Podcast Episodes
Back to Search154: An Epilogue Discussion with Ben Sawyer
The Prof. sits down with fellow Prof. Ben Sawyer of the Road to Now Podcast and Middle Tennessee State University to chat through the last volume epi…
1 year, 11 months ago
153: West Virginia’s Mine Wars: From Trouble in Matewan to the Battle of Blair Mountain
“I want to say make no settlement until they sign up that every bloody murderer of a guard has got to go.”
This is the story of the largest uprising i…
2 years ago
152: The Second Ku Klux Klan: Racism, Anti-Semitism, & Anti-Catholicism in the 1920s
“Every official except one elected yesterday at the first municipal election of this borough had been endorsed by the Ku Klux Klan.”
This is the story…
2 years ago
151: The First Red Scare - Bombings, The Palmer Raids, Eugene Debs, and J. Edgar Hoover
“Palmer, do not let this country see red.”
This is the story of America’s First Red Scare. On June 2, 1919, Attorney General Mitchell Palmer is just g…
2 years, 1 month ago
150: The Great War’s Aftermath: Coming Home, The Spanish Flu, & The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier
“I keep wondering if the Unknown Soldier is one of my men.”
This is the story of the United States coping with and facing the aftermath of World War I…
2 years, 1 month ago
149: WWI Epilogue
The Episode to end all … World War I episodes. Professor Jackson sits down with Kelsi Dynes to talk through all the things that didn’t make it into t…
2 years, 3 months ago
148: Tales of Christmas from World War I (A Truce, Plum Pudding, and Love)
“The circumstances under which we are spending this particular Christmas are unusual.”
This is the story of the Christmases of World War I.
Germans and…
2 years, 4 months ago
147: Peacemaking in Paris: The Treaty of Versailles
“A Peace which cannot be defended in the name of justice before the whole world would continually call forth fresh resistance”
This is the story of pe…
2 years, 4 months ago
146: The Armistice of November 11, 1918
“The German delegation has come to receive the proposals of the Allied Powers looking to an armistice.”
This is the story of guns falling silent acro…
2 years, 5 months ago
145: Halloween Special III: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
“If I can but reach that bridge,” thought Ichabod, “I am safe.”
This is the story of schoolmaster Ichabod Crane and his ride home after an evening spe…
2 years, 5 months ago