HeyJaredHow To Be A Historian
I'm Clyde Brittelle, a teenage history buff. I've been a fan of history for as long as I can remember. Whenever someone has asked me what I want to do when I grow up, I've said "I want to be a historian".
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LaGuardia and Mamdani Pt 3: Influence (opens the original)
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This is the final episode in my three part series on LaGuardia and Mamdani. I’ve had an amazing time researching and educating myself on their origins, beliefs and political careers. So far, I’ve talked about how both LaGuardia and Mamdani came into New York politics as outsiders who promised major changes to the city. But promising reform is one thing — actually building enough of both a political following and power in genral to carry it out is another. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy f
LaGuardia and Mamdani Pt 2: Ideology (opens the original)
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This is the second episode in my three part series on Fiorello LaGuardia and Zohran Mamdani. Last episode we covered their immigrant backgrounds and how that influenced their beliefs and later careers. In this episode we’ll cover their socialist beliefs (and for LaGuardia, socialist-adjacent) and how it influenced their decision making and goals as mayor. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
LaGuardia and Mamdani Pt 1: Origin (opens the original)
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This is the first episode of a three part series on Zohran Mamdani, the popular and populist democratic socialist mayor of New York, and his ideological predecessor, Fiorello LaGuardia. I’m super interested in making connections between the past and present and that’s the goal of this series. Mamdani and LaGuardia were of different political parties and one is a professed democratic socialist while the other was not however the similarities are stark. In these three episodes, I’ll trace their li
A Conversation with Beverly Gage (opens the original)
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I had the huge honor of getting the opportunity to interview the historian, Yale professor and pulitzer-prize winning author Beverly Gage. Our interview centered around two overarching topics. First off, we discussed her latest book "This Land Is Your Land," which recounts her experiences during a series of road trips to historical sites around America in the lead-up to the 2026 semiquincentennial. The book explores how we as Americans confront and discuss the past amidst our tumultuous present.
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