Claire teams up with Chuck from Appodlachia to talk about the union-busting hired guns that made it even harder to survive in the West Virginia coalfields.

Collaborator

This episode is a collaboration with Appodlachia, a show about the culture, history, and politics of Appalachia. Listen to them here and join their Patreon here.

Recommendations

- Black Coal and Red Bandanas by Raymond Tyler, Summer McClinton, and Paul Buhle

- West Virginia Mine Wars Museum in Matewan, WV

Sensitive Themes & Topics

Murder, gun violence, racism & racial violence

Credits

- Host & Executive Producer: Claire E Aubin. Find her on Twitter @ceaubin and Bluesky ceaubin 

- Editor: Julia Schifini. Check out her website.

- Music: Marshall Dean Williams

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Claire and Dr. Lauren Lassabe Shepherd grade the man behind Mississippi’s mid-century campus culture wars. He (unsurprisingly) gets an F.

Guest

Our guest Dr. Lauren Lassabe Shepherd is a historian of American colleges and universities, and the host of American Campus. Her book Resistance From The Right: Conservatives and the Campus Wars is available here. Follow her on Twitter and Bluesky, or visit her website.

Sensitive Themes & Topics

Racism, racial violence, homophobia 

Credits

- Host & Executive Producer: Claire E Aubin. Find her on Twitter @ceaubin and Bluesky ceaubin 

- Producer & Editor: Thomas O’Mahony. Find him on Twitter @gotitatguineys and Bluesky gotitatguineys

- Music: Marshall Dean Williams

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Claire and Dr. Zack Furness let loose on the antisemitic calorie-counting surveillance pervert behind America’s most mediocre homegrown auto manufacturer.

Guest

Our guest Dr. Zack Furness an Associate Professor of Communications at Penn State Greater Allegheny. His book One Less Car: Bicycling and the Politics of Automobility is available here. Follow him on Bluesky and Instagram, or visit his website.

Credits

- Host & Executive Producer: Claire E Aubin. Find her on Twitter @ceaubin and Bluesky ceaubin 

- Producer & Editor: Thomas O’Mahony. Find him on Twitter @gotitatguineys and Bluesky gotitatguineys

- Music: Marshall Dean Williams

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Claire and Dr. Moiya McTier ascend to the heavens and nuke 2nd century astrophilosophers from orbit.

Guest

Our guest Dr. Moiya McTier is an astrofolklorist and the host of Pale Blue Pod. Her book The Milky Way: An Autobiography Of Our Galaxy, is available here. Follow her on Twitter and on Instagram, or visit her website here.

Credits

- Host & Executive Producer: Claire E Aubin. Find her on Twitter @ceaubin and Bluesky ceaubin 

- Producer & Editor: Thomas O’Mahony. Find him on Twitter @gotitatguineys and Bluesky gotitatguineys

- Music: Marshall Dean Williams

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Claire and Dr. Sarah-Jane Murray flip the script on one of the world’s first French poets with our inaugural This Guy Rocked episode.

Guest

Our guest Dr. Sarah-Jane Murray is a Professor of Great Texts and Creative Writing at Baylor University and the founder of The Greats Story Lab. Follow her on Twitter and visit her website.

To learn more about Marie’s incredible stories, SJ and Claire also recommend reading The Lais of Marie de France: Text and Translation by Claire Waters, available here.

Sensitive Themes & Topics

Misogyny

Credits

- Host & Executive Producer: Claire E Aubin. Find her on Twitter @ceaubin and Bluesky ceaubin 

- Producer & Editor: Thomas O’Mahony. Find him on Twitter @gotitatguineys and Bluesky gotitatguineys

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Claire and Dr. Jonathan Fine build a case against the vice president’s favorite philosopher in the court of public opinion.

Guest

Our guest Dr. Jonathan Fine is a Germanist specializing in Comparative Literature and Intellectual History. Follow him on Twitter @jonathanbfine and on Bluesky @jonathanbfine, or visit his website.

