This Guy Sucked
A show that proves no matter how long you've been dead, it's never too late to have haters. Join historian Dr. Claire Aubin and a new expert every week to pull back the scholarly curtain on the world’s worst guys and gals. From the widely beloved to the relatively unknown, no historical figure is safe, and every episode reminds listeners that the best part of understanding the past is criticizing it. New episodes every Thursday — free episodes bi-weekly, and access to all episodes (ad-free!) at patreon.com/thisguysucked
Episodes
Claire teams up with Chuck from Appodlachia to talk about the union-busting hired guns that made it even harder to survive in the West Virginia coalfields.
Collaborator
This episode is a collaboration with Appodlachia, a show about the culture, history, and politics of Appalachia. Listen to them here and join their Patreon here.
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Claire and Dr. Anabel Maler dial in for a discussion on everything that was wrong with that one phone guy.
Guest
Our guest Dr. Anabel Maler is an Assistant Professor of Music Theory at the University of British Columbia. Her book, Seeing Voices: Analyzing Sign Language Music, is available here. Follow her on Bluesky @amaler.
Sensitive Themes & Topics
Ableism, eugenics
Credits
Claire and Dr. Patrick Wyman have a chat about mythology, stupidity, and the guy who put the Great in Great Man History.
Guest
Our guest Dr. Patrick Wyman is a historian, author, and podcaster. His book The Verge: Reformation, Renaissance, and Forty Years that Shook the World is available here, and you can listen to his podcast Tides of History here. Follow him on Twitter @Patrick_Wyman, Bluesky @patrickwyman, on Instagr...
Claire and Dr. Kevin Schultz discuss a man who grifted his way into (and out of) the White House, and how America’s current political polarization started earlier than you think.
Guest
Our guest Dr. Kevin Schultz is a Professor of History at the University of Illinois, Chicago. His newest book, Why Everyone Hates White Liberals (Including White Liberals) is available here.
Sensitive Themes & Topics
Raci...
Claire and Dr. Neil J. Young discuss the frustrating legacy of Terry Dolan – attack dog of the New Right, proponent of ‘traditional values,’ and life-long closeted gay man.
Guest
Our guest Neil J. Young is a historian of the American Right. His book Coming Out Republican: A History of the Gay Right is available here. Follow him on Twitter and Bluesky, or visit his website.
Sensitive Themes & Topics
Racism, homophob...
Claire and Dr. Nicole Cochrane make an important contribution to the Horrible Man Theory of history and do not mention anybody’s alleged height or anatomical features while doing it.
Guest
Our guest Dr. Nicole Cochrane is an art historian and Assistant Curator in Historic British Art (1790-1850) at Tate Britain. Her co-edited collection Napoleonic Objects and their Afterlives: Art, Culture, and Heritage 1821-presen...
Claire and Dr. Imani Mosley talk high school band, Scandinavian fantasy freaks, and BDSM (Bizarre/Delusional/Strange Men).
Guest
Our guest Dr. Imani Mosley is an Assistant Professor at the University of Florida School of Music. Follow her on Bluesky or visit her website.
Sensitive Themes & Topics
Racism, antisemitism, sexual violence
Credits
- Host & Executive Producer: Claire E Aubin. Find her on Twitter @ce...
Claire and Dr. Hannah Zeavin do a deep-dive on 20th century child psychiatry, and why we all started believing everything is our moms’ fault.
Guest
Our guest Dr. Hannah Zeavin is an Assistant Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley, a cofounder of the Psychosocial Foundation, and Founding Editor of Parapraxis Magazine. Her newest book Mother Media: Hot and Cool Parenting in the Twentieth Century is...
Claire and Dr. Roel Konijnendijk talk trash about ancient Athens’ most treacherous twink.
Guest
Our guest Dr. Roel Konijnendijk is a Darby Fellow in Ancient History at Oxford. Follow him on Bluesky or find him on r/AskHistorians.
Sensitive Themes & Topics
Murder/violence and warfare
Credits
- Host & Executive Producer: Claire E Aubin. Find her on Twitter @ceaubin and Bluesky ceaubin
Claire and Dr. Lauren Lassabe Shepherd grade the man behind Mississippi’s mid-century campus culture wars. He (unsurprisingly) gets an F.
