Skipped History150 Years of "Zero-Sum Thinking" on ImmigrationThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit skippedhistory.substack.comDr. Carly Goodman revealed the 150-year-old history behind the Biden Administration’s restrictionist stance on immigration.Dr. Goodman explored this history through the lens of Diversity Lottery: a rare, effective, positive US immigration policy that allows people from around the world to migrate here. Not by coincidence, Dr. Goodman is the author of Dr…
2023-05-1212 min
Skipped HistoryThe Consumer Expectations that Southern Corporations BuiltThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit skippedhistory.substack.comProfessor Bart Elmore (the Ohio State University) traced the environmental history of five southern companies—Coke, Walmart, FedEx, Delta, and Bank of America—before reflecting on how they’ve come to shape consumer expectations today. Professor Elmore is the award-winning author of Citizen Coke: The Making of Coca-Cola Capitalism; Seed Money: Monsanto’s Past and Our Food Future; and coming very soon, Country Capitalism: How Corporations from the American South Remade Our Economy and the Planet. Professor Elmore’s newest boo...
2023-05-0510 min
Skipped HistoryTracing the Spread of "Free Market Fundamentalism"This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit skippedhistory.substack.comProfessor Naomi Oreskes is the Henry Charles Lea Professor of the History of Science and Affiliated Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Harvard. Dr. Erik M. Conway is a historian of science and technology at Caltech. Together, they’re the bestselling authors of Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from To…
2023-04-2805 min
Skipped HistoryWe must "dream bigger" about jailsThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit skippedhistory.substack.comProfessor Melanie Newport (UConn) is the award-winning author of This Is My Jail: Local Politics and the Rise of Mass Incarceration. As Professor Newport and I discussed, much of jailing history is rooted in kind of good intentions, and she uses Chicago as a case study to illuminate how would-be jail reformers have done more harm than good over the last…
2023-04-2111 min
Skipped HistoryPalo Alto, “Laboratory for the Construction of Whiteness”This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit skippedhistory.substack.comMalcolm Harris is a freelance writer and the author of Kids These Days: The Making of Millennials, S**t is Fucked Up and B******t: History Since the End of History, and most recently, Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World. This last, wonderfully comprehensive, and chilling book is the subject of our conversation today.Malcolm and…
2023-04-1412 min
Skipped HistoryThe "Surreal" SCOTUS Case on Indian AdoptionsThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit skippedhistory.substack.comA pivotal Supreme Court case that we’re likely to hear a decision on soon, Haaland v. Brackeen, centers on the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA), landmark legislation passed in 1978. To learn more about ICWA, I spoke with Matthew L.M. Fletcher, the Harry Burns Hutchins Collegiate Professor of Law at Michigan Law. Professor Fletcher teaches and writes in t…
2023-04-0709 min
Skipped History“The prison of gender” with Professor Lillian FadermanThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit skippedhistory.substack.comProfessor Lillian Faderman (emeritus at Fresno State University) is an internationally known scholar of lesbian and LGBT history and literature. The Times named three of her books on its "Notable Books of the Year" list and Kirkus Reviews named Woman: the History of an American Idea one of the best U.S. History Books of 2022.Woman is a sweeping work of …
2023-03-3111 min
Skipped HistoryThe Still Vengeful Texas Counter-Revolution of 1836This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit skippedhistory.substack.comGerald Horne is the Moores Professor of History and African American Studies at the University of Houston. His research has addressed issues of racism in labor, politics, civil rights, international relations, and war. He’s the author of more than thirty books (!), including most recently, The Counter-Revolution of 1836: Texas Slavery & Jim Crow and the…
2023-03-2510 min
Skipped HistoryThe Incompetent, Overzealous History of Government SecrecyThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit skippedhistory.substack.comMatthew Connelly is a professor of international and global history at Columbia, co-director of the Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy, and principal investigator of History Lab, a project that applies data science to the problem of preserving the public record and accelerating its release. Related, his most recent book is called The …
