Best Prof Greg Jackson Podcasts (2024)

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158: Prohibition - So You Wanna Be a Rum Runner? 55:55

3d ago55:55

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“You’re Bill McCoy.” “Never heard of him.” This is the story of a crazy decade-plus when America outlawed booze…but the liquor kept flowing. The Prohibition era marks a partial return to the Golden Age of Piracy, with bootleggers frequenting old haunts in the Caribbean, including Nassau, capital of The Bahamas. These sailors are also buying, sellin…

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157: Temperance, Prohibition, and the Path to the 18th Amendment 1:00:01

17d ago1:00:01

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Episode Description: “Farewell, you good-for-nothing, God-forsaken, iniquitous, bleary-eyed, bloated-faced old imp of perdition, farewell!” This is the story of the path to prohibition. Early America drinks a lot – I mean, A LOT. Alcohol doesn’t give you dysentery, it’s used as a medicine, and in the first decades of the Republic, whiskey is cheape…

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156: The Presidency of “Silent” Cal Coolidge 1:00:33

1M ago1:00:33

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“I believe I can swing it.” This is the story of the Coolidge Administration. Calvin Coolidge isn’t the most talkative guy–he’s painfully shy, to be frank–but “Silent Cal” does care deeply about public service. Over the years, the thrifty, hard-working New Englander moves up the ranks, from municipal offices to state offices, until, as Massachusett…

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155: The Life & Times of Warren G. Harding & The Teapot Dome Scandal 1:06:52

2M ago1:06:52

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“If you knew of a great scandal in our administration, would you for the good of the country and the party expose it publicly or would you bury it?” This is the story of a brilliant man’s presidency and the greatest presidential scandal to precede Watergate. This is the story of Warren G. Harding and the Teapot Dome Scandal. Growing up in Ohio, War…

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154: An Epilogue Discussion with Ben Sawyer 1:01:01

2M ago1:01:01

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The Prof. sits down with fellow Prof. Ben Sawyer of the Road to Now Podcast and Middle Tennessee State University to chat through the last volume episodes. Russia, the Red Scare, the second Klan, and more, while Ben gets Greg to share behind-the-scenes details on the writing process. Enjoy! ____ Connect with us on HTDSpodcast.com and go deep into e…

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153: West Virginia’s Mine Wars: From Trouble in Matewan to the Battle of Blair Mountain 1:02:06

3M ago1:02:06

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“I want to say make no settlement until they sign up that every bloody murderer of a guard has got to go.” This is the story of the largest uprising in the United States since the Civil War. As unions spread across the Progressive-Era United States, West Virginia mine owners manage to keep them out. They have some good reasons (tough margins) and s…

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152: The Second Ku Klux Klan: Racism, Anti-Semitism, & Anti-Catholicism in the 1920s 1:02:34

3M ago1:02:34

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“Every official except one elected yesterday at the first municipal election of this borough had been endorsed by the Ku Klux Klan.” This is the story of the Second Ku Klux Klan. It’s been nearly half a century since the Third Enforcement Act killed off the Klan in 1871. But amid Jim Crow segregation in 1915, the lynching of a Jewish Georgian Leo F…

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151: The First Red Scare - Bombings, The Palmer Raids, Eugene Debs, and J. Edgar Hoover 1:02:22

3M ago1:02:22

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“Palmer, do not let this country see red.” This is the story of America’s First Red Scare. On June 2, 1919, Attorney General Mitchell Palmer is just going to bed when the first floor of his home is blown apart. It was a bomb, and part of a larger plot to attack several national leaders. It’s the work of anarchists. Shaken to the core, Mitch is dete…

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150: The Great War’s Aftermath: Coming Home, The Spanish Flu, & The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier 1:03:42

4M ago1:03:42

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“I keep wondering if the Unknown Soldier is one of my men.” This is the story of the United States coping with and facing the aftermath of World War I. The American Expeditionary Force in France is breaking up but that means a lot of different things as doughboys occupy Germany, go fight in Russia, convalesce, or just head home. If only going home …

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149: WWI Epilogue 50:19

6M ago50:19

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The Episode to end all … World War I episodes. Professor Jackson sits down with Kelsi Dynes to talk through all the things that didn’t make it into the final Great War episodes and go big picture on the Meuse-Argonne, Armistice, and Treaty of Versailles. Connect with us on HTDSpodcast.com and go deep into episode bibliographies and book recommendat…

