The Story of America in 365 Days
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Episode 86 – The Era of Good Feelings (March 27th)
It is March 27th. Welcome to Episode 86 of History in a Year. Today, the United States enters a bizarre, brief period of political peace. Following th...
Episode 85 – The Hartford Convention (March 26th)
It is March 26th. Welcome to Episode 85 of History in a Year. Today, an entire American political party commits spectacular political suicide. While A...
Episode 84 – The Rise of Andrew Jackson (March 25th)
It is March 25th. Welcome to Episode 84 of History in a Year. Today, a frontier general becomes a political juggernaut. Following his miraculous, lops...
Episode 83 – The Battle of New Orleans (March 24th)
It is March 24th. Welcome to Episode 83 of History in a Year. Today, the bloodiest battle of the War of 1812 is fought after the war is already over. ...
Episode 82 – The Treaty of Ghent (March 23rd)
It is March 23rd. Welcome to Episode 82 of History in a Year. Today, the War of 1812 ends in a freezing Belgian city with an incredibly ironic piece o...
Episode 81 – The Star-Spangled Banner (March 22nd)
It is March 22nd. Welcome to Episode 81 of History in a Year. Today, the United States finds its anthem in the rockets' red glare. After burning Washi...
Episode 80 – Dolley Madison Saves the Day (March 21st)
It is March 21st. Welcome to Episode 80 of History in a Year. Today, the First Lady holds the line. As the American army collapses at Bladensburg and ...
Episode 79 – The Burning of Washington (March 20th)
It is March 20th. Welcome to Episode 79 of History in a Year. Today, the United States pays a devastating price for starting a war. In the spring of 1...
Episode 78 – The Fall of Tecumseh (March 19th)
It is March 19th. Welcome to Episode 78 of History in a Year. Today, the greatest indigenous resistance movement in North American history dies on a b...
Episode 77 – The Battle of Lake Erie (March 18th)
It is March 18th. Welcome to Episode 77 of History in a Year. Today, a 28-year-old naval commander refuses to give up the ship. Following the humiliat...
Episode 76 – The Surrender of Detroit (March 17th)
It is March 17th. Welcome to Episode 76 of History in a Year. Today, the United States suffers one of the most humiliating military defeats in its his...
Episode 75 – Old Ironsides (March 16th)
It is March 16th. Welcome to Episode 75 of History in a Year. Today, the tiny United States Navy shocks the world. At the start of the War of 1812, th...
Episode 74 – The War of 1812 Begins (March 15th)
It is March 15th. Welcome to Episode 74 of History in a Year. Today, the United States accidentally starts a war that it is catastrophically unprepare...
Episode 73 – The Battle of Tippecanoe (March 14th)
It is March 14th. Welcome to Episode 73 of History in a Year. Today, the dream of a united Native American empire goes up in flames. With the brillian...
Episode 72 – Tecumseh’s Confederacy (March 13th)
It is March 13th. Welcome to Episode 72 of History in a Year. Today, the greatest indigenous resistance movement in North American history rises in th...
Episode 71 – The War Hawks (March 12th)
It is March 12th. Welcome to Episode 71 of History in a Year. Today, the Founding Fathers step aside, and a furious new generation takes control of th...
Episode 70 – James Madison Takes Office (March 11th)
It is March 11th. Welcome to Episode 70 of History in a Year. Today, the "Father of the Constitution" inherits a fractured nation. Thomas Jefferson ha...
Episode 69 – The Embargo Act (March 10th)
It is March 10th. Welcome to Episode 69 of History in a Year. Today, Thomas Jefferson tries to punish the world and accidentally bankrupts the United ...
Episode 68 – The Chesapeake-Leopard Affair (March 9th)
It is March 9th. Welcome to Episode 68 of History in a Year. Today, the United States suffers a massive, bloody humiliation right off its own coastlin...
Episode 67 – The Burr Conspiracy (March 8th)
It is March 8th. Welcome to Episode 67 of History in a Year. Today, a disgraced Vice President tries to steal half the country. After killing Alexande...
Episode 66 – The Shores of Tripoli (March 7th)
It is March 7th. Welcome to Episode 66 of History in a Year. Today, Thomas Jefferson decides he is absolutely done paying bribes to pirates. For years...
Episode 65: Ocean in View (March 6th)
It is March 6th. Welcome to Episode 65 of History in a Year. Today, the Corps of Discovery achieves the impossible. To reach the Pacific Ocean, Lewis ...
Episode 64 – The Great Divide (March 5th)
It is March 5th. Welcome to Episode 64 of History in a Year. Today, the dream of the Northwest Passage dies on top of a mountain. Meriwether Lewis and...
Episode 63 – Sacagawea (March 4th)
It is March 4th. Welcome to Episode 63 of History in a Year. Today, we meet the most famous woman of the American West. As the brutal winter of 1804 s...
