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.

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The First Klan Part 3 Fall of the Klan

May 29, 2026 • 73 mins

The original klan is finally brought down thanks largely to the efforts of one cavalry officer and his men. Unfortunately the klan's ultimate goal is still realized.

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The First Klan Part 2 Reign of Terror

May 15, 2026 • 74 mins

As the Klan spreads all throughout the states of the former Confederacy it unleashes a reign of terror on all who stand in their way.

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Sound Stories Black Sabbath Technical Ecstasy and Never Say Die

May 8, 2026 • 40 mins

The story behind the final two Black Sabbath albums with the original line up.

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The First Klan Part 1 Birth and Reconstruction

May 1, 2026 • 83 mins

The ku klux klan is one of the most violent, vile and unfortunately probably most influential organizations in American history. It is then important to examine its history and its motivations.

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William Walker the man who would conquer Nicaragua Part 5 The End

April 17, 2026 • 84 mins

With the people of Central America rising up against him William Walker completes his villain arc. Yet even in defeat he refuses to give up.

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Sound Stories Black Sabbath Sabotage

April 10, 2026 • 39 mins

After completing their most ambitious album yet Black Sabbath discover that they'd been betrayed by their own managed. This sabotage and the resulting legal troubles will prove to have an impact not only on their next album but on the band as a whole.

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William Walker the man who would conquer Nicaragua Part 4 Vanderbilt

April 3, 2026 • 84 mins

After having his transit company stripped of its contracts and property by the upstart filibuster William Walker. Cornelius Vanderbilt one of the richest men in the United States makes it his mission to destroy Walker and everything that he has build in Nicaragua.

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William Walker the man who would conquer Nicaragua Part 3 Winning Nicaragua

March 20, 2026 • 91 mins

William Walker fresh off his failure to conquer and create a new republic out of two Mexican states leaps at the chance to try again. This time by heading down to Nicaragua after being invited by one side of an on going civil war to join their fight by leading a force of filibusters.

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Sound Stories Sabbath Bloody Sabbath

March 13, 2026 • 38 mins

Feeling the pressure to surpass the somewhat disappointing Vol. 4 Black Sabbath contends with a serious case of writers block and some not so supernatural shenanigans in a spooky English castle.

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William Walker The Man who would Conquer Nicaragua Part 2 Mexico

March 6, 2026 • 71 mins

Seemingly determined to make a name for himself and play the hero. William Walker attempts to lead an invasion of the Mexican states of Baja California and Sonora in the name of creating his own republic and saving the people there from the attacks of the Apache.

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William Walker The Man who would Conquer Nicaragua Part 1 Filibusters

February 21, 2026 • 68 mins

William Walker would go down in history as the man who looked to take over the country of Nicaragua only to be defeated by the combined forces of 5 Central American Republics. In this episode we look at the early beginnings of Walker's life to see what inspired such outlandish acts. While also looking at the phenomenon of filibusters: individuals who would lead private military campaigns to take over foreign countries and/or join a...

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Sound Stories Black Sabbath Vol. 4

February 14, 2026 • 32 mins

I look back at the story behind Black Sabbath's 4th album Vol. 4 and how it helped to lead to the eventual breakup of the band's original line up.

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Tulsa Race Massacre Part 2 The Burning of Greenwood

February 7, 2026 • 101 mins

As the city of Tulsa devolved into a violent race riot the white mob soon turned their attention to the prosperous African American district of Greenwood aka Black Wall Street.

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Tulsa Race Massacre Part 1 Black Wall Street

January 24, 2026 • 91 mins

The Greenwood district in Tulsa Oklahoma was a thriving Black community. In 1921 though this community which had earned the nickname Black Wall Street would be burned down in possibly the worst 'race riot' in American history.

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Blues and the Mississippi Flood of 1927 Part 11 Goin to Chicago (Finale)

January 17, 2026 • 69 mins

What if any impact will the investigations into the Red Cross relief camps have? Meanwhile many African Americans who survived the flood and those relief camps decide they can no longer live in the south after all they have experienced. In doing so they take their culture including their music with them.

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The Ill Fated Journey of Conquistador Cabeza de Vaca Part 3 Spiritual Healers (Finale)

January 10, 2026 • 86 mins

The 4 former conquistadors turned castaways turned 'slaves' escape and find a new life as healers as they continue their journey to the Spanish controlled lands of Mexico.

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The Ill Fated Journey of Conquistador Cabeza de Vaca Part 2 Shipwrecked in Texas

December 27, 2025 • 74 mins

After failing to conquer Florida the would be conquistadors set sail in hastily built rafts hoping to reach the safety of a Spanish outpost in Mexico. Their journey however doesn't go quite as planned and the survivors find themselves in a very unexpected position.

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Blues and The Mississippi Flood of 1927 Part 10 Greenville Exposed

December 20, 2025 • 50 mins

Red Cross relief camps throughout the flooded region in general tended to have issues when it came to seeing to the needs of African American refugees. The situation in Greenville however is particularly bad as Black refugees there are practically returned to a state of enslavement.

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The Ill Fated Journey of Conquistador Cabeza de Vaca Part 1 Florida

December 13, 2025 • 70 mins

Spanish conquistador Cabeza de Vaca would be among the first Europeans to see and travel through the regions that would one day become the American southwest and northern Mexico. This however was not a purposeful journey but instead the result a series of disastrous mishaps. Starting with an expedition to conquer the lands of the Gulf Coast region starting in Florida.

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The Tragedy of the Donner Party Episode 5 Rescue and Relief

November 29, 2025 • 105 mins

With the arrival of the survivors of the Forlorn Hope expedition word was finally out about the desperate situation the Donner party was in. Yet even these rescue efforts could not save them from their terrible fate.

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Episodes

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Sound Stories Black Sabbath Technical Ecstasy and Never Say Die

The First Klan Part 1 Birth and Reconstruction

William Walker the man who would conquer Nicaragua Part 5 The End

Sound Stories Black Sabbath Sabotage

William Walker the man who would conquer Nicaragua Part 4 Vanderbilt

William Walker the man who would conquer Nicaragua Part 3 Winning Nicaragua

Sound Stories Sabbath Bloody Sabbath

William Walker The Man who would Conquer Nicaragua Part 2 Mexico

William Walker The Man who would Conquer Nicaragua Part 1 Filibusters

Sound Stories Black Sabbath Vol. 4

Tulsa Race Massacre Part 2 The Burning of Greenwood

Tulsa Race Massacre Part 1 Black Wall Street

Blues and the Mississippi Flood of 1927 Part 11 Goin to Chicago (Finale)

The Ill Fated Journey of Conquistador Cabeza de Vaca Part 3 Spiritual Healers (Finale)

The Ill Fated Journey of Conquistador Cabeza de Vaca Part 2 Shipwrecked in Texas

Blues and The Mississippi Flood of 1927 Part 10 Greenville Exposed

The Ill Fated Journey of Conquistador Cabeza de Vaca Part 1 Florida

The Tragedy of the Donner Party Episode 5 Rescue and Relief

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