Podcast Episodes
Back to Search160: Al Capone & the End of Prohibition
“Only Capone kills like that.”
This is the story of the rise and fall of Al Capone, and the last gasps of Prohibition.
No other gangster compares to S…
1 year, 10 months ago
159: Scofflaws, Moonshiners, Bootleggers, and Crime Lords
“Don’t ask me nothin’! You hear me? Don’t ask! And don’t bring anybody in here for me to identify. I won’t identify them even if I know they did it!”…
1 year, 10 months ago
158: Prohibition - So You Wanna Be a Rum Runner?
“You’re Bill McCoy.” “Never heard of him.”
This is the story of a crazy decade-plus when America outlawed booze…but the liquor kept flowing.
The Prohi…
1 year, 11 months ago
157: Temperance, Prohibition, and the Path to the 18th Amendment
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“Farewell, you good-for-nothing, God-forsaken, iniquitous, bleary-eyed, bloated-faced old imp of perdition, farewell!”
This is the…
1 year, 11 months ago
156: The Presidency of “Silent” Cal Coolidge
“I believe I can swing it.”
This is the story of the Coolidge Administration.
Calvin Coolidge isn’t the most talkative guy–he’s painfully shy, to be fr…
2 years ago
155: The Life & Times of Warren G. Harding & The Teapot Dome Scandal
“If you knew of a great scandal in our administration, would you for the good of the country and the party expose it publicly or would you bury it?” …
2 years ago
154: 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…
2 years, 1 month 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, 1 month 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, 2 months 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, 2 months ago