Claire takes Eleanor, Luke, Danny, and Derek on a holy crusade to bring down Peter the Hermit.

Guest

Today’s guests are Eleanor Janega, Danny Bessner, Derek Davison, and Luke Waters the hosts of American Prestige and American Prestige: Welcome to the Crusades - give them a listen here.

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Sensitive Themes & Topics

Warfare and violence, starvation, cannibalism, sexual violence, antisemitism, Islamophobia

Credits

- Host & Executive Producer: Claire E Aubin. Find her on Twitter @ceaubin and Bluesky ceaubin, or check out her website.

- Editor: Julia Schifini. Check out her website.

- Music: Marshall Dean Williams

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When Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States came out in 1980, it literally rocked the boat. Instead of starting where most histories of the Americas start — on the deck of Columbus’s ship as it approached land — Zinn flipped the script, focusing instead on what the people standing on the shore would have seen. This episode tells the story of the ripple effects of Zinn’s radical take on history.

Borrowed and Returned is a podcast series from Brooklyn Public Library that examines what our reading public borrowed in the past, and what we’re all reading now. In conversations with writers and readers across the country, the show revisits the books that changed us, and changed America, too.

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Claire and Christina Wade get a little bit drunk with power and direct their righteous anger at one of the world’s most annoying men.

Guest

Our guest Dr. Christina Wade is a beer historian and the host of the Beer Ladies podcast. Her newest book, Filthy Queens: A History of Beer in Ireland, is available here. Follow her on Bluesky @braciatrix and Instagram @braciatrix, or visit her website here.

Sensitive Themes & Topics

Murder and violence, misogyny

Credits

- Host & Executive Producer: Claire E Aubin. Find her on Twitter @ceaubin and Bluesky ceaubin, or check out her website.

- Editor: Julia Schifini. Check out her website.

- Music: Marshall Dean Williams

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Claire and Prof. Austin McCoy ask a very important question: does being okay at the saxophone cancel out hundreds of thousands of prison sentences and the dismantling of the welfare system?

Guest

Our guest Austin McCoy is an assistant professor at West Virginia University. His new book, Living in a D.A.I.S.Y. Age: The Music, Culture, and World De La Soul Made is available here. Follow him on Bluesky @austinmccoy and Instagram @ausmccoy, or visit his website here.

Sensitive Themes & Topics

Racism and racist violence, imprisonment

Credits

- Host & Executive Producer: Claire E Aubin. Find her on Twitter @ceaubin and Bluesky ceaubin, or check out her website.

- Editor: Julia Schifini. Check out her website.

- Music: Marshall Dean Williams

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A moment of... something, if not exactly peace, for our patrons.

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Credits

- Host & Executive Producer: Claire E Aubin. Find her on Twitter @ceaubin and Bluesky ceaubin, or check out her website.

- Editors: Mischa Stanton and Julia Schifini.

- Music: Marshall Dean Williams

- Multitude: multitude.productions

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Claire and Akilah Hughes attempt to figure out what that lady’s whole deal was and why everything is kind of her fault.

Guest

Our guest Akilah Hughes is a writer, comedian, and podcaster. Her newest podcast, How Is This Better? is available from Courier here. Follow her on Twitter @akilahobviously, on Instagram @akilahh, or visit her website.

Sensitive Themes & Topics

Misogyny/sexism, murder

Credits

- Host & Executive Producer: Claire E Aubin. Find her on Twitter @ceaubin and Bluesky ceaubin, or check out her website.

- Editor: Julia Schifini. Check out her website.

- Music: Marshall Dean Williams

- Multitude: multitude.productions

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Claire and Brooke Newman travel back to the 17th century and remind a king that he deserves all the hate he gets.

Guest

Our guest Brooke Newman is an Associate Professor of History at Virginia Commonwealth University. Her book The Crown’s Silence: The Hidden History of the British Monarchy and Slavery in the Americas is available here. Follow her on Bluesky @brookenewman and Instagram @drbrookenewman, or visit her website here.

Sensitive Themes & Topics

Slavery, torture, racial violence

Credits

- Host & Executive Producer: Claire E Aubin. Find her on Twitter @ceaubin and Bluesky ceaubin, or check out her website.

- Editor: Julia Schifini. Check out her website.

- Music: Marshall Dean Williams

- Multitude: multitude.productions

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Claire and Maddy Pelling remind us that the life of the party is often also the worst person you know.

Guest

Our guest Dr. Madeleine Pelling is a cultural historian, author, and broadcaster. Her newest book Hoax: Truth and Lies in the Age of Enlightenment is available for pre-order here, and her podcast After Dark is available here. Follow her on Instagram @maddypelling, or visit her website.

Sensitive Themes & Topics

Misogyny, slavery, political violence and police brutality

Credits

- Host & Executive Producer: Claire E Aubin. Find her on Twitter @ceaubin and Bluesky ceaubin

- Editor: Julia Schifini. Check out her website.

- Music: Marshall Dean Williams

- Multitude: multitude.productions

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