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Let's Get Civical — 394 episodes
The History of Coney Island Part 2 - What’s It Like Now?!
Summer Holiday Re-Air: Eastern State Penitentiary - You Have to Be Sorry!
Summer Holiday Re-Air: U.S. v Windsor - Happy Pride!
Silverman v. MLB Player Relations Committee - Sonia Sotomayor Saved Baseball!
Three Mile Island - No More Nuclear Energy!
Witness Protection Program - How To Get a New Identity!
The US Marshalls - Protecting the Justice Department!
The USDA Food Pyramid - Eat Balanced Meals!
Cruzan v. Director, Missouri Department of Health - Get a Living Will!
The Appropriations Process - Get Your Sub Committees!
The Purchase of the Alaskan Territory - 7 Million Well Spent!
The Great Alaska Earthquake - Beware the Tsunami!
The Lily Ledbetter Fair Pay Act - Take That SCOTUS!
The Trail of Tears - An Injustice
Schenck v. United States - Call Your Representatives!
The St. Valentine’s Day Massacre - The Ultimate Mob Crime!
The Great Blizzard of 1888 - 55 Inches of Snow?!
Re-Air: The Petticoat Affair - Team Peggy!
O'Connor v. Donaldson - What is Good Faith?!
The Farm Bill - Give the Farmers Everything!
The Stock Market Crash of 1929 - Bad Banking!
The Life and Times of Crazy Horse - A Vision Quest!
The Escapes from Alcatraz - You Have to Play the Long Game!
Holiday Re-Air: The History of Jamestown - Hell on Earth!
Lincoln’s Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction - What Could Have Been!
The Battle of Blair Mountain - More Like a War!
Holiday Re-Air: The History of Black Friday - It’s More Than Just Good Sales!
Holiday Re-Air: Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade - $100 If You Return a Balloon!
Holiday Re-Air: The History of Thanksgiving - Pardon the Turkey!
The Great Galveston Hurricane of 1900 - The Ultimate Natural Disaster!
Samuel Adams - Have You Read His Thesis?!
The Great Postal Strike of 1970 - Thank God for Postal Workers!
The Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill - A Long Overdue Necessity!
Operation Paperclip - At What Cost?
Fall Re-Air: Alcatraz - The Rock!
Bondi v. VanDerStok - A Reasonable Decision!
Justice Amy Coney Barrett - SCOTUS Biopic!
The Iran-Contra Affair - This is Messy!
The Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act - Spoiler: It Didn’t Work!
The Uniform Time Act of 1966 - Stop Messing with the Clocks!
The Indian Citizenship Act of 1924 - Give Them The Right to Vote!
The 1973 Occupation of Wounded Knee
The Great Molasses Flood of 1919 - You Have to Check the Math!
The Petticoat Affair - Team Peggy!
The New York City Draft Riots - A Tinderbox!
Baker v. Carr - The Math Ain’t Mathin!
Benedict Arnold - The First Traitor!
West Point - Duty, Honor, Country!
The History of Zip Codes - Zone Improvement Plan!
U.S. v Windsor - Happy Pride!
Sloss Furnaces - The Epicenter for Pig Iron!
Eastern State Penitentiary - You Have to Be Sorry!
The Federal Bureau of Prisons - The System That Runs U.S. Prisons
The Escapes from Alcatraz - You Have to Play the Long Game!
Alcatraz - The Rock!
Pierce V. Society of Sisters - Words Matter!
Benjamin Franklin - A Stallion in the Sheets!
U.S Antitrust Laws - Preventing Monopolies
The Trial of the Chicago 7 - A Tale As Old As Time!
Dusky V United States - What is Competency?!
The Haymarket Affair - Who Done It?
Engel v. Vitale - Almighty God!
The History of Jamestown - Hell on Earth!
The Siege of Yorktown - Bamboozling At It’s Finest!
National Historic Preservation Act of 1966 - With Heritage So Rich!
History of the Gulf War Part 2 - Shield, Storm, Saber, Oh My!
History of the Gulf War Part 1 - Dictator Alert!
National Defense Education Act - Blame the Russians!
The Challenger Explosion - The Titanic of the Air!
Tariffs - It's Just a Game!
Eminent and Public Domain - Two Thumbs Down!
Oscarville - We Don’t Like Lakes!
Operation Ranch Hand - Watch Out for Agent Orange!
Holiday Re-Air: President Jimmy Carter - A Tribute!
