For this DHP episode, CJ was joined by Alex Von Sternberg of History Impossible, who lives in the LA area & recently put out an episode about natural disasters & their significant-but-oft-overlooked social & political effects. Join CJ & Alex as they discuss natural disasters in general, the California wildfires in particular, California's oligarchical corruption, Hollywood's continuing problems, & more! Links Save 25% on EVERYTHING in CJ’s Patreon Shop during Feb. 2025 – Go here & use coupon code 225OFF Save 25% on your first month of membership if you become a...

CJ has had a particularly difficult last 5 years or so, including battling alcoholism & depression, only to have his wife become disabled just as he was starting to come out of those struggles, which gave him & his family a bunch of new stresses, including severe financial ones that he's still trying to battle at the moment. In this episode of Archetopical, he shares some of that story, followed by a discussion of the things that he has found most helpful to him in getting through these struggles with his life, health, & marriage still intact, in the hopes that some of them may...

Join CJ as he continues his coverage of the life & career of Woodrow Wilson through 1916, culminating in Wilson's successful-but-close reelection campaign that November. (Apologies for the not-pristine audio -- there's some clipping I didn't notice during recording. I did my best to clean it up in post, but it's still a little distorted here & there. I'm using some new hardware -- acquired thanks to the generosity of listeners -- and am still figuring out how to use it.) Wanna Take CJ's "Decline & Fall of the Soviet Empire" Course, which starts Tues 12/3? You can sign up via...

Join CJ as he shares some thoughts & analysis about how the 2024 election played out, its significance in the context of American political history, and some historical parallels. Links Sign up to take CJ's "Decline & Fall of the Soviet Empire" Dangerous History Live-Ceum Course (which will start on Tues, 12/3) Support the Dangerous History Podcast via Patreon Other ways to support the show Get CJ’s Dangerous American History Bibliography FREE Subscribe to the Dangerous History Podcast Youtube Channel Like this episode? You can throw CJ a $ tip via Paypal here:...

Unfortunately, CJ did not have time to do both an election episode & a Halloween episode this year, so he opted for the latter. (Next October, assuming the DHP is still around & CJ isn't a homeless beggar, and assuming World War 3 and/or Civil War 2 aren't disrupting everything, CJ will do Halloween DHP episodes again!) In this off-the-cuff episode, CJ shares some thoughts and historical perspective on the imminent presidential election, viewed primarily through the lens of two important concepts in American political history that he's covered multiple times on the DHP over the...

A few weeks ago, CJ FINALLY won the War of Art when it came to starting a second podcast, something he's been seriously thinking about & planning for over 5 years. The podcast is called Archetopical, and has its own separate podcast feed from the DHP. You can find it here, or search for it wherever you consume your audio podcasts. (And if you can't find it on your favorite podcatcher, shoot CJ an email to let him know where you can't find it & he'll try to rectify that.) CJ's first Archetopical episode (numbered episode zero) was a basic introduction episode. This one is episode 1,...