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Silent Majority: Nixon and the Hardhat Riots (Part Two)
Our conversation about the "silent majority" continues with a look at the so-called Hard Hat Riots in New York City, and how the idea of a conservati…
10 hours ago
Silent Majority: The Kent State Massacre (Part One)
For the nineteenth installment of “50 Weeks That Shaped America” we talk about a fateful week in the spring of 1970, when the anti-Vietnam movement w…
2 days, 10 hours ago
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The School Strike That Started To Dismantle "Separate but Equal" [Some Sunday Context]
This past week we discussed the Plessy v Ferguson case, which helped open the door to the Jim Crow era in the American South. Today, a story from 195…
4 days, 10 hours ago
Separate But Equal: The Rise of Jim Crow (Part 2)
Our conversation about Plessy vs Ferguson continues with a look at the world that the ruling helped usher in: Jim Crow laws, poll taxes, grandfather …
1 week ago
Separate But Equal: The Plessy Case (Part 1)
For the eighteenth installment of “50 Weeks That Shaped America” we talk about a landmark Supreme Court case, Plessy v Ferguson, which in 1896 codifi…
1 week, 2 days ago
Golden Gate Bridge: We Can Do Big Things (Part 2)
Out conversation about the Golden Gate Bridge continues with the opening of the bridge, and a bunch of people who didn't get enough credit. Plus, wha…
2 weeks ago
Golden Gate Bridge: Depression, Construction, And The Rise of California (Part 1)
For the seventeeth installment of “50 Weeks That Shaped America” we travel to California in the 1930s, where San Francisco planners have a big idea —…
2 weeks, 2 days ago
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The Highs And Lows Of Latin American Diplomacy [Some Sunday Context]
This past week we discussed the Bay of Pigs fiasco in Cuba, 1961. Today, another episode about JFK' in the very same time period -- when he hosted a …
2 weeks, 4 days ago
Bay of Pigs: Lessons Not-Learned (Part Two)
We continue our conversation about the Bay of Pigs invasion with a look at how it all went wrong on the two days of combat in Cuba. Plus, the long-te…
3 weeks ago
Bay of Pigs: A Well-Planned Fiasco (Part One)
For the sixteenth installment of “50 Weeks That Shaped America” we go, for the first time to the Cold War. It’s April 1961, and the US is concerned a…
3 weeks, 2 days ago