Guest
Our guest Dr. Lauren Lassabe Shepherd is a historian of American colleges and universities, and the host of American Campus. Her book Resistance From The Right: Conservatives and the Campus Wars is available here. Follow her on Twitter and Bluesky, or visit her website.
Sensit...
Claire and Dr. Zack Furness let loose on the antisemitic calorie-counting surveillance pervert behind America’s most mediocre homegrown auto manufacturer.
Guest
Our guest Dr. Zack Furness an Associate Professor of Communications at Penn State Greater Allegheny. His book One Less Car: Bicycling and the Politics of Automobility is available here. Follow him on Bluesky and Instagram, or visit his website.
Credits
Claire and Dr. Moiya McTier ascend to the heavens and nuke 2nd century astrophilosophers from orbit.
Guest
Our guest Dr. Moiya McTier is an astrofolklorist and the host of Pale Blue Pod. Her book The Milky Way: An Autobiography Of Our Galaxy, is available here. Follow her on Twitter and on Instagram, or visit her website here.
Credits
- Host & Executive Producer: Claire E Aubin. Find her on Twitter @ceaubin and Blu...
Claire and Dr. Sarah-Jane Murray flip the script on one of the world’s first French poets with our inaugural This Guy Rocked episode.
Guest
Our guest Dr. Sarah-Jane Murray is a Professor of Great Texts and Creative Writing at Baylor University and the founder of The Greats Story Lab. Follow her on Twitter and visit her website.
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Claire and Dr. Jonathan Fine build a case against the vice president’s favorite philosopher in the court of public opinion.
Guest
Our guest Dr. Jonathan Fine is a Germanist specializing in Comparative Literature and Intellectual History. Follow him on Twitter @jonathanbfine and on Bluesky @jonathanbfine, or visit his website.
Sensitive Themes & Topics
Antisemitism
Credits
Claire and Dr. Erik Baker set out on an intrepid journey deep into the heart of darkness itself: Harvard Business School.
Guest
Our guest Dr. Erik Baker is a historian of labor and lecturer at Harvard. His new book Make Your Own Job: How The Entrepreneurial Work Ethic Exhausted America is out now with Harvard University Press. Follow him on Twitter @erikmbaker and on Bluesky erikbaker, or visit his website.
Sensitive ...
Claire and Dr. Matt Lodder discover why being born left-handed and a woman mean they missed out on their real calling: a life of crime.
Guest
Our guest Dr. Matt Lodder is a Senior Lecturer in Art History and Theory at the University of Essex. His newest book Tattoos: The Untold History of a Modern Art is now out with Yale University Press. Follow him on Twitter @mattlodder and on Bluesky mattlodder, or visit his Instagra...
Claire and Dr. Andrew Hartman discuss Marxism, labor movements, and why everybody’s favorite presidents might’ve made things a whole lot worse.
Guest
Our guest Dr. Andrew Hartman is a professor of history at Illinois State University. His newest book Karl Marx in America, is available for pre-order from University of Chicago Press. Follow him on Twitter @hartmanandrew and Bluesky andrewhartman.
Credits
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Claire and Dr. Asheesh Kapur Siddique attempt to answer an age-old question: what’s Scotland’s whole deal?
Guest
Our guest Dr. Asheesh Kapur Siddique is an Assistant Professor of History at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. His book The Archive of Empire: Knowledge, Conquest, and the Making of the Early Modern British World...
Claire and Dr. Matthew Gabriele go on a holy crusade to figure out what’s up with Charlemagne the Actually-Not-That-Great.
Guest
Our guest Dr. Matthew Gabriele is a professor of medieval studies at Virginia Tech. His new book with David M. Perry, Oathbreakers: The War of Brothers That Shattered an Empire and Made Medieval Europe is available here. Follow him on Bluesky profgabriele or visit his website here.
Sensitive...
Claire and Dr. Drew McKevitt go to the gun range. Not really, but there are definitely some shots fired.
Guest
Our guest Dr. Drew Mckevitt is a professor of History at Louisiana Tech. His book Gun Country: Gun Capitalism, Culture, and Control in Cold War America, is available here. Follow him on Twitter @drewmckevitt and Bluesky drewmckevitt
Sensitive Themes & Topics
Racism, gun violence
Credits
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