172: Breadlines, Bank Failures, & the Bonus Army: Hoover & the Early Great DepressionProf. Greg Jackson
173: From Hyde Park to the White House: The Early Life and Election of Franklin Delano RooseveltProf. Greg Jackson
175: The Dirty Thirties (The New Deal pt. 2): Dust, Doubts, and the “Second” New DealProf. Greg Jackson
176: FDR v. “The Nine Old Men” (The New Deal pt. 3): Court Packing and Closing the New DealProf. Greg Jackson
America 250: The Boston Campaign 1775-76: A Leadership Discussion with Gen. William RappProf. Greg Jackson
178: “A Damn Big Dam”: Taming the Colorado River with the Hoover (or Boulder) Dam (Infrastructure pt. 1)Prof. Greg Jackson
179: Bridging the Bay: San Francisco’s Golden Gate and Bay Bridges (Infrastructure pt. 2)Prof. Greg Jackson
180: “A Race to the Sky”: The Rise of New York City’s Chrysler, Manhattan Company, and Empire State BuildingsProf. Greg Jackson
181: American Aviation: The Growth of the Industry Through the Eyes of Amelia Earhart, Charles Lindbergh, and Howard HughesProf. Greg Jackson
184: The Rise of Adolf Hitler: From Failure to Führer of Nazi Germany or the Third ReichProf. Greg Jackson
187: From the Rhineland to Poland (1935–1939): Annexation, Appeasement, & the Start of World War IIProf. Greg Jackson
188: World War II in Europe & The American Response (1939–40): Isolationism vs. Arsenal of DemocracyProf. Greg Jackson
189: World War II in Europe & the American Response (1941): Production & PreparationProf. Greg Jackson
190: An Epilogue to US Pre-WW2 Turn from Isolationism to Interventionism and the Influential Americans in London Who Brokered the FDR-Churchill BromanceProf. Greg Jackson
192: A Conversation with Ken Burns and Sarah Botstein: The American Revolution and WWIIProf. Greg Jackson
8: From Independence to NY (meeting A. Ham, Nathan Hale & Charles Lee is a Sneaky Bastard)Prof. Greg Jackson
9: (Almost) Everything Important in 1777--Saratoga, Lafayette & George Returns Gen. Howe’s DogProf. Greg Jackson
10: Dueling, Life Sucks at Valley Forge, von Steuben's Cool & the Battle of MonmouthProf. Greg Jackson
11: Southern Discomfort: Savannah & Charleston Captured, Slavery, Massacres, & 1779’s SundriesProf. Greg Jackson
34: Mexican-American War (Part 2): The Pathfinder, the Bear Flag Revolt, y Los CaliforniosProf. Greg Jackson
36: Mexican-American War (Part 4): Los Niños Héroes, St. Patrick’s Battalion, & the Treaty of Guadalupe HidalgoProf. Greg Jackson
40: Elizabeth Cady Stanton, the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention & the Explosion of Social ReformProf. Greg Jackson
47: Bull Run, Trent Affair, the Merrimack, & Fort Donelson: The Early Days of the Civil WarProf. Greg Jackson
49: From Little Mac McClellan to Stonewall Jackson: The Peninsula and Shenandoah Valley CampaignsProf. Greg Jackson
50: Mississippi Valley 1862: The Battles of New Orleans, Corinth, Memphis, and VicksburgProf. Greg Jackson
59: Stone’s River, Suspending Habeas Corpus, Vicksburg, & Stonewall’s Death at ChancellorsvilleProf. Greg Jackson
61: The Louisiana Native Guard, the 54th Massachusetts & On: Black Soldiers in the Civil WarProf. Greg Jackson
Bonus: A Chat about Southern Accents w/ Jeremy Collins from "Podcasts We Listen To"Prof. Greg Jackson
64: Grant's Overland Campaign: The Battles of the Wilderness, Spotsylvania, Cold Harbor, & PetersburgProf. Greg Jackson
