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Paper Bullets: Crowns, Rebels & Six Centuries of English-Language Political Propaganda

October 19, 2026 · 1 hr 34 min

Midterms Series. Episode #1 of 4. It’s the spring of 1436 in Sandwich, a little port town on the Kent coast. The town council orders every household to go down to the beach, collect rocks, and pile them up next to their chimneys…
Plessy v. Ferguson and the Long Road to 1896

October 4, 2026 · 1 hr 0 min

Supreme Court Decisions That SUCKED Episode #4 of 4. Plessy v. Ferguson, was decided in May of 1896, by a vote of seven to one. It held that the State of Louisiana could lawfully require railroads to provide what the statute called "equal…
Worcester v. Georgia: The Case That Cemented Native American Sovereignty But Failed to Save the Cherokee

September 21, 2026 · 1 hr 10 min

Supreme Court Cases Series. Episode #3 of 4. In 1830, afraid that white missionaries were aiding the Cherokee in their effort to resist giving up their lands, the Georgia state government made it illegal for white people to live within…
Korematsu vs. United States: A Supreme Court Decision that Sucked

September 6, 2026 · 1 hr 6 min

Supreme Court Decisions That Sucked Episode #2 of 4. In 1942, the U.S. government rounded up citizens and forced them into concentration camps. Between the two countries, over 140,000 people were removed from their home and interned…
Accident of Birth: Wong Kim Ark, Birthright Citizenship, and the Case That Won't Stay Settled Part 2

August 23, 2026 · 38 min

Part 2! SCOTUS Series. Episode #2 of 5. In August 1895, a ship docks in San Francisco carrying a cook named Wong Kim Ark — born in that very city, armed with an airtight certificate proving it. The customs collector refuses to let him off…

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Accident of Birth: Wong Kim Ark, Birthright Citizenship, and the Case That Won't Stay Settled Part 1

August 17, 2026 · 1 hr 19 min

Supreme Court Cases Series. Episode # 1 of 5. This is Part 1 of a 2-part episode! In August 1895, a ship docks in San Francisco carrying a cook named Wong Kim Ark — born in that very city, armed with an airtight certificate proving it. The…
Betita Martinez and the Road to Chicana Feminism

August 3, 2026 · 53 min

Women's History, Episode #4 of 4. In the spring of 1966, inside a rented office space in New York City that smelled like cigarette smoke and mimeograph ink, a cadre of people worked for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)…
Segregation's Constant Gardeners: How White Women Created and Defended Jim Crow Segregation

July 20, 2026 · 1 hr 21 min

Women Series. Episode #3 of 4. In 1954, the United States Supreme Court released one of its most important and revolutionary rulings: Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka Kansas, usually better known as Brown v. Board. The ruling…
The Women and the King: Scottish Witch Hunts Under James VI

June 28, 2026 · 43 min

Women's History Series, #2 of 4. In 1590, the king of Scotland fomented a witch hunt in North Berwick, implicating as many as 200 people, convicting 70, and executing as many as 50. He participated in the “questioning” of the accused…
Lesbian Volunteerism in the AIDS Epidemic: A Story We Almost Lost

June 15, 2026 · 1 hr 7 min

Women Series. Episode #1 of 4. When we tell the story of AIDS— and we tell it more often now, in films and museums and classrooms— we tend to tell it as a story about gay men. And of course it was, overwhelmingly, a catastrophe that fell…
The Rise of the American Right During the Cold War: Anti-Communism, Suburban Women, and a Grassroots Revolution

June 1, 2026 · 49 min

Cold War #4 of 4. Today, in our last episode of our Cold War series, we are exploring the Cold War roots of the modern conservative movement. We’ll trace the arc of the grassroots movement from the 1950s up to the defeat of the Equal…
Project MK Ultra: The CIA's Harmful, Pointless Quest for Mind Control

May 18, 2026 · 1 hr 21 min

Cold War Series. Episode #3 of 4. The Allied victory in World War II meant an end to war with the fascists in Germany, Japan, and Italy, but it did not mean an end to war. In fact, the war just shifted into something more shadowy and…