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History is messy, frustrating, and often downright absurd-but it’s also the key to understanding where we are today. On Bitchy History, we take an unapologetic, irreverent dive into the past, connecting it to the social and political challenges of the present.
Whether it’s uncovering the stories of badass women who changed the world, exploring the cultural impact of Star Trek, or dissecting how 1950s media still shapes our politics, every episode delivers a snarky yet insightful look at the intersections of history, culture, and identity.
This isn’t your high school history class. It’s bold, unfiltered, and perfect for anyone who loves a good story-and isn’t afraid of a few hard truths.
💬 What to Expect:
\t•\tHidden histories of women, LGBTQIA+ icons, and other marginalized voices
\t•\tDeep dives into cultural moments, past and present
\t•\tSnarky commentary that pulls no punches
\t•\tConnections between history, media, and today’s headlines
Whether it’s uncovering the stories of badass women who changed the world, exploring the cultural impact of Star Trek, or dissecting how 1950s media still shapes our politics, every episode delivers a snarky yet insightful look at the intersections of history, culture, and identity.
This isn’t your high school history class. It’s bold, unfiltered, and perfect for anyone who loves a good story-and isn’t afraid of a few hard truths.
💬 What to Expect:
\t•\tHidden histories of women, LGBTQIA+ icons, and other marginalized voices
\t•\tDeep dives into cultural moments, past and present
\t•\tSnarky commentary that pulls no punches
\t•\tConnections between history, media, and today’s headlines
Warp Speed Woke - Lecture 2: The End of History and Humanity’s Evolution
This lecture explores Star Trek: The Next Generation (TNG) as Gene Roddenberry’s vision of a utopian future shaped by the optimism of the late Cold War and its conclusion. Drawing from Francis Fukuyama’s concept of “The End of History,” we examine how TNG portrays a society that has achieved ideological harmony, where greed, poverty, and hunger are relics of the past. Through key episodes, we’ll analyze how the series critiques contemporary issues like terrorism, environmentalism, and identity while promoting the ideals of cooperation, diplomacy, and self-betterment. Additionally, we’ll address TNG’s limitations in addressing deeper societal stagnation and its reflection of a world grappl...
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Bitchy History: The History of Domestic Violence in America
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In this episode of Bitchy History, we dive into the often-overlooked history of domestic violence in America. From colonial laws that gave men the legal right to abuse their wives to the grassroots activism that led to shelters and groundbreaking laws like the Violence Against Women Act, we uncover how far we’ve come-and how far we still have to go. Learn about the connections between patriarch...
Warp Speed Woke:How Star Trek Took on Society(Lecture 1: Boldly Going Where No Show Had Gone Before)
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Welcome to the first lecture in the series Warp Speed Woke: How Star Trek Took on Society! 🚀 In this episode, we’re diving into the groundbreaking origins of Star Trek and its fearless exploration of social issues. From its debut in the 1960s, Gene Roddenberry’s iconic series was more than just science fiction-it was a mirror held up to society, reflecting its struggles, triumphs, and aspiratio...
Why the Hell Can’t the United States Elect a Woman as President? | Bitchy History Podcast
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The United States loves to call itself a global leader in democracy, but let’s be real-other countries have been electing women leaders for decades, and we’re still over here debating if a woman is “likable” enough for the Oval Office. Seriously? In this episode, we take a no-holds-barred look at why the U.S. can’t seem to break the ultimate glass ceiling. From 19th-century trailblazers like Vi...
Access Denied: How Project 2025 Threatens Reproductive Healthcare (Title X)
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They’re coming for your reproductive rights-and that’s just the beginning. In this episode of Bitchy History, we dive deep into Project 2025, a sweeping conservative initiative by the Heritage Foundation that threatens to dismantle Title X, the nation’s only federal program providing affordable family planning and preventive healthcare. From cutting funding to clinics like Planned Parenthood to...
Why Gender Equality is Still a Debate: The ERA Story
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What’s stopping the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) from becoming law? Turns out, a lot. In this episode of Bitchy History, we break down the century-long saga of the ERA. This 24-word amendment promises gender equality but has faced more drama than a reality TV reunion. From its suffragist beginnings in 1923 to the feminist optimism of the 1970s, and the relentless opposition of Phyllis Schlafly,...
The War on Birth Control
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From the Comstock Laws to the Dobbs decision, America’s battle over birth control has always been about more than just contraception-it’s about power, control, and who gets to decide what’s best for our bodies. In this episode of Bitchy History, we dive into the infuriating history of reproductive rights in the U.S. and unpack the modern threats to access, like Project 2025 and the relentless a...
