History That Doesn't Suck Summaries & Transcripts

Introducing: Government That Doesn't Suck! with Professors Greg Jackson and Lindsey Cormack

Jul 6, 2026

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The Declaration of Independence at 250

Jul 2, 2026

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America250 Episode 8 Rerelease: Declaring Independence, the Rise of Alexander Hamilton, & the Fall of New York

Jun 22, 2026

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Bonus: Prof. Greg Jackson interview on The Road to Now with Dr. Ben Sawyer

Jun 15, 2026

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207: Japanese Internment: Removal, Relocation, & Reckoning

Jun 8, 2026

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Introducing: The Draymond Green Show

May 30, 2026

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206: American Propaganda: Cap’s Debut, Frank Capra’s War Docs, and Casablanca

May 22, 2026

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Introducing Family Lore

May 18, 2026

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205: Total War on the Home Front: Victory Gardens, Volunteering, and the Double V

May 11, 2026

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Bonus: “Messy Tales,” an Excerpt from the Prof’s book, Been There, Done That

May 4, 2026

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204: The Holocaust: Anne Frank, the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, & Auschwitz

Apr 27, 2026

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203: The Holocaust: Killing Squads, Ghettos, & Gas Chambers

Apr 13, 2026

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202: Holocaust Prologue with US Holocaust Memorial Museum Director, Sara J. Bloomfield

Mar 30, 2026

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201: A Soft Underbelly: The Allied Invasion of Sicily & the Fall of Il Duce

Mar 16, 2026

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200: The North African Campaign: Desert Rats, the Desert Fox, & Operation Torch

Mar 2, 2026

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199: Building the Anglo-American Alliance: The US Enters the European Theater

Feb 16, 2026

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Introducing Free Range with Von Miller

Feb 9, 2026

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198: The Pacific Tide Turns at Coral Sea & Midway

Feb 2, 2026

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197: The Doolittle Raid & the Bataan Death March (Spring 1942)

Jan 19, 2026

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196: An Epilogue to Pearl Harbor with Steve Twomey

Jan 5, 2026

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195: Holiday Special IX: Chanukah in Warsaw & Christmas in Washington, D.C.

Dec 22, 2025

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194: Pearl Harbor: December 7, 1941

Dec 7, 2025

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193: The Empire of the Rising Sun: Military Imperialism in Japan (1853–1941)

Nov 24, 2025

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192: A Conversation with Ken Burns and Sarah Botstein: The American Revolution and WWII

Nov 10, 2025

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Bonus: Eleanor Roosevelt "Over Our Coffee Cups"

Nov 3, 2025

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191: Halloween Special V: “The War of the Worlds” on the Radio

Oct 20, 2025

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190: Epilogue to US Pre-WWII Isolationism to Interventionism with Lynne Olson

Oct 13, 2025

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189: World War II in Europe & the American Response (1941): Production & Preparation

Oct 6, 2025

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The Unlikely Union: "A house divided against itself cannot stand."

Sep 29, 2025

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188: World War II in Europe & The American Response (1939–40): Isolationism vs. Arsenal of Democracy

Sep 22, 2025

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Introducing Star Trek: Khan

Sep 15, 2025

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187: From the Rhineland to Poland (1935–1939): Annexation, Appeasement, & the Start of World War II

Sep 8, 2025

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186: From Czardom to Stalinism: Building the USSR & the Ascent of Joseph Stalin

Aug 25, 2025

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185: The Early Holocaust: From the “Jewish Question” to Kristallnacht

Aug 11, 2025

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The Unlikely Union: New Tour Dates

Aug 7, 2025

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184: The Rise of Adolf Hitler: From Failure to Führer of Nazi Germany or the Third Reich

Jul 28, 2025

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183: The Origin of Fascism: “Il Duce” Benito Mussolini & the Rise of Fascist Italy

Jul 14, 2025

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182: A Prologue to World War II: US Army Interwar Preparation

Jun 30, 2025

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181: American Aviation: The Growth of the Industry Through the Eyes of Amelia Earhart, Charles Lindbergh, and Howard Hughes

Jun 16, 2025

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180: “A Race to the Sky”: The Rise of New York City’s Chrysler, Manhattan Company, and Empire State Buildings

Jun 2, 2025

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179: Bridging the Bay: San Francisco’s Golden Gate and Bay Bridges (Infrastructure pt. 2)

