Harvey Wiley's Poison Squad: Borax Dinners and the 1906 Pure Food Law
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In 1902 Dr. Harvey Washington Wiley, chief chemist of the USDA Bureau of Chemistry, began feedin...
1 Nov 23min
Battle of Fallen Timbers: Fasting Warriors and Fort Miami's Locked Gates
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In August 1794, near modern Toledo, Ohio, the Shawnee leader Blue Jacket set roughly 1,500 warri...
1 Nov 26min
Ethel Rosenberg and the Bridge Table Testimony That Sent Her to Sing Sing
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!On June 19, 1953, Sing Sing moved the execution of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg up to 8 p.m. so it...
1 Nov 21min
Executive Order 9066: Hawaii's Exemption, Horse Stalls and Coram Nobis
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 on February 19, 1942, and the episod...
1 Nov 21min
Bush v. Gore: Dimpled Chads, the Safe Harbor Deadline and the NORC Recount
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!On November 8, 2000, George W. Bush led Al Gore in Florida by 1,784 votes out of nearly 6 millio...
1 Nov 23min
Stono Rebellion 1739: Jemmy's Kongolese Veterans March for Spanish Florida
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The Stono Rebellion of September 1739 was the largest uprising of enslaved people in the souther...
1 Nov 23min
1906 San Francisco Fire: Insurance Arson, Dynamite and the Panic of 1907
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!At 5:12 a.m. on April 18, 1906, a rupture along about 296 miles of the San Andreas Fault shook S...
1 Nov 20min
Great White Fleet 1907: British Coal, a Cornered Congress and Flawed Armor
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In December 1907, 16 white-painted American battleships left Hampton Roads, Virginia, on a 14-mo...
1 Nov 27min
