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236 Piracy in the South China Sea with Rita Chang-Eppig

By all reasonable metrics Shek Yeung, who raided the South China Sea in the early 1800s, is one...

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235 Shakespeare Versus Hedgehogs

William Shakespeare seems to have hated hedgehogs. We don’t quite know why, but it could have...

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224 Lupercalia

Before Valentine’s Day, ancient Romans celebrated a festival of fertility in the shadow of the...

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233 The Golden Fortress with Bill Lascher

During the Dust Bowl city officials in Los Angeles, fueled by anti-communist paranoia and...

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232 Navigating the Asian Maritime World with Eric Tagliacozzo

Eric Tagliacozzo is a professor of history at Cornell University, and his new book In Asian...

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231 The History of Archaeology with Ann R. Williams

Archaeology has changed considerably over the past century. In this episode, we spoke with Ann R....

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230 The Adventures of Mussolini’s Corpse

After his death in 1945, Mussolini’s corpse was autopsied and thrown into a pauper’s grave. But,...

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229 Douglas Wolk on All the Marvels

The Marvel Universe is massive. Marvel comics go back well over half a century, and span...

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228 The Mustache Strike

In 1907 French waiters went on strike, and won the right to wear facial hair.

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227 The Rasputin Disclaimer

Nearly every English-language movie has a disclaimer in the credits that says something like...

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226 Sara and Jack Gorman on Denying to the Grave

Covid-19 has killed and sickened hundreds of thousands of people, and transformed our economy,...

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225 Los San Patricios

The Mexican-American War was not fought for good reasons. The war was one of imperial and...

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224 Carlton F.W. Larson on Treason in the U.S.

Treason is the only crime specifically defined in the U.S. Constitution, and talk of treason has...

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223 Grand Guignol Part Two: Tales of Terror!

It’s not enough to just talk about the history of the Grand Guignol. We also want to bring you a...

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222 Grand Guignol Part One: Theater of Horror!

The Grand Guignol was a small Parisian theater which regularly produced original works of horror....

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221 Sasha Abramsky on Lottie Dod

Sasha Abramsky is a journalist and author whose new book Little Wonder tells the story of Lottie...

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220 Michel Paradis on Last Mission to Tokyo

Today’s show is a conversation with Michel Paradis, attorney and author of Last Mission to Tokyo....

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219 Patient Zero

In 1987 journalist Randy Shilts chronicled the early years of AIDS in North America in his book...

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218 Juneteenth

Slavery in the United States did not end all at once. Even though the Emancipation Proclamation...

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