The History of North America podcast is a sweeping historical saga of the United States,

Canada, and Mexico from their deep origins to our present epoch.

Join me, Mark Vinet, on this exciting, fascinating epic journey through time, focusing on the compelling,

wonderful, and tragic stories of North America's inhabitants, heroes, villains, leaders,

environment, and geography.

I invite you to come along for the ride!

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Welcome to the History Unplugged Podcast, the unscripted show that celebrates unsung heroes,

Mythbusts historical lies, and rediscoveres the forgotten stories that changed our world.

I'm your host, Scott Rank.

If you have a friend who's in law school or has become a lawyer and you ask them, why

did you say to get into this?

If they did so because they watched a movie, there's two really cliched movies that

probably love them to a legal career.

One is to kill a mockingbird and they like Atticus Finch.

The other one is Inherit the Wind, the 1960 Spencer Tracy movie where the defensive

attorney thunders about the progress of mankind and the power of the human intellect over

old-fashioned superstition.

Inherit the Wind goes back to a famous trial in 1925 called the Scopes Monkey Trial.

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