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 (422)
The Real Hamilton: Lover, Adulterer, Family Man?
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Teddy Roosevelt: The Making of the Rough Rider President
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The Real Hamilton: Founding Father
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President Rutherford B. Hayes: The First Great Depression
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Founding Father: Who Was John Hancock?
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The 1921 Murder Farm Massacre: Slavery After the Civil War
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President Ulysses S. Grant: The Myth of the Butcher
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Ulysses S. Grant & the Civil War
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The Rise & Fall of Al Capone
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NATO: 75 Years Deterring Armageddon
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The Real Great Gatsby
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President Andrew Johnson: Reconstruction & The First Impeachment
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The Salem Witch Trials
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Did the Cold War Ever End?
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Irish in America: Poverty to Power
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Lincoln: Love, Loss & Legacy
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The Rise & Fall of the Ku Klux Klan
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Lincoln & the Civil War
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The Last Ship of the Atlantic Slave Trade
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Lincoln the President
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American History Tellers
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The Truth about the American Dream: The Baldwin-Buckley Debate
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D.B. Cooper & the 70s Hijacking Craze
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Tulsa Massacre: Violence, Resilience & Rebirth
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President James Buchanan: The Worst President Ever?
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The Clinton Scandals
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Facebook at Twenty: From College Dorms to Court Cases
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Origins of the Civil War
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President Franklin Pierce: Tragedies & Trade-Offs
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The Apache Wars
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Masters of the Air: WW2's Bloody 100th Bombers
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The Watergate Scandal
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President Millard Fillmore: The Most Handsome President?
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The Making of Martin Luther King Jr.
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The Election That Changed Politics: 1968
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President Zachary Taylor
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The Tet Offensive: Turning Point of the Vietnam War?
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The Tudors & the American West Coast
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Prohibition
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The Kennedy Curse
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President James K. Polk: Lies, Warmongering & the Myth of Success
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The Amish: Origins and Society
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Tea, Tax & Revolution: Boston Tea Party Aftermath
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The Boston Tea Party Explained
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President John Tyler: The 'Accidental' President
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The Rise & Fall of Political Parties
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Operation Downfall: What if the Allies Invaded Japan?
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President William Henry Harrison: 32 Days in Office
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Napoleon in America
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JFK Assassination: A Witness Remembers
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