History That Doesn't Suck
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160: Al Capone & the End of Prohibition
Jul 15, 20241h 3m
159: Scofflaws, Moonshiners, Bootleggers, and Crime Lords
Jul 1, 202459 min
158: Prohibition - So You Wanna Be a Rum Runner?
Jun 17, 202456 min
157: Temperance, Prohibition, and the Path to the 18th Amendment
Jun 3, 20241h 0m
156: The Presidency of “Silent” Cal Coolidge
May 20, 20241h 1m
155: The Life & Times of Warren G. Harding & The Teapot Dome Scandal
May 6, 20241h 7m
154: An Epilogue Discussion with Ben Sawyer
Apr 22, 20241h 1m
153: West Virginia’s Mine Wars: From Trouble in Matewan to the Battle of Blair Mountain
Apr 8, 20241h 2m
152: The Second Ku Klux Klan: Racism, Anti-Semitism, & Anti-Catholicism in the 1920s
Mar 25, 20241h 2m
151: The First Red Scare - Bombings, The Palmer Raids, Eugene Debs, and J. Edgar Hoover
Mar 11, 20241h 2m
150: The Great War’s Aftermath: Coming Home, The Spanish Flu, & The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier
Feb 26, 20241h 4m
149: WWI Epilogue
Jan 1, 202450 min
148: Tales of Christmas from World War I (A Truce, Plum Pudding, and Love)
Dec 4, 202338 min
147: Peacemaking in Paris: The Treaty of Versailles
Nov 20, 20231h 7m
146: The Armistice of November 11, 1918
Nov 6, 20231h 5m
145: Halloween Special III: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Oct 23, 202349 min
144: A Conversation with Ken Burns - Storytelling and the American Buffalo
Oct 9, 202334 min
143: The Meuse-Argonne Offensive (pt.2) – Breaking the Kriemhilde Line
Sep 25, 202359 min
142: The Meuse-Argonne Offensive (pt.1) – “The Lost Battalion”
Sep 11, 202356 min
141: Wartime Interlude
Aug 28, 20231h 9m
140: WWI Aviators: From the Lafayette Escadrille to the Red Baron and More
Aug 14, 202356 min
139: From Yeomen (F) to “Hello Girls:” American Women in World War I
Jul 31, 202359 min
138: The 15th New York/369th or The Harlem Hellfighters
Jul 17, 20231h 2m
137: The First Battle of the First American Army: St. Mihiel
Jul 3, 20231h 0m
136: The German Spring Offensive’s End, or The Second Battle of the Marne
Jun 19, 202356 min
135: Belleau Wood – A Cut Deeper with Captain Mac Caldwell
Jun 5, 20231h 7m
134: (Most of) The German Spring Offensive of 1918 & The Fight for Belleau Wood
May 22, 202358 min
133: Heading “Over There:” “Black Jack” Pershing & Creating WWI’s American Expeditionary Force
May 8, 20231h 0m
132: The US Enters WWI (RMS Lusitania, Black Tom Island, & The Zimmermann Telegram)
Apr 24, 202358 min
131: Epilogue on World War 1 before the US
Apr 10, 20231h 8m
130: Russia: From the Great War to Revolution with Deputy Provost Kat Brown
Mar 27, 20231h 17m
129: World War I Before the US (Military Tech, Trenches, Global Armies, Ypres, Verdun & the Somme)
Mar 13, 20231h 1m
128: The Causes of World War I (From the Congress of Vienna to Franz Ferdinand & the Marne)
Feb 27, 20231h 8m
127: Mr. Wilson Goes to Washington (Progressive Policies & Foreign Affairs in South America)
Feb 13, 20231h 0m
126: Christmas Special 6: Jacob Riis’ “Is There a Santa Claus?”
Dec 19, 202228 min
125: Epilogue: The Progressive Era
Dec 5, 20221h 12m
124: The “Bull Moose” Election of 1912
Nov 21, 20221h 2m
123: The Wright Brothers Fly at Kitty Hawk
Nov 7, 202259 min
122: Halloween Special II: H.P. Lovecraft – “The Outsider” & “Dagon”
Oct 24, 202249 min
121: Henry Ford: The Model T & Mass Production
Oct 10, 20221h 1m
120: From Atlanta to the NAACP, or Booker T. Washington v. W.E.B. Du Bois
Sep 26, 20221h 2m
119: Women’s Suffrage & the Passage of the 19th Amendment
Sep 12, 20221h 3m
118: “The Island of Hope and Tears:” Ellis Island
Aug 29, 20221h 5m
117: Epilogue on Progressive Era Part I (Teddy Roosevelt)
Aug 15, 202246 min
116: Teddy Roosevelt’s Foreign Policy: From Big Stick Diplomacy to the Panama Canal
Aug 1, 20221h 3m
115: History–Doomed to Repeat It? A Conversation with Lindsay Graham
Jul 18, 202252 min
114: A Square Deal (pt. 3): “Leave it as it is” (Teddy Roosevelt & Conservationism)
Jun 20, 202254 min
113: A Square Deal (pt. 2): Consumer Protection–The FDA, & Ida Tarbell muckrakes Standard Oil
Jun 6, 20221h 3m
112: A Square Deal (pt. 1): Corp. Regulation—a coal strike, a trust, & Teddy’s Frenemy J.P. Morgan
May 23, 20221h 2m
111: The Assassination of Will McKinley & The Strenuous Life of Theodore Roosevelt
May 9, 202256 min