Amanda Holmes reads Edgar Lee Masters’s poem “Seth Compton.” Have a suggestion for a poem by a (dead) writer? Email us: podcast@theamericanscholar.org. If we select your entry, you’ll win a copy of a poetry collection edited by David Lehman.
This episode was produced by Stephanie Bastek and features the song “Canvasback” by Chad Crouch.
For hundreds of thousands of years, humans lived a nomadic life, hunting for game and foraging for food.
Then, several thousand years ago, they stopped. They began domesticating animals, started growing crops, and lived a sedentary lifestyle.
The question anthropologists have asked is, why?
Learn more about the rise of agriculture, aka the Neolithic Revolution, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.
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Amina Al-Sirafi, the protagonist of Shannon Chakraborty's new novel, commanded the Indian Ocean as one of its most notorious pirates during the 12th century. But when the story kicks off, Al-Sirafi is focused on raising her daughter, trying to live a peaceful life with her pirate days far behind her. The tale pulls Chakraborty's character back to her heyday in the waters – and as the author tells Here & Now's Kalyani Saxena, Al-Sirafi's Islamic faith plays a much bigger role this time around.
Every country in Africa is unique and has its own history. However, many African countries share a similar story over the last 150 years, having gone through European colonization and decolonization.
The nation of Liberia, however, has a history, unlike any other country in the world. From its founding to its modern-day governance, Liberia the story of the country is fascinating.
Learn more about the West African country Liberia and its unique history on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.
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In 1906, George Soper, a freelance sanitary engineer, was hired to investigate several outbreaks of typhoid fever in wealthy New York households.
The reason why it was mysterious is that typhoid fever usually only occurred in places with unsanitary conditions.
What Soper discovered radically changed our knowledge of infectious diseases and how they spread.
Learn more about Typhoid Mary and how she was discovered on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.
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