Crédit Mobilier Scandal: Oakes Ames's Par-Value Bribes and a $44M Gap
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The first transcontinental railroad cost about $50 million to build, but the U.S. government was...
1 Nov 22min
Continental Congress on the Run: Fite's Tavern and Maryland's Holdout
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The Second Continental Congress opened at the Pennsylvania State House in Philadelphia on May 10...
1 Nov 21min
St. Albans Raid 1864: Bennett Young's Fake Fishing Club Robs Three Banks
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!On October 19, 1864, 22 Confederate soldiers robbed three banks in St. Albans, Vermont, about 15...
1 Nov 20min
Battle of Fort Henry 1862: Lloyd Tilghman's Flooded Fort and the USS Essex
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In February 1862 the Confederate Fort Henry on the Tennessee River became the site of the Union'...
1 Nov 19min
Worcester v. Georgia: The Cherokee Win Jackson Ignored and Berry's Ferry
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The cotton gin and the 1828 Georgia gold rush made roughly 25 million acres held by the Cherokee...
1 Nov 18min
Promontory Summit 1869: Durant's Kidnapping, Missed Swings and Lucin Cutoff
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Promontory Summit, at about 4,902 feet in Box Elder County, Utah, is where the Central Pacific b...
1 Nov 23min
Reagan Shot 1981: Six Rounds, Dud Devastator Bullets and Haig in Control
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Nine days before he was shot, Ronald Reagan sat at Ford's Theatre looking at Lincoln's box and r...
1 Nov 21min
Selma 1965: Wilson Baker vs. Sheriff Clark and Jimmie Lee Jackson's Death
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In 1961 Dallas County, Alabama, was 57 percent Black, yet only 130 of its 15,000 eligible Black ...
1 Nov 20min
