Ep. 0121: Ravenous: A Dangerous History Movie Review
In the spirit of the season, in this episode CJ reviews the 1999 film Ravenous, a horror movie about cannibalism on the American frontier in the heyday of Manifest Destiny in the mid-nineteenth...
View ArticleEp. 0056: Fun with Fascism!
This is not a historical narrative of any particular fascist regime or regimes. Instead, it’s an exploration of what fascism — arguably the most slippery of modern “isms” to define — really is. Join...
View ArticleEp. 122: Principal Ruffian & Chief Among Plunderers: The Norman Conquest of...
In 1066, the course of English history was dramatically altered, as the realm was conquered by Normans from across the Channel. Join CJ as he discusses: Some backstory on Medieval England &...
View ArticleEp. 0123: 2016 DHP Halloween Special, Part 1
(BTW, the picture above is CJ’s Jack o’ Lantern from 2014, lovingly hand-carved using only good old-fashioned knives, no namby-pamby power tools.) I love holidays, and Halloween is probably my favorite...
View ArticleEp. 0124: 2016 Election Day Special: The American Civil Religion
Ever get the sense that the government and politics in the United States is kinda cult-y? If so, CJ thinks your spidey sense is justifiably tingling, and what you’re picking up on is the phenomenon...
View ArticleEp. 0125: Listener Emails #6
LOOOOOOOOOONG overdue for one of these, so here it is, and extra-plus-sized to compensate for lost time. Join CJ as he shares & responds to messages from listeners on: More thoughts on the...
View ArticleEp. 0126: The Story of Squanto
Tisquantum (or Squanto, as he’s better known today) was a Patuxet Indian with an incredible, complex life story that very few people have an inkling of today; and when you look at the story of early...
View ArticleEp. 0001: Intro to Prof CJ’s Dangerous History Podcast
Join Prof CJ as he discusses: Who is Prof CJ? The pluses and minuses of working in academia The ‘What’ and ‘Why’ of the Dangerous History Podcast Applying the guerrilla mindset to things other than...
View ArticleEp. 0002: Prof CJ’s Approach to History, Part I
Join Prof CJ as he discusses: Some interesting/important quotes that relate to his approach His personal intellectual journey Why Prof CJ is disappointed with most mainstream history Using Cynical...
View ArticleEp. 0003: Prof CJ’s Approach to History, Part II
Ep. 0003: Prof CJ’s Approach to History, Part II Join Prof CJ as he discusses: More detail on his Iron Triangle of Money, Power & Violence
View ArticleEp. 0004: The Fall of Rome and its Aftermath
Ah, yes, a big, grand, sweeping overview of several centuries for our first historical narrative/analysis podcast! (This one starts in the car and continues at the home office, so the audio quality...
View ArticleEp. 0005: Fall of Rome Follow-Up
Normally, this show will be Mondays & Thursdays, but here’s a half-size-or-slightly-less follow up to yesterday’s episode on the Fall of Rome & its Aftermath, with a little more elaboration on...
View ArticleEp. 0006 The “Large Policy”
How did the United States go from being a country that, in the words of then-Secretary of State (and future President) John Quincy Adams in 1821, “goes not abroad in search of monsters to destroy,” to...
View ArticleEp. 0007: The Spanish-American War
Join Prof CJ as he discusses: How tensions between the US and Spain over Cuba escalated in 1898, giving the Large Policy clique (covered in our last episode) the opportunity they’d been waiting for...
View ArticleEp. 0008: The Philippines War, Part I
I started off intending this to be a single episode, but after working on it for only a short while, I realized it was going to take two to get through everything I wanted to say about this war. This...
View ArticleEp. 0009: The Philippines War, Part II
Here it is — part II of Prof CJ’s take on the American war against the Filipinos. Join Prof CJ as he discusses: How Americans had little to no sympathy for Filipinos The ‘pacification’ of the island of...
View ArticleEp. 0010: The Myth of Reagan
Ah, the Gipper! He reversed (or at least significantly slowed) the growth of the post-New Deal/Great Society Leviathan federal government in the US, right? I mean, he sure did take a rhetorical ax to...
View ArticleEp. 0011: DHP Hero: Karl Hess
From time to time, I’m going to cover some people I see as Heroes and Villains. These will be individuals whom I find very intriguing (and therefore think/hope you’ll find them intriguing as well),...
View ArticleEp. 0012: American Progressivism (c. 1890s-1920)
Here we’re going to dig into the beliefs of the original American Progressives (c. 1890s-1920), and we’ll see that they’re a bit different (and more troubling, if you happen to support things like...
View ArticleEp. 0013: Artifacts of American Progressivism
Those early American Progressives we talked about last time left the United States with a lot of physical and cultural artifacts that seem omnipresent through to today. Many things that Americans take...
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