Margaret continues her talk with Bridget Todd about the origins of folk music and the man who dedicated his life to preserving traditional art.

Sources:

https://acousticguitar.com/alan-lomaxs-steel-string-discoveries/
https://pinemountainsettlement.net/biography-a-z/alan-and-elizabeth-lomax-visitors/
Alan Loman: The Man who Recorded the World, John Szwed
Bring Judgment Day: Reclaiming Lead Belly's Truths from Jim Crow's Lies, Sheila Curran Bernard
Andy Cohen, personal correspondence
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loYoTc7Aw0A

Margaret continues her talk with Bridget Todd about the origins of folk music and the man who dedicated his life to preserving traditional art.
Sources:
https://acousticguitar.com/alan-lomaxs-steel-string-discoveries/ https://pinemountainsettlement.net/biography-a-z/alan-and-elizabeth-lomax-visitors/ Alan Loman: The Man who Recorded the World, John Szwed Bring Judgment Day: Reclaiming Lead Belly's Truths from Jim Crow's Lies, Sheila Curran Bernard Andy Cohen, personal correspondence https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loYoTc7Aw0A

As long as there’s been oppression, there’ve been people fighting it. This weekly podcast dives into history to drag up the wildest rebels, the most beautiful revolts, and all the people who long to be—and fight to be—free. It explores complex stories of resistance that offer lessons and inspiration for us today, focusing on the ensemble casts that make up each act of history. That is to say, this podcast focuses on Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff.

As long as there’s been oppression, there’ve been people fighting it. This weekly podcast dives into history to drag up the wildest rebels, the most beautiful revolts, and all the people who long to be—and fight to be—free. It explores complex stories of resistance that offer lessons and inspiration for us today, focusing on the ensemble casts that make up each act of history. That is to say, this podcast focuses on Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff.

Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff

Listen to this collection of top episodes from iHeartRadio and iHeartPodcasts. 

Listen to this collection of top episodes from iHeartRadio and iHeartPodcasts.&nbsp;

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As long as there&rsquo;s been oppression, there&rsquo;ve been people fighting it. This weekly podcast dives into history to drag up the wildest rebels, the most beautiful revolts, and all the people who long to be&mdash;and fight to be&mdash;free. It explores complex stories of resistance that offer lessons and inspiration for us today, focusing on the ensemble casts that make up each act of history. That is to say, this podcast focuses on Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff.

Part Two: Alan Lomax: How to Record Everything and Mostly Make the World Better in the Process

https://api.omny.fm/orgs/e73c998e-6e60-432f-8610-ae210140c5b1/clips/eea2dd9c-0210-4577-91b2-b4800178bc16/transcript

Margaret talks with historian Ben Egerman about his work studying less-trodden queer history

Find Ben's book at: https://redemmas.org/titles/51654-a-gay-little-history-of-maryland-volume-1/ 

Margaret talks with historian Ben Egerman about his work studying less-trodden queer history
Find Ben's book at:&nbsp;<a href="https://redemmas.org/titles/51654-a-gay-little-history-of-maryland-volume-1/">https://redemmas.org/titles/51654-a-gay-little-history-of-maryland-volume-1/</a>&nbsp;

Part One: Ben Egerman and the Gay History of Maryland

https://api.omny.fm/orgs/e73c998e-6e60-432f-8610-ae210140c5b1/clips/2871a6a8-8cc4-46cd-83b7-b4ef000068cc/transcript

Margaret continues talking to Andrew Ti about the strange hippie who found mainstream success with a message of peace and puppets

Sources:

https://www.gothamcenter.org/blog/bread-and-puppet-theater-in-gotham 
https://nypost.com/2021/04/23/the-civil-rights-rebels-that-created-sesame-street/ 
https://www.henson.com/jimsredbook/page/36/ 
https://muppet.fandom.com/wiki/Jim_Henson%27s_Memorial 
https://www.newsbreak.com/herbie-j-pilato-1590342/4941153104564-the-shocking-racist-history-of-early-sesame-street-lore-a-tragic-look-back-6-decades-later 
https://worldmetrics.org/relationship-cheating-statistics/ 
https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/bert-ernie-are-gay-couple-sesame-street-writer-claims-n910701 
Jim Henson, Idea Man
Jim Henson, Brian Jay Jones

