Operation Urgent Fury: Grenada's Tourist Maps and the Fort Bragg Payphone
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Grenada won independence from Britain in 1974 under Eric Gairy, whose Mongoose Gang militia sile...
1 Nov 23min
Huey P. Newton: Little Red Books for Shotguns and the Black Panthers' Fall
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In the mid-1960s two California students raised money for shotguns by reselling copies of Mao's ...
1 Nov 18min
Warren Commission: Senator Russell's Buried Dissent and a Benign Cover-Up
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!After President John F. Kennedy was killed on November 22, 1963, and Jack Ruby shot Lee Harvey O...
1 Nov 21min
WPA 1935 to 1943: Pack Horse Librarians, Slave Narratives and Manzanar
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!President Franklin D. Roosevelt created the Works Progress Administration in May 1935, with Harr...
1 Nov 22min
Tet Offensive 1968: A Capped Enemy Count, Weyand's Hunch and Battle of Hue
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In late 1967 the Johnson administration, facing rising casualties, draft calls and a war tax, ra...
1 Nov 21min
Suffolk Resolves: Joseph Warren's Draft, Revere's Ride and Shut Courts
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In August 1774, Massachusetts was living under the Coercive Acts, which colonists called the Int...
1 Nov 22min
Siege of Savannah 1779: A 24-Hour Truce, Spring Hill and Henri Christophe
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The British had captured Savannah the previous winter as part of a Southern strategy built on ex...
1 Nov 23min
Rough Riders 1898: Horseless at Las Guasimas, Then Kettle Hill and Gatlings
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!After the USS Maine sank in 1898 and William McKinley called for 125,000 volunteers, the 1st Uni...
1 Nov 12min
