The Blood in Our Soil: A Geographical History of Violence in America
The Blood in Our Soil is a narrative nonfiction podcast about how violence is built into the places we live. Hosted by Tomi Castle-White, PhD, each episode begins with an American landscape and follows the histories written into it, from forced removal and racial violence to environmental destruction, economic extraction, policing, and quieter systems that shape who may move, belong, and thrive. Moving between fieldwork, archives, public memory, and personal observation, the series asks not only what happened in a place, but how that violence continues to shape the present.
Episodes
The Blood in Our Soil, Episode 4: Huntington, WV
Huntington, West Virginia, was built to move things: coal, steel, and the wealth produced by generations of labor. What remained when the jobs disappeared?In Episode 4 of The Blood in Our Soil, Tomi Castle-White returns to the region she calls home to explore the connections between industrial extraction, injured bodies, economic abandonment, and the opioid crisis. From company towns and union hal
Special Episode: Dolly Parton, or The Last Great American Consensus
The Blood in Our Soil usually examines what America has buried. In this special episode, it asks what America can still recognize.Americans argue over the flag, the Constitution, the Statue of Liberty, every holiday, and even the meaning of fundamental rights. But we agreed on Dolly Parton.Her death leaves more than an absence. It leaves evidence that we can still recognize strength without cruelt
The Blood in Our Soil, Episode 3: The Florida Everglades
The Everglades has been treated as a swamp to drain, a wilderness to conquer, and a convenient place to discard whatever Florida wanted out of sight. In this episode, I trace how politicians, developers, sugar corporations, and the state reshaped South Florida by controlling its water, extracting its value, and pushing the human and environmental costs into the sawgrass.From Napoleon Bonaparte Bro
Episode 2: Old Town, San Diego
Old Town San Diego is often presented as the birthplace of California: a landscape of preserved adobes, mission bells, restaurants, souvenirs, and carefully curated nostalgia. But beneath its streets lies another history: Indigenous displacement, colonial violence, public execution, and human remains absorbed into the modern city. In Episode 2, anthropologist Tomi Castle-White explores the stories
Episode 1: Lawrence County, Tennessee
Down a dirt road south of Nebo, two unadorned stones and a murder legend become an entrance into older layers of removal, slavery, war, racial violence, myth, and the quiet work of forgetting.Moving between the road, the archives, David Crockett State Park, and Lawrenceburg’s public memory, this episode asks how a place can tell one story of violence so insistently that older and more organized fo
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