Elizabeth Magie – Woman Crush Wednesday!
The board game Monopoly seems too complicated to have had one single inventor, right? Well, no. Elizabeth Magie invented it in the first few years of the 20th century, and …
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U.S. Reconstruction
U.S. Reconstruction The Reconstruction period (1865-1877) after the Civil War was at least as complicated as the war itself. It’s also been fraught with different historian interpretations over the generations. …
Man Crush Monday – Tommy Flowers
June 5th, 1944. An undisclosed location in southern England. The planned Allied invasion of Normandy has been delayed by weather, and by concerns over German troop deployments on the northern …
Mother’s Day
Mother’s Day is nearly here. The holiday has a fascinating history of its own, but the ways people have thought about the origins and history of Mother’s Day provides …
Americans Bailing Out the French
Did the United States really “bail the French out in two world wars,” or is it a blustering, bigoted myth? Professor Phil Nash joins us to discuss what actually …
Edith Hamilton Woman Crush Wednesday!
Alice Hamilton was a pioneer in occupational medicine and industrial toxicology. And it’s not an exaggeration to say that she was the most important person in helping to make …
Robert Kennedy’s 1968 Speech about Martin Luther King
Historian Ray Boomhower joins us to analyze the famous speech given by RFK in Indianapolis, on hearing about the assassination of Martin Luther King in 1968. It’s one of …
Robert Kennedy’s 1968 Speech about Martin Luther King Listen Now
The Unknown Martin Luther King
Martin Luther King did so much more for American society, and wanted so much more from the US government and US elite, than most people realize. Popular history has …
MCM Robert Sherrod
Reporters and photographers rarely get discussed on this show. And that’s a pity because, in one way at least, reporters and photographers help provide a lot of the original …
Civil War Medicine
We usually hear that surgery and medical treatment during the Civil War was backward butchery. But was it? Historian Nic Hoffman from Kennesaw State University tells us how complicated it …