While you’re waiting for the next DHP episode to drop, check out my recent appearance on the Lions of Liberty podcast. In this Thanksgiving special, Mark & I discuss the true history of the Pilgrims and the first Thanksgiving, the story of Squanto, and the Pilgrims’ destruction of the free-spirited Merry Mount colony that arose near Plymouth in the 1620s.
Here is part 2 of the 2019 DHP Halloween Special!
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Novels
Something Wicked This Way Comes (Greentown Book 2)
The Haunting of Hill House (Penguin Classics)
Every Dead Thing: A Charlie Parker Thriller (1)
The Eyes of the Dragon: A Novel
The Trial (Oxford World’s Classics)
The Crucible: A Play in Four Acts
Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West
Short Story Collections & Anthologies
Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural (Modern Library)
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge and Other Stories (Dover Thrift Editions)
The Monsters are Due on Maple Street
The Road to Madness: Twenty-Nine Tales of Terror
The Lottery and Other Stories (FSG Classics)
The Best of Poe: The Tell-Tale Heart, The Raven, The Cask of Amontillado, and 30 Others
Masterpieces of Terror and the Supernatural: A Treasury of Spellbinding Tales Old and New
The Beautiful People by Charles Beaumont, Science Fiction, Adventure
The Best of Richard Matheson (Penguin Classics)
For this episode, CJ was delighted to be joined by his good internet buddy Joshua, formerly of the late, lamented Dusty Den podcast, to talk about horror films. (This is part 1 of a long conversation broken into 2 parts — part 2 will be out soon & will cover horror novels & short stories.)
Join CJ & Joshua as they discuss each of their top 5 picks, plus a variable number of runners-up/honorable mentions, in each of the following categories:
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The Exorcist: The Extended Director’s Cut
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre: 40th Anniversary
The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad (Plus Bonus Content)
Twin Peaks: The Television Collection [DVD]
The Autopsy of Jane Doe
I am super-excited to announce that the first lecture of Rise of the American Empire, the first Dangerous History Lyceum course, is now available!
This podcast episode is centered on a segment from the first lecture in that course (slightly over half of the lecture, to be precise), so that DHP listeners will get a little preview of what is going to be covered in it, and (hopefully) will decide to support the show at $15 per month (or higher) in order to get access to the course as I create it.
This course will cover the growth of the United States in size & power, from Independence through the War on Terror through the analytical lens of imperial history.
Want to have access to the entirety of this, and any & all future DHL lectures & courses?
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America’s War for the Greater Middle East: A Military History
Washington Rules: America’s Path to Permanent War (American Empire Project)
The Violent American Century: War and Terror Since World War II (Dispatch Books)
Colossus: The Rise and Fall of the American Empire
Blowback: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire (American Empire Project)
Dangerous Nation: America’s Foreign Policy from Its Earliest Days to the Dawn of the Twentieth Century
The Forging of the American Empire: From the Revolution to Vietnam by Sidney Lens
Habits of Empire: A History of American Expansionism
The Contours of American History 
The Tragedy of American Diplomacy by William Appleman Williams
Empire As A Way of Life by William Appleman Williams
Empire: A Very Short Introduction
Empires in World History: Power and the Politics of Difference
Part 2 of CJ’s deep dive into the life & career of Woodrow Wilson covers most of Wilson’s career in academia, stopping just as he’s about to become president of Princeton University.
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Finally, after a LONG time of researching, planning, etc, here it is, the first installment in CJ’s DHP Villains hit-piece on The Worst President (So Far!) in US History, Woodrow Wilson. (And that’s no small matter considering how badly CJ thinks of most American presidents!)
In this first installment, we’re covering Wilson’s early life & education, stopping just before his entry into the Ph.D. program at Johns Hopkins University in the fall of 1883.
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This crossover episode features the conversation CJ had with Brett Veinotte of the School Sucks Project on the last day of the 2019 Midwest Peace & Liberty Fest.
Join Brett & CJ as they discuss a wide variety of topics, including (but not limited to) Harry Anslinger, conspiracy theories, critical thinking, human scale, and the rigidification of institutions over time.
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At the 2019 Midwest Peace & Liberty Fest in Delton, Mich., CJ took the occasion of Michigan’s recent legalization of marijuana to do a DHP Villains feature on the man who is arguably the most important of the Founding Fathers of the US government’s war on drugs.
Join CJ as he discusses the career of Harry J. Anslinger, from his early life to working for the State Department, then the Treasury Department, culminating in his tenure as first Commissioner of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics from 1930-62, during which time (among other things) he presided over the beginning of the federal government’s criminalization of marijuana and the continuous amping-up of the drug war and its penalties; along the way we’ll also cover Anslinger’s racism & xenophobia, as well as his connections to the OSS and CIA, including lending those agencies some of his top agents for shady purposes, including some of the MK-Ultra experiments.
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On June 5th, 2014, CJ published the first episode of the Dangerous History Podcast, and while it wasn’t great, he kept plugging away at it, slowly getting better & better and now, here we are, five years later, and not only has the Dangerous History Podcast survived & endured, it’s bigger & better than ever!
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(Photo in this episode’s show notes, ‘Freedom,’ courtesy Graur Razvan Ionut at freedigitalphotos.net
In this DHP episode, CJ talks with Cathal J. Nolan, associate professor of history at Boston University and author of the book The Allure of Battle: A History of How Wars Have Been Won and Lost.
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