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 Battle of Bull Run
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Elections Explained: A History of Voting
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Outlaws: John Dillinger | Public Enemy Number One
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Who Was Christopher Columbus?
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Outlaws: Bonnie & Clyde
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Woodrow Wilson & The End of WW1: The League of Nations
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Outlaws: Jesse James
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Guantanamo Bay Detention Center: A History From The Inside
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Outlaws: New York's Criminal Mastermind
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How The World Sees The US: The Art of Diplomacy
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McCarthy & the Second Red Scare
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Japanese in America: Railroads, Internment Camps & Little Tokyo
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President Woodrow Wilson: Progressive? Warmonger? Overrated?
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British Brides for American Tobacco: A Tudor Trade
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Who Was The Richest President?
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Eisenhower: D-Day and the Birth of the American Superpower
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President William Howard Taft: The Reluctant Politician?
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Lafayette: The Marquis and the American Revolution
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Kamala Harris: An Unprecedented Candidacy?
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American History Hit: 200 Episodes On
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President Theodore Roosevelt
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The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt
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Origins of Political Campaigns: Publicity Stunts & Fake News
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American Operators on WW1's Front Line
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The Third Presidential Assassination: McKinley
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President William McKinley: The Secret Service & the Spanish-American War
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Biden: US Presidents, Reelection & the Second Term Curse
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Secrets of the White House
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US Presidents Who Escaped Assassination
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Sovereignty, the Constitution and 100 years of Citizenship: Native Rights
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The Rise of Presidential Power
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President Grover Cleveland: Panic in the Second Term
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Zionism in Texas
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What is Populism? From the Farmers' Alliance to Trump
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What Caused the American Revolution?
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President Benjamin Harrison: The President with a Petting Zoo
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The First Battle of the Civil War: Fort Sumter
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The Whiskey Rebellion: Tax Protest & Armed Resistance
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Presidential Pardons: Mormons, Conscientious Objectors & January 6th
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President Grover Cleveland: Honest to a Fault?
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The War on Crime: The 1930s and the New Deal
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America at D-Day
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Communism in America
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The History of Baseball
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The Battle of Okinawa
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President Chester A. Arthur: Redemption in Office?
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The Real Hamilton: An American Myth?
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American Castaways: Treachery & Survival in the Falklands
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The Real Hamilton: Downfall, Duel & Death
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President James A. Garfield: Sex Cults & Assassination
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