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82: Best Mini Episodes and Cold Opens of 2020
Jan 18, 2021“Gentlemen, what is the cause of this violence?” This is the story of HTDS's 2020. Most people wouldn’t call last year a good one. Doesn’t mean we didn’t have some fun mini-episodes and cold opens her...
81: Epilogue to Volume 6: Reconstruction and The Indian Wars
Jan 04, 2021“The older I get the more I’m convinced that it’s the purpose of politicians and journalists to say the world is very simple, whereas it’s the purpose of historians to say, ‘No! It’s very complicated....
80: “Yes, Virginia, There is a Santa Claus:” A History
Dec 21, 2020“Church bristled and pooh-poohed at the subject when I suggested that he write a reply to Virginia O’Hanlon.” This is the story of America’s most famous editorial. Virginia O’Hanlon is an inquisitive ...
79: The Indian Wars (Part 3): Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce & Standing Bear’s Fight for Civil Rights
Dec 07, 2020“Does this court think an Indian is a competent witness?” This is the story of the start of Indigenous civil rights. Since the arrival of Lewis and Clark, the Nez Perce have lived peacefully beside US...
78: The Indian Wars (Part 2): The Battle of the Little Bighorn (the Greasy Grass)
Nov 23, 2020“There’s a good fight coming over the hill. That’s where the big fight is going to be. We’ll not miss that one.” This is the story of the Battle of the Little Bighorn (or the Greasy Grass). In 1868, ...
77: The Indian Wars (Part 1): The U.S.-Dakota War
Nov 09, 2020“To be hanged by the neck until he is dead.” This is the story of the US-Dakota War. The most eastern of the three major Sioux peoples, the Dakota are indigenous to Minnesota. They’ve lived beside tra...
76: Reconstruction (Part 4): The Battle of Liberty Place and the Mississippi Plan
Oct 26, 2020“Hang Kellogg! We’ll fight!” This is the story of the end of Reconstruction. Voter fraud and intimidation has made Louisiana’s 1872 Gubernatorial election a mess. So, when a Federal judge and Republ...
75: Reconstruction (Part 3): The Rise of the KKK and the First Black Men in Government
Oct 12, 2020“Boys, let us get up a club or society of some description.” This is the story of Reconstruction peaking and its opponents organizing to fight back. With Radical Republicans at the helm of Reconstru...
74: Reconstruction (Part 2): The Presidency of Ulysses S. Grant
Sep 28, 2020"The office has come to me unsought; I commence its duties untrammeled. I bring to it a conscious desire and determination to fill it to the best of my ability to the satisfaction of the people. " Th...
73: Reconstruction (Part 1): The Impeachment of Andrew Johnson
Sep 14, 2020“You are placed in a position where you have the power to save or destroy us; to bless or blast us--I mean our whole race.” This is the story of the first US Presidency to end in impeachment. This is ...