All Episodes

205: Total War on the Home Front: Victory Gardens, Volunteering, and the Double V

Bonus: “Messy Tales,” an Excerpt from the Prof’s book, Been There, Done That

204: The Holocaust: Anne Frank, the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, & Auschwitz

203: The Holocaust: Killing Squads, Ghettos, & Gas Chambers

202: Holocaust Prologue with US Holocaust Memorial Museum Director, Sara J. Bloomfield

201: A Soft Underbelly: The Allied Invasion of Sicily & the Fall of Il Duce

200: The North African Campaign: Desert Rats, the Desert Fox, & Operation Torch

199: Building the Anglo-American Alliance: The US Enters the European Theater

198: The Pacific Tide Turns at Coral Sea & Midway

197: The Doolittle Raid & the Bataan Death March (Spring 1942)

196: An Epilogue to Pearl Harbor with Steve Twomey

195: Holiday Special IX: Chanukah in Warsaw & Christmas in Washington, D.C.

194: Pearl Harbor: December 7, 1941

193: The Empire of the Rising Sun: Military Imperialism in Japan (1853–1941)

192: A Conversation with Ken Burns and Sarah Botstein: The American Revolution and WWII

Bonus: Eleanor Roosevelt "Over Our Coffee Cups"

191: Halloween Special V: “The War of the Worlds” on the Radio

190: Epilogue to US Pre-WWII Isolationism to Interventionism with Lynne Olson

189: World War II in Europe & the American Response (1941): Production & Preparation

The Unlikely Union: "A house divided against itself cannot stand."

188: World War II in Europe & The American Response (1939–40): Isolationism vs. Arsenal of Democracy

187: From the Rhineland to Poland (1935–1939): Annexation, Appeasement, & the Start of World War II

186: From Czardom to Stalinism: Building the USSR & the Ascent of Joseph Stalin

185: The Early Holocaust: From the “Jewish Question” to Kristallnacht

The Unlikely Union: New Tour Dates

184: The Rise of Adolf Hitler: From Failure to Führer of Nazi Germany or the Third Reich

183: The Origin of Fascism: “Il Duce” Benito Mussolini & the Rise of Fascist Italy

182: A Prologue to World War II: US Army Interwar Preparation

181: American Aviation: The Growth of the Industry Through the Eyes of Amelia Earhart, Charles Lindbergh, and Howard Hughes

180: “A Race to the Sky”: The Rise of New York City’s Chrysler, Manhattan Company, and Empire State Buildings

179: Bridging the Bay: San Francisco’s Golden Gate and Bay Bridges (Infrastructure pt. 2)

178: “A Damn Big Dam”: Taming the Colorado River with the Hoover (or Boulder) Dam (Infrastructure pt. 1)

America 250: The Boston Campaign 1775-76: A Leadership Discussion with Gen. William Rapp

177: An Epilogue to the New Deal and CCC Deep Dive with Neil Maher

176: FDR v. “The Nine Old Men” (The New Deal pt. 3): Court Packing and Closing the New Deal

175: The Dirty Thirties (The New Deal pt. 2): Dust, Doubts, and the “Second” New Deal

174: The First “First Hundred Days:” FDR Kicks Off the New Deal

173: From Hyde Park to the White House: The Early Life and Election of Franklin Delano Roosevelt

172: Breadlines, Bank Failures, & the Bonus Army: Hoover & the Early Great Depression

171: Christmas Special VIII: Festivities in the Jazz Age

170: The Crash of 1929 & Meeting President Herbert Hoover

169: An Epilogue to the 1920s: Youth culture, The Great Gatsby, and more with Professor Sarah Churchwell

168: Halloween Special IV: Nosferatu and Silent Horror

167: The Golden Age of Sports: Horse Racing, Boxing, Basketball, Football, & Jim Thorpe

166: A Conversation on Negro Leagues Baseball History with Bob Kendrick

165: America’s Favorite Pastime: Baseball, the Negro Leagues, and the Great Bambino

164: Harlem Renaissance: The Great Migration, Jazz, and the Flowering of Black Culture

163: The Show (Boat) Must Go On: Broadway and the American Musical

162: The Birth of the Movies: From Silent Cinema to the Rise of Hollywood & the First “Talkie”

161: An Epilogue Toast to Prohibition’s End with Author Daniel Okrent

160: Al Capone & the End of Prohibition

159: Scofflaws, Moonshiners, Bootleggers, and Crime Lords

158: Prohibition - So You Wanna Be a Rum Runner?

