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Civics & Coffee: A History Podcast — 338 episodes
The Long March: Women's Fight For The Vote
Revolutionary Sound: Dr. Austin McCoy on Living in a D.A.I.S.Y. Age
American Opulence: The Gilded Age Mansion
The Vanishing First Lady: Lucretia Garfield
The Whistle Stop: Shannon McKenna Schmidt on You Can't Catch Us
Delusions of Grandeur: Charles Guiteau Part Two
Delusions of Grandeur: Charles Guiteau Part One
The Power of the Dress: Dr. Elizabeth Block on Gilded Age Fashion
A President Forgotten: James Garfield Part Two
Misplaced Rage: Fear and Fury with Heather Ann Thompson
Past, Present & Future: Rosie the Riveter Reporting for Duty
Complicated Legacies: Thy Will Be Done with John Garrison Marks
A President Forgotten: James Garfield Part One
Grief, Love, and Connection: The Missing Pages with Alyson Richman
Indian Boarding Schools in America: The Carlisle Indian Industrial School
History Makers: Presidential Seclusion with Charles Ferguson
Titans or Crooks: The Men Who Built Industrial America
The Exodusters: The Great Migration You Haven’t Heard About
Selling Out Santa: A Deep Dive into Post-War Cinema with Dr. Vaughn Joy
The Posse Comitatus Act Explained
Run to Freedom: The Nez Perce War
The Power of Representation: Dr. Orr on House of Diggs
Lucy Webb Hayes: The Quietly Radical First Lady
The Great Railroad Strike of 1877: The Uprising That Shocked the Nation
Predator or Prey: The Real Jaws with Rachel Lee Perez
From Disputed Election to Gilded Age Leader: Rutherford B Hayes Part 2
From Disputed Election to Gilded Age Leader: Rutherford B Hayes Part 1
Welcome to the Gilded Age: Wealth, Upheaval, and Reinvention
Beyond Patriots vs. Loyalists: The Global American Revolution with Dr. Richard Bell
With Her Own Hands: Dr. Nicole Nehrig on Women, Work, and the Meaning of Making
Entangled Alliances: The Global Roots of American Freedom with Dr. Ronald Angelo Johnson
Fearless Women: Exploring Patriotic Feminism with Dr. Elizabeth Cobbs
The Election of 1876: Bargain or Betrayal?
The Fourth Annual Friendsgiving Podcast Spectacular
The Battle of Little Bighorn: The Victory That Doomed a Nation
Inside The Gods of New York: Johnathan Mahler on the Decade That Remade the City
The Alien Enemies Act: When Fear Became Law—and Never Left
Reconstruction's Legacy: The Second Founding That Could Have Been
Public Memory & Myths: Matthew Davis on A Biography of a Mountain
The Insurrection Act: A Civics Lesson in Power, Law, and Order
Victoria Woodhull: Eden Collinsworth on a Most Improbable Life
The Fever That Haunted the South: The Forgotten Epidemic of 1878
Before Jack the Ripper: The Savage Crimes of the Servant Girl Annihilator
Holy Local: Shae Corey on Religion, Oral History, and Public Memory in D.C.
Diamond in the Rough: The Murder of Bessie Moore
Louisiana Voodoo: Untangling the Myths, the Magic, and the History
White Man’s Law Rules the Country: The Modoc War
A Version of Sisterhood: Unwed & Unbothered with Emma Duval
Community Care: Black Women During Reconstruction
Unpacking the Mind Behind Vietnam: Dr. William Taubman on McNamara At War
Talking to Books: Education during Reconstruction
Landscape of Ruin: The Southern Economy during Reconstruction
Art, Ambition & the Gilded Age: The Miniature Painter Revealed with Kathleen Langone
Reconstruction Beyond the South: The Broken Promises to Mexican Americans
Jay Gould: Titan or Tyrant?
Exploring Conscience of a Nation: Zaakir Tameez on Charles Sumner’s Fight for Justice
The Page Act: How America Banned Chinese Women
Axes, Activism, and Abstinence: The WCTU and the Fight for Temperance
Bringing History to Life: Rob Edwards on Robert Smalls in Defiant
Five Years of Civics & Coffee: Welcome to the New Era!
