History That Doesn't Suck
Prof. Greg Jackson - historythatdoesntsuck.com
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Oct28Introducing: The Real History of Dracula from Airship and Wondery10mins- Oct21168: Halloween Special IV: Nosferatu and Silent Horror40mins
- Oct7167: The Golden Age of Sports: Horse Racing, Boxing, Basketball, Football, & Jim Thorpe59mins
- Sep30166: A Conversation on Negro Leagues Baseball History with Bob Kendrick52mins
- Sep23165: America’s Favorite Pastime: Baseball, the Negro Leagues, and the Great Bambino62mins
- Sep9164: Harlem Renaissance: The Great Migration, Jazz, and the Flowering of Black Culture64mins
- Aug26163: The Show (Boat) Must Go On: Broadway and the American Musical61mins
- Aug12162: The Birth of the Movies: From Silent Cinema to the Rise of Hollywood & the First “Talkie”64mins
- Jul29161: An Epilogue Toast to Prohibition’s End with Author Daniel Okrent39mins
- Jul15160: Al Capone & the End of Prohibition65mins
- Jul1159: Scofflaws, Moonshiners, Bootleggers, and Crime Lords61mins
- Jun17158: Prohibition - So You Wanna Be a Rum Runner?58mins
- Jun3157: Temperance, Prohibition, and the Path to the 18th Amendment62mins
- May20156: The Presidency of “Silent” Cal Coolidge63mins
- May6155: The Life & Times of Warren G. Harding & The Teapot Dome Scandal69mins
- Apr22154: An Epilogue Discussion with Ben Sawyer63mins
- Apr8153: West Virginia’s Mine Wars: From Trouble in Matewan to the Battle of Blair Mountain64mins
- Mar25152: The Second Ku Klux Klan: Racism, Anti-Semitism, & Anti-Catholicism in the 1920s64mins
- Mar11151: The First Red Scare - Bombings, The Palmer Raids, Eugene Debs, and J. Edgar Hoover64mins
- Feb26150: The Great War’s Aftermath: Coming Home, The Spanish Flu, & The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier66mins
- Jan1149: WWI Epilogue52mins
- Dec4148: Tales of Christmas from World War I (A Truce, Plum Pudding, and Love)38mins
- Nov20147: Peacemaking in Paris: The Treaty of Versailles69mins
- Nov6146: The Armistice of November 11, 191867mins
- Oct23145: Halloween Special III: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow51mins
- Oct9144: A Conversation with Ken Burns - Storytelling and the American Buffalo35mins
- Sep25143: The Meuse-Argonne Offensive (pt.2) – Breaking the Kriemhilde Line61mins
- Sep11142: The Meuse-Argonne Offensive (pt.1) – “The Lost Battalion”58mins
- Aug28141: Wartime Interlude71mins
- Aug14140: WWI Aviators: From the Lafayette Escadrille to the Red Baron and More58mins
- Jul31139: From Yeomen (F) to “Hello Girls:” American Women in World War I61mins
- Jul17138: The 15th New York/369th or The Harlem Hellfighters64mins
- Jul3137: The First Battle of the First American Army: St. Mihiel62mins
- Jun19136: The German Spring Offensive’s End, or The Second Battle of the Marne58mins
- Jun5135: Belleau Wood – A Cut Deeper with Captain Mac Caldwell69mins
- May22134: (Most of) The German Spring Offensive of 1918 & The Fight for Belleau Wood60mins
- May8133: Heading “Over There:” “Black Jack” Pershing & Creating WWI’s American Expeditionary Force62mins
- Apr24132: The US Enters WWI (RMS Lusitania, Black Tom Island, & The Zimmermann Telegram)60mins
- Apr10131: Epilogue on World War 1 before the US70mins
- Mar27130: Russia: From the Great War to Revolution with Deputy Provost Kat Brown79mins
- Mar13129: World War I Before the US (Military Tech, Trenches, Global Armies, Ypres, Verdun & the Somme)63mins
- Feb27128: The Causes of World War I (From the Congress of Vienna to Franz Ferdinand & the Marne)70mins
