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
Traitors | The Atomic Spies | 3
In September 1949, the world was shocked to learn that the Soviet Union had conducted its first nuclear weapons test, just four years after the United States dropped the first atomic bombs on Hiroshim...
17 Nov 202140min
Traitors | The Widow and the Assassin | 2
On the night of April 14, 1865, John Wilkes Booth stepped into the presidential box at Washington’s Ford’s Theatre, raised a pistol at President Abraham Lincoln, and squeezed the trigger. Lincoln woul...
10 Nov 202139min
