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Revisionist History

The Department of Physiological Hygiene

Revisionist History

Pushkin Industries

Society & Culture, History

4.861.5K Ratings

🗓️ 22 September 2022

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

In the final year of the Second World War, 36 men spent a year in a dingy set of rooms under the University of Minnesota football stadium. They were part of an experiment none of them would ever forget. What happened in the Department of Physiological Hygiene? Revisionist History uncovers a forgotten box of interviews in the archives of the Library of Congress.


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0:00.0

Pushkin.

0:09.4

Hello, hello, Revisionist History listeners.

0:11.5

Malcolm here.

0:12.5

I just wanted to let you know that you can hear all the remaining episodes of Season 7 right

0:18.2

now, if you like.

0:19.6

All you need to do is become a Pushkin Plus subscriber.

0:23.1

Pushkin Plus subscribers get access to Revisionist History and many other Pushkin shows add-free

0:29.6

for just 4.99 a month.

0:32.6

And you get bonus content and special early access.

0:36.6

In this case, you won't have to wait two weeks for the rest of the season, which is an

0:41.0

eternity considering just how good the rest of the season is.

0:45.2

You can find Pushkin Plus on the Revisionist History Show page in Apple Podcasts or add

0:50.5

pushkin.fm-plus.

0:58.3

Many Apple's 1944.

1:01.5

Busy sidewalks, miles of street car tracks, businessmen in grey suits and hats, shopgirls

1:08.2

in knee length skirts, the Mississippi snakes through the middle of the city, the Foshe Tower

1:13.5

looms overhead.

1:15.7

Overseas, the war in Europe and the South Pacific still rages, so many of the younger men are

1:20.6

gone.

1:21.6

But there is bustle and energy that makes the downtown feel like Chicago or New York

1:27.0

city.

1:29.6

Unless you look closely and pay attention day after day, and if you did that, you would

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