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Episode 255: Right to Work
Episode 255
In 1946, organized labor in Arizona managed a critical victory against Phelps Dodge in Clifton-Morenci. Oddly enough, that same year, unions would be…
8 hours ago
Episode 254: The Card-Room Putsch
Episode 254
Starting in 1942, Phoenix’s leading businessmen and citizens decided that something had to be done about local government. Their efforts over the nex…
1 week ago
Episode 253: I Was a Radical
Episode 253
Following the end of the war, Black, Mexican and Amerindian veterans returned home to find that, despite being treated as fully American during their…
2 weeks ago
Episode 252: The Father of the GI Bill
Episode 252
Arizona celebrated V-E and V-J Day along with the rest of the country. But as the veterans started coming home, it was an Arizona senator who helped …
4 weeks ago
Episode 251: The Code Talkers, Part V: I Was a Radioman
Episode 251
Today the Navajo Code Talkers are one of the most famous stories to come out of the Pacific Theater of the Second World War. However, following the v…
1 month ago
Episode 250: The Code Talkers, Part IV: Navajo, Not Japanese
Episode 250
For the Marine Corps, the nightmare scenario was a Navajo code talker falling into the hands of the enemy. However, for the code talkers themselves, …
1 month, 1 week ago
Episode 249: The Code Talkers, Part III: Do You Have a Navajo
Episode 249
The Navajo code premiered at Guadalcanal in 1942, and soon proved its worth as it went from island to island, wherever there was combat. And with it …
1 month, 2 weeks ago
Episode 248: The Code Talkers, Part II: Crazy Navajo
Episode 248
Chester Nez In 1942, 29 men were locked in a room and told to come up with a code the enemy couldn’t break. The result would be an unbeatable encryp…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
Episode 247: The Code Talkers, Part I: 356,000 Ways to Say Go
Episode 247
It turns out that Navajo is an incredible rich and astoundingly complicated language, which made it perfect to become the secret weapon of the Allies…
2 months ago
Episode 246: The Widow's Mite
Episode 246
As fighting men from across America marched off to fight in World War II, they were either joined or supported by two groups who made lasting impacts…
2 months, 1 week ago