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History Matters — 283 episodes
Citizenship in the Territories
Big Government is Necessary!
Thomas Jefferson, 1788
Burkina Faso, 2026
New Veterans Bill Proposal
Bastardizing Degrees
Medicare Changes into 2027
Convenience as a Scam
San Diego, 1971
The War on Poverty
Willowbrook, 1946
Revisiting Prop 32 (2024)
Patrice Lumumba, 1960
Fetal Death Registry?! (HB 754)
Homelessness Court Program (HB 211)
Black Argentina, Then & Now
Chinese Jamaicans, 1884
¡Viva Dolores!
Exclusive Citizenship Act of 2025
Frauen Warte (1934)
Colombia's Law 70
Mississippi Chinese, 1880
Blackstone vs. BlackRock
Attempted Coup of Gonave, Haiti
Irvine and Affordable Housing
California New Laws, 2026
Throwback: Tepanec History
Throwback: HUD & Project 2025
Which Degrees Are Professional?
J. Edgar Hoover Was Black?!
Barbados Slave Code, 1667
Queen City, 1892
Guaranteed CSU Admissions (SB 640)
Skyrocketing Healthcare Premiums
Oh, Snap! (Part 2)
Prop 50 & the Voting Rights Act
Throwback: Latinx Colonial Trailblazers
Privatizing Military Operations
USDA & Rising Food Costs, 2020-2025
"Drained Pool Politics"
Equal Pay Act, 1963
Native Scalp Bounties, 1733
Chinese Mexicans, 1931
Immigration & Naturalization Acts in History
Throwback: New Laws, 2025
The Cult of the Middle Class: Age & Ability (Part 6)
Sisters of the Sourdough Starter
New Loan Caps
Liberia, 1847
Lake Lanier, 1912 (aka Oscarville)
Alligator Bait (Here We Go Again...)
Big Bill, 2025
Coolie Labor, 1862
Throwback: Gender Was Never Binary
Wounded Knee, 1890
Gatsby Was Black?
Alien Land Law, 1913
The Black Dandy, Explained
Sinners (Film) Analysis
Pay-to-Parent
Tariffs, 2025
Autism Science Foundation & RFK Jr.
"Bayou of Pigs", Dominica, 1981
Throwback: Clean Girls & Hot Cheetos
Throwback: Defunding DEI, But What's Next?
What is Genocide?
Altadena, 1960
Treason & Sedition
Slave Revolts & the Declaration of the Rights of Man
Transphobia is Everyone's Problem...
Anna Murray Douglass, Thank You
Tuskegee Airmen
Immigrant Bounty Hunters, 2025
"Millions to Negro Girl, 1913"
Black Americans & the American Flag
New Laws, 2025
Throwback: Russia is Playing the Long Game
Favorite Things 2024
Rent Won't Be Controlled
California Minimum Wage
HUD & Project 2025
Brief History of the Tepanecs
"Negro Women To Be Put to Work" (1918)
Rescission Act, 1946
200th Episode!
Ballot Measure HH
California Prop 32
Let's Discuss Prop 33
Throwback: History of U.S./Mexico's Relationship
Slavery on the Ballot, 2024
Mann Act, 1910
Pio Pico, 1846
Afro-Peruvian History
Vision 2030
Throwback: History of Childhood
Jobs w/ Pensions
Cult of the Middle Class: Welfare Access (Part 5)
Birthday Episode, 2024
Havana, Anyone?
Historical Astrology
No Fault Divorce & VAWA
Connecting 1865 to 2024
Throwback: Let Them Eat Cake
Tulsa, 2024
Project 2025
Throwback: Yanga, Mexico (1609)
What's New, Natalye?
Pay-to-Stay, 2024
Idaho & Moyle v. United States
Aftermath of the LA Riots
The White Bronco in the Sky
Throwback: The Military Draft
The Cult of the Middle Class: Stats (Part 4)
Bye, Texas...
Confederate Articles of Secession
Wine Country & the KKK
Sundown Towns: Compton, CA
The Whipping Boy
Housing Programs & AB 1482
Sundown Towns: La Jolla, CA
Black Slaveowners
Angola, LA (& Private Prison Labor)
Throwback: Afro-German Life During the Third Reich
Digital Lynchings
Seneca Village, 1825
New California Laws, 2024
Choose: Red Pill or Blue Pill?
A Few of My Favorite Things
Love as a Verb, via bell hooks
Throwback: Dahomey, 1898
Sundown Towns: Burbank, CA
Black Beverly Hills, 1949
What Can YOU Do?
