Matthew Van Meter joins me today to discuss the most fascinating Civil Rights case you have probably never heard of. We meet a flamboyant political boss, a hard fighting civil rights lawyer, and a young black man accused of a crime. Today on Historia.
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3 Dec 2020
Relics in the Medieval World
What were relics? Why were they important? Today on Historia I am joined by Dr. Cheryl White to discuss relics in the Medieval World. We also take a little time to talk about the Shroud of Turin, one of her areas of scholarship.
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19 Nov 2020
John Marshall with Richard Brookhiser
The Supreme Court is one of the most important institutions in the United States. John Marshall, the third Chief Justice, helped to make the Court what it is today. Richard Brookhiser discusses his book John Marshall: The Man Who Made The Supreme Court. This time on Historia.
Books discussed in this program:John Marshall: The Man Who Made The Supreme Court (https://amzn.to/3pKnYk3) by Richard Brookhiser
Documentary on Amazon PrimeJohn Marshall: The Man Who Made The Supreme Court (https://amzn.to/3kGSlUN)
Other books by Richard BrookhiserJames Madison (https://amzn.to/3nD1Juj)Give Me Liberty: A History of America's Exceptional Idea (https://amzn.to/2ITCqFJ)What Would the Founders Do?: Our Questions, Their Answers (https://amzn.to/2IVISLR)Gentleman Revolutionary: Gouverneur Morris, the Rake Who Wrote the Constitution (https://amzn.to/3lLxfWz)Founders' Son: A Life of Abraham Lincoln (https://amzn.to/2UI56Uk)America's First Dynasty: The Adamses, 1735-1918 (https://amzn.to/35KEXur)Alexander Hamilton (https://amzn.to/35ME44K)
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12 Nov 2020
The Fighting Bunch with Chris DeRose
What happens when democracy is denied? For a group of GIs after World War 2 the answer was do the right thing. Then when that didn’t work they did what they had been taught. They took to arms. The Battle of Athens. Right here on Historia
The Fighting Bunch: The Battle of Athens and How World War II Veterans Won the Only Successful Armed Rebellion Since the Revolution (https://amzn.to/3plyCgY)
Other books by Chris DeRose:
* Star Spangled Scandal: Sex, Murder, and the Trial that Changed America (https://amzn.to/32Bui3a)
* Founding Rivals: Madison vs. Monroe, The Bill of Rights, and The Election that Saved a Nation (https://amzn.to/2Ug6kpE)
* The Presidents' War: Six American Presidents and the Civil War That Divided Them (https://amzn.to/3pkmjBs)
* Congressman Lincoln (https://amzn.to/2GRMU7s)
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29 Oct 2020
Voting In America with Aaron Astor
Voting is a proud tradition in American History. On this episode of Historia Dr. Aaron Aston takes us on a journey to see how voting has evolved over the first 100 years of the American Republic.
Books by Dr. Astor:The Civil War along Tennessee's Cumberland Plateau (https://amzn.to/3mmq335)Rebels on the Border: Civil War, Emancipation, and the Reconstruction of Kentucky and Missouri (https://amzn.to/3msOtYu)
Other books discussed:Why Do We Still Have the Electoral College (https://amzn.to/2HBU2Fr)? by Alexander KeyssarThe Right to Vote: The Contested History of Democracy in the United States (https://amzn.to/31KVM68) by Alexander KeyssarThe Field of Blood: Violence in Congress and the Road to Civil War (https://amzn.to/2Tu98iI) by Joanne FreemanThe American Ballot Box in the Mid-Nineteenth Century (https://amzn.to/3otMp4l) by Richard Franklin Bensel
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26 Oct 2020
Voting In The Ancient World with Edward Watts
Welcome to this special Election Season edition. We have invited back Dr. Edward Watts to talk to us about voting practices in the Ancient World.
Edward Watts received his Ph.D. in history from Yale University. He is presently the Vassiliadis Professor of Byzantine Greek History at UC San Diego, where he was formerly Co-Director of the Center for Hellenistic Studies. He is the author of several books on ancient history, the most recent of which is Mortal Republic: How Rome Fell Into Tyranny.
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Intro and Outro music is “Marsbilly Stomp” by Twang Darkly (https://michaelfutreal.bandcamp.com/)
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26 Oct 2020
Mortal Republic with Edward Watts
David interviews Professor Edward Watts about his book Mortal Republic. Republics don’t have to die, but they often do. What lead to the fall of the Roman Republic? Dr. Watts and David discuss this and more.
Books discussed today (Links will take you to Amazon. Ordering after clicking on the link will help this site.):
* Mortal Republic (https://amzn.to/2FsYXri) by Edward Watts (https://amzn.to/2FsYXri)
* Rome at War: Farms, Families, and Death in the Middle Republic (https://amzn.to/34TCQTx) by Nathan Rosenstein (https://amzn.to/34TCQTx)
* SPQR (https://amzn.to/3iTY6NK) by Mary Beard (https://amzn.to/3iTY6NK)
* Ten Caesars (https://amzn.to/34Prlwr) by Barry Strauss (https://amzn.to/34Prlwr)
* The Fate of Rome (https://amzn.to/3dx9yOB) by Kyle Harper (https://amzn.to/3dx9yOB)
* Rome and the Making of a World State, 150 BCE–20 CE (https://amzn.to/33ORuvT)by Josiah Osgood (https://amzn.to/33ORuvT)
* Through the Eye of a Needle: Wealth, the Fall of Rome, and the Making of Christianity in the West, 350-550 AD (https://amzn.to/2Ipmzy3)by Peter Brown (https://amzn.to/2Ipmzy3)
* The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World (https://amzn.to/2SQ8H1S) by Catherine Nixey (https://amzn.to/2SQ8H1S)
Intro and Outro music is “Marsbilly Stomp” by Twang Darkly (https://michaelfutreal.bandcamp.com/)
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