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Three States Signed the 13th Amendment Decades Late, and Nothing Changed
Episode 3
Delaware signed the Thirteenth Amendment in 1901. Kentucky waited until 1976. Mississippi voted yes in 1995 and forgot to file the paperwork until 20…
5 hours ago
The 13th Amendment Wrote an Exception about Slavery that was Never Removed
Episode 3
The Thirteenth Amendment abolished slavery and wrote an exception into its own text, for anyone convicted of a crime. That clause has never been remo…
1 day, 6 hours ago
What If America Had Kept Its 40 Acres Promise to former slavers?$7.6M Part 2
Episode 4
What if the families who were promised forty acres and a mule had kept their land? Part 2 of this alternate history follows one imagined family on Ed…
2 days, 1 hour ago
Garrison Frazier Answered Sherman, and Four Days Later It Became Policy
Episode 3
Asked what his people needed most, Garrison Frazier gave an answer that became federal policy four days later. He had been enslaved until 1857, and h…
2 days, 7 hours ago
One Scholar Priced the Unpaid Work of Slavery at $14.2 Trillion
Episode 3
Podcast show notes: One scholar put a price on the work that was never paid for, and the figure runs to fourteen point two trillion dollars in 2009 m…
3 days, 1 hour ago
What If America Had Kept Its 40 Acres Promise from 1865? Part 1
Episode 3
In January 1865, twenty Black ministers sat down with General William Sherman and the Secretary of War and were asked what their people needed most. …
3 days, 1 hour ago
What If Humans NEVER Needed Sleep? You'd Get 26 Years Back. And Lose All of Them.
Season 1 Episode 2
You will spend roughly 26 years of your life unconscious. Science still cannot fully explain why. In this episode we trace what the research actually…
3 months, 1 week ago
What If AI Became Conscious TOMORROW? We'd Realize We Already Enslaved Billions of Them.
Season 1 Episode 1
Right now, AI systems are holding more conversations than every human being on earth combined.
And nobody can tell you with certainty whether any of …
3 months, 2 weeks ago
What Comes Next — Official Trailer
Every moment in history had a turning point. What Comes Next follows the real history, the verified science, right up to the edge of what we know. Th…
3 months, 2 weeks ago