Did Nixon Win the Popular Vote in 1960? And Other Stories
In this episode we look at an enduring mystery, one that didn't matter too much in the 1960 election but has since taken on significance. Could it be that Kennedy lost, and Nixon won, the popular vote...
7 Dec 20201h 16min
Notes of 1884: Thoughts on That Election, and the Current One
We discuss the tight election that elected the first Democratic President in 25 years and some comparisons and contrasts to the current election. A President's umbrella, salutes for his "big foot," ch...
9 Nov 202048min
The 1880 Election and The Morey Letter: a Tale of October Surprise, Immigration, Memes and Counter Memes and Nothing to Do with Today's Politics
The 1880 election was close, with Democrats and Republicans seeking an advantage in its waning days when a letter hits a major city newspaper purporting to be in the hand of a candidate. It is a lette...
17 Sep 20201h 2min
George Washington's English Ancestors, Coolidge's Electric Horse and Other Stories
A hodge-podcast of bits of things. A bit about the Washington family, and ancestors he didn't know that he had. And some follow ups from other casts. About that 'Electric Horse' that Coolidge used for...
15 Sep 202031min
King Corn, Story of Ethanol (from 2013)
A bit of an American political story about politics, corn, common sense. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
14 Juli 202022min
Operation Eagle Claw and the 1979 Iran Embassy Storming
Eagle Claw, popularly known as Desert One, was the unsuccessful attempt to rescue hostages in Iran in 1980, hostages that had been held since the storming of the embassy in 1979. Replaying two previou...
2 Juli 202049min
Partisanship, 1850's Style w/ Josh Mensch, co-author of The Lincoln Conspiracy
Baltimore in the 1850's was a fearsome place where politics and gangs were hard to separate. Yet it was the connecting stop for new Presidents and Union Soldiers getting to Washington D.C. We speak wi...
1 Juli 20201h 5min
A Powder Keg About to Explode: Newark, NJ 1967
Newark N.J. suffered a brutal and consuming riot, or rebellion, depending on how you see things, in the hot summer of 1967. Through the voices of history, we hear about those events, what caused it, a...
8 Juni 20201h 7min
