Stuff That Inspired Us: Popular Work
This Day in Esoteric Political History
Jody Avirgan & Radiotopia
4.6 • 982 Ratings
🗓️ 29 December 2022
⏱️ 40 minutes
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As 2022 comes to a close, we’re doing a few special episodes talking about favorite work from the year — and ideas that we’ll carry with us into 2023. Today, we talk about more “pop history” work that we loved.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to this day in esoteric political history from Radiotopia. |
| 0:07.0 | My name is Jody Avergan. |
| 0:11.0 | And we are back with I guess it's part two of our works of history that kind of changed |
| 0:15.8 | our thinking or really inspired us in 2022. |
| 0:18.7 | So a little less a bunch of recommendations because we know that we're already into |
| 0:22.8 | 2023 basically and you may not have time to go back to all this but more like |
| 0:26.8 | just a chance for us to talk about where we're at in terms of thinking about |
| 0:30.1 | history and our works of history and being either jealous or inspired by other work. |
| 0:34.4 | Last episode was a little more academic and this episode is going to be a little more |
| 0:38.1 | you know popular work both books but also podcasts, Twitter threads, magazine articles, whatever. |
| 0:45.2 | So here to discuss, as always, |
| 0:47.1 | are Nicole Hammer of Vanderbilt and Kelly Carter Jackson of Wellesley. |
| 0:50.4 | Hello there, and let me check, this is our last episode of the year. |
| 0:54.0 | So happy new year, happy 2022. |
| 0:57.0 | Thank you for another great year of working and thinking about history, |
| 1:01.0 | but hey there. |
| 1:02.0 | Hello, Jody, and happy new year. |
| 1:04.3 | Hey there, happy new year. |
| 1:06.5 | So last time we kind of dug in on some work and then we talked and then we |
| 1:11.6 | mentioned a bunch at the end. Let's start with the sort of speed round shoutouts and then we can on some |
| 1:15.0 | out here, and then we mentioned a bunch at the end. |
| 1:12.0 | Let's start with the sort of speed round shoutouts, |
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