May 19, 2025

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178: “A Damn Big Dam”: Taming the Colorado River with the Hoover (or Boulder) Dam (Infrastructure pt. 1)

May 5, 2025

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Introducing: What We Spend

Apr 28, 2025

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America 250: The Boston Campaign 1775-76: A Leadership Discussion with Gen. William Rapp

Apr 21, 2025

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177: An Epilogue to the New Deal and CCC Deep Dive with Neil Maher

Apr 7, 2025

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176: FDR v. “The Nine Old Men” (The New Deal pt. 3): Court Packing and Closing the New Deal

Mar 24, 2025

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Presenting "Crime House True Crime Stories:" A Crime House Original

Mar 17, 2025

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175: The Dirty Thirties (The New Deal pt. 2): Dust, Doubts, and the “Second” New Deal

Mar 10, 2025

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174: The First “First Hundred Days:” FDR Kicks Off the New Deal

Feb 24, 2025

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173: From Hyde Park to the White House: The Early Life and Election of Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Feb 10, 2025

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14 (Second Edition): The Newburgh Conspiracy and The Peace of Paris

Jan 27, 2025

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13 (Second Edition): The Battle of the Chesapeake & the World Turns Upside Down at Yorktown

Jan 13, 2025

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12 (Second Edition): An American Judas Betrays & Nathanael Greene Saves!

Dec 30, 2024

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172: Breadlines, Bank Failures, & the Bonus Army: Hoover & the Early Great Depression

Dec 16, 2024

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171: Christmas Special VIII: Festivities in the Jazz Age

Dec 2, 2024

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170: The Crash of 1929 & Meeting President Herbert Hoover

Nov 18, 2024

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169: An Epilogue to the 1920s: Youth culture, The Great Gatsby, and more with Professor Sarah Churchwell

Nov 4, 2024

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168: Halloween Special IV: Nosferatu and Silent Horror

Oct 21, 2024

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167: The Golden Age of Sports: Horse Racing, Boxing, Basketball, Football, & Jim Thorpe

Oct 7, 2024

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166: A Conversation on Negro Leagues Baseball History with Bob Kendrick

Sep 30, 2024

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165: America’s Favorite Pastime: Baseball, the Negro Leagues, and the Great Bambino

Sep 23, 2024

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164: Harlem Renaissance: The Great Migration, Jazz, and the Flowering of Black Culture

Sep 9, 2024

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163: The Show (Boat) Must Go On: Broadway and the American Musical

Aug 26, 2024

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162: The Birth of the Movies: From Silent Cinema to the Rise of Hollywood & the First “Talkie”

Aug 12, 2024

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161: An Epilogue Toast to Prohibition’s End with Author Daniel Okrent

Jul 29, 2024

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160: Al Capone & the End of Prohibition

Jul 15, 2024

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159: Scofflaws, Moonshiners, Bootleggers, and Crime Lords

Jul 1, 2024

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158: Prohibition - So You Wanna Be a Rum Runner?

Jun 17, 2024

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157: Temperance, Prohibition, and the Path to the 18th Amendment

Jun 3, 2024

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156: The Presidency of “Silent” Cal Coolidge

May 20, 2024

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155: The Life & Times of Warren G. Harding & The Teapot Dome Scandal

May 6, 2024

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154: An Epilogue Discussion with Ben Sawyer

Apr 22, 2024

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153: West Virginia’s Mine Wars: From Trouble in Matewan to the Battle of Blair Mountain

Apr 8, 2024

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152: The Second Ku Klux Klan: Racism, Anti-Semitism, & Anti-Catholicism in the 1920s

Mar 25, 2024

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151: The First Red Scare - Bombings, The Palmer Raids, Eugene Debs, and J. Edgar Hoover

Mar 11, 2024

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150: The Great War’s Aftermath: Coming Home, The Spanish Flu, & The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier

Feb 26, 2024

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149: WWI Epilogue

Jan 1, 2024

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148: Tales of Christmas from World War I (A Truce, Plum Pudding, and Love)

Dec 4, 2023

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147: Peacemaking in Paris: The Treaty of Versailles

Nov 20, 2023

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146: The Armistice of November 11, 1918

Nov 6, 2023

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145: Halloween Special III: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

Oct 23, 2023

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144: A Conversation with Ken Burns - Storytelling and the American Buffalo

Oct 9, 2023

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143: The Meuse-Argonne Offensive (pt.2) – Breaking the Kriemhilde Line

