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FAQs about History That Matters Now Archives - KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show:How many episodes does History That Matters Now Archives - KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show have?The podcast currently has 53 episodes available.
November 17, 2025Is America on an Irreversible Path to Decline and Fall?At the nearly two hundred fifty year mark, we’ve already lasted longer than most great nations. As with others which declined and fell, a loss of confidence led to anxiety and the impulse for a strong man to protect usThe post Is America on an Irreversible Path to Decline and Fall? appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show....more59minPlay
October 20, 2025Why is There So Much Fear in the Strongest Country in the World?Fear of the other. Fear of woke, of LGBTQ+, of Black liberation, and of course the old big fear: Communism. In the age of the Cold War, right after WWII, Americans believed the Soviet Union was bankrolling worldwide liberation movements,The post Why is There So Much Fear in the Strongest Country in the World? appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show....more1hPlay
September 15, 2025Public Theater: A Way to Measure DemocracyWhen America was indeed great, the federal government brought theater to all people. Free. In a mirror opposite of Trump 2.0, under FDR there was the Federal Theater project in which one quarter of the nation’s population saw free performancesThe post Public Theater: A Way to Measure Democracy appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show....more59minPlay
August 18, 2025Why Mamdani May Revitalize the Democratic Party: 1911 CA PrecedentAfter 2024, the mainstream of the Democratic Party is in the wilderness, but Zohran Mamdani may lead a way out. This week’s guest Fred Glass, talks about what early 20th century California history can teach us about the 2025 NewThe post Why Mamdani May Revitalize the Democratic Party: 1911 CA Precedent appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show....more1hPlay
February 24, 2025Trump Wants to Abolish the Past. Historians Won’t Let Him.There are reasons all autocrats need to erase history. Among the flood of executive orders is something called “Ending Radical Indoctrination in K-12 Schooling.” In other words: erasing history he doesn’t like. To people like him, history must fit aThe post Trump Wants to Abolish the Past. Historians Won’t Let Him. appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show....more1h 0minPlay
December 23, 2024Christmas Truce of WWI: Not So Isolated, Really You’ve probably heard of the famous Christmas Truce of 1914 between the trenches of the British and German soldiers. These were indeed brave men. But that was not the only such event: there were desertions, mutinies, and fraternizations.The post Christmas Truce of WWI: Not So Isolated, Really appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show....more59minPlay
November 25, 2024One Eternally Explosive Line in the SandStorytelling is a venerable and often the most accurate way to teach history. Our guest co-author of the new A Line In the Sand, Miles Spencer, traveled with his partner along the 1100 mile trail of clues left by TEThe post One Eternally Explosive Line in the Sand appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show....more59minPlay
November 10, 202411/11 Armistice: The Germans Were Ambushed, A Peace That Ended PeaceCan we ever learn from history? November 11 is celebrated as the end of “the war to end all wars.” But in reality it was a peace that ended peace. Listen in as eminent historian Adam Hochschild cuts through theThe post 11/11 Armistice: The Germans Were Ambushed, A Peace That Ended Peace appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show....more1hPlay
November 07, 2024Greensboro ’79: “White Supremacy Done Correctly”You remember: “that’s not who we are,” related to January 6, 2021? Turns out, maybe it is who we are. Was this too an outlier: Greensboro North Carolina November 1979 when the KKK shot and killed five people demonstrating forThe post Greensboro ’79: “White Supremacy Done Correctly” appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show....more56minPlay
October 15, 2024Heather Cox Richardson: Yes Democracy IS AwakeningIn a democracy, we expect to have our own say over how we are governed. There’s a great grumbling throughout America because many don’t feel listened to. That’s the impetus behind today’s Trumpist populism. This populism is the voice ofThe post Heather Cox Richardson: Yes Democracy IS Awakening appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show....more1hPlay
FAQs about History That Matters Now Archives - KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show:How many episodes does History That Matters Now Archives - KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show have?The podcast currently has 53 episodes available.