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Civics & Coffee: A History Podcast — 338 episodes

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1

The Long March: Women's Fight For The Vote

2

Revolutionary Sound: Dr. Austin McCoy on Living in a D.A.I.S.Y. Age

3

American Opulence: The Gilded Age Mansion

4

The Vanishing First Lady: Lucretia Garfield

5

The Whistle Stop: Shannon McKenna Schmidt on You Can't Catch Us

6

Delusions of Grandeur: Charles Guiteau Part Two

7

Delusions of Grandeur: Charles Guiteau Part One

8

The Power of the Dress: Dr. Elizabeth Block on Gilded Age Fashion

9

A President Forgotten: James Garfield Part Two

10

Misplaced Rage: Fear and Fury with Heather Ann Thompson

11

Past, Present & Future: Rosie the Riveter Reporting for Duty

12

Complicated Legacies: Thy Will Be Done with John Garrison Marks

13

A President Forgotten: James Garfield Part One

14

Grief, Love, and Connection: The Missing Pages with Alyson Richman

15

Indian Boarding Schools in America: The Carlisle Indian Industrial School

16

History Makers: Presidential Seclusion with Charles Ferguson

17

Titans or Crooks: The Men Who Built Industrial America

18

The Exodusters: The Great Migration You Haven’t Heard About

19

Selling Out Santa: A Deep Dive into Post-War Cinema with Dr. Vaughn Joy

20

The Posse Comitatus Act Explained

21

Run to Freedom: The Nez Perce War

22

The Power of Representation: Dr. Orr on House of Diggs

23

Lucy Webb Hayes: The Quietly Radical First Lady

24

The Great Railroad Strike of 1877: The Uprising That Shocked the Nation

25

Predator or Prey: The Real Jaws with Rachel Lee Perez

26

From Disputed Election to Gilded Age Leader: Rutherford B Hayes Part 2

27

From Disputed Election to Gilded Age Leader: Rutherford B Hayes Part 1

28

Welcome to the Gilded Age: Wealth, Upheaval, and Reinvention

29

Beyond Patriots vs. Loyalists: The Global American Revolution with Dr. Richard Bell

30

With Her Own Hands: Dr. Nicole Nehrig on Women, Work, and the Meaning of Making

31

Entangled Alliances: The Global Roots of American Freedom with Dr. Ronald Angelo Johnson

32

Fearless Women: Exploring Patriotic Feminism with Dr. Elizabeth Cobbs

33

The Election of 1876: Bargain or Betrayal?

34

The Fourth Annual Friendsgiving Podcast Spectacular

35

The Battle of Little Bighorn: The Victory That Doomed a Nation

36

Inside The Gods of New York: Johnathan Mahler on the Decade That Remade the City

37

The Alien Enemies Act: When Fear Became Law—and Never Left

38

Reconstruction's Legacy: The Second Founding That Could Have Been

39

Public Memory & Myths: Matthew Davis on A Biography of a Mountain

40

The Insurrection Act: A Civics Lesson in Power, Law, and Order

41

Victoria Woodhull: Eden Collinsworth on a Most Improbable Life

42

The Fever That Haunted the South: The Forgotten Epidemic of 1878

43

Before Jack the Ripper: The Savage Crimes of the Servant Girl Annihilator

44

Holy Local: Shae Corey on Religion, Oral History, and Public Memory in D.C.

45

Diamond in the Rough: The Murder of Bessie Moore

46

Louisiana Voodoo: Untangling the Myths, the Magic, and the History

47

White Man’s Law Rules the Country: The Modoc War

48

A Version of Sisterhood: Unwed & Unbothered with Emma Duval

49

Community Care: Black Women During Reconstruction

50

Unpacking the Mind Behind Vietnam: Dr. William Taubman on McNamara At War

51

Talking to Books: Education during Reconstruction

52

Landscape of Ruin: The Southern Economy during Reconstruction

53

Art, Ambition & the Gilded Age: The Miniature Painter Revealed with Kathleen Langone

54

Reconstruction Beyond the South: The Broken Promises to Mexican Americans

55

Jay Gould: Titan or Tyrant?