Sensitive Themes & Topics

Antisemitism

Credits

- Host & Executive Producer: Claire E Aubin. Find her on Twitter @ceaubin and Bluesky ceaubin 

- Producer & Editor: Thomas O’Mahony. Find him on Twitter @gotitatguineys and Bluesky gotitatguineys

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Claire and Dr. Erik Baker set out on an intrepid journey deep into the heart of darkness itself: Harvard Business School.

Guest

Our guest Dr. Erik Baker is a historian of labor and lecturer at Harvard. His new book Make Your Own Job: How The Entrepreneurial Work Ethic Exhausted America is out now with Harvard University Press. Follow him on Twitter @erikmbaker and on Bluesky erikbaker, or visit his website.

Sensitive Themes & Topics

Antisemitism, misogyny, fatphobia

Credits

- Host & Executive Producer: Claire E. Aubin. Find her on Twitter @ceaubin and Bluesky ceaubin 

- Producer & Editor: Thomas O’Mahony. Find him on Twitter @gotitatguineys and Bluesky gotitatguineys

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Claire and Dr. Matt Lodder discover why being born left-handed and a woman mean they missed out on their real calling: a life of crime.

Guest

Our guest Dr. Matt Lodder is a Senior Lecturer in Art History and Theory at the University of Essex. His newest book Tattoos: The Untold History of a Modern Art is now out with Yale University Press. Follow him on Twitter @mattlodder and on Bluesky mattlodder, or visit his Instagram.

Sensitive Themes & Topics

Racism, misogyny, ableism, eugenics

Credits

- Host & Executive Producer: Claire E Aubin. Find her on Twitter @ceaubin and Bluesky ceaubin 

- Producer & Editor: Thomas O’Mahony. Find him on Twitter @gotitatguineys and Bluesky gotitatguineys

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Claire and Dr. Andrew Hartman discuss Marxism, labor movements, and why everybody’s favorite presidents might’ve made things a whole lot worse.

Guest

Our guest Dr. Andrew Hartman is a professor of history at Illinois State University. His newest book Karl Marx in America, is available for pre-order from University of Chicago Press. Follow him on Twitter @hartmanandrew and Bluesky andrewhartman.

Credits

- Host & Executive Producer: Claire E Aubin. Find her on Twitter @ceaubin and Bluesky ceaubin 

- Producer & Editor: Thomas O’Mahony. Find him on Twitter @gotitatguineys and Bluesky gotitatguineys

- Music: Marshall Dean Williams

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Claire and Dr. Asheesh Kapur Siddique attempt to answer an age-old question: what’s Scotland’s whole deal? 

Guest

Our guest Dr. Asheesh Kapur Siddique is an Assistant Professor of History at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. His book The Archive of Empire: Knowledge, Conquest, and the Making of the Early Modern British World is available here. Follow him on Twitter @Asheeshksi and on Bluesky asheeshksi.

Sensitive Themes & Topics

Racism, slavery

Credits

- Host & Executive Producer: Claire E Aubin. Find her on Twitter @ceaubin and Bluesky ceaubin 

- Producer & Editor: Thomas O’Mahony. Find him on Twitter @gotitatguineys and Bluesky gotitatguineys

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Claire and Dr. Matthew Gabriele go on a holy crusade to figure out what’s up with Charlemagne the Actually-Not-That-Great.

Guest

Our guest Dr. Matthew Gabriele is a professor of medieval studies at Virginia Tech. His new book with David M. Perry, Oathbreakers: The War of Brothers That Shattered an Empire and Made Medieval Europe is available here. Follow him on Bluesky profgabriele or visit his website here.

Sensitive Themes & Topics

Intimate partner violence, violence, racism

Credits

- Host & Executive Producer: Claire E Aubin. Find her on Twitter @ceaubin and Bluesky ceaubin 

- Producer & Editor: Thomas O’Mahony. Find him on Twitter @gotitatguineys and Bluesky gotitatguineys

- Music: Marshall Dean Williams

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Claire and Dr. Anabel Maler dial in for a discussion on everything that was wrong with that one phone guy.

Guest

Our guest Dr. Anabel Maler is an Assistant Professor of Music Theory at the University of British Columbia. Her book, Seeing Voices: Analyzing Sign Language Music, is available here. Follow her on Bluesky @amaler.

