American Origin Stories with Matthew Cooke

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Beginning with a reorientation to our habitat on earth, a short history of fossil fuels, t... more

This episode features cinematic sound. The incredible true story of working class hero Pat... more

The incredible story of what makes the Statue of Liberty so truly representative of Americ... more

This challenging episode covers the roots of our identity crisis in “whiteness,” the flag,... more

This episode features cinematic sound. Ben Lay was under 4 feet tall with a hunched back. ... more

The almost universally unknown "ghost" who wrote the final draft of the U.S. constitution ... more

The 300K year history of eating healthy, the shift into treating food as junk, and the res... more

Readings from Founding Fathers of Freedom: Martin Luther King Jr, Malcolm X, and James Bal... more

A few billionaire-owned monopolies use unregulated secret algorithms to govern our entire ... more

The battle between slavers, anti-slavers and opportunists drove the geographic borders of ... more

We'd consider it tyranny to let one person decide who we see and what we do in in Boston C... more

MLK was a founding father of American freedom. Prior to the late 1960s, not all citizens c... more

Victor Ochoa was a gunslinger, an inventor of airplanes, a wind turbine, and the pocket pr... more

To the vast majority of America, the identity of the 35 year old man who wrote the U.S. co... more