This, Again

Mallory Faust
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You may think you know these stories, but not like this. This, Again is where historical disasters, delusions, downfalls, and déjà vu collide with human psychology. From palace scandals, space shuttle explosions, nightclub fires to witch trials, host Mallory Faust takes the moments in history you thought you understood and reveals the blind spots, egos, and eerie echoes you missed. It’s darkly funny, sharp, and empathetic - and it just might change how you see the past repeating in real time.

  1. Mass Hysteria Through History: Laughter Epidemic, Dancing Plague, and Tik Tok Tics

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    Mass Hysteria Through History: Laughter Epidemic, Dancing Plague, and Tik Tok Tics

    In 1962, a group of schoolgirls in Tanganyika began laughing and could not stop. The episode spread to multiple schools, eventually forcing closures and affecting hundreds of students. More than four centuries earlier, in 1518, residents of Strasbourg took to the streets and danced for days at a time. Contemporary accounts describe exhaustion, collapse, and a response from local authorities shaped by the medical beliefs of the time. During the industrial era in Europe and the United States, physicians documented similar patterns in factories and schools. Groups of workers developed symptoms such as fainting, tremors, and nausea without a clear environmental or biological cause. In that same year, 1962, a U.S. textile factory experienced what became known as the June Bug Epidemic. Workers reported being bitten by an unseen insect. Investigations found no physical cause, but the symptoms spread through proximity and shared interpretation. More recently, clinicians have documented a rise in rapid-onset tic-like behaviors in adolescents, many of whom were exposed to similar content online. This episode looks at these cases side by side, not as isolated events, but as examples of a recurring pattern. Under certain conditions, behavior, emotion, and even physical symptoms can move through groups in ways that feel personal, but are not entirely individual. Attribution Notes: Every effort was made to cross-check primary sources and modern research. Where paraphrasing is used, it’s drawn from the texts below with narrative license for clarity and flow. If you spot an error or have a source to suggest, DM @thisagainshow   Follow This, Again on Instagram: @thisagainshow   This, Again is written, produced, and hosted by Mallory Faust.    Tanganyika Laughter Epidemic (1962) Rankin, A. M., and P. J. Philip. “An Epidemic of Laughing in the Bukoba District of Tanganyika.” Central African Journal of Medicine, 1963. https://journals.co.za/doi/pdf/10.10520/AJA00089176_6171 Hempelmann, Christian F. “The Laughter Epidemic of 1962: A Study of Collective Behavior.” Humor: International Journal of Humor Research, 2007. https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/HUMOR.2007.003/html Dancing Plague of Strasbourg (1518) A Time to Dance, a Time to Die Waller, John. A Time to Dance, a Time to Die: The Extraordinary Story of the Dancing Plague of 1518. Icon Books, 2008. Waller, John. “A Forgotten Plague: Making Sense of Dancing Mania.” The Lancet, 2009. A forgotten plague: making sense of dancing mania - The Lancet Backman, E. Louis. Religious Dances in the Christian Church and in Popular Medicine. Routledge, 1952. Religious dances : in the Christian church and in popular medicine : Backman, E. Louis (Eugène Louis), 1883-1965, author : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive Industrial Era / Factory & School Outbreaks Bartholomew, Robert E., and Simon Wessely. “Protean Nature of Mass Sociogenic Illness: From Possession to Mass Hysteria.” British Journal of Psychiatry, 2002. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/the-british-journal-of-psychiatry/article/protean-nature-of-mass-sociogenic-illness/ Micale, Mark S. Approaching Hysteria: Disease and Its Interpretations. Princeton University Press, 1995. Robinson, Harriet Hanson. Loom and Spindle: Or Life Among the Early Mill Girls. 1898. Loom and Spindle : Harriet H. Robinson : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive June Bug Epidemic (1962, United States) Kerckhoff, Alan C., and Kurt W. Back. “The June Bug Epidemic: A Study of Hysterical Contagion.” Journal of Social Psychology, 1968. (Accessible summary of case) https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3588562/ Modern Case: Functional Tic-Like Behaviors (COVID Era) Pringsheim, Tamara, et al. “Rapid Onset Functional Tic-Like Behaviors in Young Females During the COVID-19 Pandemic.” Movement Disorders, 2021. https://movementdisorders.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/mds.28778 Müller-Vahl, Kirsten R., et al. “Increase of Functional Tic-Like Behaviors During the COVID-19 Pandemic.” European Journal of Neurology, 2022. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ene.15263 Paulus, Walter, et al. “Functional Movement Disorders: Lessons From the COVID-19 Pandemic.” Journal of Neurology, 2021. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00415-021-10578-7 Tourette Association of America. “Rising Incidence of Functional Tic-Like Behaviors.” https://tourette.org/rising-incidence-of-functional-tic-like-behaviors/ Psychology & Mechanism (Supporting Framework) Hatfield, Elaine, John T. Cacioppo, and Richard L. Rapson. Emotional Contagion. Cambridge University Press, 1994. Engert, Veronika, et al. “Stress Contagion in Humans: Empathic Stress Induction.” The Contagiousness of Stress: How It Affects Our Brains and Bodies - ScienceDirect Rizzolatti, Giacomo, and Laila Craighero. “The Mirror-Neuron System.” Annual Review of Neuroscience, 2004. https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/10.1146/annurev.neuro.27.070203.144230 Provine, Robert R. “Yawning as a Stereotyped Action Pattern.” Ethology, 1986. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1439-0310.1986.tb00611.x

