History Matters

By Natalye Harpin

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One thing historians love is a good drink.... and drinking alone isn't fun. Happy hour is the best hour, even if you are sippin' cold water in a beautiful glass. If you are under 21, chilled apple juice is always tasty.

Episode Date
Patrice Lumumba, 1960
Apr 27, 2026
Fetal Death Registry?! (HB 754)
Apr 20, 2026
Homelessness Court Program (HB 211)
Apr 13, 2026
Black Argentina, Then & Now
Mar 30, 2026
Chinese Jamaicans, 1884
Mar 23, 2026
¡Viva Dolores!
Mar 20, 2026
Exclusive Citizenship Act of 2025
Mar 16, 2026
Frauen Warte (1934)
Mar 09, 2026
Colombia's Law 70
Feb 16, 2026
Mississippi Chinese, 1880
Feb 09, 2026
Blackstone vs. BlackRock
Jan 26, 2026
Attempted Coup of Gonave, Haiti
Jan 19, 2026
Irvine and Affordable Housing
Jan 12, 2026
California New Laws, 2026
Jan 05, 2026
Throwback: Tepanec History
Dec 29, 2025
Throwback: HUD & Project 2025
Dec 22, 2025
Which Degrees Are Professional?
Dec 15, 2025
J. Edgar Hoover Was Black?!
Dec 08, 2025
Barbados Slave Code, 1667
Dec 01, 2025
Queen City, 1892
Nov 24, 2025
Guaranteed CSU Admissions (SB 640)
Nov 17, 2025
Skyrocketing Healthcare Premiums
Nov 10, 2025
Oh, Snap! (Part 2)
Nov 03, 2025
Prop 50 & the Voting Rights Act
Oct 20, 2025
Throwback: Latinx Colonial Trailblazers
Oct 06, 2025
Privatizing Military Operations
Sep 29, 2025
USDA & Rising Food Costs, 2020-2025
Sep 22, 2025
"Drained Pool Politics"
Sep 15, 2025
Equal Pay Act, 1963
Sep 08, 2025
Native Scalp Bounties, 1733
Sep 01, 2025
Chinese Mexicans, 1931
Aug 25, 2025
Immigration & Naturalization Acts in History
Aug 18, 2025
Throwback: New Laws, 2025
Aug 11, 2025
The Cult of the Middle Class: Age & Ability (Part 6)
Aug 04, 2025
Sisters of the Sourdough Starter
Aug 02, 2025
New Loan Caps
Jul 28, 2025
Liberia, 1847
Jul 21, 2025
Lake Lanier, 1912 (aka Oscarville)
Jul 14, 2025
Alligator Bait (Here We Go Again...)
Jul 07, 2025
Big Bill, 2025
Jun 30, 2025
Coolie Labor, 1862
Jun 23, 2025
Throwback: Gender Was Never Binary
Jun 16, 2025
Wounded Knee, 1890
Jun 09, 2025
Gatsby Was Black?
Jun 02, 2025
Alien Land Law, 1913
May 26, 2025
The Black Dandy, Explained
May 19, 2025
Sinners (Film) Analysis
May 12, 2025
Pay-to-Parent
May 05, 2025
Tariffs, 2025
Apr 28, 2025
Autism Science Foundation & RFK Jr.
Apr 23, 2025
"Bayou of Pigs", Dominica, 1981
Apr 14, 2025
Throwback: Clean Girls & Hot Cheetos
Apr 07, 2025
Throwback: Defunding DEI, But What's Next?
Mar 31, 2025
What is Genocide?
Mar 24, 2025
Altadena, 1960
Mar 10, 2025
Treason & Sedition
Mar 03, 2025
Slave Revolts & the Declaration of the Rights of Man
Feb 24, 2025
Transphobia is Everyone's Problem...