2023-03-1009 min
Skipped HistoryThe "singular and emblematic" history of Tuskegee with Dr. Brian JonesThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit skippedhistory.substack.comIn The Tuskegee Student Uprising: a History, Dr. Brian Jones illuminates how “the contradictions of Tuskegee Institute’s history are bound up with the contradictions of Black history.” I spoke with Dr. Jones about these contradictions and the lasting influence of Black student activism in the 60s. We also discussed Brian and his dad’s personal connectio…
2023-02-2412 min
Skipped HistoryThe "Always Unfinished" Professionalization of the PoliceThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit skippedhistory.substack.comIn light of ongoing protests against a new police training facility in Atlanta, and the police killing of activist Manuel Esteban Paez Terán, aka Tortuguita, I spoke to Sierra Pettengill and Profesor Stuart Schrader, two experts on the history of police training.Professor Schrader, aka Stuart, is an Associate Research Professor of Africana Studies at Jo…
2023-02-1706 min
Skipped History“The beginning of the culture wars” with Professor Ed LarsonThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit skippedhistory.substack.comProfessor Edward J. Larson is the author of fifteen books on science, history, and law including most recently, American Inheritance: Liberty and Slavery in the Birth of a Nation, 1765-1795, and earlier, Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion, which won the Pulitzer Prize. Professor Larson and I d…
2023-02-1040 min
Skipped HistoryProfessor Michael Kazin on the Turbulent History of American SocialismThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit skippedhistory.substack.comIn a new book called Myth America, top historians (including many who’ve appeared on Skipped History!) set the record straight on some of the most pernicious myths about US history. When reading, I was particularly intrigued by Professor Michael Kazin’s chapter about the history of socialism in the US. He kindly agreed to chat further with me for today’…
2023-02-0303 min
Skipped HistoryProfessor Stephen Nissenbaum on Santa Claus’ Elitist OriginsTo learn more about the holiday season’s jolliest, most iconic figure—Santa!—I spoke to Stephen Nissenbaum, a professor emeritus at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Professor Nissenbaum specializes in early US history. His book, The Battle for Christmas, was a Pulitzer Prize finalist. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit skippedhistory.substack.com/subscribe
2022-12-1642 min
Carol Smaldino's The Human ClimateThe Human Climate with Guest Ben TuminI first read of Ben Tumin in a New York Times profile in July 2021. Ben is a “historical satirist”. He is loath to be called a historian because for one he isn’t but also perhaps “real” (quotation mine) historians would take umbrage. However he reads a lot and knows a lot and seems to be always learning, even to the extent of following facts that might be controversial at least for writers of typical textbooks. Ben is the founder of Skipped History, a movement/blog—some entries are for members only-- that uses satire and theater to promote le...
2022-08-0857 min
Skipped HistoryThe 1950s Dog Dads Responsible for Voter Fraud Claims TodaySubscribe to our newsletter for more history! https://skippedhistory.substack.com/In the past six months, over a dozen states have passed new restrictive voting laws meant to favor Republicans. If you follow the money, the original source of these efforts to undermine democracy becomes clear. Cat lovers, rejoice: it all dates back to a couple of pooch-lovers...Today’s story comes from Dark Money by Jane Mayer, as well as a recent investigation of hers called “The Big Money Behind the Big Lie.”For audio versions of this week’s episode, a transcript, and more...
2021-11-1808 min
Skipped HistoryThe 1950s Dog Dads Responsible for Voter Fraud Claims TodaySubscribe to our newsletter for more history! https://skippedhistory.substack.com/In the past six months, over a dozen states have passed new restrictive voting laws meant to favor Republicans. If you follow the money, the original source of these efforts to undermine democracy becomes clear. Cat lovers, rejoice: it all dates back to a couple of pooch-lovers...Today’s story comes from Dark Money by Jane Mayer, as well as a recent investigation of hers called “The Big Money Behind the Big Lie.”For audio versions of this week’s episode, a transcript, and more...
