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Hidden HistoryThe Plot Against DemocracyIn July 1933, two mysterious men approached one of the most decorated soldiers in American history with what initially appeared to be a simple proposal. He didn’t know it at the time, but Major General Smedley Butler, whose prominent career mirrored the rise of the American Empire, was being recruited into a sordid plan to overthrow President Franklin Roosevelt, and bring fascism to the United States. In this episode, take a deep look at the rise and expansion of Imperial America, and the time we came within a hair’s breadth of losing democracy.Twitter: Link P...2022-12-285h 28Hidden HistoryThe Plot Against DemocracyIn July 1933, two mysterious men approached one of the most decorated soldiers in American history with what initially appeared to be a simple proposal. He didn’t know it at the time, but Major General Smedley Butler, whose prominent career mirrored the rise of the American Empire, was being recruited into a sordid plan to overthrow President Franklin Roosevelt, and bring fascism to the United States. In this episode, take a deep look at the rise and expansion of Imperial America, and the time we came within a hair’s breadth of losing democracy.Twitter: Link P...2022-12-285h 28
Hidden History131: The Plot Against DemocracyIn July 1933, two mysterious men approached one of the most decorated soldiers in American history with what initially appeared to be a simple proposal. He didn’t know it at the time, but Major General Smedley Butler, whose prominent career mirrored the rise of the American Empire, was being recruited into a sordid plan to overthrow President Franklin Roosevelt, and bring fascism to the United States. In this episode, take a deep look at the rise and expansion of Imperial America, and the time we came within a hair’s breadth of losing democracy.Twitter: LinkPa...2022-12-285h 28
Hidden HistoryThe Howard Hughes BluesOn April 5, 1976, the richest man in the world died of medical neglect on board a jet bound for Houston. At the time of his death, Howard Hughes had not been seen in public for nearly twenty years. With a massive fortune that enabled his worsening mental disorders, Hughes, once famous the world over, receded from the public eye, and for the last decades of his life, ruled a vast and often unsuccessful business empire confined entirely to his bed. In time the expansive and opaque system that Hughes engineered to ensure his own isolation grew out of his own...2022-07-144h 24Hidden HistoryThe Howard Hughes BluesOn April 5, 1976, the richest man in the world died of medical neglect on board a jet bound for Houston. At the time of his death, Howard Hughes had not been seen in public for nearly twenty years. With a massive fortune that enabled his worsening mental disorders, Hughes, once famous the world over, receded from the public eye, and for the last decades of his life, ruled a vast and often unsuccessful business empire confined entirely to his bed. In time the expansive and opaque system that Hughes engineered to ensure his own isolation grew out of his own...2022-07-144h 24
Hidden HistoryRFK Must DieOn June 5, 1968, Robert Kennedy was gunned down in the back room of a hotel kitchen just minutes after it seemed he had secured the 1968 Democratic nomination for President. The man changed with, and sentenced to death for, Kennedy’s murder was a 24 year 2022-05-1653 minHidden HistoryRFK Must DieOn June 5, 1968, Robert Kennedy was gunned down in the back room of a hotel kitchen just minutes after it seemed he had secured the 1968 Democratic nomination for President. The man changed with, and sentenced to death for, Kennedy’s murder was a 24 year old Palestinian American named Sirhan Sirhan. From the very beginning, it was clear that something was wrong with official story. In this episode, we dive deep and reexamine the evidence of the case to determine who really killed Robert Kennedy.Twitter: Link Patreon: LinkShirts and more: LinkSo...2022-05-1653 min
Hidden HistoryCRASH!How did a shootout between two undercover cops on an LA freeway in 1997 lead to the discovery, and subsequent coverup, of one of the largest and most sinister networks of police crime and corruption in modern American History? Learn about Kevin Gaines, Su2022-04-0427 minHidden HistoryCRASH!How did a shootout between two undercover cops on an LA freeway in 1997 lead to the discovery, and subsequent coverup, of one of the largest and most sinister networks of police crime and corruption in modern American History? Learn about Kevin Gaines, Suge Knight, Versace shirts, bank robberies, drug dealer cops, the Rampart Scandal, and more in this episode of Hidden History.Twitter: Link Patreon: LinkShirts and more: LinkSources and Further ReadingPBS, Rampart Scandal Timeline: LinkPBS, The Outcome Of Rampart Scandal Investigations: Link2022-04-0427 min
Hidden HistoryLove CanalWhat happens when your home is built on top of 20,000 tons of toxic chemical and radioactive waste? What about the park? The playground? Your child’s school? These questions were all too real for the residents of one sleepy Niagara Falls suburb, little they know they were in the fight of their lives. Learn more about the Love Canal disaster in this week’s episode.Twitter: Link Patreon: LinkShirts and more: LinkSources and Further ReadingMaking Love Canal: LinkLove Canal & Lois Gibbs 35 Years Later: Link...2022-03-2026 minHidden HistoryLove CanalWhat happens when your home is built on top of 20,000 tons of toxic chemical and radioactive waste? What about the park? The playground? Your child’s school? These questions were all too real for the residents of one sleepy Niagara Falls suburb, little they know they were in the fight of their lives. Learn more about the Love Canal disaster in this week’s episode.Twitter: Link Patreon: LinkShirts and more: LinkSources and Further ReadingMaking Love Canal: LinkLove Canal & Lois Gibbs 35 Years Later: Link...2022-03-2026 min