Historians: After Hours 10/4/2024 (The Witch Trials)
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We had an amazing time on Historians: After Hours diving into one of the most fascinating-and terrifying-periods of history: the Witch Trials. From Europe to England to New England, we unraveled the web of fear, superstition, and politics that led to the persecution of thousands of innocent people. In this live session, we explored the cultural forces at play, debunked myths, and had a lively d...
The History of Child Labor in America
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🔔 Welcome back to Bitchy History! 🔔 In today’s episode, we’re tackling a tough but crucial topic: the history of child labor in America. From colonial indentured servitude to the shocking headlines of minors working hazardous jobs today, we’ll explore how child labor has evolved (or not) over the centuries. 📜 What you’ll learn: •The grim realities of child labor in colonial America •Heartbreaki...
Father's Day Special - Bitchy History
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Tune in for the Bitchy History Father’s Day Special! My dad joins the show to talk about getting drafted, waking Richard Nixon up at 3 am (more than once), the time he nearly got sent to an early grave by a case of Coca-Cola, and many other things from his life. My dad has never met a random historical factoid he didn’t want to know or share with someone else, which is how you know we’re relate...
Clips from the Bitchy History Mother's Day Special
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Clips from the Bitchy History Mother's Day Special
They wanted to drop WHAT on the USSR?
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They wanted to drop WHAT on the USSR?
Race and the Philippine American War
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Race and the Philippine American War
The History of the Pro-Life Movement w/ Gwen Levey
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The History of the Pro-Life Movement w/ Gwen Levey
Boston Marriages and Women’s Right to Self-Determination
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Boston Marriages and Women’s Right to Self-Determination
Bitchy History: General Harriet Tubman
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Bitchy History: General Harriet Tubman
Season 2, Episode 11: The Problem with the Puritans
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Season 2, Episode 11: The Problem with the Puritans
Season 2, Episode 10: Barbie and Modern Womanhood
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Season 2, Episode 10: Barbie and Modern Womanhood
Season 2, Episode 9: Women and the Homesteading Act of 1862
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Season 2, Episode 9: Women and the Homesteading Act of 1862
Season 2, Episode 7 - Thanksgiving: "It’s a sham, but it’s a sham with yams It’s a yam sham!"
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Season 2, Episode 7 - Thanksgiving: "It’s a sham, but it’s a sham with yams It’s a yam sham!"
Season 2, Episode 6: Will the Real Rosie Please Stand Up?
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Season 2, Episode 6: Will the Real Rosie Please Stand Up?
16.13 You've proved you dont deserve a Masters in history, The Kirk Uhura kiss wasn't the first interacial kiss on Star Trek, it was at least the Third. Well done on not doing a modicum of research.
There was even an interacial lesbian kiss on Trek before it, but yeah you have a masters so obviously know all about this.
Funny how all the other academics agree with me. Maybe I should have specified on network TV, but it was the first black white interracial kiss on an American network TV show. jimcrowmuseum.ferris.edu/question/2007/november.htm
Now it's true that there was a white/Hispanic and white/Vietnamese kiss prior to this, but interracial relationships between those racial groupings were not (at that time) in the midst of violent opposition. Making them essentially non-issues at the time. To have an African-American and White actor kiss was wildly controversial. Now we can argue about the context of "interracial" but I think given the rest of the discussion on race in the lecture, which was targeted at how the show depicted African-Americans in light of the Civil Rights movement, it was pretty obvious that I was referring to the issue of racism against African Americans during the period. Also cite a damn source on this supposed "lesbian interracial kiss" 🙄
Thank you for another awesome episode! 💖
Thanks for listening!
Restriction. Not banning🙁
In reference too?
Seriously though, what do you mean by this?
@@BitchyHistory abortion counts as birth control right😉
Could you try writing in full sentences with coherent thoughts?
@@BitchyHistoryabortion counts as birth control. Birth controls needs restriction, that's what I mean🙁
Contraceptives today have too many flawbacks. They should make better ones.
Sure, but that doesn't mean banning the ones available. That's a different issue of women's health not being prioritized or having research funded properly.
Women's natural illnes?
What???
I am a Titantic fanatic and a Trump voter
Good job being dumb
@@BitchyHistoryI am not dumb and neither are you. We just have a difference of opinion. I would rather talk about our differences than insult each other. Would you be willing to explain your point of view? I will explain mine. We can share. I think that would be a good thing. We obviously have some differences. But that's ok. Maybe we can better understand one another. I'm up for talking about it. Are you?
@@BitchyHistory Hello?!?!?!?!?
If you are a Trump voter, discussing anything with you is pointless. It's a difference in morality, not a difference of opinion. You support a felon, who has been held liable for sexual assault, whose followers and VP think women shouldn't be allowed to make decisions about their own body and gay people shouldn't be able to marry. You want to vote for someone that supports policies (like tariffs) that are actually going to make things more expensive for Americans, someone who prefers to give tax breaks to big companies, and will put more conservative judges on the supreme court that will further strip away civil rights from anyone who isn't a white heterosexual male. What's the point arguing with someone who thinks that's a good idea?
it's funny how you think you are entitled to a quick reply
Proudly voting for Trump.
