Civics & Coffee: A History Podcast
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A weekly history podcast sharing the stories of the people and events the make up America's past - shared in the time it takes to enjoy a cup of coffee. So grab your coffee (or tea) and get ready for some bite sized history!
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The Alien Enemies Act: When Fear Became Law—and Never Left
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Nov 15, 2025 |
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Reconstruction's Legacy: The Second Founding That Could Have Been
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Nov 08, 2025 |
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Public Memory & Myths: Matthew Davis on A Biography of a Mountain
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Nov 04, 2025 |
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The Insurrection Act: A Civics Lesson in Power, Law, and Order
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Nov 01, 2025 |
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Victoria Woodhull: Eden Collinsworth on a Most Improbable Life
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Oct 28, 2025 |
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The Fever That Haunted the South: The Forgotten Epidemic of 1878
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Oct 25, 2025 |
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Before Jack the Ripper: The Savage Crimes of the Servant Girl Annihilator
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Oct 18, 2025 |
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Holy Local: Shae Corey on Religion, Oral History, and Public Memory in D.C.
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Oct 14, 2025 |
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Diamond in the Rough: The Murder of Bessie Moore
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Oct 11, 2025 |
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Louisiana Voodoo: Untangling the Myths, the Magic, and the History
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Oct 04, 2025 |
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White Man’s Law Rules the Country: The Modoc War
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Sep 27, 2025 |
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A Version of Sisterhood: Unwed & Unbothered with Emma Duval
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Sep 23, 2025 |
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Community Care: Black Women During Reconstruction
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Sep 20, 2025 |
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Unpacking the Mind Behind Vietnam: Dr. William Taubman on McNamara At War
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Sep 16, 2025 |
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Talking to Books: Education during Reconstruction
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Sep 13, 2025 |
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Landscape of Ruin: The Southern Economy during Reconstruction
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Sep 06, 2025 |
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Art, Ambition & the Gilded Age: The Miniature Painter Revealed with Kathleen Langone
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Sep 02, 2025 |
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Reconstruction Beyond the South: The Broken Promises to Mexican Americans
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Aug 30, 2025 |
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Jay Gould: Titan or Tyrant?
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Aug 23, 2025 |
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Exploring Conscience of a Nation: Zaakir Tameez on Charles Sumner’s Fight for Justice
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Aug 19, 2025 |
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The Page Act: How America Banned Chinese Women
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Aug 16, 2025 |
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Axes, Activism, and Abstinence: The WCTU and the Fight for Temperance
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Aug 09, 2025 |
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Bringing History to Life: Rob Edwards on Robert Smalls in Defiant
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Aug 05, 2025 |
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Five Years of Civics & Coffee: Welcome to the New Era!
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Aug 02, 2025 |
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Ice: The Hidden History of a Hot Commodity with Dr. Amy Brady
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Jul 26, 2025 |
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Riot or Massacre? Reclaiming the History of Colfax, 1873
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Jul 19, 2025 |
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Unforgettable Sacrifice with Dr. Hilary Green
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Jul 12, 2025 |
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William "Boss" Tweed
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Jul 05, 2025 |
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Louisa May Alcott's Little Women
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Jun 28, 2025 |
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Reconstruction's Legal Legacy with Dr. Matthew Brogdon
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Jun 21, 2025 |
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America's Drink: Bourbon
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Jun 14, 2025 |
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Predatory Data with Dr. Anita Chan
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Jun 07, 2025 |
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The Panic of 1873
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May 31, 2025 |
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A Public Woman: Victoria Woodhull
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May 24, 2025 |
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The Great Chicago Fire
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May 17, 2025 |
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Grant’s Fight: The Ku Klux Klan Act
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May 10, 2025 |
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Jeep Show with Robert B. O'Connor
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May 03, 2025 |
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Julia Dent Grant
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Apr 26, 2025 |
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Ulysses S. Grant: Part Two
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Apr 19, 2025 |
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Ulysses S. Grant: Part One
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Apr 12, 2025 |
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Dual Justice with Dr. Anthony Grasso
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Apr 05, 2025 |
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The Maverick: Patricia Schroeder (Part Two)
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Mar 29, 2025 |
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The Maverick: Patricia Schroeder (Part One)
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Mar 22, 2025 |
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The Transcontinental Railroad
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Mar 15, 2025 |
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Reuel Colt Gridley & The Flour Fundraiser
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Mar 08, 2025 |
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All Play and No Work with Dr. Paul Gagliardi
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Mar 01, 2025 |
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Carceral Apartheid with Dr. Brittany Friedman
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Feb 26, 2025 |
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The Fort Laramie Treaty of 1868
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Feb 22, 2025 |
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The Ku Klux Klan & Reconstruction
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Feb 15, 2025 |
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Kidnapped At Sea with Dr. Andrew Sillen
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Feb 12, 2025 |
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The People's Poet: Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
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Feb 08, 2025 |
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Eliza McCardle Johnson
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Feb 01, 2025 |
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Dear Unknown Friend with Dr. Alexis Peri
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Jan 25, 2025 |
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Andrew Johnson: Part Two
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Jan 18, 2025 |
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Andrew Johnson: Part One
