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52: The Gipper's Gambit: Navigating the Reagan Assassination Attempt
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In this episode, we look at the assassination attempt of President Ronald Reagan.
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51: The Shadows of Dealey Plaza: The JFK Assassination
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In this episode, we look at the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
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50: The Bullet That Changed Security: The Truman Assassination Attempt
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In this episode, we look at the assassination attempt of President Harry S. Truman.
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49: Echoes of Infamy: The Plot to Silence FDR
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In this episode, we look at the assassination attempt of Franklin D. Roosevelt.
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48: Bullet and Bull Moose: The Plot to Assassinate Teddy Roosevelt
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In this episode, we look at the assassination plot of Teddy Roosevelt.
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47: The McKinley Chronicles: Unraveling the Threads of an American Tragedy
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In this episode, we take a look at the assassination of President William McKinley.
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46: The Bullet and the Bell: The Tragic Tale of James Garfield's Assassination
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In this episode, we look at the assassination of President James A. Garfield.
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45: Shadows of Ford's Theatre - The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
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In this episode, we dive into the conspiracy to assassinate President Lincoln.
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44: Safeguarding Secrets: The History of the Hidden Shield
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In this episode, we look at the history behind the US Secret Service.
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43: Shots Fired: The Scheme to Silence Old Hickory
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In this episode, we look at the assassination plot of President Andrew Jackson.
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The new season released on January 8, 2024!
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In episode 42 we dive into the Great Awakening movement, primarily focusing on the first wave which took place in the 1730s and 1740s. We will discuss the catalysts of the movement as well, men like Jonathan Edwards, George Whitefield, and John Wesley.
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In episode 41 we discuss the most violent slave rebellion in the British North American colonies which took place in the colony of South Carolina in 1739.
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In episode 40 we look at the regional differences when it relates to religion. We will also look at just how committed the colonists were to religion, and analyze which denominations were more prominent by 1776.
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In episode 39 we look at the origins of slavery in the North American colonies.
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In episode 38 we take a look at the voyages of Englishman Henry Hudson, the courageous, stubborn, and even reckless explorer, as he tries to find shortcuts to Asia.
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In today's episode, we take a deep dive into the lost colony at Roanoke Island.
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In today's episode, we take a look at the only successful Native uprising in North America during the 17th century, Po'pay's Rebellion, or as we know it historically, The Pueblo Revolt of 1680.
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We are coming out with new episodes in the next few weeks, details can be found in the podcast.
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In this episode, we will discuss one of the most difficult stories of racial terror lynchings in American history, the murder of Mary Turner.
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In this episode, we discuss the 1921 massacre that occurred in the Greenwood District, a black community located in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
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In this episode, we look at the immediate effects of The Birth of a Nation (1915), World War I, and the Great Migration. James Weldon Johnson will coin this bloody summer in 1919 the Red Summer.
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32: D.W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation (1915)
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In this episode, we discuss the dangerous and racist film The Birth of a Nation (1915) and how this film gave way to the largest form of domestic terrorism our nation has ever seen.
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In this episode, we examine the 1933 lynching of a teacher in Jefferson County, Alabama.
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In this episode, we examine the 1916 lynching of prominent black businessman Anthony Crawford of Abbeville, SC.
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In this episode we examine the 1908 presumed guilt and public lynching of Ted Smith in Greenville, Texas.
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In the episode, we discuss one of four recorded lynchings from Marengo County, AL.
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In this episode, we will examine the 1893 presumed guilt and public lynching of Henry Smith in Paris, Texas.
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26: The Lynchings of Calvin McDowell, William Steward, and Thomas Moss
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In this episode, we examine the 1892 lynchings of black business owners in Memphis, Tennessee.
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24: The Emmett Till Story w/ Gary Jones
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In this episode, our guest Gary Jones, Assistant Dean of Students at Oklahoma Christian University and founder of History Speaks, discusses the 1955 kidnap and murder of Emmett Till in Mississippi.
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23: Landmark Supreme Court Cases w/ Curt Covington (Part 2)
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In this episode, we will discuss Brown v. Board of Education, Gideon v. Wainwright, Miranda v. Arizona, Tinker v. Des Moines, Roe v. Wade, and Regents of the University of California v. Bakke with attorney Curt Covington.
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22: Landmark Supreme Court Cases w/ Curt Covington (Part 1)
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In this episode, we are joined by trial lawyer Curt Covington, a construction and litigation attorney with a great passion for constitutional law and Supreme Court opinions with experience in advising faith-based non-profits on religious-liberty issues. In part one of a two-part series we will discuss Marbury v. Madison, McCulloch v. Maryland, Gibb…
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21: Benjamin Butler and the Army of the James
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In this episode, we examine one of the most controversial and forward-thinking figures of the American Civil War—Benjamin Butler.
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In this episode, we will talk about the greatest, most historic fight songs of all time.
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19. Most Impactful President of All Time?
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We will debate and decide which US President made the greatest impact in American history in a tournament of epic proportions.
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In this episode, we discuss the administration of Harry S. Truman, the decision to drop the atomic bomb, the Marshall Plan, the Truman Doctrine, HUAC hearings, firing an icon, and the election of 1948.
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We explore the impact of the attacks at Pearl Harbor, Executive Order 9066, the Island Hopping Campaign, the Manhattan Project, and much more.
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Mini-episode on the effect that the FDR legacy had on Constitutional law.
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In this episode, we will take a look at FDR as a war-time president.
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In this episode, we will take a deep dive into FDR's Court Packing plan in response to the Supreme Court repeatedly striking down New Deal programs as unconstitutional.
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In this three-episode series on FDR, we will take a direct look at the New Deal initiatives of FDR's administration.
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12: Mini-Episode: Great Depression Era Constitutional Amendments
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In this mini-episode we explain the 20th and 21st Amendments.
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In this episode we will discuss the hard times of the Hoover administration.
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In this episode we discuss the presidencies of Harding, Coolidge, and Hoover.
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In this episode we will discuss WWI, the Treaty of Versailles, and Wilson’s 14 Points.
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8: Mini-Episode: When Did We Start Celebrating Labor Day?
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Celebrating the American laborer
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In this episode we discuss the election of 1912, New Freedom, progressive reforms, and the onset of WWI.
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The administration and legacy of TR
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Quick explanation of amendments 16,17,18,19
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In this episode we will explore the political rise of Theodore Roosevelt.
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