May 13

Ep. 0181: Place of the Slaughter

This Dangerous History Podcast episode covers a dramatic but very little-known conflict in the early history of colonial North America, which culminated in multiple mass murders of European colonists by other, rival European colonists.

Join CJ as he discusses:

  • An overview of early Spanish attempts at colonizing La Florida, which were a series of major failures running from Ponce de Leon in 1519 to Tristan de Luna in 1559, after which the Spanish Crown ended all attempts at colonizing the region
  • The beginning of French Huguenot involvement in Florida, which renewed Spanish interest in the area
  • Spain’s decision to make one last attempt to colonize Florida, to be led by Pedro Menendez de Aviles
  • The race to Florida between Menendez’ expedition and that of Huguenot leader Jean Ribault
  • The conflict in Florida between the Spanish Catholics and French Huguenots, culminating in multiple cold-blooded massacres
  • The legacy of all this not only for the history of Florida, but the subsequent colonial history of North America

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April 19

Ep. 0180: A Tale of Two Shilohs (w/Chris Calton)

This episode is a tag-team collaboration with Chris Calton, host of the Historical Controversies podcast, which is published by the Mises Institute.

Join Chris & CJ as they tell the story of the Battle of Shiloh as experienced by Henry Stanley (a young Confederate soldier) and John Cockerill (a young Union soldier.)

(This episode is a crossover episode with Historical Controversies season 3 episode 53.)

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March 18

Ep. 0179: Exploring the Inward Empire with Sam Davis


This episode of the Dangerous History Podcast features CJ’s recent conversation with Sam Davis, host of the Inward Empire podcast.

Join Sam & CJ as they discuss:

  • Some thoughts on history podcasts in general, and the divide between “indie/DIY” podcasters, and “institutional” ones
  • How Sam came to be doing the Inward Empire podcast
  • The fact that the United States is, and always has been, an empire, what this means, and why so many refuse to see it
  • The role of the frontier experience (and the mythology of it) in shaping American history, even long after the ear of the Old West ended
  • The divergence between scholarly understandings of history and popular depictions and understandings of it
  • Ways in which one’s own ideology influences one’s take on history
  • The obvious-but-oft-overlooked continuity in American history between the Indian wars and the later wars of overseas empire
  • The ways in which Anglo-Saxonism and xenophobia have influenced American empire-building
  • The trickiness of trying to draw parallels between current events and historical topics
  • Some of Sam’s experiences teaching history at the high school level over the past year

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March 13

Ep. 0178: Considering Community College, Part 2 (w/Brett Veinotte)


(This is a crossover episode, featuring the same discussion as School Sucks Episode 602.)

Join Brett & CJ as they discuss many of the negative trends that have been increasing among college students in recent years.

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March 8

Ep. 0177: Considering Community College, Part 1 (w/Brett Veinotte)

Another Dangerous History/School Sucks crossover episode!

Recently I was invited onto the School Sucks podcast with Brett Veinotte to discuss some of the negative trends I’m experiencing in my teaching dayjob; part 1 of that conversation is also the heart of this DHP episode. (This is a crossover episode, featuring the same conversation as School Sucks Episode #601.)

Join Brett & CJ as they discuss some of the negative institutional trends CJ has experienced, such as reduced course variety, problems with online classes in an institutional education setting, issues with the elimination of mandatory remedial courses for certain students (despite the fact that many students badly need them), and some of the warped incentives created by performance funding and over-reliance on quantitative, outcomes-based metrics.

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January 31

Ep. 0176: The Great Alibi & the Treasury of Virtue: The Not-So-Civil War Part 15

More than 2 years in the making, based on reading dozens (I never wanted to count) of books & dozens more articles, over 300 pages of typed notes, 15 episodes long, 28 hours total run-time…..

Boom – here it is, the end of the DHP’s Not-So-Civil War series! What started over 2 years ago is finally done with — took almost half as long to make as the war took to actually happen, it’s done, here we are, one last big push to the finish line!

(Now you can binge the series all the way through, from the beginning, Netflix-style, if you want, starting all the way back with DHP Ep. 131: Opening Gambits, which came out on the last day of 2016.)

Join CJ as he discusses:

  • The “Lost Cause” Mythology of the Confederacy
  • One last look at the two sides of why the war happened: First, why did the South secede (including an extensive examination of primary sources on this), and second, why was the North willing to use war to prevent them from doing so successfully?
  • An examination of why the war turned out as it did, and a potential alternative scenario in which it might well have turned out differently
  • And some perspectives on this war that CJ finds interesting & persuasive, from several writers & historians, none of whom are simplistic apologists for either side of the conflict

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December 16

Ep. 0175: The Real George H.W. Bush, with Russ Baker

 

In light of the recent death of former President George Herbert Walker “Poppy” Bush (1924-2018), CJ was very happy to speak to investigative journalist and author Russ Baker (author of Family of Secrets: The Bush Dynasty, America’s Invisible Government, and the Hidden History of the Last Fifty Years, and head honcho of WhoWhatWhy) about the reality of Poppy Bush, which is quite a contrast to the media hagiography that’s been ongoing since his death.

Join CJ & Russ as they discuss:

  • How Russ got into the investigations that eventually became Family of Secrets
  • A bit of the backstory on the Bush family
  • The ways in which the mainstream portrayal & perception of Poppy Bush are wildly different from the truth, including his involvement with American intelligence going back decades before his tenure as CIA director in the 1970s
  • Poppy Bush’s interesting connections to many major events of 20th century American history, including the JFK assassination and the Watergate scandal
  • What this sort of history (and the degree to which it is deliberately ignored) says about the political system and mainstream media in the United States

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December 9

Ep. 0174: DHP Heroes: John Carpenter, Part 2

This episode is the conclusion of CJ’s coverage of John Carpenter’s filmmaking career.

[*Note: Since recording this episode, I did get a chance to watch Bodybags, which is actually a horror anthology movie rather than a series as I think I said in the episode. Long story short, I liked it a lot & would definitely recommend it for any fans of horror in general and/or Carpenter in particular.]

Join CJ as he discusses:

  • All the films Carpenter directed from Christine (1983) through The Ward (2010)
  • Common themes and techniques in Carpenter’s films
  • Carpenter’s statements about what he believes vs. the ideology that his films portray (which are often quite different)
  • Carpenter’s influence on CJ’s worldview, and why his best works have resonated so strongly.

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November 16

Ep. 0173: DHP Heroes: John Taylor Gatto (w/Richard Grove & Brett Veinotte)

John Taylor Gatto (1935-2018) was an award-winning public school teacher before leaving that career to become an outspoken critic of conventional schooling.

In this episode, CJ is very pleased to be joined by Richard Grove of Tragedy & Hope and Brett Veinotte of School Sucks to discuss Gatto’s life, legacy, and influence.

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November 7

Ep. 0172: The Voluntary Difference (What CJ said at Harvard)

This episode contains CJ’s presentation from the Sound Education podcast conference held at the Divinity School of Harvard University in November, 2018.

Join CJ as he discusses:

  • The differences he’s noticed (for both teacher & learner) between a conventional classroom setting on the one hand, and podcasting on the other
  • His belief that these differences are largely due to the fact that a typical classroom setting is less voluntary and revolves around extrinsic motivations, whereas something like podcasting is purely voluntary (for both teacher & learner) and revolves around intrinsic motivations, and why the latter is superior in most important ways to the former

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  • “Teacher Liberation” (an excellent Ted Talk by Joel Hammon that also addresses some of the ways in which voluntary educational relationships are superior to nonvoluntary ones, for both teachers and students)
  • A Ted Talk by Daniel Pink, author of Drive

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