Feb 17, 2025
Anna Murray Douglass, Thank You
Feb 10, 2025
Tuskegee Airmen
Feb 03, 2025
Immigrant Bounty Hunters, 2025
Jan 27, 2025
"Millions to Negro Girl, 1913"
Jan 20, 2025
Black Americans & the American Flag
Jan 13, 2025
New Laws, 2025
Jan 06, 2025
Throwback: Russia is Playing the Long Game
Dec 30, 2024
Favorite Things 2024
Dec 23, 2024
Rent Won't Be Controlled
Dec 16, 2024
California Minimum Wage
Dec 09, 2024
HUD & Project 2025
Dec 02, 2024
Brief History of the Tepanecs
Nov 25, 2024
"Negro Women To Be Put to Work" (1918)
Nov 18, 2024
Rescission Act, 1946
Nov 11, 2024
200th Episode!
Nov 04, 2024
Ballot Measure HH
Oct 31, 2024
California Prop 32
Oct 28, 2024
Let's Discuss Prop 33
Oct 21, 2024
Throwback: History of U.S./Mexico's Relationship
Oct 14, 2024
Slavery on the Ballot, 2024
Oct 07, 2024
Mann Act, 1910
Sep 30, 2024
Pio Pico, 1846
Sep 23, 2024
Afro-Peruvian History
Sep 16, 2024
Vision 2030
Sep 09, 2024
Throwback: History of Childhood
Aug 26, 2024
Jobs w/ Pensions
Aug 19, 2024
Cult of the Middle Class: Welfare Access (Part 5)
Aug 12, 2024
Birthday Episode, 2024
Aug 05, 2024
Havana, Anyone?
Jul 29, 2024
Historical Astrology
Jul 22, 2024
No Fault Divorce & VAWA
Jul 15, 2024
Connecting 1865 to 2024
Jul 08, 2024
Throwback: Let Them Eat Cake
Jul 01, 2024
Tulsa, 2024
Jun 24, 2024
Project 2025
Jun 17, 2024
Throwback: Yanga, Mexico (1609)
Jun 10, 2024
What's New, Natalye?
Jun 03, 2024
Pay-to-Stay, 2024
May 27, 2024
Idaho & Moyle v. United States
May 20, 2024
Aftermath of the LA Riots
May 13, 2024
The White Bronco in the Sky
May 06, 2024
Throwback: The Military Draft
Apr 22, 2024
The Cult of the Middle Class: Stats (Part 4)
Apr 15, 2024
Bye, Texas...
Apr 08, 2024
Confederate Articles of Secession
Apr 01, 2024
Wine Country & the KKK
Mar 25, 2024
Sundown Towns: Compton, CA
Mar 18, 2024
The Whipping Boy
Mar 11, 2024
Housing Programs & AB 1482
Mar 04, 2024
Sundown Towns: La Jolla, CA
Feb 26, 2024
Black Slaveowners
Feb 19, 2024
Angola, LA (& Private Prison Labor)
Feb 12, 2024
Throwback: Afro-German Life During the Third Reich
Feb 05, 2024
Digital Lynchings
Jan 29, 2024
Seneca Village, 1825
Jan 15, 2024
New California Laws, 2024
Jan 08, 2024
Choose: Red Pill or Blue Pill?
Jan 01, 2024
A Few of My Favorite Things
Dec 25, 2023
Love as a Verb, via bell hooks
Dec 18, 2023
Throwback: Dahomey, 1898
Dec 11, 2023
Sundown Towns: Burbank, CA
Dec 04, 2023
Black Beverly Hills, 1949
Nov 27, 2023
What Can YOU Do?
Nov 20, 2023
Throwback: Salem, 1692
Nov 13, 2023
Henrietta Lacks, 1951
Nov 06, 2023
Natural Health Ban, Canada
Oct 30, 2023
Education, Social Class, & School Choice
Oct 23, 2023
Midway District, 1944
Oct 16, 2023
Glendale, California (Sundown Series)
Oct 09, 2023
Throwback: History of U.S./Mexico Relations
Oct 02, 2023
African Diaspora to the Americas, Part 2
Sep 25, 2023
Policing Cleanliness
Sep 18, 2023
Shortage of Professors
Sep 11, 2023
African Diaspora to the Americas, Part 1
Sep 04, 2023
Tehran, 1979
Aug 28, 2023
Russia is Playing the Long Game
Aug 21, 2023
Chinese Cubans, 1847
Aug 14, 2023
The Cult of the Middle Class: Who Belongs? (Part 3)
Aug 07, 2023
Throwback: Cohabitation is Now Illegal
Jul 31, 2023
The Cult of the Middle Class: Entry Into (Part 2)
Jul 24, 2023
Oakland, 1969
Jul 17, 2023
The Cult of the Middle Class: What is the Middle Class? (Part 1)
Jul 10, 2023
Defunding DEI, But What's Next?
