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This Day (An America 250 History Show)
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The Great Grain Robbery (1972)
14 mins; July 15, 2025
Superman's Politics w/ Glen Wheldon [Some Sunday Context]
31 mins; July 13, 2025
The Death Of The DOE (1868)
18 mins; July 10, 2025
The Mormon King Of Beaver Island (1850)
20 mins; July 08, 2025
How America250 Is Coming Together (Part 2)
24 mins; July 06, 2025
America250 Is Here, Are You Ready?
41 mins; July 03, 2025
The Chicken Tariff That Led To Huge Trucks (1962)
14 mins; July 01, 2025
4th Of July, Protest, The Constitution and Slavery (Some Sunday Context)
20 mins; June 29, 2025
LBJ Goes From War On Poverty To War On Crime (1968)
17 mins; June 26, 2025
Wikipedia, The Last Good Place On The Internet (2003) w/ Garrett Graff
31 mins; June 24, 2025
Juneteenth, Federal Holidays, And Writing History In Real Time
11 mins; June 19, 2025
50 Years Of JAWS Terrifying Everyone (1975)
18 mins; June 17, 2025
LBJ Puts Thurgood Marshall On The Court (1967)
23 mins; June 12, 2025
FDR Takes Your Gold (1933)
18 mins; June 10, 2025
LA, The National Guard, Immigration and the Zoot Suit Riots (Some Sunday Context)
27 mins; June 08, 2025
The U.S. Deports A Chinese Scientist (1950)
19 mins; June 05, 2025
Jack Johnson't Big Fight (1913)
21 mins; June 03, 2025
Inside Airline Cockpits (Some Sunday Context) w/ Ganesh Sitaraman
29 mins; June 01, 2025
The Forgotten Resistance To Indian Removal (1830)
18 mins; May 29, 2025
Hippies vs. Hard Hats (1970)
27 mins; May 27, 2025
The 100-Year Butter Battle (1904)
25 mins; May 22, 2025
The MeckDec - North Carolina's Favorite Myth (1775) w/ Jeremy Markovich
25 mins; May 20, 2025
Malcolm X Turns 100 (Some Sunday Context)
20 mins; May 18, 2025
Miami Explodes Into Violence (1980)
22 mins; May 15, 2025
An Early Climate Change Warning Ignored (1957) w/ Amy Westervelt
29 mins; May 13, 2025
SINNERS And The Deep History Of The Mississippi Delta (Some Sunday Context)
24 mins; May 11, 2025
The Woman Who Invented -- And Disowned -- Mother's Day (1914)
17 mins; May 08, 2025
Reagan's German Cemetery Visit Controversy (1985)
18 mins; May 06, 2025
The Women's Health Vacuum (Some Sunday Context)
16 mins; May 04, 2025
Lincoln Needs Troops (1861)
20 mins; May 01, 2025
The Artists Who Worked For The CIA (1960) w/ Benjamen Walker
25 mins; April 29, 2025
The First 100 Days (Some Sunday Context)
42 mins; April 27, 2025
John Paul Jones' Half-Baked Raid On British Soil (1778)
21 mins; April 24, 2025
Betty Ford Enters Rehab (1978)
21 mins; April 22, 2025
Prisons, Photos, CECOT, Abu Ghraib, and What Shocks Us (Some Sunday Context)
25 mins; April 20, 2025
The Battles Of Lexington and Concord -- and Menotomy? (1775)
15 mins; April 17, 2025
The Ludlow Massacre (1914)
22 mins; April 15, 2025
Government vs. Universities (Some Sunday Context)
59 mins; April 13, 2025
The Lynching Of A German Immigrant (1917)
16 mins; April 10, 2025
The First Girl Scouts Cookies (1917)
15 mins; April 08, 2025
Booker, Thurmond, Super-Long Floor Speeches, And Energy (Some Sunday Context)
20 mins; April 06, 2025
Starbucks #RaceTogether Campaign Backfires (2015)
19 mins; April 03, 2025
Carter's Unbelievable Rabbit Vendetta
18 mins; April 01, 2025
Five Lessons For Five Years (Some Sunday Context)
24 mins; March 30, 2025
"I'm Just A Bill" (1976)
17 mins; March 27, 2025
The Church Sancturary Showdown (1980)
18 mins; March 25, 2025
Graceland (Some Sunday Context from Summer Album / Winter Album)
43 mins; March 23, 2025
"Give Me Liberty Or Give Me Death" (1775)
19 mins; March 20, 2025
The First State-Run Lotto (1963) w/ Ian Coss
26 mins; March 18, 2025
Deportation, Protest and John Lennon (Some Sunday Context) w/ Hrishikesh Hirway