157: Temperance, Prohibition, and the Path to the 18th Amendment

156: The Presidency of “Silent” Cal Coolidge

155: The Life & Times of Warren G. Harding & The Teapot Dome Scandal

154: An Epilogue Discussion with Ben Sawyer

153: West Virginia’s Mine Wars: From Trouble in Matewan to the Battle of Blair Mountain

152: The Second Ku Klux Klan: Racism, Anti-Semitism, & Anti-Catholicism in the 1920s

151: The First Red Scare - Bombings, The Palmer Raids, Eugene Debs, and J. Edgar Hoover

150: The Great War’s Aftermath: Coming Home, The Spanish Flu, & The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier

149: WWI Epilogue

148: Tales of Christmas from World War I (A Truce, Plum Pudding, and Love)

147: Peacemaking in Paris: The Treaty of Versailles

146: The Armistice of November 11, 1918

145: Halloween Special III: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

144: A Conversation with Ken Burns - Storytelling and the American Buffalo

143: The Meuse-Argonne Offensive (pt.2) – Breaking the Kriemhilde Line

142: The Meuse-Argonne Offensive (pt.1) – “The Lost Battalion”

141: Wartime Interlude

140: WWI Aviators: From the Lafayette Escadrille to the Red Baron and More

139: From Yeomen (F) to “Hello Girls:” American Women in World War I

138: The 15th New York/369th or The Harlem Hellfighters

137: The First Battle of the First American Army: St. Mihiel

136: The German Spring Offensive’s End, or The Second Battle of the Marne

135: Belleau Wood – A Cut Deeper with Captain Mac Caldwell

134: (Most of) The German Spring Offensive of 1918 & The Fight for Belleau Wood

133: Heading “Over There:” “Black Jack” Pershing & Creating WWI’s American Expeditionary Force

132: The US Enters WWI (RMS Lusitania, Black Tom Island, & The Zimmermann Telegram)

131: Epilogue on World War 1 before the US

130: Russia: From the Great War to Revolution with Deputy Provost Kat Brown

129: World War I Before the US (Military Tech, Trenches, Global Armies, Ypres, Verdun & the Somme)

128: The Causes of World War I (From the Congress of Vienna to Franz Ferdinand & the Marne)

127: Mr. Wilson Goes to Washington (Progressive Policies & Foreign Affairs in South America)

126: Christmas Special 6: Jacob Riis’ “Is There a Santa Claus?”

125: Epilogue: The Progressive Era

124: The “Bull Moose” Election of 1912

123: The Wright Brothers Fly at Kitty Hawk

122: Halloween Special II: H.P. Lovecraft – “The Outsider” & “Dagon”

121: Henry Ford: The Model T & Mass Production

120: From Atlanta to the NAACP, or Booker T. Washington v. W.E.B. Du Bois

119: Women’s Suffrage & the Passage of the 19th Amendment

118: “The Island of Hope and Tears:” Ellis Island

117: Epilogue on Progressive Era Part I (Teddy Roosevelt)

116: Teddy Roosevelt’s Foreign Policy: From Big Stick Diplomacy to the Panama Canal

115: History–Doomed to Repeat It? A Conversation with Lindsay Graham

114: A Square Deal (pt. 3): “Leave it as it is” (Teddy Roosevelt & Conservationism)

113: A Square Deal (pt. 2): Consumer Protection–The FDA, & Ida Tarbell muckrakes Standard Oil

112: A Square Deal (pt. 1): Corp. Regulation—a coal strike, a trust, & Teddy’s Frenemy J.P. Morgan

111: The Assassination of Will McKinley & The Strenuous Life of Theodore Roosevelt

110: Epilogue to the Age of Imperialism

109: The Election of 1900 & the Rise of Anti-Imperialism

108: G.O. 100, “The Water Cure,” & The Law of War in the Early-20th Century with Professor Ryan Vogel

107: The Philippine-American War

106: The US Annexation of the Hawaiian Kingdom

105: “A Splendid Little War:” The Spanish-American War and Theodore Roosevelt’s Rough Riders

