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4th Period U.S. History

Welcome to 4th Period U.S. History — or, as it’s more lovingly referred to, 4Push.This class explores the histories and experiences of the United States from what should be its rightful origins in 1676, all the way to the moment when men finally got off their collective asses and gave women their due rights—and the vote. We’ll be exploring what I consider the single driving line throughout U.S. history: Can we dominate anyone who isn’t white and male?This course will focus heavily on slavery and how

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5:23

SPRING BREAK: Refilling the Fuel Tank with tears and...

4th Period U.S. History ·

2026/04/14

In this three-minute sanity check, we’re pausing the industrial churn of the American experiment. We’ve spent forty episodes dissecting the meat grinder of history, and frankly, the gears are starting to scream. I’m taking a spring break because "the grind" is a lie told by people who want to sell you a more expensive treadmill. We’re being honest about the fact that if I don’t step away from this syllabus, I’m going to start rooting for the British to finish the job in 1812.Taking time away isn't a

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31:56

Wp 40- Mindfulness: Taking a minute to shout into the...

4th Period U.S. History ·

2026/04/11

In today’s class, we are stepping away from the carnage of the 19th century and the "Big Ditches" of progress to perform an internal audit. We’re discussing the most complex piece of machinery we’ve encountered so far: the human mind. While we usually focus on how nations intervene in each other's business, today we’re talking about the necessity of intervening in your own. Without a functional operator, the most ambitious "cosmic visions" are just blueprints for a breakdown.We are approaching

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53:46

Ep 39- Clinton's Big Ditch: the building of a...

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2026/04/07

In today’s class, we are looking at the Erie Canal—not as a quaint historical postcard, but as the first massive gamble of the American capitalist machine. We’re starting with DeWitt Clinton, a man whose "cosmic vision" for the United States was so expensive that his peers were certain it would bankrupt the entire experiment. We’ll discuss how he bypassed federal stagnation to prove that a democracy could fund its own evolution through a mix of public willpower and private greed, turning a "Big

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44:19

Ep 38- The Hemisphere’s Landlord: Monroe, Roosevelt,...

4th Period U.S. History ·

2026/04/03

In today’s class, we’re dissecting the Monroe Doctrine—the moment the United States stopped worrying about its own backyard and decided to fence in the entire neighborhood. We’re starting with the "Spanish Liquidation," looking at a wave of Latin American independence movements where new nations tried to emulate the American "freedom" model. We’ll talk about how James Monroe framed his doctrine not as a declaration of war, but as a protective circle: a promise that the "oppression of democracy"

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48:30

Ep 37- The Star-Spangled Rebrand: How to Lose a War...

4th Period U.S. History ·

2026/04/01

In today’s class, we are examining the second war for independence—which was essentially a three-year-long group project where nobody did the reading and the dog ate the infrastructure. After decades of being treated like a second-tier startup by the British Empire, the United States decided to "fuck around and find out" on a global scale. We’re dissecting how a trade dispute over the British "human resource" policy of kidnapping sailors turned into a biological catastrophe on the frontier.We’re

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10:02

Short class break to go sleep---BE BACK IN CLASS NEXT...

4th Period U.S. History ·

2026/03/27

In today’s brief, ten-minute class, we are addressing a localized mechanical failure: the host’s schedule. Much like the Donner Party’s "Three-Day Mistake," the transition into our War of 1812 unit has hit a logistical bottleneck known as "having a real job." We’re stripping away the pretense of a full episode to reveal the gritty reality of the production line—where the machinery of research has officially stalled against the 20-foot powder of a corporate workload.We’re taking a tactical pause to

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78:19

Ep 36- When Manifest Destiny Meets 20 Feet of snow

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2026/03/24

In today’s class, we’re auditing the second act of the Donner-Reed disaster—the point where the "American Dream" officially completes its transformation into a cold-blooded calculation for survival. We’re dissecting the Forlorn Hope, a 37-day crawl through a frozen void that serves as the ultimate breakdown of human morality. We’re getting into the technical details of the "Lottery of Death" and the mechanical failure of the human body, from Antonio’s hand cooking in a campfire he couldn’t feel to

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72:42

Ep 35- The Logistics of the Lie: The Donner Party's...

4th Period U.S. History ·

2026/03/19

In today’s class, we’re opening the hood on the first half of the Donner-Reed disaster—the ultimate case study in the high cost of reckless ambition. We’re stripping away the "pioneer spirit" mythology to reveal the cold, mechanical failures that turned a luxury wagon train into a stationary biohazard. We start in Springfield, Illinois, where James Reed—an aristocrat in a prairie wagon—viewed the American West not as a refuge, but as a high-stakes investment. We’re dissecting the toxic optimism of

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64:52

Ep 34- How to kill a soul: Jackson and the Indian...

4th Period U.S. History ·

2026/03/17

In today’s class, we’re bridging the gap from the 1803 "land flip" to the 1830s reality of what that expansion actually cost. We’re moving past the sanitized, Cherokee-only version of the Trail of Tears to acknowledge the Choctaw, Chickasaw, Seminole, and Creek nations—peoples forced to march 5,045 miles across nine states in the dead of winter. This wasn't a "move"; it was a death march through untamed forests and frozen ground where hunting was forbidden and provisions were nonexistent. We’re

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49:38

EP 33-Science, Survival, and State-Sponsored Spying

4th Period U.S. History ·

2026/03/13

In today’s class, we’re taking the shine off the brass buttons of the Corps of Discovery. While your fourth-grade textbook framed Lewis and Clark as a couple of outdoorsy bros on a whimsical nature hike, we’re looking at the "between the lines" secret instructions Jefferson tucked into their gear. We’ll acknowledge that, sure, they found some new plants and drew some nice maps, but the primary mission was a dark, state-sponsored "ask." We’re diving into Jefferson’s letters to Meriwether Lewis to

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48:26

Ep 32- The $15 Million Hypocrisy: Jefferson’s Great...