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148: Tales of Christmas from World War I (A Truce, Plum Pudding, and Love) 38:42

7M ago38:42

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“The circumstances under which we are spending this particular Christmas are unusual.” This is the story of the Christmases of World War I. Germans and British troops, singing carols together. French and German troops, kicking, playing sports and exchanging treats. It may not last, but for a brief moment–for Christmas of 1914–these opposing armies …

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147: Peacemaking in Paris: The Treaty of Versailles 1:06:34

7M ago1:06:34

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“A Peace which cannot be defended in the name of justice before the whole world would continually call forth fresh resistance” This is the story of peacemaking in 1919–a fraught peacemaking. With the Armistice signed, some 30 nations (led by the major Allied Powers) are gathering in Paris, France, to deliberate on the terms they’ll give to Germany.…

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146: The Armistice of November 11, 1918 1:05:17

8M ago1:05:17

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“The German delegation has come to receive the proposals of the Allied Powers looking to an armistice.” This is the story of guns falling silent across war-ravaged fronts–the story of the Great War’s armistice between Germany and the Allied Powers. Sailors are mutinying. Soldiers are breaking. A revolution–possibly a Bolshevist revolution–is knocki…

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145: Halloween Special 2023: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow 48:40

8M ago48:40

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“If I can but reach that bridge,” thought Ichabod, “I am safe.” This is the story of schoolmaster Ichabod Crane and his ride home after an evening spent trying to woo Katrina Van Tassel at a party hosted by her father at their idyllic farm in rural New York. It’s a terrifying ride–perhaps as deadly as Ichabod’s pursuer is headless. For this third H…

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144: A Conversation with Ken Burns - Storytelling and the American Buffalo 34:08

9M ago34:08

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Professor Greg Jackson sits down with legendary documentary filmmaker Ken Burns about his latest film The American Buffalo which has a two-part premiere in the US on PBS beginning Monday, Oct. 16, 2023. Some refer to Ken Burns as a historian, but he would be quick to tell you that he considers himself a storyteller. His latest documentary The Ameri…

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143: The Meuse-Argonne Offensive (pt.2) – Breaking the Kriemhilde Line 59:02

9M ago59:02

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“All right, General. We’ll take it, or my name will head the list.” This is the story of Meuse-Argonne and the Americans’ continued struggles to take the Kriemhilde Line. Tennessean Alvin York hates war, yet he finds himself an unlikely hero when his youthful days of hunting turn him into a prisoner-taking sharpshooter as the US First Army presses …

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142: The Meuse-Argonne Offensive (pt.1) – “The Lost Battalion” 56:18

10M ago56:18

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“Our own artillery is dropping a barrage directly on us. For heaven’s sake, stop it.” This is the story of the Meuse-Argonne Offensive’s beginnings. “Tout le monde à la bataille.” So says Ferdinand Foch as the Allies hit the Germans from several pressure points at once. For the Americans, that means fighting between the thick woods of the Argonne F…

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158: Prohibition - So You Wanna Be a Rum Runner? 55:55

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157: Temperance, Prohibition, and the Path to the 18th Amendment 1:00:01

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156: The Presidency of “Silent” Cal Coolidge 1:00:33

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155: The Life & Times of Warren G. Harding & The Teapot Dome Scandal 1:06:52

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154: An Epilogue Discussion with Ben Sawyer 1:01:01

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153: West Virginia’s Mine Wars: From Trouble in Matewan to the Battle of Blair Mountain 1:02:06

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152: The Second Ku Klux Klan: Racism, Anti-Semitism, & Anti-Catholicism in the 1920s 1:02:34

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151: The First Red Scare - Bombings, The Palmer Raids, Eugene Debs, and J. Edgar Hoover 1:02:22

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150: The Great War’s Aftermath: Coming Home, The Spanish Flu, & The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier 1:03:42

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149: WWI Epilogue 50:19

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148: Tales of Christmas from World War I (A Truce, Plum Pudding, and Love) 38:42

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147: Peacemaking in Paris: The Treaty of Versailles 1:06:34

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146: The Armistice of November 11, 1918 1:05:17

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145: Halloween Special 2023: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow 48:40

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144: A Conversation with Ken Burns - Storytelling and the American Buffalo 34:08

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143: The Meuse-Argonne Offensive (pt.2) – Breaking the Kriemhilde Line 59:02

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142: The Meuse-Argonne Offensive (pt.1) – “The Lost Battalion” 56:18

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