104: The Road to the Spanish-American War

103: A Gilded Age Christmas: Joseph Pulitzer’s Christmas Tree Fund

102: Epilogue to the Gilded Age

101: The New South, Jim Crow (Plessy v. Ferguson), & the Death of Frederick Douglass

100: Halloween Special! Edgar Allan Poe: The Tell-tale Heart, The Cask of Amontillado, & The Raven

99: The Gilded Age’s Singer Sewing Machines & Dangerous Bananas w/ Dr. Ben Sawyer of The Road To Now

98: Silver & Gold: From Grover Cleveland to William Jennings Bryan & William McKinley

97: The Gilded Age’s Robber Barons: John D. Rockefeller & Andrew Carnegie

96: The War of the Currents: (Thomas Alva Edison v. Nikola Tesla & George Westinghouse)

95: "Several Thousand Things that Won't Work:" Thomas Alva Edison and His Electric Light

94: Epilogue to Gilded Age Part I (or Gilded Age interlude w/ Significant HTDS Updates)

93: La Liberté éclairant le monde: Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi’s Statue of Liberty

92: The Brooklyn Bridge, or the Story of the Roebling Family

91: The Gilded Age, Industrialization, and Assassination of President James Garfield

90: Epilogue to the Wild West

89: Closing the Wild West: (Wounded Knee, Buffalo Bill & the 1893 Colombian Expo)

88: “The Last Frontier:” The Purchase of Alaska and the Klondike Gold Rush

87: Gunslingers & Outlaws (pt 2): Pearl Hart, Tombstone, Jesse James, B. Cassidy & The Sundance Kid

86: Gunslingers & Outlaws (pt 1): The Second Industrial Revolution, Sam Bass & Billy the Kid

85: Transcontinental Railroad (pt 3): The Central Pacific, Chinese Workers, & The Golden Spike

84: Transcontinental Railroad (pt 2): Dr. Thomas Durant, The Union Pacific & “Hell on Wheels”

83: Transcontinental Railroad (pt 1): Industrialization, Ted Judah & The Rise of the Central Pacific

82: Best Mini Episodes and Cold Opens of 2020

81: Epilogue to Volume 6: Reconstruction and The Indian Wars

80: “Yes, Virginia, There is a Santa Claus:” A History

79: The Indian Wars (Part 3): Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce & Standing Bear’s Fight for Civil Rights

78: The Indian Wars (Part 2): The Battle of the Little Bighorn (the Greasy Grass)

77: The Indian Wars (Part 1): The U.S.-Dakota War

76: Reconstruction (Part 4): The Battle of Liberty Place and the Mississippi Plan

75: Reconstruction (Part 3): The Rise of the KKK and the First Black Men in Government

74: Reconstruction (Part 2): The Presidency of Ulysses S. Grant

73: Reconstruction (Part 1): The Impeachment of Andrew Johnson

72: The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln

71: Revisiting the Hamilton/Burr Duel: An Affair of Honor

70: Epilogue: The Civil War Comes to a Close

69: Surrender at Appomattox: The Last Days of the Civil War

68: Sherman's March to the Sea and the Thirteenth Amendment

67: Ending 1864: The Battles of the Crater, Mobile Bay, Centralia, and Franklin

66: The Election of 1864: Lincoln's Bid for Reelection

65: Sherman’s Atlanta Campaign & The Free State of Jones

Bonus: A New Sound for HTDS (Farewell to Josh, Hello to Lindsay Graham & Airship)

64: Grant's Overland Campaign: The Battles of the Wilderness, Spotsylvania, Cold Harbor, & Petersburg

Bonus: A Chat about Southern Accents w/ Jeremy Collins from "Podcasts We Listen To"

63: Wounded and Dying: Nurses, Doctors, and Disease in the Civil War

62: The War in Tennessee: Chickamauga and Chattanooga

61: The Louisiana Native Guard, the 54th Massachusetts & On: Black Soldiers in the Civil War

60: Gettysburg

59: Stone’s River, Suspending Habeas Corpus, Vicksburg, & Stonewall’s Death at Chancellorsville

58: Conscription & Riots (“A Rich Man’s War, But a Poor Man’s Fight”)

57: Recap of The Civil War's First Half (1861-63)

56: The Battle of Fredericksburg and the First Campaign of Vicksburg

55: The Road to The Emancipation Proclamation

54: The Best Opening Scenes in HTDS History

53: A Civil War Christmas with Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

52: From Second Bull Run, or Second Manassas to Antietam, or Sharpsburg

51: A Change in Command: Seven Days Battles to the Battle of Cedar Mountain

50: Mississippi Valley 1862: The Battles of New Orleans, Corinth, Memphis, and Vicksburg

49: From Little Mac McClellan to Stonewall Jackson: The Peninsula and Shenandoah Valley Campaigns

48: The Battle of Shiloh: “Now boys, pitch in!”