Hidden HistoryOperation Secure TomorrowOn February 29, 2004, American troops landed in Haiti to depose the country’s first democratically elected president. Who was Jean-Bertrand Aristide, why was he overthrown by two (2) US-backed coups, and what role does it play in the context of greater US-Haiti relations?Twitter: Link Patreon: LinkShirts and more: LinkSources and Further ReadingLest we forget the Ottawa Initiative on Haiti: LinkNew documents detail how Canada helped plan 2004 coup d’état in Haiti: LinkThe other regime change: LinkA Haitian Leader of Pa...2022-03-0617 minHidden HistoryOperation Secure TomorrowOn February 29, 2004, American troops landed in Haiti to depose the country’s first democratically elected president. Who was Jean-Bertrand Aristide, why was he overthrown by two (2) US-backed coups, and what role does it play in the context of greater US-Haiti relations?Twitter: Link Patreon: LinkShirts and more: LinkSources and Further ReadingLest we forget the Ottawa Initiative on Haiti: LinkNew documents detail how Canada helped plan 2004 coup d’état in Haiti: LinkThe other regime change: LinkA Haitian Leader of Pa...2022-03-0617 min
Hidden HistoryPOW MIAYou’ve seen it- a black flag bearing the silhouette of a forlorn prisoner, emblazoned with the letters POW MIA. The enduring myth of the missing Vietnam POWs, symbolized by this flag, is a conspiracy theory that has persisted into the current day, but its roots can be traced back to the political schemes of Richard Nixon. What’s the story behind the POW MIA flag and the right wing mass movement that inspired it? Twitter: Link Patreon: LinkShirts and more: LinkSources and Further ReadingThe Enduring Cult...2022-02-0622 minHidden HistoryPOW MIAYou’ve seen it- a black flag bearing the silhouette of a forlorn prisoner, emblazoned with the letters POW MIA. The enduring myth of the missing Vietnam POWs, symbolized by this flag, is a conspiracy theory that has persisted into the current day, but its roots can be traced back to the political schemes of Richard Nixon. What’s the story behind the POW MIA flag and the right wing mass movement that inspired it? Twitter: Link Patreon: LinkShirts and more: LinkSources and Further ReadingThe Enduring Cult...2022-02-0622 min
Hidden HistoryChurch RockOn July 16, 1976, the worst nuclear accident in American history- the second worst in the world- took place at a uranium mill in Navajo Nation. 94,000,000 gallons of nuclear sludge, and over 1000 tons of uranium tailings rushed into the Puerco River when 2022-01-2319 min
Hidden HistoryChurch RockOn July 16, 1976, the worst nuclear accident in American history- the second worst in the world- took place at a uranium mill in Navajo Nation. 94,000,000 gallons of nuclear sludge, and over 1000 tons of uranium tailings rushed into the Puerco River when an dam failed at the United Nuclear Corporation’s Church Rock Mine. Though the disaster poisoned thousands of Navajo people in the surrounding areas, contaminating hundreds of square miles with cancer causing radioactive waste, the victims were given $2000 each and left to die. UNC would go on to clean up just 1% of the spill, and to this day 85% of th...2022-01-2319 min
Hidden HistoryThe Ogoni 9On November 10, 1995, the government of Nigeria, at the urging of Royal Dutch Shell, executed nine environmental and indigenous rights activists known as the Ogoni 9. They had fought nonviolently to protect their ancestral home: a 400 square mile area of 2021-12-0619 minHidden HistoryThe Ogoni 9On November 10, 1995, the government of Nigeria, at the urging of Royal Dutch Shell, executed nine environmental and indigenous rights activists known as the Ogoni 9. They had fought nonviolently to protect their ancestral home: a 400 square mile area of the Niger River Delta known as Ogoniland, which had been turned into hell on earth by decades of oil extraction. Who were the Ogoni 9, how did they fight back, and has there been any justice for these terrible crimes?Twitter: Link Patreon: LinkShirts and more: LinkNigeria: Ogoni 9 activists remembered 25 years on...2021-12-0619 min
Hidden HistoryDark AllianceIn August 1996, investigative reporter Gary Webb published a series of three articles that shined light on a vast network of international cocaine smuggling that had both caused to crack epidemic, and was sanctioned by the CIA. Though his reporting was me2021-11-2126 minHidden HistoryDark AllianceIn August 1996, investigative reporter Gary Webb published a series of three articles that shined light on a vast network of international cocaine smuggling that had both caused to crack epidemic, and was sanctioned by the CIA. Though his reporting was meticulous and factual, major newspapers engaged in a massive campaign to discredit him and his work, culminating in Webb’s blacklisting from journalism followed by a tragic end. How was the CIA involved in the crack trade, what was Dark Alliance, and why was it suppressed? Find out in this episode.Twitter: Link Patreon: Link...2021-11-2126 min
Hidden HistoryPaperclipEpisode 121: From 1945 to 1959, the United States brought 1600 Nazi scientists to America in order to leverage their knowledge against the Soviets. Many were unrepentant war criminals who had played active roles in the slave trade and the Holocaust almost all were given American citizenship and died peacefully as free men. How did this secret Nazi rescue program impact our modern world? How did the American government whitewash its role? (Hint: it’s anti-Communism)Twitter: Link Patreon: LinkShirts and more: LinkSources and Further ReadingAnnie Jacobsen, "Operation Paperclip": Link...2021-11-0724 min
