Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Downton Abbey
29 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
It’s December 1912 and we’re joining in with the festivities at Highclere Castle, in London Engl...
The First Americans
22 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Modern humans thrived in the Americas for thousands of years before the first European colonists arr...
The French & Indian War with Dan Snow
19 Dec 2022
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As the British and French colonies in North America expanded in the middle of the 18th century, they...
The War of 1812
15 Dec 2022
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In the early 19th century, amidst the Napoleonic wars, the British began restricting the United Stat...
The Assassination of President McKinley
12 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
On 5th September, 1901, President William McKinley attended a public reception at the Pan American E...
Pearl Harbor
08 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
On the morning of 7th December 1941, hundreds of Japanese planes took off from aircraft carriers and...
Start of the Space Race
05 Dec 2022
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Space historian Jay Gallentine tells Don how World War 2 weapons paved the way for space rockets, ig...
Capturing Lincoln’s Assassin
01 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
On shooting President Abraham Lincoln, John Wilkes Booth fled Ford’s Theatre in Washington, DC on ...
The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
28 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
On the evening of 14th April, 1865, the Union was celebrating victory in the civil war, won 5 days e...
The First Thanksgiving
24 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In the fall of 1621, a year after the pilgrim ship the Mayflower landed on the coast of New England,...
Ronald Reagan: The Peacemaker
21 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
When Ronald Reagan became President in 1981, he was initially written off by many as a reckless B mo...
Who Really Invented the Light Bulb?
17 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
While Thomas Edison is widely credited as the inventor of the electric lightbulb in 1879, it had exi...
The Whiskey Rebellion
14 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The Whiskey Tax, imposed in 1791, was the first federal tax on a domestic product by a United States...
African Americans in WW2
10 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The experience of African Americans in World War 2 was, to say the least, a gross double standard. W...
The Race for the North Pole
07 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
On April 6th 1909, deep inside the Artic Circle after months on the ice, Robert Peary, Matthew Henso...
Becoming FDR
03 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In August 1921, when Franklin D. Roosevelt was 39 years old, he contracted Polio, paralysing him fro...
Sleepy Hollow & the Haunted Hudson
31 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
On Halloween, Elizabeth Bradley tells Don about Washington Irving's famous story, The Legend of Slee...
America's Psychedelic '60s: Timothy Leary and LSD
27 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In 1963, a Gilded Age estate in Millbrook, New York, became a venue for academic research into thera...
The Oregon Trail
24 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
From the 1830s until the arrival of the transcontinental railroad, hundreds of thousands of people p...
CIA: The History
20 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
When the Central Intelligence Agency was created by President Truman in 1947, it was the latest inca...
The US Marines' Pacific War
17 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
When US Marines landed on the island of Guadalcanal in the Pacific, in August 1942, they were taking...
Edward Rulloff: The Gilded Age Hannibal Lecter
13 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Edward Rulloff was described as “a monster imbued by the spirit of the devil”. In 1844, he murde...
Cuban Missile Crisis
10 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In October 1962, the United States confirmed that Soviet missiles were being deployed in Cuba. Presi...
Central Park: What Lies Beneath
06 Oct 2022
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Central Park is an oasis of nature in New York City, amidst the countless skyscrapers and gridded st...
Pontiac's Rebellion
03 Oct 2022
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In 1763, Native American tribes in the Great Lakes region began fighting British expansion and rule ...
Battle of Midway
29 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The Battle of Midway took place between the US and Japan in June 1942. The US victory, after 4 days ...
Hollywood Blacklist
26 Sep 2022
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After World War 2 ended, the Nazis defeated, America feared communist infiltration of its institutio...
Declaration of Independence
22 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
While the Revolutionary War was being fought in July 1776, the 13 British colonies in America came t...
The Atomic Bomb & the Secret City
22 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In 1939 Franklin D Roosevelt received a letter from Albert Einstein, warning him that the ...
The Queen & US Presidents
12 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We had plans today to release the first two episodes of American History Hit but due to the news of ...
Welcome to American History Hit
23 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Join Don Wildman twice a week for your hit of American history, as he explores the past to help us u...