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Episodes (232)
121: Henry Ford: The Model T & Mass Production
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120: From Atlanta to the NAACP, or Booker T. Washington v. W.E.B. Du Bois
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119: Women’s Suffrage & the Passage of the 19th Amendment
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118: “The Island of Hope and Tears:” Ellis Island
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117: Epilogue on Progressive Era Part I (Teddy Roosevelt)
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116: Teddy Roosevelt’s Foreign Policy: From Big Stick Diplomacy to the Panama Ca...
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115: History–Doomed to Repeat It? A Conversation with Lindsay Graham
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114: A Square Deal (pt. 3): “Leave it as it is” (Teddy Roosevelt & Conservationi...
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113: A Square Deal (pt. 2): Consumer Protection–The FDA, & Ida Tarbell muckrakes...
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112: A Square Deal (pt. 1): Corp. Regulation—a coal strike, a trust, & Teddy’s F...
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111: The Assassination of Will McKinley & The Strenuous Life of Theodore Rooseve...
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110: Epilogue to the Age of Imperialism
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109: The Election of 1900 & the Rise of Anti-Imperialism
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108: G.O. 100, “The Water Cure,” & The Law of War in the Early-20th Century with...
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107: The Philippine-American War
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106: The US Annexation of the Hawaiian Kingdom
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105: “A Splendid Little War:” The Spanish-American War and Theodore Roosevelt’s...
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104: The Road to the Spanish-American War
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103: A Gilded Age Christmas: Joseph Pulitzer’s Christmas Tree Fund
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102: Epilogue to the Gilded Age
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101: The New South, Jim Crow (Plessy v. Ferguson), & the Death of Frederick Doug...
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100: Halloween Special! Edgar Allan Poe: The Tell-tale Heart, The Cask of Amonti...
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99: The Gilded Age’s Singer Sewing Machines & Dangerous Bananas w/ Dr. Ben Sawye...
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98: Silver & Gold: From Grover Cleveland to William Jennings Bryan & William McK...
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97: The Gilded Age’s Robber Barons: John D. Rockefeller & Andrew Carnegie
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96: The War of the Currents: (Thomas Alva Edison v. Nikola Tesla & George Westin...
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95: "Several Thousand Things that Won't Work:" Thomas Alva Edison and His Electr...
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94: Epilogue to Gilded Age Part I (or Gilded Age interlude w/ Significant HTDS U...
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93: La Liberté éclairant le monde: Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi’s Statue of Libert...
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92: The Brooklyn Bridge, or the Story of the Roebling Family
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91: The Gilded Age, Industrialization, and Assassination of President James Garf...
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90: Epilogue to the Wild West
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89: Closing the Wild West: (Wounded Knee, Buffalo Bill & the 1893 Colombian Expo...
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88: “The Last Frontier:” The Purchase of Alaska and the Klondike Gold Rush
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87: Gunslingers & Outlaws (pt 2): Pearl Hart, Tombstone, Jesse James, B. Cassidy...
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86: Gunslingers & Outlaws (pt 1): The Second Industrial Revolution, Sam Bass & B...
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85: Transcontinental Railroad (pt 3): The Central Pacific, Chinese Workers, & Th...
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84: Transcontinental Railroad (pt 2): Dr. Thomas Durant, The Union Pacific & “He...
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83: Transcontinental Railroad (pt 1): Industrialization, Ted Judah & The Rise of...
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82: Best Mini Episodes and Cold Opens of 2020
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81: Epilogue to Volume 6: Reconstruction and The Indian Wars
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80: “Yes, Virginia, There is a Santa Claus:” A History
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79: The Indian Wars (Part 3): Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce & Standing Bear’s Fi...
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78: The Indian Wars (Part 2): The Battle of the Little Bighorn (the Greasy Grass...
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77: The Indian Wars (Part 1): The U.S.-Dakota War
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76: Reconstruction (Part 4): The Battle of Liberty Place and the Mississippi Pla...
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75: Reconstruction (Part 3): The Rise of the KKK and the First Black Men in Gove...
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74: Reconstruction (Part 2): The Presidency of Ulysses S. Grant
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73: Reconstruction (Part 1): The Impeachment of Andrew Johnson
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72: The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
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