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Prohibition - We Want Beer
Season 2 Episode 6
The people had spoken: They wanted beer, and they wanted it now, but not just for drinking. Protestors wanted the jobs that came with breweries, and …
8 years, 2 months ago
Prohibition - Down and Out
Season 2 Episode 5
Closing Time by Daniel Francis provides a good account of the border wars and smuggling across the northern border. Robert Rockaway’s article “The No…
8 years, 2 months ago
Prohibition - Poisoning the Well
Season 2 Episode 4
The rise of the speakeasy was one of many unintended consequences of Prohibition - and others were much deadlier.
Not coincidentally, at the same time…
8 years, 2 months ago
Prohibition - Speakeasy
Season 2 Episode 3
While Prohibition was successful in closing the saloon, it didn’t quench America’s thirst. Enterprising bootleggers found more ways to provide more a…
8 years, 3 months ago
Prohibition - Drying Out
Season 2 Episode 2
When a German U-boat torpedoed the RMS Lusitania on Friday, May 7th, 1915, Americans found two new enemies: Germany and the beer it was so associated…
8 years, 3 months ago
Prohibition - Closing Time
Season 2 Episode 1
On January 17, 1920, the United States passed the 18th Amendment to the US Constitution, ushering in a 13-year dry spell known as Prohibition. But ho…
8 years, 3 months ago
The Cold War - Interview with Audra Wolfe and Patrick Wyman
Season 1 Episode 7
We’re closing out our series on the Cold War with two interviews with fascinating historians. First, we’re talking with Audra Wolfe, the author of Co…
8 years, 3 months ago
The Cold War - Last Man Standing
Season 1 Episode 6
In the early 1970s, while trying to wind down the war in Vietnam, President Richard Nixon made overtures to Moscow and Beijing that would usher in a …
8 years, 3 months ago
The Cold War - The Long 1960s
Season 1 Episode 5
America sent a man to the moon in 1969, and with Neil Armstrong’s first steps, the United States projected to the world an image of American power, w…
8 years, 4 months ago
The Cold War - The Nature of Risk
Season 1 Episode 4
Americans were desperate to find hope in the shadow of the bomb.
Miracle cures, cheap energy, and even brand new atomic gardens: the wonders of the at…
8 years, 4 months ago