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Opening remarks from a November 2021 event about the legacies of the Emancipation Proclamation, organized by podcast host Joe Cook.

Host Joe Cook sits down with Bill Venezia to talk baseball history in honor of Opening Day 2022. They discuss favorite players, favorite memories, and baseball trivia.

Host Joe Cook continues his discussion with Bill Venezia from a couple weeks earlier, regarding developments in the war in Ukraine.

Host Joe Cook sits down with regular guest Bill Venezia to discuss the ongoing war between Russia and Ukraine, the American response, and listeners’ questions.

Host Joe Cook sits down with Bill Venezia to talk about Brian Flores’s new discrimination lawsuit against the NFL, as well as related topics in the history of sports and society. Note: Cook teaches a course on Sports in US History.

Host Joe Cook welcomes Bill Venezia back to the podcast to discuss more qualities shared in common by US Presidents — but this time trying to discover any similarities between America’s less-successful executives.

Host Joe Cook sits down with fellow history teacher Frank McGady to discuss the qualities that have distinguished great leaders in the history of the United States military. At the school where both men teach, Cook offers a course on the Civil War while McGady offers a course focusing on the World Wars.

Host Joe Cook and guest Bill Venezia discuss the qualities that make for a good president, as well as some analysis of how presidents of the past rank in terms of those qualities.