Sep 25, 2023

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142: The Meuse-Argonne Offensive (pt.1) – “The Lost Battalion”

Sep 11, 2023

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141: Wartime Interlude

Aug 28, 2023

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140: WWI Aviators: From the Lafayette Escadrille to the Red Baron and More

Aug 14, 2023

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139: From Yeomen (F) to “Hello Girls:” American Women in World War I

Jul 31, 2023

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138: The 15th New York/369th or The Harlem Hellfighters

Jul 17, 2023

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137: The First Battle of the First American Army: St. Mihiel

Jul 3, 2023

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136: The German Spring Offensive’s End, or The Second Battle of the Marne

Jun 19, 2023

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135: Belleau Wood – A Cut Deeper with Captain Mac Caldwell

Jun 5, 2023

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134: (Most of) The German Spring Offensive of 1918 & The Fight for Belleau Wood

May 22, 2023

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133: Heading “Over There:” “Black Jack” Pershing & Creating WWI’s American Expeditionary Force

May 8, 2023

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132: The US Enters WWI (RMS Lusitania, Black Tom Island, & The Zimmermann Telegram)

Apr 24, 2023

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131: Epilogue on World War 1 before the US

Apr 10, 2023

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130: Russia: From the Great War to Revolution with Deputy Provost Kat Brown

Mar 27, 2023

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129: World War I Before the US (Military Tech, Trenches, Global Armies, Ypres, Verdun & the Somme)

Mar 13, 2023

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128: The Causes of World War I (From the Congress of Vienna to Franz Ferdinand & the Marne)

Feb 27, 2023

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127: Mr. Wilson Goes to Washington (Progressive Policies & Foreign Affairs in South America)

Feb 13, 2023

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126: Christmas Special 6: Jacob Riis’ “Is There a Santa Claus?”

Dec 19, 2022

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125: Epilogue: The Progressive Era

Dec 5, 2022

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124: The “Bull Moose” Election of 1912

Nov 21, 2022

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123: The Wright Brothers Fly at Kitty Hawk

Nov 7, 2022

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122: Halloween Special II: H.P. Lovecraft – “The Outsider” & “Dagon”

Oct 24, 2022

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121: Henry Ford: The Model T & Mass Production

Oct 10, 2022

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120: From Atlanta to the NAACP, or Booker T. Washington v. W.E.B. Du Bois

Sep 26, 2022

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119: Women’s Suffrage & the Passage of the 19th Amendment

Sep 12, 2022

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118: “The Island of Hope and Tears:” Ellis Island

Aug 29, 2022

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117: Epilogue on Progressive Era Part I (Teddy Roosevelt)

Aug 15, 2022

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116: Teddy Roosevelt’s Foreign Policy: From Big Stick Diplomacy to the Panama Canal

Aug 1, 2022

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115: History–Doomed to Repeat It? A Conversation with Lindsay Graham

Jul 18, 2022

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114: A Square Deal (pt. 3): “Leave it as it is” (Teddy Roosevelt & Conservationism)

Jun 20, 2022

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113: A Square Deal (pt. 2): Consumer Protection–The FDA, & Ida Tarbell muckrakes Standard Oil

Jun 6, 2022

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112: A Square Deal (pt. 1): Corp. Regulation—a coal strike, a trust, & Teddy’s Frenemy J.P. Morgan

May 23, 2022

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111: The Assassination of Will McKinley & The Strenuous Life of Theodore Roosevelt

May 9, 2022

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110: Epilogue to the Age of Imperialism

Apr 25, 2022

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109: The Election of 1900 & the Rise of Anti-Imperialism

Apr 11, 2022

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108: G.O. 100, “The Water Cure,” & The Law of War in the Early-20th Century with Professor Ryan Vogel

Mar 28, 2022

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107: The Philippine-American War

Mar 14, 2022

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106: The US Annexation of the Hawaiian Kingdom

Feb 28, 2022

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105: “A Splendid Little War:” The Spanish-American War and Theodore Roosevelt’s Rough Riders

Feb 14, 2022

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104: The Road to the Spanish-American War

Jan 31, 2022

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103: A Gilded Age Christmas: Joseph Pulitzer’s Christmas Tree Fund

Dec 20, 2021

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102: Epilogue to the Gilded Age

Nov 22, 2021

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101: The New South, Jim Crow (Plessy v. Ferguson), & the Death of Frederick Douglass

