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American Seances

American Seances

American Seances brings the greatest, deadest historical figures back for one more conversaion

Through podcasts, blog posts, and illustrations, American Seances uses the past to understand the present--equal parts scholarship, storytelling, and satire.

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250 episodes

  1. The Midterms (thread 20), Episode 5: How to Lose Congress, Blame Congress, and Somehow Win the White House in 1948 16:08
  2. The Midterms (thread 20), Episode 4: How to Win a World War, Lose Congress, and Accidentally Give Your Worst Enemy the Keys to Foreign Policy in 1918 17:19
  3. The Midterms (thread 20), Episode 3: How to Win a Midterm, Lose a Midterm, and Start a Civil War Inside Your Own Party in 1910 17:41
  4. The Midterms (thread 20), Episode 2: How to Rewrite the Rules, Pass Everything, and Still Get Absolutely Clobbered in 1890 16:53
  5. The Midterms (thread 20), Episode 1: How to Lose Congress and Alienate Everybody in 1866 17:25
  6. Immigration (thread 12), Episode 9: Alexander Hamilton: The Immigrant Who Feared Immigrants 18:04
  7. Immigration (thread 12), Episode 8: Washington's Open Door — With Strings Attached 15:27
  8. Immigration (thread 12), Episode 7: The Immigrant Who Invented American Patriotism 14:54
  9. Radicals! (thread 19), Episode 6: Gunboats on the Monongahela: The Bloody Battle of Homestead 22:05
  10. Radicals! (thread 19), Episode 5: When the Trains Stopped: The Great Railroad Strike of 1877 19:21
  11. Radicals! (thread 19): Episode 4: Hanged for Ideas: The Execution of Albert Parsons 20:04
  12. Radicals! (thread 19), Episode 3: Looking Backward: The Book That Imagined America Without Capitalism 19:12
  13. Ukraine (thread 1), Episode 21: Leverage at the Edge: What Dulles Would Say About Lifting Sanctions 12:59
  14. Ukraine (thread 1), Episode 20: War Is a Racket — And Oil Is Paying the Tab 18:43
  15. Ukraine (thread 1), Episode 19: Rockefeller's Diesel Diplomacy: How Fuel Became the New Frontline 14:42
  16. Flock Cameras (thread 18), Episode 5: Don't Read My Mail: How the Post Office Built Privacy in America 19:41
  17. Flock Cameras (thread 18), Episode 4: Madison vs. the Flock: License-Plate Cameras and the Fourth Amendment 19:18
  18. Historic Supreme Courts--Citizens United (thread 20), Episode 5: When Corporations Found a Voice: The Warren Court and the Road to Citizens United 17:39
  19. Historic Supreme Courts--Citizens United (thread 20), Episode 4: When Unions Spoke: The 1948 Clash Over Money, Speech, and Democracy 17:27
  20. Historic Supreme Courts--Citizens United (thread 20), Episode 3: How Corporations Discovered the First Amendment 17:36
  21. Historic Supreme Courts--Citizens United (thread 20), Episode 2: Citizens United in 1907, and How the Fuller Court Might Have Ruled 19:44
  22. Historic Supreme Courts--Citizens United (thread 20), Episode 1: Citizens United, 1886, and the Waite Court on Gilded Age Corporations 18:37
  23. Radicals! (thread 19): Episode 2: The Landowner's Paradox: Henry George and the Single Tax 15:25
  24. Radicals! (thread 19): Episode 1: Thomas Skidmore and America's First Property Revolution 16:17
  25. WWKMD?, Episode 24: Marx Meets the Cloud: The Loud, Physical Side of AI 15:07
  26. WWKMD?, Episode 23: When AI Steals the Desk Job: What Would Marx Say? 14:59
  27. Flock Cameras (thread 18), Episode 3: When Paper Became a Database: The John Entick Case That Shaped Privacy 17:41
  28. Flock Cameras (thread 18), Episode 2: When the Crown Went Fishing: John Wilkes and the Danger of General Warrants 17:52
  29. Flock Cameras (thread 18), Episode 1: Writs of Assistance 2.0: Why Roadside Cameras Threaten a Founding Principle 17:13
  30. The National Debt (thread 17), Episode 4: When Tea Cost an Empire: Burke’s Warning Before Revolution 14:51
  31. The National Debt (thread 17), Episode 3: When Debt Became a Crime: Grenville and the Stamp Act 18:38
  32. The National Debt (thread 17), Episode 2: When Britain Bought an Empire: Pitt, Debt, and the Seven Years' War 15:50
  33. The National Debt (thread 17), Episode 1: How William III and a Pint of Beer Built Modern National Debt 18:28
  34. Iran (thread 10), Episode 19: Mission Accomplished? How Bush's Wars Became Two Long Quagmires 17:13
  35. Iran (thread 10), Episode 18: When Good Intentions Arm the Enemy: Ronald Reagan and the Iran–Contra Lesson 16:41
  36. Immigration (thread 12), Episode 6: Lyman Beecher vs. the Pope: Panic in the 1830s West 18:50
  37. Immigration (thread 12): Episode 5: John Jay and The Myth of One American People 17:06
  38. Immigration (thread 12), Episode 4: When Ben Franklin Panicked: The First American Immigration Scare 17:38
  39. Iran (thread 10), Episode 17: Nixon's Paradox: Escalate to De‑Escalate 14:33
  40. Iran (thread 10), Episode 16: When Escalation Becomes a Trap: LBJ’s Vietnam Lesson for Iran 10:44
  41. Iran (thread 10), Episode 15: When the White House Burned: Madison’s Warning for Trump and Iran 18:17
  42. WWKMD?, Episode 22: When the GOP Quotes Marx: J.D. Vance's Strange Wake-Up Call 15:41
  43. Lindsay Clancy (thread 15), Episode 6: When Justice Faces Mercy: Clarence Darrow on the Lindsay Clancy Case 15:11
  44. Lindsay Clancy (thread 15), Episode 5: When Madness Keeps Its Wits: Isaac Ray and the Clancy Case 13:50
  45. Lindsay Clancy (thread 15), Episode 4: No Camera Inside the Mind: The Lindsay Clancy Trial’s Impossible Question 13:59
  46. The Reflecting Pool (thread 16), Episode 5: Nixon's Warning: Don't Turn a Peeling Pool into Watergate 17:23
  47. The Reflecting Pool (thread 16), Episode 4: Spiro Agnew Would Love This: The Canoeist Conspiracy 15:12
  48. The Reflecting Pool (thread 16), Episode 3: The Buck Stops Here: Truman vs. the Reflecting Pool Fiasco 15:05
  49. The Reflecting Pool (thread 16), Episode 2: Silent Cal and the Blue Pool: A Lesson in Restraint 15:35
  50. The Reflecting Pool (thread 16), Episode 1: Abe vs. the Blue Pond: A Presidential Reflection 14:24