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History Matters — 283 episodes

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Title
1

Citizenship in the Territories

2

Big Government is Necessary!

3

Thomas Jefferson, 1788

4

Burkina Faso, 2026

5

New Veterans Bill Proposal

6

Bastardizing Degrees

7

Medicare Changes into 2027

8

Convenience as a Scam

9

San Diego, 1971

10

The War on Poverty

11

Willowbrook, 1946

12

Revisiting Prop 32 (2024)

13

Patrice Lumumba, 1960

14

Fetal Death Registry?! (HB 754)

15

Homelessness Court Program (HB 211)

16

Black Argentina, Then & Now

17

Chinese Jamaicans, 1884

18

¡Viva Dolores!

19

Exclusive Citizenship Act of 2025

20

Frauen Warte (1934)

21

Colombia's Law 70

22

Mississippi Chinese, 1880

23

Blackstone vs. BlackRock

24

Attempted Coup of Gonave, Haiti

25

Irvine and Affordable Housing

26

California New Laws, 2026

27

Throwback: Tepanec History

28

Throwback: HUD & Project 2025

29

Which Degrees Are Professional?

30

J. Edgar Hoover Was Black?!

31

Barbados Slave Code, 1667

32

Queen City, 1892

33

Guaranteed CSU Admissions (SB 640)

34

Skyrocketing Healthcare Premiums

35

Oh, Snap! (Part 2)

36

Prop 50 & the Voting Rights Act

37

Throwback: Latinx Colonial Trailblazers

38

Privatizing Military Operations

39

USDA & Rising Food Costs, 2020-2025

40

"Drained Pool Politics"

41

Equal Pay Act, 1963

42

Native Scalp Bounties, 1733

43

Chinese Mexicans, 1931

44

Immigration & Naturalization Acts in History

45

Throwback: New Laws, 2025

46

The Cult of the Middle Class: Age & Ability (Part 6)

47

Sisters of the Sourdough Starter

48

New Loan Caps

49

Liberia, 1847

50

Lake Lanier, 1912 (aka Oscarville)

51

Alligator Bait (Here We Go Again...)

52

Big Bill, 2025

53

Coolie Labor, 1862

54

Throwback: Gender Was Never Binary

55

Wounded Knee, 1890

56

Gatsby Was Black?

57

Alien Land Law, 1913

58

The Black Dandy, Explained

59

Sinners (Film) Analysis

60

Pay-to-Parent

61

Tariffs, 2025

62

Autism Science Foundation & RFK Jr.

63

"Bayou of Pigs", Dominica, 1981

64

Throwback: Clean Girls & Hot Cheetos

65

Throwback: Defunding DEI, But What's Next?

66

What is Genocide?

67

Altadena, 1960

68

Treason & Sedition

69

Slave Revolts & the Declaration of the Rights of Man

70

Transphobia is Everyone's Problem...

71

Anna Murray Douglass, Thank You

72

Tuskegee Airmen

73

Immigrant Bounty Hunters, 2025

74

"Millions to Negro Girl, 1913"

75

Black Americans & the American Flag

76

New Laws, 2025

77

Throwback: Russia is Playing the Long Game

78

Favorite Things 2024

79

Rent Won't Be Controlled

80

California Minimum Wage

81

HUD & Project 2025

82

Brief History of the Tepanecs

83

"Negro Women To Be Put to Work" (1918)

84

Rescission Act, 1946

85

200th Episode!

86

Ballot Measure HH

87

California Prop 32

88

Let's Discuss Prop 33

89

Throwback: History of U.S./Mexico's Relationship

90

Slavery on the Ballot, 2024

91

Mann Act, 1910

92

Pio Pico, 1846

93

Afro-Peruvian History

94

Vision 2030

95

Throwback: History of Childhood

96

Jobs w/ Pensions

97

Cult of the Middle Class: Welfare Access (Part 5)

98

Birthday Episode, 2024

99

Havana, Anyone?

100

Historical Astrology

101

No Fault Divorce & VAWA

102

Connecting 1865 to 2024

103

Throwback: Let Them Eat Cake

104

Tulsa, 2024

105

Project 2025

106

Throwback: Yanga, Mexico (1609)

107

What's New, Natalye?

108

Pay-to-Stay, 2024

109

Idaho & Moyle v. United States

110

Aftermath of the LA Riots

111

The White Bronco in the Sky

112

Throwback: The Military Draft

113

The Cult of the Middle Class: Stats (Part 4)

114

Bye, Texas...

115

Confederate Articles of Secession

116

Wine Country & the KKK

117

Sundown Towns: Compton, CA

118

The Whipping Boy

119

Housing Programs & AB 1482

120

Sundown Towns: La Jolla, CA

121

Black Slaveowners

122

Angola, LA (& Private Prison Labor)

123

Throwback: Afro-German Life During the Third Reich

124

Digital Lynchings

125

Seneca Village, 1825

126

New California Laws, 2024

127

Choose: Red Pill or Blue Pill?

128

A Few of My Favorite Things

129

Love as a Verb, via bell hooks

130

Throwback: Dahomey, 1898

131

Sundown Towns: Burbank, CA

132

Black Beverly Hills, 1949

133

What Can YOU Do?

