Episodios

  • Blake Gilpin on Reconstruction-Era Supreme Court Cases That Led to Jim Crow Segregation

    Blake Gilpin on Reconstruction-Era Supreme Court Cases That Led to Jim Crow Segregation
    Jan 11 2026
    Tulane professor Blake Gilpin discusses three Reconstruction-era Supreme Court cases and how they led to the establishment of Jim Crow segregation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 h y 4 m
  • Kentucky and Slavery: From Statehood to the Civil War

    Kentucky and Slavery: From Statehood to the Civil War
    Jan 5 2026
    When Kentucky in 1792 became a state, it had a choice; keep slavery or abolish it. University of Kentucky professor Melanie Goan teaches a class on the state's relationship with the institution of slavery until the 1863 Emancipation Proclamation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    55 m
  • FEED DROP: America 250 Battle of Bunker Hill Commemoration

    FEED DROP: America 250 Battle of Bunker Hill Commemoration
    Dec 28 2025
    The National Park Service and other groups held a ceremony in Boston marking the 250th anniversary of the Battle of Bunker Hill. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 h y 24 m
  • The Barbary Pirates and Early American Foreign Policy

    The Barbary Pirates and Early American Foreign Policy
    Dec 21 2025
    Carroll College professor Jeanette Fregulia chronicles the Barbary pirates' conflict with American ships during the 18th and 19th centuries. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 h y 9 m
  • Gunmaking & the Roots of Mass Production

    Gunmaking & the Roots of Mass Production
    Dec 14 2025
    Northwestern professor Ken Alder presented an image of an 1851 Colt Navy Revolver and asked why the gun was one of the first mass produced technologies in the United States. Professor Alder chronicled the origins of American mass production through gunmaking. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 h y 16 m
  • How FDR Built a 12-Million-Strong Military: Robert Brigham on America’s WWII Mobilization

    How FDR Built a 12-Million-Strong Military: Robert Brigham on America’s WWII Mobilization
    Dec 7 2025
    Vassar College professor Robert Brigham discussed his upcoming memoir about his search for his biological father, who served as a Marine in Vietnam. This event was part of the 2025 LCpl. Benjamin W. Schmidt Symposium on War, Conflict, and Society at Texas Christian University in Fort Worth Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    50 m
  • FEEDDROP: Chef José Andrés on Food, Humanity, and Global Relief Efforts

    FEEDDROP: Chef José Andrés on Food, Humanity, and Global Relief Efforts
    Nov 30 2025
    Chef, humanitarian, and author Jose Andres discussed his career, his global relief efforts with World Central Kitchen, his books, and his love of food with David M. Rubenstein. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 h y 4 m
  • Geri Spieler on Housewife Assassin: The True Story Behind a Suburban Double Life

    Geri Spieler on Housewife Assassin: The True Story Behind a Suburban Double Life
    Nov 23 2025
    In September 1975, 17 days apart, two women, one in Sacramento and the other in San Francisco, attempted to assassinate President Gerald Ford. The first attempt on September the 5th came from Annette Squeaky Fromm. The Charles Manson follower spent over 30 years in prison, is out on parole, and is 76 years old. The other attempt came on the non-entrance side of St. Francis Hotel in San Francisco on September the 24th, 1975. The shooter, Sara Jane Moore, served 32 years in prison and died almost 50 years to the day on September the 24th, 2025. Author Geri Spieler wrote the book "Housewife Assassin" in 2009. She talked to and exchanged letters with Sara Jane Moore on several occasions. Here's her up-to-date story about the woman who tried to kill President Ford Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 h y 8 m
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