Altamont 1969: Hells Angels, a 39-Inch Stage and Meredith Hunter
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!On December 6, 1969, four months after Woodstock, the Rolling Stones closed their U.S. tour with...
1 Nov 20min
Homer Plessy's Staged Arrest: The Railroad Ally and Harlan's Lone Dissent
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In June 1892 Homer Plessy, a free-born New Orleans shoemaker classified as an octoroon, bought a...
1 Nov 22min
Second Bull Run: John Pope's Blind Spot and Longstreet's 25,000-Man Flank
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In August 1862 Union General John Pope, brought east by Abraham Lincoln to deliver an aggressive...
1 Nov 17min
Rural Electrification Administration: Lantern-Lit Farms to ReConnect
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In 1934 fewer than 11% of U.S. farms had electricity, while nearly 90% of farms in France and Ge...
1 Nov 11min
Appomattox Court House: One Village, a Final Battle and Two Courthouses
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Appomattox Court House sounds like a single building where the Civil War ended, but the name cov...
1 Nov 17min
Mormon Trail: Winter Quarters, Clayton's Roadometer and Handcart Disaster
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Between 1846 and 1869 about 14,000 Latter-day Saints traveled the Mormon Trail. After Missouri G...
1 Nov 23min
Fundamental Orders of Connecticut: Thomas Hooker's Kingless Constitution
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In 1634 Puritans frustrated by Massachusetts Bay, where only church members could vote and a sma...
1 Nov 26min
Reconstruction Acts of 1867: Military Districts, Black Codes and McCardle
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Abraham Lincoln's Ten Percent Plan let a Southern state form a government once 10 percent of its...
1 Nov 22min