Hidden HistoryArt & Artifice Part II: The Pen and the SwordEpisode 120: Part 2 of 2. Throughout the Cold War, the CIA maintained a vast web of secret publications that it used to influence public thought and perceptions of the United States. Meanwhile back home, it funded successful attempts to remove politics and philosophy from American creative writing. Find out how the CIA manipulated writing and literature to its own anticommunist aims in this episode.Twitter: Link Patreon: LinkShirts and more: LinkSources and Further ReadingHow Iowa Flattened Literature: LinkHow the CIA Helped Shape the Creative Writing...2021-10-2410 min
Hidden HistoryArt & Artifice Part I: The Long LeashEpisode 119: Part 1 of 2. Throughout the 1950s, the CIA, through a number of secret fronts, provided funding and publicity for abstract modern art in the United States. Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko became arrows in the Cold War quiver, as the Agency turned them, and scores of other modern artists into unwitting agents of American propaganda. How and why did the CIA accomplish this, and what does it mean for the relationship between modernism and politics?Twitter: Link Patreon: LinkShirts and more: LinkSources and Further ReadingHow MoMA...2021-10-1016 min
Hidden HistoryA Brief History of Modern Afghanistan, Part IIEpisode 118: Part 2 of 2. The American War in Afghanistan was defined by its cruelty, inhumanity, and futility. This episode takes a look at the history of Afghanistan in the 21st century, consumed by the shadow of America’s longest war.Twitter: Link Patreon: LinkShirts and more: LinkSources and Further ReadingThe Other Afghan Women: LinkThe Kill Team Photos: LinkThe CIA’s Afghan Death Squads: LinkUS Marine sniper unit photographed with 'Nazi SS' flag: LinkThe Taliban Peace Deal...2021-09-2625 min
Hidden HistoryA Brief History of Modern Afghanistan, Part IEpisode 117: It’s known as “The Graveyard of Empires,” and its history certainly lives up to the nickname— as news about Afghanistan is plastered across television screens throughout America, let’s take a look at the history of the country so many know so little about. Part 1 of 2.Twitter: Link Patreon: LinkShirts and more: LinkSources and Further ReadingThe Other Afghan Women: LinkThe Kill Team Photos: LinkThe CIA’s Afghan Death Squads: LinkUS Marine sniper unit photographed with 'Nazi SS' fl...2021-09-1221 min
Hidden HistoryFlight 655Episode 116: On July 3, 1988, the USS Vincennes, an American cruiser, sailed into Iranian waters and launched a surface to air missile at Iran Air Flight 655, which it supposedly mistook for a fighter jet. Out of the 290 on board non survived. What were the events that led up to July 3rd, and how did the American government respond?Twitter: Link Patreon: LinkShirts and more: LinkSources and Further ReadingGeorge HW Bush and Ali Akbar Velayati address the United Nations: LinkThe 8th Minute: The 'Forgotten' US Shootdown...2021-08-0820 min
Hidden HistoryLos DesaparecidosEpisode 115: Throughout the Cold War, the United States, through the CIA, funded, supplied, and protected a vast continental network of right-wing death squads that spanned South America. This genocidal collaboration between the CIA and six US-backed dictatorships was known as Operation Condor. In its wake, it left 80,000 dead, and 400,000 more disappeared into secret prisons. Learn about the life and legacy of Operation Condor in this week’s episode.Twitter: Link Patreon: LinkShirts and more: LinkSources and Further ReadingReviewed Work: State Violence and Genocide in Latin America: Th...2021-07-2519 min
Hidden HistorySilkwoodEpisode 114: On November 14, 1974, a labor activist and chemical worker named Karen Silkwood left a union meeting and set out to blow the whistle to a reporter from the New York Times. She was never seen alive again. Who killed Karen Silkwood?Twitter: Link Patreon: LinkShirts and more: LinkSources and Further ReadingMuseum remembers Karen Silkwood: LinkThe Killing of Karen Silkwood: The Story Behind The Kerr-McGee Plutonium Case, Second Edition: LinkPublic Health and the Law, the Case of Karen Silkwood: Link2021-07-1816 min
Hidden HistoryGladioEpisode 113: Throughout the Cold War the CIA organized, funded, and supplied a network of secret armies across Europe. Recruited from fascist anti-Communist circles, these groups wove a vast web domestic terrorism— carrying out bombing campaigns, massacres, military coups, and more, all in the name of freedom, democracy, and keeping the Left out of office. Learn more about the infamous and insidious Operation Gladio in this week’s episode.Twitter: Link Patreon: LinkShirts and more: LinkSources and Further ReadingEvolution in Europe; Italy Discloses Its Web Of Cold War...2021-06-2716 min
Hidden HistoryThe Great FloodEpisode 112: On May 31, 1889, a 60 foot wall of water tore through the city of Johnstown, destroying everything in its path. In the end, over 2,000 lay dead, and all so some rich guys could catch a couple fish.Twitter: Link Patreon: LinkShirts and more: LinkSources and Further ReadingRevisiting the Timing and Events Leading to and Causing the Johnstown Flood of 1889: LinkDISASTER TOURISM AND THE MELODRAMA OF AUTHENTICITY: REVISITING THE 1889 JOHNSTOWN FLOOD: LinkOfficial History of the Johnstown Flood: LinkDam-Breach hydrology...2021-06-1418 min
