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FORGOTTEN HISTORY with Arnold Garson
FORGOTTEN HISTORY with Arnold Garson provides historical context for today's news, telling stories from the past that are relevant in today's world; also digging deep into history to find stories that have been lost, forgotten, or never told before.
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The BIGGEST MOBSTER SIOUX CITY, and Perhaps IOWA, EVER PRODUCED
DAVIE BERMAN: A THUG BY THE TIME HE WAS 14
WHEN SMALLPOX RAN RAMPANT IN AMERICA and WHY IT DOESN'T ANYMORE
MANDATORY MILITARY INOCULATION, A DECISION THAT MAY HAVE SAVED AMERICA
AMERICA 250: The Evolution of a Semiquincentennial, Part 5, 1976-2026
America's fifth half-century: The 9/11 attack, unwinnable wars, the technology revolution, political divisiveness, hatred.
AMERICA 250: The Evolution of a Semiquincentennial, Part 4, 1926-1976
The fourth half-century: The Great Depression, World War II, NATO, the Civil Rights movement, the Cold War
AMERICA 250: The Evolution of a Semiquincentennial, Part 3, 1876-1926
The third half-century: Jim Crow laws, World War I, the Industrial Revolution, immigration andurban development, the automobile.
AMERICA 250: The Evolution of a Semiquincentennial, Part 2, 1826-1876
The second half-century: Another major war, slavery, assassination, mechanized transportation.
AMERICA 250: The Evolution of a Semiquincentennial, Part 1, 1776-1826
The first half-century: The Declaration of Independence, the Revolutionary War, the War of 1812, the Louisiana Purchase
AMERICA 250: The Semiquincentennial -- A fresh look at 250 years of U.S. history
COMING to SUBSTACK JUNE 25: Part 1 of a new, broad-sweeping and fast-moving history of America that is likely different from anything you’ve seen before.
The STORY of 60 MINUTES and the EFFORT to WRECK IT or KILL IT
The attack on CBS’s 60 Minutes, initiated 18 months ago by the President and now led by the new owners of CBS, who are closely connected to the President, is an attack on the multi-carat diamond jewel of American TV programming.
SELF-PORTRAIT WITH DEATH: A Memoir You Won't Forget
Our son, Scott Garson, grabbed my attention with a recent note he sent to my iPhone: “Content warning for this one.
THE GROWING NUMBER OF AMERICAN JEWS WHO ARE IMMIGRATING TO ISRAEL
One Israeli immigrant from the Midwest tells her story
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN WRITING?
THE NOBEL LAUREATE IN LITERATURE WHO SAID SHE HAS USED IT
HOW 2 UNRELATED VIOLENT DEATHS SHAPED A 117-year OKOBOJI FAMILY HISTORY
This is an Okoboji story about family, togetherness, and making memories.
THE MAN WHO DEFINED FINE DINING AT OKOBOJI
Lewis Casson, founder of the legendary fine-dining restaurant now known as Maxwell’s Beach Cafe, at Okoboji, Iowa, has died at age 88.
WHAT HISTORY TELLS US ABOUT MIDTERM ELECTIONS
Election results around the country continue to roll toward the Democrats.
WEST OKOBOJI LAKE: A surprising new theory on how it was created
A team of researchers for the Iowa Department of Natural Resources has completed a four-year groundwater study of the Iowa Great Lakes that unveils startling new information about the previously unknown and unusual process that created West Okoboji Lake.
AMERICA FIRST: A NAME INEXTRICABLY LINKED TO RACISM AND ANTISEMITISM
Much of the news coverage about the Republican Party’s creation of a new America First Award for President Donald J.
AN UNTOLD STORY ABOUT SOME BIG NAMES IN IOWA HISTORY
This is an untold story about the improbable linkage between two seemingly unconnected giants of national achievement in Iowa history.
MAKING SENSE OF A WAR THAT DOESN'T MAKE SENSE
So here we are: A war started by the U.S.