American History Hit
Join Don Wildman twice a week for your hit of American history, as he explores the past to help us understand the United States of today. We’ll hear how codebreakers uncovered secret Japanese plans for the Battle of Midway, visit Chief Powhatan as he prepares for war with the British, see Walt Disney accuse his former colleagues of being communists, and uncover the dark history that lies beneath Central Park. From pre-colonial America to independence, slavery to civil rights, the gold rush to...
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America's Worst President
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The People's Founding Father
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The Truth About the Louisiana Purchase
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Did Lee's Surrender End the Civil War?
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Why Did Reconstruction Fail?
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The Fire That Changed New York
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Reconstruction Era: Terror in the South
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Civil War Battle Of The Ironclads
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Reconstruction Era: A False Dawn of Freedom?
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Plessy v. Ferguson: The Supreme Court Case That Enshrined Jim Crow
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What Happened to the Confederates?
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How Did the Supreme Court Claim Power?
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Life in Mobland Chicago
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Long Walk of the Navajo
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The Robin Hood of the Wild West
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The Best Presidential Speeches
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The Truth about Billy the Kid
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Staten Island v. New York City | Revisionist History
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America's Deadliest Battle: Gettysburg
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What Made America? Birth Of A Superpower
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The Nazi Ship that Became a US Flagship
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What Made America? The Abolitionists
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Lewis & Clark & Sacagawea's Expedition
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What Made America? Victory in the Civil War
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The Harlem Renaissance
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What Made America? The Professional Military
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Eisenhower's Countdown to D-Day
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What Made America: The Constitution & The Franklins
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Inside a Serial Killer's 'Murder Castle'
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How 'New Amsterdam' Became 'New York'
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Worst Siege of the Civil War: Vicksburg
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When Was the Revolutionary War Won?
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America's War Against Pirates
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King Phillip's War
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Annexation of Alaska
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The Quaker Who Put Penn in Pennsylvania
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Stonewall Jackson's Last Battle: Chancellorsville
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A Day in the Life of a Puritan
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George Washington's Spies
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Geronimo's Rebellion and the Apache Wars
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The Astors, The Gilded Age & The Building of New York
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Shays' Rebellion: An Honorable Rebellion?
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How to Escape Alcatraz
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When the Mormons Rebelled Against America
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The Origins of Chicago
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Nat Turner's Rebellion
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What Is The Kennedy Curse?
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The Trail of Tears | The Frontier
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Rise and Fall of the Shakers
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The Texas Rangers | The Frontier
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