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Interesting article in The Washington Post.  If you can access The Post (behind the paywall), this is a different perspective on the theme we have been discussing in our "A Christian Nation?" series: America Needs Civil Religion, Not Secularism or …

Listeners interested in learning more about the 1944–1945 Allied offensive in Burma advocated by General Joseph Stillwell — a point of contention between Stilwell and General Claire Chennault which we discuss in our "Tea, Drugs, and Jesus" series in…

In this YouTube Short, American historian Timothy Snyder — who holds the Temerty Chair in Modern European History at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy at the University of Toronto in Canada — explains that the United States was not…

Did George Washington kneel in prayer at Valley Forge? American Christians love a painting that depicts that and claim it demonstrates that the United States was founded as a Christian nation — but Washington may never have done it. This NPR article…

Listeners interested in a visual representation of the progress of the fighting in the China-Burma-India Theater during World War II — the subject of much of our discussion in three episodes of the "Tea, Drugs, and Jesus" series, which considers the…

This gallery of photos, maps, and other images add to our "A Christian Nation?" audio series about whether the United States was founded as a Christian nation. We expand the gallery as the series continues – and sometimes after it has concluded – an…

Marshall recommends an article produced by the Center for the Study of Intelligence at the Central Intelligence Agency about America's detection and analysis of the Sino-Soviet split, which we discuss in Episode 210. The article is "Calling the Sino…

The United States of Amnesia posts its long-format podcast episodes on all major platforms, including our YouTube channel. On YouTube, we also have begun to post YouTube shorts, each sharing a minute or two from one of our episodes, with supporting …

Many people may wonder about the location of various cities referred to in our series "Tea, Drugs, and Jesus" on the United Sates and China.  Where is Canton or Shanghai or Nanking?  Please check out the link to this map to get a better sense of the…

Few families in the history of China have exercised such wide-ranging influence as the Soong dynasty in the 20th century. The three famous Soong sisters married well.  According to one saying, one loved money (Ai-Ling), one loved power (Mei-Ling), a…

There have been some questions involving the arrest of Fred Trump at the Klu Klux Klan rally in 1927 (see Episode 102). Could he have been there to protest the Klan?  Did his presence really imply an acceptance of the Klan's doctrine of white racial…

Theodore R. Johnson's Washington Post column of January 14, 2026, discusses the "fragility" of U.S. citizenship in which he describes the injustice and danger of allowing the United States Government to decide capriciously who does and does not belo…