Cool Zone Media and iHeartPodcasts

Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff

History EN ↓ 552 episodes

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.

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Cool Zone Media and iHeartPodcasts

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History

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Latest episode

Jul 8, 2026

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Episodes

CZM Book Club: Soria Moria Castle 18.05.2025

Margaret reads you a classic norse fairy tale and then makes a thin and likely incorrect argument for why it's a queer parable.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Part Two: How We Beat Polio But Not the Mythmaking Around Jonas Salk 14.05.2025

Margaret talks with Anney Reese about how a group of people made polio vaccines and ended polio but how one guy took all the credit and ruined our understanding of history. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Part One: How We Beat Polio But Not the Mythmaking Around Jonas Salk 12.05.2025

Margaret talks with Anney Reese about how a group of people made polio vaccines and ended polio but how one guy took all the credit and ruined our understanding of history.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

CZM Book Club: The Barrow Will Send What it May, Chapters Eight and Nine 11.05.2025

Margaret reads the final two chapters of her book The Barrow Will Send What it May.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Part Two: International Antifascists in Ukraine: the Story of Anarchists at War Against Putin 07.05.2025

Margaret continues talking with Ron Placone about three antifascists who died protecting a humanitarian corridor--and one would-be antifascist who died on the other side of the war.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Part One: International Antifascists in Ukraine: the Story of Anarchists at War Against Putin 05.05.2025

Margaret talks with Ron Placone about three antifascists who died protecting a humanitarian corridor--and one would-be antifascist who died on the other side of the war.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

CZM Book Club: The Barrow May Send What it May, Chapter Seven 04.05.2025

Margaret reads chapter seven of her book The Barrow Will Send What it May See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Part Two: A War Against Tankies and Tanks: the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 30.04.2025

Margaret continues talking with Mia Wong about the communists and socialists who fought for workers’ power against the USSR. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Part One: A War Against Tankies and Tanks: the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 28.04.2025

Margaret talks with Mia Wong about the communists and socialists who fought for workers’ power against the USSR. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

CZM Book Club: The Barrow Will Send What it May, Chapter Six 27.04.2025

Margaret reads chapter six of her book, The Barrow Will Send What it May. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Part Two: Women of War: Partisan Struggle Against Italian Fascism with Suzanne Cope 23.04.2025

Author Suzanne Cope continues teaching Margaret about the history of women partisans in the Italian resistance, from her upcoming book Women of War. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Part One: Women of War: Partisan Struggle Against Italian Fascism with Suzanne Cope 21.04.2025

Author Suzanne Cope teaches Margaret about the history of women partisans in the Italian resistance, from her upcoming book Women of War. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

CZM Book Club: The Barrow Will Send What it May, Chapter Five 20.04.2025

Margaret reads chapter five of her book The Barrow Will Send What it May . See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Part Two: Black Antifascists In the Spanish Civil War 16.04.2025

Jordan from The Dugout continues teaching Margaret about the long history of Black antifascism that brought people to fight in the Spanish Civil War. James Yates, Mississippi to Madrid Salaria Kea, “Doing Christ’s Duty” Canute Frankson’s letter from Spain (1937) “The Good Fight” (Documentary) Peter N. Carroll, The Odyssey of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade ALBA-Valb...

Part One: Black Antifascists In the Spanish Civil War 14.04.2025

Jordan from The Dugout teaches Margaret about the long history of Black antifascism that brought people to fight in the Spanish Civil War. James Yates, Mississippi to Madrid Salaria Kea, “Doing Christ’s Duty” Canute Frankson’s letter from Spain (1937) “The Good Fight” (Documentary) Peter N. Carroll, The Odyssey of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade ALBA-Valb.org archiv...

CZM Book Club: The Barrow Will Send What it May, Chapter Four 13.04.2025

Margaret reads another chapter from the second book in her Danielle Cain series. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Part Two: A Madhouse Against the Nazis: the Story of François Tosquelles and Saint-Albans 09.04.2025

Margaret continues talking with Allison Raskin about the antifascist asylum in France that armed partisans and reinvented psychiatry. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Part One: A Madhouse Against the Nazis: the Story of François Tosquelles and Saint-Albans 07.04.2025

Margaret talks with Allison Raskin about the antifascist asylum in France that armed partisans and reinvented psychiatry. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

CZM Book Club: Escape, part two 06.04.2025

Margaret reads the second half of an anonymously authored speculative fiction story about what people could do if large scale roundups began, and discusses it with an anarchist technology enthusiast. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Part Two: Samizdat: How to Self-Publish During a Dictatorship 02.04.2025

Margaret continues talking to Katy Stoll about how the Soviet people evaded censors and kept poetry, literature, and political critique alive. The Material Existence of Soviet Samizdat, Ann Komaromi https://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/04/books/04solzhenitsyn.html HG Skilling, Samizdat and an Indepedent Society in Central and Eastern Europe https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/nikolai-gumilev https:/...

Part One: Samizdat: How to Self-Publish During a Dictatorship 31.03.2025

Margaret talks to Katy Stoll about how the Soviet people evaded censors and kept poetry, literature, and political critique alive. The Material Existence of Soviet Samizdat, Ann Komaromi https://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/04/books/04solzhenitsyn.html HG Skilling, Samizdat and an Indepedent Society in Central and Eastern Europe https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/nikolai-gumilev https://www.poetryf...

CZM Book Club: Escape, part one 30.03.2025

Margaret reads an anonymously authored speculative fiction story about what people could do if large scale roundups began, and discusses it with an anarchist technology enthusiast. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

CZM Rewind: Part Two: Gay Resistance to the Nazis 26.03.2025

In this second rewind episode, Margaret continues to tell the story of gay artists and street gangs that fought the Nazis. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

CZM Rewind: Gay Resistance to the Nazis 24.03.2025

In this rewind episode, Margaret tells the story of gay artists and street gangs that fought the Nazis. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

CZM Book Club: The Barrow Will Send What it May, Chapter Three 23.03.2025

Margaret reads Robert Evans the second book in her Danielle Cain series. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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