2021-11-1808 minSkipped HistoryThe Secret Genesis of Corporations’ Political DominanceSubscribe to our newsletter for more history! https://skippedhistory.substack.com/Have you ever wondered how elected officials became so beholden to money? Well, look no further than the Powell Memo, a confidential document from 1971 that inspired corporations to take over US politics.Today’s story comes from "We, the Corporations" by Adam Winkler, and "Dark Money" by Jane Mayer.Learn more here: https://skippedhistory.substack.com/p/the-secret-genesis-of-corporations
2021-11-0407 min
Skipped HistoryThe Secret Genesis of Corporations’ Political DominanceSubscribe to our newsletter for more history! https://skippedhistory.substack.com/Have you ever wondered how elected officials became so beholden to money? Well, look no further than the Powell Memo, a confidential document from 1971 that inspired corporations to take over US politics.Today’s story comes from "We, the Corporations" by Adam Winkler, and "Dark Money" by Jane Mayer.Learn more here: https://skippedhistory.substack.com/p/the-secret-genesis-of-corporations This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit skippedhistory.substack.co...
2021-11-0407 minSkipped HistoryHow Corporate Executives Quietly Shaped the Pledge of AllegianceSubscribe to our newsletter for more history! https://skippedhistory.substack.com/In the 1940s and 50s, "Christian libertarians" hoped spiritual arguments would convince US citizens to oppose business regulations and big government. Although their efforts backfired (how delicious), we investigate why US students have pledged allegiance to a nation "under God" ever since.Today's story comes from "One Nation Under God" by Kevin KruseLearn more here: https://skippedhistory.substack.com/p/how-corporate-execs-quietly-shaped
2021-10-2107 min
Skipped HistoryHow Corporate Executives Quietly Shaped the Pledge of AllegianceSubscribe to our newsletter for more history! https://skippedhistory.substack.com/In the 1940s and 50s, "Christian libertarians" hoped spiritual arguments would convince US citizens to oppose business regulations and big government. Although their efforts backfired (how delicious), we investigate why US students have pledged allegiance to a nation "under God" ever since.Today's story comes from "One Nation Under God" by Kevin KruseLearn more here: https://skippedhistory.substack.com/p/how-corporate-execs-quietly-shaped This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus...
2021-10-2107 minSkipped HistoryHow the Book of Mormon Inspired the "Termination" of Native American TribesSubscribe to our newsletter for more history! https://skippedhistory.substack.com/In 1953, Senator Arthur Watkins, a devout Mormon, thought it was time for native peoples to become “white and delightsome.” Guided by the Book of Mormon, he helped engineer a policy called "Termination." As we explore, it didn’t end well.Today's story comes from "The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee" by David TreuerLearn more here: https://skippedhistory.substack.com/p/how-the-book-of-mormon-inspired-the?s=w
2021-10-0707 min
Skipped HistoryHow the Book of Mormon Inspired the "Termination" of Native American TribesSubscribe to our newsletter for more history! https://skippedhistory.substack.com/In 1953, Senator Arthur Watkins, a devout Mormon, thought it was time for native peoples to become “white and delightsome.” Guided by the Book of Mormon, he helped engineer a policy called "Termination." As we explore, it didn’t end well.Today's story comes from "The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee" by David TreuerLearn more here: https://skippedhistory.substack.com/p/how-the-book-of-mormon-inspired-the?s=w This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus...
