This episode introduces the discipline of ethnohistory, a method combining anthropology and history, to recover Indigenous perspectives and understand the cultural complexity and sophistication of Native societies in the face of European colonization. With an understanding of how we are going to engage with the historical materials, we will begin to consider early encounters between Native Americans and European colonizers from a North American and Atlantic perspective, emphasizing that these interactions were shaped by mutual curiosity, cultural misunderstanding, and violence. It highlights that neither side came to these meetings with fixed ideas of the "other," but both attempted to interpret and fit new people into their existing worldviews—Europeans often through a lens of assumed superiority, and Native Americans through spiritual and ethnocentric frameworks. 

This two part episode covers the rise of the conservative movement in the 1970s to 2001, covering the presidencies of Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Clinton, and the two Bushes. It then addresses the tragedy of 9/11 and its immediate aftermath.

This two part episode covers the rise of the conservative movement in the 1970s to 2001, covering the presidencies of Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Clinton, and the two Bushes. It then addresses the tragedy of 9/11 and its immediate aftermath.

This episode covers the conformist culture of American Society in the years after WWII (1940-1960s), and the counter cultural movement that arose against the conformism in the 1960s.

This episode covers the beginning of the Cold War between the USSR and the US, and the tragedy of containment policy established by the US.

This episode covers the Civil Rights Movement, from the 1920s to the 1960s.

This episode covers the rise of the NAZIs in Germany, The Second World War, and the Generation that sacrificed to fight Germany and Japan.

This episode discuses the events leading up to world war 2.

This episode covers the stock market crash of 1929, the great depression, and FDR's New Deal for America.

This episode covers the 1920s, which saw America transformed from a largely rural nation to one of consumerism, industrialization, and suburbs.