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PODCAST SERIES · 30 GUIDES
Ken Lacorte
Elephants in Rooms with Ken LaCorte examines contentious questions in history, public policy, science, culture and politics.
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Why Did Hitler Give Switzerland a Pass?
An examination of Switzerland’s neutrality, military defenses, wartime trade and relationship with Nazi Germany during World War II.Episode guide
Might Japanese Internment Have Been Justified?
LaCorte revisits the wartime removal and incarceration of Japanese Americans, examining the government’s stated fears and the evidence behind its actions.Episode guide
The Real Rosa Parks: What They Didn't Teach Us in School
A closer look at Rosa Parks’s organizing experience, the Montgomery bus boycott and the personal consequences of her protest.Episode guide
This Professor Invented a Genocide. Here's How.
LaCorte compares a documented eighteenth-century smallpox incident with a later disputed allegation about deliberate disease spread to Native Americans.Episode guide
They Called McCarthy Crazy. Then the KGB Files Opened.
A reassessment of Senator Joseph McCarthy, Soviet espionage in the United States and what later intelligence records did—and did not—prove.COMPLETE ARCHIVE
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