Nov 8, 2021

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100: Halloween Special! Edgar Allan Poe: The Tell-tale Heart, The Cask of Amontillado, & The Raven

Oct 25, 2021

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99: The Gilded Age’s Singer Sewing Machines & Dangerous Bananas w/ Dr. Ben Sawyer of The Road To Now

Oct 11, 2021

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98: Silver & Gold: From Grover Cleveland to William Jennings Bryan & William McKinley

Sep 27, 2021

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97: The Gilded Age’s Robber Barons: John D. Rockefeller & Andrew Carnegie

Sep 13, 2021

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96: The War of the Currents: (Thomas Alva Edison v. Nikola Tesla & George Westinghouse)

Aug 30, 2021

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95: "Several Thousand Things that Won't Work:" Thomas Alva Edison and His Electric Light

Aug 16, 2021

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94: Epilogue to Gilded Age Part I (or Gilded Age interlude w/ Significant HTDS Updates)

Aug 2, 2021

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93: La Liberté éclairant le monde: Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi’s Statue of Liberty

Jul 19, 2021

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92: The Brooklyn Bridge, or the Story of the Roebling Family

Jun 21, 2021

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91: The Gilded Age, Industrialization, and Assassination of President James Garfield

Jun 7, 2021

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90: Epilogue to the Wild West

May 10, 2021

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89: Closing the Wild West: (Wounded Knee, Buffalo Bill & the 1893 Colombian Expo)

Apr 26, 2021

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88: “The Last Frontier:” The Purchase of Alaska and the Klondike Gold Rush

Apr 12, 2021

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87: Gunslingers & Outlaws (pt 2): Pearl Hart, Tombstone, Jesse James, B. Cassidy & The Sundance Kid

Mar 29, 2021

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86: Gunslingers & Outlaws (pt 1): The Second Industrial Revolution, Sam Bass & Billy the Kid

Mar 15, 2021

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85: Transcontinental Railroad (pt 3): The Central Pacific, Chinese Workers, & The Golden Spike

Mar 1, 2021

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84: Transcontinental Railroad (pt 2): Dr. Thomas Durant, The Union Pacific & “Hell on Wheels”

Feb 15, 2021

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83: Transcontinental Railroad (pt 1): Industrialization, Ted Judah & The Rise of the Central Pacific

Feb 1, 2021

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82: Best Mini Episodes and Cold Opens of 2020

Jan 18, 2021

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81: Epilogue to Volume 6: Reconstruction and The Indian Wars

Jan 4, 2021

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80: “Yes, Virginia, There is a Santa Claus:” A History

Dec 21, 2020

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79: The Indian Wars (Part 3): Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce & Standing Bear’s Fight for Civil Rights

Dec 7, 2020

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78: The Indian Wars (Part 2): The Battle of the Little Bighorn (the Greasy Grass)

Nov 23, 2020

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77: The Indian Wars (Part 1): The U.S.-Dakota War

Nov 9, 2020

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76: Reconstruction (Part 4): The Battle of Liberty Place and the Mississippi Plan

Oct 26, 2020

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75: Reconstruction (Part 3): The Rise of the KKK and the First Black Men in Government

Oct 12, 2020

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74: Reconstruction (Part 2): The Presidency of Ulysses S. Grant

Sep 28, 2020

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73: Reconstruction (Part 1): The Impeachment of Andrew Johnson

Sep 14, 2020

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72: The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln

Aug 31, 2020

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71: Revisiting the Hamilton/Burr Duel: An Affair of Honor

Aug 17, 2020

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70: Epilogue: The Civil War Comes to a Close

Aug 3, 2020

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69: Surrender at Appomattox: The Last Days of the Civil War

Jul 20, 2020

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68: Sherman's March to the Sea and the Thirteenth Amendment

Jul 6, 2020

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67: Ending 1864: The Battles of the Crater, Mobile Bay, Centralia, and Franklin

Jun 22, 2020

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66: The Election of 1864: Lincoln's Bid for Reelection

Jun 8, 2020

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65: Sherman’s Atlanta Campaign & The Free State of Jones

May 25, 2020

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Bonus: A New Sound for HTDS (Farewell to Josh, Hello to Lindsay Graham & Airship)

May 18, 2020

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64: Grant's Overland Campaign: The Battles of the Wilderness, Spotsylvania, Cold Harbor, & Petersburg

May 11, 2020

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Bonus: A Chat about Southern Accents w/ Jeremy Collins from "Podcasts We Listen To"

