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Back to SearchInterwar 12 America: The Scopes Monkey Trial, Sacco & Vanzetti framed
A showdown over evolution at the Scopes Monkey Trial. A frame-up of Sacco and Vanzetti. A pair of Interwar trials define America in this period.
5 months, 2 weeks ago
Interwar 11: The Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921
Back when we covered the US Civil War, we talked about how the US ultimately un-did the Reconstruction. But undoing the Reconstruction went on and on…
5 months, 2 weeks ago
Interwar 10 America pt2: American Racism – Reservations, Black Labor, the KKK
Continuing our series on Interwar America including Indian Reservations, Black Labor, the Garveyite Movement, and the KKK.
5 months, 3 weeks ago
Interwar 9 America pt1: Autos, Cinema, Airplanes, Finance, Prohibition, Gangsters
A little bit of everything as we take two hours to start to paint a picture of Interwar America.
6 months ago
Interwar 8: The rise of the first Reza Shah Pahlavi
After the Cossack Coup, a power struggle between rivals leads to Reza Khan rising to the top. He defangs an American financial mission, jails and exe…
6 months, 4 weeks ago
Interwar 7: Reza Khan and the Cossack Coup of 1921
The 1919 Anglo-Persian Agreement made every Persian government that followed unviable. Britain wanted Iran to be a colony, but couldn’t find a viable…
7 months, 2 weeks ago
Interwar 6: Iran the Semicolony and the Anglo-Persian Agreement of 1919
Iran’s Constitutional Revolution was in 1905, but the British are there and bent on colonizing it. The struggles of the last of the Qajjar Shahs, the…
8 months, 1 week ago
Interwar 5: Ireland from Easter Rising to Partition
In the aftermath of the Easter Rising of 1916, the Irish Revolutionaries regrouped. We trace their path through armed struggle against Britain, negot…
9 months, 2 weeks ago
AER 153: Venezuela War Begins with Maduro’s Kidnapping
In the early morning of January 3, 2026, the US bombed Venezuela and kidnapped its president and its first lady. As of Day 1 of the war, Venezuela’s …
9 months, 3 weeks ago
Interwar 4: The Anglo-Afghan War of 1919: Amanullah wins Independence
Our last episode of 2025. Did you know that Amanullah’s decision to wage war for Afghanistan’s independence from the British Empire had everything to…
10 months ago