The History Onion

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The History Onion is a history podcast hosted by History Onion, with 52 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

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  How Progressives Can Win w/ Melat Kiros

  Jun 1, 202639 minS0

  <p>Today we are re-releasing our interview with Melat Kiros, a progressive candidate for Congress in Colorado’s 1st District. Originally published in October of 2025, our interview broaches topics including how to get money out of politics and fix corruption, why Democratic resistance to Trump thus far has been largely ineffective, and how Democrats have failed on the genocide in Gaza and what to do about it.</p><p>Kiros is running to unseat the longest-serving representative of Colorado’s current congressional delegation, Democrat Diana DeGette, and she is doing so with an unabashedly progressive platform. She has centered issues of a...

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  The Murder of Víctor Jara (Modern Chile Ep. 8)

  May 4, 20261h 4mS0

  <p>Víctor Jara, sometimes referred to as the “Bob Dylan of South America,” was a Chilean folk singer who rose to prominence in the 1960s as part of the nueva canción movement. His songs were often deeply political in nature, providing a voice for the Chilean working class and peasantry. In 1970, his recording of “Venceremos” (We Will Win) became the anthem of the left-wing Popular Unity coalition led by Salvador Allende. After winning the presidency, Allende made his victory speech in front of a banner that read, ‘You can’t have a revolution without songs.’</p><p>The story of Víctor...

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  Pinochet and Me, with Marc Cooper (Modern Chile Interview 3)

  Apr 13, 20261h 57mS0

  <p>For our 50th episode (!!), we are excited to present our January interview with Marc Cooper.</p><p>Marc Cooper is the former associate professor and director of Annenberg Digital News at the USC Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism. His writing has appeared in a variety of publications, including The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Harper’s, Rolling Stone, and the Washington Post. Currently, he is a contributing editor to The Nation.</p><p>He has also produced or reported for CBS News, PBS Frontline, NBC, Pacifica Radio, and the CBC and BBC radio services. Among his books are the best-selling Pi...

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  Understanding New York City History w/ Juliana DeVaan

  Mar 18, 202653 minS0

  <p>We are excited to share our interview with Juliana DeVaan, a PhD candidate in US history at Columbia University, where she studies 20th-century cultural and intellectual history.</p><p>Her work has been supported by the New York State Archives, New York Public Library, Getty Research Institute, and the Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy, among other institutions. You can read Juliana’s writing in Public Books, Jacobin, and The Drift.</p><p>We discuss two of her excellent pieces in Jacobin about New York City history and urban planning, linked below in the show notes. Juliana br...

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  The Suicide Museum, with Ariel Dorfman (Modern Chile Interview 2)

  Mar 4, 202654 minS0

  <p>We are excited today to share our interview with Ariel Dorfman, an Argentine-Chilean-American novelist, playwright, essayist, academic, and human rights activist. Professor Dorfman served as a cultural adviser to Chilean President Salvador Allende’s Chief of Staff during the last months of Allende’s presidency, and wrote a seminal critique of US cultural imperialism, How to Read Donald Duck, during this time. He was forced into exile, ending up in the United States in 1980 following the military coup led by General Pinochet in 1973.</p><p>Often dealing with historical and political themes, his books have been published in over fift...

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