Sign up to save your podcasts
Or
Share The Textbook Wars Spiral Out of Control (1974)
Share to email
Share to Facebook
Share to X
Share to email
Share to Facebook
Share to X
Or
The Textbook Wars Spiral Out of Control (1974)
It’s October 19th. This day in 1974, Kanawha County, West Virginia is embroiled in an increasingly violent battle over a slate of new textbooks being added to the local school curriculum. Over the course of a few weeks, there would be shootings, bombings, conspiracies to attack school buses full of children, and more.
Jody, Niki, and Kellie discuss why the textbook battle got so out of control, what it says about the rise of backlash politics, and echoes to today’s violent political discourse.
This Day In Esoteric Political History is a proud member of Radiotopia from PRX.
Your support helps foster independent, artist-owned podcasts and award-winning stories.
If you want to support the show directly, you can do so on our website: ThisDayPod.com
Get in touch if you have any ideas for future topics, or just want to say hello. Our website is thisdaypod.com Follow us on social @thisdaypod
Our team: Jacob Feldman, Researcher/Producer; Brittani Brown, Producer; Khawla Nakua, Transcripts; music by Teen Daze and Blue Dot Sessions; Julie Shapiro, Executive Producer at Radiotopia
Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
View all episodes
By Jody Avirgan & Radiotopia
4.5
966966 ratings
It’s October 19th. This day in 1974, Kanawha County, West Virginia is embroiled in an increasingly violent battle over a slate of new textbooks being added to the local school curriculum. Over the course of a few weeks, there would be shootings, bombings, conspiracies to attack school buses full of children, and more.
Jody, Niki, and Kellie discuss why the textbook battle got so out of control, what it says about the rise of backlash politics, and echoes to today’s violent political discourse.
This Day In Esoteric Political History is a proud member of Radiotopia from PRX.
Your support helps foster independent, artist-owned podcasts and award-winning stories.
If you want to support the show directly, you can do so on our website: ThisDayPod.com
Get in touch if you have any ideas for future topics, or just want to say hello. Our website is thisdaypod.com Follow us on social @thisdaypod
Our team: Jacob Feldman, Researcher/Producer; Brittani Brown, Producer; Khawla Nakua, Transcripts; music by Teen Daze and Blue Dot Sessions; Julie Shapiro, Executive Producer at Radiotopia
Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
More shows like This Day
View all
This American Life
90,933 Listeners
Radiolab
43,890 Listeners
The New Yorker Radio Hour
6,789 Listeners
99% Invisible
26,243 Listeners
The Heart
2,141 Listeners
On the Media
9,192 Listeners
Reveal
8,446 Listeners
the memory palace
6,885 Listeners
Radio Diaries
1,259 Listeners
The West Wing Weekly
10,416 Listeners
Revisionist History
59,144 Listeners
Sidedoor
2,227 Listeners
What Trump Can Teach Us About Con Law
3,984 Listeners
Slow Burn
23,888 Listeners
Decoder Ring
2,118 Listeners
Everything is Alive
5,217 Listeners
Throughline
16,363 Listeners
Articles of Interest
3,572 Listeners
Over the Road
1,116 Listeners
Home Cooking
4,874 Listeners
Normal Gossip
5,811 Listeners
You Get A Podcast!
145 Listeners
Hang Up
272 Listeners
The Recipe with Kenji and Deb
444 Listeners
Never Post
114 Listeners
Proxy with Yowei Shaw
561 Listeners
My Mother Made Me
72 Listeners
The Unmarked Graveyard: Stories from Hart Island
12 Listeners
Shocking, Heartbreaking, Transformative
35 Listeners
Ways of Hearing
0 Listeners
Secrets
0 Listeners
Try Hard
49 Listeners
Only If You Get Caught
100 Listeners