Hystorical Amnesia Podcast

By: Kim Cacioppo and Khadija Ahmed
  • Summary

  • This is a podcast where two best friends, Kim and Khadija, attempt to fill in the lines of history that our nation seems to have forgotten. Now, more than ever, attacks on teaching hard history and real history is ever present in our society. Each week we will not only tackle a few big news stories, we will choose a topic and fill in some gray areas and even surprise each other with new facts. It is important to us that if you find a topic interesting, you go ahead and read some books and do some quality research and learn more yourself. Oh, and reality TV…we will defiantly discuss Bravo!
    Kim Cacioppo and Khadija Ahmed
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Episodes
  • Kissinger is Gone…breaking down his impact on American foreign policy
    Dec 17 2023
    In this week’s episode Kim and Khadija take some to discuss the recent death of America’s own Disney villain, Henry Kissinger, and why we as a nation should rejoice over his death. Then your two best friends disagree for an entire episode on the topic of voting and how we approach the election cycle. To wrap it all up, we discuss our diamond ladies of the RHOBH.
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    1 hr
  • America Builds An Empire
    Nov 21 2023
    Hey everybody this week’s episode is focused on a broad overview of American Empire Building. We are focusing in the time period of 1800-1915 so the 19th century. Topic’s cover a wild variety of different events such as what is Imperialism at the time, Industrial growth in America ( markets/good), search for raw materials around same time as the civil war will begin to bubble and explode. The role Manifest Destiny played in emerging empire of America and the taking if the west, Khadija will focus on the Spanish American War that lasted 10 weeks in 1898 and I focus on annexation of Hawaii that same year July 1898-all in Americans quest for empire. We also touch on the capitalism of it all in terms of Dole and United Fruit and their role in American Imperialism…. Then to give our brain a nice palette cleanse, we will be chatting about Real Housewives of Beverly Hills and their shenanigans as well as Miami and some others. Make sure to rate us and follow us on @hystoricalamnesiapod
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    55 mins
  • The Gay Episode
    Jul 29 2023
    This week we wrap on season one of Hystorical Amnesia by rounding out the season with our pride episode. Kim and Khadija break down some of the recent news impacting the LGBTQ+ community around the nation and how the more open and you are to the LGBT community the healthier your economy will be. Kim announces she did the gayest thing you could for Pride if you are a member of the community-which was to get married. The ladies break down why being welcoming to the LGBTQ+ is the best economic decision a community can make and break down Kim’s micro wedding in Brooklyn and so much more!
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    36 mins

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