History That Doesn't Suck
By Prof. Greg Jackson
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Jul 23, 2021
great show love everything about it
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Feb 22, 2020
A fan of history myself, I was easily hooked by your podcast. I have recently introduced my wife to your show. She never considered herself a fan of history is hooked as well. Storytelling that is informative and compelling. Great job!
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Aug 5, 2019
My new favorite podcast!
Jul 28, 2019
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178: “A Damn Big Dam”: Taming the Colorado River with the Hoover (or Boulder) Dam (Infrastructure pt. 1)
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May 05, 2025 |
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America 250: The Boston Campaign 1775-76: A Leadership Discussion with Gen. William Rapp
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Apr 21, 2025 |
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177: An Epilogue to the New Deal and CCC Deep Dive with Neil Maher
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Apr 07, 2025 |
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176: FDR v. “The Nine Old Men” (The New Deal pt. 3): Court Packing and Closing the New Deal
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Mar 24, 2025 |
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175: The Dirty Thirties (The New Deal pt. 2): Dust, Doubts, and the “Second” New Deal
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Mar 10, 2025 |
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174: The First “First Hundred Days:” FDR Kicks Off the New Deal
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Feb 24, 2025 |
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173: From Hyde Park to the White House: The Early Life and Election of Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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Feb 10, 2025 |
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172: Breadlines, Bank Failures, & the Bonus Army: Hoover & the Early Great Depression
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Dec 16, 2024 |
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171: Christmas Special VIII: Festivities in the Jazz Age
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Dec 02, 2024 |
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170: The Crash of 1929 & Meeting President Herbert Hoover
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Nov 18, 2024 |
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169: An Epilogue to the 1920s: Youth culture, The Great Gatsby, and more with Professor Sarah Churchwell
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Nov 04, 2024 |
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168: Halloween Special IV: Nosferatu and Silent Horror
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Oct 21, 2024 |
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167: The Golden Age of Sports: Horse Racing, Boxing, Basketball, Football, & Jim Thorpe
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Oct 07, 2024 |
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166: A Conversation on Negro Leagues Baseball History with Bob Kendrick
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Sep 30, 2024 |
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165: America’s Favorite Pastime: Baseball, the Negro Leagues, and the Great Bambino
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Sep 23, 2024 |
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164: Harlem Renaissance: The Great Migration, Jazz, and the Flowering of Black Culture
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Sep 09, 2024 |
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163: The Show (Boat) Must Go On: Broadway and the American Musical
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Aug 26, 2024 |
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162: The Birth of the Movies: From Silent Cinema to the Rise of Hollywood & the First “Talkie”
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Aug 12, 2024 |
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161: An Epilogue Toast to Prohibition’s End with Author Daniel Okrent
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Jul 29, 2024 |
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160: Al Capone & the End of Prohibition
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Jul 15, 2024 |
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159: Scofflaws, Moonshiners, Bootleggers, and Crime Lords
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Jul 01, 2024 |
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158: Prohibition - So You Wanna Be a Rum Runner?