Margaret continues talking to Andrew Ti about the strange hippie who found mainstream success with a message of peace and puppets
Sources:
<a href="https://www.gothamcenter.org/blog/bread-and-puppet-theater-in-gotham">https://www.gothamcenter.org/blog/bread-and-puppet-theater-in-gotham</a>&nbsp; <a href="https://nypost.com/2021/04/23/the-civil-rights-rebels-that-created-sesame-street/">https://nypost.com/2021/04/23/the-civil-rights-rebels-that-created-sesame-street/</a>&nbsp; <a href="https://www.henson.com/jimsredbook/page/36/">https://www.henson.com/jimsredbook/page/36/</a>&nbsp; <a href="https://muppet.fandom.com/wiki/Jim_Henson%27s_Memorial">https://muppet.fandom.com/wiki/Jim_Henson%27s_Memorial</a>&nbsp; <a href="https://www.newsbreak.com/herbie-j-pilato-1590342/4941153104564-the-shocking-racist-history-of-early-sesame-street-lore-a-tragic-look-back-6-decades-later">https://www.newsbreak.com/herbie-j-pilato-1590342/4941153104564-the-shocking-racist-history-of-early-sesame-street-lore-a-tragic-look-back-6-decades-later</a>&nbsp; <a href="https://worldmetrics.org/relationship-cheating-statistics/">https://worldmetrics.org/relationship-cheating-statistics/</a>&nbsp; <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/bert-ernie-are-gay-couple-sesame-street-writer-claims-n910701">https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/bert-ernie-are-gay-couple-sesame-street-writer-claims-n910701</a>&nbsp; Jim Henson, Idea Man Jim Henson, Brian Jay Jones

Part Two: Jim Henson: A Complicated Guy Who Made Stories I Really Like

https://api.omny.fm/orgs/e73c998e-6e60-432f-8610-ae210140c5b1/clips/e6152dac-4852-40bc-b90a-b4ea002b73b9/transcript

Margaret talks to Andrew Ti about the strange hippie who found mainstream success with a message of peace and puppets

Sources:

https://www.gothamcenter.org/blog/bread-and-puppet-theater-in-gotham
https://nypost.com/2021/04/23/the-civil-rights-rebels-that-created-sesame-street/
https://www.henson.com/jimsredbook/page/36/
https://muppet.fandom.com/wiki/Jim_Henson%27s_Memorial
https://www.newsbreak.com/herbie-j-pilato-1590342/4941153104564-the-shocking-racist-history-of-early-sesame-street-lore-a-tragic-look-back-6-decades-later
https://worldmetrics.org/relationship-cheating-statistics/
https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/bert-ernie-are-gay-couple-sesame-street-writer-claims-n910701
Jim Henson, Idea Man
Jim Henson, Brian Jay Jones

Margaret talks to Andrew Ti about the strange hippie who found mainstream success with a message of peace and puppets
Sources:
https://www.gothamcenter.org/blog/bread-and-puppet-theater-in-gotham https://nypost.com/2021/04/23/the-civil-rights-rebels-that-created-sesame-street/ https://www.henson.com/jimsredbook/page/36/ https://muppet.fandom.com/wiki/Jim_Henson%27s_Memorial https://www.newsbreak.com/herbie-j-pilato-1590342/4941153104564-the-shocking-racist-history-of-early-sesame-street-lore-a-tragic-look-back-6-decades-later https://worldmetrics.org/relationship-cheating-statistics/ https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/bert-ernie-are-gay-couple-sesame-street-writer-claims-n910701 Jim Henson, Idea Man Jim Henson, Brian Jay Jones

Part One: Jim Henson: A Complicated Guy Who Made Stories I Really Like

https://api.omny.fm/orgs/e73c998e-6e60-432f-8610-ae210140c5b1/clips/7e6c7103-54af-4a18-8494-b4e8001e3993/transcript

Part Two: Alan Lomax: How to Record Everything and Mostly Make the World Better in the Process

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