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Today’s show is a kind of extension of our program Big Oil, Mickey Mouse and Fascism in Latin America with Tango Wars author Mary Jo McConahay. That show detailed the fight between Axis and Allied powers over the hearts and minds AND most importantly, the natural resources of Latin America. At that time Brazil was governed by Getúlio Vargas a …

Hosts Doug Storm and Trish Kerle’ are joined by historian Jim Madison to discuss the Hoosier through history. Madison has just published a new book, Hoosiers: A New History of Indiana, published by Indiana University Press. Our three segments cover the origin and cultural identity embodied in the very word “Hoosier,” the geographical make-up of the state and attendant migration …