Professor Buzzkill History Podcast
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All the Beauty in the Metropolitan Museum of Art: Patrick Bringley Interview
31 mins; July 11, 2023
Julius Streicher: Piece of Sh*t Saturday
22 mins; July 08, 2023
Symbols of Freedom: Slavery and Resistance Before the Civil War
41 mins; July 04, 2023
The Many Myths About the Declaration of Independence: 4th of July Special!
37 mins; July 03, 2023
How the South Won the Civil War: Heather Cox Richardson Interview
30 mins; June 27, 2023
Charlie Brown's America: the Popular Politics of Peanuts
36 mins; June 20, 2023
Juneteenth and the “End of Slavery in the US”: What’s in a Date?
15 mins; June 19, 2023
Native Americans in Film, 1941-1960
39 mins; June 13, 2023
Loving Day: 2023
9 mins; June 12, 2023
The American South and Country Capitalism
63 hours 41 mins; June 06, 2023
Mourning the Presidents
46 mins; May 29, 2023
The Nuremberg Trials: Justice for Humanity?
34 mins; May 23, 2023
The Nuremberg Trials: Background and Buildup
42 mins; May 18, 2023
Saving Yellowstone: Exploration and Preservation in Reconstruction America
42 mins; May 16, 2023
Mother's Day 2023
17 mins; May 12, 2023
The Transmission of Knowledge: From Ancient Wisdom to Modern Magic
39 mins; May 09, 2023
Hitler, the Nazis, and Gun Control
31 mins; May 01, 2023
Anna Marie Rosenberg - Woman Crush Wednesday!
42 mins; April 25, 2023
The "After Life" of Covid
40 mins; April 18, 2023
Ike “Every Gun That is Made…Signifies…a Theft from Those Who Hunger and Are Not Fed…” Quote or No Quote?
25 mins; April 14, 2023
Income Tax and Inequality in US History - Encore!
33 mins; April 11, 2023
Culture: the Story of Us from Cave Art to K-Pop
36 mins; April 04, 2023
Regina Twala – Woman Crush Wednesday
31 mins; March 29, 2023
Black Women's Radical Activism in the Midwest during the Great Depression
32 mins; March 28, 2023
The John Birch Society and Its Influence on American Politics
40 mins; March 21, 2023
Henrietta Lacks – Woman Crush Wednesday!
7 mins; March 16, 2023
Irish Things that are Actually British -- Throwback Thursday!
15 mins; March 16, 2023
The Irish Slaves Myth
35 mins; March 14, 2023
Half American: African Americans Fighting World War II at Home and Abroad
42 mins; March 07, 2023
The Nadir of African-American Life, 1865-1930
44 mins; February 27, 2023
The “Free Market” -- the Big Myth in Modern America
51 mins; February 20, 2023
Insurrection in Modern America: History and Myth
36 mins; February 13, 2023
Robert Smalls - Man Crush Monday!
45 mins; February 05, 2023
Family Values Feminism: History and Myth
28 mins; January 30, 2023
American Exceptionalism as Part of Myth America
27 mins; January 23, 2023
The Real Voter Fraud in the United States
51 mins; January 17, 2023
Confederate Monuments as Part of Myth America
40 mins; January 10, 2023
Myth America: Historians Take On the Biggest Legends and Lies About Our Past
40 mins; January 02, 2023
Auld Lang Syne 2022!
15 mins; December 26, 2022
1947 Radio Play - It's a Wonderful Life
62 hours 29 mins; December 23, 2022
“It’s‌ ‌a‌ ‌Wonderful‌ ‌Life‌” ‌Myths‌ ‌and‌ ‌Urban‌ ‌Legends
41 mins; December 22, 2022
Christmas Trees: History and Myth
9 mins; December 19, 2022
Xmas Encore! Commercialism, FDR, the Nazis, and Beyond!
27 mins; December 15, 2022
The 12 Days of Christmas - a Secret Coded Song? Encore!
14 mins; December 12, 2022
Fit Nation: The History of America's Exercise Obsession
42 mins; December 05, 2022
Watergate and the History of Investigative Journalism
43 mins; December 01, 2022
Understanding Warren G. Harding
40 mins; November 21, 2022
Thanksgiving: History and Myth
9 mins; November 21, 2022
Lydia Maria Child: Woman Crush Wednesday
35 mins; November 15, 2022
"Wayward Sisters, Depart in Peace" Winfield Scott: Quote or No Quote?