56

Exploring Conscience of a Nation: Zaakir Tameez on Charles Sumner’s Fight for Justice

57

The Page Act: How America Banned Chinese Women

58

Axes, Activism, and Abstinence: The WCTU and the Fight for Temperance

59

Bringing History to Life: Rob Edwards on Robert Smalls in Defiant

60

Five Years of Civics & Coffee: Welcome to the New Era!

61

Ice: The Hidden History of a Hot Commodity with Dr. Amy Brady

62

Riot or Massacre? Reclaiming the History of Colfax, 1873

63

Unforgettable Sacrifice with Dr. Hilary Green

64

William "Boss" Tweed

65

Louisa May Alcott's Little Women

66

Reconstruction's Legal Legacy with Dr. Matthew Brogdon

67

America's Drink: Bourbon

68

Predatory Data with Dr. Anita Chan

69

The Panic of 1873

70

A Public Woman: Victoria Woodhull

71

The Great Chicago Fire

72

Grant’s Fight: The Ku Klux Klan Act

73

Jeep Show with Robert B. O'Connor

74

Julia Dent Grant

75

Ulysses S. Grant: Part Two

76

Ulysses S. Grant: Part One

77

Dual Justice with Dr. Anthony Grasso

78

The Maverick: Patricia Schroeder (Part Two)

79

The Maverick: Patricia Schroeder (Part One)

80

The Transcontinental Railroad

81

Reuel Colt Gridley & The Flour Fundraiser

82

All Play and No Work with Dr. Paul Gagliardi

83

Carceral Apartheid with Dr. Brittany Friedman

84

The Fort Laramie Treaty of 1868

85

The Ku Klux Klan & Reconstruction

86

Kidnapped At Sea with Dr. Andrew Sillen

87

The People's Poet: Frances Ellen Watkins Harper

88

Eliza McCardle Johnson

89

Dear Unknown Friend with Dr. Alexis Peri

90

Andrew Johnson: Part Two

91

Andrew Johnson: Part One

92

The Line of Splendor with Salina Baker

93

The 14th Amendment

94

The Memphis Massacre

95

Radical Reconstruction

96

Pearl Harbor

97

Alien Soil with Dr. Katie Singer

98

Andrew Johnson's Presidential Reconstruction

99

Third Annual Friendsgiving

100

Union Leagues, Reconstruction, and the KKK: The Rise and Fall of Black Political Power

101

Robert Smalls (Listener Request)

102

Black Woman on Board with Dr. Donna Nicol

103

Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds

104

Murderess: Belle Gunness

105

Witch Hunt with Andrea Balis and Elizabeth Levy

106

Hiram Revels: The First Black Senator

107

The Freedmen's Bureau

108

Reconstruction: An Introduction

109

The Incorruptibles with Dan Slater

110

The Sultana Disaster

111

Surrender: Appomattox

112

Introducing: Civics & Cocktails

113

New Deal Law & Order with Dr. Anthony Gregory

114

Voice of Change: Barbara Jordan

115

The 1968 Democratic National Convention

116

"Justifying" Slavery with Kristin Kessinger

117

Slavery No More: The 13th Amendment

118

Transatlantic Commuter: A Conversation about James Baldwin with Ethan Healey

119

Abraham Lincoln with Jerry Landry

120

Abraham Lincoln: Part Two

121

From Beans to Brews: Coffee in America

122

Behind Everest with Kate Nicholson

123

The First: Mary Eliza Mahoney

124

The First Queen of Drag

125

Freeman's Challenge with Dr. Robin Bernstein

126

No Experience Required: Women In the Federal Workforce

127

Charlotte Forten Grimke

128

The Dakota 38 (Listener Request)

129

"Madam Elizabeth": Elizabeth Keckly

130

Lemuria with Justin McHenry

131

Civil War Home Fronts

132

Edwin Stanton

133

How to Start a War with Michael Trapani

134

420: Cannabis in the United States

135

Mary Todd Lincoln: Part Two

136

Mary Todd Lincoln: Part One

137

The Bishop and the Butterfly with Michael Wolraich

138

Indigenous Americans in the Civil War

139

Gettysburg

140

Public Assistance in California (Request)

