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America’s Violent Crusade against Alcohol

Tony McMahon1 week ago1 week ago08 mins

At the turn of the 20th century, America experienced a violent crusade against alcohol led by female crusader Carrie Nation

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  • American history

J. Edgar Hoover – the LGBT FBI boss?

Tony McMahon2 weeks ago2 weeks ago07 mins

J. Edgar Hoover was head of the FBI from the 1920s to the 1970s – the hammer of gangsters, communists, and LGBT people. Strange, given he was in a lifelong gay relationship.

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US Civil War: how Europe aided the Confederacy

Tony McMahon3 weeks ago3 weeks ago013 mins

How Europe helped the Confederacy during the American Civil War while professing its abhorrence of slavery is an interesting tale of hypocrisy and mendacity in equal measure.

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  • American history

What if Russia invaded Alaska?

Tony McMahon1 year ago1 year ago04 mins

Alaska was once part of Russia but the tsar sold it to the United States for a bargain sum. So might Vladimir Putin be eyeing it up?

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  • American history

Did the Founding Fathers oppose democracy?

Tony McMahon1 year ago1 year ago210 mins

The Founding Fathers never conceived of the United States as a democracy and let’s not get started on women, slaves and the poor as Tony McMahon discovers

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  • American history

When cigarettes were healthy for you!

Tony McMahon2 years ago2 years ago04 mins

Between the 1930s and 1950s, smoking cigarettes was presenting as being healthy for you and endorsed by doctors and athletes.

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  • American history

People’s Party – American populism before Trump

Tony McMahon2 years ago2 years ago04 mins

American populism has been on display with President Trump and the 2020 election but it has a long history in the United States

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  • American history

Muslim African slaves in America

Tony McMahon3 years ago3 years ago04 mins

Muslim African slaves in America had a different status to non-Muslim slaves often being put in supervisory roles and regarded as more cultivated

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  • American history
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Toppling statues and renaming streets – nothing new

Tony McMahon3 years ago3 years ago26 mins

There is a long history of toppling statues and renaming streets and cities and historian Tony McMahon thinks we should vex a lot less about this

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  • American history

George Floyd – learning lessons from Martin Luther King

Tony McMahon3 years ago3 years ago06 mins

Historian Tony McMahon compares the aftermath of the death of George Floyd with what happened after the assassination of Martin Luther King in 1968

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