All episodes
The Paranoid Style and Moral Panics in United States History
Paper Bullets: Crowns, Rebels & Six Centuries of English-Language Political Propaganda
Plessy v. Ferguson and the Long Road to 1896
Worcester v. Georgia: The Case That Cemented Native American Sovereignty But Failed to Save the Cherokee
Korematsu vs. United States: A Supreme Court Decision that Sucked
Accident of Birth: Wong Kim Ark, Birthright Citizenship, and the Case That Won't Stay Settled Part 2
Accident of Birth: Wong Kim Ark, Birthright Citizenship, and the Case That Won't Stay Settled Part 1
Betita Martinez and the Road to Chicana Feminism
Segregation's Constant Gardeners: How White Women Created and Defended Jim Crow Segregation
The Women and the King: Scottish Witch Hunts Under James VI
Lesbian Volunteerism in the AIDS Epidemic: A Story We Almost Lost
The Rise of the American Right During the Cold War: Anti-Communism, Suburban Women, and a Grassroots Revolution
Project MK Ultra: The CIA's Harmful, Pointless Quest for Mind Control
EThe KGB’s Queer Honeypots and the Cold War
American Idealist in Stalin's City of Steel: A Pre-History of the Cold War
Love Canal, or How Toxic Capitalism Poisoned a Neighborhood and How "Housewives" Fought Back
Rachel Carson and a Spring Without Nature: Science, Love, and Politics
Gwich’in, Food Sovereignty, and Environmental Justice in the Arctic Coastal Plain
Bonus: Conversation with Amplified Podcast
Save it for the Rag-and-Bone Man: The Premodern History of Recycling, Salvage, and Reuse
The Constitutional Convention of 1787
Bonus Episode: Best of 2025, What's Coming in 2026!
EOrange Slices, Simmer Pots, and Naked Dancing: A Brief and Incomplete History of Modern Witchcraft
Re-Release: A Ghost Story for Christmas!
Martian Visitors in the Gilded Age
Beasts and Believers: A History of Werewolf Trials in Early Modern Europe
You're Bound to Die: The Long History of the American Murder Ballad
Suffer a Witch to Live? Religious Conflict and Witchcraft Persecutions; or, No One Expects the Inquisition
Yellow Rose of Texas: Myth-making and Race in the 19th Century
Whispers and Wives' Tales: A History of Women & Gossip in Premodern Society
Women and Slavery: How Harriet Jacobs Revealed Women's Experience of American Enslavement
Sati: The Virtuous Woman, the Chaste Wife, and the Immolated Widow in Colonial and Postcolonial India
The Pansy Craze
Anne Lister's Search for a "Great Love": Reading the Diaries of the First Modern Lesbian
Female Husbands, or People Have Always Transed Gender
Just Friends: The Ladies of Llangollen
The Tuskegee Syphilis Study: Medical Ethics & Race
Cripping Contagion: A Long History of Epidemics as Mass-Disabling Events
The Section 504 Sit-In: The Protest that Demanded Civil Rights for Disabled Americans
Sexuality and Psychiatry
Executive Orders, Dog Whistles, and the Lavender Scare
EThe Sleepy Lagoon Trial and Zoot Suit Riots: Los Angeles's Season of Violence During WWII
The Unjust Execution of the Dakota 38
From Respectability to Ruin to Ripper Victim: The Whitechapel Murders and the Precarity of Poverty in Victorian London
Ghosting the Patriarchy: Spiritualism and the Nineteenth-Century Women’s Rights Movement
Plastic Shamans and Spiritual Hucksters: A History of Peddling and Protecting Native American Spirituality Re-Release
Julia’s Bureau: The Temperance Virtuoso, the Father of Journalism, and Life after Death in the Spiritualist Anglo-Atlantic Re-Release
Spiritualism's Beginning: Kate and Maggie Fox
Kitsune and Kitsunetsuki: A History of Japanese Fox-Witches and Fox Possession
The Salem Witch Trials of 1692
Spectral Evidence, Floating Witches, and Angry Neighbors: The Other Witch Panic of 1692
