What are Classics? • On Justifications for Studying the Humanities • The Humanistic Tradition • Humanistic Aims and Humanitarian Aims • The Humanities in Crisis • A Social Darwinist Curriculum • Character Development as a Curricular Aim • Respo

E58: Digital Tools, Games, and Historical Empathy (A Conversation with James Diamond)

Feb 26th, 2021 1h

Fundamental Practices in the Art of Teaching • Tool Affordances and Human Effectivities • On Classrooms as Constrained Environments • The Business of Education • Tools Can Support Motivation • Pitfalls of The Profit Motive in the Education Spac

E57: A Conservative Case for Liberal Education

Feb 9th, 2021 1h 15m

IndexConservative Professors and Job Satisfaction • A Conservative Case for Liberal Education • Campus Cultures • Demands, Dialogue, and Scrutiny • What We Talk About When We Talk About Being Reasonable • On Yielding to Reason as an Authority

E56: Pandemic U

Feb 2nd, 2021 1h 3m

IndexOn the Evolution of Normal Schools • Transformative Moments in Teacher Education • The Making of the Middle Class • On State University Funding • Imperiled Working-Class Colleges • College Competition • The Pandemic Bait and Switch • On A

E55: Syllabus with William Germano and Kit Nicholls

Dec 2nd, 2020 52m 8s

Origins of the Term Syllabus • What Could a Syllabus Be? • Time and Permission to Think • Figuring out what the Questions Will Be • Learning How to Learn • Teaching and Storytelling • Telling Someone Something They Do Not Know is Not Teaching •

E54:"...but you're also a human," On Transformative Texts and the Liberal Arts

Nov 13th, 2020 38m 46s

Liberal Arts in Decline • On the Value of a Liberal Arts Education • 2008 and the Diminution of Liberal Arts Colleges • What can the Humanities Offer Students? • Seeking a Remedy • The Five Themes of Cornerstone • A Thematic Approach to Gen Ed

E53: "Stream Unavailable" - Pirate Radio, Vinyl Junkies, and the Gonzo Disc Jockey of YouTube

Oct 29th, 2020 1h 15m

In this episode of Dirty History, I sit down with Sam Pennacchio of Vinyl Junkies. At the time of writing this description, Sam has, for the past 230 days, broadcasted pirate radio streams 3-5 hours a night on Youtube and Twitch—no breaks, no g

E52: Education, Power, and Providence - The Concept of an Educated Consumer

Oct 13th, 2020 1h 6m

On Being an Internet Based Business • The Concept of Bag Appeal • Initiative 71 • Education, Power, and Providence • The Concept of an Educated Consumer • Consumer Interest / Consumer ProtectionTo learn more about District Derp follow them on

E51: There's an Argument in There - On Critical Thinking with Jonathan Haber

Oct 1st, 2020 56m 15s

Leverage the Power of Doubt • The Place of Critical Thinking in Education • On a Definition of Critical Thinking • Comparing Immersion and Infusion • The Application of Critical Thinking to Standing Curriculum • Knowledge, Skills, and Disposit

E50: Transmit, Don't Indoctrinate

Aug 19th, 2020 1h 18m

“In Praise of Idleness” • Leisure in a Constructive Sense • Recreational Guilt • The Remembered Self • Productivity Bias • Instrumental Tasks • On the Value of Conversations • Shit Canning Street Epistemology • Mass Media and Critical Thinking

E49: The New Paper

Jul 14th, 2020 51m 53s

The News as a Broken System • The New Paper • Bias and Sensationalism • The Medium is the Message • Ad-driven News and the Subscription Model • Social Media and the Democratization of MediaAre you interested in fixing the way you get news?

