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John Paul Jones' Half-Baked Raid On British Soil (1778)
It's April 23rd. This day in 1778, John Paul Jones leads the only American raid on British soil in the Revolutionary War.
Jody, Niki and Kellie discus…
11 months ago
Betty Ford Enters Rehab (1978)
It's April 22nd. This Day in 1978, former First Lady Betty Ford is in the Long Beach Naval Hospital, being treated for addiction to pain killers and …
11 months, 1 week ago
Prisons, Photos, CECOT, Abu Ghraib, and What Shocks Us (Some Sunday Context)
The eyes of the world are on the images coming from a prison in El Salvador. The photos are being used as propoganda for U.S. deportation efforts; an…
11 months, 1 week ago
The Battles Of Lexington and Concord -- and Menotomy? (1775)
It's April 1775. This day in 1775, the Revolutionary War is sparked when British troops enter the towns of Lexington and Concord. But later that same…
11 months, 1 week ago
The Ludlow Massacre (1914)
It's April 17th. In 1914, at the mining town of Ludlow, Colorado tensions are ratcheting up to a moment when the national guard and private police wo…
11 months, 2 weeks ago
Government vs. Universities (Some Sunday Context)
The Trump administration is going after universities -- threatening to withhold funding in an attempt to bring them under ideological control. It's a…
11 months, 2 weeks ago
The Lynching Of A German Immigrant (1917)
It's April 9th. This day in 1917, a German man by the name of Robert Prager is attacked and lynched during a time of rising anti-immigrant sentiment …
11 months, 2 weeks ago
The First Girl Scouts Cookies (1917)
It's April 8th. And it's Girl Scouts Cookies season. This day in 1917, a troop in Muskogee, Oklahoma is baking cookies to raise funds in support of t…
11 months, 3 weeks ago
Booker, Thurmond, Super-Long Floor Speeches, And Energy (Some Sunday Context)
How will this week be remembered in the history books? Will it be the week that Trump's tarrifs changed everything, or the week in which Democrats fo…
11 months, 3 weeks ago
Starbucks #RaceTogether Campaign Backfires (2015)
It's April 3rd. In 2015, Starbucks announces that it is bringing its "Race Together" initiative to a close, after it was relentlessly mocked and crit…
11 months, 3 weeks ago