
John C. Frémont: The Pathfinder's Court Martial, Gold Rush, and Ruin
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!John C. Frémont was born out of wedlock in Georgia in 1813 after his mother Anne left her older ...
29 Syys 19min

Paul Douglas: A Senator, a Reggae Drummer and a Footballer Sharing a Name
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!This episode reads the Wikipedia disambiguation page for Paul Douglas as a biography of a name, ...
29 Syys 19min

Salmon P. Chase: Greenbacks, the $1 Bill Portrait, and Texas v. White
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Salmon P. Chase was born in New Hampshire in 1808, lost his father at nine, and was sent to Ohio...
29 Syys 21min

John Tyler: The Tyler Precedent, His Accidency, and a Confederate Seat
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!John Tyler was born in 1790 on the 1,200 acre Greenway Plantation in Virginia, the son of a judg...
29 Syys 24min

Andrew Jackson: A Sword Scar, the Dickinson Duel, and the Bank War
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Andrew Jackson was born in 1767 in the Waxhaws on the border of North and South Carolina, weeks ...
29 Syys 22min

William R. King: The Vice President Sworn In on a Plantation in Cuba
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!William Rufus King was born in North Carolina in 1786, studied at the University of North Caroli...
29 Syys 18min

Ralph Flanders: The Vermont Machinist Who Moved to Censure Joe McCarthy
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Ralph Flanders was born in 1880 and grew up on subsistence farms in Vermont and Rhode Island. Wi...
29 Syys 19min

Paula Hawkins: The Florida Senator and the British Novelist Named Alike
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!This episode examines a Wikipedia disambiguation page for the name Paula Hawkins, a short routin...
29 Syys 13min



















