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Resilience: Only What You Can Carry podcast Oct 10, 2022

On today’s episode of Resilience: The Wartime Incarceration of Japanese Americans, Sharon talks about the military’s limitations on “enemy aliens” both before and after President Roosevelt’s Executive Order 9066. Japanese Americans were forced to scramble. They...

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Resilience: The Forced Removal of 120 Thousand Japanese Americans podcast Oct 07, 2022

After President Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, General John DeWitt issued over a hundred exclusion orders in quick succession, and demanded that all Japanese Americans–even those with as little as one-sixteenth ancestry–prepare themselves for being sent to incarceration...

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Resilience: A Country at War podcast Oct 05, 2022

On today’s episode in our series, Resilience, we talk about what happened immediately following the attack on Pearl Harbor and the death of over 2,400 American servicemen. How did the US government respond and how quickly did they mobilize? What, exactly, became the plan, and how did they...

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Resilience: Japan Attacks Pearl Harbor podcast Oct 03, 2022

Today on our series, Resilience, we are going to hear more from author Craig Nelson, who shares insights on what exactly happened during the bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7th, 1941.

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Resilience: The Movement of Japan in the East podcast Sep 30, 2022

On today’s episode in our series, Resilience: The Wartime Incarceration of Japanese Americans, we’re going to take a step back from the American West Coast and talk about some of the events that were happening globally. Events that shaped the relationship between the U.S. and two...

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Resilience: The Patriotic Lives of the Issei and Nisei podcast Sep 28, 2022

Today we continue our exploration of the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II. Let’s learn about what life was like for the Japanese immigrants who settled along the West Coast–how they assimilated into American culture, raised their families, and flourished,...

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Resilience: Asian Immigration and the American West Coast podcast Sep 26, 2022

Welcome to the first episode in our new series, Resilience. For the next few weeks, we are going to explore a part of American history that we tend to learn very little about: the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II. So let’s dive into the details–the hows and the...

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Episode 184: How to Learn Science from a 15-Ton Jello Pool with Mark Rober podcast Sep 23, 2022

Welcome to Here’s Where It Gets Interesting! To kick off our new show name, Sharon sits down with one of the most interesting people she knows: Mark Rober, a former NASA engineer who has since amassed over 22 million viewers on his YouTube channel. If there was ever an episode of Sharon...

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Episode 183: Find Relief in the Regular Stuff with Nora McInerny podcast Sep 21, 2022

On this episode of Sharon Says So, author Nora McInerny joins Sharon to talk about vibes: good vibes, bad vibes, and the fact that most vibes are mixed, at best. When we recognize that life is full of regular stuff, it can take the pressure off. It’s okay to have a regular-looking kitchen...

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Episode 182: What Makes a Great Leader Stand Out with Stephen M. R. Covey podcast Sep 19, 2022

On today’s episode of the Sharon Says So Podcast, Sharon has a conversation with bestselling author Stephen M. R. Covey about effective leadership and high trust culture. The most underrated attribute in great leaders is humility which means that effective and trustworthy leaders are those...

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Episode 181: The U.S. and the Holocaust with Ken Burns and Sarah Botstein podcast Sep 16, 2022

 

On today’s episode of the Sharon Says So Podcast, we are thrilled to sit down with documentary filmmakers Ken Burns and Sarah Botstein. Their new docuseries, The U.S. and the Holocaust, airs on PBS on Friday, September 18th, 2022 and highlights the nuances of America’s response...

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Episode 180: How History Can Give Us Hope with Dr. Jemar Tisby podcast Sep 14, 2022

During this episode of the Sharon Says So Podcast, historian Dr. Jemar Tisby speaks with Sharon about racism and what we can do about it. We may not be guilty for the actions of the past, but we are responsible for the ramifications of racism that are felt today. It takes courage to make change...

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