In the 1840s, Black pioneer George Bush (no relation!), his white wife, and their five children quit Missouri, a slave state, for the Pacific Northwest---only to find racial exclusion laws hot on his heels.

On the 10th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's assassination, his widow faces an unthinkable betrayal. Alexis dismantles the myth of the unhinged Mary "Never Todd" Lincoln and reveals thewidow's relentless battle for justice.

In this bonus episode, Alexis imagines a historic New Year's Eve menu for Mike. patreon.com/duncanandcoe

Karen Abbott, The Ghosts of Eden Park:The Bootleg King, the Women Who Pursued Him, and the Murder that Shocked Jazz-Age America.

Candice Millard, Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President

Malinda Russell, A Domestic Cook: Containing a Careful Selection of Useful Receipts for the Kitchen

Jon Mooallen, This Is Chance!

From Nazi-fighting historian to Pantheon inductee: Bloch's legacy is anything but a strange defeat.

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Books by and about Bloch

• Carl Fink, Marc Bloch: A Life in History 
• Marc Bloch, The Historian's Craft
• Marc Bloch, The Strange Defeat 
• Marc Bloch, Feudal Society

Buy some books! Paul Sparrow, Awakening the Spirit of America: FDR's War of Words with Charles Lindbergh--And the Battle to Save Democracy

Alexis Coe, You Never Forget Your First 

Mike Duncan, Hero of Two Worlds

In this bonus episode, Mike convinces Alexis not to be sad about Chester A. Arthur

Today's episode is brought to you at one (guess who) host's insistence. 

Mike asks Alexis about Biden's legacy as she steels herself for the presidential ranking survey.

Mike is back from his brush with not-quite-death and Alexis offers him no quarter, immediately speculating on 18th-century treatments he mercifully avoided. The actual episode: Their rabbit hole tales of unwoe, from the lexical versatility of "slut" to a totally logical journey from Michael Caine to Mary Todd Lincoln.

In this amuse-bouche of historical schadenfreude and wild speculation about what's really keeping Mike bedridden in Wisconsin, it falls to Alexis Coe to single-handedly salvage their fledgling podcast the only way she knows how: erudition and utter nonsense.