141

Jefferson Davis

142

Civil War Medical Advancements

143

By Her Own Design with Piper Huguley

144

The History Conference

145

Clara Barton & The Red Cross

146

Democracy in Darkness with Dr. Katlyn Carter

147

The Massachusetts 54th

148

Spying In the Civil War

149

It Begins: Fort Sumter

150

Before the Movement with Dr. Dylan Penningroth

151

Dolly Parton

152

Chaos: The Election of 1860

153

Abraham Lincoln: Part One

154

Harpers Ferry

155

The Mountain Meadows Massacre

156

Bonus: 2nd Annual Friendsgiving

157

Dred Scott

158

James Buchanan

159

Passionate Mothers, Powerful Sons with Dr. Charlotte Gray

160

The Trailside Killer

161

Mary Ann Shadd Cary

162

Imperfect Spouse: Jane Pierce

163

Franklin Pierce

164

The Rough Rider & The Professor with Laurence Jurdem

165

The Fillmore Women

166

Millard Fillmore

167

James Baldwin - Part Two

168

James Baldwin: Part One

169

The Wounded World with Dr. Chad Williams

170

Violence in Congress

171

The Long Island Murders

172

Celebrity Nation with Landon Jones

173

Zachary Taylor

174

Anna Kingsley

175

Sarah Winchester's Mystery House

176

Sustaining the Carrier War with Dr. Stan Fisher

177

The New York Times

178

James McCune Smith

179

First in Her Class: Elizabeth Blackwell, MD

180

Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin

181

William Wells Brown

182

Supreme Court: The Confirmation Process

183

Making Airwaves at the Society for Military History

184

The Bloody Island Massacre

185

Speaking While Female with Dana Rubin

186

Ah Toy

187

The Fight for Speaker of the House (Listener Request)

188

Rise of the Mavericks with Philip C Shackelford

189

The Gold Rush

190

Seneca Falls

191

Gatekeeper: Sarah Childress Polk

192

Making Americans with Jessica Lander

193

Disneyland

194

Mourning the Presidents with Dr. Lindsay Chervinsky

195

The Mexican-American War

196

Surfing the South with Steve Estes

197

Dark Horse? James Polk

198

Alice Walker (Listener Request)

199

The Smithsonian

200

Explosive Love: The USS Princeton & Julia Gardiner Tyler

201

Letitia Tyler

202

Presidential Transitions with David Marchick

203

A Man Without A Party: John Tyler

204

A Charlie Brown Christmas (Miracle)

205

Double Shot: Ethan Healey & Mastering History

206

Anna Symmes Harrison

207

William Henry Harrison

208

Fort King with Kathleen Ramirez

209

Podcast Friendsgiving Spectacular (Bonus Episode)

210

The United States Post Office

211

California Tycoon: William Leidesdorff

212

Time for a Woman: Sandra Day O'Connor (Intelligent Speech)

213

John Carpenter's Halloween

214

American Horror Story: Edgar Allan Poe

215

This is the Zodiac Speaking: Part Two

216

This is the Zodiac Speaking (Part One)

217

Lost to History: The Van Buren Women

218

Martin Van Buren

219

Sisters in Arms: Women Anti Slavery Conventions

220

The Second Seminole War

221

Public Spaces: A Conversation with Holley Snaith

222

Harriet Tubman: Part Two

223

Harriet Tubman (Part One)

224

Debtors Prisons (Listener Request)

225

Nat Turner's Rebellion

226

The Liberty Line: The History of the Underground Railroad

227

The Grimke Sisters: A Conversation with Broadly Underestimated

228

The Case of Henrietta Wood (Listener Request)

229

Unspoken: Healthcare Before Roe

230

Unexpected Bravery: A Conversation with A.J. Schenkman

231

The Almost First Lady: Rachel Jackson

232

Andrew Jackson: A Discussion with Presidencies of the United States

233

The Indian Removal Act of 1830

234

The Original Outsider: Andrew Jackson

235

Missing: The Kidnapping of Black Americans

236

Woodstock

237

The Freedom's Journal

238

The Adams Men (with Abridged Presidential Histories)

239

The Chosen Son: John Quincy Adams

240

Resilient: Louisa Adams (Part Two)

