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Ep 65: Christmas Traditions - From Odin to Krampus Dec 23, 2020

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Taking a brief break from our regular programming, Josh and Henry discuss some of the obscure origins of winter traditions practiced during the holiday season and discover what a weird, pagan amalgamation of a holiday Christmas actually is. Ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho oh oh oh oho ho ho ho ho ho h oh ho ho ho ho ho h oh oh oh ho oh oh oh help me.

Ep 64: Chief Joseph - the Moses of the Mountains Dec 16, 2020

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How far could you run before your legs gave out? Our subject today is Chief Joseph, who served as the spiritual and civilian leader of his people during what's known as the Flight of the Nez Perce, a four-month migration from their homeland to Canada during which they were pursued relentlessly by the US army, which was baffled and evaded at nearly every turn.

Ep 63: Crazy Horse - Champion of the Great Plains Dec 09, 2020

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What lengths would you go to to defend your homeland? In this episode, we cover the life and tragic death of Crazy Horse, a Lakota patriot and warrior whose tactical ingenuity, concern for his people's plight and, perhaps above all, his bravery compelled him to resist the settler invasion, first under Red Cloud and then under Sitting Bull, culminating in the stunning indigenous victory at Little Bighorn.

Ep 62: Red Cloud - Whirlwind of the West Dec 02, 2020

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The only war the US ever lost was Vietnam right? Wrong. In this episode, we study the origins of the frontier hostilities of the 1860s, a few of the tactics in the US' expansive arsenal of legal tricks and how this indigenous warrior coordinated, organized and oversaw a protracted guerrilla war against the US and won.

Ep 61: James P. Beckwourth - The Manumitted Mountain Lion Nov 25, 2020

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Born enslaved, James Beckwourth is easily one of the most accomplished mountain men that ever lived. Once free, he forayed into the West, became chief of the Crow people and played a role in such notable yet commonly undiscussed historical events such as the War of 1812, the Second Seminole War, the California Revolution, the Mexican American War and Red Cloud's War. Westward-Ho!

Ep 60: Indian Removal / The Trail of Tears Nov 18, 2020

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"This land is your land, this land is my land," but it isn't though, is it? In this episode, we examine the origins and evolution of the US' policy of Indian Removal from roughly 1810 to 1840, unveil the unsurprising reasons why white Southerners wanted native lands, and talk about what the removal process meant in practice.

Ep 59: Tecumseh and Tenskwatawa - The War Chief and the Prophet Nov 11, 2020

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Have Ohio and Indiana ever actually been interesting places? Not for many, many moons. Join us as we explore the original American frontier, where a pan-native religious revival movement seized almost the entire Northwest territory, Britain and America had a rematch, and a true warrior was born beneath a shooting star.

Ep 58: Sacagawea - Opening the Frontier Nov 04, 2020

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Was Sacagawea merely a passive figure wrangled into serving an outsider’s agenda, or was she active in influencing and shaping the events around her? Josh and Henry open the West by examining an under-utilized and potentially controversial source that sheds light on some hereto unknown details of her story.

Ep 57: Marie Laveau - Voodoo Queen of New Orleans Oct 28, 2020

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Do certain elements of voodoo contain a 19th century classist critique? How did Marie Laveau establish herself as one of the most influential women in her city despite the entrenched racial prejudices of Southern society? What Saint should you invoke if your man just stops trying? All this and more on this episode of Hard Fried History.

Ep 56: Ghosts of Hiroshima - August 6th, 1945 Oct 21, 2020

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The decision to drop the atomic bomb on Japan is one of the most consequential decisions in human history. But what did the landscape of Hiroshima to those inside of the blast zone? In an extremely graphic episode, Josh and Henry comb through survivors accounts of that horrid day and briefly examine the circumstances that led to that fateful decision.

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