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