Month: February 2018

Wisconsin’s Mound Builders

2/25/18 by Š 2015 Wisconsin Public Radio

Web player: http://podplayer.net/#/?id=47139116
Episode: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/UniversityOfTheAir/~5/6idoJjKla1Q/uoa150215a.mp3

Native American societies in Wisconsin built more effigy mounds than did those in any other region of North America . . . between 15 and 20 thousand of them, thousands of which remain. Wisconsin Historical Society Archaeologist Amy Rosebrough talks about some recent discoveries about the Wisconsin mound culture. Along the way, we’ll get a glimpse of what Wisconsin was like a thousand and more years ago, and find out how this area was connected to other parts of the country by trade and religion.

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The Anatomy of Tyranny – Timothy Snyder

2/23/18 by Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

Web player: http://podplayer.net/#/?id=47062451
Episode: https://podcast-a.akamaihd.net/mp3/podcasts/ideas-r0ny3EZL-20180223.mp3

Authoritarianism is on the rise around the world. And Timothy Snyder wants to push back against this tide. A history professor at Yale University who’s written widely on Europe and the Holocaust, he takes an unusual approach in his little book, “On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century”. This episode features the lecture he gave in Toronto and a follow-up conversation with host Paul Kennedy.

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