History Episodes:
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GETTING CURIOUS | How Do Cults Fashion Themselves? with Sarah C. Byrd
Let’s say you pass a group of people dressed identically. Are they a) following a trend, b) wearing uniforms, or c) in a cult? And who’s to say …
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GETTING CURIOUS | How Diverse Was The Ancient Mediterranean? with Professors Sarah Derbew and Nandini Pandey
This week, we’re traveling back to one of our favorite sites for curiosity: the ancient Mediterranean. Professors Sarah Derbew and Nandini Pandey join Jonathan to discuss how people …
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GETTING CURIOUS | Who Built The Panama Canal? (ICYMI) with Professor Kaysha Corinealdi
July Fourth got us thinking: what does “independence” look like for American-controlled territories? To explore that question, we’re re-running an episode from the archives with Professor Kaysha Corinealdi, …
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GETTING CURIOUS | What’s It Like To Return To Downton Abbey? with Laura Carmichael and Allen Leech
*A note from the Getting Curious team: We delivered this episode just as news broke about the school shooting in Uvalde, Texas. Elementary schools are supposed to be …
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A weekly exploration of all the things Jonathan Van Ness is curious about. Come on a journey with Jonathan and experts in their respective fields as they get curious about anything and everything under the sun.