Nostalgia Trap
Hosted by host · David Parsons
4.7from 215 ratings
- 565
- Episodes
- 71
- Transcribed
- 215
- Ratings
- Bi-weekly
- Cadence
- 2014
- First episode
- 175K
- YouTube views
About Nostalgia Trap
Deep dive conversations on American history, politics, and pop culture, hosted by history professor and writer David Parsons.
- Publisher
- David Parsons
- Category
- history · news
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- Yes
- First episode
- 14 Apr 2014
- Latest episode
- 17 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
71 of 565 episodes have a transcript.
17 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Buyer's Remorse w/ Justin Rogers-Cooper (PREVIEW)
9 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
A Right to Housing? w/ Samuel Stein
2 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
You're Like Me w/ Justin Rogers-Cooper (PREVIEW)
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Buyer's Remorse w/ Justin Rogers-Cooper (PREVIEW)
Published 17 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] You know, Lincoln cut off all supply lines to the south. And there's like a book called Starving the South. And like the sanctions, like, quote unquote, that Lincoln put on the south during the war, the Confederacy were effective. And I mean, it destroyed people's way of life. I mean, they were scrounging for food. It was subsistence level survival in a lot of the southern states. And so that's this idea of total war. It goes through World War One. And it obviously goes through World War Two, meaning like the only way to attempt to secure a military victory is through the destruction of like actual populations. […]
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- Justin Rogers-Cooper
- Samuel Stein
- Charles L Ponce de Leon
- Xaq Frohlich
Reach and audience
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- YouTube views
- 174,908
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.7 / 5
- 196 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.9 / 5
- 19 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 79 / 100
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- Quality
- 97
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 86
- Engagement
- 67
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