    26 min
  2. Anne Boleyn, Robert Oppenheimer, and the Price of Proximity to Power

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    Anne Boleyn, Robert Oppenheimer, and the Price of Proximity to Power

    In May 1536, Anne Boleyn was still Queen of England. Seventeen days later, she was executed. This episode looks at how that kind of collapse is even possible. Anne’s rise wasn’t just personal. Her marriage to Henry VIII forced England to break with the Catholic Church, reshaped the law, and required oaths of loyalty across the country. By the mid-1530s, she had become tied to the most disruptive political and religious changes of the era. When pressure built around succession, legitimacy, and reform, the system didn’t slow down or reassess. It moved quickly. Charges were brought. Trials were held. Executions followed. This episode examines that moment not just as a Tudor story, but as a pattern. What happens when someone stands at the center of power and becomes the most visible part of a system under strain? To answer that, we follow the same pattern beyond Tudor England. The downfall of Thomas Cromwell shows how proximity did not protect even the people building the system. The 1954 security hearing of Robert Oppenheimer shows how removal can shift from execution to loss of access while serving a similar function. And modern corporate examples show how leadership removal can signal control even when deeper issues remain unresolved. This is not a story about whether Anne Boleyn was guilty. It is a story about how systems respond under pressure, and why the person closest to power can become the fastest way to prove that something has been done. Attribution Notes: Every effort was made to cross-check primary sources and modern research. Where paraphrasing is used, it’s drawn from the texts below with narrative license for clarity and flow. If you spot an error or have a source to suggest, DM @thisagainshow   Follow This, Again on Instagram: @thisagainshow This, Again is written, produced, and hosted by Mallory Faust.    Ives, Eric. The Life and Death of Anne Boleyn. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing, 2004. https://archive.org/details/lifedeathofanneb00ives Bernard, G. W. Anne Boleyn: Fatal Attractions. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2010. https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300162455/anne-boleyn/ Weir, Alison. The Lady in the Tower: The Fall of Anne Boleyn. New York: Ballantine Books, 2009. https://groveatlantic.com/book/the-six-wives-of-henry-viii/ “Trial of Anne Boleyn (1536).” English History in Primary Sources. https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/source/anneboleyntrial.asp “Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII.” British History Online. https://www.british-history.ac.uk/search/series/letters-papers-hen8 (Search “Anne Boleyn 1536” within this: these are actual state papers) “Eustace Chapuys Correspondence.” British History Online. https://www.british-history.ac.uk/search/series/cal-state-papers-spanish “Act in Restraint of Appeals.” https://www.british-history.ac.uk/statutes-realm/vol3/pp427-429 “Act of Supremacy.” https://www.british-history.ac.uk/statutes-realm/vol3/pp492-496 MacCulloch, Diarmaid. Thomas Cromwell: A Life. New York: Viking, 2018. https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/295438/thomas-cromwell-by-diarmaid-macculloch/ MacCulloch, Diarmaid. The Reformation: A History. New York: Penguin, 2005. https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/292946/the-reformation-by-diarmaid-macculloch/ Guy, John. Thomas More. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. https://global.oup.com/academic/product/thomas-more-9780192854063 Bellamy, J. G. The Tudor Law of Treason. London: Routledge, 1979. https://www.routledge.com/The-Tudor-Law-of-Treason/Bellamy/p/book/9780719007804 U.S. Atomic Energy Commission. In the Matter of J. Robert Oppenheimer (1954) https://www.osti.gov/opennet/hearing.jsp Bird, Kai, and Martin J. Sherwin. American Prometheus. New York: Knopf, 2005. https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/67852/american-prometheus-by-kai-bird-and-martin-j-sherwin/