7 mins; November 13, 2022
Vernon Burton: Historians as Legal Expert Witnesses
29 mins; November 08, 2022
Roland Freisler - Piece of Sh*t Saturday
28 mins; November 04, 2022
The 1914 Sarajevo Assassination and the Road to World War I
42 mins; November 01, 2022
Halloween Myths! Don't Be Spooked!
11 mins; October 31, 2022
War of the Worlds "Panic" Myth: Flashback Friday!
43 mins; October 28, 2022
US Nuclear Testing in the Marshall Islands
28 mins; October 25, 2022
Obama: the Black President
43 mins; October 17, 2022
Understanding the Cuban Missile Crisis
69 hours 8 mins; October 12, 2022
Operation Torch: The Battle for Tunisia during World War II
45 mins; October 04, 2022
Hugh Thompson: Man Crush Monday
16 mins; September 26, 2022
The Roots of Johnny Cash
34 mins; September 20, 2022
Martin Niemöller "First They Came..." Encore: Wisdom Wednesday!
14 mins; September 14, 2022
Early Baseball: History and Myth
37 mins; September 13, 2022
Hatshepsut: the Female Egyptian Pharaoh. Woman Crush Wednesday Encore!
4 mins; September 07, 2022
Heather Cox Richardson explains Lincoln’s “House Divided” Speech
11 mins; September 05, 2022
Did Abner Doubleday Invent Baseball?
3 mins; August 29, 2022
Dog Poop and Social Order in Recent History
31 mins; August 23, 2022
Ronald Reagan and Ann Sheridan for the Lead Parts in Casablanca?
2 mins; August 22, 2022
Race and the US Supreme Court: Justice Deferred
49 mins; August 11, 2022
Manhattan for $24? Best Real Estate Deal Ever! Or Was It?
6 mins; August 08, 2022
3-Year-Old "Chimney Sweep" Video
27 mins; August 04, 2022
Vikings Didn't Wear Horned Helmets
1 min; July 31, 2022
USS Indianapolis Anniversary Encore
11 mins; July 28, 2022
Before Evil: Lenin, Stalin, and Putin
50 mins; July 27, 2022
People Rarely Bathed in the Past?
14 mins; July 24, 2022
Covid Variants? Insurrection Hearings? Tense Elections? Was "May You Live in Interesting Times" a Famous Chinese Curse?
4 mins; July 17, 2022
Piece of Sh*t Saturday: Salmon P. Chase
13 mins; July 15, 2022
Clare Boothe Luce: American Renaissance Woman, Part 2
54 mins; July 13, 2022
Venus De Milo Myths!
4 mins; July 10, 2022
Clare Boothe Luce: American Renaissance Woman, Part 1
50 mins; July 06, 2022
The Many Myths About the Declaration of Independence: 4th of July Special Encore!
37 mins; July 03, 2022
The NRA: the Unauthorized History
45 mins; June 29, 2022
Why is it called "The Liberty Bell"?
6 mins; June 26, 2022
Was "Ring Around the Rosie" about the Bubonic Plague?
4 mins; June 19, 2022
Juneteenth and the “End of Slavery in the US”: What’s in a Date?
15 mins; June 16, 2022
Winston Churchill "Blood, Sweat, and Tears" Quote or No Quote? Encore!
5 mins; June 05, 2022
Life Expectancy Myths
5 mins; May 30, 2022
Heather Cox Richardson: A Theory of Historical "Tornadoes"
20 mins; May 25, 2022
Martin Luther King, Jr. "Arc of the Moral Universe..." Quote or No Quote?
10 mins; May 22, 2022
When Did the NRA Become Extremist?
28 mins; May 15, 2022
General Hooker's Hookers
4 mins; May 08, 2022
Mother's Day
17 mins; May 03, 2022
Kathleen Stone: Female Ambition from Suffrage to Mad Men
44 mins; May 03, 2022
The Hindenburg Disaster News Report - "Oh the humanity!"
6 mins; May 01, 2022
Thomas Edison Myths
8 mins; April 24, 2022
Lee Didn’t Offer His Sword to Grant - Monday Extra Credit Myth!
2 mins; April 17, 2022
“People Sleep Peacefully in Their Beds at Night Only Because Rough Men Stand Ready to Do Violence on Their Behalf” George Orwell Quote or No
8 mins; April 10, 2022
Ben Franklin "We Must All Hang Together or All Hang Separately" Quote or No Quote?
9 mins; April 03, 2022
Ty Cobb: Baseball's Bad Boy?
4 mins; March 27, 2022
The Scopes "Monkey Trial": Myth and History
16 mins; March 20, 2022