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How Dangerous Was The Oregon Trail?
From the 1830s until the arrival of the transcontinental railroad, hundreds of thousands of people packed their possessions into wagons and headed wes...
How Much Power Does the President Have?
Ever since independence, a question has hovered over the government of the United States. How much power should the President have? Not too much, lest...
Lincoln: The First Presidential Assassination
Today we're delving into the archives and revisiting Don and Michael Kauffman's conversation on the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln...
On the e...
The Boston Tea Party
Today we're delving into our back catalogue and revisiting the topic of the Boston Tea Party...
On December 16th 1773, Bostonian colonists took...
Life on Mississippi Steamboat
It's one of the most iconic symbols of early Americana; it conjures up images of bustling saloon bars and Mark Twain. But as glamorous as they may see...
What Was The Ghost Dance?
Reunion with the dead. The return of lands, food supplies and buffalo. The disappearance of white settlers.
By the end of the 19th Century, the...
The German Spies at Pearl Harbor
What would you do if you discovered that members of your family had spied for the Japanese at Pearl Harbor? When this happened to Christine Kuehn, she...
The Quakers' Rebellious Origins
How could walking naked through town be seen as religious? What about digging up a corpse? Or bursting into church services to cause mayhem?
In...
What Was the American Ice Age?
For thousands of years, North America was a frozen frontier buried beneath miles-deep ice... How did the first people reach the Americas live here? Wh...
Crime of the Century: Who Kidnapped Charles Lindbergh Jr?
The Lindbergh Kidnapping is one of the most influential crimes in American history; it plunged a national hero into an investigation which changed the...
What was the Satanic Panic?
Why were more than 12 thousand cases of satanic abuse brought in the 1980s? Was the Prince of Darkness walking among us then? Or did something else ca...
What if the Texas Republic survived?
In 1845, the Republic of Texas stood at a crossroads. In our history, they chose to join the USA… but what if they chose another path? Was this even p...
The Hurricane Betsy Conspiracy: New Orleans
Did New Orleans' officials bomb the levees protecting the Lower Ninth Ward in 1965?
When Hurricane Betsy swept through the Atlantic Basin, it ki...
The Supreme Court’s WORST Ever Case: Dred Scott v Sandford
A Supreme Court decision that sent shockwaves across America. Dred Scott v Sandford, 1857. Who was the Chief Justice responsible for the decision? On...
Was Lee Harvey Oswald a Lone Gunman?
Why not have a go at understanding one of the most famous conspiracies of the 20th Century?
We will probably never get an answer for what really...
Bleeding Kansas: Start of the Civil War?
Was 'Bleeding Kansas' a dress rehearsal for the Civil War to come? During the 1850s pro-slavery and anti-slavery settlers clashed in the newly created...
American Origins of Halloween
How did the pre-Christian commemoration of Samhain travel across the seas from Ancient Ireland to America? And how did it evolve into the Halloween we...
Was the American Revolution a World War?
What makes a war a World War? If it's the involvement of multiple major world powers, will France, Spain and the Netherlands do?
If it's battles...
What If George Washington Became King?
‘No occurrence in the course of the war has given me more painful sensations.' This was George Washington's response when the idea of his becoming 'Ki...
What If There Were No CIA?
The Agency. The Company. Langley.
Without the Central Intelligence Agency, would we talk about conspiracy theories as much as we do? Who would b...
Origins of the US Navy: America's Revolutionary Pirate
Happy 250th Birthday to the US Navy! Today Don asks, who was John Paul Jones and did he really father the US Navy? Our guest is historian James L. Nel...