The United States of Amnesia
Welcome to The United States of Amnesia, a podcast exploring the lessons we’ve forgotten, misunderstood, or never learned. Over time, history, politics, and religion have been distorted by bias, oversimplification, and myth. This podcast aims to cut through the fog, reconnecting past and present to help us think more clearly about the world we’re in, and the one we're heading toward. Join us as we delve into the great struggle of humanity: to reconcile who we were with who we are becoming.
We post new episodes every other Wednesday. Please explore our website for more information about us, to listen to our episodes, catch up on our blog (we post pictures and sources relevant to different episodes as well as news about upcoming episodes), leave a review, and more!
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Theodore R. Johnson's Washington Post Column on the Fragility of U.S.…
Theodore R. Johnson's Washington Post column of January 14, 2026, discusses the "fragility" of U.S. citizenship in which he describes the injustice and danger of allowing the United States Government to decide capriciously who does and does not belo…
Tea, Drugs, and Jesus: Books and Sources
MARSHALL's SOURCES: Hyatt, Irwin. Our Ordered Lives Confess: Three Nineteenth-Century American Missionaries in East Shantung. 2014. A spirited case study of American missionaries operating in Northeast China and the challenges they faced. Ess…
Upcoming Episodes!
Episode 203 (coming January 21!): As the Manchu dynasty weakens during the 19th century, U.S. missionaries arrive. Christian evangelization leads to the outbreak of the long, bloody, brutal, and genocidal Taiping Rebellion, whose leader claims to be…