Join us as we try to work through the momentous events of the armed assault on the US Capital. We throw in a bit of historical perspective, but be aware we’re working through this like everyone else.
Episode 27 – January 6, 2021
Episode 26 – 2020 in Review
Join us as we recap and reflect on 2020. We discuss Iran, Black Lives Matter, COVID-19, the Presidential Election along with lighter fare. We also try to predict how future historians will view a year unlike most others. What will people 100 years from now say about the dumpster fire that was 2020?
Episode 25 – Christmas in America
Happy Holidays! Join us as we reminisce about Christmases long, long ago. We’ll discuss our personal stories as well as the broader story as to how Christmas became the most American of all holidays.
Episode 24 – The Third Amendment
After a fairly lengthy hiatus, our series on Constitutional Amendments is back! While the Third Amendment may seem irrelevant to the 21st century, join us as we discuss how it could potentially be used in the future. We also cover different ways to interpret the Constitution.
Episode 23 – The 1918 Pandemic
Join us as we discuss to differences and similarities between the H1N1 pandemic that swept the world after the Great War and the current Covid-19 crisis.
The Worst Presidents of All Time
This week we discuss the worst of the worst. Who were the worst presidents in US history and why? You may not agree with our choice; there’s certainly some disagreement between us, but its an interesting conversation full of presidential tidbits.
Thanksgiving
Join Hilary and Geoff as they discuss the origin of Thanksgiving, how it has changed over the last 400 years, and how it has be reconfigured as a secular/public holiday in the United States. We also delve into how the idea of Thanksgiving can over-simplify and white-wash Anglo-Indian relations in the 17th century.
PS – We also discuss out favorite Thanksgiving dishes.
Episode 20 – Women’s Suffrage
We’re back!
How did the Women’s Suffrage movement emerge in the United States? Why did it take decades to ratify the 19th Amendment? Join us this week to find out!
Something special!
So in the age of COVID 19 many educators and students have found themselves needing to use tools they are unfamiliar with. This series is designed to present a series of tools you can consider best-practice. By that I mean they are generally available across platforms and they emphasize your privacy and your ability to control what you do and do not share on the broader internet.
This episode is specifically focused on Web Browsers, Email Clients, and Web Hosting.
Here are the titles discussed in the video:
Firefox – https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/new/
Thunderbird – https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/
Reclaim Hosting – https://reclaimhosting.com/
Additionally, Captura and Kdenlive were both used to make this video. They are discussed in detail in Part 4 of this series.
Episode 18 – The American West – Part 1
Hilary and Geoff begin a two-part series on major issues in the history of the “American West.” What does that term mean? How has the west been imagined and conceived, both in the past and in the contemporary ways we discuss it? Who gets included and who gets left out of that history?
This is only part one of our discussion. Join us next time as we move into late-nineteenth and twentieth century ideas about the west.
