Weekend Show #2: History of the 'Weekend'
Welcome to the second episode of the History Shorts Weekend Show, a soon-to-be weekly Patreon-exclusive variety series offering a lighter, more reflective companion to the main podcast. Think storyteller's lounge meets historian's notebook: part commentary, part narrative, part behind-the-scenes look at the stories shaping both past and present. THIS WEEK: The unofficial dawn of the Civil Rights Movement in the 1950s. The surprising origins of the modern weekend. How a quiet fluctuation in recent economic data may one day mark the beginning of a major historical shift in America's industrial…
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