Sensitive Themes & Topics

Ableism, eugenics

Credits

- Host & Executive Producer: Claire E Aubin. Find her on Twitter @ceaubin and Bluesky ceaubin 

- Editor: Julia Schifini. Check out her website.

- Music: Marshall Dean Williams

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Claire and Dr. Drew McKevitt go to the gun range. Not really, but there are definitely some shots fired.

Guest

Our guest Dr. Drew Mckevitt is a professor of History at Louisiana Tech. His book Gun Country: Gun Capitalism, Culture, and Control in Cold War America, is available here. Follow him on Twitter @drewmckevitt and Bluesky drewmckevitt

Sensitive Themes & Topics

Racism, gun violence

Credits

- Host & Executive Producer: Claire E Aubin. Find her on Twitter @ceaubin and Bluesky ceaubin 

- Producer & Editor: Thomas O’Mahony. Find him on Twitter @gotitatguineys and Bluesky gotitatguineys

- Music: Marshall Dean Williams

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Claire and Dr. Robert Komaniecki ask an important question: was Jerry Lee Lewis a gigantic jerk to everyone, about everything? Their answer will absolutely not surprise you.

Guest

Our guest Dr. Robert Komaniecki is a lecturer in music theory and music history at the University of British Columbia. Follow him on Twitter @Komaniecki_R and on Bluesky @komaniecki

Sensitive Themes & Topics

Racism, intimate partner violence, sexual violence, child sexual abuse

Credits

- Host & Executive Producer: Claire E Aubin. Find her on Twitter @ceaubin and Bluesky ceaubin 

- Producer & Editor: Thomas O’Mahony. Find him on Twitter @gotitatguineys and Bluesky gotitatguineys

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Claire sits down with Dr. Eleanor Janega to talk Candide-ly (get it?) about the guy who ruined medieval studies.

Guest

Our guest Dr. Eleanor Janega is a medieval historian and host of the podcast We’re Not So Different and History Hit TV’s Going Medieval. Her book, The Once and Future Sex, is available here. Follow her on Twitter @GoingMedieval and on Instagram @dreleanorjanega, or visit her website.

Sensitive Themes & Topics

Racism, sexism, incest, slavery, antisemitism

Credits

- Host & Executive Producer: Claire E Aubin. Find her on Twitter @ceaubin and Bluesky ceaubin 

- Producer & Editor: Thomas O’Mahony. Find him on Twitter @gotitatguineys and Bluesky gotitatguineys

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This Guy Sucked is a history podcast for haters, by haters.

Join historian Dr. Claire Aubin and a new expert every week to pull back the scholarly curtain on the world’s worst guys and gals - from the beloved to the relatively unknown.

No historically-significant dead person is safe, and every episode proves that the best part of understanding the past is criticizing it. New episodes every Thursday! 

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Claire and Dr. Patrick Wyman have a chat about mythology, stupidity, and the guy who put the Great in Great Man History.

Guest

Our guest Dr. Patrick Wyman is a historian, author, and podcaster. His book The Verge: Reformation, Renaissance, and Forty Years that Shook the World is available here, and you can listen to his podcast Tides of History here. Follow him on Twitter @Patrick_Wyman, Bluesky @patrickwyman, on Instagram @wyman_patrick. 

Sensitive Themes & Topics

Violence, murder, slavery, genocide, infanticide, alcoholism

Credits

- Host & Executive Producer: Claire E Aubin. Find her on Twitter @ceaubin and Bluesky ceaubin 

- Editor: Julia Schifini. Check out her website.

- Music: Marshall Dean Williams

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Claire and Dr. Kevin Schultz discuss a man who grifted his way into (and out of) the White House, and how America’s current political polarization started earlier than you think. 

Guest

Our guest Dr. Kevin Schultz is a Professor of History at the University of Illinois, Chicago. His newest book, Why Everyone Hates White Liberals (Including White Liberals) is available here. 