    46 min
  3. Inside the Minds of Cult Leaders and Followers: Pt. 2 (The Digital Era)

    12 DE MAR.

    Inside the Minds of Cult Leaders and Followers: Pt. 2 (The Digital Era)

    In the second episode of this two-part series on cults, we look at what happens when cult psychology collides with the digital world. The online relationship movement known as Twin Flames Universe promised followers that a single destined partner existed for each person and that spiritual coaching could reunite them with that soulmate. Behind the scenes, former members describe a system that pressured followers to pursue relationships that had already ended and invest thousands of dollars in coaching programs. We also examine the strange and disturbing story of Love Has Won, a livestreamed spiritual movement built around a woman who claimed she was guiding humanity through a cosmic transformation. For years, followers broadcast their lives online while building a belief system around the figure they called Mother God. These modern movements raise an unsettling question. Are we witnessing the emergence of a new age of cults driven by digital platforms and online communities? Or are the same psychological patterns that fueled earlier cults simply finding new ways to organize and spread? Drawing on research from psychologists and sociologists who study high control groups and digital culture, this episode explores how belief, belonging, and identity operate in the networked world. Because while the technology surrounding these movements may look new, the forces shaping them may be far older. Attribution Notes: Every effort was made to cross-check primary sources and modern research. Where paraphrasing is used, it’s drawn from the texts below with narrative license for clarity and flow. If you spot an error or have a source to suggest, DM @thisagainshow   Follow This, Again on Instagram: @thisagainshow This, Again is written, produced, and hosted by Mallory Faust.    Sources and Further Reading Hines, Alice. “Inside the Twin Flames Universe and Its Always Online, All-Consuming World.” Vanity Fair, December 3, 2020. https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2020/12/inside-the-all-consuming-world-of-twin-flames-universe Associated Press. “Michigan Attorney General Says She Is Investigating a Company Promoting ‘Twin Flame’ Romance.” Associated Press, March 5, 2025. https://apnews.com/article/a03d0734e11b6ebde2e5f7331818b1d8 Netflix. Escaping Twin Flames. Accessed March 12, 2026. https://www.netflix.com/title/81615919 Borden, Jane. “Mother God, Robin Williams, and Alcohol as Medicine: Inside Love Has Won.” Vanity Fair, November 14, 2023. https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2023/11/love-has-won-mother-god-cult-amy-carlson Buchanan, Kyle. “The True Story Behind HBO’s Love Has Won.” Time, November 14, 2023. https://time.com/6333436/love-has-won-true-story-hbo/ Lifton, Robert Jay. Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism: A Study of ‘Brainwashing’ in China. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1989. https://uncpress.org/book/9780807842539/thought-reform-and-the-psychology-of-totalism/ Hassan, Steven. Combating Cult Mind Control. Freedom of Mind Press. https://freedomofmind.com/combating-cult-mind-control/ Tufekci, Zeynep. Twitter and Tear Gas: The Power and Fragility of Networked Protest. Yale University Press, 2017. https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300231212/twitter-and-tear-gas/ Putnam, Robert D. Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2000. https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Bowling-Alone/Robert-D-Putnam/9780743203043 Cialdini, Robert. Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion. Harper Business, 2006. https://www.harpercollins.com/products/influence-new-and-expanded-robert-b-cialdini Lalich, Janja, and Madeleine Tobias. Take Back Your Life: Recovering from Cults and Abusive Relationships. Bay Tree Publishing, 2006. https://www.janjalalich.com/books/

    30 min
  4. Inside the Minds of Cult Leaders and Followers: Pt. 1 (1960s-1990s)

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    Inside the Minds of Cult Leaders and Followers: Pt. 1 (1960s-1990s)