Throwback: Salem, 1692
Henrietta Lacks, 1951
Natural Health Ban, Canada
Education, Social Class, & School Choice
Midway District, 1944
Glendale, California (Sundown Series)
Throwback: History of U.S./Mexico Relations
African Diaspora to the Americas, Part 2
Policing Cleanliness
Shortage of Professors
African Diaspora to the Americas, Part 1
Tehran, 1979
Russia is Playing the Long Game
Chinese Cubans, 1847
The Cult of the Middle Class: Who Belongs? (Part 3)
Throwback: Cohabitation is Now Illegal
The Cult of the Middle Class: Entry Into (Part 2)
Oakland, 1969
The Cult of the Middle Class: What is the Middle Class? (Part 1)
Defunding DEI, But What's Next?
Reparations, Ya'll! (Part 3)
Compilation Throwback: Words Mean Things (Diaspora, Parts 3 & 4)
Compilation Throwback: Words Mean Things (Diaspora, Parts 1 & 2)
Redhead Representation
Tuition Hike Proposals
Puerto Ricans are Americans, Too
Streaming Service Slavery, Pt. 2
401K vs. Pension
Know Your Place Aggression (NYC, 2023)
History of White Solidarity as Mental Illness
Public Perception of Protest (France, Part 2)
TikTok Ban
Stuyvesant Town, 1949
Gender Was Never Binary
King v. Smith, 1968
Indian Removal Act, 1830
Bank On It
Afro-German Life During the Third Reich
California Housing Crisis
Mardi Gras, 1889
French Pension, 2023
Regression & Recession
Oh, SNAP!
History of Latino Lynching
Jane Elliot, 1968
New 2023 California Laws
Throwback: Intercontinental Trade
Cutting Off Your Nose to Spite Your Face
What is a Hand Out?
Berlin, 1934
Reparations, Ya'll (Part 2)
Let Them Eat Cake
Throwback: Hitler's Black Victims
Voting Rights Act, 1965
Clean Girls & Hot Cheetos
Pappification
Racism in Mexico & LA (Words Mean Things, Diaspora Part 4)
Are We in a Recession?
Statewide Ballot Measures 2022
Roosevelt Corollary (1904)
AB 1856
Yanga, Mexico (1609)
Part 3: Words Mean Things (Diaspora, Part 3)
PACT Act (or Lack Thereof...)
Dahomey, 1898
Start of the Supreme Fall
Mammification
The Case for Community
Brief History of San Diego
Airhead BNB
Piggy Backing (Is More, Better?, Part 2)
Misogyny & Opinions on Health
Is More, Better?
Words Mean Things (Diaspora Pt. 2)
Bastile Day (Throwback)
Ranking America
Come On, Clarence...
Zapatistas & Jim Crow
Reloaded: Supremely Stupid
Brief History of SCOTUS
Favelados, Saõ Paulo
Zanjas, 1791
Levittown, 1955
So You Need a Letter of Recommendation...
AAPI Heritage Month (Brief History of)
Cohabitation is Now Illegal
International Worker's Day
Too Hot to Handle
Reparations, Ya'll!
Streaming Service Slavery
Atlanta City Limits
Storyville, 1898
Afro-Latinx Connection
U.S. Military Draft
Rooney Rule & the NFL
Hitler's Black Victims
COVID & the Age of Consent
New Orleans and the History Conference
Unratified Amendments
New California Laws for 2022
Olympus Been Fell, Sis...
For the Union
Atahualpa, et al.
When the Devil Comes to Collect
Highkey Thankful
The Mexica
Zero Dollars by 2053?!
Gentrification & Public Health (ft. Nkechi Michel, MPH)
Salem, 1692
Biden's Infrastructure Plan
Intercontinental Trade, Pre-15th Century
The Moors in Spain
Latinx Colonial Trailblazers
De-Colonizing Our Thoughts
History of Mexico/U.S. Relations
The NFL Plantation (ft. Roland Harpin, Jr.)
39th and Dalton, 1988
Opium via Afghanistan
Adjunctifiction
How the Government Segregated America
End of the Rent Moratorium
"Remember This House" (Analysis of James Baldwin's Work)
So You Want To Be a Professor?
Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité
Perks of Independence
Words Mean Things (Diaspora, Pt. 1)
Zuckerberg vs. Hawaii
Voter Suppression
Tulsa, 1921
Redlining & Housing Covenants
Part 2: Criminalization of Poverty
History of Caricatures
History of Childhood
School of Hard Knocks
Hands Off, Offred! (History and The Handmaid's Tale)
History of Masculinity
History of Femininity
Sundown Towns
Profiting From the Pain of Others
Cultural Mixing & Miscegenation Legislation
Where's the Minimum Wage Raise, Joe?
Bound by Guano
Rise in Anti-Asian Attacks
Reconstruct That!
Lincoln Ain't (Really) Ya Boy
The Case for Increased Minimum Wage
Aftermath of Insurrection
Olympus Has Fallen
New California Laws for 2021
Criminality of Poverty During the Pandemic