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Dig: A History Podcast

Dig: A History Podcast

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 Four women historians, a world of history to unearth. Can you dig it?Averill, Marissa, Sarah, & Elizabeth Copyright 2017 All rights reserved. Monde Sciences sociales
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  • American Idealist in Stalin's City of Steel: A Pre-History of the Cold War

    American Idealist in Stalin's City of Steel: A Pre-History of the Cold War
    Apr 19 2026
    Cold War Series. Episode #1 of 4. In this episode, we uncover the extraordinary story of John Scott, a twenty-year-old American idealist who abandoned the University of Wisconsin during the Great Depression, taught himself to weld, and boarded a train for the Soviet Union. He would spend nearly a decade in Magnitogorsk, Stalin's new “City of Steel” in the Urals, building blast furnaces, marrying a Russian woman, and slowly, painfully watching his idealism curdle under the pressure of Stalinist terror. His memoir, Behind the Urals: An American Worker in Russia's City of Steel, is one of the most remarkable eyewitness accounts of Soviet industrialization ever written— and it tells us as much about the seductive power of Cold War ideology as it does about steel. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    1 h et 2 min
  • Love Canal, or How Toxic Capitalism Poisoned a Neighborhood and How "Housewives" Fought Back

    Love Canal, or How Toxic Capitalism Poisoned a Neighborhood and How "Housewives" Fought Back
    Mar 23 2026
    Environmental History #3 of 4. In the mid-1970s, parents in Niagara Falls, New York were struggling to figure out why their children were getting mysteriously ill. For two years, officials from the state had been investigating the environment in Niagara Falls For years, residents had been complaining about “the odors of chemicals and fumes.” By the mid-70s, officials had determined that the smells emanated from an old ditch-turned-toxic waste dump. But while everyone could agree the dump was stinky, no one really seemed to believe it was actually pressing public concern. But then children started to get sick. For this episode of our Environmental History series, we're telling the story of Love Canal — one of the most consequential environmental disasters in American history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    1 h et 33 min
  • Rachel Carson and a Spring Without Nature: Science, Love, and Politics

    Rachel Carson and a Spring Without Nature: Science, Love, and Politics
    Apr 6 2026
    Environmentalism Series #4 of 4. Rachel Carson is often touted as inspiring the modern global environmental movement. In 1962, when Carson’s book Silent Spring was published, she was a fifty-five-year-old former government employee and an award-winning writer of oceanography books. She did not hold a university position, had no PhD, nor was she affiliated with any political organization. She did not consider herself a feminist, and by most accounts she had little taste for public controversy. Unbeknownst to most people, she was also living with advancing breast cancer, a fact she kept largely hidden from the public while she faced down the combined fury of the American chemical industry, the Department of Agriculture, and a scientific establishment that was furious with her. Carson was, as historian Linda Lear puts it, "an improbable revolutionary," yet she changed the world. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    40 min
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