Little Rock Nine: Faubus's Phantom Mob, the 101st Airborne, the Lost Year
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!After the Supreme Court's 1954 Brown v. Board of Education ruling declared segregated schools un...
1 Nov 23min
Detroit 1967: A 12th Street Blind Pig Raid, Algiers Motel and STRESS
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!At 3:45 a.m. on Sunday, July 23, 1967, Detroit police raided a blind pig, an unlicensed after-ho...
1 Nov 22min
Tea Act of 1773: Lord North's Cheap Tea Bailout and Hutchinson's Sons
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The Boston Tea Party was set off by a law that made tea cheaper. In 1773 the British East India ...
1 Nov 23min
Khe Sanh 1968: Igloo White Sensors, a Nuclear Option and Operation Charlie
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Khe Sanh, in Quang Tri province just seven miles from Laos on Route 9, began in 1962 as a small ...
1 Nov 23min
San Juan Hill 1898: Lt. Ord's Charge, Buffalo Soldiers and Parker's Guns
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The famous image of Theodore Roosevelt charging up San Juan Hill on horseback gets the battle al...
1 Nov 22min
Bonus Army 1932: MacArthur's Tanks, Adamsite Gas and Joe Angelo's Snub
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!World War I veterans came home with a $60 discharge payment. In 1924 Congress passed the World W...
1 Nov 19min
Alger Hiss: The Pumpkin Papers, Woodstock N230099 and Venona's Agent ALES
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Alger Hiss sat behind Franklin Roosevelt at Yalta and served as the first acting secretary gener...
1 Nov 23min
Whiskey Ring: Orville Babcock's Sylph Telegrams and a Snatched Pen
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!After the Civil War, a federal liquor tax of 70 cents a gallon wiped out many distillers' profit...
1 Nov 22min
