Storytime with the Historists

Jen and Matt take listeners on a tragic journey through the assassination of the idealistic leader Patrice Lumumba.

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Sources for today's podcast:

• ​From CIA.gov’s Center for the Study of Intelligence the book review of: Death in the Congo: The Murdering of Patrice Lumumba (Vol. 59, no. 4), by Emmanuel Gerard and Bruce Kuklick, Book Reviewed by: Stephen R. Weissman publish December, 2015→ this is fascinating
• ​The political life of the dead Lumumba: Cold War histories and the Congolese student left Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 January 2019 by Pedro Monaville
• ​“Milestones in the History of U.S. Foreign Relations”The Congo, Decolonization, and the Cold War, 1960–1965 Office of the Historian, U.S. State Department→ a truly mind bending read.
• ​The podcasts: Assassination Podcast and the BBC World Service Witness Achieves
• ​And finally, throwing some love to the students of the world, the Harvard University Senior thesis Patrice Lumumba’s Congo: Sovereignty Denied by American Interests by Samuel Kies (2015) reviewed by Professors Andrew Friedman and Darin Hayton.

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Check out the show notes here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-OdKtHR3sTKduENFhZRqMWome9JSo2sq5FBFai5Yv6s/

A huge thank you to the Abington Ridge Collective and David for the awesome music, we REALLY appreciate it. Check them out at: https://soundcloud.com/abingtonridge

In this episode, your hosts Matt and Jen debate whether the positives outweigh the negatives in our (ever increasingly), interconnected world; thanks, globalization?

Show notes: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1eLEHKyc6fHTVmmmYg-5XUOHeauuAlL8D1FpW1R1MjXw/edit?usp=sharing

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