Social Security Act of 1935: Townsend's $200 Plan and the FICA Bargain
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Before 1935, an American worker without savings faced old age with family charity or the poorhou...
1 Nov 22min
Battle of Seven Pines: An Acoustic Shadow, a Wrong Road and Lee's Rise
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In late May 1862 George B. McClellan's Army of the Potomac, about 105,000 strong, was close enou...
1 Nov 25min
Selma to Montgomery: Turnaround Tuesday and SNCC's White House Sit-Ins
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In 1965 Dallas County, Alabama had about 15,000 eligible Black voters and only 130 on the rolls....
1 Nov 26min
Sailor's Creek 1865: Missing Rations and the Day Lee's Army Dissolved
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!On the night of April 2 to 3, 1865, Robert E. Lee pulled the Army of Northern Virginia out of th...
1 Nov 21min
Red Cloud's War: The Fetterman Trap, Burned Forts and the 1868 Treaty
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!By the 1850s shrinking buffalo herds pushed the Lakota, with Northern Cheyenne and Arapaho allie...
1 Nov 18min
Northern Securities v. United States: Holmes' Dissent and a 1969 Merger
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In 1901 railroads were the infrastructure that every other business ran on. James J. Hill of the...
1 Nov 23min
Birmingham 1963: The Easter Boycott, Bull Connor and the Children's Crusade
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In 1963 Birmingham, Alabama barred Black residents from jobs as police officers, clerks or cashi...
1 Nov 20min
The 18th Amendment: Volstead Act Loopholes, Rum Row and Poisoned Alcohol
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The 18th Amendment banned the manufacture, sale and transportation of intoxicating liquors but n...
1 Nov 23min
