Siege of Port Hudson 1863: The Native Guards' Charge and the Demoralizer
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Port Hudson, Louisiana, was a town of about 200 people on an 80 foot bluff at a hairpin bend of ...
1 Nov 20min
1993 World Trade Center Bombing: A Ryder Van's VIN and a $400 Refund
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!On September 1, 1992, Ramzi Yousef flew into JFK from Pakistan beside Ahmad Ajaj, pretending not...
1 Nov 25min
Red Summer of 1919: Elaine Massacre, a Chicago Raft and Moore v. Dempsey
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!James Weldon Johnson of the NAACP coined the term Red Summer for the wave of white supremacist v...
1 Nov 21min
Galveston Hurricane of 1900: Isaac Cline's Impossible Storm and a Seawall
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In 1900 Galveston was the fourth largest municipality in Texas, a cotton port called the Wall St...
1 Nov 21min
New York Conspiracy of 1741: Hughson's Tavern and Mary Burton's Accusers
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In 1741 New York City had about 10,000 people, one in five enslaved, the second largest enslaved...
1 Nov 23min
Montgomery Bus Boycott: Mimeographs, Carpools and Lloyd's of London
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In mid-1950s Montgomery, Black riders made up about 75 percent of bus passengers yet had to pay ...
1 Nov 20min
Fetterman Fight 1866: A Winkte's Prophecy and Metzger's Battered Bugle
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Fort Phil Kearny stood on the Bozeman Trail on land the 1851 treaty had guaranteed to the Crow, ...
1 Nov 21min
Regulator Rebellion: Herman Husband, Harmon Cox and the Battle of Alamance
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In 1760s western North Carolina, droughts wiped out the barter economy and settlers fell into de...
1 Nov 15min