Jul 03, 2023
Reparations, Ya'll! (Part 3)
Jun 26, 2023
Compilation Throwback: Words Mean Things (Diaspora, Parts 3 & 4)
Jun 19, 2023
Compilation Throwback: Words Mean Things (Diaspora, Parts 1 & 2)
Jun 12, 2023
Redhead Representation
Jun 07, 2023
Tuition Hike Proposals
Jun 05, 2023
Puerto Ricans are Americans, Too
May 29, 2023
Streaming Service Slavery, Pt. 2
May 22, 2023
401K vs. Pension
May 15, 2023
Know Your Place Aggression (NYC, 2023)
May 08, 2023
History of White Solidarity as Mental Illness
May 01, 2023
Public Perception of Protest (France, Part 2)
Apr 24, 2023
TikTok Ban
Apr 17, 2023
Stuyvesant Town, 1949
Apr 10, 2023
Gender Was Never Binary
Apr 03, 2023
King v. Smith, 1968
Mar 27, 2023
Indian Removal Act, 1830
Mar 20, 2023
Bank On It
Mar 13, 2023
Afro-German Life During the Third Reich
Mar 06, 2023
California Housing Crisis
Feb 27, 2023
Mardi Gras, 1889
Feb 20, 2023
French Pension, 2023
Feb 13, 2023
Regression & Recession
Feb 06, 2023
Oh, SNAP!
Jan 23, 2023
History of Latino Lynching
Jan 16, 2023
Jane Elliot, 1968
Jan 09, 2023
New 2023 California Laws
Jan 02, 2023
Throwback: Intercontinental Trade
Dec 26, 2022
Cutting Off Your Nose to Spite Your Face
Dec 19, 2022
What is a Hand Out?
Dec 13, 2022
Berlin, 1934
Dec 05, 2022
Reparations, Ya'll (Part 2)
Nov 28, 2022
Let Them Eat Cake
Nov 21, 2022
Throwback: Hitler's Black Victims
Nov 14, 2022
Voting Rights Act, 1965
Nov 07, 2022
Clean Girls & Hot Cheetos
Oct 31, 2022
Pappification
Oct 24, 2022
Racism in Mexico & LA (Words Mean Things, Diaspora Part 4)
Oct 20, 2022
Are We in a Recession?
Oct 17, 2022
Statewide Ballot Measures 2022
Oct 10, 2022
Roosevelt Corollary (1904)
Oct 03, 2022
AB 1856
Sep 26, 2022
Yanga, Mexico (1609)
Sep 19, 2022
Part 3: Words Mean Things (Diaspora, Part 3)
Sep 12, 2022
PACT Act (or Lack Thereof...)
Sep 07, 2022
Dahomey, 1898
Sep 05, 2022
Start of the Supreme Fall
Aug 29, 2022
Mammification
Aug 22, 2022
The Case for Community
Aug 15, 2022
Brief History of San Diego
Aug 08, 2022
Airhead BNB
Aug 03, 2022
Piggy Backing (Is More, Better?, Part 2)
Aug 01, 2022
Misogyny & Opinions on Health
Jul 27, 2022
Is More, Better?
Jul 25, 2022
Words Mean Things (Diaspora Pt. 2)
Jul 18, 2022
Bastile Day (Throwback)
Jul 11, 2022
Ranking America
Jul 04, 2022
Come On, Clarence...