Hidden HistoryThe Twinkie DefenseEpisode 111: On November 28, 1978, former City Supervisor Dan White snuck into San Francisco City Hall and assassinated Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk, the first widely known openly gay politician in America. Who was Harvey Milk, rise through the ranks of city politics, why was he assassinated, and what was the infamous “Twinkie Defense” employed at his trial?Twitter: Link Patreon: LinkShirts and more: LinkSources and Further ReadingDan White's audio confession after killing Harvey Milk & George Moscone: LinkOfficial biography of Harvey Milk: Link2021-05-3118 min
Hidden HistoryMay 13, 1985Episode 110: It’s been 36 years since the Philadelphia Police Department dropped two bombs on the roof of a house in West Philadelphia, killing 11 people, including five children, in an attempt to destroy the environmentalist Black liberation group MOVE. What were the events of that led up to the MOVE Bombing, and has anyone ever faced any consequences for this act of state terror?Twitter: Link Patreon: LinkShirts and more: LinkSources and Further ReadingOn a Move- website of the MOVE Organization: LinkThe day Philadelphia bo...2021-05-1513 min
Hidden HistoryThe Colfax MassacreEpisode 109: On Easter Sunday, 1873, a band of Klansmen and Confederate veterans committed one of the most sickening acts of violence of the Reconstruction era. In the Colfax Massacre white supremacists murdered mover 100 people in an attempt to overturn to Louisiana gubernatorial election of 1872, and cement the grip of white supremacy over the SouthTwitter: Link Patreon: LinkShirts and more: LinkSources and Further ReadingThe 1873 Colfax Massacre Crippled the Reconstruction Era: LinkThe Colfax Massacre (1873): LinkThe failure of Reconstruction was a ruthless act...2021-04-2513 min
Hidden HistoryThe Raising of ChicagoEpisode 108: In the 1850s and 1860s, the young city of Chicago was blighted by disease, its growth hampered by its lack of a sewer system. In order to solve the city’s constant public health crises, a group of engineers concocted a plan that would be unthinkable today: physically lifting an entire city out of the muck.Twitter: Link Patreon: LinkShirts and more: LinkSources and Further ReadingChicago’s ‘sunken’ homes are remnants of a bold effort to raise the city out of the mud: LinkIt Ha...2021-04-1007 min
Hidden HistoryThe Yellow CarEpisode 107: Let’s take a ride through history while examining the state of American transit infrastructure, the lost streetcars of the past, and the 1940s corporate conspiracy that may have stripped transit from your city. Twitter: Link Patreon: LinkShirts and more: LinkSources and Further ReadingReport Card on America’s Infrastructure: LinkRailroads in the Late 19th Century: LinkThe world’s first electric streetcar: LinkImpact on Transit Patronage of Cessation or Inauguration of Rail Service: LinkPeter Yorke...2021-04-0312 min
Hidden HistoryThe Death of Frank OlsonEpisode 106: At 2:25 AM on November 28, 1953, a CIA bacteriologist and chemical warfare specialist named Frank Olson got up, and ran across a dark room in his underwear, dodging two beds, to hurdle through a closed window with the blinds closed and the curtains drawn, falling 10 stories to his death. At least…that’s the official story. Frank Olson was an unwitting participant in a covert operation called MKULTRA, a two decade long crusade to develop mind control through non-consensual human experimentation. Increasingly disillusioned with his work at the CIA, and intimately knowledgeable of both MKULTRA and American use of biological weap...2021-03-2711 min
Hidden HistoryCIA MDEpisode 105: Unfortunately, America has a long history of unethical medical experimentation, a tradition that’s caused mass suffering around the globe, and served to massively decrease trust in medicine. This episode covers the CIA’s fake Pakistani vaccination program, the Guatemalan Syphilis Experiments, and the Cincinnati Radiation Experiments.Twitter: Link Patreon: LinkShirts and more: LinkSources and Further ReadingCoronavirus Attitude Tracker Survey Pakistan: LinkHow Drone Strikes and a Fake Vaccination Program Have Inhibited Polio Eradication in Pakistan: An Analysis of National Level Data: Link2021-03-1311 min
Hidden HistoryNo Gun RiEpisode 104: Some call it "The Forgotten War," and they definitely have a point- the Korean War has not been memorialized in the American memory, it had neither the scale of World War II, nor the cultural impact of Vietnam. Make no mistake: brutal, horrifying, and influential, the Korean War is more important than you know. This episode takes a look at the history of the Korean Conflict, and how America's heinous war crimes helped shape a century of foreign policy.Twitter: Link Patreon: LinkShirts and more: LinkSources and Further...2021-03-0718 min
Hidden HistoryGrapes of WrathEpisode 103: During the Great Depression, as millions of Americans went hungry, and 2/3rds of families were in poverty, famers across the country destroyed their crops- burning wheat, cracking eggs, and pouring out milk. This episode explores the history of the Agricultural Adjustment Act, and asks: what kind of society would burn food while its people starve?Twitter: Link Patreon: LinkShirts and more: LinkSources and Further ReadingPortland police officers ‘guarding’ Fred Meyer dumpsters as residents seek discarded food: LinkAGRICULTURAL ADJUSTMENT ACT (1933, REAUTHORIZED 1938): LinkN...2021-02-2110 min
Hidden HistoryThe Bengal FamineEpisode 102: From 1943 to 1944, as a result of decades of exploitative colonial policy, and intentional neglect from the British government, a terrible famine gripped the colonial Indian province of Bengal. Estimates bring the death toll in Bengal alone to three million people. This episode covers the history of colonial rule in India, and the intentional engineering of the genocidal Bengal Famine, the brutality of which has been compared to the Holocaust.Twitter: Link Patreon: LinkShirts and more: LinkSources and Further ReadingThe Great Bengal Famine: Link...2021-02-0715 min
