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Episode publication activity over the past year
The Spanish-American War
18 Nov 2024
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In April 1898 the United States declared war on Spain. By the end of the war that December, the Span...
A CIA Man in China: 20 Years Imprisoned
14 Nov 2024
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This is the story of America's longest held prisoner of war. John 'Jack' Downey, an American CIA ope...
Nazis in America: Fascism in the 1930s
11 Nov 2024
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In 1933, The Pittsburgh Courier published an editorial entitled 'Hitler Learns from America'. S...
Presidents' Private Lives
07 Nov 2024
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With the US election happening, we wanted to take a look back at the presidents from the past what w...
Elections Explained: A History of Rigged Elections
04 Nov 2024
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Invisible ink, delayed flights and political meddling - elections are a symbol of democracy, so how ...
New York Morgue's Dark Secrets
31 Oct 2024
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The unclaimed dead of New York City's streets and rivers were brought to the New York Morgue in the ...
Elections Explained: The Man Who's Lost The Most
28 Oct 2024
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What causes a person to lose the Presidential election?Henry Clay ran for the Presidency 3 times, an...
The Doolittle Raid: WW2 Bombing of Japan
24 Oct 2024
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If somebody asked you to go on a dangerous mission, no other details, would you volunteer?Well, in 1...
Elections Explained: How FDR Won Four Times
21 Oct 2024
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4,322 days. That's how long Franklin Delano Roosevelt was in office. Whilst no other US president ha...
The Battle of Bull Run
17 Oct 2024
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On July 21, 1861, Confederate and Union forces met for the first time in full-scale battle at Bull R...
Elections Explained: A History of Voting
14 Oct 2024
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We have a constitutional right to vote in the United States ... don't we? Find out in this first epi...
Outlaws: John Dillinger | Public Enemy Number One
10 Oct 2024
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What does it take to be the first person named as 'Public Enemy No.1' by the US Bureau of Investigat...
Who Was Christopher Columbus?
07 Oct 2024
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Did Columbus really think the Earth was flat? Where did he come from? Where did he get to? To untang...
Outlaws: Bonnie & Clyde
03 Oct 2024
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Just how murderous were Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow? Where did those famous photos come from? And...
Woodrow Wilson & The End of WW1: The League of Nations
30 Sep 2024
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When it comes to US foreign policy in the early 20th Century, isolationism tends to come to mind. Wh...
Outlaws: Jesse James
26 Sep 2024
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Jesse James. Perhaps the most notorious American outlaw?He’s become legendary figure of the Wild W...
Guantanamo Bay Detention Center: A History From The Inside
23 Sep 2024
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Very few people know what it is like to be in the infamous US detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, ...
Outlaws: New York's Criminal Mastermind
19 Sep 2024
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When was the first bank robbery? What does it take to be successful in organized crime? Is it possib...
How The World Sees The US: The Art of Diplomacy
16 Sep 2024
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How did Egypt and Israel come to an agreement at Camp David in 1979? How did the USSR come to allow ...
McCarthy & the Second Red Scare
12 Sep 2024
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Who was Joe McCarthy? How did this Republican Senator come to lead a nationwide campaign against com...
Japanese in America: Railroads, Internment Camps & Little Tokyo
08 Sep 2024
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When the US turned to Japan looking for workers in the late 19th Century, they probably never foresa...
President Woodrow Wilson: Progressive? Warmonger? Overrated?
05 Sep 2024
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The 20th Century is up and running and the next President in our series, Woodrow Wilson, is in for a...
British Brides for American Tobacco: A Tudor Trade
02 Sep 2024
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In 1621 the Virginia Company of London put out a call for young, handsome and honestly educated wome...
Who Was The Richest President?
29 Aug 2024
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Which President was best with their money? Which was worst? And are Presidents responsible for payin...
