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Back to Search104: The Road to the Spanish-American War
“Remember the Maine, to hell with Spain!”
This is the story of the road to war for American Empire. Ruled by Spain, Cuba has nonetheless been at odds …
4 years, 2 months ago
103: A Gilded Age Christmas: Joseph Pulitzer’s Christmas Tree Fund
“Santa can’t fool [me], since the holes in [my] stockings are too big for anything to be put in.”
This is the story of Gilded Age giving. Of 30,000 de…
4 years, 3 months ago
102: Epilogue to the Gilded Age
Greg sits down with Zach and Kelsi for a chat. They make a rather … LIVE(ly) announcement … then proceed to talk about electricity, tycoons, and the …
4 years, 4 months ago
101: The New South, Jim Crow (Plessy v. Ferguson), & the Death of Frederick Douglass
“Know ye not that there is a prince and a great man fallen this day in Israel?”
This is the story of the Gilded Age below the Mason-Dixon Line.
In the…
4 years, 5 months ago
100: Halloween Special! Edgar Allan Poe: The Tell-tale Heart, The Cask of Amontillado, & The Raven
‘How, then, am I mad? Hearken! and observe how healthily—how calmly I can tell you the whole story.”
This is the story of a man driven to madness by a…
4 years, 5 months ago
99: The Gilded Age’s Singer Sewing Machines & Dangerous Bananas w/ Dr. Ben Sawyer of The Road To Now
Did Singer Sewing Machines take over the world? And are bananas as dangerous as they appear in cartoons? The answer to both of these questions are a …
4 years, 6 months ago
98: Silver & Gold: From Grover Cleveland to William Jennings Bryan & William McKinley
“You shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.”
This is the story of the Gilded Age’s later presidencies.
Grover “the Good” Cleveland is known as…
4 years, 6 months ago
97: The Gilded Age’s Robber Barons: John D. Rockefeller & Andrew Carnegie
“Someday, some-time, when I am a man, I want to be worth a hundred thousand dollars!”
This is the story of two of the United States’ most wealthy indu…
4 years, 7 months ago
96: The War of the Currents: (Thomas Alva Edison v. Nikola Tesla & George Westinghouse)
“Tesla, you don’t understand our American humor.”
This is the story of opinionated inventors with very different views on electric lighting; a story o…
4 years, 7 months ago
95: "Several Thousand Things that Won't Work:" Thomas Alva Edison and His Electric Light
“I have got so much to do and life is so short, I am going to hustle.”
This is the story of trial and error, of determination, and science merging wit…
4 years, 7 months ago