Sensitive Themes & Topics

Racism, war

Credits

- Host & Executive Producer: Claire E Aubin. Find her on Twitter @ceaubin and Bluesky ceaubin 

- Editor: Julia Schifini. Check out her website

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Claire and Dr. Neil J. Young discuss the frustrating legacy of Terry Dolan – attack dog of the New Right, proponent of ‘traditional values,’ and life-long closeted gay man.

Guest

Our guest Neil J. Young is a historian of the American Right. His book Coming Out Republican: A History of the Gay Right is available here. Follow him on Twitter and Bluesky, or visit his website.

Sensitive Themes & Topics

Racism, homophobia, misogyny, HIV/AIDS, death

Credits

- Host & Executive Producer: Claire E Aubin. Find her on Twitter @ceaubin and Bluesky ceaubin 

- Editor: Julia Schifini. Check out her website.

- Music: Marshall Dean Williams

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Claire and Dr. Nicole Cochrane make an important contribution to the Horrible Man Theory of history and do not mention anybody’s alleged height or anatomical features while doing it. 

Guest

Our guest Dr. Nicole Cochrane is an art historian and Assistant Curator in Historic British Art (1790-1850) at Tate Britain. Her co-edited collection Napoleonic Objects and their Afterlives: Art, Culture, and Heritage 1821-present is available here. Follow her on Twitter.

Sensitive Themes & Topics

Misogyny, racism, slavery, warfare

Credits

- Host & Executive Producer: Claire E Aubin. Find her on Twitter @ceaubin and Bluesky ceaubin 

- Editor: Julia Schifini. Check out her website.

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Claire and Dr. Imani Mosley talk high school band, Scandinavian fantasy freaks, and BDSM (Bizarre/Delusional/Strange Men).

Guest

Our guest Dr. Imani Mosley is an Assistant Professor at the University of Florida School of Music. Follow her on Bluesky or visit her website.

Sensitive Themes & Topics

Racism, antisemitism, sexual violence

Credits

- Host & Executive Producer: Claire E Aubin. Find her on Twitter @ceaubin and Bluesky ceaubin 

- Producer & Editor: Thomas O’Mahony. Find him on Twitter @gotitatguineys and Bluesky gotitatguineys

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Claire and Dr. Hannah Zeavin do a deep-dive on 20th century child psychiatry, and why we all started believing everything is our moms’ fault.

Guest

Our guest Dr. Hannah Zeavin is an Assistant Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley, a cofounder of the Psychosocial Foundation, and Founding Editor of Parapraxis Magazine. Her newest book Mother Media: Hot and Cool Parenting in the Twentieth Century is available here. Follow her on Twitter and Bluesky, or visit her website.

Sensitive Themes & Topics

Ableism, racism, misogyny

Credits

- Host & Executive Producer: Claire E Aubin. Find her on Twitter @ceaubin and Bluesky ceaubin 

- Producer & Editor: Thomas O’Mahony. Find him on Twitter @gotitatguineys and Bluesky gotitatguineys

- Music: Marshall Dean Williams

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Claire and Dr. Roel Konijnendijk talk trash about ancient Athens’ most treacherous twink.

Guest

Our guest Dr. Roel Konijnendijk is a Darby Fellow in Ancient History at Oxford. Follow him on Bluesky or find him on r/AskHistorians.

Sensitive Themes & Topics

Murder/violence and warfare

Credits

- Host & Executive Producer: Claire E Aubin. Find her on Twitter @ceaubin and Bluesky ceaubin 

- Producer & Editor: Thomas O’Mahony. Find him on Twitter @gotitatguineys and Bluesky gotitatguineys

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Claire and Dr. Chance Bonar journey back into Ancient Roman Africa to talk about a guy who was very afraid of everything, including jewelry and high school teachers.

Guest

Our guest Dr. Chance Bonar is an Advising Fellow at the University of Virginia. His book God, Slavery, and Early Christianity, is available here. Follow him on Twitter and on Bluesky.

Sensitive Themes & Topics

Sex, child sexual abuse & marriage, misogyny, antisemitism, violence, slavery

Credits

- Host & Executive Producer: Claire E Aubin. Find her on Twitter @ceaubin and Bluesky ceaubin 

- Editor: Julia Schifini. Check out her website.