Love and Magic: A History of Violence
History of Thin: The Changing Meaning of Thinness in the Modern World
The Battle for Deaf Education: Clashing Methods, Minds, and Cultures in the Nineteenth Century United States
One-Sex, Two-Sex, or …?: Thinking About the Sexed Body in History
Bonus Episode: The Nineteenth-Century Feminist and Writer that You’ve Probably Never Heard Of: Elizabeth Oakes Smith
La Mutine: Gender and France's Forced Migration Schemes
Red Power Progressivism: A Biography of American Indian Rights Activist Zitkala Ša
“Came home in our droves for you”: Abortion in Ireland
The Sentimental State: Book Talk
The Leaky Body: Fluids, Disease, and the Millennias-Long Endurance of Humoral Medicine
Continuity & the Gender Wage Gap: Or, How Patriarchy Ruins Everything Part II
From Slave Patrol to Street Patrol: Police Brutality in America
The Invisible Engine: Capitalism's Reliance on Reproductive Labor and a Gendered Wage
Islam and the Frankish “Wall of Ice”: Contingency and the Battle of Tours, or Poitiers, or Whatever…
How the Homophile Movement Could Have Been Intersectional and Antiracist, But Wasn’t: Magnus Hirschfeld and Li Shui Tong’s Love and Loss Story
Rise and Fall in the Queen City: Contingent Moments in Buffalo, New York
Crappy Healthcare is Not Natural: the U.S. Health System is Contingent on a Lot of Bad Decisions
Chinese Medicine: The Complex Balance of Individual, State, and Cosmos
Puerto Rican Citizenship: A Complex Status
Vaudevillian, Countess, Spy, Activist: The Complicated Life of Josephine Baker
The History of Fat: The Complex Attitudes Toward Fatness in the Pre-Modern West
From Orality to Literacy: A Global History of Writing
Feminisms: The Interconnected Rights Revolution
The History of America's Changing Political Parties
Irish Hero, Queer Traitor, Gay Icon: Roger Casement Over Time
The Equal Rights Amendment: Gender Equality? Nah...
Irrepressible Conflict, or Failure to Compromise? The Causes of the American Civil War
The Fall of Rome: Debating Causality and the Collapse of the Western Empire
For King, Country, and… Opium?: Thinking About Causality, Empire, and Historiography in the First Opium War, 1839-42
For F*ck’s Sake: A History of English-Language Swearing
EThe Controversial Life and Legacy of Margaret Sanger
Anne Moody: Context and Conflict in Coming of Age in Mississippi
The Women’s War of 1929: Igbo and Ibibio Resistance to British Colonialism
Race and Nation in Latin America: Whitening, Browning, and the Failures of Mestizaje
Nina Otero-Warren: Suffrage and Strategy in New Mexico
Little Laborers: Child Indenture in 18th- and 19th- Century America
A Spot of Tea: Empire, Commodities, and the Opportunities in Britain’s Tea Trade
Omm Sety and Bridey Murphy: A History of Reincarnation and Past Lives in Britain and America
Anna Howard Shaw: Doctor, Reverend, Suffragist Leader
The Kingdom of Matthias: Sex, Gender and Alternative Belief in the Second Great Awakening
Spectacle and Spiritualism in the Lives of Maggie and Kate Fox
Ghosting the Patriarchy: Spiritualism and the Nineteenth-Century Women’s Rights Movement
Plastic Shamans and Spiritual Hucksters: A History of Peddling and Protecting Native American Spirituality
Julia’s Bureau: The Temperance Virtuoso, the Father of Journalism, and Life after Death in the Spiritualist Anglo-Atlantic
Cheesecloth, Spiritualism, and State Secrets: Helen Duncan’s Famous Witchcraft Trial
Domesticity and Depression: Kentucky Coal Mining, Song, and Organizing During Bloody Harlan
One Medicine: Animal Experiments and the Making of Modern Medical Science
Canary in a Coal Mine - Literally
Remember Rutterkin? Witch’s Familiars, Religious Reformation, and Sexy Beasts in Early Modern Europe