The Whiskey Rebellion: Tax Protest & Armed Resistance
This episode was first released on November 14 2022.The Whiskey Tax, imposed in 1791, was the first federal tax on a domestic product by a United States government. It was introduced by Alexander Hami...
20 Kesä 202437min
Presidential Pardons: Mormons, Conscientious Objectors & January 6th
In the US Constitution, the President of the United States is granted the right to pardon those convicted of federal crimes.But how do they tend to use these pardons, and when have they been used in t...
17 Kesä 202440min
President Grover Cleveland: Honest to a Fault?
They say that honesty is the best policy, but was this the case for Grover Cleveland? He may be the only president to have served two non-consecutive terms (as of 13 June 2023), but Cleveland was deep...
13 Kesä 202435min
The War on Crime: The 1930s and the New Deal
How did the United States go from a country defined by its lawlessness in the 1920s and early 1930s, to one where many political standpoints rest on a War on Crime? What roles did FDR, J. Edgar Hoover...
9 Kesä 202436min
America at D-Day
On June 6, 1944, the Allied forces combined their land, air and sea forces into the largest amphibious invasion in history - D-Day.Under Supreme Commander General Dwight D Eisenhower, this attack turn...
6 Kesä 202454min
Communism in America
The history of the United States' relationship with communism is one littered with fear and persecution. So where did the American Communist Party come from? How powerful has it been in the last centu...
2 Kesä 202451min
The History of Baseball
Where did baseball come from? Why is every stadium unique? And how do you make it to the Hall of Fame? For half the year, baseball remains a national pastime in the USA. It is also a game of many myth...
29 Touko 202439min
The Battle of Okinawa
Please note, this episode contains discussion of suicide.On 1 April 1945, as the Second World War in Europe was reaching its end, one of the bloodiest battles in the whole conflict commenced on a smal...
27 Touko 202427min