Hidden HistoryThe Lavender ScareEpisode 101: From 1950 to 1954, as a part of his rabid anti-Communist crusade, a notorious liar and habitually drunk Senator from Wisconsin, Joseph McCarthy, led a crusade against homosexuals in the American government that would influence anti-gay policy all the way up until the 1990s. What was the Lavender Scare, why did it happen, and what does it say about the nature of propaganda?Twitter: Link Patreon: LinkShirts and more: LinkSources and Further ReadingU.S. Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy Speaks in Wheeling: LinkThe Reagan administration's...2021-01-3013 min
Hidden HistoryFascist USAEpisode 100: On February 20th, 1939, twenty thousand American Nazis held a rally in Madison Square Garden, declaring George Washington as the “first fascist.” How did Nazi movements come to thrive in the United States, and what were the social and historical conditions that paved the way for their success?Twitter: Link Patreon: LinkShirts and more: LinkSources and Further ReadingHitler's American Model: The United States and the Making of Nazi Race Law: LinkNazi action T4 euthanasia programme: historical research, individual life stories and the culture of r...2021-01-2415 min
Hidden HistoryKilling KingEpisode 99: This week’s episode is about COINTELPRO, the secret, illegal spying and assassination program orchestrated by the FBI from 1956 to (technically) 1971, and the 1999 trail that established that the United States Government was likely part of a conspiracy to assassinate Martin Luther King, Jr.Twitter: Link Patreon: LinkShirts and more: LinkSourcesComplete Transcript of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Assassination Conspiracy Trial, November 15 to December 8, 1999: LinkCOINTELPRO: The Untold American Story: LinkDomestic terrorism: Notes on the state system of oppression: Link2021-01-1717 min
Hidden HistoryBanana RepublicEpisode 96: This week’s episode talks about the history of American empire and international intervention, the creation of the “Banana Republic,” the Spanish American War, and the aggressive imperial policy of 1900s America.Twitter: Link Patreon: LinkShirts and more: LinkSourcesEmpire, Public Goods, and the Roosevelt Corollary: LinkThe Roosevelt Corollary: LinkBevins, Vincent. The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World. Hachette UK, 2020.The Banana Wars: United States Intervention in the Caribbean, 1898–1934: LinkTh...2021-01-0914 min
Hidden HistoryRodney the ReindeerEpisode 96:This week’s episode is a decidedly less-gruesome tale about a big catalogue, a little book, and a red-nosed reindeer.Hidden History Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/hiddenhistorypodSourcesRobert L. May: https://rb.gy/2qwdgw1944: The Removal of Sewell Avery: https://rb.gy/kprjpcMontgomery Ward & Co. Catalogue and Buyers' Guide 1895: https://rb.gy/37bf8oThe House that Came in the Mail: https://rb.gy/cmkena2020-12-2611 min
Hidden HistoryThe Good Doctor FreemanEpisode 96:This week’s episode is about Walter J. Freeman. Jr., the surgeon without surgical training who pioneered a brutal procedure that was used to punish the women of the 1950s for stepping out of line. Let’s talk about the gruesome and brutal history of lobotomy.Twitter: Link Patreon: LinkShirts and more: LinkSourcesPsychosurgery, ethics, and media: a history of Walter Freeman and the lobotomy: Link'My Lobotomy': Howard Dully's Journey: LinkHe was bad, so they put an ice pick in his...2020-12-2024 min
Hidden HistoryAre You Tired?Episode 94: This week’s episode is about the unrelenting agony of the American experience. Happy stuff.Twitter: Link Patreon: LinkShirts and more: LinkSourcesThousands in Texas line up in cars to receive food before Thanksgiving: https://rb.gy/f2bxhuA 2-mile line in Arizona. A four-hour wait in Ohio. Millions seek help to avoid going hungry on Thanksgiving.: https://rb.gy/axwydvMillions of Americans Expect to Lose Their Homes as Covid Rages: https://rb.gy/lt2o0kAverage mo...2020-12-0613 min
Hidden HistoryWaltzing MatildaEpisode 94: This episode talks about the beginnings of the First World War, Serbian conspiracies, the doomed campaign in Gallipoli, and a fate worse than death.Twitter: Link Patreon: LinkShirts and more: LinkSourcesGallipoli: https://rb.gy/wcjiyuSearching for Gavrilo Princip: https://rb.gy/2lam6jThe Russian Secret Service and King Alexander Obrenović of Serbia (1900-1903): https://rb.gy/8ljzx5Serbia and the Serbs: https://rb.gy/uilegwCrime, Suicide, and the Anti‐Hero: “Waltzing Matilda” in Australia: https...2020-11-2818 min
Hidden HistoryChemicals and You!Episode 93: In a world where the vast majority of corporate maneuvering is invisible to the average person, how have the actions of one specific sector, the chemical industry, unknowingly impacted each of our lives? What current problems can we trace back the actions of the chemical companies of the past? How do companies that poison the public get away with it? Is there any hope that in the near future, such companies will be held responsible and made to pay for their crimes? Twitter: Link Patreon: LinkShirts and more: Link...2020-11-2223 min
Hidden HistoryFuture ImperfectEpisode 92: Let’s talk about centrism, the election, the records of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, anti-activism within the democratic party, and the future of politics.Twitter: Link Patreon: LinkShirts and more: LinkSourcesS.256 - Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005: https://rb.gy/8d8li4The Crime-Bill Debate Shows How Short Americans’ Memories Are: https://rb.gy/ezxnay‘Lock the S.O.B.s Up’: Joe Biden and the Era of Mass Incarceration: https://rb.gy/rolfalKamala Harris l...2020-11-0812 min
