Podcast Categories: History

Learn Something New Today is a weekly podcast for curious people who refuse to stay uninformed. Hosted by historian and cultural storyteller Anthony Modesto Milian, each episode breaks down one idea, person, or overlooked moment in history that helps explain the world we live in now. From Black and Puerto Rican history to politics, culture, media, and power, this show delivers sharp storytelling without fluff. Short, intentional episodes designed for real life. Press play, stay curious, and learn something new today.

A limited podcast series about the politics of immigration, faith as radical hospitality, and the borders between church and state.

In the spring of 1982, six faith communities in Arizona and California declared themselves places of safe harbor for hundreds of thousands of Salvadorans and Guatemalans that had been denied legal proceedings for political asylum in the U.S. Alleging that immigration officials had intentionally miscategorized Central Americans as ‘economic migrants’ in order to accelerate their deportation, humanitarian organizations, legal advocates, and religious bodies sought alternatives for aid within their faiths’ scriptural teachings and the juridical parameters offered by international and national human rights and refugee law. Known as the Sanctuary Movement, this decade-long interfaith mobilization spurred congressional action in support of Central American asylees by the 1990s and served as the model for a renewed movement for sanctuary in support of undocumented Americans in the twenty-first century.

Every episode in the series draws upon extensive archival data from across the country in order to offer new interpretations of the Sanctuary Movement and introduce public audiences to the primary voices and sources within the faith communities and grassroots organizations at its core. To date, there is no resource that provides a reliable and relevant examination of the movement from the 1980s to the present. “Sanctuary: On the Border Between Church and State” proposes to do exactly this and thus chart new directions for one of the nation’s most confrontational religious movements. 

Produced by the Institute for Religion, Media, and Civic Engagement. Generous support provided by the Henry Luce Foundation. Additional support was given by the American Academy of Religion and Amherst College.

Creators: Dr. Lloyd Barba (Faculty, Amherst College) and Dr. Sergio Gonzalez (Faculty, Marquette University)

Executive Producer: Dr. Bradley Onishi

Sound Engineer and Score: Scott Okamoto

Production Assistance: Kari Onishi

Distributed by Axis Mundi Media

There’s something profoundly universal about the stories of Utah’s Dixie, and anyone who lives here should know those stories intimately. This podcast cuts to the core of the Dixie Spirit by sharing the writings of Lyman Hafen in his own voice, and interviews with men and women who possess the stories and carry the authentic voice of this singular place.
The shoulders we stand on are broad and strong. They are the shoulders of the Southern Paiute, the Latter-day Saint Pioneers and countless others. There is so much about them and this place to be remembered, they are Not Forgotten.

Never Mind The Dambusters…It’s The Bomber Command Podcast!

Join historians and authors Jane Gulliford Lowes and James Jefferies as they delve into the world of RAF Bomber Command during the Second World War. In this weekly podcast  (episodes released every Wednesday), Jane and James explore strategy, policy, and the events which shaped one of the most controversial campaigns of the war.  

Despite their iconic status, Bomber Command’s history extends far beyond the famed Dambusters raid of 1943 and the Avro Lancaster. Through insightful discussions, expert analysis of the strategic bombing campaign and first hand accounts by veterans and civilians on the ground, Never Mind the Dambusters offers listeners a comprehensive exploration of Bomber Command’s operations and the diverse aircraft it employed, as well as tackling some tough topics.

Jane and James will be joined by leading academics, historians, aircraft enthusiasts, technicians and engineers and veterans’ family members. Expect  discussions on relevant books and films and  a spotlight on a different aircraft in each episode. Please send in your questions to us on X (twitter) at @RAFBomber_Pod and on Instagram at @NeverMindTheDambusters. You can email the show at nmtdambusters@gmail.com, and continue the conversations in our Facebook group. 

Never Mind the Dambusters Merchandise is now available at https://never-mind-the-dambusters.teemill.com/

Your weekly mission briefing for all things intelligence, counterintelligence, and espionage. We will discuss spies and spying in pop culture, history, and current events.

Your host, Justin, is a 17 year Intelligence Community veteran and spy enthusiast. He is joined by a rotating cast of co-hosts, special guests, and interviewees.

Theme Music: Pop Goes the Weasel by Kevin McCleod. Licensed under Creative Commons. https://filmmusic.io/song/4230-pop-goes-the-weasel

Less Radical is the story of Dr. Bernie Fisher, the surgeon-scientist who not only revolutionized breast cancer treatment, but also fundamentally changed the way we understand all cancers. He was an unlikely hero– a Jewish kid from Pittsburgh who had to make it past antisemitic quotas to get into med school. And the thanks he received for his discoveries? A performative, misguided Congressional hearing that destroyed his reputation and haunted him until his death.
Over six episodes, radiation oncologist Dr. Stacy Wentworth will take you into operating rooms, through the halls of Congress, and into the labs where breakthrough cancer treatments were not only developed, but discovered.
If you or someone you know has had breast cancer, Bernie is a part of your story– and you’re a part of his.

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The Dig’s mini-series on Arab radicalism in the 20th century.
Across hours of finely detailed inquiry, Daniel Denvir and Abdel Razzaq Takriti chart the emergence and evolution of revolutionary currents in the Mashriq, including nationalism, Nasserism, Ba’athism, communism, and Islamism-set in the context of imperialist power politics and predation. Every episode emphasizes the critical history of the Nakba and the Palestinian national liberation struggle which have decisively shaped the region -and, obviously, continue to do so today. This pod is an ideal resource for academic courses, activist political education, and anyone interested in better understanding the making of the modern Middle East.

Welcome to The Pillars: Jerusalem, Athens, and the Western Mind, a podcast that tells the story of the prophets, philosophers, and poets who created the West.

In this podcast, Rabbi Dr. Mitchell Rocklin guides listeners through more than 3,000 years of Western history, offering a coherent, civilizational story of how the West came to be—along with a deepened understanding of the challenges it now faces. While many of the texts discussed will be familiar to students of the humanities, Rabbi Rocklin offers a new framework for understanding them—a framework in which the teachings of the Jewish religious tradition play a central role. For, as Rabbi Rocklin explains, Western civilization can only be understood as the product of a transformative and ongoing collision between the great traditions of Jerusalem and Athens—between the religious spirit of the Jews and the philosophical spirit of the Greeks.

They’ve seen an interstate cut their once-thriving neighborhood in half. They’ve seen their community cut off from the commercial and cultural engines of the city. They’ve seen racialized terror visited on their own backyards. But through it all, they’ve fought to hold onto the place they love.

We Are North Nashville: The Podcast is about the lives of elders who call North Nashville home, in their own words. It’s about the ways the elders have kept joy alive in their neighborhood in spite of all the challenges it has faced. It’s about the history that newcomers to the city don’t always know, or even think to ask about. It’s about walking the streets and still seeing the way people held this place together, even when city planners set about ripping it apart.

This is a show about North Nashville. It’s also a story about the United States, where Black communities have been cut apart, razed and deprived for generations in the name of progress that does not include them. More importantly, We Are North Nashville is what happens when the people who live history get to tell it.

• Hosted by M. Simone Boyd and Andrea Tudhope
• Produced, edited and mixed by Andrea Tudhope
• Original music by S-Wrap
• Additional production by Steve Haruch

Dan Smith (Bastille) and Emma Nagouse (You’re Dead To Me) discuss the people in the songs on Dan’s new project, Ampersand. Each episode is a conversation about history, music, mythology and popular culture, and how those things overlap.

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