Episodios

  • Almost American
    Jul 9 2025

    Story of the 671st Tank Battalion, the real Black Panthers.

    Music By John Scott

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    1 h y 25 m
  • 4th of July
    Jul 4 2025

    Allison and Eugene discuss what the Fourth of July means, and how it is more than just a cookout and fireworks, as well as why many minority groups don’t celebrate the Fourth of July in the same way as white communities do.

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    36 m
  • American Genocide
    Jun 26 2025

    Allison and Eugene take a look at the genocide, the history behind the word, and discuss if the Indigenous experience in America qualifies as a genocide.

    Sources

    Adams, David Wallace. Education for Extinction: American Indians and the Boarding School Experience. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 1995.

    Anderson, Gary C. Ethnic Cleansing and the Indian. Norman, OK: Univ of Oklahoma Press, 2014.

    Churchill, Ward. A Little Matter of Genocide: Holocaust and Denial in the Americas, 1492 to the Present. San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books, 1997.

    Churchill, Ward. Indians are Us?: Culture and Genocide in Native North America. Monroa, ME: Common Courage Press, 1994.

    Churchill, Ward. Kill the Indian, Save the Man: The Genocidal Impact of American Indian Residential Schools. San Francisco, CA: City Lights, 2004.

    Churchill, Ward. Struggle for the land: Native North American resistance to genocide, ecocide, and colonization. San Francisco, CA: City Lights, 2002.

    Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, Adopted by the General Assembly of the United Nations on 9 December 1948, United Nations - Treaty Series, vol. 78: No. 1021.

    Crosby, Alfred A. Ecological Imperialism: The Biological Expansion of Europe 900-1900. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 1986.

    Diamond, Jared M. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies. New York, NY: W.W. Norton & Company, 1997.

    Dobyns, Henry F. Their Numbers Become Thinned: Native American Population Dynamics in Eastern North America. Knoxville, TN: University of Tennessee Press, 1983.

    Freeman, Michael. “Puritans and Pequots: The Question of Genocide.” The New England Quarterly 68, no. 2 (June 1995): 278–93. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.2307/366259.

    Jaimes, M. Annette. The State of Native America: Genocide, Colonization, and Resistence. Boston, MA: South End Press, 1992.



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    1 h y 46 m
  • Mary Doherty
    Jun 19 2025

    The girl who was accused, tried, and found innocent of killing her father.

    Sources

    Alshuler, L.L., J. L. Cummings, and M.J. Mills. “Mutism: Review, Differential Diagnosis, and

    Report of 22 Cases.” American Journal of Psychiatry 143, no. 11 (November 1986): 1409–14.

    Beecher, Catherine E. Common Sense Applied to Religion: Or the Bible and the People. New

    York: Harper and Brothers, 1857.

    Beecher, Catherine E. Religious Training of Children in the School, the Family, and the Church.

    New York: Harper and Brothers, 1864.

    Brown, Penelope. “Unfitness to Plead in England and Wales: Historical Development and

    Contemporary Dilemmas.” Medicine, Science and the Law 59, no. 3 (2019).

    Brownell, Celia A., Margarita Svetlova, Ranita Anderson, Sara R. Nichols, and Jesse

    Drummond. “Socialization of Early Prosocial Behavior: Parents’ Talk about Emotions Is Associated with Sharing and Helping in Toddlers.” Infancy 18, no. 1 (April 26, 2012): 91–119.

    "By the Mails. Knoxville, (Ten.) April 23." Salem Register (Salem, Massachusetts) VII, no. 46,

    June 5, 1806: [2].

    David, Anthony S., Simon Fleminger, Michael D. Kopelman, Simon Lovestone, and John D.C.

    Mellers. Lishman’s Organic Psychiatry: A Textbook of Neuropsychiatry. United Kingdom: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009.

    Demos, John, and Virginia Demos. “Adolescence in Historical Perspective.” Journal of

    Marriage and Family 31, no. 4 (1969): 632–38.

    Edinoff, Amber N., Sarah E. Kaufman, Janice W. Hollier, Celina G. Virgen, Christian A. Karam,

    Garett W. Malone, Elyse M. Cornett, Adam M. Kaye, and Alan D. Kaye. “Catatonia: Clinical Overview of the Diagnosis, Treatment, and Clinical Challenges.” Neurology International, November 8, 2021.

    Evans, Giles L. "Strange Deception of Mary Doherty." Tennessee Law Review 14, no. 2,

    (February 1936). 73-78.

    Gordon, Neil. “Mutism: Elective or Selective, and Acquired.” Brain and Development 23, no. 2

    (March 2001): 83–87.





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    1 h y 27 m
  • Harpe Brothers
    Jun 12 2025

    America’s first recognized serial killers. Two brothers whose brutality and ruthlessness sowed fear in politicians and ministers alike. Born to loyalist parents in North Carolina, Micajah and Wiley Harpe terrorized Trans-Appalachia from 1790 to 1804, killing 28 people in at least four states.

    Music by Jon Scott, Jon Scott Media LLC.

    Sources

    T. Marshall Smith, Legends of the War of Independence and of the Earlier Settlements in the West

    Smith, Legends of the War of Independence

    Cave-in-Rock: Historical Accounts of the Famous Highwaymen and River Pirates Who Operated in Pioneer Days upon the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers and over the Old Natchez Trace (Carbondale and Edwardsville, Illinois: Southern Illinois University Press, 1996) Oscar Zeichner, “The Loyalist Problem in New York After the Revolution,” New York History 21, no. 3 (1940): 289, http://www.jstor.org/stable/23135069

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    1 h y 33 m
  • Salem Witch Trials
    May 21 2025

    Allison breaks down the most infamous witch trial in American history, with a focus on the lives and the circumstances of the women who were accused of witchcraft. Looking past the obvious and drilling down into the details of the women charged, Allison and Eugene break down the social, political, and religious reasons that led to the Salem Witch Trials.

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    1 h y 30 m
  • Introduction
    May 19 2025

    Allison and Eugene talk about how we met and why we decided to do a podcast.

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    17 m