- Music: Marshall Dean Williams

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Claire and Dr. Kellie Carter Jackson send the man behind Birth Of A Nation (and the re-birth of the KKK) to the cutting room floor.

Guest

Our guest Dr. Kellie Carter Jackson is an Associate Professor of Africana Studies at Wellesley College and host of This Day from Radiotopia. Her book We Refuse is available here. Follow her on Twitter, Bluesky, and Instagram, or visit her website.

Sensitive Themes & Topics

Racism and racial violence, slavery, sexual violence

Credits

- Host & Executive Producer: Claire E Aubin. Find her on Twitter @ceaubin and Bluesky ceaubin 

- Editor: Julia Schifini. Check out her website.

- Music: Marshall Dean Williams

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Claire and Dr. Surekha Davies badmouth a man who made the world a lot bigger for some people and a lot worse for others.

Guest

Our guest Dr. Surekha Davies is an author, historian of science, speaker, and monster consultant. Her newest book, Humans: A Monstrous History is available here. Follow her on Bluesky @drsurekhadavies and Instagram @surekhadavies, or visit her website.

Sensitive Themes & Topics

Racism and racial violence, genocide, slavery

Credits

- Host & Executive Producer: Claire E Aubin. Find her on Twitter @ceaubin and Bluesky ceaubin 

- Editor: Julia Schifini. Check out her website.

- Music: Marshall Dean Williams

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Claire and Greg Jenner take center stage to prove Edmund Kean was less leading man, more dramatic cautionary tale.

Guest

Our guest Greg Jenner is a historian, author, podcaster, and ‘weaselly looking guy.’ You can follow him on Instagram and on Bluesky. His website is gregjenner.com and his book Dead Famous: An Unexpected History of Celebrity from Bronze Age to Silver Screen is available here.

Partners

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Sensitive Themes & Topics

Alcoholism, drug use, murder

Credits

- Host & Executive Producer: Claire E Aubin. Find her on Twitter @ceaubin and Bluesky ceaubin 

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- Music: Marshall Dean Williams

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Our first ever live show is coming!

Where: Caveat, 21A Clinton St, New York City

When: Thursday, October 9, 2025 @ 7pm

Who: Claire + a couple of special guests!

How: Get your tickets here!

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Claire and Dr. Shaily Patel unpack the many misdeeds of one of early Christianity’s most important men.

Guest

Our guest Dr. Shaily Patel is an Assistant Professor of early Christianity at Virginia Tech. Her book Magic and Heresy in Ancient Christian Literature is available here, and Smoke and Mirrors: Discourses of Magic in Early Petrine Traditions is available here. Follow her on Bluesky.

Sensitive Themes & Topics

Slavery, misogyny, antisemitism

Credits

- Host & Executive Producer: Claire E Aubin. Find her on Twitter @ceaubin and Bluesky ceaubin 

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Claire and Elise Wang dig into the men (and motivations) behind one of the world’s most damaging and long-standing conspiracy theories.

Guest

Our guest Dr. Elise Wang is a professor of medieval literature at CSU Fullerton, and a current Carnegie Fellow. Her book The Making of Felony Procedure in Middle English Literature is available here. Follow her on Bluesky and check out her website.

Partners

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Sensitive Themes & Topics

Child death, antisemitism, racism

Credits

- Host & Executive Producer: Claire E Aubin. Find her on Twitter @ceaubin and Bluesky ceaubin 

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Claire and Professor Louis Moore go a few rounds with America’s first heavyweight champion.

Guest

Our guest Professor Louis Moore is a Professor of History at Michigan State University and the co-host of the Black Athlete Podcast. His newest book, The Great Black Hope: Doug Williams, Vince Evans, and the Making of the Black Quarterback is available here, and I Fight For A Living: Boxing and the Battle for Black Manhood is available here. Follow him on Twitter @loumoore12 and on Bluesky @profloumoore, or visit his website.

