Civics & Coffee: A History Podcast
Civics & Coffee delivers bite-sized U.S. history with clear, engaging storytelling — all in the time it takes to drink your morning cup of coffee. Host Alycia brings America’s past to life with well-researched episodes that are approachable, human, and impossible to forget.In 2026, Civics & Coffee dives into the Gilded Age - a transformative era of booming industry, powerful presidents, labor uprisings, immigration waves, inequality, and social reformers. From national crises like the Great Rail...
Episodes (647)
A President Forgotten: James Garfield Part One
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Grief, Love, and Connection: The Missing Pages with Alyson Richman
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Indian Boarding Schools in America: The Carlisle Indian Industrial School
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History Makers: Presidential Seclusion with Charles Ferguson
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Titans or Crooks: The Men Who Built Industrial America
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The Exodusters: The Great Migration You Haven’t Heard About
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Selling Out Santa: A Deep Dive into Post-War Cinema with Dr. Vaughn Joy
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The Posse Comitatus Act Explained
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Run to Freedom: The Nez Perce War
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The Power of Representation: Dr. Orr on House of Diggs
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Lucy Webb Hayes: The Quietly Radical First Lady
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The Great Railroad Strike of 1877: The Uprising That Shocked the Nation
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Predator or Prey: The Real Jaws with Rachel Lee Perez
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From Disputed Election to Gilded Age Leader: Rutherford B Hayes Part 2
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From Disputed Election to Gilded Age Leader: Rutherford B Hayes Part 1
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Welcome to the Gilded Age: Wealth, Upheaval, and Reinvention
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Beyond Patriots vs. Loyalists: The Global American Revolution with Dr. Richard B...
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With Her Own Hands: Dr. Nicole Nehrig on Women, Work, and the Meaning of Making
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Entangled Alliances: The Global Roots of American Freedom with Dr. Ronald Angelo...
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Fearless Women: Exploring Patriotic Feminism with Dr. Elizabeth Cobbs
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The Election of 1876: Bargain or Betrayal?
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The Fourth Annual Friendsgiving Podcast Spectacular
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The Battle of Little Bighorn: The Victory That Doomed a Nation
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Inside The Gods of New York: Johnathan Mahler on the Decade That Remade the City
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The Alien Enemies Act: When Fear Became Law—and Never Left
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Reconstruction's Legacy: The Second Founding That Could Have Been
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Public Memory & Myths: Matthew Davis on A Biography of a Mountain
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The Insurrection Act: A Civics Lesson in Power, Law, and Order
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Victoria Woodhull: Eden Collinsworth on a Most Improbable Life
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The Fever That Haunted the South: The Forgotten Epidemic of 1878
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Before Jack the Ripper: The Savage Crimes of the Servant Girl Annihilator
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Holy Local: Shae Corey on Religion, Oral History, and Public Memory in D.C.
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Diamond in the Rough: The Murder of Bessie Moore
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Louisiana Voodoo: Untangling the Myths, the Magic, and the History
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White Man’s Law Rules the Country: The Modoc War
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A Version of Sisterhood: Unwed & Unbothered with Emma Duval
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Community Care: Black Women During Reconstruction
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Unpacking the Mind Behind Vietnam: Dr. William Taubman on McNamara At War
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Talking to Books: Education during Reconstruction
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Landscape of Ruin: The Southern Economy during Reconstruction
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Art, Ambition & the Gilded Age: The Miniature Painter Revealed with Kathleen Lan...
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Reconstruction Beyond the South: The Broken Promises to Mexican Americans
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Jay Gould: Titan or Tyrant?
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Exploring Conscience of a Nation: Zaakir Tameez on Charles Sumner’s Fight for Ju...
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The Page Act: How America Banned Chinese Women
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Axes, Activism, and Abstinence: The WCTU and the Fight for Temperance
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Bringing History to Life: Rob Edwards on Robert Smalls in Defiant
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Five Years of Civics & Coffee: Welcome to the New Era!
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Ice: The Hidden History of a Hot Commodity with Dr. Amy Brady
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Riot or Massacre? Reclaiming the History of Colfax, 1873
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