- Feb13127: Mr. Wilson Goes to Washington (Progressive Policies & Foreign Affairs in South America)62mins
- Dec19126: Christmas Special 6: Jacob Riis’ “Is There a Santa Claus?”29mins
- Dec5125: Epilogue: The Progressive Era74mins
- Nov21124: The “Bull Moose” Election of 191264mins
- Nov7123: The Wright Brothers Fly at Kitty Hawk61mins
- Oct24122: Halloween Special II: H.P. Lovecraft – “The Outsider” & “Dagon”51mins
- Oct10121: Henry Ford: The Model T & Mass Production63mins
- Sep26120: From Atlanta to the NAACP, or Booker T. Washington v. W.E.B. Du Bois64mins
- Sep12119: Women’s Suffrage & the Passage of the 19th Amendment65mins
- Aug29118: “The Island of Hope and Tears:” Ellis Island67mins
- Aug15117: Epilogue on Progressive Era Part I (Teddy Roosevelt)48mins
- Aug1116: Teddy Roosevelt’s Foreign Policy: From Big Stick Diplomacy to the Panama Canal65mins
- Jul18115: History–Doomed to Repeat It? A Conversation with Lindsay Graham54mins
- Jun20114: A Square Deal (pt. 3): “Leave it as it is” (Teddy Roosevelt & Conservationism)56mins
- Jun6113: A Square Deal (pt. 2): Consumer Protection–The FDA, & Ida Tarbell muckrakes Standard Oil65mins
- May23112: A Square Deal (pt. 1): Corp. Regulation—a coal strike, a trust, & Teddy’s Frenemy J.P. Morgan64mins
- May9111: The Assassination of Will McKinley & The Strenuous Life of Theodore Roosevelt58mins
- Apr25110: Epilogue to the Age of Imperialism49mins
- Apr11109: The Election of 1900 & the Rise of Anti-Imperialism67mins
- Mar28108: G.O. 100, “The Water Cure,” & The Law of War in the Early-20th Century with Professor Ryan Vogel61mins
- Mar14107: The Philippine-American War60mins
- Feb28106: The US Annexation of the Hawaiian Kingdom53mins
- Feb14105: “A Splendid Little War:” The Spanish-American War and Theodore Roosevelt’s Rough Riders52mins
- Jan31104: The Road to the Spanish-American War52mins
- Dec20103: A Gilded Age Christmas: Joseph Pulitzer’s Christmas Tree Fund23mins
- Nov22102: Epilogue to the Gilded Age63mins
- Nov8101: The New South, Jim Crow (Plessy v. Ferguson), & the Death of Frederick Douglass68mins
- Oct25100: Halloween Special! Edgar Allan Poe: The Tell-tale Heart, The Cask of Amontillado, & The Raven56mins
- Oct1199: The Gilded Age’s Singer Sewing Machines & Dangerous Bananas w/ Dr. Ben Sawyer of The Road To Now59mins
- Sep2798: Silver & Gold: From Grover Cleveland to William Jennings Bryan & William McKinley62mins
- Sep1397: The Gilded Age’s Robber Barons: John D. Rockefeller & Andrew Carnegie70mins
- Aug3096: The War of the Currents: (Thomas Alva Edison v. Nikola Tesla & George Westinghouse)64mins
- Aug1695: "Several Thousand Things that Won't Work:" Thomas Alva Edison and His Electric Light63mins
- Aug294: Epilogue to Gilded Age Part I (or Gilded Age interlude w/ Significant HTDS Updates)66mins
- Jul1993: La Liberté éclairant le monde: Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi’s Statue of Liberty74mins
- Jun2192: The Brooklyn Bridge, or the Story of the Roebling Family70mins
- Jun791: The Gilded Age, Industrialization, and Assassination of President James Garfield60mins
- May1090: Epilogue to the Wild West81mins
- Apr2689: Closing the Wild West: (Wounded Knee, Buffalo Bill & the 1893 Colombian Expo)66mins
- Apr1288: “The Last Frontier:” The Purchase of Alaska and the Klondike Gold Rush59mins
- Mar2987:Gunslingers & Outlaws (pt 2): Pearl Hart, Tombstone, Jesse James, B. Cassidy & The Sundance Kid67mins
- Mar1586: Gunslingers & Outlaws (pt 1): The Second Industrial Revolution, Sam Bass & Billy the Kid61mins