134

Throwback: Salem, 1692

135

Henrietta Lacks, 1951

136

Natural Health Ban, Canada

137

Education, Social Class, & School Choice

138

Midway District, 1944

139

Glendale, California (Sundown Series)

140

Throwback: History of U.S./Mexico Relations

141

African Diaspora to the Americas, Part 2

142

Policing Cleanliness

143

Shortage of Professors

144

African Diaspora to the Americas, Part 1

145

Tehran, 1979

146

Russia is Playing the Long Game

147

Chinese Cubans, 1847

148

The Cult of the Middle Class: Who Belongs? (Part 3)

149

Throwback: Cohabitation is Now Illegal

150

The Cult of the Middle Class: Entry Into (Part 2)

151

Oakland, 1969

152

The Cult of the Middle Class: What is the Middle Class? (Part 1)

153

Defunding DEI, But What's Next?

154

Reparations, Ya'll! (Part 3)

155

Compilation Throwback: Words Mean Things (Diaspora, Parts 3 & 4)

156

Compilation Throwback: Words Mean Things (Diaspora, Parts 1 & 2)

157

Redhead Representation

158

Tuition Hike Proposals

159

Puerto Ricans are Americans, Too

160

Streaming Service Slavery, Pt. 2

161

401K vs. Pension

162

Know Your Place Aggression (NYC, 2023)

163

History of White Solidarity as Mental Illness

164

Public Perception of Protest (France, Part 2)

165

TikTok Ban

166

Stuyvesant Town, 1949

167

Gender Was Never Binary

168

King v. Smith, 1968

169

Indian Removal Act, 1830

170

Bank On It

171

Afro-German Life During the Third Reich

172

California Housing Crisis

173

Mardi Gras, 1889

174

French Pension, 2023

175

Regression & Recession

176

Oh, SNAP!

177

History of Latino Lynching

178

Jane Elliot, 1968

179

New 2023 California Laws

180

Throwback: Intercontinental Trade

181

Cutting Off Your Nose to Spite Your Face

182

What is a Hand Out?

183

Berlin, 1934

184

Reparations, Ya'll (Part 2)

185

Let Them Eat Cake

186

Throwback: Hitler's Black Victims

187

Voting Rights Act, 1965

188

Clean Girls & Hot Cheetos

189

Pappification

190

Racism in Mexico & LA (Words Mean Things, Diaspora Part 4)

191

Are We in a Recession?

192

Statewide Ballot Measures 2022

193

Roosevelt Corollary (1904)

194

AB 1856

195

Yanga, Mexico (1609)

196

Part 3: Words Mean Things (Diaspora, Part 3)

197

PACT Act (or Lack Thereof...)

198

Dahomey, 1898

199

Start of the Supreme Fall

200

Mammification

201

The Case for Community

202

Brief History of San Diego

203

Airhead BNB

204

Piggy Backing (Is More, Better?, Part 2)

205

Misogyny & Opinions on Health

206

Is More, Better?

207

Words Mean Things (Diaspora Pt. 2)

208

Bastile Day (Throwback)

209

Ranking America

210

Come On, Clarence...

211

Zapatistas & Jim Crow

212

Reloaded: Supremely Stupid

213

Brief History of SCOTUS

214

Favelados, Saõ Paulo

215

Zanjas, 1791

216

Levittown, 1955

217

So You Need a Letter of Recommendation...

218

AAPI Heritage Month (Brief History of)

219

Cohabitation is Now Illegal

220

International Worker's Day

221

Too Hot to Handle

222

Reparations, Ya'll!

223

Streaming Service Slavery

224

Atlanta City Limits

225

Storyville, 1898

226

Afro-Latinx Connection

227

U.S. Military Draft

228

Rooney Rule & the NFL

229

Hitler's Black Victims

230

COVID & the Age of Consent

231

New Orleans and the History Conference

232

Unratified Amendments

233

New California Laws for 2022

234

Olympus Been Fell, Sis...

235

For the Union

236

Atahualpa, et al.

237

When the Devil Comes to Collect

238

Highkey Thankful

239

The Mexica

240

Zero Dollars by 2053?!

241

Gentrification & Public Health (ft. Nkechi Michel, MPH)

242

Salem, 1692

243

Biden's Infrastructure Plan

244

Intercontinental Trade, Pre-15th Century

245

The Moors in Spain

246

Latinx Colonial Trailblazers

247

De-Colonizing Our Thoughts

248

History of Mexico/U.S. Relations

249

The NFL Plantation (ft. Roland Harpin, Jr.)

250

39th and Dalton, 1988

251

Opium via Afghanistan

252

Adjunctifiction

253

How the Government Segregated America

254

End of the Rent Moratorium

255

"Remember This House" (Analysis of James Baldwin's Work)

256

So You Want To Be a Professor?

257

Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité

258

Perks of Independence

259

Words Mean Things (Diaspora, Pt. 1)

260

Zuckerberg vs. Hawaii

261

Voter Suppression

262

Tulsa, 1921

263

Redlining & Housing Covenants

264

Part 2: Criminalization of Poverty

265

History of Caricatures

266

History of Childhood

267

School of Hard Knocks

268

Hands Off, Offred! (History and The Handmaid's Tale)

269

History of Masculinity

270

History of Femininity

271

Sundown Towns

272

Profiting From the Pain of Others

273

Cultural Mixing & Miscegenation Legislation

274

Where's the Minimum Wage Raise, Joe?

275

Bound by Guano

276

Rise in Anti-Asian Attacks

277

Reconstruct That!

278

Lincoln Ain't (Really) Ya Boy

279

The Case for Increased Minimum Wage

280

Aftermath of Insurrection

281

Olympus Has Fallen

282

New California Laws for 2021

283

Criminality of Poverty During the Pandemic