Hidden HistoryBhopalEpisode 91: In this episode, let’s talk about the worst industrial accident in American history, and the worst industrial accident in human history, both caused by the endless greed of the same company: Union Carbide.Twitter: Link Patreon: LinkShirts and more: LinkSourcesMore Chemical Leaks at W.Va. Plant Disclosed by Union Carbide Corp.: https://rb.gy/wkumnzUnion Carbide Buys Back Troubled West Virginia Plant: https://rb.gy/a1undlToxic Cloud Leaks at Carbide Plant in West Virginia: https://rb.gy/6f5...2020-11-0218 min
Hidden HistoryThe Waters of LifeEpisode 90: It’s time to talk about the right to, and commodification of, water, Daniel Day Lewis, and why you should hate Nestle for what they’ve done to our world.The music featured in this episode is This is the Day, by The TheTwitter: Link Patreon: LinkShirts and more: LinkSourcesCorporate Human Rights Benchmark, 2019 Findings: https://rb.gy/skm0p1Nestle USA, Inc v. John Doe: https://rb.gy/ixegfoClass action lawsuit filed against Nestle for child slavery on c...2020-10-2421 min
Hidden HistoryComin' HomeEpisode 89: This episode takes on the many different forms of housing discrimination, the systems that encourage it, and how we can put an end to it.The music featured in this episode is Comin’ Home Baby, by Mel TorméHidden History Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/hiddenhistorypodSourcesExploiting Race and Space: Subprime Lending as Housing Discrimination: https://rb.gy/xz7uvzRedlining and the Home Owners' Loan Corporation: https://rb.gy/zqiawaExamining the Black-White Wealth Gap: https://rb.gy/hghk0oImpact of the...2020-10-1824 min
Hidden HistoryLife at the End of HistoryEpisode 88: Will we ever reach a time in humanity’s existence where our ideological evolution just…stops? Is it possible to settle on one set of rules until the end of time? Are we living through the “End of History?”The music featured in this episode is Gassenhauer, by Carl OrffTwitter: Link Patreon: LinkShirts and more: LinkSourcesThe End of History?: https://www.embl.de/aboutus/science_society/discussion/discussion_2006/ref1-22june06.pdf2020-10-0822 min
Hidden HistoryBad Things, Bad PeopleEpisode 87: The grand lesson of this episode is: it’s ok to laugh about Trump getting Covid.Twitter: Link Patreon: LinkShirts and more: Link2020-10-0314 min
Hidden HistoryAnatomy of a GenocideEpisode 86: Let’s talk about Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the legacy of the Supreme Court, involuntary sterilization, and a chilling court case from 1927.Twitter: Link Patreon: LinkShirts and more: Link2020-09-2017 min
Hidden HistoryThe Green DreamEpisode 85: In this episode, it’s time to talk about the overwhelming bleakness that comes with being a young person today, the knowing destruction of our world by fossil fuel companies, useless politicians full of empty platitudes, and why meaningful social progress is impossible under capitalism.Twitter: Link Patreon: LinkShirts and more: Link2020-09-1317 min
Hidden HistoryDisco InfernoEpisode 84: On July 12th, 1979, disco died in a stadium in Chicago. Let’s talk about the social history of disco music, and the nature of reactionary movements.Twitter: Link Patreon: LinkShirts and more: Link2020-09-0525 min
Hidden HistoryLet Go of ObamaEpisode 83: It’s time to reevaluate the presidency of Barack Obama and discuss the dangers of a “return to normalcy.”Twitter: Link Patreon: LinkShirts and more: Link2020-08-2921 min
Hidden HistoryListsEpisode 82: This episode takes a look at the American surveillance state's ultimate goal of crushing political movements, the Disposition Matrix, and the drone war.Twitter: Link Patreon: LinkShirts and more: Link2020-08-2215 min
Hidden HistoryMr. Bones Wild RideEpisode 81: This episode examines an infamous ride in an almost 20 year old video game, and explores how it can be an allegory for the cruelty inherent within social systems.Twitter: Link Patreon: LinkShirts and more: Link2020-08-0815 min
Hidden HistoryMutinyEpisode 80: On the night of May 22nd, 1942, Black American troops who had been the victims of brutal racism from their white commanding officers finally decided to take matters into their own hands. What happened next was hidden from the public for 70 years.Twitter: Link Patreon: LinkShirts and more: Link2020-07-1910 min
Hidden HistoryMonumentalEpisode 79: In a culture where our founding fathers are revered as gods, what does it mean for our knowledge to be based on a lie? This episode explores monuments, both physical and cultural, as a means of propaganda, with special attention paid to Mt. Rushmore and the ever-popular musical, Hamilton.Twitter: Link Patreon: LinkShirts and more: Link2020-07-1031 min
Hidden HistoryRed SummerEpisode 78: In 1917, thousands of Black Americans joined the Army in hopes that their sacrifices during World War One would guarantee them civil rights at home. The horrors of the Western Front would never prepare them for the terrors of the Red Summer. Twitter: Link Patreon: LinkShirts and more: Link2020-06-2821 min
Hidden HistoryMalagaEpisode 77: In Casco Bay, off the coast of Southern Maine, sits a tiny hunk of rock, and though it’s only .06 square miles, Malaga Island holds a terrible secret.Twitter: Link Patreon: LinkShirts and more: Link2020-06-2117 min