Holiday Re-Air: The Hindenburg Disaster - Leave Hydrogen Alone!
Holiday Re-Air: Billy the Kid - Don’t Pardon Him!
The Mystery of the Mary Celeste - What Happened on that Ship?!
The Johnson-Reed Act of 1924 - History Repeats Itself!
Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc. - People are People!
The History of Black Friday - It’s More Than Just Good Sales!
The National Governors Association - Some Wholesome Bipartisanship!
America’s First Presidential Election - George Washington or Bust!
Plymouth Rock - She’s Unremarkable!
War of the Worlds - Talk About a Radio DRAMA!
The Equal Pay Act of 1963 - Still More to Do!
Mount St. Helens - Talk About Explosive!
Yosemite National Park - Careful on the Rocks!
SPECIAL RE-AIR: President Jimmy Carter - A Tribute!
Billy the Kid - Don’t Pardon Him!
The Underground Railroad - An Incredible System!
The Christiana Riot - Not An Act of War!
The Treaty of Paris - Oh, God! It is all over!
Summer Holiday Re-Run: The Salem Witch Trials - All About Jealousy!
Swing States - Election Predictors!
Head Start - No Notes!
The PATCO Strike - Watch Out for Reagan!
The Hindenburg Disaster - Leave Hydrogen Alone!
The Empire State Building - An NYC Icon!
The Glass-Steagall Act - Bring it Back!
The Medal of Honor - For the Heroes!
Furman v Georgia - Abolish the Death Penalty!
The History of the Pride Flag - Always Evolving!
Miranda v. Arizona - Just Say It!
The Salem Witch Trials - All About Jealousy!
The Constitutional Convention - A Gut Reno!
The History of the Draft - Calling All Young Men!
The History of the Brooklyn Bridge - Thank God for Emily!
The Lost Colony of Roanoke - Where Did They Go?!
The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution - The Boys Who Cried “We’re Under Attack”!
The Donner Party - Don’t Test Mother Nature!
The United States Geological Survey - It’s More Than Studying Rocks!
The Pacific Railway Act of 1862 - East Meets West!
Roper v Simmons - Hello Eighth Amendment!
April Fool’s Day - Be Silly, Not Mean!
The Exxon Valdez - Don’t Drink and Drive!
The Equal Rights Amendment - This Protects You Too!
FDR’s Fireside Chats - My Friends!
The Freedmen's Bureau - Necessary!
Hustler Magazine, Inc v Falwell - A Unanimous Decision!
The Centralia Mine Fire - Don’t Burn the Trash!
The French & Indian War - Bad Dress, Good Show!
Medgar Evers - A Civil Rights Hero!
The 13th Amendment - Short and Sweet!
The National Park Service - Protect the Parks!
Mapp v Ohio - Call Your Lawyer!
The Cuyahoga River Fire - Don’t Be Gross!
Holiday Re-Air: The Sultana Disaster - Keep Your Pants On!
Holiday Re-Air: The Lindbergh Baby - Too Many Ransom Notes!
The United Service Organization - Give Our Troops some Fun!
President James A. Garfield - A Multi-Hyphenate!
The Panama Canal - Work Smarter Not Harder!
Blackbeard the Pirate - Great at Branding!
Vietnam Veterans War Memorial - Uncoventionally Beautiful!
Route 66 - The Mother Road!
The Romanovs - Last of the Tsars!
Baby Jessica - Cover Your Wells!
The Clean Water Act - Grab a Glass!
1918 Minnesota Fires - Only YOU Can Prevent Wildfires!
Iranian Hostage Crisis - 444 Days?!
Reynolds v United States! - One Wife, No More!
The Bureau of Reclamation - Hot Dam!
The History of Uncle Sam - We want YOU!
The History of the Stars and Stripes - Old Faithful!
Tinker v. Des Moines - The Kids Are Alright!
The Execution of Sacco and Vanzetti - Feat. Upton Sinclair?!
The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) - N = R * Fp * Ne * Fl * Fi * Fc * L
NASA - Houston, We’ve Had a Problem!
The New Orleans Massacre - It Was A Peaceful Assembly!
The Americans with Disabilities Act - Our Favorite Act Yet!
The Alien & Sedition Acts - Excuse Moi?!
The Great Duel: Alexander Hamilton vs Aaron Burr - Drama Queens!
The Disappearance of Amelia Earhart - Where is She?!
