UKRAINE and History w/ Ben Sawyer of Middle Tennessee State and "The Road to Now Podcast"
Where and when did Ukraine begin? What role did the Rus, the Cossacks, the post Tsarists and the Soviets play? What is Putin’s motive and what his seriously questionable historical justification? Why ...
30 Maalis 20221h 7min
MILLIONS FALL: The Destruction of Trees During The Civil War / Taft and Television
An army moves on its stomach, the saying goes. But a 19th century army also moved on its wood. A look at the environmental impact of the Civil War, particularly on forests. Millions of trees were need...
27 Maalis 202240min
The War in the Former Yugoslavia (Bosnian War) and the Dayton Accords, w/ Alex Hastie of "Ohio v. The World" Podcast
In the early 1990's, few outside the Balkans could foresee the brewing conflict as parts of a former communist country sought independence. The result was destructive war with multiple actors, civili...
14 Maalis 20221h 9min
The Anguish of Calvin Coolidge ( w/ David Priess )
The President Calvin Coolidge most know in history is the man who put American's business squarely with business and said very little Less known is that Coolidge suffered a great tragedy while in the ...
7 Maalis 202257min
Abyssinia: The Italian-Ethiopian War and its Consequences
A bit about the brief Italian-Ethiopian War. The brief conflict between an aggressor and an outmatch defender presaged the Second World War. It also split the European countries, tested the boundaries...
1 Maalis 202251min
Congressional Stock Trading and The Pan-Electric Scandal
A scandal of the 1880's involving Congress, an Attorney General and telephone company stock was big enough to nearly derail an inventor's legacy, and brought unwanted attention to the House and the Cl...
21 Helmi 202244min
Judge Lincoln, Orval Faubus and Bill Clinton, Millard Fillmore
Four stories of politics and history, starting with, the relationship between Bill Clinton and Orval Faubus. Clinton would see the segregation proponent Faubus on the television as young man and swell...
30 Tammi 202259min
The History Behind a Holiday: Martin Luther King Day
This was a holiday that was not obtained without struggle including strikes, shaming and strange political bedfellows. In one of the first casts on MHCBUYP from 2007, We took a look at this history a...
17 Tammi 202212min
