The Great Depression - The Crash | 1
The Roaring Twenties came to a screeching halt on October 29, 1929, with the collapse of the U.S. stock market. A year earlier, president Herbert Hoover had coasted to victory by promising the America...
20 Feb 201937min
Does History Repeat Itself? | 4
"Those who do not remember history are condemned to repeat it." On today’s show, we’ll consider what lessons we can draw from history, and what lessons we can’t. David Greenberg, a professor of histor...
13 Feb 201938min
The 1968 Chicago Protests - I Regret Nothing | 3
A special series with Legal Wars. The whole world was watching, and that’s exactly what the defendants wanted. As the end of 1969 approached, the Chicago 8 had become the Chicago 7. Bobby Seale, a Bla...
6 Feb 201942min
The 1968 Chicago Protests - The Trial of the Chicago 8 | 2
A special series with Legal Wars. In 1969, the war in the streets became a war in the courtroom. The trial of the Chicago 8 pitted the federal government against eight prominent anti-war activists. Th...
30 Jan 201944min
The 1968 Chicago Protests - The Battle of Michigan Avenue | 1
A special series with our sibling show Legal Wars. The 1968 Democratic National Convention attracted demonstrators from all over the country. Thousands of students, Yippies, Peaceniks, and other prote...
23 Jan 20191h 1min
1865 versus 2018 and Why History Matters | 7
We live in historic times, but how do they compare to that other tumultuous era of American history — 1865 and the years following President Lincoln’s death and the end of The Civil War? Steven Walter...
2 Jan 201939min
Political Parties - The Reagan Revolution | 6
The year 1968 marked a watershed in American politics. Anti-war protests were roiling the country. Civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. was shot dead in Memphis. Democratic President Lyndon John...
26 Dec 201848min
Political Parties - The New Deal Coalition | 5
The 1929 stock market crash saw 14 billion dollars vanish in a matter of hours — and with it, the Republican party’s decades-long grip on American politics. As Americans lost their livelihoods, they t...
19 Dec 201844min
