We will relive important parts of the first major league baseball game that was played in Ft. Wayne, Indiana on May 4th 1871. 94 years later another baseball game on May 4th, 1965 will surprise and amaze you with what happened on that cool spring day between two Minnesota high school baseball teams. You will hear amazing selections of music that ar…

The month of April brings the Old Ranger back to the microphone to discuss another Supreme Court decision, Plessy v. Ferguson. It was argued in April 1897—what some historians call the “worst decision in Supreme Court history. We’ll hear how the Plessy Case made both segregation and discrimination “perfectly legal and enforceable” in this Country; …

This podcast is about the cotton gin, invented by Eli Whitney. We will discuss the impact of that labor saving device on the history of the United States including the timing of the civil war and the role that it played in extending the scourge of enslavement of black people in America. Eli Whitney thought his invention would help end that era. In …

This podcast describes the worst decision made by the US Supreme Court in March of 1857 where they decided that slaves were property. It describes the heart breaking history of Dred Scott who lived for 10 years as a free man at Fort Snelling in present day Minnesota. Only later to become a slave again in Missouri. The second section of the podcast …