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Everything is a Primary Source

Eric Salmonsen

History through Pop CultureJoin social studies teacher, historian and pop culturist Eric Salmonsen as he and his drop-in guests break down pop culture artifacts to see what history can be forged from them.Learn how you can contribute to the conversation at everything-history.com

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Episodes

236 episodes

  1. Episode 234: Memories from a Route 66 Service Station 24:39
  2. Episode 233: Historic US Route 66 27:33
  3. Episode 232: Litchfield Public Library District 20:00
  4. Episode 231: Radio Karaoke 18:24
  5. Episode 230: The Briar Rose 12:41
  6. Episode 229: Litchfield, Illinois 16:36
  7. Episode 228: American TV & Movies as Ambassadors 19:00
  8. Episode 227: Television Advertising 29:59
  9. Episode 226: Local TV Affiliates 29:15
  10. Episode 225: Chicago's WLUP "The Loop" Radio 23:44
  11. Episode 224: Sesame Street 34:38
  12. Episode 223: The X-Files 45:34
  13. Episode 222: Electronic Selector 28:18
  14. Episode 221: Back to the Future (1985) 23:21
  15. Episode 220: Telephone Tales 16:19
  16. Episode 219: A Conversation with a Career Phone Company Man 26:02
  17. Episode 218: The Little House by Virginia Lee Burton 17:37
  18. Episode 217: Phone Phreaking 24:32
  19. Episode 216: The Declaration of Independence 51:04
  20. Episode 215: Major Payne (1995) 34:52
  21. Episode 214: Freedom Quest 1:02:30
  22. Episode 213: Kinzua Bridge 12:47
  23. Episode 212: Roger Corman's Little Shop of Horrors (1960) 12:57
  24. Episode 211: Lost Moon / Apollo 13 13:00
  25. Episode 210: Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band 53:59
  26. Episode 209: Historic Preservation in Los Angeles 16:36
  27. Episode 208: The Wizard of Oz (1939) 18:41
  28. Episode 207: Aerosmith 14:05
  29. Episode 206: Dinoland 23:53
  30. Episode 205: An 1853 Rowland Robinson Letter 1:01:21
  31. Episode 204: Iraq War Playing Cards 14:59
  32. Episode 203: Telephones 26:55
  33. Episode 202: The Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893 25:32
  34. Episode 201: The Beatles on 8-Track 19:37
  35. Episode 200: An Enemy of the People, the 1882 Henrik Ibsen play 33:55
  36. Episode 199: 1907 Oregon Postcard 17:17
  37. Episode 198: Chuck Mangione's "Feels So Good" 17:42
  38. Episode 197: Road Maps and Travel Culture 38:42
  39. Episode 196: The Atari 7800 Pro System 24:37
  40. Episode 195: Woman's Day Magazine 30:54
  41. Episode 194: Mayflower II 53:05
  42. Episode 193: Uncle Sam 50:58
  43. Episode 192: E Pluribus Unum: Looking at The American Revolution (2025) as a Document of Here and Now 45:10
  44. Episode 191: 1918 AEF Quartermaster Orders 27:20
  45. Episode 190: Life Magazine 32:46
  46. Episode 189: Unsolved Mysteries 49:10
  47. Episode 188: The Erie Canal 46:10
  48. Episode 187: The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde 30:42
  49. Episode 186: Repo Man (1984) 36:16
  50. Episode 185: The Mighty Ducks (1992) 33:22