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Jun 17, 2024 |
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157: Temperance, Prohibition, and the Path to the 18th Amendment
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Jun 03, 2024 |
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156: The Presidency of “Silent” Cal Coolidge
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May 20, 2024 |
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155: The Life & Times of Warren G. Harding & The Teapot Dome Scandal
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May 06, 2024 |
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154: An Epilogue Discussion with Ben Sawyer
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Apr 22, 2024 |
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153: West Virginia’s Mine Wars: From Trouble in Matewan to the Battle of Blair Mountain
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Apr 08, 2024 |
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152: The Second Ku Klux Klan: Racism, Anti-Semitism, & Anti-Catholicism in the 1920s
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Mar 25, 2024 |
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151: The First Red Scare - Bombings, The Palmer Raids, Eugene Debs, and J. Edgar Hoover
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Mar 11, 2024 |
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150: The Great War’s Aftermath: Coming Home, The Spanish Flu, & The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier
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Feb 26, 2024 |
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149: WWI Epilogue
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Jan 01, 2024 |
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148: Tales of Christmas from World War I (A Truce, Plum Pudding, and Love)
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Dec 04, 2023 |
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147: Peacemaking in Paris: The Treaty of Versailles
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Nov 20, 2023 |
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146: The Armistice of November 11, 1918
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Nov 06, 2023 |
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145: Halloween Special III: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
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Oct 23, 2023 |
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144: A Conversation with Ken Burns - Storytelling and the American Buffalo
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Oct 09, 2023 |
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143: The Meuse-Argonne Offensive (pt.2) – Breaking the Kriemhilde Line
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Sep 25, 2023 |
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142: The Meuse-Argonne Offensive (pt.1) – “The Lost Battalion”
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Sep 11, 2023 |
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141: Wartime Interlude
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Aug 28, 2023 |
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140: WWI Aviators: From the Lafayette Escadrille to the Red Baron and More
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Aug 14, 2023 |
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139: From Yeomen (F) to “Hello Girls:” American Women in World War I
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Jul 31, 2023 |
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138: The 15th New York/369th or The Harlem Hellfighters
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Jul 17, 2023 |
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137: The First Battle of the First American Army: St. Mihiel
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Jul 03, 2023 |
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136: The German Spring Offensive’s End, or The Second Battle of the Marne
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Jun 19, 2023 |
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135: Belleau Wood – A Cut Deeper with Captain Mac Caldwell
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Jun 05, 2023 |
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134: (Most of) The German Spring Offensive of 1918 & The Fight for Belleau Wood
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May 22, 2023 |
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133: Heading “Over There:” “Black Jack” Pershing & Creating WWI’s American Expeditionary Force
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May 08, 2023 |
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132: The US Enters WWI (RMS Lusitania, Black Tom Island, & The Zimmermann Telegram)
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Apr 24, 2023 |
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131: Epilogue on World War 1 before the US
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Apr 10, 2023 |
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130: Russia: From the Great War to Revolution with Deputy Provost Kat Brown
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Mar 27, 2023 |
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129: World War I Before the US (Military Tech, Trenches, Global Armies, Ypres, Verdun & the Somme)
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Mar 13, 2023 |
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128: The Causes of World War I (From the Congress of Vienna to Franz Ferdinand & the Marne)
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Feb 27, 2023 |
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127: Mr. Wilson Goes to Washington (Progressive Policies & Foreign Affairs in South America)
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Feb 13, 2023 |
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126: Christmas Special 6: Jacob Riis’ “Is There a Santa Claus?”
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Dec 19, 2022 |
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125: Epilogue: The Progressive Era
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Dec 05, 2022 |
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124: The “Bull Moose” Election of 1912
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Nov 21, 2022 |
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123: The Wright Brothers Fly at Kitty Hawk
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Nov 07, 2022 |
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122: Halloween Special II: H.P. Lovecraft – “The Outsider” & “Dagon”
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Oct 24, 2022 |
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121: Henry Ford: The Model T & Mass Production
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Oct 10, 2022 |
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120: From Atlanta to the NAACP, or Booker T. Washington v. W.E.B. Du Bois
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Sep 26, 2022 |
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119: Women’s Suffrage & the Passage of the 19th Amendment
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Sep 12, 2022 |
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118: “The Island of Hope and Tears:” Ellis Island
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Aug 29, 2022 |
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117: Epilogue on Progressive Era Part I (Teddy Roosevelt)
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Aug 15, 2022 |
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116: Teddy Roosevelt’s Foreign Policy: From Big Stick Diplomacy to the Panama Canal
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Aug 01, 2022 |
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115: History–Doomed to Repeat It? A Conversation with Lindsay Graham
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Jul 18, 2022 |
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114: A Square Deal (pt. 3): “Leave it as it is” (Teddy Roosevelt & Conservationism)
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Jun 20, 2022 |
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113: A Square Deal (pt. 2): Consumer Protection–The FDA, & Ida Tarbell muckrakes Standard Oil
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Jun 06, 2022 |