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Jan 11, 2025 |
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The Line of Splendor with Salina Baker
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Jan 04, 2025 |
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The 14th Amendment
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Dec 28, 2024 |
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The Memphis Massacre
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Dec 21, 2024 |
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Radical Reconstruction
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Dec 14, 2024 |
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Pearl Harbor
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Dec 07, 2024 |
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Alien Soil with Dr. Katie Singer
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Nov 30, 2024 |
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Andrew Johnson's Presidential Reconstruction
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Nov 23, 2024 |
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Third Annual Friendsgiving
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Nov 18, 2024 |
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Union Leagues, Reconstruction, and the KKK: The Rise and Fall of Black Political Power
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Nov 16, 2024 |
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Robert Smalls (Listener Request)
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Nov 09, 2024 |
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Black Woman on Board with Dr. Donna Nicol
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Nov 02, 2024 |
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Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds
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Oct 26, 2024 |
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Murderess: Belle Gunness
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Oct 19, 2024 |
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Witch Hunt with Andrea Balis and Elizabeth Levy
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Oct 12, 2024 |
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Hiram Revels: The First Black Senator
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Oct 05, 2024 |
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The Freedmen's Bureau
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Sep 28, 2024 |
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Reconstruction: An Introduction
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Sep 21, 2024 |
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The Incorruptibles with Dan Slater
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Sep 14, 2024 |
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The Sultana Disaster
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Sep 07, 2024 |
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Surrender: Appomattox
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Aug 31, 2024 |
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Introducing: Civics & Cocktails
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Aug 28, 2024 |
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New Deal Law & Order with Dr. Anthony Gregory
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Aug 24, 2024 |
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Voice of Change: Barbara Jordan
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Aug 21, 2024 |
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The 1968 Democratic National Convention
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Aug 17, 2024 |
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"Justifying" Slavery with Kristin Kessinger
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Aug 14, 2024 |
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Slavery No More: The 13th Amendment
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Aug 10, 2024 |
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Transatlantic Commuter: A Conversation about James Baldwin with Ethan Healey
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Aug 07, 2024 |
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Abraham Lincoln with Jerry Landry
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Aug 03, 2024 |
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Abraham Lincoln: Part Two
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Jul 27, 2024 |
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From Beans to Brews: Coffee in America
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Jul 20, 2024 |
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Behind Everest with Kate Nicholson
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Jul 13, 2024 |
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The First: Mary Eliza Mahoney
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Jul 06, 2024 |
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The First Queen of Drag
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Jun 29, 2024 |
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Freeman's Challenge with Dr. Robin Bernstein
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Jun 22, 2024 |
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No Experience Required: Women In the Federal Workforce
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Jun 15, 2024 |
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Charlotte Forten Grimke
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Jun 08, 2024 |
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The Dakota 38 (Listener Request)
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Jun 01, 2024 |
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"Madam Elizabeth": Elizabeth Keckly
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May 25, 2024 |
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Lemuria with Justin McHenry
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May 18, 2024 |
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Civil War Home Fronts
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May 11, 2024 |
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Edwin Stanton
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May 04, 2024 |
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How to Start a War with Michael Trapani
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Apr 27, 2024 |
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420: Cannabis in the United States
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Apr 20, 2024 |
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Mary Todd Lincoln: Part Two
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Apr 13, 2024 |
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Mary Todd Lincoln: Part One
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Apr 06, 2024 |
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The Bishop and the Butterfly with Michael Wolraich
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Mar 30, 2024 |
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Indigenous Americans in the Civil War
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Mar 23, 2024 |
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Gettysburg
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Mar 16, 2024 |
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Public Assistance in California (Request)
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Mar 09, 2024 |
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Jefferson Davis
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Mar 02, 2024 |
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Civil War Medical Advancements
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Feb 24, 2024 |
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By Her Own Design with Piper Huguley
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Feb 17, 2024 |
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The History Conference
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Feb 10, 2024 |
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Clara Barton & The Red Cross
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Feb 03, 2024 |
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Democracy in Darkness with Dr. Katlyn Carter
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Jan 27, 2024 |
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The Massachusetts 54th
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Jan 20, 2024 |
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Spying In the Civil War
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Jan 13, 2024 |
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It Begins: Fort Sumter
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Jan 06, 2024 |
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Before the Movement with Dr. Dylan Penningroth
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Dec 30, 2023 |
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Dolly Parton
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Dec 23, 2023 |
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Chaos: The Election of 1860
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Dec 16, 2023 |
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Abraham Lincoln: Part One
