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Print the Legend
by Daxus Nesossi
Covering the stories that made up America and the stories America made up, this Podcast journeys through key points in AP US History.
Episodes
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Season 1/Episode 2: A City Upon a Hill - The Pilgrims and the Puritans
The 1620s were a time of political and religious turmoil in England. The protracted struggle for supremacy between monarch and Parliament reached new heights in 1629, when King Charles I disbanded the rival body and ruled alone for 11 years. Official pressure was also applied on religious...
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Season 1/Episode 1: Jamestown - British Economic Settlement in the New World
The New World wasn't exactly new. Native Americans, for thousands of years, prospered before European contact. Spain possessed much of South America, while France acquired the central portions of North America. On May 14, 1607, a group of roughly 100 British members of a joint venture called the...
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Season 2/Episode 27: The Vietnam War - On the Homefront
By November 1967, the number of American troops in Vietnam was approaching 500,000, and U.S. casualties had reached 15,058 killed and 109,527 wounded. As the war stretched on, some soldiers came to mistrust the government’s reasons for keeping them there, as well as Washington’s repeated claims...
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Season 2/Episode 21: The Cold War - Containment
During World War II, the United States and the Soviet Union fought together as allies against the Axis powers. However, the relationship between the two nations was a tense one. Americans had long been wary of Soviet communism and concerned about Russian leader Joseph Stalin’s tyrannical,...
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Season 2/Episode 20: World War II - Victory in Europe and Japan
On June 6, 1944 – observed as “D-Day” - the Allied began a massive invasion of Europe, landing 156,000 British, Canadian and American soldiers on the beaches of Normandy, France. In response, Hitler poured all the remaining strength of his army into the Battle of the Bulge, the last major German...
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Season 2/Episode 17: The New Deal - America Rebuilds
The New Deal was a series of programs and projects instituted during the Great Depression by President Franklin D. Roosevelt that aimed to restore prosperity to Americans. When Roosevelt took office in 1933, he acted swiftly to stabilize the economy and provide jobs and relief to those who were...
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Season 2/Episode 15: The Roaring 20s - In Reality
The Roaring 20s conjures up images of happy people dancing the Charleston, listening to jazz in Harlem nightclubs, and drinking bathtub gin. In many ways this was a decade dominated by optimism, as people enjoyed the conveniences that technology brought into their lives. Yet the 1920s were also...
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Season 2/Episode 14: The Roaring 20s - On the Surface
The war was over and many Americans spent the 1920s in a great mood. Investors flocked to a rising stock market. Companies launched brand-new, cutting-edge products, like radios and washing machines. Exuberant Americans kicked up their heels to jazz music, tried crazy stunts, and supported a…
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Season 2/Episode 12: The Great War - The U.S. at Home and Abroad
On June 26, the first 14,000 U.S. infantry troops landed in France to begin training for combat. But not everyone wanted to join. It took a large propaganda effort and a draft to fill the ranks. It worked. The entrance of America’s well-supplied forces into the conflict marked a major turning…
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Season 2/Episode 11: The Great War - Straining U.S. Neutrality
During the summer of 1914, the tensions in Europe that had been growing for many years culminated with the assassination of Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand by a Serbian terrorist organization. Within less than a month, two coalitions emerged—the Central Powers and the Allied Powers. As war…
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Season 2/Episode 9: The Progressive Era - The White House
When President McKinley was assassinated and Theodore Roosevelt took office in 1901, progressivism became a powerful national movement. During his tenure as president, Roosevelt was a loud and effective advocate for “trust-busting,” the breaking up of enormous monopolies that had controlled…
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Season 2/Episode 8: The Progressive Era - Main Street
Progressivism responded to the economic and social problems of a rapidly industrializing America at the turn of the 20th century. What began as a social movement, later grew into a political movement, largely out of its predecessor, the Populist movement. Progressives lived mainly in the cities,...
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Season 2/Episode 6: The Frontier - Populism
Throughout the 1880s, local political action groups known as Farmers' Alliances grew rapidly among Middle Westerners and Southerners, who were discontented because of crop failures, falling prices, and poor marketing and debt. Although it won some significant regional victories, the alliances...
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Season 2/Episode 5: The Frontier - Gold, Cattle, & Grain
The Wild West, the American frontier, holds a special place in American history. Western films depict it as a place where the rules didn't apply, and where scores were settled with gun-slinging and shootouts. Early 20th Century Historian Frederick Jackson Turner argued that the frontier was not...
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Season 2/Episode 4: The Gilded Age - Politics and Urbanization
Innovations of the Gilded Age helped usher in modern America. Urbanization and technological creativity led to many engineering advances such as bridges and canals, elevators and skyscrapers, trolley lines and subways. But while the middle and upper classes enjoyed the allure of city life, little...
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Season 2/Episode 3: The Gilded Age - Labor
In the mid-19th century, the vast majority of American work was still done on the farm. By the turn of the 20th century, the United States economy revolved around the factory. The labor movement in the United States grew out of the need to protect the common interest of workers. For those in the...
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Season 2/Episode 2: The Gilded Age - Wealth
The late 19th Century was met with unprecedented levels of wealth. Railroads and soon, telephone lines, stretched across the country, creating new opportunities for entrepreneurs and cheaper goods for consumers. But a nation that had long viewed itself in idyllic terms, as a nation of small…
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Season 2/Episode 1: The Gilded Age - Railroads
Beginning in the early 1870s, railroad construction in the United States increased dramatically. Prior to 1871, approximately 45,000 miles of track had been laid. Between 1871 and 1900, another 170,000 miles were added to the nation's growing railroad system. Much of the growth can be attributed…
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Covering the stories that made up America and the stories America made up, this Podcast journeys through key points in AP US History.
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Print the Legend is created and hosted by Daxus Nesossi.
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