What a doofus
Excellent presentation! As a former foster parent for 15 years, I didn't appreciate the diss, but I get it. Subscribed and will be sharing this vid where appropriate.
I'm sorry it felt like a diss. I didn't really mean it that way in general. There are a lot of great people who choose to be foster parents, but there's a lot of people who do it for the wrong reasons unfortunately. I've heard too many horror stories. I appreciate anyone doing it for the right reasons! <3 Thank you for listening and sharing!
@BitchyHistory It's all good. I worked in social services with children, their parents, and their foster homes. We had a contract with DFYS for training and intervention for foster homes so I worked closely with them. No doubt mediocrity is mostly the norm, some are stellar, and a few are truly horrible. What I will say is, with the exception of the few awful ones, a foster home is better than the only other alternatives available~group homes or institutions. When I find myself speaking on the topic, I've learned to include a little disclaimer because negative commenting tends to discourage people who might be willing to explore becoming a foster parent. Whether they are perfect or just good enough, there are never sufficient foster homes to meet the demand. Blessed be. Edit: We took kids 10-19 years old. We preferred girls but if they came with a brother or two, that was fine. As we had three bedrooms available, we were licensed for 6 and we always had that many, but in a pinch, we could sleep 11, which only happened for short periods when there were sibling groups, as we preferred to keep them together. It was hella fun, even when it wasn't! Life was never boring, lolol.
Bless you. And I probably should have included that the bad stories are the ones we always hear because they make the news, not the stories about the people like you (or even the mediocre norm) who are doing everything the right way. Thanks for reminding me of that. I sometimes forget that with the news it's always "if it bleeds it leads" and not EVERYONE is bad.
@@BitchyHistory 🥰💖💝❣
That's a fair point. Some of those 1950's meals were nasty as hell. Tuna rarebit, vegetable jello things etc. It was very instant/consumeristic. That's when tv dinners came around too. Go back a little bit more like prairie style when the food was real lol. You would expect a little more passion for their chosen path. It feels more like rebellion just to be contrary, to me.
Oh they are definitely just doing it to "stick it" to feminism...for some reason.
Do you think they're taking barbiturates again?
So blast radius was basically a real board game?! Yikes!
Not a board game exactly. It was more like a science kit.
Why do you care? Let them do what they want.
They can do whatever they want. I can also make jokes about it.
These are people who want to force their values onto others, so fuck 'em if they can't take a joke
I mean if you're going to post something on social media, it's an invitation for people to comment about it. If you don't want people judging, joking, or commenting about it, don't post. Simple.
The point is that you have a buch of communist hedonists who hate America representing us in DC!
Citation needed
Peter griffin loading the shotgun : “I just wanna talk to him”
Well, that’s not a socially responsible toy company.
You are full of s***You are the cause of a whole lot of racism in this counthe Civil War was not fought over slavery.Contrary to what you teach
No it definitely was.
White privilege is the ability to know that you better go to work.Or you're not going to eat but because you go to work everyone else eats
You fucking tell me i'm wrong
The Daughters of the Confederacy are nothing more tham a gaggle of misogynistic repressed white women racist.
It's good to get to the dirty part of history. But to you emphasize that is how just about everyone saw the world? Not just Europeans. Not just white people. Everyone. Or are you another professor pushing white people bad? Also, genocide is a word that is getting incorrectly tossed around these days. Brutal, yes. Horrible, yes. Attempted genocide, no.
I know the definition of genocide. Also I teach American history, so I'm not sure why I would have any opportunity to teach how bad everyone else is. That's the world history course. That said, I know the professors in that department aren't whitewashing anything either.
The author of the video she quoted isn't a Philippine specialist. I went rounds with him on that channel over his use of sources. He clearly isn't versed enough in the literature to be making claims like that, whatever his motivation is.
I just think it's funny how you neglected to mention that the issue was litigated and the southern states were found to be right and the northern states were found to be wrong by the Supreme Court.
No they weren't.
The fugitive slave law was a federal law passed by congress and signed into law by the president. It had nothing to do with states rights. Since it was a federal law all states had to obey that law.
That's the entire point of the "state's rights" debate, you numpty
Changing the minds of kids through education 🤔 Similar to how so many college kids now are full on communists and children don't know what gender they are.
Uh, no not really
@@BitchyHistory yeah, it's a completely different type of indoctrination.
Confederates were the Democrats/Dixiecrats.
In the 1860s and 1940s, sure.
Hahahaha
Bravo 👏 Bravo 👏
Leave the children alone. Stop sexualizing them, stop pushing theirs multiple genders, that boys are girls and girls are boys. Stop it. Stop indoctrinating the kids.
