Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff

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As long as there’s been oppression, there’ve been people fighting it. This weekly podcast dives into history to drag up the wildest rebels, the most beautiful revolts, and all the people who long to be—and fight to be—free. It explores complex stories of resistance that offer lessons and inspiration for us today, focusing on the ensemble casts that make up each act of history. That is to say, this podcast focuses on Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff.

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  1. 2日前

    Part Two: Charlotta Bass: The Black Journalist Who Refused the Red Scare

    Margaret finishes her talk with Cristen Conger about an organizer who was the first Black American woman to own a newspaper and once scared off the Klan Sources: https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-may-20-op-anderson20-story.html https://www.npr.org/2021/05/04/993605428/beneath-the-santa-monica-freeway-lies-the-erasure-of-sugar-hill https://americacomesalive.com/california-eagle-newspaper-black-readership-ahead-time/ https://www.pbs.org/blackpress/news_bios/ca_eagle.html https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf6c60052d The Untold Story of Charlotta Spears Bass, Groundbreaking Politician, Nicole A. Mansfieldhttps://www.history.com/articles/nat-turner-rebellion-literacy-slavery https://www.browndailyherald.com/article/2021/02/brown-s-first-black-female-graduate-ethel-robinson-s-legacy-on-college-hill https://ncph.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Redlining-and-Racial-Covenants_pdfversion.pdf https://www.segregationbydesign.com/los-angeles/sugar-hill https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/progressive-party-platform-1948 https://mutterhood.com/charlotta-bass/ https://www.blackwomenradicals.com/blog-feed/charlotta-spears-bass https://lamag.com/lahistory/charlotta-bass-kkk/ https://web.archive.org/web/20090819013517/http://www.socallib.org/SCLWebsite/hiseagle.htm https://www.myblackhistory.net/Charlotta_Bass.htm https://www.aaihs.org/charlotta-bass-and-the-cold-war-peace-movement/  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

  2. 3日前

    Part One: Charlotta Bass: The Black Journalist Who Refused the Red Scare

    Margaret talks to Cristen Conger about an organizer who was the first Black American woman to own a newspaper and once scared off the Klan. Source: https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-may-20-op-anderson20-story.html https://www.npr.org/2021/05/04/993605428/beneath-the-santa-monica-freeway-lies-the-erasure-of-sugar-hill https://americacomesalive.com/california-eagle-newspaper-black-readership-ahead-time/ https://www.pbs.org/blackpress/news_bios/ca_eagle.html https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf6c60052d The Untold Story of Charlotta Spears Bass, Groundbreaking Politician, Nicole A. Mansfield https://www.history.com/articles/nat-turner-rebellion-literacy-slavery https://www.browndailyherald.com/article/2021/02/brown-s-first-black-female-graduate-ethel-robinson-s-legacy-on-college-hill https://ncph.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Redlining-and-Racial-Covenants_pdfversion.pdf https://www.segregationbydesign.com/los-angeles/sugar-hill https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/progressive-party-platform-1948 https://mutterhood.com/charlotta-bass/ https://www.blackwomenradicals.com/blog-feed/charlotta-spears-bass https://lamag.com/lahistory/charlotta-bass-kkk/ https://web.archive.org/web/20090819013517/http://www.socallib.org/SCLWebsite/hiseagle.htm https://www.myblackhistory.net/Charlotta_Bass.htm https://www.aaihs.org/charlotta-bass-and-the-cold-war-peace-movement/  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

  3. 5日前

    CZM Book Club: Locust House, by Adam Gnade (Part Four of Four)

    Margaret finishes up reading you a story about punks, growing up, and refusing to lose your edge See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

    CZM Book Club: Locust House, by Adam Gnade (Part Four of Four)