Unsung American Shipwrecks - Don’t Mess with the Ocean!
The Pentagon Papers - To Publish or Not to Publish!
Loving v. Virginia - Let People Love!
J. Edgar Hoover - A Wiretapping Fiend!
The Interstate Highway System - Vroom Vroom!
Gideon v. Wainwright - Read the 6th Amendment!
The Mexican-American War - It’s A Setup!
The Kent State Murders - An Avoidable Tragedy!
The Royal Coronation - God Save the King!
The Sultana Disaster - Keep Your Pants On!
The Great 1906 San Francisco Earthquake - Don’t Blow Up the Fire!
The Sinking of the Titanic - Iceberg Right Ahead!
The Attempted Assassination of President Ronald Reagan - Don't Blame Jodie Foster!
The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire - We Need Fire Codes!
The Stamp Act - Hands Off My Playing Cards!
The Spanish Flu - Watch Out for Aspirin!
Bloody Sunday - From Selma to Montgomery!
The Lindbergh Baby - Too Many Ransom Notes!
President Jimmy Carter - A Tribute!
Thomas Edison - Let There Be Light!
The Boy Scouts of America - Watch Out for Fog!
The Attempted Assassination of Andrew Jackson - A Mad Lib!
Benedict Arnold - Our Most Infamous Traitor!
200th Episode Celebration - Presidential Fun Facts!
President Woodrow Wilson’s 14 Points - We Could Have Condensed!
The Discovery of King Tut’s Tomb - Doing the Bare Minimum!
Holiday Re-Air: Great Chicago Fire of 1871 - Justice for Catherine O’Leary!
Holiday Re-Air: The Assassination of President Garfield - My God! What’s This?
The Nobel Peace Prize - You Cannot Nominate Yourself!
The Wright Brothers - Prepare for Takeoff!
The Rise and Fall of McCarthyism - Watch Out Hollywood!
Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade - $100 If You Return a Balloon!
The Sinking of the Lusitania - A Miscalculation of Risk!
The Dust Bowl - Don’t Call Me an Okie!
The 2022 Midterms - with Andrea Jones-Rooy!
The George Washington Bridge - Anything, but Elegant!
Cuban Missile Crisis - It’s a Quarantine, Not a Blockade!
The Great Chicago Fire of 1871 - Justice for Catherine O’Leary!
Henry Ford’s Model T - Crank Up Your Engines!
Little Rock Nine - Courage Prevails!
Battle of the Sexes - Defeating Sexism!
Queen Elizabeth II - Operation London Bridge!
Hoover Dam - An Engineering Marvel!
V-J Day - Better Known as the End of the War in the Pacific!
The Berlin Wall, Part 2 - Mr. Gorbachev, Tear Down This Wall!
The Berlin Wall, Part 1 - Who Thought This Was a Great Idea!
Summer Holiday Re-Run: The Alamo!
The US Patent and Trademark Office! - Protect Your Inventions!
The Assassination of President Garfield - My God! What’s This?
The Minimum Wage Act - Raise Her!
The Overturning of Roe v. Wade - A Discussion!
Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest - King of Kings!
Battle of Gettysburg - Don’t Walk Straight Towards Them!
History of Pride Parades - What’s Your Story?
The Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy - Taken Too Soon!
The Virginia Plan - It’s About People, Not Cows!
The Golden Gate Bridge - Color Me International Orange!
The American Red Cross - Go Give Blood!
Lewis and Clark - Are you a Lewis or a Clark?
Planned Parenthood v. Casey - Stick with Us!
The Library of Congress - Give Her More Space!
Oklahoma Land Rush - Hello Boomers!
Apollo 13 - Wet Hot Dogs? Yuck!
Political Science - Andrea Jones-Rooy Returns!
Madeleine Albright - Small but Mighty!
Custer’s Last Stand - The Goat!
Robert’s Rules - We Will Have Order!
The Alamo - Winner takes the Cannon!
The Boston Massacre - Hugh Was All Alone!
North Atlantic Treaty Organization - Better Known as NATO!
The 15th Amendment - A Decent Start!
Malcolm X - A Biopic!
Interview with Virginia Heffernan!
New Deal Series: Gold Reserve Act of 1934
Roe v. Wade - It’s About Safe Abortions!
Martin Luther King Jr. Day - A Day of Service!
The Battle of New Orleans - We Didn’t Know There Was a Treaty!
