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The Real Great Gatsby
Episode 159
A wealthy man in his early 30s. An army man. A German immigrant. A bootlegger. A lover. Who was Jay Gatsby? And if he was based on a real person, wha…
2 years, 6 months ago
President Andrew Johnson: Reconstruction & The First Impeachment
Episode 158
Three quarters of a million people dead in the Civil War. A country separated in to two. How do you join it back together? Do you punish the secessio…
2 years, 6 months ago
The Salem Witch Trials
Episode 157
More than 200 accused, 20 executed and a village plagued with hysteria. Were the Salem Witch Trials of 1692 and 1693 the work of superstition, a powe…
2 years, 6 months ago
Did the Cold War Ever End?
Episode 156
Would the Cold War have happened if the nuclear bomb was never created? How did Gorbachev, Reagan and Thatcher reduce tensions between the East and W…
2 years, 6 months ago
Irish in America: Poverty to Power
Episode 155
At least 23 of the Presidents of the United States can have their ancestry traced back to Ireland.
So why did this diaspora come to America? What was …
2 years, 6 months ago
Lincoln: Love, Loss & Legacy
Episode 154
President and Commander-in-Chief at a major turning point in American History? Victim of a violent and public assassination? How do you remember Abra…
2 years, 7 months ago
The Rise & Fall of the Ku Klux Klan
Episode 153
A far-right hate group known the world over, the Ku Klux Klan emerged in the aftermath of the Civil War. So why did it emerge? Where did it get its n…
2 years, 7 months ago
Lincoln & the Civil War
Episode 152
Inaugurated into the thick of secession and assassinated just weeks after Confederate surrender, there is no separating the story of Abraham Lincoln …
2 years, 7 months ago
The Last Ship of the Atlantic Slave Trade
Episode 151
In July 1860, half a century after the importation of captive slaves was banned under federal law, a ship docked in Alabama carrying around 110 ensla…
2 years, 7 months ago
Lincoln the President
Episode 150
When it comes to US Presidents, it’s not easy to agree on much these days. But one thing that has remained consistent is the man widely considered to…
2 years, 7 months ago