  4. 7月22日

    Part Two: Robin Hood and the Legacy of Outlaws in Medieval England

    Margaret continuing talking to Joe Kassabian about how Robin Hood might not have been real, but bandits who supported the peasantry was. Sources: https://mercian-as.co.uk/chester.htmlhttps://entertablementabroad.com/2026/06/sheriffs-and-shires-the-geography-of-governance/https://www.nottinghamshire.gov.uk/culture-leisure/country-parks/history-of-sherwood-forest-robin-hood-and-major-oakhttps://mercian-as.co.uk/about_sherwood.htmlhttps://www.etymonline.com/word/tithehttps://www.etymonline.com/word/tourhttps://www.jstor.org/stable/3678889https://mercian-as.co.uk/outlaws.htmlhttps://sites.nd.edu/manuscript-studies/tag/sloth/https://www.medievalists.net/2021/05/piers-plowman-great-uprising-1381/https://robinhoodlegend.com/the-legend/https://web.archive.org/web/20201116124922/https://d.lib.rochester.edu/teams/text/gest-of-robyn-hodehttps://traditionalbritain.org/blog/walter-scott-as-a-conservative-thinker/https://web.archive.org/web/20201115204031/https://d.lib.rochester.edu/robin-hood/text/chandler-robin-hood-development-of-a-popular-herohttps://www.academia.edu/6274298/Robin_Hood_and_the_Social_Context_of_Late_Medieval_Archeryhttps://en.wikisource.org/wiki/1911_Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica/Robin_Hood See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

  5. 7月20日

    Part One: Robin Hood and the Legacy of Outlaws in Medieval England

    Margaret talks to Joe Kassabian about how Robin Hood might not have been real, but bandits who supported the peasantry was Sources: https://mercian-as.co.uk/chester.htmlhttps://entertablementabroad.com/2026/06/sheriffs-and-shires-the-geography-of-governance/https://www.nottinghamshire.gov.uk/culture-leisure/country-parks/history-of-sherwood-forest-robin-hood-and-major-oakhttps://mercian-as.co.uk/about_sherwood.htmlhttps://www.etymonline.com/word/tithehttps://www.etymonline.com/word/tourhttps://www.jstor.org/stable/3678889https://mercian-as.co.uk/outlaws.htmlhttps://sites.nd.edu/manuscript-studies/tag/sloth/https://www.medievalists.net/2021/05/piers-plowman-great-uprising-1381/https://robinhoodlegend.com/the-legend/https://web.archive.org/web/20201116124922/https://d.lib.rochester.edu/teams/text/gest-of-robyn-hodehttps://traditionalbritain.org/blog/walter-scott-as-a-conservative-thinker/https://web.archive.org/web/20201115204031/https://d.lib.rochester.edu/robin-hood/text/chandler-robin-hood-development-of-a-popular-herohttps://www.academia.edu/6274298/Robin_Hood_and_the_Social_Context_of_Late_Medieval_Archeryhttps://en.wikisource.org/wiki/1911_Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica/Robin_Hood See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

  6. 7月19日

    CZM Book Club: Locust House, by Adam Gnade (Part Three of Four)

    Margaret continues the story of the last punk show played at Locust House See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

    CZM Book Club: Locust House, by Adam Gnade (Part Three of Four)

  7. 7月15日

    Part Two: The First Labor Strike: How the Tomb Builders of Deir El-Medina Started It All