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112: A Square Deal (pt. 1): Corp. Regulation—a coal strike, a trust, & Teddy’s Frenemy J.P. Morgan
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May 23, 2022 |
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111: The Assassination of Will McKinley & The Strenuous Life of Theodore Roosevelt
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May 09, 2022 |
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110: Epilogue to the Age of Imperialism
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Apr 25, 2022 |
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109: The Election of 1900 & the Rise of Anti-Imperialism
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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
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Mar 28, 2022 |
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107: The Philippine-American War
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Mar 14, 2022 |
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106: The US Annexation of the Hawaiian Kingdom
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Feb 28, 2022 |
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105: “A Splendid Little War:” The Spanish-American War and Theodore Roosevelt’s Rough Riders
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Feb 14, 2022 |
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104: The Road to the Spanish-American War
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Jan 31, 2022 |
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103: A Gilded Age Christmas: Joseph Pulitzer’s Christmas Tree Fund
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Dec 20, 2021 |
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102: Epilogue to the Gilded Age
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Nov 22, 2021 |
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101: The New South, Jim Crow (Plessy v. Ferguson), & the Death of Frederick Douglass
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Nov 08, 2021 |
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100: Halloween Special! Edgar Allan Poe: The Tell-tale Heart, The Cask of Amontillado, & The Raven
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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
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Oct 11, 2021 |
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98: Silver & Gold: From Grover Cleveland to William Jennings Bryan & William McKinley
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Sep 27, 2021 |
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97: The Gilded Age’s Robber Barons: John D. Rockefeller & Andrew Carnegie
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Sep 13, 2021 |
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96: The War of the Currents: (Thomas Alva Edison v. Nikola Tesla & George Westinghouse)
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Aug 30, 2021 |
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95: "Several Thousand Things that Won't Work:" Thomas Alva Edison and His Electric Light
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Aug 16, 2021 |
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94: Epilogue to Gilded Age Part I (or Gilded Age interlude w/ Significant HTDS Updates)
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Aug 02, 2021 |
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93: La Liberté éclairant le monde: Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi’s Statue of Liberty
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Jul 19, 2021 |
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92: The Brooklyn Bridge, or the Story of the Roebling Family
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Jun 21, 2021 |
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91: The Gilded Age, Industrialization, and Assassination of President James Garfield
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Jun 07, 2021 |
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90: Epilogue to the Wild West
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May 10, 2021 |
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89: Closing the Wild West: (Wounded Knee, Buffalo Bill & the 1893 Colombian Expo)
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Apr 26, 2021 |
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88: “The Last Frontier:” The Purchase of Alaska and the Klondike Gold Rush
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Apr 12, 2021 |
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87:Gunslingers & Outlaws (pt 2): Pearl Hart, Tombstone, Jesse James, B. Cassidy & The Sundance Kid
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Mar 29, 2021 |
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86: Gunslingers & Outlaws (pt 1): The Second Industrial Revolution, Sam Bass & Billy the Kid
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Mar 15, 2021 |
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85: Transcontinental Railroad (pt 3): The Central Pacific, Chinese Workers, & The Golden Spike
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Mar 01, 2021 |
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84: Transcontinental Railroad (pt 2): Dr. Thomas Durant, The Union Pacific & “Hell on Wheels”
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Feb 15, 2021 |
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83: Transcontinental Railroad (pt 1): Industrialization, Ted Judah & The Rise of the Central Pacific
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Feb 01, 2021 |
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82: Best Mini Episodes and Cold Opens of 2020
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Jan 18, 2021 |
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81: Epilogue to Volume 6: Reconstruction and The Indian Wars
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Jan 04, 2021 |
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80: “Yes, Virginia, There is a Santa Claus:” A History
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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
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Dec 07, 2020 |
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78: The Indian Wars (Part 2): The Battle of the Little Bighorn (the Greasy Grass)
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Nov 23, 2020 |
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77: The Indian Wars (Part 1): The U.S.-Dakota War
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Nov 09, 2020 |
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76: Reconstruction (Part 4): The Battle of Liberty Place and the Mississippi Plan
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Oct 26, 2020 |
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75: Reconstruction (Part 3): The Rise of the KKK and the First Black Men in Government
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Oct 12, 2020 |
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74: Reconstruction (Part 2): The Presidency of Ulysses S. Grant
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Sep 28, 2020 |
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73: Reconstruction (Part 1): The Impeachment of Andrew Johnson
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Sep 14, 2020 |
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72: The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
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Aug 31, 2020 |
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71: Revisiting the Hamilton/Burr Duel: An Affair of Honor
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Aug 17, 2020 |
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70: Epilogue: The Civil War Comes to a Close
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Aug 03, 2020 |
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69: Surrender at Appomattox: The Last Days of the Civil War
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Jul 20, 2020 |
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68: Sherman's March to the Sea and the Thirteenth Amendment
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Jul 06, 2020 |
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67: Ending 1864: The Battles of the Crater, Mobile Bay, Centralia, and Franklin
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Jun 22, 2020 |
