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How Dangerous Was The Oregon Trail?
Episode 345
From the 1830s until the arrival of the transcontinental railroad, hundreds of thousands of people packed their possessions into wagons and headed we…
9 months ago
How Much Power Does the President Have?
Episode 344
Ever since independence, a question has hovered over the government of the United States. How much power should the President have? Not too much, les…
9 months, 1 week ago
How Did Fossils Change America?
Episode 343
When fossils were discovered in the US during the 19th Century, it altered American understandings of science, religion, race and more. So what was t…
9 months, 1 week ago
Lincoln: The First Presidential Assassination
Episode 342
Today we're delving into the archives and revisiting Don and Michael Kauffman's conversation on the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln...
On the evening…
9 months, 2 weeks ago
The Boston Tea Party
Episode 341
Today we're delving into our back catalogue and revisiting the topic of the Boston Tea Party...
On December 16th 1773, Bostonian colonists took a stan…
9 months, 2 weeks ago
Life on a Mississippi Steamboat
Episode 340
It's one of the most iconic symbols of early Americana; it conjures up images of bustling saloon bars and Mark Twain. But as glamorous as they may se…
9 months, 3 weeks ago
What Was The Ghost Dance?
Episode 339
Reunion with the dead. The return of lands, food supplies and buffalo. The disappearance of white settlers.
By the end of the 19th Century, the forced…
9 months, 3 weeks ago
The German Spies at Pearl Harbor
Episode 338
What would you do if you discovered that members of your family had spied for the Japanese at Pearl Harbor? When this happened to Christine Kuehn, sh…
9 months, 4 weeks ago
The Quakers' Rebellious Origins
Episode 337
How could walking naked through town be seen as religious? What about digging up a corpse? Or bursting into church services to cause mayhem?
In this e…
10 months ago
What Was the American Ice Age?
Episode 336
For thousands of years, North America was a frozen frontier buried beneath miles-deep ice... How did the first people reach the Americas live here? W…
10 months ago