Under the Mat: A Dark History Podcast

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• Anderson, A. (2023). Prison Abolition is Needed Now. Georgetown Journal of Law & Modern Critical Race Perspectives. https://www.law.georgetown.edu/mcrp-journal/blog/prison-abolition-is-needed-now-pri…

• Chmielewski, K. (2025). The First Atomic Bombs Tested and Used During World War II. Brittanica. https://www.britannica.com/story/discover-more-about-the-first-atomic-bombs-tested-and-used-during-worl…

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• Breckler, S. J. (2004). How Can the Science of Human Behavior Help Us Understand Abu Ghraib? American Psychological Association. https://www.apa.org/topics/physical-abuse-violence/abu-ghraib
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• Elton, G.R. & Morrill, J. S. (2025). Henry VIII. Brittanica. https://www.britannica.com/biography/Henry-VIII-king-of-England 
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• Concordia University, St. Paul. (2020). A History of Mental Illness Treatment: Obsolete Practices. https://online.csp.edu/resources/article/history-of-mental-illness-treatment/
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• Boileau, J. (2022). Titanic. The Canadian Encylopedia. https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/titanic
• Daugherty, G. (2025). The Long, Strange Trip of the Titanic Victims Whose Remains Surfa…

• Abbey, A. O. (2023). The Educational Impact of Military Coup D'etats in Ghana on Education. York University. https://yorkspace.library.yorku.ca/items/34e9c030-1d9c-4c1f-8c99-60d19ff59d53
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• Adams, S. (2022). The lost nuke of British Columbia. Legion: Canada’s Military History Magazine. https://legionmagazine.com/the-lost-nuke-of-british-columbia/
• Gorvett, Z. (2022). The lost nuclear bomb…

• Caro, J.E.E., & Vidal Ortega, A. (2012). The worker's massacre of 1928 in the Magdalena Zona Bananera - Colombia: An unfinished story. Memorias, 9(18), pp. 22-54. https://www.researchgate.net/publica…

• Brown, S.M. (2025). Harvard Under Fire for Slashing Slavery Initiative Staff as Black History Faces Nationwide Attacks. The Washington Informer. https://www.washingtoninformer.com/harvard-terminates-…

• Baker, M. (n.d.). The Struggle for Influence and Power: William Coaker, Abram Kean, and the Newfoundland Sealing Industry, 1908–1915. Memorial University. https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/nflds/…

• American Dental Education Association. (2023). History of Dentistry. https://www.adea.org/godental/Dentistry-101/history-and-data/history-of-dentistry
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• Fadulu, L. (2023). After 112 Years, Triangle Shirtwaist Fire Victims Get a Memorial. New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/11/nyregion/triangle-shirtwaist-factory-fire-memorial.html
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• Cecco, L. (2020). Canada: DNA discovery lends weight to First Nations ancestral story. The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/10/dna-canada-first-nations-ancestral-story
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• American Battlefield Trust. (2024). Andersonville Prison. https://www.battlefields.org/learn/articles/andersonville-prison
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• Aftoora-Orsagos, P. & Rubinkam, M. (2024). Troops fired on Kent State students in 1970. Survivors see echoes in today’s campus protests. AP. https://apnews.com/article/kent-state-ac60fdcb2a2dc852e49e…

• Amezcua-Patino, L. (2023). Nurturing Through Time: The History and Evolution of Parenting. Medium. https://medium.com/raising-a-beautiful-mind/nurturing-through-time-the-history-and-evolution-of-pare…

• Blumberg, J. (2022). A Brief History of the Salem Witch Trials. Smithsonian Magazine. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/a-brief-history-of-the-salem-witch-trials-175162489/
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