Sensitive Themes & Topics

Racism, violence, animal abuse, alcoholism

Credits

- Host & Executive Producer: Claire E Aubin. Find her on Twitter @ceaubin and Bluesky ceaubin 

- Editor: Julia Schifini. Check out her website.

- Music: Marshall Dean Williams

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Claire is joined by Amanda Silberling and Isabel Kim from Wow If True to discuss the collapse of the internet and why we can’t have nice things anymore.

**The full episode is available on the TGS Patreon now and will become available in full on the public Wow If True feed from 10/15.**

Collaborators

Amanda Silberling and Isabel Kim are the hosts and intrepid internet travelers behind Wow If True, the podcast of your wildest memes. Find Amanda on her website and Isabel on hers - and don’t forget to preorder Sublimation.

This episode discusses Cory Doctorow’s new book Enshittification in some depth - go buy it!

Sensitive Themes & Topics

Political violence, death threats. 

Credits

- Host & Executive Producer: Claire E Aubin. Find her on Twitter @ceaubin and Bluesky ceaubin 

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- Music: Marshall Dean Williams

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Claire and Prof. Dan Hicks bring (more) shame on the name Pitt-Rivers, and make an argument for unburying all of the archival bodies.

Guest

Our guest Dan Hicks is a Professor of Contemporary Archaeology at Oxford, as well as a curator at the Pitt Rivers Museum. His newest book, Every Monument Will Fall is available here. Follow him on Bluesky, Instagram and… LinkedIn?

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Sensitive Themes & Topics

Racism, eugenics, violence, grave desecration and human remains

Credits

- Host & Executive Producer: Claire E Aubin. Find her on Twitter @ceaubin and Bluesky ceaubin 

- Editor: Julia Schifini. Check out her website.

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Claire and Eric Silver remind us that sometimes games we love are created by not-so-good people who openly wanted to do an immense amount of psychic damage to some of their players.

Guest

Our guest Eric Silver is a podcaster, writer, and the Game Master for TTRPG actual play podcast Join The Party. Follow him on Bluesky and Instagram, or visit his website.

Sensitive Themes & Topics

Misogyny, drug use, sexual violence

Eric’s Article

Dungeons & Dragons Has An Antisemitism Problem

Credits

- Host & Executive Producer: Claire E Aubin. Find her on Twitter @ceaubin and Bluesky ceaubin. 

- Editor: Julia Schifini. Check out her website.

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Claire and Cynthia Paces try to separate a man from a whole lot of mysteries.

Guest

Our guest Cynthia Paces is a Professor of History at the College of New Jersey. Her new book Prague: the Heart of Europe, is available here. Visit her website here.

Sensitive Themes & Topics

Dismemberment/disfigurement, sexual coercion

Credits

- Host & Executive Producer: Claire E Aubin. Find her on Twitter @ceaubin and Bluesky ceaubin 

- Editor: Julia Schifini. Check out her website.

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Claire and Dr. Jonathan Fine build a case against the vice president’s favorite philosopher in the court of public opinion.

**THIS REMASTERED EPISODE WAS PREVIOUSLY RELEASED EXCLUSIVELY ON PATREON**

Guest

Our guest Dr. Jonathan Fine is a Germanist specializing in Comparative Literature and Intellectual History. Follow him on Twitter @jonathanbfine and on Bluesky @jonathanbfine, or visit his website.

Sensitive Themes & Topics

Antisemitism, Political violence

Credits

- Host & Executive Producer: Claire E Aubin. Find her on Twitter @ceaubin and Bluesky ceaubin 

- Editor: Julia Schifini. Check out her website.

- Music: Marshall Dean Williams

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Claire and Rhiannon Garth Jones take a trip to the Middle East. Or possibly the Near East. Or maybe somewhere else but it’s DEFINITELY not the West and how dare you imply otherwise.

Guest

Our guest Rhiannon Garth Jones is a Teaching Fellow at the University of Leeds. Her book All Roads Lead to Rome: Why We Think of the Roman Empire Daily, is available here. Follow her on Bluesky. @rhigarthjones

Sensitive Themes & Topics

Racism, Islamophobia

Credits

- Host & Executive Producer: Claire E Aubin. Find her on Twitter @ceaubin and Bluesky ceaubin, or check out her website.