    In this episode of This, Again, we trace the evolution of cults from the obvious monsters of the 1960s and 70s, the Manson Family, Jonestown, and Heaven’s Gate, to the respectable reinventions of the 1980s and 90s like NXIVM, Scientology, and multi-level marketing empires. What do these groups share beneath the costumes, the jargon, and the business cards? The same psychological mechanics: obedience, conformity, charisma, sunk cost fallacy, and the intoxicating promise of belonging. Drawing on scholars like Robert Lifton, Margaret Singer, Janja Lalich, Steven Hassan, and Philip Zimbardo, I explore how cult leaders weaponize trust and how ordinary people, people like us, become devoted enough to give up their freedom, their money, even their lives. And by the end, we land on a harder question. If the robes and UFOs were easy to spot, what happens when cult dynamics put on a suit and walk into the boardroom? This is Part 1 of a two-part series. In Part 2, we move into the modern era, where cult dynamics no longer stand out at all, but blend into our feeds, our fandoms, and our politics. Attribution Notes: Every effort was made to cross-check primary sources and modern research. Where paraphrasing is used, it’s drawn from the texts below with narrative license for clarity and flow. If you spot an error or have a source to suggest, DM @thisagainshow   Follow This, Again on Instagram: @thisagainshow This, Again is written, produced, and hosted by Mallory Faust.    Books and Major Works Cited Cialdini, Robert B. Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion. New York: Harper Business, 1984. https://www.harpercollins.com/products/influence-robert-b-cialdini. Hassan, Steven. Combating Cult Mind Control: The #1 Best-Selling Guide to Protection, Rescue, and Recovery from Destructive Cults. Freedom of Mind Press, 2015. https://freedomofmind.com/product/combating-cult-mind-control/. Lalich, Janja, and Madeleine Tobias. Take Back Your Life: Recovering from Cults and Abusive Relationships. Berkeley: Bay Tree Publishing, 2006. https://baytreepublishing.com/take-back-your-life/. Lifton, Robert Jay. Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism: A Study of Brainwashing in China. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1961. https://uncpress.org/book/9780807845045/thought-reform-and-the-psychology-of-totalism/. Singer, Margaret Thaler, and Janja Lalich. Cults in Our Midst: The Continuing Fight Against Their Hidden Menace. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1995. https://www.wiley.com/en-us/Cults+in+Our+Midst%3A+The+Continuing+Fight+Against+Their+Hidden+Menace%2C+2nd+Edition-p-9780787953729. Swann, William B., Jr., and Colleagues. Identity Fusion: The Interplay of Personal and Social Identity in Extreme Group Behavior. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. (Foundational research summary). https://global.oup.com/academic/product/identity-fusion-9780199604481. Historical and Case Sources Bugliosi, Vincent. Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders. New York: Norton, 1974. https://wwnorton.com/books/Helter-Skelter/. Layton, Deborah. Seductive Poison: A Jonestown Survivor’s Story of Life and Death in the People’s Temple. New York: Holt Paperbacks, 2006. Seductive Poison by Deborah Layton: 9780385489843 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books Academic Studies and Classic Social Psychology Festinger, Leon. “A Theory of Cognitive Dissonance.” Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1957. A Theory of Cognitive Dissonance | Stanford University Press Janis, Irving L. Victims of Groupthink: A Psychological Study of Foreign-Policy Decisions and Fiascoes. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1972. Victims Of GROUPTHINK Irving L. Janis Milgram, Stanley. “Behavioral Study of Obedience.” Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology 67, no. 4 (1963): Behavioral Study of Obedience / by Stanley Milgram. - University of Texas at Austin Zimbardo, Philip G. “The Stanford Prison Experiment: A Simulation Study of the Psychology of Imprisonment.” Naval Research Reviews 30, no. 9 (1973): 4-17. Stanford Prison Experiment Authoritative Summaries and Reporting on Cults “Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple.” PBS. Watch Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple | American Experience | Official Site | PBS “Heaven’s Gate Cult: Members Found Dead.” History.com. Heaven's Gate cult members found dead | March 26, 1997 | HISTORY “Scientology: What It Is, Facts and History.” BBC News. “Multi-Level Marketing Schemes and How They Work.” Federal Trade Commission. Multi-Level Marketing Businesses and Pyramid Schemes | Consumer Advice Psychology Theory Summaries Swann, William B., Jamie L. Jetten, and Colleagues. “Identity Fusion: The Role of Shared Identity in Extreme Group Behavior.” Current Directions in Psychological Science 18, no. 1 (2009): 38-42. Identity Fusion on JSTOR Festinger, Leon, Henry W. Riecken, and Stanley Schachter. When Prophecy Fails: A Social and Psychological Study of a Modern Group That Predicted the Destruction of the World. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1956. When prophecy fails : a social and psychological study of a modern group that predicted the destruction of the world : Festinger, Leon, 1919-1989 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

    29 min
  5. The Radium Cover-up and Dangers of Institutional Delay

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    The Radium Cover-up and Dangers of Institutional Delay

