238 Episodes

  1. 162: The Birth of the Movies: From Silent Cinema to the Rise of Hollywood & the First “Talkie”

    Published: 8/12/2024

  2. 161: An Epilogue Toast to Prohibition’s End with Author Daniel Okrent

    Published: 7/29/2024

  3. Introducing: American Criminal from Airship

    Published: 7/22/2024

  4. 160: Al Capone & the End of Prohibition

    Published: 7/15/2024

  5. 159: Scofflaws, Moonshiners, Bootleggers, and Crime Lords

    Published: 7/1/2024

  6. 158: Prohibition - So You Wanna Be a Rum Runner?

    Published: 6/17/2024

  7. 157: Temperance, Prohibition, and the Path to the 18th Amendment

    Published: 6/3/2024

  8. 156: The Presidency of “Silent” Cal Coolidge

    Published: 5/20/2024

  9. 155: The Life & Times of Warren G. Harding & The Teapot Dome Scandal

    Published: 5/6/2024

  10. 154: An Epilogue Discussion with Ben Sawyer

    Published: 4/22/2024

  11. 153: West Virginia’s Mine Wars: From Trouble in Matewan to the Battle of Blair Mountain

    Published: 4/8/2024

  12. 152: The Second Ku Klux Klan: Racism, Anti-Semitism, & Anti-Catholicism in the 1920s

    Published: 3/25/2024

  13. 151: The First Red Scare - Bombings, The Palmer Raids, Eugene Debs, and J. Edgar Hoover

    Published: 3/11/2024

  14. 150: The Great War’s Aftermath: Coming Home, The Spanish Flu, & The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier

    Published: 2/26/2024

  15. 11 (Second Edition): Southern (Dis)comfort & Global Conflict in 1779

    Published: 2/12/2024

  16. 10 (Second Edition): Duels, the Trials of Valley Forge, & the Battle of Monmouth

    Published: 1/29/2024

  17. 9 (Second Edition): 1777—The Battle of Princeton, the Saratoga Campaign, & the Battles of Brandywine & Germantown

    Published: 1/15/2024

  18. 149: WWI Epilogue

    Published: 1/1/2024

  19. First Christmas Special (Second Edition)! “George Wishes Some Hessians a Merry F’ing Christmas”

    Published: 12/18/2023

  20. 148: Tales of Christmas from World War I (A Truce, Plum Pudding, and Love)

    Published: 12/4/2023

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