Ellis Island - Welcome to America!
Holiday Re-Air: Watergate - Too Many Burglars!
Holiday Re-Air: Interview with Congressman Derek Kilmer (WA-06) and Congressman William Timmons (SC-04) - The House Select Committee on the Modernization of Congress
First Ladies and First Pets - Alligators Abound!
Pearl Harbor - A Day That Will Live In Infamy!
Rosa Parks - It Wasn’t About Being Tired!
The Indigenous People of North America - They Were Here First!
The Gettysburg Address - Short and Sweet!
The History of Veterans Day - Armistice or Not, Celebrate Them!
History of Election Day - Make Her a Federal Holiday!
President Theodore Roosevelt - More Than Just a Conservationist!
The National Debt - How Did We Get Here!
Al Capone - Not Remembered for His Tax Evasion!
Interview with Congressman Derek Kilmer (WA-06) and Congressman William Timmons (SC-04) - The House Select Committee on the Modernization of Congress
The Warren Commission - The Job No One Wanted!
Justice Sandra Day O’Connor - SCOTUS Biopic!
The Star-Spangled Banner - She’s a Big Girl!
The Pentagon - She Really Could Have Been a Triangle!
Labor Day - Say Goodbye To Hot Dog Season!
Presidential Libraries - Is there One in Your Backyard?!
The Atomic Bomb - A Big Impact!
The FDA’s History with Vaccines - We are All Mice!
The St. Louis Arch - An Ode to Manifest Destiny!
The Moon Landing - One Giant Leap for Mankind!
The Seneca Falls Convention - Throw Off Such Government!
The Northwest Ordinance- Ohio Almost Didn’t Happen!
The Revolutionary War Pt. 2 - For God’s Sake Fire!
The Revolutionary War Pt. 1 - Why Did We Break Up?
Lawrence V Texas - Mind Your Business!
Juneteenth - Make it a Federal Holiday!
Watergate - Too Many Burglars!
D-Day - Operation Overlord!
Memorial Day - Honor the Fallen!
Harvey Milk - Let’s Celebrate the Mayor of the Castro!
Brown v. Board of Education - 14th Amendment to the Rescue Again!
The FDA’s History with Vaccines - We are all Mice!
Presidential 100 Days - What Have You Done for Me Lately!
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration - Look Out Helen Hunt!
The History of the IRS - We Didn’t Start the Fire!
The U.S. Library System - The Original Subscription Service!
New Deal Series: Social Security
The California Gold Rush - Digging Ain’t Easy!
Interesting History-Making Women - Get Out of their Way!
The Assassination of President William McKinley - An Utter Security Failure!
The Granger Movement - Damn Husbands!
Mount Rushmore - Where is Susan B. Anthony?!
Black History Month - Why February?
The White House - Hop On the Ferry!
Congressional Repercussions - Go Stand in the Well!
Executive Orders - Break Open the File Cabinet!
Roger Sherman - A Long Lost Founding Father!
Presidential Inaugurations - We’d Like to Thank the Architect of the Capitol!
Celebrating 100 Episodes- A Fun Fact Extravaganza!
Political Science- A Conversation with Andrea Jones-Rooy
The Assasination of Abraham Lincoln - Hot Assassin Alert
2020 Wrap-Up - Let’s Check In On Her!
The War of 1812 - Beware the Sandbar!
The Washington Monument - She’s Quite a Stick!
The History of Thanksgiving - Pardon the Turkey!
General Services Administration - Ascertaining Takes Time!
Election Week and What’s to Come - So Many Lawsuits!
The Liberty Bell - She Cracks Me Up!
Bush v. Gore - Your Vote Matters!
The Voting Rights Act - SCOTUS Did Her Dirty!
The History of Presidential Debates - How’s My Make-Up?
The 12th Amendment - The Committee of Detail Failed!
Voting By Mail - Oregonians Do it!
New Deal Series - Packing the Supreme Court!
Cherokee Indian Cases of the 1830s - Whiplash Warning!
The Boston Tea Party - Lipton Overboard!
The Postmaster General - Hands Off the Mailboxes!
Geraldine Ferraro - A Biopic!
Lochner v. New York - Who is She?
The Louisiana Purchase - A Real Bargain!
Redlining - A Racist Pastime!
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg - SCOTUS Biopic!
New Deal Series - National Industrial Recovery Act of 1933
The Citizenship Test - Oath of Allegiance!