E48: A Gaudy Circus (The White Slave Traffic Act Considered)

Jun 30th, 2020 1h

Preface • The White-Slave Traffic Act Considered • The Everleigh Club Case Study • Party with Prince Henry of Prussia • The Murder of Marshall Field Jr. • Jack Johnson and the Mann Act • The Overwhelming Tide of Anti-Vice Activism • Conclusio

E47: The Cynical Historian (YouTube and Public History)

Jun 10th, 2020 1h 9m

YouTube and Academia • The Cynical Historian • Journalistic Sensationalism • An Obligatory Discussion of Dan Carlin and Hardcore History • Pop History/Public History • Defacing the Culture • On the Limits of YouTube • Comment Sections • On the

E46: Open Access and Digital Piracy

Jun 2nd, 2020 1h 8m

Science Journalism • Sci-Hub • Alexandra Elbakyan • Popular and Academic Science • Carl Sagan • The Big Five Academic Publishers • Broader Implications • Misinformation • Henry Ford and Anti-Semitism at the Dearborn IndependentIn this episode

Footnotes #7: Only A Crazy Person - Mental Illness and Gun Violence in America

May 26th, 2020 19m 47s

1984 · Mass Media · 77 Minutes · 21 · "residual rule-breaking" · Red Flag Laws · Background Checks · Mental Illness in Popular Media · Written By: Emily BaileyRecorded By: Thomas ThompsonProduced By: Muckraker MediaThank you to our suppo

E45: Army of Principles (Anti-intellectualism in the United States)

May 5th, 2020 1h 18m

Skeptics • Radicals • Popularizers • Socialists • Isaac Asimov • Essentialism • Robert Green Ingersoll • History at the Primary and Secondary Level • American Anti-intellectualism • “My ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.”In this epi

E44: How Psychedelics Became Dangerous (Part 3 - Psilocybin)

Apr 28th, 2020 50m 1s

Shrooms • LIFE Magazine • “mushrooms that cause strange visions" • Timothy Leary • The Harvard Psilocybin Project • Concord Prison Experiment • The Miracle at Marsh Chapel • Leary Fired • Crackdown • A Renaissance?“Psychedelic drugs cause pan

E43: "Muckraker Media: Creator Catch Up Episode 1"

Mar 26th, 2020 56m 39s

Dirty History is now produced by Muckraker Media!This is an episode of the "creator catch-up" series which is meant to introduce you to the shows we have lined up as well as explain how Muckraker Media started. I hope you all will support t

E42: How Psychedelics Became Dangerous (Part II - Mescaline)

Mar 24th, 2020 1h 2m

Defining Hallucinogen • Peyote and Jungian Archetypes • The Inquisition • San Pedro • Huxley and the Doors of Perception • Military Testing and a "Truth Serum" • The Native American Church and Present-Day MescalineDirty History is produced by

Footnotes #6: Panics And Plagues

Mar 13th, 2020 9m 41s

A Response to Hype • Historical Context • Thoughts on Panic and HindsightThanks again to our Patrons and listeners like you. Without your support, this show would not be possible.

E41: How Psychedelics Became Dangerous (Part I - LSD)

Feb 25th, 2020 55m 45s

“A friend of immemorially long-standing” • Drug Schedules and the Controlled Substances Act • Psychedelics and PR • Synthesizing LSD • Sandoz Pharmaceuticals • Osmond and Hoffer • “The Johnny Appleseed of LSD • Fear and Loathing LSD (“Thrill D

Footnotes #5: "What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us"

Feb 15th, 2020 12m 49s

Therapy in an age of option paralysis.Where to find "How to Change Your Mind"https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/how-to-change-your-mind-what-the-new-science-of-psychedelics-teaches-us-about-consciousness-dying-addiction-depression-and-transcende

E40: -ism (W/ Jermaine Fowler)

Jan 31st, 2020 1h 29m

Jermaine Fowler is a storyteller, writer, and podcast. You can find his work @ thehumanityarchive.comAnd as always, the show would not be possible without support from listeners like you. Find out more @ patreon.com/dirtyhistory

Footnotes #4 White Fright: the Replacement Theory in the United States

Dec 2nd, 2019 13m 58s

The first in Dirty History's Footnote series. These will be a collection of mini-episodes so named since footnotes are defined as, "an ancillary piece of information printed at the bottom of a page."In this episode, we'll discuss white suprem

E39: Eternal Recurrence

Nov 20th, 2019 1h 33m

In this episode, I am joined by Jordan and Giffin from That's BS to discuss the idea of directionality in history. It was a fascinating discussion, and one I will be sure to return to many times.Find That's BS wherever you get podcasts or at