Hidden HistorySouthern NightsEpisode 76: A man was lynched yesterday in Palmdale, California. His name was Robert Fuller. This week’s episode is an angry examination of the murders of Robert Fuller, Chauvis Carter, sundown towns, police abolition, Southern Exceptionalism and the Troxler Fading.Twitter: Link Patreon: LinkShirts and more: Link8:46- Dave Chappelle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tR6mKcBbT42020-06-1416 min
Hidden HistoryOther People's VoicesEpisode 75: America is ridden with terminal white supremacy. It pervades every aspect of our society, and leaves nothing untouched. Hidden History is committed to the destruction of white supremacy, the defunding of the police, and the struggle for justice.Twitter: Link Patreon: LinkShirts and more: Link2020-06-0629 min
Hidden HistoryInsurrectionEpisode 74: As protests envelop a failed nation, debased and poisoned by white supremacy, authoritarianism, and greed, we take a look at the Wilmington Insurrection of 1898, a brutal white supremacist coup that overthrew the government of a North Carolina city.Twitter: Link Patreon: LinkShirts and more: Link2020-05-3117 min
Hidden History500 Words or LessEpisode 73: In a society where more and more pressure is placed on young people to attend top colleges, how does the college essay serve as a means for commodifying personal pain?Twitter: Link Patreon: LinkShirts and more: Link2020-05-2312 min
Hidden HistoryTake Me To ChurchEpisode 72: In 1975 a senate committee chaired by Frank Church uncovered vast and terrifying abuses of the American public by the FBI, CIA, and NSA. From guns that can give the target a lethal heart attack three days later, to ruthless spying and assassinations of political opponents, it begs the age old question of who watches the watchmen.Twitter: Link Patreon: LinkShirts and more: LinkChurch Committee Report: https://www.aarclibrary.org/publib/contents/church/contents_church_reports.htmPike Committee Report: https://www.maryferrell.org/php/showlist.php...2020-05-1620 min
Hidden HistorySinking CityEpisode 71: In August 2005, Hurricane Katrina tore through the Gulf Coast leaving death and destruction in its wake. Almost 15 years later, millions of people still live with the impact of the storm and the government's decision to simply let them drown.Twitter: Link Patreon: LinkShirts and more: LinkFurther Reading: https://www.propublica.org/article/post-katrina-white-vigilantes-shot-african-americans-with-impunity2020-05-0919 min
Hidden HistoryWorking Man's BluesEpisode 70: What do Jim Croce, Jimmy Carter, Fred Hampton, and Richard Nixon have in common? Anything? Am I just messing with you? That’s probably something I would do, but there’s only one way to find out.Twitter: Link Patreon: LinkShirts and more: Link2020-05-0214 min
Hidden HistoryTruth and ShadowEpisode 69: When faced with a world filled with mystery and uncertainty, how can we come to recognize the truth? Twitter: Link Patreon: LinkShirts and more: Link2020-04-2520 min
Hidden HistoryAndrocles and the LionEpisode 68: Old Aesop once told a fable of a noble lion who befriended a young man after he removed a thorn from its paw. Can kindness really soothe the savage beast? Will our individual actions change the hearts of those who wish to destroy us?Twitter: Link Patreon: LinkShirts and more: Link2020-04-1918 min
Hidden HistoryYou Can't WinEpisode 67: The truth is, the game was rigged from the start.Twitter: Link Patreon: LinkShirts and more: Link2020-04-1211 min
Hidden HistoryDabbling in UtopiaEpisode 66: You’ve all heard it said, haughtily no doubt, by people who wear beige turtlenecks and use words like “vellichor,” that the word “utopia” means both “good place” and “no place.” I’m not going to waste your time with that kind of bullshit this week. Instead, I’m talking about the role of the Utopian society in American history, and the implications of social engineering.Twitter: Link Patreon: LinkShirts and more: Link2020-04-0524 min
Hidden HistoryA Thousand Paper CranesEpisode 65: An old Japanese legend says that whoever folds a thousand paper cranes in a year is granted a wish by the gods. This episode tells a story of hope in the face of senseless violence.Twitter: Link Patreon: LinkShirts and more: Link2020-03-2816 min
Hidden HistoryI Won't Vote for Joe BidenEpisode 64: Joe Biden is among the weakest candidates ever put forth by the Democratic Party. Taking into account policies like the 2002 AUMF, 2005 Bankruptcy Bill, the CCCA, NAFTA, the Hyde Amendment, Helms Amendment, and the 1994 Cime Bill, paired with his history of lying and inappropriate behavior, how can Biden reasonably expect to inspire voters? The problems he campaigns against are those of his own making.Twitter: Link Patreon: LinkShirts and more: Link2020-03-2131 min
Hidden HistoryPardon MeEpisode 63: What is the human capacity for evil? This week I talk about the Mỹ Lai Massacre, the Nuremberg inkblot tests, the Philippine-American War, the Highway of Death, and the war criminal Eddie Gallagher.Twitter: Link Patreon: LinkShirts and more: Link2020-03-0727 min
Hidden HistoryBlood MoneyEpisode 62: This week the topic is the nasty and brutish American for-profit healthcare system, and why Medicare for All is the only morally conscionable policy alternative. I talk with Scott Desnoyers, who lost his son because of a $20 insurance dispute.Twitter: Link Patreon: LinkShirts and more: Link2020-02-2821 min
Hidden HistoryO DeathEpisode 61: In 1911 a baseball team made up of death row inmates took to the field. They were promised that, as long as they kept winning games, they would all stay alive. In 1944, a fourteen year old boy in South Carolina was executed for a crime he didn’t commit. This episode explores the cultural role of death and capital punishment in American society.Twitter: Link Patreon: LinkShirts and more: Link2020-02-2217 min