    Margaret finished telling you about labor and class struggle in Ancient Egypt Sources: https://historyrise.com/article/slavery-and-forced-labor-and-comparative-history-across-egypt/ https://www.touregypt.net/featurestories/slaves.htm https://www.touregypt.net/featurestories/medina.htm https://www.ancient-egypt-online.com/ancient-egypt-kingdoms.html https://vintage.tn/why-is-there-a-city-named-thebes-in-greece-and-a/ https://spokenpast.com/articles/egyptian-dream-book/ https://ancientegypt.fandom.com/wiki/Papyrus_Chester_Beatty_3 https://www.ancient-origins.net/myths-legends/egyptian-dream-book-001621 https://www.touregypt.net/kingtomb.htm https://blogs.nature.com/houseofwisdom/2013/01/voluntary-slavery-ancient-egyptians-paid-a-monthly-fee-to-become-temple-slaves.html https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/jan/11/great-pyramid-tombs-slaves-egypt https://www.thecollector.com/hatshepsut-egyptian-queen-king/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitocris https://historicaleve.com/how-many-cleopatras-were-there-in-egypt/ https://www.thecollector.com/interview-queen-cleopatra-with-prof-paul-cartledge-oxford/ https://www.workingnowandthen.com/blog/wage-theft-the-50-billion-crime-against-workers/ https://www.thecollector.com/how-ancient-egyptians-lived-and-worked-in-the-valley-of-kings/ https://www.google.be/books/edition/Brotherhood_of_Kings/JTvRCwAAQBAJ?hl=fr&gbpv=1&dq=chiefs+of+punt&pg=PA143&printsec=frontcover https://www.wonderfulmuseums.com/museum/why-does-the-british-museum-not-return-artifacts/ https://www.history.com/articles/what-is-the-rosetta-stone Oral correspondence https://www.history.com/articles/mummy-unwrapping-parties-egyptomania https://editions.covecollective.org/content/egypt-and-orientalism https://everydayorientalism.wordpress.com/2023/08/11/orientalism-through-time-and-place-a-virtual-exhibit/ https://ninercommons.charlotte.edu/record/2825?v=pdf https://www.worldhistory.org/article/1089/the-first-labor-strike-in-history/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

  8. 7月13日

    Part One: The First Labor Strike: How the Tomb Builders of Deir El-Medina Started It All

    Margaret talks to you about labor and class struggle in Ancient Egypt. Sources: https://historyrise.com/article/slavery-and-forced-labor-and-comparative-history-across-egypt/ https://www.touregypt.net/featurestories/slaves.htm https://www.touregypt.net/featurestories/medina.htm https://www.ancient-egypt-online.com/ancient-egypt-kingdoms.html https://vintage.tn/why-is-there-a-city-named-thebes-in-greece-and-a/ https://spokenpast.com/articles/egyptian-dream-book/ https://ancientegypt.fandom.com/wiki/Papyrus_Chester_Beatty_3 https://www.ancient-origins.net/myths-legends/egyptian-dream-book-001621 https://www.touregypt.net/kingtomb.htm https://blogs.nature.com/houseofwisdom/2013/01/voluntary-slavery-ancient-egyptians-paid-a-monthly-fee-to-become-temple-slaves.html https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/jan/11/great-pyramid-tombs-slaves-egypt https://www.thecollector.com/hatshepsut-egyptian-queen-king/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitocris https://historicaleve.com/how-many-cleopatras-were-there-in-egypt/ https://www.thecollector.com/interview-queen-cleopatra-with-prof-paul-cartledge-oxford/ https://www.workingnowandthen.com/blog/wage-theft-the-50-billion-crime-against-workers/ https://www.thecollector.com/how-ancient-egyptians-lived-and-worked-in-the-valley-of-kings/ https://www.google.be/books/edition/Brotherhood_of_Kings/JTvRCwAAQBAJ?hl=fr&gbpv=1&dq=chiefs+of+punt&pg=PA143&printsec=frontcover https://www.wonderfulmuseums.com/museum/why-does-the-british-museum-not-return-artifacts/ https://www.history.com/articles/what-is-the-rosetta-stone Oral correspondence https://www.history.com/articles/mummy-unwrapping-parties-egyptomania https://editions.covecollective.org/content/egypt-and-orientalism https://everydayorientalism.wordpress.com/2023/08/11/orientalism-through-time-and-place-a-virtual-exhibit/ https://ninercommons.charlotte.edu/record/2825?v=pdf https://www.worldhistory.org/article/1089/the-first-labor-strike-in-history/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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As long as there’s been oppression, there’ve been people fighting it. This weekly podcast dives into history to drag up the wildest rebels, the most beautiful revolts, and all the people who long to be—and fight to be—free. It explores complex stories of resistance that offer lessons and inspiration for us today, focusing on the ensemble casts that make up each act of history. That is to say, this podcast focuses on Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff.

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    22年 - 26年
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