May 6, 2020

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63: Wounded and Dying: Nurses, Doctors, and Disease in the Civil War

Apr 27, 2020

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62: The War in Tennessee: Chickamauga and Chattanooga

Apr 13, 2020

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61: The Louisiana Native Guard, the 54th Massachusetts & On: Black Soldiers in the Civil War

Mar 30, 2020

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60: Gettysburg

Mar 16, 2020

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59: Stone’s River, Suspending Habeas Corpus, Vicksburg, & Stonewall’s Death at Chancellorsville

Mar 2, 2020

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58: Conscription & Riots (“A Rich Man’s War, But a Poor Man’s Fight”)

Feb 17, 2020

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57: Recap of The Civil War's First Half (1861-63)

Feb 3, 2020

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56: The Battle of Fredericksburg and the First Campaign of Vicksburg

Jan 20, 2020

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55: The Road to The Emancipation Proclamation

Jan 6, 2020

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54: The Best Opening Scenes in HTDS History

Dec 23, 2019

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53: A Civil War Christmas with Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Dec 9, 2019

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52: From Second Bull Run, or Second Manassas to Antietam, or Sharpsburg

Nov 25, 2019

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51: A Change in Command: Seven Days Battles to the Battle of Cedar Mountain

Nov 11, 2019

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50: Mississippi Valley 1862: The Battles of New Orleans, Corinth, Memphis, and Vicksburg

Oct 28, 2019

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49: From Little Mac McClellan to Stonewall Jackson: The Peninsula and Shenandoah Valley Campaigns

Oct 14, 2019

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48: The Battle of Shiloh: “Now boys, pitch in!”

Sep 30, 2019

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47: Bull Run, Trent Affair, the Merrimack, & Fort Donelson: The Early Days of the Civil War

Sep 16, 2019

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46: The Civil War Begins: Fort Sumter, Secession, & Raising Armies

Sep 2, 2019

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Volume IV Epilogue

Aug 19, 2019

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44: Abraham Lincoln Becomes President of the Divided States of America

Aug 5, 2019

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43: Honest Abe, the Lincoln-Douglas Debates, & John Brown’s Raid on Harpers Ferry

Jul 22, 2019

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42: Solomon Northup’s 12 Years a Slave

Jul 8, 2019

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41: Kansas! (Bleeding Kansas, the Kansas-Nebraska Act, & Caning of Charles Sumner)

Jun 24, 2019

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40: Elizabeth Cady Stanton, the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention & the Explosion of Social Reform

Jun 10, 2019

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39: The California Gold Rush and the Compromise of 1850

May 27, 2019

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38: The (Early) Life and Times of Frederick Douglass

May 13, 2019

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37: La Amistad Slave Rebellion and the Rise of Abolitionism

Apr 29, 2019

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Volume III Epilogue

Apr 15, 2019

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36: Mexican-American War (Part 4): Los Niños Héroes, St. Patrick’s Battalion, & the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

Apr 1, 2019

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35: Mexican-American War (Part 3): Nuevo México and the Final Push from Vera Cruz

Mar 18, 2019

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34: Mexican-American War (Part 2): The Pathfinder, the Bear Flag Revolt, y Los Californios

Mar 4, 2019

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33: Mexican-American War (Part 1): From the Nueces River to the Rio Grande

Feb 18, 2019

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32: Mormonism and the Mormon Trail

Feb 4, 2019

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31: The California Trail: From the Donner Party to the Gold Rush

Jan 21, 2019

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30: The Oregon Trail (“You Have Died of Dysentery”)

Jan 7, 2019

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Christmas Special II: A Jackson White House Christmas

Dec 24, 2018

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29: The Bank War, Whigs, & Revolution in Texas

Dec 10, 2018

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28: Ushering in the Age of Jackson

Nov 26, 2018

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Epilogue to Volume 2

Nov 11, 2018

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27: The Last of the Founding Fathers

Oct 29, 2018

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26: Peace in Ghent, War in New Orleans

Oct 15, 2018

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25: From Lake Champlain to the “Defense of Fort M’Henry”

Oct 1, 2018

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24: From Granny to Old Ironsides: The Campaigns of 1812 and 1813.