Eisenhower: D-Day and the Birth of the American Superpower
26 Aug 2024
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In June 1944, the joint forces of the Allies began the liberation of continental Europe on D-Day. Bu...
President William Howard Taft: The Reluctant Politician?
22 Aug 2024
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Sandwiched between Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson is our 26th President of the United States,...
Lafayette: The Marquis and the American Revolution
19 Aug 2024
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Why did an aristocratic French man fight for American freedom? How influential was Lafayette? And wh...
Kamala Harris: An Unprecedented Candidacy?
15 Aug 2024
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Cleopatra, Catherine the Great, Boudicca, Margaret Thatcher, Angela Merkel: what do these women have...
American History Hit: 200 Episodes On
15 Aug 2024
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Host Don Wildman has a message for listeners old and new, marking 200 episodes of American History H...
President Theodore Roosevelt
12 Aug 2024
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What kind of a nickname is Bull Moose? How progressive was Theodore Roosevelt's presidency? And how ...
The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt
08 Aug 2024
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"Speak softly and carry a big stick."The youngest President ever, Lieutenant Colonel of the Rough Ri...
Origins of Political Campaigns: Publicity Stunts & Fake News
05 Aug 2024
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How do our politicians use the media? Throughout the 2024 election we have seen a boom in the use of...
American Operators on WW1's Front Line
01 Aug 2024
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When the First World War ended at 11am on 11 November, 1918, how did army command relay the ceasefir...
The Third Presidential Assassination: McKinley
29 Jul 2024
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On 6th September, 1901, President William McKinley attended a public reception at the Pan American E...
President William McKinley: The Secret Service & the Spanish-American War
25 Jul 2024
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Why does the Secret Service protect the President of the United States? And what can we learn from M...
Biden: US Presidents, Reelection & the Second Term Curse
24 Jul 2024
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President Joe Biden will address the nation from the Oval Office on Wednesday night, after announcin...
Secrets of the White House
22 Jul 2024
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How did a party in the White House end in mayhem? When did the West Wing become a hive of government...
US Presidents Who Escaped Assassination
19 Jul 2024
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Lincoln, FDR, Reagan, Clinton, Bush and now Trump. All have been targets of assassination attempts w...
Sovereignty, the Constitution and 100 years of Citizenship: Native Rights
18 Jul 2024
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This podcast contains adult language.What was the ‘Indian Citizenship Act’ of 1924? Why was it n...
The Rise of Presidential Power
15 Jul 2024
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Right from independence, a question has hovered over the government of the United States. How much p...
President Grover Cleveland: Panic in the Second Term
11 Jul 2024
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What caused the economic panic of 1893? In this episode we are delving into the event that made Grov...
Zionism in Texas
08 Jul 2024
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What do you know about Galveston, Texas? Perhaps you've heard about the disastrous hurricane of 1900...
What is Populism? From the Farmers' Alliance to Trump
04 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In the long unanswered question of whether the established elite truly support the concerns of ordin...
What Caused the American Revolution?
01 Jul 2024
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What took the US from the Boston Tea Party to Lexington and Concord? Where was the turning point for...
President Benjamin Harrison: The President with a Petting Zoo
27 Jun 2024
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Why is the 23rd President of the United States, Benjamin Harrison, remembered as a 'Human Iceberg'? ...
The First Battle of the Civil War: Fort Sumter
24 Jun 2024
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A 34-hour bombardment, one (accidental) death, and the start of the bloodiest war the United States ...
The Whiskey Rebellion: Tax Protest & Armed Resistance
20 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This episode was first released on November 14 2022.The Whiskey Tax, imposed in 1791, was the first ...
Presidential Pardons: Mormons, Conscientious Objectors & January 6th
17 Jun 2024
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In the US Constitution, the President of the United States is granted the right to pardon those conv...
President Grover Cleveland: Honest to a Fault?
13 Jun 2024
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They say that honesty is the best policy, but was this the case for Grover Cleveland? He may be the ...
