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In 1919, the Supreme Court of the United States voted unanimously to uphold the conviction of Socialist Party activists whose only crime was distributing a pamphlet critical of conscription during American participation in the First World War, even though the pamphlet did not advocate any lawbreaking — not even civil disobedience. Links Support the Dangerous [...]

Please enjoy this reissued vintage DHP episode. Made all the way back in January of 2016, it suddenly has renewed relevance today!

Join CJ back in 2016 as he discusses:

• An overview of all presidents who’ve died in office, whether from natural, unnatural, or disputed causes
• A few words about other assassinations of important people in relatively recent history, such as Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr.
• A few words about recent deaths of important media figures that at least some people find questionable
• How, in order to be intellectually honest, we have to be willing to accept a degree of uncertainty on many of these deaths and assassinations, and we must be willing to accept “I don’t know” and/or “we’ll never know for sure” where appropriate
• How assassinations rarely result in any significant change to the track that the state is on when they occur, and how, more often than not, assassinations simply accelerate existing trends

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This episode was originally recorded & released in Dec. 2014, the first Christmas after I started doing the Dangerous History Podcast. Here it is, reissued with a new intro, 10 years later.

One-hundred-and-one Christmases ago, in the cold, damp, muddy ditches of the Western Front, the rank-and-file of the Allied and German armies spontaneously set aside their hatreds to take a break from mass-murdering each other, much to the dismay of their so-called ‘leaders.’

Join CJ as he discusses:

• The context of the Christmas Truce
• How it happened
• The aftermath, legacy, and lessons to be learned from it

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• John McCutcheon’s “Christmas in the Trenches”
• The King’s Singers perform “Stille Nacht”
• A 1981 BBC Documentary about the Christmas Truce made in 1981 that features firsthand accounts from Great War veterans who were still alive at that time

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Subtitle: “Daylight Savings as a Rebellion Against Nature.”

This is a reissue of DHP episode 198, which was originally published back in early March 2020, only about a week before the covid crap hit the fan.

Join CJ as he discusses:

• Where the idea of biannual time changes & Daylight Savings Time (DST) came from historically. (Hint: As is often the case, Woodrow Wilson bears some of the blame.)
• Some of the problems, costs, and even dangers of DST
• The origin of standardized time zones (which originated more in the private sector) as a contrasting case study
• The idea of DST as a rebellion against nature

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CJ has recently started making his highly acclaimed series on the US Civil War available as collected volumes of approximately 4-5 hours apiece, with all the ads & announcements/housekeeping stuff from the original episodes cut out.

These can be purchased a la carte from CJ’s Patreon Shop, or you can get access to them at no extra charge if you sign up to support CJ via Patreon for $25/month or more.

For your listening pleasure, here’s the very first episode of that series, first published 8 years ago, in Dec. 2016.

Join CJ as he discusses:

• The secession of the seven states of the Deep South following the election of Abraham Lincoln
• The formation of the Confederate States of America, including its constitution
• The accession to office of the Lincoln Administration
• The firing on Fort Sumter
• Sumter’s impact on the North and the South, including the secession of the Upper South
• Lincoln’s actions to try to keep the Border States in the Union, by any means necessary
• Preparations for war & early skirmishes
• The Battle of Manassas (or First Bull Run) and its impact
• Julia Ward Howe’s “Battle Hymn of the Republic” (written in Nov. 1861) as portent of the total war-crusade to come

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