Encore: Supreme Court Landmarks | Loaded Weapon | 4
Through most of 1941, as fighting raged across Europe, the United States held back from entering the war. That all changed in December, when Japanese fighter planes bombed Pearl Harbor and the nation ...
9 Aug 202340min
Encore: Supreme Court Landmarks | Separate and Unequal | 3
After the Civil War, America began to rebuild a shattered nation. For the first time, the country could create a society without slavery, and a nation where Black people could forge their own path as ...
2 Aug 202335min
Encore: Supreme Court Landmarks | The Cherokee Cases | 2
In the early 1800s, the United States was growing rapidly, seeking land and resources for its expanding population. But the growth threatened Native American communities throughout the East. In the so...
26 Jul 202340min
Encore: Supreme Court Landmarks | The Predicament of John Marshall | 1
After the War of Independence, the new American government created the Supreme Court to be the final word on disputes that the states couldn’t settle. But at first, the Court was anything but Supreme....
19 Jul 202336min
Reconstruction Era | Counter Narratives | 7
After Federal troops withdrew from the South in 1877, Reconstruction officially came to an end, and the battle to control the narrative began. For the next century, white Southerners espoused the Lost...
12 Jul 202339min
Reconstruction Era | The Great Betrayal | 6
In 1876, Republican Rutherford B. Hayes and Democrat Samuel Tilden vied for the presidency. But when Election Day was over, no clear winner emerged. Amid reports of voter fraud, intimidation and viole...
5 Jul 202344min
Reconstruction Era | The Panic | 5
On Easter Sunday, 1873, an armed white mob battled a Black militia over control of a courthouse in a rural Louisiana parish. In the end, as many as 150 Black citizens were massacred. It was one the de...
28 Jun 202341min
Reconstruction Era | The Bloody Chasm | 4
In 1870, the ratification of the 15th Amendment enshrined Black men’s right to vote in the Constitution. Senator Hiram Revels became the first Black man to serve in Congress. Across the South, Black m...
21 Jun 202341min