The War on Crime: The 1930s and the New Deal
09 Jun 2024
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How did the United States go from a country defined by its lawlessness in the 1920s and early 1930s,...
America at D-Day
06 Jun 2024
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On June 6, 1944, the Allied forces combined their land, air and sea forces into the largest amphibio...
Communism in America
02 Jun 2024
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The history of the United States' relationship with communism is one littered with fear and persecut...
The History of Baseball
29 May 2024
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Where did baseball come from? Why is every stadium unique? And how do you make it to the Hall of Fam...
The Battle of Okinawa
27 May 2024
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Please note, this episode contains discussion of suicide.On 1 April 1945, as the Second World War in...
President Chester A. Arthur: Redemption in Office?
23 May 2024
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Vice President to a narrow election winner, Chester Arthur was a very unlikely President. But on Sep...
The Real Hamilton: An American Myth?
19 May 2024
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11 Tonys, a Grammy, a Pulitzer Prize and broken box office records - there's no denying the impact o...
American Castaways: Treachery & Survival in the Falklands
16 May 2024
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Today we dive into the little-known true story of American castaways abandoned on the Falkland Islan...
The Real Hamilton: Downfall, Duel & Death
13 May 2024
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When Alexander Hamilton took a bullet to the abdomen on the morning of the 11th July 1804, he joined...
President James A. Garfield: Sex Cults & Assassination
08 May 2024
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This may have been the second shortest Presidency in the history of the United States, but the term ...
The Real Hamilton: Lover, Adulterer, Family Man?
06 May 2024
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Founding Father, first Secretary of the Treasury and focus of one of the world's first political sex...
Teddy Roosevelt: The Making of the Rough Rider President
02 May 2024
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Theodore Roosevelt is arguably the most masculine president in American history. So how was he influ...
The Real Hamilton: Founding Father
28 Apr 2024
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Who really was Alexander Hamilton, and what do we actually know about his life?A Founding Father, he...
President Rutherford B. Hayes: The First Great Depression
25 Apr 2024
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Emerging victorious from an electoral quagmire in 1876, Rutherford B. Hayes became the 19th Presiden...
Founding Father: Who Was John Hancock?
22 Apr 2024
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An iconic signature on the Declaration of Independence - that is what John Hancock is best known for...
The 1921 Murder Farm Massacre: Slavery After the Civil War
18 Apr 2024
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During the spring of 1921, eleven bodies were found in in rural Georgia. These men were victims of h...
President Ulysses S. Grant: The Myth of the Butcher
15 Apr 2024
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How does a heroic general of the Civil War become one of the lowest rated Presidents (at least until...
Ulysses S. Grant & the Civil War
11 Apr 2024
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Strategic brilliance? Relentless determination? Unbeatable leadership and cooperation with Lincoln? ...
The Rise & Fall of Al Capone
08 Apr 2024
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Al Capone is one of the most notorious gangsters in US history. His story of rags to riches, set aga...
NATO: 75 Years Deterring Armageddon
04 Apr 2024
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It comprises more than half of the world's defence spending, but what is the North Atlantic Treaty O...
The Real Great Gatsby
01 Apr 2024
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A wealthy man in his early 30s. An army man. A German immigrant. A bootlegger. A lover. Who was Jay ...
President Andrew Johnson: Reconstruction & The First Impeachment
28 Mar 2024
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Three quarters of a million people dead in the Civil War. A country separated in to two. How do you ...
The Salem Witch Trials
24 Mar 2024
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More than 200 accused, 20 executed and a village plagued with hysteria. Were the Salem Witch Trials ...
Did the Cold War Ever End?
21 Mar 2024
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Would the Cold War have happened if the nuclear bomb was never created? How did Gorbachev, Reagan an...
Irish in America: Poverty to Power
18 Mar 2024
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At least 23 of the Presidents of the United States can have their ancestry traced back to Ireland.So...