Hidden HistoryFordlandiaEpisode 60: This episode explores the economic history of Fordism. What exactly is it? How has it impacted the ways in which we live and work? Most importantly, what inspired Henry Ford to build a failed utopia in the middle of the Brazilian jungle?Twitter: Link Patreon: LinkShirts and more: Link2020-02-1517 min
Hidden HistorySong of the SouthEpisode 59: This episode examines the political history of folk and country music, the notion of the American Heartland, and the dominating power of culture.Twitter: Link Patreon: LinkShirts and more: Link2020-02-0719 min
Hidden HistoryCapitalism is Bad, ActuallyEpisode 58: Let's talk about the creation of the Industrial Revolution factory and its impact of labor relations.Twitter: Link Patreon: LinkShirts and more: Link2020-02-0119 min
Hidden HistoryThe Worst Song in the WorldEpisode 57: This week I take a look at the role of militarism and propaganda as seen through the lens of media depictions of the American military and the proliferation of military recruiting tools. Twitter: Link Patreon: LinkShirts and more: Link2020-01-2419 min
Hidden HistoryUnder GodEpisode 56: In 1954, in an attempt to differentiate America from the atheistic USSR, the words “under God” were added to the pledge of allegiance. This episode takes a look at the hypocrisy of Cold War culture, governmental deception, the nature of cultural dominance, and what it means to be a patriot. Twitter: Link Patreon: LinkShirts and more: Link2020-01-1719 min
Hidden HistoryJohn Brown's BodyEpisode 55: The final part in a multi part series on racial violence, this episode examines the legacy of economic discrimination, the criminalisation of poverty, and the link between racism and capitalism. Are the two inseparable?Twitter: Link Patreon: LinkShirts and more: Link2020-01-0326 min
Hidden HistoryNativism and BinaryEpisode 54: The second part in a multi part series on racial violence, this episode covers the colonial legacy of white supremacy, and analyzes the destructive nature of the social binary. Twitter: Link Patreon: LinkShirts and more: Link2019-12-2718 min
Hidden HistoryBlack Wall StreetEpisode 53: The first part in a multi part series on racial violence, this episode explores the history of the 1921 Tulsa Massacre, the racial influences that led to the founding of the city, and the structural legacy of white supremacy.Twitter: Link Patreon: LinkShirts and more: Link2019-12-1918 min
Hidden HistoryRonald Reagan vs. ATCEpisode 52: The final entry in a multi-part series on labor, let's wrap things up by talking about the 1981 PATCO strike, the Volcker shock, and Ronald Reagan.Twitter: Link Patreon: LinkShirts and more: Link2019-12-1214 min
Hidden HistoryTaft-HartleyEpisode 51: The fourth entry in a multi-part series on labor, this episode covers labor developments from 1920 to 1947. Beginning with the Oahu Sugar Strike of 1920, and ending with the Taft-Hartley Act, it’s time to talk about the Columbine Mine Massacre, the Loray Mill Strike, and right to work laws.Twitter: Link Patreon: LinkShirts and more: Link2019-11-2923 min
Hidden HistoryWorkmen Don't Ask, They DemandEpisode 50: The third entry in a multi-part series on labor, this is the longest and most in-depth episode of the show yet. Let's learn about anti-union violence, leftism, and anarchism from 1870-1920. It's time to talk about the Bay View Massacre, the Long Depression, the Knights of Labor, the 1892 Homestead Strike, the LA Times bombing, the murder of Frank Little, and much much more.Twitter: Link Patreon: LinkShirts and more: Link2019-11-2140 min
Hidden HistoryMercantilism?Episode 49: The second episode in a multi-part series, this episode examines the history and implications of Mercantilist theory, as well as the manifestations of early labor organizations as seen in the Philadelphia GTU Strike of 1835Twitter: Link Patreon: LinkShirts and more: Link2019-11-1412 min
Hidden HistoryThe Union that Works For YouEpisode 48: Let's talk a little bit about union history. The first episode in this multi-part series covers organized labor in ancient times, as well as common misconceptions about an early labor group.Twitter: Link Patreon: LinkShirts and more: Link2019-10-3111 minHidden HistoryBe Bush, Do CrimesEpisode 47: The Bush Administration's War on Terror has left a conspicuous black mark on the American mind. Meanwhile, the legacy of George W. Bush is in the process of being rehabilitated, let's find out why that's a very bad idea. In the process, maybe we can apply a critical lens to American foreign policy and consider the impacts of American imperialism and militarism.Twitter: Link Patreon: LinkShirts and more: Link2019-10-2420 min
Hidden HistoryAnita Bryant Sucks OrangesEpisode 46: In this week’s episode let’s talk about the rise and fall of Anita Bryant, a former country singer, evangelical Christian, and the orange juice industry’s most notable homophobic bigot.Twitter: Link Patreon: LinkShirts and more: Link2019-10-1718 min
Hidden HistoryThe Elephant in the RoomEpisode 45: On September 13th, 1916, an elephant was sentenced to a hanging death by an angry mob and an opportunistic circus owner. What can the death of Mary the elephant tell us about the expectations we hold for others?Twitter: Link Patreon: LinkShirts and more: Link2019-10-0312 min
Hidden HistoryA House ReconstructedEpisode 44: The Civil War was one of the most destructive wars in American history- more soldiers died in the Civil War than the sum total of all previous American war casualties. Let's talk about the human cost of war.Twitter: Link Patreon: LinkShirts and more: Link2019-09-2117 min
The Rye RecordThe Sporting Muse: Athlete Of The Month Ellis TucciMitch interviews May's Athlete of The Month, Ellis Tucci2019-05-3012 min