Any recommendations for good history podcasts?
I’m fed up with those two reactionaries on The Rest is History, can’t take Dalrymple flirting with Anand and find that Revolutions bloke completely soporific.
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Slowburn and Fiasco (Fiasco is by the guy who started Slowburn) are good if you’re in interested in recent history. The idea of both is they take something recent enough that you think remember (the Clinton-Lewinski scandal) it and give the bits you’ve forgotten that will make you think about it differently.
Throughline on NPR a is another good one, but again not a traditional history show. Instead it takes relatively current issues and then digs in to the history of the issue to offer an argument for how we got to where we are. For example just recently it did a really good 4 parter on US-Iranian relations because our support for Israel bombing them. This one is pretty liberal so sometimes the episodes can be like “Insulin is expensive because of racism - how the US crushing the slave revolt in Haiti 200 years ago affected insulin prices today”
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