Black Soldiers In the World Wars - Medals Of Honor!
Black Soldiers in the Revolutionary and Civil Wars - Protect the Flag!
Obergefell v. Hodges - Love Wins!
Marsha P. Johnson - An Activist Biopic!
The Civil Rights Act - Protesting is the American Way!
Interview with Senator Mike Gravel - Direct Democracy
The Centers for Disease Control - Ahhh! Moon Germs!
New Deal Series- The WPA
Presidential Transportation - Holy Sacred Cow!
Political Science - Just What Is That, Exactly?
Justice Samuel Alito - SCOTUS Biopic!
The Statue of Liberty - What a Gift!
Podapalooza Annoucement! Visit plza.org for tickets
The United States Postal Service - Fund Her!
The Defense Production Act- Let’s Use It!
Justice Brett Kavanaugh - SCOTUS Biopic!
The U.S. Department of Education - Thank You Space Race!
Unsung Women in History - Elevate Them!
Presidential Primary Update- Part 2!
The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln - Hot Assassin Alert
Federal Term Limits - Damned If You Do, Damned If You Don’t
Medicare - It’s Not That Simple
Presidential Primary Update!
Presidential Primaries - They’re Finally Upon Us
The Impeachment of Andrew Johnson - Barricade Yourself!
The War Powers Act of 1973- Trust No B*tch!
Spread the Vote- Can I See ID?
Justice Stephen Breyer - SCOTUS Biopic!
Marbury vs Madison - #MarburyMood
The Presidential Veto- Regular, Pocket, and Line Item- Oh My!
The Whiskey Act of 1791 - Get You a Wig Desk!
Impeachment Update!
United States v. Nixon - Don’t Record!
The Filibuster - Settle Down Aaron Burr!!
Justice Clarence Thomas - SCOTUS Biopic!
The Whip - Where’s Darryl?!
Ezra Levin and Leah Greenberg - The Indivisible Movement!
Diplomats 101- Motivated Individuals Only!
Visiting the Supreme Court!
Muftiah McCartin - Office of the House Parliamentarian
Visiting the U.S. Capitol!
Interview with Congressman Mark Takano (CA-41) - Overtime Pay
U.S. Currency - E pluribus unum!
Justice Sonia Sotomayor - SCOTUS Biopic!
Our Uniformed Forces - Don’t Be So Petty
Articles of Confederation - Part 2- In Congress Assembled!
#PODSTRIKE
Articles of Confederation - Part 1 - Our Perpetual Union!
Justice Neil Gorsuch- SCOTUS Biopic!
Masterpiece Cakeshop VS Colorado Civil Rights Commision- Stream of Commerce!
The History of the US Capital- Nevermind the Roads!
The 21st Amendment- Drink Sensibly!
Justice Elena Kagan- SCOTUS Biopic!
The 18th Amendment- Hold My Beer!
State of the Union - It Is Strong!
Chief Justice John Roberts - SCOTUS Biopic!
International Relations - It’s Jan Astin!
The Office of the Vice President - The Spare Heir
The Presidential Cabinet- The Sequel
The 4th of July- Arousing Men to Burst the Chains!
The 19th Amendment - Suffrage At Last!
History of Abortion in America - It’s About Having A Choice
Declaration of Independence - Eat Out Our Substance!
POTUS 101 - Iceberg Right Ahead!
The Bill of Rights - It’s All About Context!
National Party Conventions - Pick Us!
SCOTUS 101 - We Dissent!
The Census - It’s Cen-sational!
Separation of Powers- There Can Be No Liberty
Attorney General - That’s Open for Interpretation
Legislative Caucuses - We Liaise
How a Bill Becomes a Law - Feat. Gandalf, The Moth!
The US Territories- Break Up With US!
Presidential Pardons - If I Mistake Not!
Congress 101 - Spoiler: It’s a Mess!
Campaign Finance - Moral of the Story? It Depends
National Emergencies - We Do Declare!
Electoral College - What the AF?
Gerrymandering - Knock, Knock, Ding-Dong, SCOTUS!
The Presidential Veto - Regular, Pocket, and Line Item - Oh My!
The Presidential Cabinet- C. U. N. Wednesday?
The First Amendment- As Long As It’s Not Polygamy
Impeachment- It’s Not Personal, It’s Politics
Voter Turnout - There’s an Equation for That
The History of America’s Political Parties - And What the Illuminati Gave Us
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