Pinckney's Treaty of 1795: The 31st Parallel and the Right of Deposit
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!After the French and Indian War, Britain organized East and West Florida, set West Florida's nor...
1 Nov 20min
A. Mitchell Palmer: Deportation Raids, Rule 22 and Louis Post's Veto
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In June 1919 a package bomb destroyed the front of Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer's house i...
1 Nov 19min
Battle of Cape Esperance: One Misread Roger and a Night of Chaos
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!By October 1942 the fight for Guadalcanal turned on Henderson Field. Planes of the Cactus Air Fo...
1 Nov 22min
Occupy Wall Street: Zuccotti Park, the People's Mic and the 99 Percent
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In the fall of 2011, thousands of protesters held a corner of lower Manhattan for 59 days with n...
1 Nov 21min
Affordable Care Act: The Heritage-Born Mandate That Fell to Zero Dollars
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In the 2008 primaries, Barack Obama argued against an individual mandate while Hillary Clinton a...
1 Nov 23min
New Netherland: The 60-Guilder Manhattan Deal and the Flushing Remonstrance
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The story of Peter Minuit buying Manhattan for $24 in 1626 comes from an 1840s historian who con...
1 Nov 24min
Navigation Acts: Dutch Fluyts, the Staple Act and the Burning of the Gaspee
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Under mercantilism, England saw global wealth as a fixed pie measured in gold and silver. After ...
1 Nov 24min
Alcatraz Occupation 1969: Indians of All Tribes and Radio Free Alcatraz
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!After Alcatraz penitentiary closed in 1963 and was declared surplus federal property in 1964, Re...
1 Nov 24min
