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Supplementing your high school history class with something slightly sillier

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    • Emily Learns About Monty Python and the Myth of the “Dark Ages” with John Moscatiello
    • Emily Learns About… Emma Goldman (part 1) with Rudy Ramirez!
    • Emily Learns About… Emmett Till and John Lewis with Cathy Cluck!
    • Emily Learns About Aaron Burr with Cathy Cluck!
  • Season 1: World History
    • Episode 1: The Ancient Era, or “Ain’t No River Valley Wide Enough”
    • Episode 2: The Classical Era, or “That Time Everyone Plagiarized Persia”
    • Episode 3: The Classical Era in the East, or “They Built a Great Wall and Made the Huns Pay For It!”
    • Episode 4: Medieval Europe, or “That Time Europe Lost Its Mind”
    • Episode 5: The Postclassical Era in the East, or “Yes We KHAN!”
    • Episode 6: Early Modern Era in the West, or “We Missed Two Whole Continents?!”
    • Episode 7: The Early Modern Era in the East, or “They Didn’t Get the Memo”
    • Episode 8: The Modern Era in the West, or “You Say You Want A Revolution?”
    • Episode 9: The Age of Imperialism, or “Allow me to ruin the Jungle Book for you”
    • Episode 10: The Modern Era in the East or, “Knock Knock. It’s the West.”
    • Episode 11: World War I or, “The War to Cause All Wars”
    • Episode 12: World War Two, or “Who was supposed to be watching Germany?!”
    • Episode 13: The Cold War or, “I Must Break You, WOLVERINES!”
    • Episode 114: The Cold War in Latin America, or “This is why they hate us there!”
    • Episode 115 Decolonization, or “Don’t let the door hit you on the way out!”
    • Episode 116: 20th c. Middle East or, “Who knew religion was so important to people?!”
    • Episode 117: The World Today or, “Too Soon?”
  • Season 2: Historical Context
    • Episode 201: Russia, or “What the Helsinki?!”
    • Episode 202: History at the Movies or, “The Hungry Panther Games”
    • Episode 203: Sports and Protest or, “Martin, Malcolm, and Colin”
    • Episode 204: Immigration or, “Good fences make tense neighbors”
    • Episode 205: Indigenous Americans (pt. 1), or “Dang I wish I was an Inca”
    • Episode 206: Indigenous Americans (pt. 2) or “1491”
    • Episode 207: Voting or, “Sorry George”
    • Episode 208: Central American Migration or, “THE CARAVAN!”
    • Episode 209: Thanksgiving or, “The Squanto Treatment”
    • Episode 210: Political Gridlock or, “Do Something, Congress!”
    • Episode 211: North Korea or, “If you give a Kim a country, he’s gonna want some nukes”
    • Episode 212: Saudi Arabia or, “Jared and the Crown Prince sitting in a tree”
    • 213: 2019 Oscar Nominees or, “The Vice Favourite Green Panther Klansman from Bohemian Roma is Born”
    • 214: Brexit or, “Should Have Signed a Prenup”
    • 215: Game of Thrones or, “The George R.R. Martin Historical Plagiarism Tour”
    • 216: Puerto Rico or, “To Be or Not To Be… a State”
    • 217: Abortion or, “Tough Life Choices”
  • Season 3: U.S. History
    • US History Ep. 1: Colonial America or, “Who needs dancing when you have tobacco and the Bible?!”
    • US History Ep. 2: The American Revolution or, “We Spilled the Tea”
    • US History Ep. 3: The Early Republic or, “That Time We Invaded Canada!”
    • US History Ep. 4: Slavery or, “America’s Original Sin”
    • US History Ep. 5 Sectionalism or, “Manifest Destiny’s Child”
    • US History Ep. 6 The Civil War or, “Sorry I’m not Ken Burns!”
    • US History Ep. 7: The Postwar South or, “Reconstruction. Reconstruction!”
    • US History Ep. 8: The Gilded Age or, “Imagine Newsies… but no one’s dancing.”
    • US History Ep. 9: Imperialism or, “Just a spoonful of sugar helps imperialism go down…”
    • US History Ep. 10: The Progressive Era or, “No more thumbs in our meat, please!”
    • US History Ep. 11 The Women’s Era or, “Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make It On This Podcast”
    • US History Ep. 12: World War I or, “Woodrow Wilson’s War”
    • U.S. History Episode 13 The Roaring 20s or, “Does any of this sound a little familiar?”
    • US History Ep. 14: The New Deal or, “Saving Mr. Banks!”
  • Professional Development
    • Distance Learning (#Coronavirusgate 2020)
    • “Teaching Current Events in the Era of Fake News”
      • BONUS Episode: SXSW EDU “Teaching in the Era of Fake News”
    • “Podcasting in the Classroom”
    • Current Events in the Classroom
  • Historical Silliness
    • “Zoom!” (A “Shoop” Parody)
    • “Lafayette!” Music Video
    • Hogwarts Sorting Hat: US Presidents
    • First Ladies in a Knife Fight
    • How much of world history can I relate to the Hunger Games? All of it.

Month: December 2019

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Gift Ideas for the Social Studies Nerd in Your Life

This site contains affiliate links to products. We may receive a commission for purchases made through these links. (And if I do, thank you!) Books! Any book by Malcolm Gladwell is a definite hit with the nerd crowd. But this is his newest book and hey, maybe it will make discussions around the family dinner …

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Season 3: U.S. History

US History Ep. 9: Imperialism or, “Just a spoonful of sugar helps imperialism go down…”

Welcome back to Anti-Social Studies! Last episode we talked about the Gilded Age and it was dark. Like, Dickensian-level darkness: poverty, tiny child labor hands, fat corrupt politicians. But on the other hand, electricity! So it balances out, right? Today we’re not moving forward in time, but staying in the very end of the Gilded …

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