CZM Book Club: The Comet, by W.E.B. Du B...

Margaret interviews ancient historian Christopher B. Zeichmann about all the wild stuff happening in the ancient world and confirms her guesses about Spartacus and the Third Servile WarSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. 

Margaret continues her talk with Courtney Kocak about the potentially million-strong alliance of Black farmers who built up a cooperative economics in the post-war American South Sources: https://greekcitytimes.com/2025/02/07/the-helots-a-labour-force/https://www.lucyparsonsproje ... Show More

Margaret talks to Courtney Kocak about the potentially million-strong alliance of Black farmers who built up a cooperative economics in the post-war American South Sources https://greekcitytimes.com/2025/02/07/the-helots-a-labour-force/https://www.lucyparsonsproject.com/writings/ ... Show More

<p>Aphra Behn was a true original. Not only was she the first woman to earn a living by writing, she was also a spy, a political propagandist and a revolutionary. Publicly she was all brash sexuality and outspoken politics, but what is known about the woman beneath? Professor ... Show More

How do we decide who the most significant people in our history are? Whose story is worth telling? In this episode, I’m joined by Eoin Kinsella, managing editor of the Dictionary of Irish Biography, to explore how he and the team behind this remarkable resource tell the story of ... Show More

<p>Today's special guest is the researcher and museum worker Indigo Dunphy-Smith, who is bringing her expertise to the case of Marianne Woods and Jane Pirie, two Edinburghian school teachers who found themselves embroiled in a sex scandal and court case in the early years of the ... Show More

Originally aired June 2022 Robert is joined by Matt Lieb to discuss Harlon Carter and NRA. SOURCES: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.dallasnews.com/news/2018/04/27/meet-the-2-texans-who-took-over-the-nra-and-made-the-gun-rights-group-a-feared-and-powerful-force/%3foutputType=amp ... Show More

Garrison explains how Tucker Carlson’s interview with Nick Fuentes sparked infighting between the Heritage Foundation and Ben Shapiro, and the growing influence of America First branded antisemitism in the Republican Party. Sources: https://x.com/jasonahart/status/198533871379117 ... Show More

<p>In a groundbreaking investigation into the poisoning of Sergei Skripal, journalism group Bellingcat exposed previously unknown details of the Salisbury Poisonings that blew the case wide open. Journalist and Bellingcat founder Elliot Higgins and host Charlie Higson explore whe ... Show More

Heather Radke joins Jordan to talk about Butts: A Backstory, the playful invitation of the book's title, the general unruliness of bodies, and the joys of a JSTOR deep-dive.MENTIONED:Jodie Foster's Coppertone ad"Baby Got Back," Sir Mix-a-lotElizabeth Alexander's "The Venus Hotten ... Show More

In 1973, just two people attended the lonely funeral of May O’Callaghan, an Irish emigrant in North London. Few could have imagined that this quiet woman from Wexford had once stood at the very heart of Soviet power. In the 1920s, May O’Callaghan worked in the Kremlin as the Sovi ... Show More

Robert tells Jack about the 'rescue' of Eliza Fraser and how her lies about what happened on K'gari Island helped to fuel decades of colonial war and genocide.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. 

<p>Today we uncover an invisible killer hidden, for over a hundred years, by reasonable disbelief. Science journalist extraordinaire Carl Zimmer tells us the story of a centuries-long battle of ideas that came to a head, with tragic consequences, in the very recent past. His late ... Show More