241

Resilient: Louisa Adams (Part One)

242

Gendered Citizenship with Dr. Rebecca DeWolf

243

California Missions (Listener Request)

244

Women in Politics

245

The Gilded Age: A Conversation with Dr. Einav Rabinovitch-Fox

246

Women in Baseball

247

Her Cold War with Dr. Tanya Roth

248

Frederick Douglass: Part Two

249

Frederick Douglass: Part One

250

The Second Great Awakening

251

David Walker's Appeal

252

The Filibuster (Listener Request)

253

The Elusive Mrs. Monroe

254

The Monroe Presidency

255

Sojourner Truth: Part Two

256

Sojourner Truth: Part One

257

Christmas in America

258

The Alamo (Listener Request)

259

Immigration & The Steerage Act of 1819

260

The Seminole War

261

Watergate (with Hashtag History)

262

Presidentress: Dolley Madison

263

James Madison: The Presidency

264

The Battle of Horseshoe Bend

265

The Donner Party

266

The Great Quakes

267

Black Cemeteries (Listener Request)

268

The Uprising: The Slave Revolt of 1811

269

Banning the Trade, Not the Practice

270

The Presidency of Thomas Jefferson

271

The Library of Congress

272

Twenty Years Later: Memories of September 11th

273

Sally Hemings

274

Marbury v Madison

275

Sacagawea & New Discovery

276

Happy Podcast Anniversary

277

The Little Rock Nine - Part Two

278

The Little Rock Nine - Part One

279

Dirty Tricks: The Election of 1800

280

Two Songs One Couple / Civics & Coffee Crossover - Part TWO

281

Miss Independent: Abigail Adams

282

The Cabinet with Dr. Lindsay M Chervinksy

283

The White House

284

A Man Alone: John Adams

285

Two Parties Emerge

286

The Forgotten Hannah Adams

287

HH Holmes Part 2 - Listener Request

288

HH Holmes Part 1 - Listener Request

289

People v Levi Weeks - The First True Crime

290

Early American Medicine

291

The Whiskey Rebellion

292

History of Death: Capital Punishment in the United States (Listener Request)

293

The Precedent Setting President: George Washington

294

I Am Free: Ona Judge

295

Martha Washington: Protector In Chief

296

George Washington - The Early Years

297

The Notorious: Ruth Bader Ginsburg

298

The Northwest Indian War

299

Communist, Activist: Angela Davis

300

The Bill of Rights

301

Unapologetically SHE: Zora Neale Hurston

302

From Confederation to Constitution

303

A Catalyst for Change - Shirley Chisholm

304

Franklin, Benjamin Franklin

305

Hidden Computers - Women in Tech

306

Frida Kahlo

307

The Constitution - A Break Down

308

The Compromises of the Convention

309

The Madison Dash to the Constitution

310

A Man of Science: The Life of Benjamin Banneker

311

Apollo 11 - Part Two

312

Apollo 11 - Part One (Listener Request)

313

Articles of Confederation - Doomed From the Start

314

The Revolution & Slavery - All Men Created Equal?

315

2020: What a Decade this Year Has Been - BONUS Episode

316

The American Revolution - Impacts

317

Propaganda With a Legacy - The Declaration of Independence

318

The Culper Spy Ring, Part 2

319

The Culper Spy Ring, Part 1

320

World's Fair Part 3 - The Conclusion

321

Happy Thanksgiving (Bonus Episode)

322

World's Fair Part 2 - Chicago, St. Louis & San Francisco

323

The World's Fair - Part 1 (Listener Request)

324

The Rebel Rousers

325

BONUS EPISODE - Election Day - A Voting History

326

Happy Halloween!

327

From Boycott to Bloodshed

328

Mother of African American Literature - Phillis Wheatley

329

A History of Debates

330

She Boss - The Elizabeth Murray Story

331

First Comes War...

332

Witchcraft in Massachusetts - The Salem Witch Trials

333

The Bacon Rebellion

334

Women in Activism - Mary Dyer & the Boston Martyrs

335

John Punch & the Emergence of Slavery

336

Colonies, Colonies - But Not Plymouth

337

1492? Says Who?

338

Civics & Coffee - An Introduction