Ranked #1
Ep. 65: Was Frederick Douglass a Libertarian?
Ep. 65: Was Frederick Douglass a Libertarian?
Timothy Sandefur joins us this week to discuss how Frederick Douglass and his beliefs do not align perfectly to today’s ... Read more
7 Aug 2018
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42mins
Ranked #2
Ep. 89: What did the Civil War Smell Like? with Mark Smith
Ep. 89: What did the Civil War Smell Like? with Mark Smith
All history is a string of sense perceptions linked together by individual minds in meaningful patterns we call moments,... Read more
15 Jan 2019
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44mins
Ranked #3
Ep. 67: More Creative Historical Thinking
Ep. 67: More Creative Historical Thinking
Our conversation about how all history is revisionist and open to creativity with Michael Douma continues this week. Dou... Read more
21 Aug 2018
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36mins
Ranked #4
Ep. 98: The Civil War as Corporatist Conquest
Ep. 98: The Civil War as Corporatist Conquest
It is a mistake to think of the Civil War a just a conflict between slavery and freedom. Planters and industrialists wer... Read more
19 Mar 2019
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22mins
Ranked #5
Ep. 94: Was the Civil War a Libertarian Moment?
Ep. 94: Was the Civil War a Libertarian Moment?
We have a tendency to treat the past as some sort of ideal world where historical actors played out their ideal scenario... Read more
19 Feb 2019
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29mins
Ranked #6
Ep. 83: Who Killed Jefferson(ianism)?
Ep. 83: Who Killed Jefferson(ianism)?
Southerners strived to protect slavery as thoroughly as possible. In order to do that, they embraced a pragmatic ideolog... Read more
4 Dec 2018
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26mins
Ranked #7
Ep. 12: Bacon's Rebellion & the Invention of Race
Ep. 12: Bacon's Rebellion & the Invention of Race
Few contemporary or historical accounts of Bacon’s rebellion agree in every particular about the movement’s motivations ... Read more
18 Jul 2017
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20mins
Ranked #8
Ep. 88: The Secession Conventions
Ep. 88: The Secession Conventions
We dive into the secession winter of 1860-1861 when politicians sacrificed unity and stability for personal power. The s... Read more
8 Jan 2019
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29mins
Ranked #9
Ep. 66: Creative Historical Thinking, with Michael Douma, Part One
Ep. 66: Creative Historical Thinking, with Michael Douma, Part One
Michael Douma joins us for the first part of a two-part series to discuss how we see the past as as an interpretative hi... Read more
14 Aug 2018
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27mins
Ranked #10
Ep. 100: Quakertarianism, with Caleb Brown
Ep. 100: Quakertarianism, with Caleb Brown
For our 100th episode we interviewed Caleb Brown to gain a better understanding of how Quakerism aligns with libertarian... Read more
2 Apr 2019
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29mins
Ranked #11
Ep. 72: There's No Excuse for Slavery (Updated)
Ep. 72: There's No Excuse for Slavery (Updated)
This is a updated version of “There’s No Excuse for Slavery” which was released on July 3rd, 2018. Enjoy!The planters of... Read more
19 Sep 2018
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28mins
Ranked #12
Ep. 31: The Jefferson Years and Mr. Madison’s War, with Kevin Gutzman
Ep. 31: The Jefferson Years and Mr. Madison’s War, with Kevin Gutzman
Shownotes:Kevin Gutzman is a New York Times best-selling author and professor of history at Western Connecticut State Un... Read more
5 Dec 2017
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33mins
Ranked #13
Ep. 41: What's a Loco-Foco?
Ep. 41: What's a Loco-Foco?
The conspirators fully expected Tammany regulars would play whatever dirty tricks necessary to maintain control over the... Read more
13 Feb 2018
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19hr 2mins
Ranked #14
Ep. 97: Resisting Leviathan, with Nicholas Mosvick
Ep. 97: Resisting Leviathan, with Nicholas Mosvick
Anthony interviews Nicholas Mosvick to discuss the issue of conscription during the Civil War and its’ lasting impact. D... Read more
12 Mar 2019
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32mins
Ranked #15
Ep. 73: The First Republicans
Ep. 73: The First Republicans
All the way from the 1770s to the 1850s, Americans had plenty of political disagreements, but nothing ever seriously dis... Read more
25 Sep 2018
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25mins
Ranked #16
Ep. 69: Van Buren - Friend or Foe? with Jeff Hummel
Ep. 69: Van Buren - Friend or Foe? with Jeff Hummel
Jeff Hummel joins our lengthy debate about who Van Buren really was as a person and as a President. Hummel argues that V... Read more
4 Sep 2018
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42mins
Ranked #17
Ep. 81: Spooner & The Secret Six, with Phil Magness
Ep. 81: Spooner & The Secret Six, with Phil Magness
Phil Magness joins us this week to teach the radical nature of Lysander Spooner. Spooner’s legal career started in an ap... Read more
20 Nov 2018
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46mins
Ranked #18
Ep. 79: Compromising Compromisers, with Stephen Maizlish
Ep. 79: Compromising Compromisers, with Stephen Maizlish
Stephen Maizlish sifted through 1700-1800 different documents and speeches from the 19th century in order to recreate an... Read more
6 Nov 2018
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38mins
Ranked #19
Ep. 87: Profiles in Locodom: Fernando Wood
Ep. 87: Profiles in Locodom: Fernando Wood
Nicholas Mosvick joins us to detail the life of Fernando Wood and how he was the mayor of New York who wished the state ... Read more
1 Jan 2019
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37mins
Ranked #20
Ep. 44: Make America Young Again
Ep. 44: Make America Young Again
The Young Americans were New York’s next generation of artists, intellectuals, and activists, and reformers, many of who... Read more
6 Mar 2018
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23mins