Ice: The Hidden History of a Hot Commodity with Dr. Amy Brady
Riot or Massacre? Reclaiming the History of Colfax, 1873
Unforgettable Sacrifice with Dr. Hilary Green
William "Boss" Tweed
Louisa May Alcott's Little Women
Reconstruction's Legal Legacy with Dr. Matthew Brogdon
America's Drink: Bourbon
Predatory Data with Dr. Anita Chan
The Panic of 1873
A Public Woman: Victoria Woodhull
The Great Chicago Fire
Grant’s Fight: The Ku Klux Klan Act
Jeep Show with Robert B. O'Connor
Julia Dent Grant
Ulysses S. Grant: Part Two
Ulysses S. Grant: Part One
Dual Justice with Dr. Anthony Grasso
The Maverick: Patricia Schroeder (Part Two)
The Maverick: Patricia Schroeder (Part One)
The Transcontinental Railroad
Reuel Colt Gridley & The Flour Fundraiser
All Play and No Work with Dr. Paul Gagliardi
Carceral Apartheid with Dr. Brittany Friedman
The Fort Laramie Treaty of 1868
The Ku Klux Klan & Reconstruction
Kidnapped At Sea with Dr. Andrew Sillen
The People's Poet: Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
Eliza McCardle Johnson
Dear Unknown Friend with Dr. Alexis Peri
Andrew Johnson: Part Two
Andrew Johnson: Part One
The Line of Splendor with Salina Baker
The 14th Amendment
The Memphis Massacre
Radical Reconstruction
Pearl Harbor
Alien Soil with Dr. Katie Singer
Andrew Johnson's Presidential Reconstruction
Third Annual Friendsgiving
Union Leagues, Reconstruction, and the KKK: The Rise and Fall of Black Political Power
Robert Smalls (Listener Request)
Black Woman on Board with Dr. Donna Nicol
Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds
Murderess: Belle Gunness
Witch Hunt with Andrea Balis and Elizabeth Levy
Hiram Revels: The First Black Senator
The Freedmen's Bureau
Reconstruction: An Introduction
The Incorruptibles with Dan Slater
The Sultana Disaster
Surrender: Appomattox
Introducing: Civics & Cocktails
New Deal Law & Order with Dr. Anthony Gregory
Voice of Change: Barbara Jordan
The 1968 Democratic National Convention
"Justifying" Slavery with Kristin Kessinger
Slavery No More: The 13th Amendment
Transatlantic Commuter: A Conversation about James Baldwin with Ethan Healey
Abraham Lincoln with Jerry Landry
Abraham Lincoln: Part Two
From Beans to Brews: Coffee in America
Behind Everest with Kate Nicholson
The First: Mary Eliza Mahoney
The First Queen of Drag
Freeman's Challenge with Dr. Robin Bernstein
No Experience Required: Women In the Federal Workforce
Charlotte Forten Grimke
The Dakota 38 (Listener Request)
"Madam Elizabeth": Elizabeth Keckly
Lemuria with Justin McHenry
Civil War Home Fronts
Edwin Stanton
How to Start a War with Michael Trapani
420: Cannabis in the United States
Mary Todd Lincoln: Part Two
Mary Todd Lincoln: Part One
The Bishop and the Butterfly with Michael Wolraich
Indigenous Americans in the Civil War
Gettysburg
Public Assistance in California (Request)
Jefferson Davis
Civil War Medical Advancements
By Her Own Design with Piper Huguley
The History Conference
Clara Barton & The Red Cross
Democracy in Darkness with Dr. Katlyn Carter
The Massachusetts 54th
Spying In the Civil War
It Begins: Fort Sumter
Before the Movement with Dr. Dylan Penningroth
Dolly Parton
Chaos: The Election of 1860
Abraham Lincoln: Part One
Harpers Ferry
The Mountain Meadows Massacre
Bonus: 2nd Annual Friendsgiving
Dred Scott
James Buchanan
Passionate Mothers, Powerful Sons with Dr. Charlotte Gray
The Trailside Killer
Mary Ann Shadd Cary
Imperfect Spouse: Jane Pierce
Franklin Pierce
The Rough Rider & The Professor with Laurence Jurdem
The Fillmore Women
Millard Fillmore
James Baldwin - Part Two
James Baldwin: Part One
The Wounded World with Dr. Chad Williams
Violence in Congress
The Long Island Murders
Celebrity Nation with Landon Jones
Zachary Taylor
Anna Kingsley
Sarah Winchester's Mystery House
Sustaining the Carrier War with Dr. Stan Fisher
The New York Times
James McCune Smith
First in Her Class: Elizabeth Blackwell, MD
Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin
William Wells Brown
Supreme Court: The Confirmation Process
Making Airwaves at the Society for Military History
The Bloody Island Massacre
Speaking While Female with Dana Rubin
Ah Toy
The Fight for Speaker of the House (Listener Request)
Rise of the Mavericks with Philip C Shackelford
The Gold Rush
Seneca Falls
Gatekeeper: Sarah Childress Polk
Making Americans with Jessica Lander
Disneyland
Mourning the Presidents with Dr. Lindsay Chervinsky
The Mexican-American War
Surfing the South with Steve Estes
Dark Horse? James Polk
Alice Walker (Listener Request)
The Smithsonian
Explosive Love: The USS Princeton & Julia Gardiner Tyler
Letitia Tyler
Presidential Transitions with David Marchick
