Encore: The Space Race | Playing Catch Up | 2
Information sharing was normal in the global scientific community, but when it came to rockets, normal rules didn’t apply. If the details got passed along to civilian scientists, there was no telling ...
27 Maj 202037min
Encore: The Space Race | Starting Gun | 1
Remember Werner von Braun? We talked a little bit about him in our Cold War series. He was in charge of the German rocket program in World War II. First used to lob missiles and bombs all over Europe,...
20 Maj 202038min
The WWII Home Front | United We Win | 2
As the nation’s factories and shipyards ramped up production for the war, the demand for labor exploded. Millions of women and minorities entered the workforce for the first time, finding a path to pr...
13 Maj 202043min
The WWII Home Front - Arsenal of Democracy | 1
On December 7, 1941, hundreds of Japanese warplanes rained death and destruction down on the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor—shocking the nation and drawing it into World War II. The U.S. had been rav...
6 Maj 202041min
Rebellion in the Early Republic - How Early American Revolts Shaped Today’s Protests | 7
In 1799, the U.S. government imposed a new tax on houses, land, and slaves to fund an expanded military. A man named John Fries led Pennsylvania Dutch farmers in protest of the law. What became known ...
29 Apr 202041min
Rebellion in the Early Republic - Nat Turner’s Rebellion | 6
In February 1831, a solar eclipse caused the skies to darken over the isolated backwater of Southampton County, Virginia. An enslaved man and self-proclaimed prophet named Nat Turner saw it as a sign ...
22 Apr 202037min
Rebellion in the Early Republic - Gabriel’s Rebellion | 5
As a new century dawned on the United States, an enslaved blacksmith named Gabriel began planning a bold plot to overthrow slavery in Virginia’s capital. The uprising would change the future of slaver...
15 Apr 202040min
Rebellion in the Early Republic - Crisis in the West | 4
In 1794, anti-government protests grew into an all-out rebellion, and President Washington faced his first major test of federal authority. Some 7,000 armed Westerners marched on Pittsburgh and threat...
8 Apr 202037min
