Battle Hymn of the Republic: From John Brown Jokes to Stadium Chants
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!This episode follows a single melody across more than two centuries. It began as a call and resp...
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Battle of Mobile Bay 1864: The Tecumseh, the Tennessee and Fort Morgan
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!By August 1864, Mobile, Alabama, was the last major Confederate port on the eastern Gulf. Its na...
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Wilmot Proviso: Eight Minutes, Two Clocks and the Road to Civil War
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In August 1846, during the Mexican-American War, President James K. Polk asked Congress for $2 m...
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Dorothea Dix: Jail Basements, a Presidential Veto and the Union Nurses
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Dorothea Dix was born in Maine in 1802 to an abusive, alcoholic preacher father and an ailing mo...
1 Okt 25min
David Farragut's Life at Sea: Prize Master at 11 to First U.S. Admiral
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!David Farragut was born James Glasgow Farragut in Tennessee in 1801, son of Jorge Farragut, a Me...
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David Dixon Porter: Teenage Prisoner, Camel Hauler and Vicksburg Admiral
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!David Dixon Porter, born in 1813 into a naval family, grew up alongside his adoptive brother Dav...
1 Okt 25min
Clement Vallandigham: Copperhead Exile and a Fatal Courtroom Demonstration
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Clement Vallandigham, born in 1820 in New Lisbon, Ohio, left Jefferson College without a degree ...
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Herman Haupt: The Union Railroad Chief Who Built a Beanpole Bridge
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Herman Haupt was born in Philadelphia in 1817, lost his father at 11, and won an appointment to ...
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