    In the early 20th century, hundreds of women were employed to paint luminous watch dials using radium-based paint. Despite early warnings from medical experts, companies continued to insist the work was safe. This episode examines the history of the Radium Girls, focusing on what corporate leaders knew, how they delayed accountability, and the lasting legal and public health consequences. It also draws a direct line to modern chemical exposure cases, including PFAS contamination. Supported by court records, contemporaneous news reports, and government data, this episode explores how institutional denial functions, and why the same patterns persist today. Attribution Notes: Every effort was made to cross-check primary sources and modern research. Where paraphrasing is used, it’s drawn from the texts below with narrative license for clarity and flow. If you spot an error or have a source to suggest, DM @thisagainshow   Follow This, Again on Instagram: @thisagainshow This, Again is written, produced, and hosted by Mallory Faust.    While this episode has some narrative interpretations, it draws heavily from primary source materials, historical journalism, and expert reporting. Moore, Kate. The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women. Naperville, IL: Sourcebooks, 2017. https://www.sourcebooks.com/9781492650959-the-radium-girls-tp.html Clark, Claudia. Radium Girls: Women and Industrial Health Reform, 1910–1935. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1997. https://uncpress.org/book/9780807846407/radium-girls Martland, Harrison S., Philip Conlon, and Joseph P. Knef. “Some Unrecognized Dangers in the Use and Handling of Radioactive Substances.” Journal of the American Medical Association 85, no. 23 (1925): 1769–76. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/238584 Rich, Nathaniel. “The Lawyer Who Became DuPont’s Worst Nightmare.” The New York Times Magazine, January 6, 2016. https://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/10/magazine/the-lawyer-who-became-duponts-worst-nightmare.html Library of Congress. “Radium Girls: Living Dead Women.” Headlines and Heroes (blog), March 11, 2019. https://blogs.loc.gov/headlinesandheroes/2019/03/radium-girls-living-dead-women Fryer v. U.S. Radium Corporation, Superior Court of New Jersey, Essex County, 1927–1928. Records Related to Radium Dial Painters, 1917–1949 Leach v. E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Company, Circuit Court of West Virginia, Wood County, No. 01-C-698, filed 2001. Class action settlement available via DuPont C8 Health Project. Dupont_case.pdf United States Environmental Protection Agency. PFAS Strategic Roadmap: EPA’s Commitments to Action 2021–2024. Washington, DC: EPA, October 2021. https://www.epa.gov/system/files/documents/2021-10/pfas-roadmap_final-508.pdf

    38 min
  6. Reconciling Rebellions: The Boston Tea Party vs. The Whiskey Rebellion

