Podcast Episodes
Back to Search94: Epilogue to Gilded Age Part I (or Gilded Age interlude w/ Significant HTDS Updates)
An epilogue. Or interlude? Well, we aren’t done with the Gilded Age, but we have too much behind-the-scenes HTDS evolution to discuss! So here we are…
4 years, 8 months ago
93: La Liberté éclairant le monde: Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi’s Statue of Liberty
“Vive l’entente fraternelle des deux républiques !”
This is the story of the Statue of Liberty. In 1865, Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi (or “Auguste,” as …
4 years, 8 months ago
92: The Brooklyn Bridge, or the Story of the Roebling Family
“John Roebling has not the leisure to wait upon any man.”
This is the story of a bridge and a family.
John Roebling is weary of the oppressive, bureauc…
4 years, 9 months ago
91: The Gilded Age, Industrialization, and Assassination of President James Garfield
“What is the chief end of man? A: To get rich.”
This is the story of the Gilded Age and its first three presidents: Rutherford B. Hayes, James A. Garf…
4 years, 10 months ago
90: Epilogue to the Wild West
This is the end of the West! Meet two new researchers, Ryan Griffith and Zach Weaver, as they join Greg to discuss the latest inner workings of HTDS,…
4 years, 11 months ago
89: Closing the Wild West: (Wounded Knee, Buffalo Bill & the 1893 Colombian Expo)
“I wish to impress upon your minds that what you are about to witness is not a performance in the common sense of the term.”
This is the story of the …
4 years, 11 months ago
88: “The Last Frontier:” The Purchase of Alaska and the Klondike Gold Rush
“This is my last opportunity to make a big haul. Alaska is the last West.”
This is the story of the US purchase of Alaska and the famous Klondike Gold…
5 years ago
87: Gunslingers & Outlaws (pt 2): Pearl Hart, Tombstone, Jesse James, B. Cassidy & The Sundance Kid
“The fight’s commenced. Go to fighting or get away!”
This is the story of more gunslinging and heists.
Pearl Hart needs to see her mother; is a stageco…
5 years ago
86: Gunslingers & Outlaws (pt 1): The Second Industrial Revolution, Sam Bass & Billy the Kid
“I am going to hell anyhow.”
This is the story of the rise of Western outlaws and gunslingers.
From transportation of goods and people, to mining and e…
5 years ago
85: Transcontinental Railroad (pt 3): The Central Pacific, Chinese Workers, & The Golden Spike
“Did they not build the Chinese Wall, the biggest piece of masonry in the world?”
The Central Pacific Railroad is struggling to find long-term constru…
5 years, 1 month ago