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Dec 09, 2023 |
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Harpers Ferry
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Dec 02, 2023 |
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The Mountain Meadows Massacre
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Nov 25, 2023 |
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Bonus: 2nd Annual Friendsgiving
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Nov 20, 2023 |
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Dred Scott
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Nov 18, 2023 |
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James Buchanan
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Nov 11, 2023 |
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Passionate Mothers, Powerful Sons with Dr. Charlotte Gray
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Nov 04, 2023 |
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The Trailside Killer
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Oct 28, 2023 |
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Mary Ann Shadd Cary
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Oct 21, 2023 |
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Imperfect Spouse: Jane Pierce
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Oct 14, 2023 |
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Franklin Pierce
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Oct 07, 2023 |
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The Rough Rider & The Professor with Laurence Jurdem
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Sep 30, 2023 |
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The Fillmore Women
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Sep 23, 2023 |
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Millard Fillmore
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Sep 16, 2023 |
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James Baldwin - Part Two
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Sep 09, 2023 |
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James Baldwin: Part One
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Sep 02, 2023 |
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The Wounded World with Dr. Chad Williams
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Aug 26, 2023 |
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Violence in Congress
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Aug 19, 2023 |
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The Long Island Murders
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Aug 12, 2023 |
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Celebrity Nation with Landon Jones
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Aug 05, 2023 |
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Zachary Taylor
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Jul 29, 2023 |
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Anna Kingsley
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Jul 22, 2023 |
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Sarah Winchester's Mystery House
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Jul 15, 2023 |
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Sustaining the Carrier War with Dr. Stan Fisher
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Jul 08, 2023 |
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The New York Times
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Jul 01, 2023 |
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James McCune Smith
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Jun 24, 2023 |
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First in Her Class: Elizabeth Blackwell, MD
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Jun 17, 2023 |
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Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin
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Jun 10, 2023 |
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William Wells Brown
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Jun 03, 2023 |
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Supreme Court: The Confirmation Process
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May 27, 2023 |
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Making Airwaves at the Society for Military History
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May 20, 2023 |
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The Bloody Island Massacre
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May 13, 2023 |
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Speaking While Female with Dana Rubin
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May 06, 2023 |
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Ah Toy
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Apr 29, 2023 |
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The Fight for Speaker of the House (Listener Request)
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Apr 22, 2023 |
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Rise of the Mavericks with Philip C Shackelford
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Apr 15, 2023 |
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The Gold Rush
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Apr 08, 2023 |
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Seneca Falls
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Apr 01, 2023 |
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Gatekeeper: Sarah Childress Polk
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Mar 25, 2023 |
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Making Americans with Jessica Lander
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Mar 18, 2023 |
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Disneyland
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Mar 11, 2023 |
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Mourning the Presidents with Dr. Lindsay Chervinsky
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Mar 04, 2023 |
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The Mexican-American War
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Feb 25, 2023 |
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Surfing the South with Steve Estes
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Feb 18, 2023 |
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Dark Horse? James Polk
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Feb 11, 2023 |
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Alice Walker (Listener Request)
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Feb 04, 2023 |
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The Smithsonian
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Jan 28, 2023 |
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Explosive Love: The USS Princeton & Julia Gardiner Tyler
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Jan 21, 2023 |
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Letitia Tyler
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Jan 14, 2023 |
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Presidential Transitions with David Marchick
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Jan 07, 2023 |
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A Man Without A Party: John Tyler
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Dec 31, 2022 |
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A Charlie Brown Christmas (Miracle)
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Dec 24, 2022 |
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Double Shot: Ethan Healey & Mastering History
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Dec 17, 2022 |
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Anna Symmes Harrison
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Dec 10, 2022 |
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William Henry Harrison
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Dec 03, 2022 |
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Fort King with Kathleen Ramirez
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Nov 26, 2022 |
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Podcast Friendsgiving Spectacular (Bonus Episode)
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Nov 21, 2022 |
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The United States Post Office
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Nov 19, 2022 |
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California Tycoon: William Leidesdorff
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Nov 12, 2022 |
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Time for a Woman: Sandra Day O'Connor (Intelligent Speech)
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Nov 05, 2022 |
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John Carpenter's Halloween
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Oct 29, 2022 |
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American Horror Story: Edgar Allan Poe
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Oct 22, 2022 |
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This is the Zodiac Speaking: Part Two
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Oct 15, 2022 |
