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AskHistorians Podcast 115 - The Friends They Loathed - Quaker Religion and Persecution in the American Revolution Jul 06, 2018

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Today we talk with /u/UncoveredHistory, better known as Jason Aglietti. He is a public librarian in Baltimore and he just finished his Master's thesis from University of Maryland Baltimore County, where he wrote and defended his thesis The Friends They Loathed: The Persecution of Maryland Quakers During the Revolutionary War.

Jason will tell us all about the lives of the Quakers in the American colonies from their founding to their persecution in the revolutionary war. This is NOT the history you usually hear about the revolutionary war, and Jason gives us a lot of new things to think about!

Finding The Maryland 400, the history project Jason worked on and talks about can be found here. Jason's blog is here.

Discussion thread.

AskHistorians Podcast 114 - Tribes, Tribalism, and Nationality in Africa w/Commustar Jun 23, 2018

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Today we talk with Max (AKA u/Commustar on Reddit) about tribes, tribalism, and nationality in Africa.

You can find the discussion thread here.

AskHistorians Podcast 113 - The History of Medicine, Diagnosis, and the Body with Dr. Adam Rodman of Bedside Rounds Jun 08, 2018

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Today on the AskHistorians Podcast we are joined by Dr Adam Rodman of the BedsideRounds Podcast! Prepare for the ultimate crossover episode as we discuss the history of the body, of medicine, and of physicians. This is a great episode and please enjoy it, love it, rate and review it!

You can find Adam @AdamRodmanMD and his podcast at http://bedside-rounds.org/.

Discussion thread is here.

AskHistorians Podcast 112 - Eye of the Tsar May 25, 2018

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Today we're talking about the ways in which 17th and 18th century Russia gathered intelligence on the Far East with Professor Gregory Afinogenov, who is currently Assistant Professor of Russian Imperial History at the University of Georgetown.

He's on Twitter as @athenogenes.

AskHistorians Podcast 111 -- Speak Ill of the Dead -- Early Modern English Death Culture and the Epitaph May 11, 2018

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Today we are joined by /u/amandycat, who is flaired on AskHistorians as Early Modern English Death Culture, which has to be one of the more stark and interesting flairs we have on the subreddit. She is better known to her friends and family as Amanda Brunton, a PhD student at Anglia Ruskin University in the UK. Today we discuss all sorts of interesting and morbid things, like deaths, funerals, and how people liked to talk shade about the dead. An hour on the culture and history surrounding death and death culture in Early Modern England and it's not even Halloween!

AskHistorians Podcast 110 - Marxist Historiography and Contemporary Academia with w/CommieSpaceInvader Apr 28, 2018

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In today's episode we talk with u/CommieSpaceInvader about Marxist historiography and contemporary academia. This episode isn't a systematic analysis of the Marxist school within History so much as it is a broader reflection on the evolution of Marxist historiography and the ways it is perceived in contemporary academia and beyond.

The AskHistorians Podcast 109 - Dunkirk - The Dawn of the Second World War Apr 13, 2018

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Today we are joined by a member from the AskHistorians Community, /u/Coinsinmyrocket, flaired as Mid-20th Century Military | Naval History . He is joining us today to talk about the Phoney War, which touches on Dunkirk but also surrounds several of the events around it. Also included: discussion about the recent *Dunkirk* movie!

Discussion thread here

AskHistorians Podcast 108 - Poor Whites in the Antebellum American South Mar 31, 2018

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Today we chat with Dr. Keri Leigh Merritt about the topic of her new book, Masterless Men: Poor Whites and Slavery in the Antebellum South (Cambridge University Press, 2017).

Dr. Merritt is on Twitter as @KeriLeighMerrit and her professional website is https://kerileighmerritt.com.

You can join the discussion on the subreddit here.

The AskHistorians Podcast 107 - The Bigfoot Story - Origins, Legends, and Speculation Mar 16, 2018

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Today we are lucky to be joined by /u/depanneur, who is flaired on AskHistorians as Pre-Norman Ireland & European Fascism until 1945. He is better known to his friends and family as Pat Reed, and he is a Masters Student at the National University of Ireland, Galway, in Medieval Studies. Today's episode is a superb micro history of a macro topic-Bigfoot. Where does he come from? Where does he go? The world has questions but our guest today has answers.

Discussion thread is here.

AskHistorians Podcast 106 - Marijuana in the USA: Between Legalization and Criminalization Mar 02, 2018

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Today we talk with Dr. Emily Dufton, author of Grass Roots: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Marijuana in America. We talk about the decades long struggle between proponents of legalizing marijuana and those who defend laws criminalizing its possession and use. (56 min)

You can find our guest on Twitter as @emily_dufton.

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