- Mar185: Transcontinental Railroad (pt 3): The Central Pacific, Chinese Workers, & The Golden Spike68mins
- Feb1584: Transcontinental Railroad (pt 2): Dr. Thomas Durant, The Union Pacific & “Hell on Wheels”63mins
- Feb183: Transcontinental Railroad (pt 1): Industrialization, Ted Judah & The Rise of the Central Pacific58mins
Jan1882: Best Mini Episodes and Cold Opens of 202049mins
Jan481: Epilogue to Volume 6: Reconstruction and The Indian Wars63mins
Dec2180: “Yes, Virginia, There is a Santa Claus:” A History22mins
Dec779: The Indian Wars (Part 3): Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce & Standing Bear’s Fight for Civil Rights62mins
Nov2378: The Indian Wars (Part 2): The Battle of the Little Bighorn (the Greasy Grass)61mins
Nov977: The Indian Wars (Part 1): The U.S.-Dakota War68mins
Oct2676: Reconstruction (Part 4): The Battle of Liberty Place and the Mississippi Plan67mins
Oct1275: Reconstruction (Part 3): The Rise of the KKK and the First Black Men in Government59mins
Sep2874: Reconstruction (Part 2): The Presidency of Ulysses S. Grant62mins
Sep1473: Reconstruction (Part 1): The Impeachment of Andrew Johnson61mins
Aug3172: The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln67mins
Aug1771: Revisiting the Hamilton/Burr Duel: An Affair of Honor64mins
Aug370: Epilogue: The Civil War Comes to a Close85mins
Jul2069: Surrender at Appomattox: The Last Days of the Civil War55mins
Jul668: Sherman's March to the Sea and the Thirteenth Amendment56mins
Jun2267: Ending 1864: The Battles of the Crater, Mobile Bay, Centralia, and Franklin53mins
Jun866: The Election of 1864: Lincoln's Bid for Reelection60mins
May2565: Sherman’s Atlanta Campaign & The Free State of Jones43mins
May18Bonus: A New Sound for HTDS (Farewell to Josh, Hello to Lindsay Graham & Airship)29mins
May1164: Grant's Overland Campaign: The Battles of the Wilderness, Spotsylvania, Cold Harbor, & Petersburg60mins
May6Bonus: A Chat about Southern Accents w/ Jeremy Collins from "Podcasts We Listen To"72mins
Apr2763: Wounded and Dying: Nurses, Doctors, and Disease in the Civil War62mins
Apr1362: The War in Tennessee: Chickamauga and Chattanooga60mins
Mar3061: The Louisiana Native Guard, the 54th Massachusetts & On: Black Soldiers in the Civil War62mins
Mar1660: Gettysburg61mins
Mar259: Stone’s River, Suspending Habeas Corpus, Vicksburg, & Stonewall’s Death at Chancellorsville77mins
Feb1758: Conscription & Riots (“A Rich Man’s War, But a Poor Man’s Fight”)54mins
Feb357: Recap of The Civil War's First Half (1861-63)46mins
Jan2056: The Battle of Fredericksburg and the First Campaign of Vicksburg47mins
Jan655: The Road to The Emancipation Proclamation59mins
Dec2354: The Best Opening Scenes in HTDS History56mins
Dec953: A Civil War Christmas with Henry Wadsworth Longfellow27mins
Nov2552: From Second Bull Run, or Second Manassas to Antietam, or Sharpsburg58mins
Nov1151: A Change in Command: Seven Days Battles to the Battle of Cedar Mountain58mins
Oct2850: Mississippi Valley 1862: The Battles of New Orleans, Corinth, Memphis, and Vicksburg66mins
Oct1449: From Little Mac McClellan to Stonewall Jackson: The Peninsula and Shenandoah Valley Campaigns58mins
Sep3048: The Battle of Shiloh: “Now boys, pitch in!”63mins
Sep1647: Bull Run, Trent Affair, the Merrimack, & Fort Donelson: The Early Days of the Civil War65mins
Sep246: The Civil War Begins: Fort Sumter, Secession, & Raising Armies62mins
Aug1945: Volume IV Epilogue64mins
Aug544: Abraham Lincoln Becomes President of the Divided States of America62mins
Jul2243: Honest Abe, the Lincoln-Douglas Debates, & John Brown’s Raid on Harpers Ferry72mins
