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Threads of History11 Election of 1912 and American NeutralityThis episode is on the unlikely third-party run of a former president, his chosen successor, and a college administrator turned leader of the country and how the leadership of the United States dealt with the explosion of carnage that was World War I in 1914.
This episode includes a rift between former political allies, the creation of a major but short-lived political party, and the Presidential election of 1912, which would allow for the united states to remain neutral regarding the First World War for several years, changing the trajectory for American foreign policy for decades to come.
2022-09-0654 min
Threads of History10 Whiskey RebellionToday's episode is on the origin of the first test of federal power in U.S. history, brought about through what many argue to be the first global war, handshake agreements with native populations, amber waves of barley, wheat, and rye, an ancient mountain range, and federal taxation policies.
Major source for this episode is "The Whiskey Rebellion and the Rebirth of Rye: A Pittsburgh Story" by Mark Meyer and Meredith Meyer Grelli
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2022-05-241h 01Threads of History09 MarriageToday's episode is on the institution of marriage, its origin in the kinship ties of early tribal people, and its customs and traditions. Our ideas of love, courtship, marriage, and the cultural norms associated with them may not be as resolute or as old as one might think.
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2022-05-0145 minThreads of History08 Russian War in UkraineToday's episode is on the unfortunate, disastrous, 2022 Russian war in Ukraine, which has its origin in events going back 30 years, including several revolutions, democratically led upheavals, populist protests in an ancient city, separatist movements supported by a nuclear power, geopolitical catastrophe, and a billionaire demagogue.
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2022-04-1154 minThreads of History07 Israeli Palestinian ConflictToday's episode is on Israeli Palestinian Conflict, which has an origin in one of the worst conflicts in world history, letters and declarations of a certain Island Empire, several multinational peacekeeping organizations, a war for independence fought against 6 foes, and ongoing actions that have increased tensions.
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2022-03-2736 minThreads of History06 Abraham Lincoln's PresidencyThis episode is on the presidency of Abraham Lincoln, his candidacy brought on by the brand new Republican party, and its origin in the formation, actions, and ultimate break-up of the Whig Party years before.
This episode covers Abraham Lincoln's actions throughout the American Civil War.
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2022-03-051h 09Threads of History05 The Johnstown FloodThis episode is on the Great Flood of 1889 in Johnstown Pennsylvania, its origin through the catastrophic failure of a neglected dam and the massive reservoir behind it, which was created for a short-lived canal, and the greed which ultimately led to the destruction of Johnstown.
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2022-02-2355 minThreads of History04: Italian TomatoesToday's episode is on tomatoes, and how they became ubiquitous in Italian cuisine. This thread of history stretches back to the founding of European kingdoms, Columbus and his discovery of America, and the Columbian exchange which brought a number of products from the new world to the old world of Europe.
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2022-02-0136 minThreads of History03: The Scotch IrishWhen discussing a thread of history, it's hard to go earlier than the formation of continents on the Earth, which first happened 3.3 billion years ago. It technically isn't even history, since it is not written, and happened in prehistory, measured in geological epochs and millions of years. Geology plays a part in this thread of history, which brings the continents together into Pangea, forms the coal seams that drove the industrial revolution, and brought the Scotch-Irish from their homeland to the Americas to settle in the Appalachian mountains, which strikingly resemble the mountains of Scotland -- for good reason.
2022-01-1535 minThreads of History02: The Protestant ReformationThis episode covers the Black Death, its impact on populations across medieval Christian Europe, its influence on beliefs and the composition of the Roman Catholic Church, and its long-reaching effects on changes to Christendom and the kickoff of the Protestant Reformation.
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2022-01-0446 minThreads of History01: RedliningThe wealth of minority communities in the United States has been held back by the loss or lack of generational wealth due to redlining, created by the Franklin D. Roosevelt Administration in the 1930s and all made possible by a Supreme Court decision.
This Thread of History goes from the Supreme Court, to the Federal Housing Administration, to generational poverty and socio-economic statuses of people in minority communities today.
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2021-12-3122 min