Billy the Kid | Born to Lose | 1
Henry McCarty was born in an Irish slum in New York City in 1859. By the time he died from a lawman’s bullet twenty-one years later in New Mexico, he was notorious throughout the world under a differe...
12 Jan 202236min
Philippine-American War | The Path to Independence | 5
The Philippine-American War marked the emergence of America as a global power. But what has been the legacy of the war in the country in which it was fought? How did the war set the stage for Philippi...
5 Jan 202250min
Philippine-American War | Acts of Sedition | 4
With the war officially over, William Howard Taft took over authority as the Governor of the Philippines. Taft was a deep believer in the U.S. policy of “benevolent assimilation” and turned to schooli...
29 Dec 202140min
Philippine-American War | A Howling Wilderness | 3
In March 1901, American forces launched a daring raid to capture the Filipino revolutionary leader Emilio Aguinaldo. Head of U.S. Philippine forces, General Arthur MacArthur, hoped that his surrender ...
22 Dec 202137min
Philippine-American War | Under the Free Flag | 2
In 1898, America’s victory over Spanish forces in the Philippines suddenly thrust the United States onto the global stage. It also drew the country into a more complicated conflict with the very peopl...
15 Dec 202141min
Philippine-American War | Into the Jaws of a Dragon | 1
On February 4th, 1899, war broke out between the United States and the Philippines. The two nations had begun as allies against Spain the previous year, during the Spanish-American War. The Spanish ha...
8 Dec 202140min
Traitors | Accomplice or Martyr | 5
Not every case of treason is open and shut. With some accused traitors, questions of their guilt or innocence can linger for generations. That’s certainly the case with Mary Surratt. Even before she w...
1 Dec 202145min
Traitors | Nightmover | 4
On June 13, 1985, Aldrich Ames packed up six pounds of top secret documents into a plastic bag and walked out the door of the CIA headquarters. He drove to lunch, where he gave the documents to a Sovi...
24 Nov 202137min
