Women's Suffrage: New Jersey's Lost 1776 Vote to the Night of Terror
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Under its 1776 laws, New Jersey let property owning women vote, and they did for more than 30 ye...
1 Nov 18min
Conway Cabal: A Drunken Tavern Leak, a Board of War and a Duel in the Mouth
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Thomas Conway, an Irish born officer educated in France and recruited by diplomat Silas Deane, a...
1 Nov 21min
Sedition Act of 1918: Burleson's Mail Ban, Debs and Holmes' Dissent
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In May 1918, during the First World War, Congress amended the Espionage Act of 1917 to make disl...
1 Nov 21min
Transcontinental Railroads: Panama's 48 Miles, Fashoda and the Gauge Muddle
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The first ocean to ocean railroad was not laid across the American plains but through the jungle...
1 Nov 20min
Greensboro Sit-Ins 1960: Toothpaste Receipts at the Woolworth Counter
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!On February 1, 1960, four freshmen from North Carolina A&T, Joseph McNeil, Franklin McCain, Ezel...
1 Nov 20min
Special Order 191: Three Cigars, McClellan's Delay and Antietam
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In September 1862 Robert E. Lee crossed into Maryland after the Seven Days and Second Bull Run, ...
1 Nov 25min
Nullification Crisis: Calhoun, Jackson's Hanging Threat and the Force Bill
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!After the Panic of 1819, South Carolina's planter economy slid amid soil exhaustion and Gulf Coa...
1 Nov 23min
Iran Hostage Crisis: Carpet Weavers, Shredded Cables and 444 Days
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!On November 4, 1979, students calling themselves the Muslim Student Followers of the Imam's Line...
1 Nov 24min