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This is the Zodiac Speaking (Part One)
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Oct 08, 2022 |
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Lost to History: The Van Buren Women
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Oct 01, 2022 |
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Martin Van Buren
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Sep 24, 2022 |
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Sisters in Arms: Women Anti Slavery Conventions
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Sep 17, 2022 |
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The Second Seminole War
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Sep 10, 2022 |
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Public Spaces: A Conversation with Holley Snaith
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Sep 03, 2022 |
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Harriet Tubman: Part Two
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Aug 27, 2022 |
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Harriet Tubman (Part One)
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Aug 20, 2022 |
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Debtors Prisons (Listener Request)
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Aug 13, 2022 |
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Nat Turner's Rebellion
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Aug 06, 2022 |
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The Liberty Line: The History of the Underground Railroad
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Jul 30, 2022 |
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The Grimke Sisters: A Conversation with Broadly Underestimated
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Jul 23, 2022 |
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The Case of Henrietta Wood (Listener Request)
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Jul 16, 2022 |
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Unspoken: Healthcare Before Roe
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Jul 09, 2022 |
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Unexpected Bravery: A Conversation with A.J. Schenkman
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Jul 02, 2022 |
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The Almost First Lady: Rachel Jackson
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Jun 25, 2022 |
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Andrew Jackson: A Discussion with Presidencies of the United States
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Jun 18, 2022 |
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The Indian Removal Act of 1830
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Jun 11, 2022 |
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The Original Outsider: Andrew Jackson
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Jun 04, 2022 |
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Missing: The Kidnapping of Black Americans
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May 28, 2022 |
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Woodstock
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May 21, 2022 |
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The Freedom's Journal
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May 14, 2022 |
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The Adams Men (with Abridged Presidential Histories)
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May 07, 2022 |
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The Chosen Son: John Quincy Adams
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Apr 30, 2022 |
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Resilient: Louisa Adams (Part Two)
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Apr 23, 2022 |
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Resilient: Louisa Adams (Part One)
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Apr 16, 2022 |
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Gendered Citizenship with Dr. Rebecca DeWolf
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Apr 09, 2022 |
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California Missions (Listener Request)
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Apr 02, 2022 |
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Women in Politics
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Mar 26, 2022 |
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The Gilded Age: A Conversation with Dr. Einav Rabinovitch-Fox
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Mar 19, 2022 |
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Women in Baseball
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Mar 12, 2022 |
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Her Cold War with Dr. Tanya Roth
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Mar 05, 2022 |
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Frederick Douglass: Part Two
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Feb 26, 2022 |
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Frederick Douglass: Part One
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Feb 19, 2022 |
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The Second Great Awakening
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Feb 12, 2022 |
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David Walker's Appeal
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Feb 05, 2022 |
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The Filibuster (Listener Request)
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Jan 29, 2022 |
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The Elusive Mrs. Monroe
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Jan 22, 2022 |
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The Monroe Presidency
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Jan 15, 2022 |
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Sojourner Truth: Part Two
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Jan 08, 2022 |
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Sojourner Truth: Part One
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Jan 01, 2022 |
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Christmas in America
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Dec 25, 2021 |
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The Alamo (Listener Request)
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Dec 18, 2021 |
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Immigration & The Steerage Act of 1819
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Dec 11, 2021 |
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The Seminole War
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Dec 04, 2021 |
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Watergate (with Hashtag History)
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Nov 27, 2021 |
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Presidentress: Dolley Madison
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Nov 20, 2021 |
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James Madison: The Presidency
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Nov 13, 2021 |
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The Battle of Horseshoe Bend
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Nov 06, 2021 |
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The Donner Party
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Oct 30, 2021 |
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The Great Quakes
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Oct 23, 2021 |
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Black Cemeteries (Listener Request)
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Oct 16, 2021 |
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The Uprising: The Slave Revolt of 1811
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Oct 09, 2021 |
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Banning the Trade, Not the Practice
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Oct 02, 2021 |
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The Presidency of Thomas Jefferson
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Sep 25, 2021 |
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The Library of Congress
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Sep 18, 2021 |
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Twenty Years Later: Memories of September 11th
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Sep 11, 2021 |
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Sally Hemings
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Sep 04, 2021 |
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Marbury v Madison
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Aug 28, 2021 |
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Sacagawea & New Discovery
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Aug 21, 2021 |
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Happy Podcast Anniversary
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Aug 14, 2021 |
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The Little Rock Nine - Part Two
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Aug 07, 2021 |
