Skipped History
autor: Ben Tumin
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How Disney Took Over the World
How Disney Took Over the World
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Interviews with top historians about their latest work. Mainly educational, often funny. Conveniently, most of the jokes are about people too far underground to punch back.
Hosted by Ben Tumin, creator of the NYT-profiled Skipped History web series.
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- How Disney Took Over the World · 1 h 7 minThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit skippedhistory.substack.com Today, writer and critic Vicky Osterweil explains how Disney didn't just make movies —…
- How Yuppies Conquered New York and Beyond · 49 minThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit skippedhistory.substack.com Today, historian Dylan Gottlieb explains how yuppies conquered New York, and why that…
- The Longest American War You've Never Heard Of — and Why It Sounds Familiar · 36 minToday, Jamie Holmes explains how Andrew Jackson launched America’s longest war before Vietnam—with almost no understanding of what he was getting into. In The Free and the Dead…
- "New Terms. Same Bones." — The Origins of Great Replacement Theory · 40 minToday, Dr. Ibram X. Kendi explains how great replacement theory is an update on Nazi ideology—and why the struggle today is between anti-racist democracy and racist dictatorship…
- The Two Coups That Created America's Regime Change Addiction · 32 minToday, Scott Anderson explains how Eisenhower got addicted to regime change—and why Trump is following the same pattern. In a recent New York Times Magazine piece, Anderson…
- The Remarkable Thing Is that It Took This Long for Crisis to Come · 10 minThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit skippedhistory.substack.com Today, Jon Meacham explains why American history is a perennial struggle—and why that…
- Ground Zero for Being Told Up is Down: The Bernie Goetz Shootings · 51 minToday, Professor Heather Ann Thompson explains how a subway shooting in 1984 became the blueprint for vigilante violence in America, from George Zimmerman to Kyle Rittenhouse to…
- Life Before, During, and After Cars · 29 minToday, Doug Gordon explains how America almost stopped cars in their tracks. In Life After Cars: A Guide to Getting Around Without Driving, Doug Gordon and Sarah Goodyear (along…
- How the U.S. Exploited Venezuela's Oil Dependence · 40 minToday, Professor Miguel Tinker Salas explains how oil transformed Venezuela from a fractured agricultural economy into a nation vulnerable to foreign manipulation—and how the…
- Preparing for Peace by Preparing for Nuclear War · 51 minToday, Professor Benjamin Wilson reveals how “arms control” became a euphemism for endless weapons development—and how the scientists who claimed to oppose the arms race often…
- The Founders Wanted to Tax the Rich · 57 minToday, Dr. Vanessa S. Williamson dismantles some myths about taxes—and reveals how they’ve been weaponized throughout U.S. history. In The Price of Democracy: The Revolutionary…
- Jelani Cobb on Jamaica High, Trayvon Martin, and How We Got Here · 40 minToday, Jelani Cobb teases out the through lines of his celebrated commentary in The New Yorker—and warns us about some patterns we might’ve been ignoring. In his new essay…
- How Bacon's Rebellion Invented Race in the U.S. · 47 minToday, Dr. Brian Jones reframes some stories we thought we knew—and reveals a few others we were never taught. In Black History Is for Everyone, Dr. Jones takes us through…
- Why Malcolm X Said It Was "Already Too Late" in 1965 · 41 minToday, a dose of Malcolm X and a timeless critique of our troubling times. In Nobody Can Give You Freedom: The Political Life of Malcolm X, Professor Kehinde Andrews pushes back…
- A Brief—and All Too Topical—History of Free Speech · 48 minAnother week, another late night show host gone: first Stephen Colbert, now Jimmy Kimmel. I think it’s fair to be shocked, but not surprised by Kimmel’s dismissal. As Professor…
- Why Talk About The Power Broker in 2025 · 4 minFor anyone in NYC, the encore of my live, comedic show about Robert Moses is Monday (9/8) at 7 PM at Caveat (on the Lower East Side). In today’s video, I talk about why I’m doing…
- How Insurance Companies Profited from the Burning of the Bronx · 54 minY'all, this week we have a doozy. We're talking about "the I word"—insurance—and how insurance companies not only profited from, but actively spurred, the burning of American…
- Indigenous Identity and Belonging on Martha’s Vineyard · 40 minAs summer reaches its peak, I spoke with Aquinnah Wampanoag author Joseph Lee about tribal history on Martha’s Vineyard. We discussed the challenges of maintaining Indigenous…
- From Lincoln to Fox News: A History of Hoaxes and Conspiratorial Thinking · 42 minWith conspiracy theories (one in particular) dominating headlines, I spoke with Professor Philip Kadish about how conspiracies have evolved. We traced the history of racist…
- Some Thoughts on the Epstein Files · 1 minThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit skippedhistory.substack.com Evening, y’all! Before sending out an interview on conspiracy theories, I wanted to…