Sep 17, 2018

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23: Prelude to America's Forgotten War

Sep 2, 2018

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22: An Affair of Honor: Alexander Hamilton & Aaron Burr

Aug 19, 2018

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21: Thomas Jefferson Presents: Lewis & Clark’s Excellent Expedition

Aug 6, 2018

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20: "A Wolf by the Ears": Gabriel Rebels and Cotton Becomes King

Jul 23, 2018

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19: The Traitor and The Thieving Spy: The Start of American Industrialization

Jul 9, 2018

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18: Affairs! Foreign and ..."Domestic"

Jun 25, 2018

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Historians (of The) Roundtable: I

Jun 7, 2018

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17: Death of a Nation's Father

May 28, 2018

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16: The Founding Fractures: Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson

May 8, 2018

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Epilogue To The Revolution; Or The Big Stuff You Should’ve Caught

Apr 25, 2018

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Q&A with The HTDS Team

Apr 12, 2018

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15: “We the People:” Constitution Making in Philly

Mar 26, 2018

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Second Edition Episodes: A Discussion

Mar 14, 2018

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14: Peace in Paris; Turmoil in New York

Mar 14, 2018

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13: The World Turns Upside Down at Yorktown

Feb 28, 2018

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12: An American Judas Betrays & Nathanael Greene Saves!

Feb 13, 2018

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11: Southern Discomfort: Savannah & Charleston Captured, Slavery, Massacres, & 1779’s Sundries

Jan 31, 2018

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10: Dueling, Life Sucks at Valley Forge, von Steuben's Cool & the Battle of Monmouth

Jan 19, 2018

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9: (Almost) Everything Important in 1777--Saratoga, Lafayette & George Returns Gen. Howe’s Dog

Jan 2, 2018

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Christmas Special: George Wishes Some Hessians a Merry F’ing Christmas

Dec 23, 2017

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8: From Independence to NY(meeting A. Ham, Nathan Hale & Charles Lee is a Sneaky Bastard)

Dec 17, 2017

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7: An Olive Branch Rejected, Tom's a Royal Pain(e), & the Siege of Boston

Dec 4, 2017

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6: "The Shot Heard Round the World"

Nov 18, 2017

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5: "Delenda est Bostonia:" a Congress, Paul Rides, & the First Shot at Lexington

Nov 1, 2017

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4: "Boston Harbor A Tea-Pot This Night:" The Boston Tea Party

Oct 17, 2017

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3: "Clean My Sh*t House!" The Boston Massacre

Oct 9, 2017

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2: Patrick Henry and Boston Get Pissed about Taxes

Sep 30, 2017

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1: That One Time When George Washington Sort of Triggered an International War

Sep 28, 2017

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0: Preamble

Sep 26, 2017

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History That Doesn't Suck

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Episodes (240)

211: Pacific Theater Epilogue with Capt. Mac Caldwell

210: The Pacific War 1944: From the Cairo Conference to the Marianas Turkey Shoot

209: The Pacific War 1943: Operation Cartwheel, Tarawa, & Eleanor Roosevelt's Pacific Tour

208: The Pacific War, 1942–43: Guadalcanal, the Aleutians, and Operation Vengeance

Introducing: Government That Doesn't Suck! with Professors Greg Jackson and Lindsey Cormack

The Declaration of Independence at 250

America250 Episode 8 Rerelease: Declaring Independence, the Rise of Alexander Hamilton, & the Fall of New York

Bonus: Prof. Greg Jackson interview on The Road to Now with Dr. Ben Sawyer

207: Japanese Internment: Removal, Relocation, & Reckoning

Introducing: The Draymond Green Show

206: American Propaganda: Cap’s Debut, Frank Capra’s War Docs, and Casablanca

Introducing Family Lore

205: Total War on the Home Front: Victory Gardens, Volunteering, and the Double V

Bonus: “Messy Tales,” an Excerpt from the Prof’s book, Been There, Done That

204: The Holocaust: Anne Frank, the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, & Auschwitz

203: The Holocaust: Killing Squads, Ghettos, & Gas Chambers

202: Holocaust Prologue with US Holocaust Memorial Museum Director, Sara J. Bloomfield

201: A Soft Underbelly: The Allied Invasion of Sicily & the Fall of Il Duce

200: The North African Campaign: Desert Rats, the Desert Fox, & Operation Torch

199: Building the Anglo-American Alliance: The US Enters the European Theater

Introducing Free Range with Von Miller

198: The Pacific Tide Turns at Coral Sea & Midway

197: The Doolittle Raid & the Bataan Death March (Spring 1942)

196: An Epilogue to Pearl Harbor with Steve Twomey

195: Holiday Special IX: Chanukah in Warsaw & Christmas in Washington, D.C.