- Editor: Julia Schifini. Check out her website.

- Music: Marshall Dean Williams

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Introducing Past Lives, a brand-new history podcast from Patrick Wyman, creator of Tides of History and Fall of Rome. Discover the real, lived experiences of everyday people in the human past, not Great Men and their Doings.

Subscribe for free on your podcast app of choice, and be sure to check out the Past Lives Patreon with tons of bonus content to support this 100% independent production.

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Claire et David M. Perry de poeta mediaevali maledicunt.

Guest

Our guest David M. Perry is a journalist and historian. Pre-order his new book The Public Scholar: A Practical Handbook here, or buy copies of The Bright Ages or Oathbreakers here. Follow him on Bluesky @lollardfish or visit his website here.

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Credits

- Host & Executive Producer: Claire E Aubin. Find her on Twitter @ceaubin and Bluesky ceaubin, or check out her website.

- Editor: Julia Schifini. Check out her website.

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Claire and John Callanan explain why Bernard Mandeville is the bee’s knees. That joke might not make sense yet, but it will once you’re done with the episode.

Guest

Our guest Dr. John Callanan is a Reader in Philosophy at King’s College London. His book Man-Devil: The Mind and Times of Bernard Mandeville, the Wickedest Man in Europe, is available here. Follow him on Twitter @johnjocallanan and on Bluesky @johnjocallanan.

Credits

- Host & Executive Producer: Claire E Aubin. Find her on Twitter @ceaubin and Bluesky ceaubin, or check out her website.

- Editor: Julia Schifini. Check out her website.

- Music: Marshall Dean Williams

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Claire and Vanessa Williamson talk about death, taxes, and a man who literally believed they should go hand-in-hand.

Guest

Our guest Dr. Vanessa Williamson is a Senior Fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution and a senior fellow at the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center. Her book The Price of Democracy: The Revolutionary Power of Taxation in American History is available here. Follow her on Bluesky @vanessawilliamson.

Sponsors

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Sensitive Themes & Topics

Racial violence, murder, slavery

Credits

- Host & Executive Producer: Claire E Aubin. Find her on Twitter @ceaubin and Bluesky ceaubin, or check out her website.

- Editor: Julia Schifini. Check out her website.

- Music: Marshall Dean Williams

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Claire, Nicole Hemmer, and Kevin Schultz play some games and answer the easiest question in the world: are all of the American presidents bad?

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Guest

Nicole Hemmer is a professor of History at Vanderbilt University and Director of the Carolyn T. and Robert M. Rogers Center for the American Presidency. Her podcast This Day is available here or anywhere you get your podcasts. Follow her on Bluesky and Instagram.

Kevin Schultz is a professor in History at The University of Illinois, Chicago and the author of Why Everyone Hates White Liberals Including White Liberals, available here. Follow him on Instagram and TikTok.

Sensitive Themes & Topics

Misogyny, racism and racial violence, antisemitism

Credits

- Host & Executive Producer: Claire E Aubin. Find her on Twitter @ceaubin and Bluesky ceaubin 

- Editor: Julia Schifini. Check out her website.

- Music: Marshall Dean Williams

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Claire and Prof. Marlene Daut cover life in the French Caribbean, and fill in all the bits that weren’t covered in high school or our previous Napoleon episode. For example, the murdering.

Guest

Our guest Marlene Daut is a Professor of French and African Diaspora Studies at Yale. Her newest book, The First and Last King of Haiti is available here. Visit her website here.

Sensitive Themes & Topics

Racism and racial violence, slavery, torture, child death & child endangerment

Credits

- Host & Executive Producer: Claire E Aubin. Find her on Twitter @ceaubin and Bluesky ceaubin, or check out her website.

- Editor: Julia Schifini. Check out her website.

- Music: Marshall Dean Williams

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Claire and Sophia Rosenfeld discuss what women want. And what they don’t want. And what they don’t want other women to want.

Guest

Our guest Sophia Rosenfeld is a Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania. Her book The Age of Choice: A History of Freedom in Modern Life  is available here.

