Pop Quiz | What the Founders Got Wrong
Let's step into a time machine and tell the American Founding Fathers what they should have done as they were writing the Constitution!Join us every Thursday for Pop Quizzes and Sketches in History, a...
9 Huhti 7min
The Men Who Owned the World | A Discussion on the Titans of Industry, Then and Now
Join us as we talk about the era of industrial titans. In this discussion, we trace the Gilded Age from Carnegie's steel mills and Rockefeller's stranglehold on oil to the garages and server farms of ...
6 Huhti 21min
Pop Quiz | The "War of the Worlds" Radio Drama
On Halloween night in 1938, a radio drama shocked the American people by describing a Martian invasion. This event demonstrated the power of the spoken word delivered electronically as much as FDR's "...
2 Huhti 4min
The Men Who Owned the World | Titans of Industry, Then and Now
Every era has its titans. Men who look at the rules of commerce, find the gaps, and build empires inside them, until society catches up and writes new rules to contain what they created.In this episod...
30 Maalis 18min
Sketches in History | This Sunday. Ten O'Clock. The President Speaks.
Welcome back to Sketches in History! This segment, just for kids, shows that history isn't just a story, it's an adventure. Join Lottie Archer as she dives into her extraordinary notebook, where sketc...
26 Maalis 15min
What the Medium Made | A Discussion on How New Technology Reshaped the American Presidency
Join Jon and Joe as they discuss how presidents have used, and sometimes botched, major communication mediums from radio to social media, and what it tells us about leadership in modern America.
23 Maalis 30min
Sketches in History | The Secret at Teapot Dome
Welcome back to Sketches in History! This segment, just for kids, shows that history isn't just a story, it's an adventure. Join Lottie Archer as she dives into her extraordinary notebook, where sketc...
19 Maalis 12min
What the Medium Made | How Every New Technology Reshaped the American Presidency
Every president wants to speak directly to the American people. This has looked different in every era, with the technology helping to shape the man, and most importantly, the perception of the man.In...
16 Maalis 19min