Jul842: Solomon Northup’s 12 Years a Slave58mins
Jun2441: Kansas! (Bleeding Kansas, the Kansas-Nebraska Act, & Caning of Charles Sumner)60mins
Jun1040: Elizabeth Cady Stanton, the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention & the Explosion of Social Reform45mins
May2739: The California Gold Rush and the Compromise of 185063mins
May1338: The (Early) Life and Times of Frederick Douglass67mins
Apr2937: La Amistad Slave Rebellion and the Rise of Abolitionism62mins
Apr15Volume III Epilogue80mins
Apr136: Mexican-American War (Part 4): Los Niños Héroes, St. Patrick’s Battalion, & the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo70mins
Mar1835: Mexican-American War (Part 3): Nuevo México and the Final Push from Vera Cruz57mins
Mar434: Mexican-American War (Part 2): The Pathfinder, the Bear Flag Revolt, y Los Californios64mins
Feb1833: Mexican-American War (Part 1): From the Nueces River to the Rio Grande61mins
Feb432: Mormonism and the Mormon Trail68mins
Jan2131: The California Trail: From the Donner Party to the Gold Rush60mins
Jan730: The Oregon Trail (“You Have Died of Dysentery”)65mins
Dec24Christmas Special II: A Jackson White House Christmas24mins
Dec1029: The Bank War, Whigs, & Revolution in Texas63mins
Nov2628: Ushering in the Age of Jackson67mins
Nov11Epilogue to Volume 271mins
Oct2927: The Last of the Founding Fathers67mins
Oct1526: Peace in Ghent, War in New Orleans62mins
Oct125: From Lake Champlain to the “Defense of Fort M’Henry”68mins
Sep1724: From Granny to Old Ironsides: The Campaigns of 1812 and 1813.66mins
Sep223: Prelude to America's Forgotten War59mins
Aug1922: An Affair of Honor: Alexander Hamilton & Aaron Burr64mins
Aug621: Thomas Jefferson Presents: Lewis & Clark’s Excellent Expedition62mins
Jul2320: "A Wolf by the Ears": Gabriel Rebels and Cotton Becomes King66mins
Jul919: The Traitor and The Thieving Spy: The Start of American Industrialization58mins
Jun2518: Affairs! Foreign and ..."Domestic"62mins
Jun7Historians (of The) Roundtable: I60mins
May2817: Death of a Nation's Father65mins
May816: The Founding Fractures: Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson60mins
Apr25Epilogue To The Revolution; Or The Big Stuff You Should’ve Caught57mins
Apr12Q&A with The HTDS Team53mins
Mar2615: “We the People:” Constitution Making in Philly62mins
Mar1414: Peace in Paris; Turmoil in New York63mins
Feb2813: The World Turns Upside Down at Yorktown64mins
Feb1312: An American Judas Betrays & Nathanael Greene Saves!65mins- Jan31Second Edition Episodes: A Discussion49mins
Jan3111: Southern Discomfort: Savannah & Charleston Captured, Slavery, Massacres, & 1779’s Sundries62mins
Jan1910: Dueling, Life Sucks at Valley Forge, von Steuben's Cool & the Battle of Monmouth60mins
Jan29: (Almost) Everything Important in 1777--Saratoga, Lafayette & George Returns Gen. Howe’s Dog64mins
Dec23Christmas Special: George Wishes Some Hessians a Merry F’ing Christmas33mins
Dec178: From Independence to NY (meeting A. Ham, Nathan Hale & Charles Lee is a Sneaky Bastard)65mins
Dec47: An Olive Branch Rejected, Tom's a Royal Pain(e), & the Siege of Boston64mins
Nov186: "The Shot Heard Round the World"61mins
Nov15: "Delenda est Bostonia:" a Congress, Paul Rides, & the First Shot at Lexington67mins
Oct174: "Boston Harbor A Tea-Pot This Night:" The Boston Tea Party60mins
Oct93: "Clean My Sh*t House!" The Boston Massacre60mins
Sep302: Patrick Henry and Boston Get Pissed about Taxes60mins
Sep281: That One Time When George Washington Sort of Triggered an International War69mins
Sep260: Preamble4mins