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The Little Rock Nine - Part One
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Jul 31, 2021 |
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Dirty Tricks: The Election of 1800
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Jul 24, 2021 |
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Two Songs One Couple / Civics & Coffee Crossover - Part TWO
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Jul 23, 2021 |
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Miss Independent: Abigail Adams
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Jul 17, 2021 |
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The Cabinet with Dr. Lindsay M Chervinksy
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Jul 10, 2021 |
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The White House
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Jul 03, 2021 |
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A Man Alone: John Adams
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Jun 26, 2021 |
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Two Parties Emerge
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Jun 19, 2021 |
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The Forgotten Hannah Adams
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Jun 12, 2021 |
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HH Holmes Part 2 - Listener Request
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Jun 05, 2021 |
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HH Holmes Part 1 - Listener Request
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May 29, 2021 |
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People v Levi Weeks - The First True Crime
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May 22, 2021 |
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Early American Medicine
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May 15, 2021 |
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The Whiskey Rebellion
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May 08, 2021 |
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History of Death: Capital Punishment in the United States (Listener Request)
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May 01, 2021 |
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The Precedent Setting President: George Washington
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Apr 24, 2021 |
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I Am Free: Ona Judge
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Apr 17, 2021 |
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Martha Washington: Protector In Chief
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Apr 10, 2021 |
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George Washington - The Early Years
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Apr 03, 2021 |
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The Notorious: Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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Mar 31, 2021 |
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The Northwest Indian War
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Mar 27, 2021 |
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Communist, Activist: Angela Davis
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Mar 24, 2021 |
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The Bill of Rights
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Mar 20, 2021 |
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Unapologetically SHE: Zora Neale Hurston
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Mar 17, 2021 |
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From Confederation to Constitution
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Mar 13, 2021 |
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A Catalyst for Change - Shirley Chisholm
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Mar 10, 2021 |
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Franklin, Benjamin Franklin
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Mar 06, 2021 |
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Hidden Computers - Women in Tech
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Mar 03, 2021 |
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Frida Kahlo
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Feb 27, 2021 |
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The Constitution - A Break Down
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Feb 20, 2021 |
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The Compromises of the Convention
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Feb 13, 2021 |
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The Madison Dash to the Constitution
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Feb 06, 2021 |
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A Man of Science: The Life of Benjamin Banneker
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Jan 30, 2021 |
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Apollo 11 - Part Two
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Jan 23, 2021 |
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Apollo 11 - Part One (Listener Request)
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Jan 16, 2021 |
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Articles of Confederation - Doomed From the Start
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Jan 09, 2021 |
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The Revolution & Slavery - All Men Created Equal?
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Jan 02, 2021 |
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2020: What a Decade this Year Has Been - BONUS Episode
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Dec 31, 2020 |
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The American Revolution - Impacts
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Dec 26, 2020 |
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Propaganda With a Legacy - The Declaration of Independence
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Dec 19, 2020 |
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The Culper Spy Ring, Part 2
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Dec 12, 2020 |
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The Culper Spy Ring, Part 1
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Dec 05, 2020 |
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World's Fair Part 3 - The Conclusion
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Nov 28, 2020 |
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Happy Thanksgiving (Bonus Episode)
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Nov 26, 2020 |
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World's Fair Part 2 - Chicago, St. Louis & San Francisco
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Nov 21, 2020 |
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The World's Fair - Part 1 (Listener Request)
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Nov 14, 2020 |
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The Rebel Rousers
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Nov 07, 2020 |
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BONUS EPISODE - Election Day - A Voting History
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Nov 03, 2020 |
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Happy Halloween!
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Oct 31, 2020 |
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From Boycott to Bloodshed
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Oct 24, 2020 |
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Mother of African American Literature - Phillis Wheatley
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Oct 17, 2020 |
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A History of Debates
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Oct 10, 2020 |
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She Boss - The Elizabeth Murray Story
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Oct 03, 2020 |
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First Comes War...
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Sep 26, 2020 |
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Witchcraft in Massachusetts - The Salem Witch Trials
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Sep 19, 2020 |
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The Bacon Rebellion
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Sep 12, 2020 |
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Women in Activism - Mary Dyer & the Boston Martyrs
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Sep 05, 2020 |
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John Punch & the Emergence of Slavery
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Aug 29, 2020 |
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Colonies, Colonies - But Not Plymouth
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Aug 22, 2020 |
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1492? Says Who?
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Aug 15, 2020 |
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Civics & Coffee - An Introduction
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Aug 10, 2020 |