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Matthew Van Meter joins me today to discuss the most fascinating Civil Rights case you have probably never heard of. We meet a flamboyant political boss, a hard fighting civil rights lawyer, and a young black man accused of a crime. Today on Historia.Buy the Book from Amazon:KindleHardcoverDonate to Shakespeare in PrisonCheck out the Firing Line episode with Leander Perez: This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit historia.substack.com

What were relics? Why were they important? Today on Historia I am joined by Dr. Cheryl White to discuss relics in the Medieval World. We also take a little time to talk about the Shroud of Turin, one of her areas of scholarship. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit historia.substack.com

The Supreme Court is one of the most important institutions in the United States. John Marshall, the third Chief Justice, helped to make the Court what it is today. Richard Brookhiser discusses his book John Marshall: The Man Who Made The Supreme Court. This time on Historia. Books discussed in this program:John Marshall: The Man Who Made The Supreme Court by Richard BrookhiserDocumentary on Amazon PrimeJohn Marshall: The Man Who Made The Supreme CourtOther books by Richard BrookhiserJames MadisonGive Me Liberty: A History of America's Exceptional IdeaWhat Would the Founders Do?: Our Questions, Their AnswersGentleman Revolutionary: Gouverneur Morris, the Rake Who Wrote the ConstitutionFounders' Son: A Life of Abraham LincolnAmerica's First Dynasty: The Adamses, 1735-1918Alexander Hamilton This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit historia.substack.com

What happens when democracy is denied? For a group of GIs after World War 2 the answer was do the right thing. Then when that didn't work they did what they had been taught. They took to arms. The Battle of Athens. Right here on HistoriaThe Fighting Bunch: The Battle of Athens and How World War II Veterans Won the Only Successful Armed Rebellion Since the Revolution Other books by Chris DeRose:Star Spangled Scandal: Sex, Murder, and the Trial that Changed AmericaFounding Rivals: Madison vs. Monroe, The Bill of Rights, and The Election that Saved a NationThe Presidents' War: Six American Presidents and the Civil War That Divided ThemCongressman Lincoln This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit historia.substack.com

Voting is a proud tradition in American History. On this episode of Historia Dr. Aaron Aston takes us on a journey to see how voting has evolved over the first 100 years of the American Republic.Books by Dr. Astor:The Civil War along Tennessee's Cumberland PlateauRebels on the Border: Civil War, Emancipation, and the Reconstruction of Kentucky and MissouriOther books discussed:Why Do We Still Have the Electoral College? by Alexander KeyssarThe Right to Vote: The Contested History of Democracy in the United States by Alexander KeyssarThe Field of Blood: Violence in Congress and the Road to Civil War by Joanne FreemanThe American Ballot Box in the Mid-Nineteenth Century by Richard Franklin BenselIntro and Outro music is “Marsbilly Stomp” by Twang Darkly This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit historia.substack.com

Welcome to this special Election Season edition. We have invited back Dr. Edward Watts to talk to us about voting practices in the Ancient World.Edward Watts received his Ph.D. in history from Yale University. He is presently the Vassiliadis Professor of Byzantine Greek History at UC San Diego, where he was formerly Co-Director of the Center for Hellenistic Studies. He is the author of several books on ancient history, the most recent of which is Mortal Republic: How Rome Fell Into Tyranny.Order Mortal Republic on AmazonIntro and Outro music is “Marsbilly Stomp” by Twang Darkly This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit historia.substack.com

David interviews Professor Edward Watts about his book Mortal Republic. Republics don't have to die, but they often do. What lead to the fall of the Roman Republic? Dr. Watts and David discuss this and more.Books discussed today (Links will take you to Amazon. Ordering after clicking on the link will help this site.):Mortal Republic by Edward WattsRome at War: Farms, Families, and Death in the Middle Republic by Nathan RosensteinSPQR by Mary BeardTen Caesars by Barry StraussThe Fate of Rome by Kyle HarperRome and the Making of a World State, 150 BCE–20 CEby Josiah OsgoodThrough the Eye of a Needle: Wealth, the Fall of Rome, and the Making of Christianity in the West, 350-550 AD by Peter BrownThe Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World by Catherine NixeyIntro and Outro music is “Marsbilly Stomp” by Twang Darkly This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit historia.substack.com