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Episodes (232)
171: Christmas Special VIII: Festivities in the Jazz Age
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170: The Crash of 1929 & Meeting President Herbert Hoover
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169: An Epilogue to the 1920s: Youth culture, The Great Gatsby, and more with Pr...
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168: Halloween Special IV: Nosferatu and Silent Horror
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167: The Golden Age of Sports: Horse Racing, Boxing, Basketball, Football, & Jim...
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166: A Conversation on Negro Leagues Baseball History with Bob Kendrick
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165: America’s Favorite Pastime: Baseball, the Negro Leagues, and the Great Bamb...
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164: Harlem Renaissance: The Great Migration, Jazz, and the Flowering of Black C...
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163: The Show (Boat) Must Go On: Broadway and the American Musical
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162: The Birth of the Movies: From Silent Cinema to the Rise of Hollywood & the...
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161: An Epilogue Toast to Prohibition’s End with Author Daniel Okrent
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160: Al Capone & the End of Prohibition
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159: Scofflaws, Moonshiners, Bootleggers, and Crime Lords
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158: Prohibition - So You Wanna Be a Rum Runner?
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157: Temperance, Prohibition, and the Path to the 18th Amendment
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156: The Presidency of “Silent” Cal Coolidge
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155: The Life & Times of Warren G. Harding & The Teapot Dome Scandal
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154: An Epilogue Discussion with Ben Sawyer
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153: West Virginia’s Mine Wars: From Trouble in Matewan to the Battle of Blair M...
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152: The Second Ku Klux Klan: Racism, Anti-Semitism, & Anti-Catholicism in the 1...
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151: The First Red Scare - Bombings, The Palmer Raids, Eugene Debs, and J. Edgar...
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150: The Great War’s Aftermath: Coming Home, The Spanish Flu, & The Tomb of the...
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149: WWI Epilogue
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148: Tales of Christmas from World War I (A Truce, Plum Pudding, and Love)
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147: Peacemaking in Paris: The Treaty of Versailles
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146: The Armistice of November 11, 1918
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145: Halloween Special III: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
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144: A Conversation with Ken Burns - Storytelling and the American Buffalo
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143: The Meuse-Argonne Offensive (pt.2) – Breaking the Kriemhilde Line
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142: The Meuse-Argonne Offensive (pt.1) – “The Lost Battalion”
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141: Wartime Interlude
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140: WWI Aviators: From the Lafayette Escadrille to the Red Baron and More
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139: From Yeomen (F) to “Hello Girls:” American Women in World War I
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138: The 15th New York/369th or The Harlem Hellfighters
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137: The First Battle of the First American Army: St. Mihiel
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136: The German Spring Offensive’s End, or The Second Battle of the Marne
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135: Belleau Wood – A Cut Deeper with Captain Mac Caldwell
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134: (Most of) The German Spring Offensive of 1918 & The Fight for Belleau Wood
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133: Heading “Over There:” “Black Jack” Pershing & Creating WWI’s American Exped...
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132: The US Enters WWI (RMS Lusitania, Black Tom Island, & The Zimmermann Telegr...
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131: Epilogue on World War 1 before the US
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130: Russia: From the Great War to Revolution with Deputy Provost Kat Brown
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129: World War I Before the US (Military Tech, Trenches, Global Armies, Ypres, V...
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128: The Causes of World War I (From the Congress of Vienna to Franz Ferdinand &...
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127: Mr. Wilson Goes to Washington (Progressive Policies & Foreign Affairs in So...
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126: Christmas Special 6: Jacob Riis’ “Is There a Santa Claus?”
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125: Epilogue: The Progressive Era
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124: The “Bull Moose” Election of 1912
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123: The Wright Brothers Fly at Kitty Hawk
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122: Halloween Special II: H.P. Lovecraft – “The Outsider” & “Dagon”
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