2021-10-0707 minSkipped HistoryThe Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 (Part 2)Subscribe to our newsletter for more history! https://skippedhistory.substack.com/We left off in September of 1971 when tensions at Attica State Prison had reached a boiling point. After demanding improved conditions, prisoners rebelled. New York State, however, would have the final say. The state’s lies helped spark mass incarceration.Also- shoutout to my family cat for making his first cameo on Skipped 😽Today's story comes from "Blood in the Water" by Heather Ann Thompson.Learn more here: https://skippedhistory.substack.com/p/how-ny-covered-up-a-massacreand-sparked
2021-10-0508 min
Skipped HistoryThe Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 (Part 2)Subscribe to our newsletter for more history! https://skippedhistory.substack.com/We left off in September of 1971 when tensions at Attica State Prison had reached a boiling point. After demanding improved conditions, prisoners rebelled. New York State, however, would have the final say. The state’s lies helped spark mass incarceration.Also- shoutout to my family cat for making his first cameo on Skipped 😽Today's story comes from "Blood in the Water" by Heather Ann Thompson.Learn more here: https://skippedhistory.substack.com/p/how-ny-covered-up-a-massacreand-sparked This is a public episode. If yo...
2021-10-0508 min
Skipped HistoryThe Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 (Part 1)Subscribe to our newsletter for more history! https://skippedhistory.substack.com/In September 1971, over 1,000 incarcerated people at Attica State Prison rebelled. Here's the first of a two-part series exploring why and how tensions at Attica reached a boiling point.Today's story comes from "Blood in the Water" by Heather Ann Thompson.Learn more here: https://skippedhistory.substack.com/p/the-attica-prison-uprising-50-years This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit skippedhistory.substack.com/subscribe
2021-10-0506 minSkipped HistoryThe Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 (Part 1)Subscribe to our newsletter for more history! https://skippedhistory.substack.com/In September 1971, over 1,000 incarcerated people at Attica State Prison rebelled. Here's the first of a two-part series exploring why and how tensions at Attica reached a boiling point.Today's story comes from "Blood in the Water" by Heather Ann Thompson.Learn more here: https://skippedhistory.substack.com/p/the-attica-prison-uprising-50-years
2021-10-0506 min
Skipped HistoryHow a Racist, Sexist "Thesis" Inspired US Interventions AbroadSubscribe to our newsletter for more history! https://skippedhistory.substack.com/This season on Skipped History, we’ve explored a lottt of destructive US interventions abroad. One of the most misguided wars of all—the War in Afghanistan—is still going on. Today we unearth where the rationale for US interventions was born. It all dates back to a self-flattering presentation by Frederick Jackson Turner at a history conference in 1893.Today's story comes from "The End of the Myth" by Greg Grandin; "How the South Won the Civil War" by Heather Cox Richardson; and The Afghanistan Papers...
2021-07-0107 minSkipped HistoryHow a Racist, Sexist "Thesis" Inspired US Interventions AbroadSubscribe to our newsletter for more history! https://skippedhistory.substack.com/This season on Skipped History, we’ve explored a lottt of destructive US interventions abroad. One of the most misguided wars of all—the War in Afghanistan—is still going on. Today we unearth where the rationale for US interventions was born. It all dates back to a self-flattering presentation by Frederick Jackson Turner at a history conference in 1893.Today's story comes from "The End of the Myth" by Greg Grandin; "How the South Won the Civil War" by Heather Cox Richardson; and The Afghanistan Papers...
2021-07-0107 min
Skipped HistoryThe US-backed Contra War & the Rise of Private Military CompaniesSubscribe to our newsletter for more history! https://skippedhistory.substack.com/We explore how a war-hungry faction in the Reagan administration called “the cowboys” secretly funded white supremacist mercenaries to fight leftists in Nicaragua. And though they got caught, pretty much everyone involved in the outrageous affair was let off the hook, with consequences for people all over the world to this day.Today's story comes from "Bring the War Home" by Kathleen Belew; "The End of the Myth" and the updated, expanded version of "Empire’s Workshop" by Greg Grandin; and "Landslide" by Jane Mayer and Do...
