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)
Vietnam War: Turning Points
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Battle of Fort Donelson
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Bobby Kennedy: Assassination of a Future President
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Battle of Iwo Jima
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Confederacy: Myth of the Lost Cause
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What If JFK Wasn't Shot?
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The Confederacy: Could They Have Won?
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President Eisenhower: War on Soviets & Segregation
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The Confederacy: Life In The South
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The Illuminati in the US
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The Confederacy: Who Was Jefferson Davis?
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President Harry Truman: From Farm to Oval Office and the Atom Bomb
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Jamestown: Decline & Fall?
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Jamestown: Surviving The Fort
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Did Vikings Reach the US?
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Frederick Douglass: Civil War to Statesman
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Jamestown: The British and The Powhatan
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Frederick Douglass: Enslavement & Escape
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Jamestown: The Journey To America
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FDR & Churchill
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What Does 'Caucasian' Mean?
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FDR & Stalin
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Romans in America
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FDR vs Hitler
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Who Was Sitting Bull?
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President FDR & the New Deal
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The First 12 Days of the Civil War
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President Herbert Hoover: Did He Cause the Great Depression?
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Remembering Jimmy Carter: Life & Legacy
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Japanese in America
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Lexington & Concord: The First Battles of the Revolutionary War
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How Old is America?
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Outlaws vs the FBI: J. Edgar Hoover's G-Men
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Was the Civil War Won by Chance?
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President Calvin Coolidge: The Roaring 20s' Quiet Leader
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Waco: A Cult, the FBI and a Fiery Ending
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Pearl Harbor: The Man Who Spied For Japan
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UFOs in the US
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The Mayflower: What Was Life Like At Sea?
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The Mayflower: Why Did the Pilgrims Leave Europe?
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President Warren G. Harding: Scandals, Affairs & Cabinet Selections
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The Spanish-American War
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A CIA Man in China: 20 Years Imprisoned
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Nazis in America: Fascism in the 1930s
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Presidents' Private Lives
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Elections Explained: A History of Rigged Elections
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New York Morgue's Dark Secrets
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Elections Explained: The Man Who's Lost The Most
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The Doolittle Raid: WW2 Bombing of Japan
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Elections Explained: How FDR Won Four Times
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