    29 DE JAN.

    Reconciling Rebellions: The Boston Tea Party vs. The Whiskey Rebellion

    How do you justify rebellion when you are fighting for freedom, and then justify suppressing it once freedom is yours? In this episode of This, Again, we rewind to the years immediately after American independence, when the Founding Fathers were forced to confront a problem they had not fully planned for. Americans were rebelling again, this time against them. We begin with the Boston Tea Party before it became a founding myth, when it was still risky, debated, and unresolved. Then we follow that same logic of resistance as it reappears during the Whiskey Rebellion of the 1790s, when farmers in western Pennsylvania challenged a federal law passed by a government that claimed to represent them. Along the way, we sit with the anxiety, fear, and reasoning that shaped how early American leaders explained the difference between rebellion they celebrated and rebellion they suppressed. This is not an episode about whether the Founders were right or wrong. It is about how people reason under pressure, how legitimacy hardens after survival, and how the logic that creates a revolution does not disappear once power changes hands. Primary sources from Alexander Hamilton and George Washington anchor the episode, alongside historians who explore the psychological and political aftermath of the American Revolution. Attribution Notes: Every effort was made to cross-check primary sources and modern research. Where paraphrasing is used, it’s drawn from the texts below with narrative license for clarity and flow. If you spot an error or have a source to suggest, DM @thisagainshow   Follow This, Again on Instagram: @thisagainshow This, Again is written, produced, and hosted by Mallory Faust.    Hamilton, Alexander. Federalist No. 15. 1787. Avalon Project, Yale Law School. https://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/fed15.asp Hamilton, Alexander. Federalist No. 6. 1787. Avalon Project, Yale Law School. https://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/fed06.asp Hamilton, Alexander. Federalist No. 9. 1787. Avalon Project, Yale Law School. https://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/fed09.asp Hamilton, Alexander. Letter to George Washington, August 18, 1794. In The Papers of Alexander Hamilton, vol. 17. Edited by Harold C. Syrett. New York: Columbia University Press, 1972. Hamilton, Alexander. “Tully No. IV.” 1794. In The Papers of Alexander Hamilton, vol. 25. Edited by Harold C. Syrett. New York: Columbia University Press, 1977. Washington, George. Proclamation Calling Out the Militia. September 25, 1794. Avalon Project, Yale Law School. https://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/gw02.asp Petition of the Inhabitants of Washington County, Pennsylvania. 1792. Quoted in Thomas P. Slaughter, The Whiskey Rebellion: Frontier Epilogue to the American Revolution. Secondary Sources Slaughter, Thomas P. The Whiskey Rebellion: Frontier Epilogue to the American Revolution. New York: Oxford University Press, 1986. Bouton, Terry. Taming Democracy: “The People,” the Founders, and the Troubled Ending of the American Revolution. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007. Wood, Gordon S. The Radicalism of the American Revolution. New York: Vintage Books, 1993. Wood, Gordon S. Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789 to 1815. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. Maier, Pauline. From Resistance to Revolution: Colonial Radicals and the Development of American Opposition to Britain, 1765 to 1776. New York: W. W. Norton and Company, 1972. Archival Collections Avalon Project, Yale Law School. Founding era documents, Federalist Papers, and presidential proclamations. https://avalon.law.yale.edu/ National Archives. Early American government records and founding documents. https://www.archives.gov/   Petition of the Inhabitants of Washington County, Pennsylvania, 1792, quoted in Slaughter, Thomas P. The Whiskey Rebellion: Frontier Epilogue to the American Revolution. New York: Oxford University Press, 1986. Hamilton, Alexander. Letter to George Washington, August 18, 1794. In The Papers of Alexander Hamilton, vol. 17, edited by Harold C. Syrett. New York: Columbia University Press, 1972. Hamilton, Alexander. “Tully No. IV,” 1794. In The Papers of Alexander Hamilton, vol. 25, edited by Harold C. Syrett. New York: Columbia University Press, 1977.

    34 min
  7. Why We Change the Stories: Columbus and Late Medieval Europe (1400-1500)

    15 DE JAN.

    Why We Change the Stories: Columbus and Late Medieval Europe (1400-1500)

