Podcast Episodes
Back to Search100: 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, 7 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, 7 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, 8 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, 8 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, 9 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, 9 months ago
94: 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, 9 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, 10 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, 11 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, 11 months ago