2021-06-1708 minSkipped HistoryThe US-backed Contra War & the Rise of Private Military CompaniesSubscribe to our newsletter for more history! https://skippedhistory.substack.com/We explore how a war-hungry faction in the Reagan administration called “the cowboys” secretly funded white supremacist mercenaries to fight leftists in Nicaragua. And though they got caught, pretty much everyone involved in the outrageous affair was let off the hook, with consequences for people all over the world to this day.Today's story comes from "Bring the War Home" by Kathleen Belew; "The End of the Myth" and the updated, expanded version of "Empire’s Workshop" by Greg Grandin; and "Landslide" by Jane Mayer and Do...
2021-06-1708 min
Skipped HistoryThe 1979 Greensboro MassacreSubscribe to our newsletter for more history! https://skippedhistory.substack.com/Nowadays, images of people on the far right sporting both swastikas and confederate flags are ubiquitous. But neo-Nazis and neo-confederates weren't always pals. So when and why did they unite? The answer dates back to an event in 1979 North Carolina.Today's story comes from "Bring the War Home" by Kathleen Belew.Learn more here: https://skippedhistory.substack.com/p/how-the-alliance-that-fuels-the-far This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit...
2021-06-0307 minSkipped HistoryThe 1979 Greensboro MassacreSubscribe to our newsletter for more history! https://skippedhistory.substack.com/Nowadays, images of people on the far right sporting both swastikas and confederate flags are ubiquitous. But neo-Nazis and neo-confederates weren't always pals. So when and why did they unite? The answer dates back to an event in 1979 North Carolina.Today's story comes from "Bring the War Home" by Kathleen Belew.Learn more here: https://skippedhistory.substack.com/p/how-the-alliance-that-fuels-the-far
2021-06-0307 min
Skipped HistoryThe 1965 Military Coup in IndonesiaSubscribe to our newsletter for more history! https://skippedhistory.substack.com/Today, we explore the Berkeley Mafia, a group of Indonesian economists who, with US support, laid an economic blueprint for Indonesia still in place to this day. In the process, a lotttt of people died—and yes, contrary to what US officials said, it was all bad.Today's story comes from "The Shock Doctrine" by Naomi Klein and "The Jarkarta Method" by Vincent BevinsLearn more here: https://skippedhistory.substack.com/p/the-us-most-violent-cookbook-inspired This is a public episode. If you'd like to...
2021-05-2007 minSkipped HistoryThe 1965 Military Coup in IndonesiaSubscribe to our newsletter for more history! https://skippedhistory.substack.com/Today, we explore the Berkeley Mafia, a group of Indonesian economists who, with US support, laid an economic blueprint for Indonesia still in place to this day. In the process, a lotttt of people died—and yes, contrary to what US officials said, it was all bad.Today's story comes from "The Shock Doctrine" by Naomi Klein and "The Jarkarta Method" by Vincent BevinsLearn more here: https://skippedhistory.substack.com/p/the-us-most-violent-cookbook-inspired
2021-05-2007 min
Skipped HistoryThe 1953 US-Led Coup in IranSubscribe to our newsletter for more! https://skippedhistory.substack.com/We explore how the relationship between the US and Iran became so cantankerous in the first place—in other words, we travel to Tehran, where in 1953, the US conducted one of its most consequential coups abroad.Today's story comes from "All the Shah’s Men" and "The Brothers" by Stephen KinzerLearn more here: https://skippedhistory.substack.com/p/the-1953-us-led-coup-in-iran This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit skip...
