Distorted History Podcast

By Distorted History Podcast

I'm a history teacher and musician and every other week I cover a topic from American history ranging from the important to the cultural to the weird and unusual. Also once a month I produce a bonus e... more

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Distorted History Podcast episodes:

May 17, 2025 The Labor Uprising of 1877 Part 1
The year 1877 saw workers across the country rise up in defiance as a massive strike effort swept across the nation.

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1h 32min
May 10, 2025 Blues and the Mississippi Flood of 1927 Part 3 Backwater Rising
Unusual weather starting in the summer of 1926 pours a huge amount of water in the Mississippi valley. This soon leads to flooding displacing people from their homes and the creation of blues songs illustrating these experiences.

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33min
May 03, 2025 Fossil Wars Part 4 The Feud Goes Public (Finale)
After years of back and forth the feud between paleontologists Edward Drinker Cope and OC Marsh erupts onto the front page of one of the most widely read newspapers in the nation.

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1h 28min
April 19, 2025 Fossil Wars Part 3 Dinosaurs
The bitter feud between paleontologists OC Marsh and Edward Drinker Cope enters its most famous phase as they compete over a treasure trove of never before seen massive dinosaur bones.

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1h 22min
April 12, 2025 Sound Stories: Blues and the Mississippi Flood of 1927 Part 2 Levees Only
A rivalry over who should have control over the Mississippi results in more decisions being made that would make the 1927 flood all but inevitable.

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39min
April 05, 2025 Fossil Wars Part 2 The feud heats up in the west
As both paleontologists Edward Drinker Cope and OC Marsh head west to discover fossils their once friendly rivalry begins to take a decidedly ugly turn.

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1h 21min
March 22, 2025 Fossil Wars Part 1 Friends?
Paleontologists OC Marsh and Edward Drinker Cope started out seemingly as friends. Men who were exploring a whole new area of scientific study However the pair soon would become the bitterest of rivals.

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1h 1min
March 15, 2025 Sound Stories: Blues and the Mississippi Flood of 1927 Part 1 Causes
The Mississippi flood of 1927 may be little remembered today but it left a tremendous impact on American history and American culture. Which is illustrated by the fact that some 50 Blues songs were written about the flood and its impact. Through this series I will use some of these Blues songs to illustrate life in this disaster. Yet first we have to examine the causes of this disaster which as it turns out are very much man made.

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32min
March 08, 2025 Nat Turner's Revolt Part 3 Backlash and Conspiracies
Nat Turner tries desperately to hold his rebellion together and over throw slavery but time is quickly running out.

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1h 10min
February 22, 2025 Nat Turner's Revolt Part 2 Uprising
With his rebellion now underway Nat Turner and his co-conspirators look to grow their army as they seek to kill every slave holder they can find and ultimately put an end to the vile system for good.

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1h 4min

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