This Blogcast Episode features Carleigh Beriont's article, "On the Map," first published in Process: A Blog for American History on December 12, 2023.

In this episode, Beriont recovers the hidden history of the Marshall Islands, and how this area "has been central to U.S. security and military interests since the Second World War." She explains how the United States nuclear testing and resulting destruction of Bikini Atoll, its people, and the surrounding area has had lasting political and environmental impacts.

Read the Blog here: https://www.processhistory.org/on-the-map-beriont/

Music: King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band's Mabel's Dream, 1923

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