29 mins; March 16, 2025
What William Freeman's Act Meant (1846)
22 mins; March 13, 2025
William Freeman's Shocking Revenge (1846) w/ Robin Bernstein (Part 1)
27 mins; March 11, 2025
The US-Canada "Special Relationship" (Some Sunday Context)
14 mins; March 09, 2025
The King Of Haiti (1811)
25 mins; March 06, 2025
Mexico Meddling (1913)
16 mins; March 04, 2025
The Anti-DEI Cycle (Some Sunday Context)
56 mins; March 02, 2025
The Anti-Pay-Toilet Fight (1973)
19 mins; February 27, 2025
The Truth Inside Indian Boarding Schools (1928/2025) w/ Dana Hedgpeth
20 mins; February 25, 2025
A Very Strange Black History Month (Some Sunday Context)
19 mins; February 23, 2025
Why They Banned Dunking (1968) w/ Mike Sielski
25 mins; February 20, 2025
The PTA Is Born (1897)
20 mins; February 18, 2025
The President vs. The Courts (Some Sunday Context)
50 mins; February 16, 2025
SNL Turns Fifty: Our Favorite Political Sketches (1975-2025)
21 mins; February 13, 2025
The Last Senator To Be Expelled (1862)
17 mins; February 11, 2025
Immigration And MAGA (Some Sunday Context)
18 mins; February 09, 2025
The U.S.S. Pueblo Hostage Crisis (1968)
19 mins; February 06, 2025
ABSCAM Arrives (1980)
18 mins; February 04, 2025
Airline Deregulation (Some Sunday Context)
28 mins; February 02, 2025
The "Bedsheet Ballot" (1964)
13 mins; January 30, 2025
The First Issue Of National Geographic (1888)
18 mins; January 28, 2025
The Push To Impeach Perkins (1939) w/ Rebecca Brenner Graham
22 mins; January 26, 2025
Trump's First 48 Hours, In Context
29 mins; January 23, 2025
The Pussy Hat Protests (2017)
20 mins; January 21, 2025
Biden's Farewell Address (2025)
32 mins; January 19, 2025
Prohibition Starts, Everyone Still Drinks (1920)
18 mins; January 16, 2025
Elizabeth Packard Is Not Insane (1864) w/ Therese O'Neill
22 mins; January 14, 2025
Presenting: A Breach Repairer's Song w/ Terrence Blanchard
42 mins; January 12, 2025
The Panama Canal Flag Riots (1964)
20 mins; January 09, 2025
Pardon Season, And A Case Before Biden w/ Shannon Lynch
25 mins; January 07, 2025
Emancipation, Of Sorts (1863) w/ Jonathan Lande
23 mins; January 05, 2025
Hello 2025! How History Will Help
30 mins; January 02, 2025
Goodbye Jimmy Carter, Goodbye 2024
36 mins; December 30, 2024
Cheney Shoots His Friend (2006) [[Archive Episode]]
18 mins; December 29, 2024
You Can Smoke, But.. (1987) w/ Sarah Milov
28 mins; December 26, 2024
R.A.D.D. - Reagan Against Drunk Driving (1982)
19 mins; December 24, 2024
Ike Wages War On A Golf Course Tree (1956)
15 mins; December 22, 2024
Gold Rush! (1848)
15 mins; December 19, 2024
Mail Delivery For Everyone (1896)
19 mins; December 17, 2024
The Polio Vaccine Arrives! (1954) [Archive Episode]
20 mins; December 15, 2024
Al Gore's Concession Speech (2000) w/ Leon Neyfakh
30 mins; December 12, 2024
Clinton's National Conversation On Race (1997)
26 mins; December 10, 2024
What "The Wizard Of Oz" Might Mean (1900-Present) w/ Ranjit Dighe
31 mins; December 08, 2024
Till, Memory, History and Place w/ Wright Thompson
15 mins; December 05, 2024
What Really Killed Emmett Till (1955) w/ Wright Thompson
28 mins; December 03, 2024
Franksgiving: When FDR Moved Thanksgiving w/ Adam Conover [Archive Episode]
22 mins; November 28, 2024
The Red Delicious Apple Crisis (2000)
21 mins; November 26, 2024
A Treaty Divvies Up The Colorado River (1922) w/ Charly Edsitty
21 mins; November 24, 2024
The National Women's Conference, and the Schlafly Backlash (1977)
21 mins; November 21, 2024
Fluoride To The Rescue (1945) [Archive Episode]
15 mins; November 19, 2024
Memory Palace Week: The Art Of Storytelling w/ Nate DiMeo
23 mins; November 17, 2024
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