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Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff

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Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff
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    Part One: The First Labor Strike: How the Tomb Builders of Deir El-Medina Started It All

    07/13/2026 | 34 mins.
    Margaret talks to you about labor and class struggle in Ancient Egypt.
    Sources:
    https://historyrise.com/article/slavery-and-forced-labor-and-comparative-history-across-egypt/
    https://www.touregypt.net/featurestories/slaves.htm
    https://www.touregypt.net/featurestories/medina.htm
    https://www.ancient-egypt-online.com/ancient-egypt-kingdoms.html
    https://vintage.tn/why-is-there-a-city-named-thebes-in-greece-and-a/
    https://spokenpast.com/articles/egyptian-dream-book/
    https://ancientegypt.fandom.com/wiki/Papyrus_Chester_Beatty_3
    https://www.ancient-origins.net/myths-legends/egyptian-dream-book-001621
    https://www.touregypt.net/kingtomb.htm
    https://blogs.nature.com/houseofwisdom/2013/01/voluntary-slavery-ancient-egyptians-paid-a-monthly-fee-to-become-temple-slaves.html
    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/jan/11/great-pyramid-tombs-slaves-egypt
    https://www.thecollector.com/hatshepsut-egyptian-queen-king/
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitocris
    https://historicaleve.com/how-many-cleopatras-were-there-in-egypt/
    https://www.thecollector.com/interview-queen-cleopatra-with-prof-paul-cartledge-oxford/
    https://www.workingnowandthen.com/blog/wage-theft-the-50-billion-crime-against-workers/
    https://www.thecollector.com/how-ancient-egyptians-lived-and-worked-in-the-valley-of-kings/
    https://www.google.be/books/edition/Brotherhood_of_Kings/JTvRCwAAQBAJ?hl=fr&gbpv=1&dq=chiefs+of+punt&pg=PA143&printsec=frontcover
    https://www.wonderfulmuseums.com/museum/why-does-the-british-museum-not-return-artifacts/
    https://www.history.com/articles/what-is-the-rosetta-stone
    Oral correspondence
    https://www.history.com/articles/mummy-unwrapping-parties-egyptomania
    https://editions.covecollective.org/content/egypt-and-orientalism
    https://everydayorientalism.wordpress.com/2023/08/11/orientalism-through-time-and-place-a-virtual-exhibit/
    https://ninercommons.charlotte.edu/record/2825?v=pdf
    https://www.worldhistory.org/article/1089/the-first-labor-strike-in-history/
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    CZM Book Club: Locust House, by Adam Gnade (Part Two of Four)

    07/12/2026 | 30 mins.
    Margaret continues reading to you from a novella about a punk house in 2002 San Diego
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    Part Two: Alan Lomax: How to Record Everything and Mostly Make the World Better in the Process

    07/08/2026 | 1h 8 mins.
    Margaret continues her talk with Bridget Todd about the origins of folk music and the man who dedicated his life to preserving traditional art.
    Sources:
    https://acousticguitar.com/alan-lomaxs-steel-string-discoveries/
    https://pinemountainsettlement.net/biography-a-z/alan-and-elizabeth-lomax-visitors/
    Alan Loman: The Man who Recorded the World, John Szwed
    Bring Judgment Day: Reclaiming Lead Belly's Truths from Jim Crow's Lies, Sheila Curran Bernard
    Andy Cohen, personal correspondence
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loYoTc7Aw0A
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    Part One: Alan Lomax: How to Record Everything and Mostly Make the World Better in the Process

    07/06/2026 | 48 mins.
    Margaret talks with Bridget Todd about the origins of folk music and the man who dedicated his life to preserving traditional art
    Sources:
    https://acousticguitar.com/alan-lomaxs-steel-string-discoveries/
    https://pinemountainsettlement.net/biography-a-z/alan-and-elizabeth-lomax-visitors/
    Alan Loman: The Man who Recorded the World, John Szwed
    Bring Judgment Day: Reclaiming Lead Belly's Truths from Jim Crow's Lies, Sheila Curran Bernard
    Andy Cohen, personal correspondence
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loYoTc7Aw0A
    See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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    CZM Book Club: Locust House, by Adam Gnade (Part One of Four)

    07/05/2026 | 29 mins.
    For our longer summer read, Margaret reads you a novella about punk houses and identity and growing up written by a master of the medium
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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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