47: Bull Run, Trent Affair, the Merrimack, & Fort Donelson: The Early Days of the Civil War

46: The Civil War Begins: Fort Sumter, Secession, & Raising Armies

45: Volume IV Epilogue

44: Abraham Lincoln Becomes President of the Divided States of America

43: Honest Abe, the Lincoln-Douglas Debates, & John Brown’s Raid on Harpers Ferry

42: Solomon Northup’s 12 Years a Slave

41: Kansas! (Bleeding Kansas, the Kansas-Nebraska Act, & Caning of Charles Sumner)

40: Elizabeth Cady Stanton, the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention & the Explosion of Social Reform

39: The California Gold Rush and the Compromise of 1850

38: The (Early) Life and Times of Frederick Douglass

37: La Amistad Slave Rebellion and the Rise of Abolitionism

Volume III Epilogue

36: Mexican-American War (Part 4): Los Niños Héroes, St. Patrick’s Battalion, & the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

35: Mexican-American War (Part 3): Nuevo México and the Final Push from Vera Cruz

34: Mexican-American War (Part 2): The Pathfinder, the Bear Flag Revolt, y Los Californios

33: Mexican-American War (Part 1): From the Nueces River to the Rio Grande

32: Mormonism and the Mormon Trail

31: The California Trail: From the Donner Party to the Gold Rush

30: The Oregon Trail (“You Have Died of Dysentery”)

Christmas Special II: A Jackson White House Christmas

29: The Bank War, Whigs, & Revolution in Texas

28: Ushering in the Age of Jackson

Epilogue to Volume 2

27: The Last of the Founding Fathers

26: Peace in Ghent, War in New Orleans

25: From Lake Champlain to the “Defense of Fort M’Henry”

24: From Granny to Old Ironsides: The Campaigns of 1812 and 1813.

23: Prelude to America's Forgotten War

22: An Affair of Honor: Alexander Hamilton & Aaron Burr

21: Thomas Jefferson Presents: Lewis & Clark’s Excellent Expedition

20: "A Wolf by the Ears": Gabriel Rebels and Cotton Becomes King

19: The Traitor and The Thieving Spy: The Start of American Industrialization

18: Affairs! Foreign and ..."Domestic"

Historians (of The) Roundtable: I

17: Death of a Nation's Father

16: The Founding Fractures: Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson

Epilogue To The Revolution; Or The Big Stuff You Should’ve Caught

Q&A with The HTDS Team

15: “We the People:” Constitution Making in Philly

Second Edition Episodes: A Discussion

14: Peace in Paris; Turmoil in New York

13: The World Turns Upside Down at Yorktown

12: An American Judas Betrays & Nathanael Greene Saves!

11: Southern Discomfort: Savannah & Charleston Captured, Slavery, Massacres, & 1779’s Sundries

10: Dueling, Life Sucks at Valley Forge, von Steuben's Cool & the Battle of Monmouth

9: (Almost) Everything Important in 1777--Saratoga, Lafayette & George Returns Gen. Howe’s Dog

Christmas Special: George Wishes Some Hessians a Merry F’ing Christmas

8: From Independence to NY (meeting A. Ham, Nathan Hale & Charles Lee is a Sneaky Bastard)

7: An Olive Branch Rejected, Tom's a Royal Pain(e), & the Siege of Boston

6: "The Shot Heard Round the World"

5: "Delenda est Bostonia:" a Congress, Paul Rides, & the First Shot at Lexington

4: "Boston Harbor A Tea-Pot This Night:" The Boston Tea Party

3: "Clean My Sh*t House!" The Boston Massacre

2: Patrick Henry and Boston Get Pissed about Taxes

1: That One Time When George Washington Sort of Triggered an International War

0: Preamble