Banana Wars 1898 to 1934: Sam Zemurray's Honduran Coup and Smedley Butler
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The writer O. Henry coined the phrase banana republic in 1904 while hiding from embezzlement cha...
1 Nov 24min
Olustee 1864: Seymour's Rogue March and the 54th Massachusetts Train Haul
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The Union's second deadliest battle by proportion of men lost was fought in a Florida pine fores...
1 Nov 21min
Paoli 1777: No Flint Grey's Night Raid, Wayne's Campfires and Red Feathers
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!On the night of September 20, 1777, British troops marched on an American camp in Pennsylvania w...
1 Nov 23min
Treaty of Ghent: Wellington's Refusal and the Lost Indigenous Buffer State
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The War of 1812 saw Washington burned, yet the treaty that ended it moved no borders at all. The...
1 Nov 22min
Pequot War: John Stone's Killing, the Mystic Fire and the Hartford Treaty
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The 1638 Treaty of Hartford ended the Pequot War by forbidding survivors to return to their land...
1 Nov 14min
Watts 1965: Marquette Frye's Traffic Stop and the Ignored McCone Report
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!On Wednesday, August 11, 1965, California Highway Patrol officer Lee Minikus stopped 21-year-old...
1 Nov 20min
Joseph McCarthy's Wheeling List: Bogus Specificity and a CIA Break-In
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In February 1950, at a Republican women's club dinner in Wheeling, West Virginia, Senator Joseph...
1 Nov 22min
Bacon's Rebellion: Jamestown Burned, a Casket of Stones and Jimson Weed
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Nathaniel Bacon led the 1676 uprising in Virginia known as Bacon's Rebellion, and the episode we...
1 Nov 22min