What in the hell does this comment have to do with this video?
You are so full of crap. Stop 'whitewashing' the democrat party, ie the party of slavery. Mom's for liberty has nothing to do with any of this. Who cares when the statues were erected. It's still history. Stop trying to erase history. This is just more of liberals trying to project what they themselves are guilty of.
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@@BitchyHistory Yeah, I started to watch thinking you might actually have some real data. Nope, just more revisionist progressive imagined associations. Yes, I know Eugenics started in the U.S. I know the history of social workers who went into people houses and pushed sterilization for those 'unfit' to reproduce. After all where do you think your idol Margaret Sanger and her abortion movement stemmed from? You claim wokeness as a positive and that's why we should listen to you. Wokeness is a disease mindset based in social marxism. Wokeism actually has more in common with Germany's socialism platform than you could ever imagine. It is a linchpin in disrupting Americanism, freedom, the nuclear family in an attempt to create a social revolution. The ideals behind 'woke' has been written about for decades by those that want to see the destruction of the American republic, breaking it and overtaxing it to the point that a more controlled force step into the void to plan the seeds of marxism, socialism, or communism.
I was born in 1950 in Virginia and also raised in Virginia. My mother was a daughter on the confederacy, though she never joined the UDC, believing it to be a horrible organization. I clearly remember my 4th grade Virginia history book (I'm pretty sure my husband still has his copy). The things we were taught about the treatment of the native people and about the slaves would be laughable if they weren't so erroneous and hurtful. We were steeped in the lie that the Civil War was a battle over states rights and that slavery was a minor side issue, and I'm sure many native Virginians my age still believe that. It really demonstrates the importance of higher education.
Absolutely! You might enjoy this episode of my podcast ruclips.net/video/GuEnToLfU0k/видео.html
1900 is also about the time that Jim Crow laws really began to kick in. Jim Crow started later than we think. Confederate monuments were another way to impress on blacks that they were second class citizens living on suffrance of the white majority.
True, the Black Codes preceded the Jim Crow laws. Though we kind of lump them in together these days because they were all for the same goal.
Thank you... for saying this. The wilfully blind "republican't"party is choosing a convicted criminal and misogynist as it's leader. Don't make me laugh 😒
Bitchy sums it up.
Yeah, that's why I named my podcast that.
They think that we are stupid
You would possibly persuade more people to your point of view if you could at least admit that it is a life that you choose to end and not just a clump of cells.
Except it isn't.
BS. The monuments 1900-20 coincide with an increasingly strengthen Klan. Just look at the Klan marches fully supported by elected politicians during that period.
Absolutely. The only time they were stronger was the Civil Rights era.
You did not convince anyone with your words. Just venting, i guess. But it ain't gonna get you anywhere
The Republican Party was FOUNDED on abolitionism. Or did you forget the democrats were the confederacy?
In the 1860s, yeah. Not today.
says the party that censors free speech and uses a politcized lawfare to try to jail its political rivals. says the party that steals elections with un observed vote counts. says the party that sends our money to fund our enemies. Get a grip on reality lady!!!
You have literally just described the GOP. Your candidate for President is literally arguing in court that he should be allowed to assassinate his political rivals.
If you are at the point where you can't even comprehend how someone would come to a conclusion different from yours on an issue like this then you aren't as politically aware or empathetic as you think you are.
Oh my, I used to be a Republican. So I know how they'd come to their conclusions.
Well if that is the case then make convincing arguments against the substance of their conclusions instead of just saying 'you're dumb' five different ways.
Maybe we need a third party cause they are both not for the American people
No shit! That time frame is what ushered in the need for the Civil Rights movement.
1900-1920 was a period where all America was needed on deck for action. America had joined European nations in having overseas territories (Cuba, Puerto Rico, Philippines, etc). The Civil War was over but a World War was now on the horizon. The sins of the past were forgiven and the lynchings and Jim Crow laws were just ignored as long as "good" (white)Americans joined together.
yeah then start voting for half decent politicians from your party, if they even let you vote
Whoa look at the front tooth gap on that snaggletoothed bint
Tooth gap? Really? Cause my dentist at my last appointment was annoyed at how tightly packed my teeth are and recommended a water flosser because dental floss can't get between my two front teeth. But I"m sure an idiot on the internet knows better than him.
They both suck
100% agree.
I'm sure there were some people considered States rights to be more important than the issue of some people owning others. That doesn't speak well of those people.
Really good one. Thanks
FDT
You vocal the thoughts of MANY.!!
I agree 100% I find it ridiculous that the GOP claims to be all about freedom but spend all thier time trying to strip the mass3s of thier rights. Banning books, controlling womens bodies, rolling back child labor laws