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.
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 57 minutes
- Episodes
- 254
- Years Active
- 2019 - 2025
Christiana Riot Episode 2 Fight for Freedom
The Gorsuch posse find more than they bargained for as they arrive in Christiana Pennsylvania. As they learn that not only do people not want to be enslaved but that they're willing to fight for thei…
01:19:50 |
Sat 06 Sep 2025
Christiana Riot Episode 1 Fugitive Slave Act
With the future of the United States balanced upon a knife's edge due to the question of slavery the Compromise of 1850 hold's the promise of easing those tensions. Yet part of that Compromise the ne…
00:59:03 |
Sat 23 Aug 2025
1916 New Jersey Shark Attacks Part 3
After a pair of shark attacks along the Jersey shore a large shark was swimming up the Matawan Creek. Where despite efforts to raise the alarm a young boy's life could be claimed by the wayward shark…
01:13:08 |
Sat 09 Aug 2025
Blues and the Mississippi Flood of 1927 Part 6 The Nation Takes Note
In this episode following the levee collapse at Mounds Landing and the flooding of Greenville Mississippi the nation finally takes notice of the ongoing disaster in their midst. Meanwhile I also look…
00:36:46 |
Sat 02 Aug 2025
1916 New Jersey Shark Attacks Part 2
After the first officially recorded shark attack in American history people continued to flock to the Jersey shore. With many openly dismissing that any danger whatsoever existed. Soon though the reg…
00:57:56 |
Sat 26 Jul 2025
1916 New Jersey Shark Attacks Part 1
As thousands flocked to the Jersey shore in the summer of 1916 none could anticipate the horrors that awaited them. At least in part because no one at the time believed that sharks were dangerous. In…
01:00:27 |
Sat 12 Jul 2025
Blues and the Mississippi Flood of 1927 Part 5 Mounds Landing
The Mississippi River could no longer be contained as even the vaunted federal levees started to fail.
The nation as a whole though would not fully take notice of this unfolding disaster until the ev…
The nation as a whole though would not fully take notice of this unfolding disaster until the ev…
00:29:21 |
Sat 05 Jul 2025
The Labor Uprising of 1877 Part 4
As the strike spreads into the mid-west the cities of St. Louis and Chicago see massive demonstrations that look to shut down not just thie railroads but all their industries and businesses.
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01:38:16 |
Sat 28 Jun 2025
The Labor Uprising of 1877 Part 3
As blood of workers ran through the streets of Baltimore and Pittsburgh. Blood that was shed by soldiers of the government at the behest of the railroad corporations the great strike of 1877 continue…
00:59:55 |
Sat 14 Jun 2025
Blues and the Mississippi Flood of 1927 Part 4 Lonnie Johnson
As the federal levees along the Mississippi are barely holding some are forced to labor and put their lives on the line to try and hold the rising waters back. A subject which legendary bluesman Lonn…
00:29:22 |
Sat 07 Jun 2025
The Labor Uprising of 1877 Part 2
Events which started in the small railroad community of Martinsburg West Virginia soon begin to spread as railroad workers all around the country are insnpired by their actions. The response by the r…
01:11:54 |
Sat 31 May 2025
The Labor Uprising of 1877 Part 1
The year 1877 saw workers across the country rise up in defiance as a massive strike effort swept across the nation.
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01:31:53 |
Sat 17 May 2025
Blues and the Mississippi Flood of 1927 Part 3 Backwater Rising
Unusual weather starting in the summer of 1926 pours a huge amount of water in the Mississippi valley. This soon leads to flooding displacing people from their homes and the creation of blues songs i…
00:32:20 |
Sat 10 May 2025
Fossil Wars Part 4 The Feud Goes Public (Finale)
After years of back and forth the feud between paleontologists Edward Drinker Cope and OC Marsh erupts onto the front page of one of the most widely read newspapers in the nation.
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01:27:21 |
Sat 03 May 2025
Fossil Wars Part 3 Dinosaurs
The bitter feud between paleontologists OC Marsh and Edward Drinker Cope enters its most famous phase as they compete over a treasure trove of never before seen massive dinosaur bones.
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01:21:18 |
Sat 19 Apr 2025
Sound Stories: Blues and the Mississippi Flood of 1927 Part 2 Levees Only
A rivalry over who should have control over the Mississippi results in more decisions being made that would make the 1927 flood all but inevitable.
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00:38:52 |
Sat 12 Apr 2025
Fossil Wars Part 2 The feud heats up in the west
As both paleontologists Edward Drinker Cope and OC Marsh head west to discover fossils their once friendly rivalry begins to take a decidedly ugly turn.
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01:20:41 |
Sat 05 Apr 2025
Fossil Wars Part 1 Friends?
Paleontologists OC Marsh and Edward Drinker Cope started out seemingly as friends. Men who were exploring a whole new area of scientific study However the pair soon would become the bitterest of riva…
01:00:41 |
Sat 22 Mar 2025
Sound Stories: Blues and the Mississippi Flood of 1927 Part 1 Causes
The Mississippi flood of 1927 may be little remembered today but it left a tremendous impact on American history and American culture. Which is illustrated by the fact that some 50 Blues songs were w…
00:31:16 |
Sat 15 Mar 2025
Nat Turner's Revolt Part 3 Backlash and Conspiracies
Nat Turner tries desperately to hold his rebellion together and over throw slavery but time is quickly running out.
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01:09:49 |
Sat 08 Mar 2025
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