Episode 62 – The Corps of Discovery (March 3rd)
It is March 3rd. Welcome to Episode 62 of History in a Year. Today, the greatest road trip in American history hits the water. Meriwether Lewis and Wi...
Episode 61 – Lewis and Clark (March 2nd)
It is March 2nd. Welcome to Episode 61 of History in a Year. Today, Thomas Jefferson looks at a blank map of the American West and decides to fill it ...
Episode 60 – The Louisiana Purchase (March 1st)
It is March 1st. Welcome to Episode 60 of History in a Year. Today, the United States accidentally buys half a continent. Thomas Jefferson’s vision ...
Episode 59 – February Recap (February 28th)
It is February 28th. Welcome to Episode 59 of History in a Year. Today, we pause to catch our breath and look back at the incredible, turbulent journe...
Episode 58 – The Peaceful Transfer (February 27th)
It is February 27th. Welcome to Episode 58 of History in a Year. Today, we witness a political miracle. After the most venomous and chaotic election i...
Episode 57 – The Midnight Judges (February 26th)
It is February 26th. Welcome to Episode 57 of History in a Year. Today, we witness the ultimate lame-duck revenge and the most brilliant legal magic t...
Episode 56 – Gabriel’s Rebellion (February 25th)
It is February 25th. Welcome to Episode 56 of History in a Year. Today, the rhetoric of the American Revolution is turned against the Founding Fathers...
Episode 55 – Hamilton’s Choice (February 24th)
It is February 24th. Welcome to Episode 55 of History in a Year. Today, the political becomes fatal. Vice President Aaron Burr, frozen out of power by...
Episode 54 – The Midnight Judges (February 23rd)
It is February 23rd. Welcome to Episode 54 of History in a Year. Today, we witness the ultimate lame-duck revenge. John Adams has lost the Election of...
Episode 53 – The Election of 1800 (February 22nd)
It is February 22nd. Welcome to Episode 53 of History in a Year. Today, the gloves come off. With George Washington gone, the United States descends i...
Episode 52 – The Death of Washington (February 21st)
It is February 21st. Welcome to Episode 52 of History in a Year. Today, the unimaginable happens: George Washington dies. Just as the United States is...
Episode 51 – Nullification (February 20th)
It is February 20th. Welcome to Episode 51 of History in a Year. Today, the Vice President of the United States secretly drafts a blueprint for rebell...
Episode 50 – The Alien & Sedition Acts (February 19th)
It is February 19th. Welcome to Episode 50 of History in a Year. Today, the United States government declares war on the First Amendment. As the Quasi...
Episode 49 – The Quasi-War (February 18th)
It is February 18th. Welcome to Episode 49 of History in a Year. Today, the fear of a foreign enemy pushes the United States government to turn agains...
Episode 48 – The XYZ Affair (February 17th)
It is February 17th. Welcome to Episode 48 of History in a Year. Today, the United States is insulted on the world stage. To prevent a war with France...
Episode 47 – Abigail (February 16th)
It is February 16th. Welcome to Episode 47 of History in a Year. Today, we step inside the President's House to meet the most powerful, politically ac...
Episode 46 – His Rotundity
It is February 15th. Welcome to Episode 46 of History in a Year. Today, we profile the man who had the impossible job of following George Washington. ...
Episode 45 – The Election of 1796
It is February 14th. Welcome to Episode 45 of History in a Year. Today, the training wheels come off. George Washington is gone, and for the first tim...
Episode 44 – Washington’s Farewell
It is February 13th. Welcome to Episode 44 of History in a Year. Today, the Father of the Country decides it is time to go home. After eight grueling ...
Episode 43 – The Reynolds Pamphlet
It is February 12th. Welcome to Episode 43 of History in a Year. Today, we step away from the battlefield and into the bedroom for the first major pol...
Episode 42 – The Jay Treaty
It is February 11th. Welcome to Episode 42 of History in a Year. Today, war with Great Britain seems inevitable. The British are seizing American ship...
Episode 41 – Fallen Timbers
It is February 10th. Welcome to Episode 41 of History in a Year. Today, we march into the deep woods of Ohio for the final showdown of the Northwest I...
Episode 40 – The Whiskey Rebellion (Part 2)
It is February 9th. Welcome to Episode 40 of History in a Year. Today, the hammer falls. Following the violence in Western Pennsylvania, George Washin...
Episode 39 – The Whiskey Rebellion (Part 1)
It is February 8th. Welcome to Episode 39 of History in a Year. Today, we travel to the wild frontier of Western Pennsylvania, where the spirit of 177...
Episode 38 – The Cotton Gin
It is February 7th. Welcome to Episode 38 of History in a Year. Today, a young Yankee schoolteacher named Eli Whitney sits on a porch in Georgia and t...
Episode 37 – The Plague
It is February 6th. Welcome to Episode 37 of History in a Year. Today, the political fever of the summer breaks, only to be replaced by a biological n...