This week we continue the discussion we started last time about utopian experiments and cults by covering two of the most fascinating and disturbing figures of the twentieth century, Jim Jones and Charles Manson. What made these two men turn to violence and how did their lives and the people they convinced to do unspeakable things reveal deep fissures and anxieties in post-war America. Join us this week to find out.
Episode 58 - The Fourteenth Amendment
Episode 57 - The Supreme Court After 1898
Episode 56 - The US Supreme Court from Taney to Plessy v Ferguson
Episode 55 - The US Supreme Court - Jay to Marshall
Episode 54 - Presentism
Episode 53 - A Brief History of NATO
Episode 52 - More about the News
Episode 51 - The History of Newspapers and the News
Episode 50 - Medicine in the US Civil War
Episode 49 - A History of Medicine - Part 1
Episode 48 - September 11, 2001 Twenty Years Later
Episode 47 - The Stonewall Rebellion
Episode 46 - Great Awakenings
Episode 45 - History of Mormonism - Part 2
Episode 44 - A History of Mormons in America - Part 1
Episode 43 - More Cults of the 20th Century
Episode 41 - American Utopias
Episode 40 - Baseball
Episode 39 - Taxes
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