A Man Without A Party: John Tyler
A Charlie Brown Christmas (Miracle)
Double Shot: Ethan Healey & Mastering History
Anna Symmes Harrison
William Henry Harrison
Fort King with Kathleen Ramirez
Podcast Friendsgiving Spectacular (Bonus Episode)
The United States Post Office
California Tycoon: William Leidesdorff
Time for a Woman: Sandra Day O'Connor (Intelligent Speech)
John Carpenter's Halloween
American Horror Story: Edgar Allan Poe
This is the Zodiac Speaking: Part Two
This is the Zodiac Speaking (Part One)
Lost to History: The Van Buren Women
Martin Van Buren
Sisters in Arms: Women Anti Slavery Conventions
The Second Seminole War
Public Spaces: A Conversation with Holley Snaith
Harriet Tubman: Part Two
Harriet Tubman (Part One)
Debtors Prisons (Listener Request)
Nat Turner's Rebellion
The Liberty Line: The History of the Underground Railroad
The Grimke Sisters: A Conversation with Broadly Underestimated
The Case of Henrietta Wood (Listener Request)
Unspoken: Healthcare Before Roe
Unexpected Bravery: A Conversation with A.J. Schenkman
The Almost First Lady: Rachel Jackson
Andrew Jackson: A Discussion with Presidencies of the United States
The Indian Removal Act of 1830
The Original Outsider: Andrew Jackson
Missing: The Kidnapping of Black Americans
Woodstock
The Freedom's Journal
The Adams Men (with Abridged Presidential Histories)
The Chosen Son: John Quincy Adams
Resilient: Louisa Adams (Part Two)
Resilient: Louisa Adams (Part One)
Gendered Citizenship with Dr. Rebecca DeWolf
California Missions (Listener Request)
Women in Politics
The Gilded Age: A Conversation with Dr. Einav Rabinovitch-Fox
Women in Baseball
Her Cold War with Dr. Tanya Roth
Frederick Douglass: Part Two
Frederick Douglass: Part One
The Second Great Awakening
David Walker's Appeal
The Filibuster (Listener Request)
The Elusive Mrs. Monroe
The Monroe Presidency
Sojourner Truth: Part Two
Sojourner Truth: Part One
Christmas in America
The Alamo (Listener Request)
Immigration & The Steerage Act of 1819
The Seminole War
Watergate (with Hashtag History)
Presidentress: Dolley Madison
James Madison: The Presidency
The Battle of Horseshoe Bend
The Donner Party
The Great Quakes
Black Cemeteries (Listener Request)
The Uprising: The Slave Revolt of 1811
Banning the Trade, Not the Practice
The Presidency of Thomas Jefferson
The Library of Congress
Twenty Years Later: Memories of September 11th
Sally Hemings
Marbury v Madison
Sacagawea & New Discovery
Happy Podcast Anniversary
The Little Rock Nine - Part Two
The Little Rock Nine - Part One
Dirty Tricks: The Election of 1800
Two Songs One Couple / Civics & Coffee Crossover - Part TWO
Miss Independent: Abigail Adams
The Cabinet with Dr. Lindsay M Chervinksy
The White House
A Man Alone: John Adams
Two Parties Emerge
The Forgotten Hannah Adams
HH Holmes Part 2 - Listener Request
HH Holmes Part 1 - Listener Request
People v Levi Weeks - The First True Crime
Early American Medicine
The Whiskey Rebellion
History of Death: Capital Punishment in the United States (Listener Request)
The Precedent Setting President: George Washington
I Am Free: Ona Judge
Martha Washington: Protector In Chief
George Washington - The Early Years
The Notorious: Ruth Bader Ginsburg
The Northwest Indian War
Communist, Activist: Angela Davis
The Bill of Rights
Unapologetically SHE: Zora Neale Hurston
From Confederation to Constitution
A Catalyst for Change - Shirley Chisholm
Franklin, Benjamin Franklin
Hidden Computers - Women in Tech
Frida Kahlo
The Constitution - A Break Down
The Compromises of the Convention
The Madison Dash to the Constitution
A Man of Science: The Life of Benjamin Banneker
Apollo 11 - Part Two
Apollo 11 - Part One (Listener Request)
Articles of Confederation - Doomed From the Start
The Revolution & Slavery - All Men Created Equal?
2020: What a Decade this Year Has Been - BONUS Episode
The American Revolution - Impacts
Propaganda With a Legacy - The Declaration of Independence
The Culper Spy Ring, Part 2
The Culper Spy Ring, Part 1
World's Fair Part 3 - The Conclusion
Happy Thanksgiving (Bonus Episode)
World's Fair Part 2 - Chicago, St. Louis & San Francisco
The World's Fair - Part 1 (Listener Request)
The Rebel Rousers
BONUS EPISODE - Election Day - A Voting History
Happy Halloween!
From Boycott to Bloodshed
Mother of African American Literature - Phillis Wheatley
A History of Debates
She Boss - The Elizabeth Murray Story
First Comes War...
Witchcraft in Massachusetts - The Salem Witch Trials
The Bacon Rebellion
Women in Activism - Mary Dyer & the Boston Martyrs
John Punch & the Emergence of Slavery
Colonies, Colonies - But Not Plymouth
1492? Says Who?
Civics & Coffee - An Introduction