Ball's Bluff 1861: Moonlit Trees, Three Skiffs and a Drowning Retreat
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In October 1861, three months after Bull Run, George B. McClellan ordered Brigadier General Char...
1 Nov 22min
Ernesto Miranda: The Man Behind the Warning Whose Killer Went Free
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!On March 13, 1963, Phoenix police officers Carroll Cooley and Wilfred Young arrested Ernesto Mir...
1 Nov 21min
King Philip's War: Metacom's Blood Moon Revolt and the Mohawk Ambush
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Metacom, called King Philip by the English, became Grand Sachem of the Wampanoag around 1662 aft...
1 Nov 21min
McCulloch v. Maryland: A $15,000 Bank Tax and the Power to Destroy
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The fight began with Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson in George Washington's cabinet. Ham...
1 Nov 21min
MLK's Letter From Birmingham Jail: Newspaper Margins and Project C
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In 1962, Miles College students in Birmingham, Alabama, staged an eight week boycott that cut do...
1 Nov 19min
Lend-Lease: Roosevelt's Garden Hose, the Tizard Box and Soviet Spam
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In the 1930s the Nye Committee's merchants of death hearings led to Neutrality Acts that made it...
1 Nov 23min
Morrill Land-Grant Acts: Cornell's Timber Scrip and the Engineering Boom
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In the 1850s, American colleges taught Latin and Greek to a wealthy few, and West Point was the ...
1 Nov 20min
Jim Crow's Legal Machinery: Grandfather Clauses to 10-2 Jury Verdicts
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Jim Crow began as a minstrel character in the 1828 song Jump, Jim Crow, performed by a white act...
1 Nov 23min
