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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Episodes (828)
The Texas Rangers | The Frontier
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The Battle of Fredericksburg
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Murder on the California Trail | The Frontier
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America's Bloodiest Day: Battle of Antietam
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How Wild Was the Wild West? | The Frontier
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What Did FDR Get Wrong?
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Life and Death on the Oregon Trail | The Frontier
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The Making of Malcolm X
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Darkest Hours: Origins of Slavery
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Rodeo: An All American History?
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Darkest Hours: The Kent State Shootings
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The Monroe Doctrine
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Darkest Hours: The Great Depression
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Battle of Baton Rouge: Civil War on the Mississippi
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Darkest Hours: Brother Against Brother
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The Annexation of Hawaiʻi
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America's Worst General
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Origins of the First Amendment
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America's Greatest General
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The Truth about the Two-Term Limit
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America's Most Innovative General
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How Revolutionary was the Declaration of Independence?
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America's Bloodiest General
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How Dangerous Was The Oregon Trail?
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How Much Power Does the President Have?
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How Did Fossils Change America?
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Lincoln: The First Presidential Assassination
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The Boston Tea Party
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Life on a Mississippi Steamboat
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What Was The Ghost Dance?
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The German Spies at Pearl Harbor
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The Quakers' Rebellious Origins
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What Was the American Ice Age?
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Thanksgiving
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Crime of the Century: Who Kidnapped Charles Lindbergh Jr?
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What was the Satanic Panic?
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What if the Texas Republic survived?
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The Hurricane Betsy Conspiracy: New Orleans
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The Supreme Court’s WORST Ever Case: Dred Scott v Sandford
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Was Lee Harvey Oswald a Lone Gunman?
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Bleeding Kansas: Start of the Civil War?
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American Origins of Halloween
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Was the American Revolution a World War?
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What If George Washington Became King?
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What if the Cuban Missile Crisis Sparked WW3?
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What If There Were No CIA?
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Origins of the US Navy: America's Revolutionary Pirate
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Who was the Best President Ever?
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America's Invasion of Canada
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Who Was the Worst President Ever?
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