2021-05-0606 minSkipped HistoryThe 1953 US-Led Coup in IranSubscribe to our newsletter for more! https://skippedhistory.substack.com/We explore how the relationship between the US and Iran became so cantankerous in the first place—in other words, we travel to Tehran, where in 1953, the US conducted one of its most consequential coups abroad.Today's story comes from "All the Shah’s Men" and "The Brothers" by Stephen KinzerLearn more here: https://skippedhistory.substack.com/p/the-1953-us-led-coup-in-iran
2021-05-0606 minSkipped HistoryThe Great Wall Street Scandal of 1905Subscribe to our newsletter for more history: https://skippedhistory.substack.com/This time out, we cut Teddy Roosevelt down to size jusssst a hair and explore a very juicy scandal from 1905. Turns out our beloved 26th president may not have been such a “trustbuster” after all…Today's story comes from "We, the Corporations" by Adam Winkler and "Stamped from the Beginning" by Ibram Kendi.Learn more here: https://skippedhistory.substack.com/p/the-great-wall-street-scandal-of
2021-04-2206 min
Skipped HistoryThe Great Wall Street Scandal of 1905Subscribe to our newsletter for more history: https://skippedhistory.substack.com/This time out, we cut Teddy Roosevelt down to size jusssst a hair and explore a very juicy scandal from 1905. Turns out our beloved 26th president may not have been such a “trustbuster” after all…Today's story comes from "We, the Corporations" by Adam Winkler and "Stamped from the Beginning" by Ibram Kendi.Learn more here: https://skippedhistory.substack.com/p/the-great-wall-street-scandal-of This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episod...
2021-04-2206 minSkipped HistoryThe US decision to occupy the Philippines in 1898We explore the origins of the racist precedent that still prevents people in US territories from having any voting rights. Plot twist: it has to do with the Philippines.
2021-04-0807 min
Skipped HistoryThe US decision to occupy the Philippines in 1898We explore the origins of the racist precedent that still prevents people in US territories from having any voting rights. Plot twist: it has to do with the Philippines. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit skippedhistory.substack.com/subscribe
2021-04-0807 minSkipped HistoryThe 1954 US-Backed Coup in GuatemalaSubscribe to our newsletter for more history! https://skippedhistory.substack.com/We explore the US-backed coup in Guatemala, engineered by the Dulles Bros. As it turns out, they weren’t the only people (or dogs) in the US government keen to help the United Fruit Company and depose Guatemalan President Jacobo Árbenz.Today's story comes from "Bitter Fruit" by Stephen Kinzer and Stephen Schlesinger; "The Jakarta Method" by Vincent Bevins; and "Empire’s Workshop" by Greg GrandinLearn more here: https://skippedhistory.substack.com/p/the-1954-us-backed-coup-in-guatemala
2021-03-2506 min
Skipped HistoryThe 1954 US-Backed Coup in GuatemalaSubscribe to our newsletter for more history! https://skippedhistory.substack.com/We explore the US-backed coup in Guatemala, engineered by the Dulles Bros. As it turns out, they weren’t the only people (or dogs) in the US government keen to help the United Fruit Company and depose Guatemalan President Jacobo Árbenz.Today's story comes from "Bitter Fruit" by Stephen Kinzer and Stephen Schlesinger; "The Jakarta Method" by Vincent Bevins; and "Empire’s Workshop" by Greg GrandinLearn more here: https://skippedhistory.substack.com/p/the-1954-us-backed-coup-in-guatemala This is a public episode. If yo...
2021-03-2506 minSkipped HistoryHow Two Brothers Tried to Start a Civil War in IndonesiaSubscribe to our newsletter for more history! https://skippedhistory.substack.com/The first episode of Season 2 investigates how brothers Allen and John Foster Dulles, director of the CIA and secretary of state in the 1950s, led one of the largest and most foolish covert operations in US history.Today's story comes from "The Jakarta Method" by Vincent Bevins; and "The Brothers" by Stephen Kinzer.Learn more here: https://skippedhistory.substack.com/p/how-two-brothers-tried-to-start-a
2021-03-1106 min
Skipped HistoryHow Two Brothers Tried to Start a Civil War in IndonesiaSubscribe to our newsletter for more history! https://skippedhistory.substack.com/The first episode of Season 2 investigates how brothers Allen and John Foster Dulles, director of the CIA and secretary of state in the 1950s, led one of the largest and most foolish covert operations in US history.Today's story comes from "The Jakarta Method" by Vincent Bevins; and "The Brothers" by Stephen Kinzer.Learn more here: https://skippedhistory.substack.com/p/how-two-brothers-tried-to-start-a This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus...
2021-03-1106 min