    In this episode of This, Again, we look at three familiar figures from late medieval and early modern Europe and ask a different kind of historical question. Not whether they were heroes or villains. But how their stories came to be told the way they were. We start with Christopher Columbus, whose brutality was documented while he was alive and whose authority collapsed long before he became a national symbol. His later transformation into a heroic origin story tells us less about new discoveries and more about what later generations needed him to represent. From there, we step back to Spain in the late 1400s, where Ferdinand and Isabella unified the crown through religious purity, expulsion, and surveillance. By tracing royal decrees alongside firsthand accounts, we can hear the story being shaped in real time, with moral justification first and consequences handled quietly afterward. Finally, we look at Henry V of England, a king whose short reign and timely death helped solidify one of England’s most enduring legends. Victories like Agincourt were interpreted as divine approval, while moments that complicated the image were absorbed and sidelined. Over time, Henry became less a man and more a standard against which later instability was measured. Taken together, these stories show how historical narratives harden not because evidence disappears, but because meaning gets organized around what feels necessary, stabilizing, or reassuring in a given moment. Attribution Notes: Every effort was made to cross-check primary sources and modern research. Where paraphrasing is used, it’s drawn from the texts below with narrative license for clarity and flow. If you spot an error or have a source to suggest, DM @thisagainshow   Follow This, Again on Instagram: @thisagainshow This, Again is written, produced, and hosted by Mallory Faust.    Primary and Contemporary Sources Columbus, Christopher. The Diario of Christopher Columbus’s First Voyage to America, 1492–1493. Edited by Oliver Dunn and James E. Kelley Jr. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1989. https://www.oupress.com/9780806123849/the-diario-of-christopher-columbuss-first-voyage-to-america-1492-1493/ Columbus, Christopher. Select Letters of Christopher Columbus, with Other Original Documents Relating to His Four Voyages to the New World. Translated and edited by R. H. Major. London: Hakluyt Society, 1847. Select letters of Christopher Columbus : with other original documents, relating to his four voyages to the New World : Columbus, Christopher : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive Las Casas, Bartolomé de. A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies. Translated by Nigel Griffin. London: Penguin Classics, 1992. A short account of the destruction of the Indies : Casas, Bartolomé de las, 1484-1566 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive Henry V and the Hundred Years’ War Allmand, Christopher. Henry V. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992. https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520070371/henry-v Curry, Anne. Agincourt: A New History. Stroud: Tempus Publishing, 2005. Agincourt : a new history : Curry, Anne : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive Curry, Anne. Henry V: From Playboy Prince to Warrior King. London: Yale University Press, 2015. Henry V : playboy prince to warrior king : Curry, Anne : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive Prestwich, Michael. Armies and Warfare in the Middle Ages. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996. Armies and warfare in the Middle Ages : the English experience : Prestwich, Michael : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive Spain, the Reconquista, and the Inquisition Kamen, Henry. The Spanish Inquisition: A Historical Revision. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998. The Spanish Inquisition : a historical revision : Kamen, Henry : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive Kamen, Henry. Spain 1469–1714: A Society of Conflict. London: Routledge, 2005. SPAIN, 1469-1714: A SOCIETY OF CONFLICT. : Henry Kamen : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive Netanyahu, Benzion. The Origins of the Inquisition in Fifteenth Century Spain. New York: Random House, 1995. The origins of the Inquisition in fifteenth century Spain : Netanyahu, B. (Benzion), 1910- : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive The Black Legend and Historical Memory Gibson, Charles. The Black Legend: Anti-Spanish Attitudes in the Old World and the New. New York: Knopf, 1971. The black legend : Charles Gibson : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive Pagden, Anthony. Lords of All the World: Ideologies of Empire in Spain, Britain and France c.1500–c.1800. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995. Lords of all the world : ideologies of empire in Spain, Britain and France c. 1500-c. 1800 : Pagden, Anthony : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive Columbus, Mythmaking, and National Memory Irving, Washington. A History of the Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus. New York: G. and C. Carvill, 1828. https://archive.org/details/historylifeandv00irvigoog Prescott, William H. History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic. London: Richard Bentley, 1838. History of the reign of Ferdinand and Isabella, the Catholic, of Spain : Prescott, William Hickling, 1796-1859 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive Loewen, James W. 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  8. The Anatomy of a Coup: Chile 1973 and Modern Echoes

