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106: The US Annexation of the Hawaiian Kingdom
Feb 28, 2022“You have my love, and with sorrow I dismiss you.” This is the story of the Hawaiian Kingdom’s end. Queen Liliuokalani hates the Constitution of 1887–or “Bayonet” Constitution, as it’s known, since ...
105: “A Splendid Little War:” The Spanish-American War and Theodore Roosevelt’s Rough Riders
Feb 14, 2022“Sergeant, the Spanish bullet isn’t made that will kill me.” This is the story of the Spanish-American War. George Dewey’s squadron is in Manila Bay. Henry Glass is bombarding Guam’s Apra Harbor. T...
104: The Road to the Spanish-American War
Jan 31, 2022“Remember the Maine, to hell with Spain!” This is the story of the road to war for American Empire. Ruled by Spain, Cuba has nonetheless been at odds with the Crown for decades. The Caribbean isle ha...
103: A Gilded Age Christmas: Joseph Pulitzer’s Christmas Tree Fund
Dec 20, 2021“Santa can’t fool [me], since the holes in [my] stockings are too big for anything to be put in.” This is the story of Gilded Age giving. Of 30,000 destitute children having a better Christmas becaus...
102: Epilogue to the Gilded Age
Nov 22, 2021Greg sits down with Zach and Kelsi for a chat. They make a rather … LIVE(ly) announcement … then proceed to talk about electricity, tycoons, and the New South. But the conversation can’t end without G...
101: The New South, Jim Crow (Plessy v. Ferguson), & the Death of Frederick Douglass
Nov 08, 2021“Know ye not that there is a prince and a great man fallen this day in Israel?” This is the story of the Gilded Age below the Mason-Dixon Line. In the years since the Civil War, the cotton industry...
100: Halloween Special! Edgar Allan Poe: The Tell-tale Heart, The Cask of Amontillado, & The Raven
Oct 25, 2021‘How, then, am I mad? Hearken! and observe how healthily—how calmly I can tell you the whole story.” This is the story of a man driven to madness by a pale blue eye; the story of a man who’s vowed re...
99: The Gilded Age’s Singer Sewing Machines & Dangerous Bananas w/ Dr. Ben Sawyer of The Road To Now
Oct 11, 2021Did Singer Sewing Machines take over the world? And are bananas as dangerous as they appear in cartoons? The answer to both of these questions are a resounding “yes!” in the Gilded Age. Listen in as t...
98: Silver & Gold: From Grover Cleveland to William Jennings Bryan & William McKinley
Sep 27, 2021“You shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.” This is the story of the Gilded Age’s later presidencies. Grover “the Good” Cleveland is known as a man of integrity and honesty. Those characte...
97: The Gilded Age’s Robber Barons: John D. Rockefeller & Andrew Carnegie
Sep 13, 2021“Someday, some-time, when I am a man, I want to be worth a hundred thousand dollars!” This is the story of two of the United States’ most wealthy industrialists. John D. Rockefeller is the son of a co...