In this thought-provoking episode of History Shorts, bestselling author John Green joins us, not to talk about fiction, but about the real-world epidemic that once shaped everything from art to architecture, medicine to morality. His new book, Everything Is Tuberculosis, traces how tuberculosis (TB) didn’t just ravage lungs, it infected our language, our culture, and our sense of beauty and tragedy. Together, we dive into how TB shaped the Romantic era, influenced urban design, gave us the sanatorium and the selfie, and why it became a metaphor for everything from genius to grief.

This is not just a conversation about a disease; it’s about how a centuries-long epidemic shaped who we are, how we think, and what we value.

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Between 1866 and 1871, a secretive Irish-American paramilitary group known as the Fenians launched a series of bizarre and audacious cross-border attacks from the U.S. into Canada. Their mission? To strike at the British Empire by seizing Canadian territory and ransoming it for Irish independence. Though the Fenian Raids failed militarily, they left a surprising legacy—spurring Canadian nationalism, hastening Canadian confederation, and complicating U.S.-British diplomacy. In this episode, we unpack the motives, missteps, and aftermath of one of the strangest invasions in North American history.

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Just off a quiet back road in Salem, New Hampshire, sits a baffling jumble of dolmen-like chambers, serpentine walls, and precisely aligned monoliths known today as “America’s Stonehenge.” Is it a colonial root-cellar maze, a Native ceremonial calendar, or proof of ancient trans-Atlantic voyagers? This episode traces the site’s discovery, fringe-theory circus, solar alignments, and ongoing archaeological tug-of-war, asking why a pile of rocks in the New England woods still sparks debate after 200 years.

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