In this episode, we discuss Metlakatla, Sointula and the Doukhobor communities of the West Kootenays as the theory of internal colonialism that made them possible. 

Paraguay has been a site of extraordinarily protracted and successful utopian projects. Students had just viewed the Mission (1987) starring Jeremy Irons and Robert de Niro.

Jacob Baker takes on the many complexities of Brigham Young's kingdom in Utah.

Here, listeners can finally learn about the country after which our institute is named.

In the second of Jacob's lectures on early Mormonism, we examine the Joseph Smith ministry at its zenith.

Jacob Baker takes the wheel for episodes three and four, looking at how Mormonism arose out of a larger Jacksonian project of local autonomy and religious perfectionism.

The story that America's founders were religious refugees is a myth as persistent and as false as the belief that medieval Christians thought the earth was flat. 

This is the first episode setting up the overall approach and scope of Stuart Parker and Jacob Baker's Failed Utopias of the Americas course.

The final episode contemplates whether things could have gone differently for Green politics.

The chronological narrative of the course ends here with the successes of David Coon, Andrew Weaver and Peter Bevan-Baker.