Black Codes of 1865: Mississippi's January Deadline and the Pauper's Oath
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The Black Codes that Southern states passed in 1865, starting with Mississippi and South Carolin...
1 Nov 22min
Operation Vittles: Black Friday at Tempelhof and the 1949 Easter Parade
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!On June 24, 1948, the Soviet Union halted all trains, freight and highway traffic into West Berl...
1 Nov 27min
TARP Bank Bailout: Reverse Auctions, Equity Warrants and a $15.3B Surplus
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!When the U.S. government closed the books on the Wall Street bank bailouts in December 2014, the...
1 Nov 25min
19th Amendment in Tennessee: Harry Burn's Mother, Yellow Roses and a Train
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!By July 1920, 35 states had ratified the 19th Amendment and the fight came down to Tennessee, wh...
1 Nov 25min
Civil Rights Act of 1964: Clair Engle's Silent Vote and Smith's Poison Pill
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In June 1964, Senator Clair Engle of California, partially paralyzed and unable to speak because...
1 Nov 22min
March on Washington 1963: Operation Steep Hill and a Sabotaged Sound System
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!On the morning of August 28, 1963, Washington, D.C., prepared for the March on Washington for Jo...
1 Nov 22min
Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act: 1,028 Economists, Canada's Revenge and Section 338
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In the 1920s, tractors and trucks replaced horses and mules, freeing the one sixth to one quarte...
1 Nov 20min
14th Amendment: Wong Kim Ark, Slaughterhouse and the Insurrection Clause
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!After the 13th Amendment ended slavery, Southern states passed Black Codes to restrict freed peo...
1 Nov 23min