4th Period U.S. History ·

2026/03/10

In today’s class, we’re dissecting the ultimate "do as I say, not as I do" moment in American history, brought to you by the man who wrote the Declaration of Independence but couldn't follow his own house rules. Before the Louisiana Purchase was a glossy chapter in your textbook, it was a messy geopolitical game of "hot potato" between France, Spain, and Britain. We’re tracking how this massive chunk of dirt was passed around like a participation trophy—from France to Spain as a "buffer" for their

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57:02

Ep 31- God, Gold, and Gastrointestinal Distress:...

4th Period U.S. History ·

2026/03/05

We open today’s session by staring directly into the sun of modern geopolitics. We’re breaking down the escalating tensions in Iran and the terrifying "what-if" scenarios that keep diplomats awake at night. More importantly, we’re calling out the current administration’s habit of treating the Constitution like a "suggested reading" list rather than a legal framework when it comes to foreign intervention. If you’ve been wondering how close we are to a global reset button, or why the executive branch

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52:25

Ep 30- The Marshall Blueprint: 6 Cases That Built a...

4th Period U.S. History ·

2026/03/04

Welcome back to the history class your local school board would probably try to banToday, we’re dissecting the tenure of John Marshall—the man who inherited a disjointed, homeless Supreme Court and single-handedly drafted the blueprint for a functional federal government. While modern corruption has certainly muddied the waters, we’re looking at the moment these six landmark cases actually provided the structural integrity a budding United States desperately needed to survive its own birth. This

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42:47

Ep 29- America’s Oldest Tradition: Panic

4th Period U.S. History ·

2026/02/04

Today’s class doesn’t explain the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798—it lets them run on instinct. If you aren’t a citizen and your country makes America nervous, you’re removable. If you write, speak, or publish anything the administration, Congress, or the courts don’t like, that’s not criticism—that’s sedition. Fear does the math, the law signs off, and suddenly repression looks like patriotism.Alien quietly becomes enemy, enemy becomes threat, and threat becomes policy. Japanese internment camps

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49:23

Ep 28-Honoring the Words, Questioning the Man:...

4th Period U.S. History ·

2026/01/29

Today we return to actual content and take on George Washington’s Farewell Address—the speech where America’s most untouchable founding father gently exits the stage while lecturing the nation on unity, restraint, and the future of this “great experiment” in democracy. It’s a vision of freedom, stability, and civic virtue… delivered by a man who still owned human beings. So yes, freedom—but very much with exceptions.We zero in on the final excerpt of the address, where Washington acknowledges that

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54:01

Ep 27- From Minneapolis to the National...

4th Period U.S. History ·

2026/01/28

This week in 4th Period U.S. History, we open with Minneapolis. Bovino removed. Noem removed. Public, forceful, and unmistakably clear. The rhetoric shifts fast when state violence stops being theoretical and starts affecting white, Second-Amendment-carrying Americans. This isn’t to diminish the seriousness of what happened—it’s to point out an uncomfortable truth: open-air executions, deportations of children, and the erosion of due process are not new. They are only newly visible to people who

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44:06

Ep 26- Taco Don Chickens Out & The ICE War in...

4th Period U.S. History ·

2026/01/23

This week on the pod we keep it real about what’s actually happening in the U.S.: a president lovingly nicknamed Taco Don proves once again that when push comes to shove, he chickens out — at least on invading Greenland, opting instead for some vague economic access “deal” that looks like a diplomatic shrug from Davos.We dive into the chaos unfolding in Minneapolis where a surge of ICE enforcement has sparked protests, shootings, and outrage — including a 37-year-old mother killed by an ICE agent,

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50:06

Ep 25- I don't recognize you anymore Lady...

4th Period U.S. History ·

2026/01/21

Today’s episode comes straight from the eye of the storm — no deep dive into historical context like usual, because the world isn’t waiting for us to be ready. I meant to record a prepared class, but life (a sick dog + a thrown-out back) had other plans — and honestly, the news these days is the class.We’re unpacking a world that feels completely untethered: from the latest in Minneapolis where Renee Good — a 37-year-old mother and poet — was shot and left unresponsive for minutes before medical

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60:33

Ep 24 - We Tried Chaos. It Didn’t Take

4th Period U.S. History ·

2026/01/16

In class this week we discuss that The Articles of Confederation were born out of fear—fear of kings, fear of centralized power, fear of ever recreating the thing the colonies had just finished bleeding to escape. What they produced instead was a government so loose, vague, and structurally hollow that it barely qualified as a government at all. No executive with teeth. No unified courts. No real way to tax, regulate, or enforce anything. Just a polite suggestion that thirteen very opinionated

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60:07

Ep 23- Built on Distrust...but in a good way

4th Period U.S. History ·

2026/01/13

Class this week is about the three branches of government, checks and balances, and the wildly optimistic assumption that everyone involved would respect the rules. We walk through how the legislative, executive, and judicial branches are supposed to check each other, why those checks exist, and why they were intentionally designed to slow things down. Delay wasn’t a mistake — it was the defense against bad laws, bad ideas, and bad people moving too fast.We dig into the uncomfortable truth that the

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