Distorted History Podcast
I'm a history teacher and musician and every other week I cover a topic from American history ranging from the important to the cultural to the weird and unusual. Also once a month I produce a bonus episode focusing on the creation on a piece of music be it a modern rock album to classical music or the lore of video game.
Episodes
May 17, 2025 • 91 mins
The year 1877 saw workers across the country rise up in defiance as a massive strike effort swept across the nation.
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May 10, 2025 • 32 mins
Unusual weather starting in the summer of 1926 pours a huge amount of water in the Mississippi valley. This soon leads to flooding displacing people from their homes and the creation of blues songs illustrating these experiences.
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May 3, 2025 • 87 mins
After years of back and forth the feud between paleontologists Edward Drinker Cope and OC Marsh erupts onto the front page of one of the most widely read newspapers in the nation.
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April 19, 2025 • 81 mins
The bitter feud between paleontologists OC Marsh and Edward Drinker Cope enters its most famous phase as they compete over a treasure trove of never before seen massive dinosaur bones.
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April 12, 2025 • 38 mins
A rivalry over who should have control over the Mississippi results in more decisions being made that would make the 1927 flood all but inevitable.
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April 5, 2025 • 80 mins
As both paleontologists Edward Drinker Cope and OC Marsh head west to discover fossils their once friendly rivalry begins to take a decidedly ugly turn.
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March 22, 2025 • 60 mins
Paleontologists OC Marsh and Edward Drinker Cope started out seemingly as friends. Men who were exploring a whole new area of scientific study However the pair soon would become the bitterest of rivals.
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March 15, 2025 • 31 mins
The Mississippi flood of 1927 may be little remembered today but it left a tremendous impact on American history and American culture. Which is illustrated by the fact that some 50 Blues songs were written about the flood and its impact. Through this series I will use some of these Blues songs to illustrate life in this disaster. Yet first we have to examine the causes of this disaster which as it turns out are very much man made.
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March 8, 2025 • 69 mins
Nat Turner tries desperately to hold his rebellion together and over throw slavery but time is quickly running out.
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February 22, 2025 • 63 mins
With his rebellion now underway Nat Turner and his co-conspirators look to grow their army as they seek to kill every slave holder they can find and ultimately put an end to the vile system for good.
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February 15, 2025 • 34 mins
On this month's Sound Stories we revisit the world of nu-metal with one of the most notable bands to come out of that era, Slipknot and their massively successful debut album.
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February 8, 2025 • 72 mins
Nat Turner an enslaved man who believed he had been inspired by God was responsible for the largest, bloodiest and most successful slave revolt in US history. This is the story of that revolt.
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January 25, 2025 • 118 mins
We come to the end of this series as the Americans look to start a war with the remaining hunting bands of the Lakota so they could claim the Black Hills and all the gold the contained while also forcing the last of the Lakota onto reservations. Taking a lead role in this conflict is none other than George Armstrong Custer and his 7th cavalry. Things however do not go quite as planned.
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January 18, 2025 • 38 mins
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January 11, 2025 • 60 mins
While the Lakota seemed to have been victorious in Red Cloud's War the Americans had no interest in leaving them alone. Indeed as a financial panic wrecks the US economy government forces focus on rumors of potential gold deposits in the Black Hills. Lands sacred to the Lakota that according to their treaty with the US belonged to the tribe.
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December 28, 2024 • 76 mins
The story of cavalry officer George Armstrong Custer his time in the Civil War and how he became effectively the country's most famous 'Indian Fighter.'
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December 21, 2024 • 35 mins
I look at the history of Zeal & Ardor a band that mixes heavy metal, the blues, various folk traditions like folk songs and a alternative history narrative involving slave rebellions and the devil to create something new and interesting.
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December 14, 2024 • 76 mins
As the Americans struggle to defend the Bozeman trail Red Cloud's alliance remains determined to drive them out of the Powder River Country. These efforts led in part by Crazy Horse result in a massive victory for the Lakota and their allies.
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November 30, 2024 • 83 mins
As the Americans continue to press into the Powder River country, the last great hunting ground left to the Lakota people, Red Cloud of the Oglala forges a powerful alliance determined to cast the Americans out.
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November 16, 2024 • 70 mins
In the wake of the so called Grattan Massacre the Americans come in force against the Lakota forcing yet another treaty upon them. The conflict between the two cultures however is only just beginning.
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