{"podcast":{"title":"A Journey into Human History","slug":"a-journey-into-human-history-6372765","podcast_index_feed_id":6372765,"rss_url":"https://www.spreaker.com/show/5860966/episodes/feed","website_url":"https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/a-journey-into-human-history--5860966","image_url":"https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/41ce366b1fc1a5dc0942ad28c9fccaa7.jpg","author":"Creative Common Sense","episode_count":224,"summary":"Welcome to a journey into human history. This podcast will attempt to tell the whole human story. You may be asking yourself what is history? Is it simply a record of things people have done? Is it what writer Maya Angelou suggested—a way to meet the pain of the past and overcome it? Or is it, as Winston Churchill said, a chronicle by the victors, an interpretation by those who write it? History is all this and more. Above all else, it is a path to knowing why we are the way we are—all our greatness, all our faults—and therefore a means for us to understand ourselves and change for the better. But history serves this function only if it is a true reflection of the past. It cannot be a way to mask the darker parts of human nature, nor a way to justify acts of previous generations. It is the historian’s task to paint as clear a picture as sources will allow. Will history ever be a perfect telling of the human tale? No. There are voices we may never hear. Yet each new history book written and each new source uncovered reveal an ever more precise record of events around the world. You are about to take a journey into human history. The content contained in this podcast was produced by…","last_synced_at":"2026-09-21T16:18:22.926405+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/a-journey-into-human-history-6372765"},"episode":{"title":"The African American “Great Migration” and New European Immigration","slug":"the-african-american-great-migration-and-new-european-immigration","published_at":"2026-06-24T11:00:02+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/a-journey-into-human-history-6372765/the-african-american-great-migration-and-new-european-immigration","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/a-journey-into-human-history-6372765","url":"https://openstax.org/books/us-history/pages/19-2-the-african-american-great-migration-and-new-european-immigration","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/69393545/1768160970958_voicemaker_in_speech.mp3","summary":"For both African Americans migrating from the postwar South and immigrants arriving from southeastern Europe, a combination of “push” and “pull” factors influenced their migration to America’s urban centers. African Americans moved away from the racial violence and limited opportunities that existed in the rural South, seeking wages and steady work, as well as the opportunity to vote safely as free men; however, they quickly learned that racial discrimination and violence were not limited to the South. For European immigrants, famine and persecution led them to seek a new life in the United States, where, the stories said, the streets were paved in gold. Of course, in northeastern and midwestern cities, both groups found a more challenging welcome than they had anticipated. City residents blamed recent arrivals for the ills of the cities, from overcrowding to a rise in crime. Activist groups pushed for anti-immigration legislation, seeking to limit the waves of immigrants that sought a better future in the United States. All images referenced in this podcast can be found at https://openstax.org/books/us-history/pages/19-2-the-african-american-great-migration-and-new-european-immigration Welcome to A Journey into Human History. This podcast will attempt to tell the whole human story. The content contained in this podcast was produced by OpenStax and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License. Access for free at https://openstax.org/details/books/us-history Podcast produced by Miranda Casturo as a Creative Common Sense production. 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