Paxton Boys: The Conestoga Massacre, a March on Philadelphia and Wyoming
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!During Pontiac's War in 1763, Scots-Irish Presbyterian settlers northwest of Lancaster, many of ...
1 Nov 22min
Freedom Summer 1964: Freedom Schools, the MFDP and Neshoba County Murders
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In 1962 just 6.7 percent of eligible Black voters in Mississippi were registered, held back by p...
1 Nov 25min
Belleau Wood 1918: The Invented Devil Dogs and Dan Daly's Wheat Field
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The story that German soldiers called U.S. Marines Teufelhunden, or Devil Dogs, at Belleau Wood ...
1 Nov 19min
Chisholm Trail: $4 Longhorns, McCoy's Abilene and Margaret Borland's Drive
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In 1866 a Texas longhorn sold for about $4 at home and $40 in the North, but walking cattle ther...
1 Nov 20min
Northwest Ordinance of 1787: Manasseh Cutler's Deal and the Ohio River Line
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!After the 1783 Treaty of Paris handed the United States the land between Pennsylvania, the Missi...
1 Nov 20min
Sand Creek Massacre 1864: Black Kettle's Two Flags and Silas Soule's Stand
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The 1851 Treaty of Fort Laramie recognized a vast Cheyenne and Arapaho territory across parts of...
1 Nov 17min
1983 Beirut Barracks Bombing: No Round Chambered and an Intercept Too Late
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!A multinational force of American, French, Italian and British troops entered Lebanon in August ...
1 Nov 20min
HUAC's Strange Life: Dickstein's Soviet Pay, Euripides and a Santa Suit
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The House Un-American Activities Committee grew out of earlier inquiries that shifted targets wi...
1 Nov 22min