75: Reconstruction (Part 3): The Rise of the KKK and the First Black Men in GovernmentProf. Greg Jackson
79: The Indian Wars (Part 3): Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce & Standing Bear’s Fight for Civil RightsProf. Greg Jackson
83: Transcontinental Railroad (pt 1): Industrialization, Ted Judah & The Rise of the Central PacificProf. Greg Jackson
84: Transcontinental Railroad (pt 2): Dr. Thomas Durant, The Union Pacific & “Hell on Wheels”Prof. Greg Jackson
85: Transcontinental Railroad (pt 3): The Central Pacific, Chinese Workers, & The Golden SpikeProf. Greg Jackson
86: Gunslingers & Outlaws (pt 1): The Second Industrial Revolution, Sam Bass & Billy the KidProf. Greg Jackson
87:Gunslingers & Outlaws (pt 2): Pearl Hart, Tombstone, Jesse James, B. Cassidy & The Sundance KidProf. Greg Jackson
91: The Gilded Age, Industrialization, and Assassination of President James GarfieldProf. Greg Jackson
94: Epilogue to Gilded Age Part I (or Gilded Age interlude w/ Significant HTDS Updates)Prof. Greg Jackson
95: "Several Thousand Things that Won't Work:" Thomas Alva Edison and His Electric LightProf. Greg Jackson
96: The War of the Currents: (Thomas Alva Edison v. Nikola Tesla & George Westinghouse)Prof. Greg Jackson
98: Silver & Gold: From Grover Cleveland to William Jennings Bryan & William McKinleyProf. Greg Jackson
99: The Gilded Age’s Singer Sewing Machines & Dangerous Bananas w/ Dr. Ben Sawyer of The Road To NowProf. Greg Jackson
100: Halloween Special! Edgar Allan Poe: The Tell-tale Heart, The Cask of Amontillado, & The RavenProf. Greg Jackson
101: The New South, Jim Crow (Plessy v. Ferguson), & the Death of Frederick DouglassProf. Greg Jackson
105: “A Splendid Little War:” The Spanish-American War and Theodore Roosevelt’s Rough RidersProf. Greg Jackson
108: G.O. 100, “The Water Cure,” & The Law of War in the Early-20th Century with Professor Ryan VogelProf. Greg Jackson
112: A Square Deal (pt. 1): Corp. Regulation—a coal strike, a trust, & Teddy’s Frenemy J.P. MorganProf. Greg Jackson
113: A Square Deal (pt. 2): Consumer Protection–The FDA, & Ida Tarbell muckrakes Standard OilProf. Greg Jackson
114: A Square Deal (pt. 3): “Leave it as it is” (Teddy Roosevelt & Conservationism)Prof. Greg Jackson
116: Teddy Roosevelt’s Foreign Policy: From Big Stick Diplomacy to the Panama CanalProf. Greg Jackson
127: Mr. Wilson Goes to Washington (Progressive Policies & Foreign Affairs in South America)Prof. Greg Jackson
128: The Causes of World War I (From the Congress of Vienna to Franz Ferdinand & the Marne)Prof. Greg Jackson
129: World War I Before the US (Military Tech, Trenches, Global Armies, Ypres, Verdun & the Somme)Prof. Greg Jackson
132: The US Enters WWI (RMS Lusitania, Black Tom Island, & The Zimmermann Telegram)Prof. Greg Jackson
133: Heading “Over There:” “Black Jack” Pershing & Creating WWI’s American Expeditionary ForceProf. Greg Jackson
150: The Great War’s Aftermath: Coming Home, The Spanish Flu, & The Tomb of the Unknown SoldierProf. Greg Jackson
151: The First Red Scare - Bombings, The Palmer Raids, Eugene Debs, and J. Edgar HooverProf. Greg Jackson
152: The Second Ku Klux Klan: Racism, Anti-Semitism, & Anti-Catholicism in the 1920sProf. Greg Jackson
153: West Virginia’s Mine Wars: From Trouble in Matewan to the Battle of Blair MountainProf. Greg Jackson
162: The Birth of the Movies: From Silent Cinema to the Rise of Hollywood & the First “Talkie”Prof. Greg Jackson