Jun 29, 2022
Zapatistas & Jim Crow
Jun 27, 2022
Reloaded: Supremely Stupid
Jun 26, 2022
Brief History of SCOTUS
Jun 20, 2022
Favelados, Saõ Paulo
Jun 13, 2022
Zanjas, 1791
Jun 06, 2022
Levittown, 1955
May 30, 2022
So You Need a Letter of Recommendation...
May 23, 2022
AAPI Heritage Month (Brief History of)
May 16, 2022
Cohabitation is Now Illegal
May 09, 2022
International Worker's Day
May 02, 2022
Too Hot to Handle
Apr 25, 2022
Reparations, Ya'll!
Apr 11, 2022
Streaming Service Slavery
Mar 28, 2022
Atlanta City Limits
Mar 21, 2022
Storyville, 1898
Mar 14, 2022
Afro-Latinx Connection
Mar 07, 2022
U.S. Military Draft
Feb 28, 2022
Rooney Rule & the NFL
Feb 14, 2022
Hitler's Black Victims
Feb 07, 2022
COVID & the Age of Consent
Jan 24, 2022
New Orleans and the History Conference
Jan 17, 2022
Unratified Amendments
Jan 10, 2022
New California Laws for 2022
Jan 03, 2022
Olympus Been Fell, Sis...
Dec 27, 2021
For the Union
Dec 13, 2021
Atahualpa, et al.
Dec 06, 2021
When the Devil Comes to Collect
Nov 29, 2021
Highkey Thankful
Nov 22, 2021
The Mexica
Nov 15, 2021
Zero Dollars by 2053?!
Nov 08, 2021
Gentrification & Public Health (ft. Nkechi Michel, MPH)
Nov 01, 2021
Salem, 1692
Oct 25, 2021
Biden's Infrastructure Plan
Oct 18, 2021
Intercontinental Trade, Pre-15th Century
Oct 11, 2021
The Moors in Spain
Oct 04, 2021
Latinx Colonial Trailblazers
Sep 27, 2021
De-Colonizing Our Thoughts
Sep 20, 2021
History of Mexico/U.S. Relations
Sep 13, 2021
The NFL Plantation (ft. Roland Harpin, Jr.)
Sep 06, 2021
39th and Dalton, 1988
Aug 30, 2021
Opium via Afghanistan
Aug 23, 2021
Adjunctifiction
Aug 16, 2021
How the Government Segregated America
Aug 09, 2021
End of the Rent Moratorium
Aug 02, 2021
"Remember This House" (Analysis of James Baldwin's Work)
Jul 26, 2021
So You Want To Be a Professor?
Jul 19, 2021
Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité
Jul 12, 2021
Perks of Independence
Jul 05, 2021
Words Mean Things (Diaspora, Pt. 1)
Jun 21, 2021
Zuckerberg vs. Hawaii
Jun 14, 2021
Voter Suppression
Jun 07, 2021
Tulsa, 1921
May 31, 2021
Redlining & Housing Covenants
May 24, 2021
Part 2: Criminalization of Poverty
May 17, 2021
History of Caricatures
May 10, 2021
History of Childhood
May 03, 2021
School of Hard Knocks
Apr 26, 2021
Hands Off, Offred! (History and The Handmaid's Tale)
Apr 19, 2021
History of Masculinity
Apr 12, 2021
History of Femininity
Apr 05, 2021
Sundown Towns
Mar 29, 2021
Profiting From the Pain of Others
Mar 22, 2021
Cultural Mixing & Miscegenation Legislation
Mar 15, 2021
Where's the Minimum Wage Raise, Joe?
Mar 08, 2021
Bound by Guano
Mar 01, 2021
Rise in Anti-Asian Attacks
Feb 22, 2021
Reconstruct That!
Feb 15, 2021
Lincoln Ain't (Really) Ya Boy
Feb 08, 2021
The Case for Increased Minimum Wage
Feb 01, 2021
Aftermath of Insurrection
Jan 18, 2021
Olympus Has Fallen
Jan 11, 2021
New California Laws for 2021
Jan 04, 2021
Criminality of Poverty During the Pandemic
Jan 01, 2021