My History Can Beat Up Your Politics
Since 2006, bringing historical context to the politics of today. TV pundits discuss politics in a vacuum. Cable news tells you everything is 'breaking news' but in most cases, events have long roots in history. In this podcast, we smash and bash the politics of today with a healthy dose of history
- Website
- https://myhistorycanbeatupyourpolitics.wordpress.com
- Description
- Today's political debates, particularly on cable news, talk radio and blog comments can be limiting. In this podcast, Bruce Carlson applies as much history as possible to the politics of today.
- Language
- 🇬🇧 English
- last modified
- 2025-02-22 03:43
- last episode published
- 2025-02-17 05:10
- publication frequency
- 9.89 days
- Contributors
- Bruce Carlson
- Author Owner
- Explicit
- false
- Number of Episodes
- 689
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- Categories
- Society & Culture National News History Government & Organizations
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| 2025-02-17 | From the man who answered T.R.'s phone and maybe saved his life, to the secret "Sphinx" around Woodrow Wilson, to Coolidge's surprise enforcer. We look at all sorts of Presidential assistants and aides, both official ones and non-official ones. Learn m... |
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| 2025-02-14 |
Now on the Patreon: Franklin Roosevelt Takes on Jimmy Walker Now on the Patreon: Franklin Roosevelt Takes on Jimmy Walker In the sweltering summer of 1932, Franklin Delano Roosevelt found himself ensnared in a political web spun by the most notorious machine in New York politics—Tammany Hall. As governor of New... |
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| 2025-02-09 | Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices |
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| 2025-02-06 |
AN "INDUSTRIAL SELMA" AND OTHER STORIES - FINAL OF THE ARK OF COMMERCE SERIES The idea of saving manufacturing jobs is front-and-center in American politics today. Examining the history of plant closings and job losses In the 70's and 80's provides an interesting contrast. "We ought to make stuff here, or we should try to keep t... |
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| 2025-01-29 |
NIXON AND IMPOUNDMENT, NOT SPENDING FUNDS, CONGRESS AND COURTS In the 1970's a President, seeking to reduce inflation, tried a new tactic. Simply not spending the money that congress appropriated. OK, it wasn't entirely new, but it had been used in defense spending after the war where demand was needed or in very ... |
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| 2025-01-29 |
WONG KIM ARK, BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP, THE CHARMING BETSEY AND THE SAND LOT PROTESTS When it comes to citizenship decided by birth, the story of Wong Kim Ark, a young man born in the US of Chinese descent who was denied entry to his country, should be on a few minds. We tell that story in this episode, along with the Sand Lot protests ... |
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| 2025-01-11 | Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices |
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| 2025-01-10 | Air commerce is covered in this episode. Not only vehicles that imitate naval travel in the skies, which seemed to be the future of travel. But also, putting waves into the air and changing the air's temperature. Plus, building large buildings that tou... |
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| 2025-01-06 | The history of American retail, from Mrs. Lincoln's shopping trips and the innovator who accommodated her, to the price salvationists and tea servers, and finally the Socialist concept that gets the shopping mall going, and the possible death of the sh... |
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| 2024-12-29 | Random, yet relevant stories about Jimmy Carter as a candidate, a governor and President Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices |
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