Beste Documents podcaster (2024)

I talk to Simon Healy about early modern money: the currency and coins, wages and free dinners, how big a loaf of bread is, bullion smuggling and bribing politicians.

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Ep 2:3 In search of the sound of the past 45:49

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I talk to Dr Katie McKeogh about how music was first printed, what that did to how people heard and played music, and how we can trace this story in the libraries where their music books have come to rest. And about finding slanderous gossip in the margins of contraband liturgy books.Av lau20

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Ep 2:2 Blood thicker than water? 46:39

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Family, religious conflict, and what to do when your outlawed cousin/brother/son rings your doorbell. This episode explores how family networks and the ties of kinship shaped Catholic resistance in Protestant England.Av lau20

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Ep 2:1: And the joke is on...? 30:09

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Children's antics and domestic theatre in the 1660s, as William Blundell - Lancashire gentleman, Royalist solider, recusant, amateur antiquarian - writes play-scrips for his children in which they make fun of him behind his back...Many thanks for my brother, daughter and nieces for lending their dramatic talents to bring the Blundells to life! Epis…

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Sumerian Complaint Tablet, c1750 BCE

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Oldest Known Galaxy, 13+ billion years ago

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Ep 1:4 Whose past is it anyway? St Alban and Recusants 38:39

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Alban - first known Christian in Britain, executed by the Romans for hiding a priest. Recusants - shorthand for English Catholics who rejected the Protestant Reformation, and occasionally got executed for hiding priests. This episode is about fights over who owns history, school plays in the 1600s, and naming your kids after prisons.…

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Mètre des Archives (original standard meter), 1799

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Ep 1:3 Elections in James I's England: How to get into Parliament and why on earth you'd want to 52:49

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Elections in the 1600s: Elections by show of hands, votes for saltpans, and did women vote? I talk to Dr Simon Healy about how Members of Parliament were chosen in Tudor & Stuart England, why people stood for Parliament, who got to vote, where, and why, and how elections were run.Av lau20

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Ep 1:2 Lady Falkland According to Her Daughters: Seventeenth-century parenting, autism and reconciliation 26:16

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Elizabeth Cary, Lady Falkland, lived from 1586-1639. She was a writer and translator, was seen as eccentric, was a Catholic convert when it wasn't strictly legal - and may have been autistic. Her "Life", composed and preserved by her daughters, records her struggles to be an intellectual woman, a Catholic, and a mother - and their struggles to be d…

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Episode 1:1 How to be a Dissident: Putting the Law on Trial 38:23

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If you are a dissident who wants to uphold the Law, while breaking unjust laws, what do you do? Especially when you’re on trial for breaking a law you don’t believe in. This episode is about some examples of what you might do, from Catholics in Elizabethan England.Av lau20

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Egyptian "Book of the Dead", c1600 BCE

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Emily Post's Etiquette, 1922

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Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1948

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Alastair Calhoun gets really started on his long term camping trip in the Appalachia wilderness. Transcript Credits Rain sounds Campfire sounds

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Electoral College Documents, 2020

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World's Fair Time Capsule, 1938

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Articles of Impeachment, 1868

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Code of Hammurabi, c1754 BCE

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Eurovision/European Broadcast Union Statutes, 1950

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Resolution on Imperialism and Colonialism 3:58

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The All-African People’s Conference was a series of meetings of anti-imperialism political parties, leaders of various ethnic groups, labor union representatives, and anyone else who believed Africa should be returned to the communities from which the European powers took it. This document contains excerpts from the resolution drafted by the Confer…

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A Brief History of Pan-Africanism 4:45

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The ‘New Internationalist Magazine’ is a British nonprofit publishing cooperative. This text contains excerpts pertaining to the history of and issues related to Pan-Africanism. One prominent debate among historians is the issue over whether the decolonization that occurred during the Cold War was caused by structural issues in the imperial nations…

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IRS Form 1040, 1914

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The Struggle for Independence in South Asia 6:41

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Trevor Getz is a Professor of History at San Francisco State University who specializes in Modern Africa and world history. This excerpt describes issues facing South Asian countries as they struggled to obtain independence.

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Excerpt 3 of The Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine (1904) 1:03

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The Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine - President Theodore Roosevelt’s Annual Message Before Congress December 6th 1904 (abridged)

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The Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine - President Theodore Roosevelt’s Annual Message Before Congress December 6th 1904 (abridged)

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Excerpt 1 of The Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine (1904) 1:04

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The Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine - President Theodore Roosevelt’s Annual Message Before Congress December 6th 1904 (abridged)

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Hyphenated American 2:30

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Former President Theodore Roosevelt, October 12, 1915, before the Knights of Columbus, Carnegie Hall, New York City

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Americanization: Historical Context 0:54

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The idea of Americanization emerged in the early 20th century in the period just before WWI. During this time, a huge influx of immigrants from Southern and Eastern Europe were arriving on America's shores. From the 1890s until the mid 1920s, over 22 million Europeans immigrated to the US from places like Italy, Greece, and Poland. Many Americans w…

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Industrialization: Historical Context 0:39

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“Between the end of the Civil War and the early 20th century, the United States underwent one of the most rapid and profound economic revolutions any country has experienced. There were numerous causes for this explosive economic growth. The country enjoyed abundant natural resources, a growing supply of labor, an expanding market for manufactured …

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Urbanization: Historical Context 1:22

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If one thing characterized early 20th century cities, it was their immigrant character. The “new immigration” from southern and eastern Europe had begun around 1890 but reached its peak during the Progressive era. Between 1901 and the outbreak of World War I in Europe in 1914, some 13 million immigrants came to the United States, the majority from …

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Processing into America: Historical Context 1:09

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Between 1885 and 1920, approximately 21,000,000 immigrants arrived in America. Roughly 75 percent (75%) of them entered through New York Bay and were processed at Ellis Island after the immigration station opened in 1892. The arrival of immigrants from new parts of the world brought fears of new diseases and new germs being introduced to the United…

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Assimilation Versus Acculturation: Historical Context 1:30

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Assimilation is when a minority group adopts the beliefs, culture, and way of life of the dominant culture. During the 1890s-1900s Americans wanted the “new” immigrants to stop following their old culture and beliefs, such as religion, traditions, and customs, and instead adopt the ideals and characteristics of Americans to create one homogenous cu…

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Document B - Interview with Louis T 1:35

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Hilda Polacheck, a WPA writer, interviewed Louis T. in June 1939 as part of the Federal Writers’ Project in the 1930’s. Louis T. was a Polish Jew. Below is an excerpt from the interview, which can be found in American Life Histories: Manuscripts from the Federal Writers’ Project, 1936-1940.

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Document A - Description of Chinese Living Conditions 1:05

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This excerpt describes the difficulty and scarcity of living in China. Many Chinese immigrated to the United States because of poor living conditions in China and lack of opportunities.