- 27
- Episodes
- 1
- Transcribed
- 42
- Ratings
- Monthly
- Cadence
- 2020
- First episode
- 62K
- YouTube views
About Before We Were White
Before We Were White is unapologetic revisionist history at its most unflinching, meticulously researched, and has received praise from well-known authors and professional historians. Before We Were White tells the real story of heartland America, drawing upon facts and evidence buried deep underneath the “official story”. Everything from outlaws, river pirates and prairie bandits, to Cherokee midwives and witch trials, fake eugenics, colonial-era Muslims, snake handlers, African-American cowboys, the Lost Colony of Roanoke, Jewish hillbillies, “sporting girls”, Mountain Gypsies and Creole Irish gets a turn under the magnifying lens. Whether your interest is in history, politics, ethnology, folklore, music, genealogy, or just a cracking good story, you will find something here to astonish and amaze, entertain and educate. Forget everything you thought you knew about North American history. Forget everything you thought you understood about the ethnic roots of heartland America. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.
- Publisher
- Brian Halpin
- Category
- history · news · society & culture
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 29 Sept 2020
- Latest episode
- 30 Sept 2026
Latest episodes
1 of 27 episodes have a transcript.
30 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
A Belated Goodbye to Dolly Parton
5 Mar 2026
Episode 24: Give Me Back My Country
1 Feb 2026
Episode 23: Deconstructing the Construct
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A Belated Goodbye to Dolly Parton
Published 30 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] When Whitney Houston took Dolly's successful 1974 released country song, I Will Always Love You, multi-platinum in 1992, Parton took the royalties windfall, and invested it in a majority black neighborhood in Nashville. As Parton remarked in a 2021 interview. So I just thought this was great. I'm just going to go down there and be with her. Whitney Houston's people who are my people as well. And so I just love the fact that I spent that money on a complex. And I think this is the house that Whitney built. With so much raw material from four-score years of a life lived to the full, there's a Dali for everybody. […]
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- YouTube views
- 61,577
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.8 / 5
- 27 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.8 / 5
- 15 ratings
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- Quality
- 23
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 76
- Engagement
- 85
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