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Birth of the US Government: The Constitutional Convention
Episode 88
Beginning with the enduring words, 'We the People of the United States', the US Constitution is the basis of the government and its three distinct br…
2 years, 11 months ago
Barbie: German Sex Doll to American Icon
Episode 87
She's an icon, a polymath, a fashionista, and she's absolutely everywhere right now.
Where did Barbie come from? What has she represented to the many …
2 years, 11 months ago
Mormons & The Founding of Salt Lake City
Episode 86
The Church of the Latter Day Saints is one shrouded in mystery, whispers of polygamy and is often synonymous with Salt Lake City. But where did this …
2 years, 11 months ago
A History of American Childhood
Episode 85
School, play and much less work: the idealised childhood is a very separate part of life. But how did it come to be so? And why is this perhaps more …
2 years, 11 months ago
Nixon in Moscow: The Kitchen Debate
Episode 84
Richard Nixon and Nikita Khrushchev. Leading figures of the United States and the Soviet Union respectively, in a verbal debate about capitalism and …
2 years, 11 months ago
LSD in New York: Research, Recreation and Radicalism
Episode 83
Why should we associate LSD and its psychedelic effects with New York as much as we associate it with San Francisco? What use did the CIA think that …
2 years, 11 months ago
The Crossfire of Gettysburg
Episode 82
Gettysburg is synonymous with the bloodiest battle in the history of the United States. But before it was the location of a battle and Lincoln's argu…
2 years, 11 months ago
The Battle of Gettysburg
Episode 81
The first three days of July 1863 saw the bloodiest single battle of the American Civil War. This clash between the Unionist and Confederate armies q…
2 years, 11 months ago
Stonewall
Episode 80
What made June 28 1969 a landmark occasion for LGBTQ+ rights?How was Stonewall different from the uprisings that had come before it? And why were the…
2 years, 11 months ago
Amelia Earhart
Episode 79
On July 2 1937, Amelia Earhart and her navigator, Fred Noonan, took off on what was supposed to be the final leg of their circumnavigation of the glo…
3 years ago