My History Can Beat Up Your Politics
Kanaal Besonderhede
My History Can Beat Up Your Politics
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32 episodes
ZACHARY TAYLOR - Part 3
It comes down to milk and cherries? Plans change when a nation's hero falls, and historians go to work, reinterpreting the events of 1850.
Lea...
ZACHARY TAYLOR PART 2
They thought he was an illiterate frontier colonel. They thought he'd never use the veto. Never comment on issues. Let Congress do the heavy lifting....
ZACHARY TAYLOR - Part 1
A new President comes to Washington. No one knows what to expect.
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WAR POWERS
Presidents and Congress and use of military. A look at history. Presidents and Congresses, and a specific legislation that applies that is used, ignor...
EVEN MORE 90s EPHEMERA
CNN confirms that a missile strike hit for the White House, Japanese politics implodes, a grunge music tragedy and strange local traditions make mains...
MORE ABOUT THE KEN BURNS AMERICAN REVOLUTION DOCUMENTARY AND BEN FRANKLIN
Deeper dive on Ken Burns documentary and Franklin and Iroquois Confederacy debate. Plus: Iran Iraq war and midterms.
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KEN BURNS AMERICAN REVOLUTION DOCUMENTARY - A FEW THOUGHTS
No I don't think the Iroquois Confederacy influenced th Revolution much. (Nor do I think Burns says this). And I take a little issue with American Rev...
CHESTER ARTHUR - PART 5: "HE IS NOT ARTHUR ANYMORE, HE IS THE PRESIDENT!"
The untold story of the 21st President. Music by Lee Rosevere, and others.
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DEATH BY LIGHTNING: My Opinion of the Netflix Series, and Other Thoughts
Well, the 1880's finally has some visual media coverage. That's the good news.
JOHNSTOWN FLOOD
"The real cause of the damage was the dam failure" We took on this topic a few years ago. With anniversaries of Hurricane Katrina not that far, one mi...
THE ZINGER THAT SAVED AMERICA: WEBSTER'S REPLY TO HAYNE
The Union threatened by legislative fiat, a Senator rose to reply to another. For Daniel Webster, it was a real comeback, What we might call a "zinger...
1990'S EPHEMERA
Push in the drawer of your CD-ROM and enjoy random stories of politics and culture from the 1990's. that did not get much notice since.
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TALKING BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN'S NEBRASKA ALBUM (WITH MUSIC REWIND PODCAST)
In this very special episode we replay Bruce's appearance on Music Rewind Podcast (https://www.musicrewindpodcast.com/) to talk about Bruce Springste...
THE SURPRISING HISTORY OF RANKED CHOICE VOTING
The very Republican and business-like history of American ranked choice voting and single transferable votes, first used in a major city in the 1920's...
TRENTON TREND: NJ OFF-YEAR GOVERNOR ELECTIONS
A few good yarns about the Garden State and politics. Does the state always vote against the party in the White House? No. Not when a candidate hustl...
Move My Bill! A History of Discharge Petitions
It is a rarely used tactic, but when it works, it can do big things, like moving a bill through Congress even if the Speaker doesn't support it. From...
FRIENDLY SKIES - The Story of Airline Deregulation
A Democratic President and a liberal Senator push a free-market reform in the late 1970s that affects us all today. We look at the story of the Airlin...
1913
Recorded in 2013, about a time now more than a century and 12 years ago.
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VALLEY FORGE: MYTH AND REALITY - Interview with Bob Drury and Tom Clavin
Valley Forge Myth and Reality - Interview with Bob Drury and Tom Clavin, Authors of Valley Forge
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The Forgotten Forage War of 1777: Realities of the Revolution
Did New Jersey Save the Revolutionary Cause? Maybe. Amid a sea of troubles, irregular units fight off the British and make their stay in New Jersey le...
THEY WILL JUBILATE! - WHAT IT WAS LIKE AFTER CLEVELAND'S SECOND NON-CONSECUTIVE ELECTION, NOV 1892.
Eagles, elephants, trumpets and hot, hot typeface. We bring you back to the last time a President came back after losing a re-election, and read from...
I WAS BORN IN 1869: GENERATIONS IN POLITICS
What was it like to be born in 1869?
A generation defined by a technology that shook off the yoke of their parent's Civil War and took...
HISTORY OF SHUTDOWNS (from 2013)
Lyndon Johnson wouldn't have been familiar with a shutdown. Grant might have, but it didn't work out the way modern ones do during his time. No, all...
DRINKING WITH FDR
From his bamboo shaker to his views on prohibition, all about Franklin Roosevelt and drinking.
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EXTRAS from the Airline Deregulation Story
Stories of baseball, banking and love. More from our episode on airline deregulation. What was left on the legal pad and didn't make it into the episo...
JEFFERSON AND ADAMS
A look at the famous series of letters between Jefferson and Adams. Friends as young diplomats, they 'unfriended' and 'refriended' from the time of th...
Extras from the "Undeniably Unconsecutive" Grover Cleveland Episode
Campaign songs, Kangaroo Ballots, The Dapper Governor Hill. More Burke Cockran and Churchill. Everything we left out of the podcast episode about Gove...
I AM JAMES BUCHANAN
He's the President that is on the bottom of most lists. But why? And is it fair? What did he think about his place in history? We talk about POTUS 15...
Elvis Meets Nixon - The Insider Story
It was a strange series of event that lead to the King of Rock and Roll and President Nixon to meet at the White House. A look at a frenetic day at th...
George Washington's English Ancestors, Coolidge's Electric Horse and Other Stories
A hodge-podcast of bits of things. A bit about the Washington family, and ancestors he didn't know that he had. And some follow ups from other casts....
Saturday Night Nixon: The Firing That Sealed Watergate
The Saturday Night Massacre was the name given to the triple firing of a special prosecutor investigating President Nixon, the AG and the deputy AG on...
Scots Irish in American History and Politics
a look at an older historic nationality that was/is very influential.
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