History on the Dark Side

Teaser for Season 2 exploration of Nazi Doctors

This is the first of the Nazi Doctors series. In this episode we explore eugenics, sterilization and how it all came together.

This sample of my History on the Bright Side podcast introduces you to my shorter form program that focuses on inspirational people and messages in history.  This episode looks at three athletes from the 1968 Olympics who ran very different races for very different reasons and all collectively displayed their character and conviction under the heaviest conditions.  HOTBS S1 E2 "On the Run"

this is part 2 of the nazi Doctors series. in this episode we complete the journey of eugenics and sterilization

Part 2 of our study of similarities and parallels between the angry crowd of protesters in Boston that led to shooting by a policing military force with a focus on the way propaganda and news molded the incident then as well as how news shapes events at protests today.  We also take a look at how the colonists were able to seize the moral "high ground" through both Paul Revere's  "Bloody Massacre" engraving and the top shelf legal defense of the shooters by John Adams.  

A look into the events of March 1770 and the many parallels to protest, policing and resistance to authority in America and the rest of the modern world in our time.   

How the literature of Holocaust survivors can make that human tragedy more relatable to our time.

Examining how the study of Holocaust literature can make those events relatable.  Learning to Remember and Honor.

Forces in Salem spin completely out of control as women are hanged, men are pressed, and neighbors see the financial rewards of reporting on one another.  How does a community stop the madness once it realizes things have gone too far?  Does that kind of thing still happen in our world 300 years after the last witch hunt in America?