Brown v. Board of Education: Cold War Pressure and Earl Warren's 9-0
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Plessy v. Ferguson in 1896 let states separate the races so long as facilities were nominally eq...
1 Nov 25min
Chief Joseph's 1877 Nez Perce Flight: The Red Napoleon Myth Undone
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The 1855 Treaty of Walla Walla gave the Nez Perce 7.5 million acres across present-day Idaho, Or...
1 Nov 20min
Black Kettle and the Washita: Fort Cobb Refusal and Custer's Dawn Attack
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Under the Medicine Lodge Treaty, the Southern Cheyenne and Arapaho were to leave Kansas and Colo...
1 Nov 21min
Voting Rights Act of 1965: LBJ's Toughest Law, Preclearance and Callais
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!After his 1964 landslide, Lyndon B. Johnson told Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach to write t...
1 Nov 21min
American Expeditionary Forces: Pershing, Dawes's Supply Lines and the Flu
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!When the United States declared war on Germany in spring 1917, its army barely existed, and only...
1 Nov 19min
Dominion of New England: Sir Edmund Andros and the 1689 Boston Revolt
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!By the 1680s New England did not fit England's mercantilist plan. Rocky soil ruled out cash crop...
1 Nov 24min
Horseshoe Bend 1814: Red Stick Breastworks and Jackson's 23 Million Acres
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The Battle of Horseshoe Bend on March 27, 1814 was the climax of a civil war inside the Creek Na...
1 Nov 22min
Benjamin Franklin's Albany Plan: The 1754 Union That Might Have Averted War
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Benjamin Franklin, son of a Boston candle and soap maker, learned printing in his brother James'...
1 Nov 22min
