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)
JFK: The Most Popular President?
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The Gettysburg Address
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President Martin Van Buren
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Vikings in America
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Killers of the Flower Moon: Native Americans & the FBI
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New Orleans Voodoo
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President Andrew Jackson
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The Real Wild West
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Medieval North America: Gods of Thunder
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Battle of the Alamo
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President John Quincy Adams
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What if the South Won the Civil War?
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Origins of the Vietnam War
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The American Buffalo with Ken Burns
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President James Monroe
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Battle of Little Bighorn
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Sabotage & Secret Weapons: The WW2 Dirty Tricks Department
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Three Mile Island: Nuclear Accident in Pennsylvania
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President James Madison
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9/11: Toxic Gas, PTSD & Rebuilding
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The Mexican-American War
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Oppenheimer: What If America Never Dropped the Atomic Bomb?
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President Thomas Jefferson
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The 1906 San Francisco Earthquake
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Prehistoric North America
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Pocahontas: The True Story
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President John Adams
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The Texas Chicken Ranch: Famous Brothel to Broadway
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The Pueblo Revolt
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The Magna Carta in America
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President George Washington
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Robert E Lee: Life & Legacy
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Birth of the US Government: The Constitutional Convention
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Barbie: German Sex Doll to American Icon
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The Origins of Mormonism
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A History of American Childhood
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Nixon in Moscow: The Kitchen Debate
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LSD in New York: Research, Recreation and Radicalism
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The Crossfire of Gettysburg
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The Battle of Gettysburg
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Stonewall
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Amelia Earhart
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The CIA & MI6: The Real Special Relationship?
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The Long Death of Slavery
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Louisiana's Ancient Mystery: Poverty Point
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The Lavender Scare: Being Gay in Washington DC
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The Wright Brothers
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White Women Slave Owners
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California Gold Rush
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Lincoln & God: Scepticism to Spiritualism
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