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The History Onion

Peeling back the layers of history and learning lessons for creating positive change in the present historyonion.substack.com

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The Pessimistic Style in American Politics

The History Onion ·

2024/09/23

In this episode, we do a deep dive on populism, its true history, and why liberal intellectuals like Richard Hofstadter are wrong to issue blanket condemnations against it. We argue that there is a very scary form of populism, that embodied in politicians such as Donald Trump, but that this is not the only form of populism, and not at all what populism originally meant when the term was coined in the late 19th century. The original populism actually represented an American version of a social

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86:00

The Paranoid Style in American Politics

The History Onion ·

2024/09/16

In this episode, we discuss liberal historian Richard Hofstadter’s famous essay “The Paranoid Style in American Politics,” originally published in Harper’s Magazine in 1964. We break down what the paranoid style is, its long history in American politics, and its evolution since Hofstadter’s essay first surfaced. In particular, we emphasize the prominent place the paranoid style has occupied in the Republican party throughout American history, and the ways in which it has increasingly dominated

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78:03

Poverty, not the Poor

The History Onion ·

2024/09/09

This episode continues our conversation about poverty that we started with our episode “Poverty, by America,” a discussion and critique of the book of the same title by Princeton sociologist Matthew Desmond. We now turn to the work of another sociologist, David Brady, who we believe has a much more compelling approach to poverty.Show NotesDavid Brady paper “Poverty, not the poor”Rich Democracies, Poor People: How Politics Explain Poverty, David BradyCreditsThe podcast’s theme music was made by our

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79:23

Poverty, by America

The History Onion ·

2024/08/28

In this week’s episode, we tackle Poverty, by America, a recent bestseller written by Princeton sociologist Matthew Desmond. Though we found this book compelling in some ways, it fell short of the providing the sort of serious analysis of poverty, and solutions to poverty, that we think is needed. Show NotesRoad to Wigan Pier, by George OrwellDesmond’s New York Times articleDesmond’s 2018 paperEPI study on poverty and wagesExplainer from the Census on the two main US poverty measuresThe argument for

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79:53

MLK's Vision for Justice: Part Two

The History Onion ·

2024/08/19

This episode continues our discussion of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s final book Where Do We Go From Here?: Chaos or Community. We cover King’s views on history, on past American heroes, and his prescriptions for a better future.CreditsThe podcast’s theme music was made by our youngest brother Tate.Cover art by Arthur Santoro. Get full access to The History Onion at historyonion.substack.com/subscribe

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53:12

MLK's Vision for Justice: Part One

The History Onion ·

2024/08/12

Today’s episode is about the most influential democratic socialist in American history: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. We start the episode by looking at how King is portrayed in American media and in high school history textbooks. We then move on to how King is portrayed by historians, who view him very differently and more in his totality. Finally, we begin a discussion about King’s last book, Where Do We Go From Here?: Chaos or Community. Part two of this episode, which will come out next Monday,

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48:14

Lies My Teacher Told Me: Part Two

The History Onion ·

2024/08/05

This episode continues our discussion of James Loewen’s bestselling book Lies My Teacher Told Me. We look at the reason he gives for why high school history textbooks are so bad, and we spend much of the episode talking about how high school history classes could be improved. Show NotesLink to the Popular Info piece cited at the top of the episode.Great quote from the book: “But only about history and social studies do writers actually ask, ‘Can textbooks have scholarly integrity?’ Only in history

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85:03

Lies My Teacher Told Me: Part One

The History Onion ·

2024/07/29

In this episode, we discuss James Loewen’s bestselling book Lies My Teacher Told Me. We begin the episode by talking about our own experiences with high school history, both as students and, in Aidan’s case, as a teacher. We then get into the material of the book, outlining Loewen’s main thesis and the examples he provides of the failures of American high school history textbooks. Show NotesGood interview with James Loewen if you want to hear the author in his own wordsSummarizing Loewen’s major

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56:33

How to Approach History

The History Onion ·

2024/07/22

Our second episode extends our conversation that we began in episode one. Having discussed history’s importance, we now turn to how to approach history. We consult another clip of Eric Foner to make the point that strong beliefs about present matters do not detract from your ability to understand the past. If anything, they enhance it. We then cover the benefits of interdisciplinarity and the drawbacks of narrow expertise.After that, we talk about the various popular narratives of history, which we

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39:12

The Importance of History

The History Onion ·

2024/07/19

The first episode of the History Onion podcast is here! In today’s episode, we introduce ourselves and explain why we’ve decided to start this podcast. We then listen to a couple of clips from interviews with Eric Foner and Howard Zinn, two of our favorite historians, as a jumping off point for a discussion about the importance of history. The interviews are linked in the show notes below.Our next episode, on how to approach history, will come out on Monday, July 22nd, and we plan to publish a new

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