194: Pearl Harbor: December 7, 1941

193: The Empire of the Rising Sun: Military Imperialism in Japan (1853–1941)

192: A Conversation with Ken Burns and Sarah Botstein: The American Revolution and WWII

Bonus: Eleanor Roosevelt "Over Our Coffee Cups"

191: Halloween Special V: “The War of the Worlds” on the Radio

190: Epilogue to US Pre-WWII Isolationism to Interventionism with Lynne Olson

189: World War II in Europe & the American Response (1941): Production & Preparation

The Unlikely Union: "A house divided against itself cannot stand."

188: World War II in Europe & The American Response (1939–40): Isolationism vs. Arsenal of Democracy

Introducing Star Trek: Khan

187: From the Rhineland to Poland (1935–1939): Annexation, Appeasement, & the Start of World War II

186: From Czardom to Stalinism: Building the USSR & the Ascent of Joseph Stalin

185: The Early Holocaust: From the “Jewish Question” to Kristallnacht

The Unlikely Union: New Tour Dates

184: The Rise of Adolf Hitler: From Failure to Führer of Nazi Germany or the Third Reich

183: The Origin of Fascism: “Il Duce” Benito Mussolini & the Rise of Fascist Italy

182: A Prologue to World War II: US Army Interwar Preparation

181: American Aviation: The Growth of the Industry Through the Eyes of Amelia Earhart, Charles Lindbergh, and Howard Hughes

180: “A Race to the Sky”: The Rise of New York City’s Chrysler, Manhattan Company, and Empire State Buildings

179: Bridging the Bay: San Francisco’s Golden Gate and Bay Bridges (Infrastructure pt. 2)

178: “A Damn Big Dam”: Taming the Colorado River with the Hoover (or Boulder) Dam (Infrastructure pt. 1)

Introducing: What We Spend

America 250: The Boston Campaign 1775-76: A Leadership Discussion with Gen. William Rapp

177: An Epilogue to the New Deal and CCC Deep Dive with Neil Maher

176: FDR v. “The Nine Old Men” (The New Deal pt. 3): Court Packing and Closing the New Deal

Presenting "Crime House True Crime Stories:" A Crime House Original

175: The Dirty Thirties (The New Deal pt. 2): Dust, Doubts, and the “Second” New Deal

174: The First “First Hundred Days:” FDR Kicks Off the New Deal

173: From Hyde Park to the White House: The Early Life and Election of Franklin Delano Roosevelt

14 (Second Edition): The Newburgh Conspiracy and The Peace of Paris

13 (Second Edition): The Battle of the Chesapeake & the World Turns Upside Down at Yorktown

12 (Second Edition): An American Judas Betrays & Nathanael Greene Saves!

172: Breadlines, Bank Failures, & the Bonus Army: Hoover & the Early Great Depression

171: Christmas Special VIII: Festivities in the Jazz Age

170: The Crash of 1929 & Meeting President Herbert Hoover

169: An Epilogue to the 1920s: Youth culture, The Great Gatsby, and more with Professor Sarah Churchwell

168: Halloween Special IV: Nosferatu and Silent Horror

167: The Golden Age of Sports: Horse Racing, Boxing, Basketball, Football, & Jim Thorpe

166: A Conversation on Negro Leagues Baseball History with Bob Kendrick

165: America’s Favorite Pastime: Baseball, the Negro Leagues, and the Great Bambino

164: Harlem Renaissance: The Great Migration, Jazz, and the Flowering of Black Culture

163: The Show (Boat) Must Go On: Broadway and the American Musical

162: The Birth of the Movies: From Silent Cinema to the Rise of Hollywood & the First “Talkie”

161: An Epilogue Toast to Prohibition’s End with Author Daniel Okrent

160: Al Capone & the End of Prohibition

159: Scofflaws, Moonshiners, Bootleggers, and Crime Lords

158: Prohibition - So You Wanna Be a Rum Runner?

157: Temperance, Prohibition, and the Path to the 18th Amendment

156: The Presidency of “Silent” Cal Coolidge

155: The Life & Times of Warren G. Harding & The Teapot Dome Scandal

154: An Epilogue Discussion with Ben Sawyer

153: West Virginia’s Mine Wars: From Trouble in Matewan to the Battle of Blair Mountain