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McCarthy & the Second Red Scare
Episode 208
Who was Joe McCarthy? How did this Republican Senator come to lead a nationwide campaign against communism? And how did he bring about his own downfa…
2 years, 1 month ago
Japanese in America: Railroads, Internment Camps & Little Tokyo
Episode 207
When the US turned to Japan looking for workers in the late 19th Century, they probably never foresaw that one day soon they would imprison those who…
2 years, 1 month ago
President Woodrow Wilson: Progressive? Warmonger? Overrated?
Episode 206
The 20th Century is up and running and the next President in our series, Woodrow Wilson, is in for a challenge. Reconstruction is over, Europe is on …
2 years, 1 month ago
British Brides for American Tobacco: A Tudor Trade
Episode 205
In 1621 the Virginia Company of London put out a call for young, handsome and honestly educated women to become wives for the planters in its new col…
2 years, 1 month ago
Who Was The Richest President?
Episode 204
Which President was best with their money? Which was worst? And are Presidents responsible for paying for their food, staff and parties during their …
2 years, 1 month ago
Eisenhower: D-Day and the Birth of the American Superpower
Episode 203
In June 1944, the joint forces of the Allies began the liberation of continental Europe on D-Day. But was there tension within the ranks?
Don speaks t…
2 years, 1 month ago
President William Howard Taft: The Reluctant Politician?
Episode 202
Sandwiched between Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson is our 26th President of the United States, William Howard Taft. Did he have the confidence,…
2 years, 1 month ago
Lafayette: The Marquis and the American Revolution
Episode 201
Why did an aristocratic French man fight for American freedom? How influential was Lafayette? And what did he do on his return visit to the United St…
2 years, 1 month ago
Kamala Harris: An Unprecedented Candidacy?
Episode 200
Cleopatra, Catherine the Great, Boudicca, Margaret Thatcher, Angela Merkel: what do these women have in common? They were all leaders of their nation…
2 years, 2 months ago
American History Hit: 200 Episodes On
Host Don Wildman has a message for listeners old and new, marking 200 episodes of American History Hit.
American History Hit first started publishing …
2 years, 2 months ago