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Beginning with a reorientation to our habitat on earth, a short history of fossil fuels, their rise, impact and how to start doing something.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This episode features cinematic sound. The incredible true story of working class hero Patrick Lyon vs greedy bankers, dirty politicians, a pandemic, and a corrupt criminal justice system. No, this isn't about 2023. It was 1798. Pat Lyon's stor
The incredible story of what makes the Statue of Liberty so truly representative of America.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This challenging episode covers the roots of our identity crisis in “whiteness,” the flag, the anthem, the statue and the dream.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This episode features cinematic sound. Ben Lay was under 4 feet tall with a hunched back. He was an outcast from the quaker community. A hardened and experienced sailor, sailing the toughest waters, in the most challenging era of modern history
The almost universally unknown "ghost" who wrote the final draft of the U.S. constitution had some revelatory opinions about the failures of the new republican government to maintain liberty and honor. His critiques are as applicable now, as th
The 300K year history of eating healthy, the shift into treating food as junk, and the result.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Readings from Founding Fathers of Freedom: Martin Luther King Jr, Malcolm X, and James Baldwin on the corruption of the church, the post-racial myth, and the loss of Malcolm and Martin.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adcho
A few billionaire-owned monopolies use unregulated secret algorithms to govern our entire experience of the digital world. It's reminiscent of how big tobacco genetically engineered their crops to have twice the nicotine levels. But this time t
The battle between slavers, anti-slavers and opportunists drove the geographic borders of the nation, its economy and its culture.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
We'd consider it tyranny to let one person decide who we see and what we do in in Boston Common. Why is it ok in our digital common? What if social media platforms were standardized to enable inter-network communication? Like our cell phones?L
MLK was a founding father of American freedom. Prior to the late 1960s, not all citizens could vote. His voting rights act was to be just the beginning... King described the social acceptance of poverty "as cruel and blind as the practice of ca
Victor Ochoa was a gunslinger, an inventor of airplanes, a wind turbine, and the pocket protector. He was a revolutionary, a friend of President Teddy Roosevelt, and wanted by the Mexican government, dead or alive. Ochoa's ancestors came from T
To the vast majority of America, the identity of the 35 year old man who wrote the U.S. constitution is a secret, hidden in plain sight. Knowing the identity of "The Ghost" changes the entire way we understand the nation and its character, both
Charles Dickens describes the utter insanity of the US House of Representatives just prior to the US civil war in this rivetting reading of an excerpt from Jill Lepore's "These Truths" - my top recommendation for a general US history book.
“America Hater”? There’s a lot of silliness being spread around like “teachers are teaching kids to hate America!...when they’re told about some of the terrible things that have been done to Americans... by other Americans. The premise is prepo
We often talk about Dr. King but rarely about his full agenda.
The symbol of the Unites States represents something truly profound.
In many ways the U.S. constitution stopped the revolution, before it unseated the authority of those who started it. Here's to new beginnings, deeper understandings, greater compassion and a renewed committed to progress.
In many ways the U.S. constitution stopped the revolution, before it unseated the authority of those who started it. Here's to new beginnings, deeper understandings, greater compassion and a renewed committed to progress.
Our modern image of Santa and the character of Scrooge are icons of Christmas that were born of the era of the civil war and workers rights. Charles Dickens and Thomas Nast were artists in service to human values.
American slavery was different, as is our true independence day. Tracing roots of evil back to Nathaniel Bacon and George Washington's Great-Grandfather John Washington, 100 years before 1776.
A free press works for human values. And it can never afford to quit. William Lloyd Garrison was one of our free press founding fathers. He showed us the power of speaking with integrity for the good of our whole American family.Universal votin
She helped lead America to its 2nd Independence Day. She was an inspiration to social reformers everywhere. And she took the women's movement to a whole new level. Her name was Truth.
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