Lincoln: Love, Loss & Legacy
14 Mar 2024
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President and Commander-in-Chief at a major turning point in American History? Victim of a violent a...
The Rise & Fall of the Ku Klux Klan
11 Mar 2024
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A far-right hate group known the world over, the Ku Klux Klan emerged in the aftermath of the Civil ...
Lincoln & the Civil War
07 Mar 2024
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Inaugurated into the thick of secession and assassinated just weeks after Confederate surrender, the...
The Last Ship of the Atlantic Slave Trade
03 Mar 2024
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In July 1860, half a century after the importation of captive slaves was banned under federal law, a...
Lincoln the President
29 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
When it comes to US Presidents, it’s not easy to agree on much these days. But one thing that has ...
American History Tellers
27 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Cold War, Prohibition, the Gold Rush, the Space Race. Every part of your life - the words you sp...
The Truth about the American Dream: The Baldwin-Buckley Debate
25 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
On February 18th, 1965, the University of Cambridge hosted one of the most legendary debates in hist...
D.B. Cooper & the 70s Hijacking Craze
22 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
On 23 June 1972, a man boarded American Airlines Flight 119 in St Louis. He sat most of the way to T...
Tulsa Massacre: Violence, Resilience & Rebirth
19 Feb 2024
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The city of Tulsa is perhaps best known in history books for the events of 1921. In 36 hours, hundre...
President James Buchanan: The Worst President Ever?
15 Feb 2024
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From 1857 to 1861, James Buchanan held the office of President of the United States. It was a pivota...
The Clinton Scandals
11 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
From financial to conspiratorial to sexual, the words 'Clinton' and 'scandal' are regularly found in...
Facebook at Twenty: From College Dorms to Court Cases
07 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Where did the idea for Facebook come from? How has the site evolved? And how has it changed the worl...
Origins of the Civil War
05 Feb 2024
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The war between the Union and the Confederacy is a major turning point in the history of the United ...
President Franklin Pierce: Tragedies & Trade-Offs
01 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We're creeping closer and closer to the Civil War in our chronology of presidents, and this episode'...
The Apache Wars
29 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What were the Apache Wars? How did they begin? And how did the end of the Mexican-American War impac...
Masters of the Air: WW2's Bloody 100th Bombers
25 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
How did the 100th bomber group get a reputation for being unlucky? Who were they? And what was their...
The Watergate Scandal
21 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Wiretapping, White House tapes and the possibility of impeachment. On June 17, 1972, a break-in at t...
President Millard Fillmore: The Most Handsome President?
18 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
How did a president lose his entire cabinet so soon after taking office? What was his role in the We...
The Making of Martin Luther King Jr.
15 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Who introduced Martin Luther King Jr. to activism? Why is the influence of mothers so often understa...
The Election That Changed Politics: 1968
11 Jan 2024
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Chaos, collusion and the Chennault Affair. What made the election of 1968 so unusual?Luke Nichter jo...
President Zachary Taylor
08 Jan 2024
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Once the most popular man in America, hero of the Mexican-American war Zachary Taylor is our twelfth...
The Tet Offensive: Turning Point of the Vietnam War?
04 Jan 2024
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January, 1968. Fighting in Vietnam has been ongoing since the 1950s. Ho Chi Minh and the leaders of ...
The Tudors & the American West Coast
01 Jan 2024
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In the summer of 1579, Francis Drake had to land in a ‘fair and good bay’ on the western coast o...
Prohibition
28 Dec 2023
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On 17 January 1920, the 18th Amendment came into effect in the United States. It made the manufactur...
The Kennedy Curse
25 Dec 2023
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What was it about the Kennedys that attracted so much tragedy, that many believed them to be cursed?...
President James K. Polk: Lies, Warmongering & the Myth of Success
20 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Is this the only president to have achieved all of their campaign promises? James K. Polk, the 11th ...