Margaret Sanger founded the organization that later became Planned Pioneer. She has been widely lauded as a staunch advocate of women's reproductive rights, but there's more to the story. Join us this week as we delve into Sanger's story as well as the simultaneous rise of eugenics. The United States in general and California pioneered the field of eugenics, and that is not necessarily a good thing! From forced sterilizations to medical experiments without the patient's consent, many of the ideas and methods emerging within the eugenics movement later found expression in the gruesome experiments and ideologies of Germany in the 1930s.
So in the age of Covid 19 many educators and students have found themseleves needing to use tools they are unfamiliar with. This series...
HIlary and Geoff are back discussing controversial topics. On this week's episode they discuss the history of impeachment. Many people talk about it today...
We continue our discussion of the American West. Specifically, we talk about violence, federal authority, and the status of indigenous people in the Trans-Mississippi...