I'm Clyde Brittelle, a teenage history buff. I've been a fan of history for as long as I can remember. Whenever someone has asked me what I want to do when I grow up, I've said "I want to be a historian". But then I realized I didn't have a firm grasp on what being a historian entails. I thought a great medium to use to learn about what it means to be a historian would be a podcast. This podcast gives me a chance to help others like me learn about historians and their work and it allows me to talk with historians about their research, writing, daily life, and everything else that has to do with being a historian.
I decided to have two types of episodes on "How to be a historian", the first interviews with historians. Each of these interviews will be split into two episodes, one about their journey to becoming a historian and the other focusing on their area of expertise, centering around a piece that they have created (whether that be a book, documentary, article, etcetera). The second type of episodes will be 10-15 minutes and cover different historical topics I find interesting and want to discuss. If you’ve ever wondered what being a historian entails, or if you’re just an overall history lover, then I hope this podcast appeals to you!
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This is the final episode in my three part series on LaGuardia and Mamdani. I’ve had an amazing time researching and educating myself on their origins, beliefs and political careers. So far, I’ve talked about how both LaGuardia and Mamdani came into New York politics as outsiders who promised major changes to the city. But promising reform is one thing — actually building enough of both a political following and power in genral to carry it out is another.
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9 Sept 2026
LaGuardia and Mamdani Pt 2: Ideology
This is the second episode in my three part series on Fiorello LaGuardia and Zohran Mamdani. Last episode we covered their immigrant backgrounds and how that influenced their beliefs and later careers. In this episode we’ll cover their socialist beliefs (and for LaGuardia, socialist-adjacent) and how it influenced their decision making and goals as mayor.
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9 Sept 2026
LaGuardia and Mamdani Pt 1: Origin
This is the first episode of a three part series on Zohran Mamdani, the popular and populist democratic socialist mayor of New York, and his ideological predecessor, Fiorello LaGuardia.
I’m super interested in making connections between the past and present and that’s the goal of this series. Mamdani and LaGuardia were of different political parties and one is a professed democratic socialist while the other was not however the similarities are stark. In these three episodes, I’ll trace their lives and decisions side by side showing their motivations, reasoning and how the historical context of the time affected their decision making and agendas. This first episode will cover their upbringing, immigrant backgrounds and how xenophobia was rampant 100 years ago when LaGuardia was growing up and still is today.
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