EP 170: Thy Will Be Done and George Washington's Legacy of Slavery (with Special Guest, John Garrison Marks)
This week on Hashtag History for our Season Seventeen Finale, we are joined author and historian John Garrison Marks as he tells us all about his latest book, Thy Will Be Done: George Washington's Leg...
30 Jun 59min
EP 169: The Attempted Assassination of Ronald Reagan
This week on Hashtag History, we will be discussing the attempted assassination of Ronald Reagan. On March 30, 1981, President of the United States Ronald Reagan was shot outside of the Washington Hil...
16 Jun 52min
EP 168: The Watergate Scandal (Part Two)
This week on Hashtag History, we will be discussing the second part of the Watergate Scandal. In last week's episode, we left off with the White House Plumbers that Nixon had recruited to serve as his...
2 Jun 50min
EP 167: The Watergate Scandal (Part One)
This week on Hashtag History, we will be discussing the Watergate Scandal. This was an absolutely explosive political scandal that – sadly, pales in comparison to modern-day political scandals – but w...
19 Mai 38min
EP 166: Shirley Chisholm
This week on Hashtag History, we will be discussing Shirley Chisholm. She was the first Black woman to be elected to the US Congress, she was the first Black candidate for a major-party when she ran f...
5 Mai 33min
EP 165: The Annexation of Hawaii
This week on Hashtag History, we will be discussing the annexation of Hawaii…otherwise known as the overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom. Because, when Hawaii was annexed to the United States, becoming t...
21 Apr 43min
EP 164: The Chinese Exclusion Act
This week on Hashtag History, we will be discussing the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882. The Chinese Exclusion Act was the very first major US law restricting immigration to the United States of a speci...
7 Apr 40min
EP 163: The Assassination of James Garfield
This week on Hashtag History, we will be discussing the assassination of 20th President of the United States James A. Garfield, an assassination that occurred in the summer of 1881. And the reason I g...
24 Mar 55min