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66: The Election of 1864: Lincoln's Bid for Reelection
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Jun 08, 2020 |
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65: Sherman’s Atlanta Campaign & The Free State of Jones
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May 25, 2020 |
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Bonus: A New Sound for HTDS (Farewell to Josh, Hello to Lindsay Graham & Airship)
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May 18, 2020 |
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64: Grant's Overland Campaign: The Battles of the Wilderness, Spotsylvania, Cold Harbor, & Petersburg
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May 11, 2020 |
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Bonus: A Chat about Southern Accents w/ Jeremy Collins from "Podcasts We Listen To"
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May 06, 2020 |
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63: Wounded and Dying: Nurses, Doctors, and Disease in the Civil War
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Apr 27, 2020 |
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62: The War in Tennessee: Chickamauga and Chattanooga
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Apr 13, 2020 |
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61: The Louisiana Native Guard, the 54th Massachusetts & On: Black Soldiers in the Civil War
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Mar 30, 2020 |
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60: Gettysburg
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Mar 16, 2020 |
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59: Stone’s River, Suspending Habeas Corpus, Vicksburg, & Stonewall’s Death at Chancellorsville
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Mar 02, 2020 |
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58: Conscription & Riots (“A Rich Man’s War, But a Poor Man’s Fight”)
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Feb 17, 2020 |
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57: Recap of The Civil War's First Half (1861-63)
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Feb 03, 2020 |
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56: The Battle of Fredericksburg and the First Campaign of Vicksburg
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Jan 20, 2020 |
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55: The Road to The Emancipation Proclamation
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Jan 06, 2020 |
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54: The Best Opening Scenes in HTDS History
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Dec 23, 2019 |
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53: A Civil War Christmas with Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Dec 09, 2019 |
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52: From Second Bull Run, or Second Manassas to Antietam, or Sharpsburg
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Nov 25, 2019 |
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51: A Change in Command: Seven Days Battles to the Battle of Cedar Mountain
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Nov 11, 2019 |
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50: Mississippi Valley 1862: The Battles of New Orleans, Corinth, Memphis, and Vicksburg
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Oct 28, 2019 |
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49: From Little Mac McClellan to Stonewall Jackson: The Peninsula and Shenandoah Valley Campaigns
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Oct 14, 2019 |
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48: The Battle of Shiloh: “Now boys, pitch in!”
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Sep 30, 2019 |
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47: Bull Run, Trent Affair, the Merrimack, & Fort Donelson: The Early Days of the Civil War
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Sep 16, 2019 |
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46: The Civil War Begins: Fort Sumter, Secession, & Raising Armies
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Sep 02, 2019 |
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45: Volume IV Epilogue
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Aug 19, 2019 |
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44: Abraham Lincoln Becomes President of the Divided States of America
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Aug 05, 2019 |
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43: Honest Abe, the Lincoln-Douglas Debates, & John Brown’s Raid on Harpers Ferry
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Jul 22, 2019 |
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42: Solomon Northup’s 12 Years a Slave
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Jul 08, 2019 |
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41: Kansas! (Bleeding Kansas, the Kansas-Nebraska Act, & Caning of Charles Sumner)
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Jun 24, 2019 |
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40: Elizabeth Cady Stanton, the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention & the Explosion of Social Reform
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Jun 10, 2019 |
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39: The California Gold Rush and the Compromise of 1850
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May 27, 2019 |
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38: The (Early) Life and Times of Frederick Douglass
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May 13, 2019 |
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37: La Amistad Slave Rebellion and the Rise of Abolitionism
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Apr 29, 2019 |
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Volume III Epilogue
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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
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Apr 01, 2019 |
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35: Mexican-American War (Part 3): Nuevo México and the Final Push from Vera Cruz
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Mar 18, 2019 |
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34: Mexican-American War (Part 2): The Pathfinder, the Bear Flag Revolt, y Los Californios
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Mar 04, 2019 |
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33: Mexican-American War (Part 1): From the Nueces River to the Rio Grande
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Feb 18, 2019 |
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32: Mormonism and the Mormon Trail
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Feb 04, 2019 |
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31: The California Trail: From the Donner Party to the Gold Rush
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Jan 21, 2019 |
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30: The Oregon Trail (“You Have Died of Dysentery”)
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Jan 07, 2019 |
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Christmas Special II: A Jackson White House Christmas
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Dec 24, 2018 |
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29: The Bank War, Whigs, & Revolution in Texas
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Dec 10, 2018 |
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28: Ushering in the Age of Jackson
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Nov 26, 2018 |
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Epilogue to Volume 2
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Nov 11, 2018 |
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27: The Last of the Founding Fathers
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Oct 29, 2018 |
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26: Peace in Ghent, War in New Orleans
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Oct 15, 2018 |
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25: From Lake Champlain to the “Defense of Fort M’Henry”
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Oct 01, 2018 |
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24: From Granny to Old Ironsides: The Campaigns of 1812 and 1813.
