All episodes
I failed the 1960s Alabama literacy test (A Brief History of Voter Suppression)
Five midterm elections that changed the course of U.S. History
Freedom of the Press or, "The U.S. used to rank 20th for press freedom. Now we're 64th."
When did we become civilized? or, "Emily Teaches World History #1"
The Party Switch or, "Follow the money, not the names"
Contextualizing 9/11 or, "WHY did Al-Qaeda attack the United States?"
The Birth of Political Parties or, "Washington warned us."
Tradwives or, "The Cult of Domesticity with Better Lighting"
The National Debt or, "Is $40 trillion a lot? It seems like a lot..."
A Brief History of Egypt or, "7,000 years in 40 minutes"
Henry George or, "Emily is forced to discuss economics!" (with Mr. Beat)
The 1968 Mexico City Olympics or, "Emily finally uses her graduate thesis!"
Porcelain or, "People have always liked pretty things" (with Seema Rao)
Smedley Butler or, "The Making and Breaking of America's Empire" (with author Jonathan M. Katz)
Jane Addams or, "Give that lady a Nobel Prize! Oh wait..." (with Ernest Crim III)
Sam Harris or, "The Black Mogul of Williamsburg" (with Ernest Crim III)
The Nullification Crisis or, "The Civil War That Almost Was" (with Dara Starr Tucker!)
Lincoln & Black Americans or, "It's Called Nuance, People!" (with Dara Starr Tucker)
Riga or, "Other Emily is a Latvian Princess!" (with Emily Neinast)
US History Episode 24: The Bush/Obama Years or, "Apparently we can get fooled again"
US History Ep. 23 The 1990s or, "The Seinfeld Decade"
US History Episode 22: The 1980s or, "Dad maybe don't listen to this episode"
US History Episode 21: The 1970s or, "If an entire decade was a middle child..."
Jackie Robinson or, "Fair Play and Justice"
US History Episode 20: Civil Rights & Feminism or, "Free At Last?"
US History Episode 19: LBJ or, "The US Gets the Johnson Treatment"
Columbus Day or, "Why do we celebrate an Italian who sailed for Spain?"
US History Episode 18: JFK or, "Cuba. Birmingham. Vietnam."
US History Episode 18: JFK or, "Cuba. Birmingham. Vietnam."
US History Episode 17: The Early Cold War or, “McArthur, McCarthy and Ike”
Emily Learns About Monty Python and the Myth of the Medieval Church with John Moscatiello
Emily Learns About Monty Python and the Myth of Medieval Justice with John Moscatiello
Emily Learns About Monty Python and the Myth of the “Dark Ages” with John Moscatiello
US History Ep. 16: The Postwar World or, “Boom, Baby!”
Emily Learns About… Emma Goldman (part 3) with Rudy Ramirez!
Emily Learns About… Emma Goldman (part 2) with Rudy Ramirez!
Emily Learns About… Emma Goldman (part 1) with Rudy Ramirez!
US History Ep. 15: WWII or, “Tom Hanks’ War”
Emily Learns About… Emmett Till and John Lewis with Cathy Cluck!
US History Ep. 14: The New Deal or, “Saving Mr. Banks!”
Aaron Burr or, “Kind of a Jerk and Nobody Likes Him” (with Cathy Cluck)
U.S. History Episode 13 The Roaring 20s or, “Does any of this sound a little familiar?”
US History Ep. 12: World War I or, “Woodrow Wilson’s War”
US History Ep. 11 The Women’s Era or, “Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make It On This Podcast”
US History Ep. 10: The Progressive Era or, “No more thumbs in our meat, please!”
US History Ep. 9: Imperialism or, “Just a spoonful of sugar helps imperialism go down…”
US History Ep. 8: The Gilded Age or, “Imagine Newsies… but no one’s dancing.”
US History Ep. 7: The Postwar South or, “Reconstruction. Reconstruction!”
US History Ep. 6 The Civil War or, “Sorry I’m not Ken Burns!”
US History Ep. 5 Sectionalism or, “Manifest Destiny’s Child”
US History Ep. 4: Slavery or, “America’s Original Sin”
US History Ep. 3: The Early Republic or, “That Time We Invaded Canada!”
US History Ep. 2: The American Revolution or, “We Spilled the Tea”
Protests, Planned Parenthood, and Proud Boys, Oh My! (A Patreon Preview)
US History Ep. 1: Colonial America or, “Who needs dancing when you have tobacco and the Bible?!”
Hamilton or, “Move over. It’s Lafayette’s shot.”
BONUS Episode: News of the Week and more!
Abortion or, “Tough Life Choices”
216: Puerto Rico or, “To Be or Not To Be… a State”
Game of Thrones or, “The George R.R. Martin Historical Plagiarism Tour”
Brexit or, “Should Have Signed a Prenup”
2019 Oscar Nominees or, “The Vice Favourite Green Panther Klansman from Bohemian Roma is Born”
Saudi Arabia or, “Jared and the Crown Prince sitting in a tree”
BONUS: New Orleans or, "Andrew Jackson's Origin Story"
North Korea or, “If you give a Kim a country, he’s gonna want some nukes”
BONUS: SXSW EDU “Teaching in the Era of Fake News”
Political Gridlock or, “Do Something, Congress!”
The First Thanksgiving or, “The Squanto Treatment”
Central American Migration or, “THE CARAVAN!”
Voting or, “Sorry George”
Indigenous Americans (pt. 2) or “1491”
Indigenous Americans (pt. 1), or “Dang I wish I was an Inca”
Immigration or, “Good fences make tense neighbors”
Sports and Protest or, “Martin, Malcolm, and Colin”
History at the Movies or, “The Hungry Panther Games”
Russia, or “What the Helsinki?!”
The World Today or, “Too Soon?”
20th c. Middle East or, “Who knew religion was so important to people?!”
Decolonization, or “Don’t let the door hit you on the way out!”
The Cold War in Latin America, or “This is why they hate us there!”
The Cold War or, “I Must Break You, WOLVERINES!”
World War Two, or “Who was supposed to be watching Germany?!”
World War I or, “The War to Cause All Wars”
The Modern Era in the East or, “Knock Knock. It’s the West.”
The Age of Imperialism, or “Allow me to ruin the Jungle Book for you”
The Modern Era in the West, or “You Say You Want A Revolution?”
The Early Modern Era in the East, or “They Didn’t Get the Memo”
Early Modern Era in the West, or “We Missed Two Whole Continents?!”
The Postclassical Era in the East, or “Yes We KHAN!”
The Medieval Era or “That Time Europe Lost Its Mind”
The Classical Era in the East, or “They Built a Great Wall and Made the Huns Pay For It!”
The Classical Era, or “That Time Everyone Plagiarized Persia”
The Ancient Era, or “Ain’t No River Valley Wide Enough”