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    The Anatomy of a Coup: Chile 1973 and Modern Echoes

    Coups are often remembered as sudden explosions of force. Tanks in the streets. Jets overhead. Governments collapsing overnight. But history tells a quieter, more unsettling story. In this episode of This, Again, we trace the hidden psychological pattern that links coups across centuries and continents, from Napoleon’s rise in revolutionary France to Cold War interventions in Latin America and beyond. Using the 1973 Chilean coup as our central case study, we examine how democratic systems unravel long before soldiers ever move, through exhaustion, institutional paralysis, rumor, and the slow withdrawal of public belief. Chile did not collapse because the military was powerful. It collapsed because trust eroded. Because Congress froze. Because courts lost credibility. Because everyday life became unpredictable. And because enough people, across enough institutions, quietly stopped believing the system could recover. Along the way, we connect Chile’s experience to earlier and later coups in France, Poland, Spain, Greece, Guatemala, and Argentina, revealing a shared emotional architecture that repeats even when politics, ideologies, and eras change. This is not a story about left versus right. It is a story about legitimacy, exhaustion, and the dangerous silence that settles in just before power changes hands. History does not repeat in identical events. It repeats in human behavior. Attribution Notes: Every effort was made to cross-check primary sources and modern research. Where paraphrasing is used, it’s drawn from the texts below with narrative license for clarity and flow. If you spot an error or have a source to suggest, DM @thisagainshow   Follow This, Again on Instagram: @thisagainshow This, Again is written, produced, and hosted by Mallory Faust.    Allende's Final Address: https://youtu.be/IZVWOWA2Hpk?si=xNHlO33Ve9rc0jzU PRIMARY SOURCES  Chile 1973 — Direct Primary Sources 1. Salvador Allende: Speeches & Broadcasts Allende’s Last Speech (Radio Magallanes, Sept. 11, 1973) Transcript + audio: https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB470/ 2. Declassified U.S. Government Documents (All hosted by the National Security Archive at George Washington University) CIA: “Covert Action in Chile, 1963–1973” https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/chile-coup-nixon-kissinger “Foreign Relations of the United States (FRUS), 1969–1976, Vol. XXI: Chile” https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1969-76v21 Nixon/Kissinger Telephone Transcripts on Chile https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB437/ 3. Chilean Newspapers (Digitized) El Mercurio (Digital Archive) https://www.elmercurio.com/ (Full 1970–73 archives require subscription, but summary archives & headlines are viewable.) La Nación (Chile) - Historical Archive https://www.lanacion.cl/archivo/ Clarín (Archive + PDFs) https://www.clarin.cl/historia/ 4. Eyewitness/Oral History Archives Museo de la Memoria y los Derechos Humanos (Chile) - Oral Histories https://www.museodelamemoria.cl/archivos/ 5. Allende Family & Personal Reflections Isabel Allende - “Mi País Inventado” excerpts https://www.isabelallende.com/en/book/my-invented-country (snippets available via publishers; full text is a book)   B. Global Coup Parallels - Primary Sources with Links 1. Iran 1953 CIA: “The Battle for Iran” (Declassified) https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB435/ The Shah’s Memoir (“Mission for My Country”) - Digital Archive https://archive.org/details/missionformycoun00moharich 2. Myanmar 2021 NetBlocks Internet Outage Timeline (Jan-Feb 2021) https://netblocks.org/reports/myanmar-internet-shutdown-tracker-2021/ Reuters Raw Footage of Coup Morning https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/myanmar-military-seizes-power-detains-aung-san-suu-kyi-president-tv-2021-02-01/ 3. Turkey 2016 Erdogan’s FaceTime Address (archived by BBC) https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-36809083 TRT Military Statement Clip https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65FcJXUqBq0 4. Thailand (2006, 2014 coups) 2014 Military Announcement - BBC Coverage https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-27517477 5. Spain 1936 Historical Radio Broadcast Archives (RTVE) https://www.rtve.es/archivo/ Greece Clogg, Richard. A Concise History of Greece. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. U.S. Department of State. Foreign Relations of the United States, 1964–1968, Volume XVI: Cyprus; Greece; Turkey. https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1964-68v16   ADDITIONAL SOURCES: Foundational Works on Chile 1973 1. Peter Kornbluh - “The Pinochet File: A Declassified Dossier on Atrocity and Accountability” https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB110/ 2. Patricia Politzer - “Fear in Chile: Lives Under Pinochet” https://www.usip.org/publications/1990/06/fear-chile-lives-under-pinochet 3. Brian Loveman - “Chile: The Legacy of Hispanic Capitalism” https://global.oup.com/academic/product/chile-9780195112799 4. Jonathan Haslam - “The Nixon Administration and the Death of Allende’s Chile” https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691130255/the-nixon-administration-and-the-death-of-allendes-chile 5. Heraldo Muñoz - “The Dictator’s Shadow: Life Under Augusto Pinochet” https://www.basicbooks.com/titles/heraldo-munoz/the-dictators-shadow/9780786726554/   Academic Journals & Articles  Journal of Latin American Studies Cambridge University Press: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-latin-american-studies Hispanic American Historical Review (Duke University Press) https://read.dukeupress.edu/hahr International Security (MIT Press) https://direct.mit.edu/isec Foreign Affairs - Classic Articles on Chile (1971-1974) https://www.foreignaffairs.com/search?search_api_views_fulltext=Chile Documentaries “The Battle of Chile” (Patricio Guzmán) Streaming on YouTube (Part I): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SVBm50nApc Streaming on Vimeo (restored versions): https://vimeo.com/ondemand/thebattleofchile PBS Frontline: “Chile: The Other 9/11” https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/chile/ “Santiago, Italia” (2018) Streaming overview: https://www.ifcfilms.com/films/santiago-italia   Sources for Coup Parallels 1. Naunihal Singh “Seizing Power: The Strategic Logic of Military Coups” Publisher: https://www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/4012/seizing-power 2. Edward Luttwak “Coup d'État: A Practical Handbook” Publisher (Harvard): https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674175474 3. Stephen Kinzer “All the Shah’s Men” (Iran 1953) https://www.wiley.com/en-us/All+the+Shah%27s+Men%3A+An+American+Plot+to+Get+Rid+of+a+Prime+Minister+and+What+It+Can+Teach+Us+Today%2C+Updated+Edition-p-9780470185497 4. Duncan McCargo - Works on Thai politics https://www.duncanmccargo.net/publications/ 5. International Crisis Group – Myanmar, Turkey, Thailand reports https://www.crisisgroup.org/

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You may think you know these stories, but not like this. This, Again is where historical disasters, delusions, downfalls, and déjà vu collide with human psychology. From palace scandals, space shuttle explosions, nightclub fires to witch trials, host Mallory Faust takes the moments in history you thought you understood and reveals the blind spots, egos, and eerie echoes you missed. It’s darkly funny, sharp, and empathetic - and it just might change how you see the past repeating in real time.

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