Brian Palmer

Risky History

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Risky History is the podcast that goes where the history books didn't. Every episode explores the American stories that carry the most risk — stories where race, politics, power, and truth collide. The figures who were written out of the record. The events that were buried so other narratives could survive. The history that is still shaping the risks Americans face today. Because the most dangerous thing in America has never been the unknown. It's been the deliberately forgotten. New episodes dropping regularly. Subscribe wherever you listen. Music: "Strange World" by AlexBeroza — CC BY | ccmi...

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Brian Palmer

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Martyrs of the Race Course 27.05.2026 20:37

Risky History | Episode 1: Martyrs of the Race Course Everyone thinks they know where Memorial Day came from. They're wrong. The first Memorial Day was not ordered by a general. It was not created by Congress. It was not born at Arlington National Cemetery. It was created on May 1st, 1865, by freed Black Americans in Charleston, South Carolina — people who had been enslaved just weeks before...