Unbuttoned History

Welcome to the Land of the Rising Sun! Now get out. Today, you're gonna learn about the Meiji Restoration, when Japan learned how to be like the West, in terms of conquering people, killing them for having different skin tones, etc.

Direct download: HLMeiji.mp3
Category:Society & Culture -- posted at: 12:00pm EDT

This week, the boys try desperately not to say disparaging things about religious figures, five in all! Rumi, Jan Hus, Bahá'u'lláh, Malcom X, and Dorothy Day all get the History Lessons treatment.

Direct download: HLRadReligiousDudes.mp3
Category:Society & Culture -- posted at: 12:00pm EDT

In this minisode, Mike and Terry conduct an interview with the creator of a new historical chronology, Anatoly Fomenko. This is mostly true.

Direct download: HLFomenko.mp3
Category:Society & Culture -- posted at: 12:00pm EDT

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