Avi Woolf

Avi's Conversational Corner

Society EN ↓ 83 episodes

Welcome! Here I will talk to a range of people on issues which interest me and I hope you, from religious slogans and wargaming to deeper political ideas to forgotten historical episodes. Bring up a chair, get comfortable, and enjoy! Avi

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Avi Woolf

Episodes

Episode 86 (Stumbling Colossus, 56): Rising Tide, Rising Crime 09.02.2026 51:52

Episode 85 (Stumbling Colossus, 55): The Chinese Challenge 12.01.2026 41:56

Episode 84 (Stumbling Colossus, 54): The Italian Masses 03.11.2025 28:57

Episode 83 (Stumbling Colossus, 53): The Irish "Leaders Of The Outs" 28.07.2025 40:13

Episode 82 (Stumbling Colossus, 52): Immigration Nation: Streets Of Gold? 12.05.2025 28:39

Episode 81 (Stumbling Colossus, 51): Immigration Nation: Selling America 08.04.2025 31:54

Episode 80 (Stumbling Colossus, 50): Immigration Nation: 100% Americanism 10.02.2025 47:23

Episode 79: American Bureaucracy - Take It Or Leave It? 03.02.2025 43:24

Episode 78 (Stumbling Colossus, 49): When The Circus Came To Town 21.01.2025 35:07

Episode 77 (Stumbling Colossus, 48): Was the Gilded Age "too democratic"? 16.09.2024 26:40

Episode 76 (Stumbling Colossus, 47): Recovering the Lost Constitution 29.07.2024 1:00:55

Episode 75 (Stumbling Colossus, 46): Americans and Railroads – A Stormy Relationship 08.07.2024 23:28

Episode 74 (Stumbling Colossus, 45): The Rise and Fall of Saloon Culture 24.06.2024 40:19

Episode 73 (Stumbling Colossus, 44): The Railroad's Color Line 03.06.2024 40:58

Episode 72 (Stumbling Colossus, 43): The Golden Age of the "Hated" Railroads 01.04.2024 35:35

Episode 71 (Stumbling Colossus, 42): Did the “poor get poorer” while the “rich got richer”? 12.03.2024 35:05

Episode 70 (Stumbling Colossus, 41): Making a Nation Into a Neighborhood 26.02.2024 31:02

Episode 69 (Stumbling Colossus, 40): Ragtime 19.02.2024 25:26

Episode 68 (Stumbling Colossus, 39): Poetry for a Society in Motion 06.02.2024 28:55

Episode 63 (Pop Goes the Culture, 1): Video Game Music 26.12.2023 15:25

Episode 62 (Stumbling Colossus, 38): Gilded Age America – Democracy? Republic? Something Else? 05.12.2023 48:44

Episode 61 (Stumbling Colossus, 37): And the Band Went Marching On 13.11.2023 48:03

Professor Bryan Proksch looks at the overwhelming popularity of marching bands in the Gilded Age - who played, what they played, why they rose and why they fell. To read Professor Proksch's full documentary history, click here to buy the book: https://www.amazon.com/Golden-Age-American-Bands/dp/1622776275

Episode 60 (Stumbling Colossus, 36): The Mail Must Get Through 04.10.2023 25:19

Episode 59 (Stumbling Colossus, 35): Growing Small Town America 27.09.2023 24:35

Episode 58 (Stumbling Colossus, 34): Gustav Mahler's Musical New York 28.08.2023 31:36