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Reconstruction Era | The Panic
Season 58 Episode 5
On Easter Sunday, 1873, an armed white mob battled a Black militia over control of a courthouse in a rural Louisiana parish. In the end, as many as 1…
2 years, 10 months ago
Reconstruction Era | The Bloody Chasm
Season 58 Episode 4
In 1870, the ratification of the 15th Amendment enshrined Black men’s right to vote in the Constitution. Senator Hiram Revels became the first Black …
2 years, 11 months ago
Reconstruction Era | Impeachment
Season 58 Episode 3
In the spring of 1867, over President Andrew Johnson’s veto, the Republican-controlled Congress passed the Reconstruction Acts, putting the U.S. Army…
2 years, 11 months ago
Reconstruction Era | The Radical Revolution
Season 58 Episode 2
In December 1865, the first postwar Congress convened in Washington, D.C. With Black Southerners still facing rampant violence and discrimination, th…
2 years, 11 months ago
Reconstruction Era | From the Ashes of War
Season 58 Episode 1
In the spring of 1865, the United States celebrated the end of four years of Civil War. As American soldiers laid down their weapons, four million fo…
2 years, 11 months ago
United Farm Workers | The Fall
Season 57 Episode 3
By the early 1970s the United Farm Workers had won a series of successes in California and were attempting to extend their reach into other states. B…
2 years, 11 months ago
United Farm Workers | The Grape Strike
Season 57 Episode 2
In 1964, the United States finally ended the controversial Bracero Program, which had flooded American farms with millions of low-paid guest workers …
3 years ago
United Farm Workers | Birth of a Movement
Season 57 Episode 1
In the 1940s and ‘50s, farm laborers in California, many of them Mexican and Filipino, faced low wages and brutal working conditions. Their demands f…
3 years ago
Boston Molasses Disaster | The Legend and the Legacy
Season 56 Episode 2
The 1919 Molasses Flood was a terrifying and telling moment in the history of Boston’s North End. It was also a snapshot of a developing city in the …
3 years ago
Boston Molasses Disaster | A Deadly Deluge
Season 56 Episode 1
On January 15, 1919 a giant storage tank holding more than two million gallons of molasses collapsed, sending a deadly wave crashing into the streets…
3 years ago