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Sep 17, 2018 |
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23: Prelude to America's Forgotten War
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Sep 02, 2018 |
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22: An Affair of Honor: Alexander Hamilton & Aaron Burr
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Aug 19, 2018 |
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21: Thomas Jefferson Presents: Lewis & Clark’s Excellent Expedition
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Aug 06, 2018 |
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20: "A Wolf by the Ears": Gabriel Rebels and Cotton Becomes King
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Jul 23, 2018 |
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19: The Traitor and The Thieving Spy: The Start of American Industrialization
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Jul 09, 2018 |
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18: Affairs! Foreign and ..."Domestic"
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Jun 25, 2018 |
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Historians (of The) Roundtable: I
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Jun 07, 2018 |
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17: Death of a Nation's Father
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May 28, 2018 |
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16: The Founding Fractures: Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson
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May 08, 2018 |
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Epilogue To The Revolution; Or The Big Stuff You Should’ve Caught
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Apr 25, 2018 |
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Q&A with The HTDS Team
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Apr 12, 2018 |
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15: “We the People:” Constitution Making in Philly
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Mar 26, 2018 |
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Second Edition Episodes: A Discussion
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Mar 14, 2018 |
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14: Peace in Paris; Turmoil in New York
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Mar 14, 2018 |
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13: The World Turns Upside Down at Yorktown
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Feb 28, 2018 |
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12: An American Judas Betrays & Nathanael Greene Saves!
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Feb 13, 2018 |
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11: Southern Discomfort: Savannah & Charleston Captured, Slavery, Massacres, & 1779’s Sundries
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Jan 31, 2018 |
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10: Dueling, Life Sucks at Valley Forge, von Steuben's Cool & the Battle of Monmouth
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Jan 19, 2018 |
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9: (Almost) Everything Important in 1777--Saratoga, Lafayette & George Returns Gen. Howe’s Dog
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Jan 02, 2018 |
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Christmas Special: George Wishes Some Hessians a Merry F’ing Christmas
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Dec 23, 2017 |
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8: From Independence to NY (meeting A. Ham, Nathan Hale & Charles Lee is a Sneaky Bastard)
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Dec 17, 2017 |
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7: An Olive Branch Rejected, Tom's a Royal Pain(e), & the Siege of Boston
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Dec 04, 2017 |
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6: "The Shot Heard Round the World"
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Nov 18, 2017 |
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5: "Delenda est Bostonia:" a Congress, Paul Rides, & the First Shot at Lexington
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Nov 01, 2017 |
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4: "Boston Harbor A Tea-Pot This Night:" The Boston Tea Party
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Oct 17, 2017 |
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3: "Clean My Sh*t House!" The Boston Massacre
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Oct 09, 2017 |
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2: Patrick Henry and Boston Get Pissed about Taxes
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Sep 30, 2017 |
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1: That One Time When George Washington Sort of Triggered an International War
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Sep 28, 2017 |
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0: Preamble
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Sep 26, 2017 |