Sensitive Themes & Topics

Misogyny

Credits

- Host & Executive Producer: Claire E Aubin. Find her on Twitter @ceaubin and Bluesky ceaubin, or check out her website.

- Editor: Julia Schifini. Check out her website.

- Music: Marshall Dean Williams

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Claire and Maddy Pelling remind us that the life of the party is often also the worst person you know.

Guest

Our guest Dr. Madeleine Pelling is a cultural historian, author, and broadcaster. Her newest book Hoax: Truth and Lies in the Age of Enlightenment is available for pre-order here, and her podcast After Dark is available here. Follow her on Instagram @maddypelling, or visit her website.

Sensitive Themes & Topics

Misogyny, slavery, political violence and police brutality

Credits

- Host & Executive Producer: Claire E Aubin. Find her on Twitter @ceaubin and Bluesky ceaubin 

- Editor: Julia Schifini. Check out her website.

- Music: Marshall Dean Williams

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Claire and Brooke Newman travel back to the 17th century and remind a king that he deserves all the hate he gets.

Guest

Our guest Brooke Newman is an Associate Professor of History at Virginia Commonwealth University. Her book The Crown’s Silence: The Hidden History of the British Monarchy and Slavery in the Americas is available here. Follow her on Bluesky @brookenewman and Instagram @drbrookenewman, or visit her website here.

Sensitive Themes & Topics

Slavery, torture, racial violence

Credits

- Host & Executive Producer: Claire E Aubin. Find her on Twitter @ceaubin and Bluesky ceaubin, or check out her website.

- Editor: Julia Schifini. Check out her website.

- Music: Marshall Dean Williams

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Claire and Akilah Hughes attempt to figure out what that lady’s whole deal was and why everything is kind of her fault.

Guest

Our guest Akilah Hughes is a writer, comedian, and podcaster. Her newest podcast, How Is This Better? is available from Courier here. Follow her on Twitter @akilahobviously, on Instagram @akilahh, or visit her website.

Sensitive Themes & Topics

Misogyny/sexism, murder

Credits

- Host & Executive Producer: Claire E Aubin. Find her on Twitter @ceaubin and Bluesky ceaubin, or check out her website.

- Editor: Julia Schifini. Check out her website.

- Music: Marshall Dean Williams

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Claire and Prof. Austin McCoy ask a very important question: does being okay at the saxophone cancel out hundreds of thousands of prison sentences and the dismantling of the welfare system?

Guest

Our guest Austin McCoy is an assistant professor at West Virginia University. His new book, Living in a D.A.I.S.Y. Age: The Music, Culture, and World De La Soul Made is available here. Follow him on Bluesky @austinmccoy and Instagram @ausmccoy, or visit his website here.

Sensitive Themes & Topics

Racism and racist violence, imprisonment

Credits

- Host & Executive Producer: Claire E Aubin. Find her on Twitter @ceaubin and Bluesky ceaubin, or check out her website.

- Editor: Julia Schifini. Check out her website.

- Music: Marshall Dean Williams

- Multitude: multitude.productions

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A moment of... something, if not exactly peace, for our patrons.

For more of whatever this is and lots of other slightly-less-weird stuff, join the Multicrew!

Credits

- Host & Executive Producer: Claire E Aubin. Find her on Twitter @ceaubin and Bluesky ceaubin, or check out her website.

- Editors: Mischa Stanton and Julia Schifini.

- Music: Marshall Dean Williams

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Claire takes Eleanor, Luke, Danny, and Derek on a holy crusade to bring down Peter the Hermit.

Guest

Today’s guests are Eleanor Janega, Danny Bessner, Derek Davison, and Luke Waters the hosts of American Prestige and American Prestige: Welcome to the Crusades - give them a listen here.

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Sensitive Themes & Topics

Warfare and violence, starvation, cannibalism, sexual violence, antisemitism, Islamophobia

Credits

- Host & Executive Producer: Claire E Aubin. Find her on Twitter @ceaubin and Bluesky ceaubin, or check out her website.

- Editor: Julia Schifini. Check out her website.

- Music: Marshall Dean Williams

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