Gibbons v. Ogden: A Spiteful Steamboat Feud and the Commerce Clause
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In 1798, New York gave Robert R. Livingston and Robert Fulton a 20 year exclusive monopoly on al...
1 Nov 24min
16th Amendment: Pollock's Tax Blockade and the Senate Bluff That Backfired
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!For most of the 19th century, the federal government ran on tariffs and excise taxes on goods li...
1 Nov 23min
Lindbergh Kidnapping: A Gold Certificate, Rail 16 and Hauptmann's Silence
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!On the rainy night of March 1, 1932, nurse Betty Gow found the crib of 20 month old Charles Lind...
1 Nov 24min
Mason-Dixon Line: A Map Error, 500-Pound Stones and Weighing the Earth
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The Mason-Dixon line began with a royal mapping blunder. Maryland's 1632 charter to the Calvert ...
1 Nov 22min
Stonewall Inn 1969: Mafia Gayola, a Parking Meter Ram and the First Pride
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Before Stonewall, gay Americans faced the Lavender Scare, in which the State Department labeled ...
1 Nov 23min
Carolina's Lords Proprietors: Locke's Grand Model and Granville's Holdout
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Carolina began as a royal payout. After Charles I's 1629 patent to Sir Robert Heath collapsed, p...
1 Nov 21min
Powder Alarm of 1774: Gage's Dropped Letter and a March on Phantom Boston
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In the summer of 1774, with the Intolerable Acts in force, General Thomas Gage was trying to qui...
1 Nov 19min
Petticoat Affair: Peggy Eaton, a Cabinet Purge and Van Buren's Rise
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Margaret O'Neale, known as Peggy, grew up in her father's Franklin House in Washington, D.C., a ...
1 Nov 22min
