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<p>Margaret continues her talk with Jamie Loftus about Shawnee resistance to the American colonialism and a woman who led them in battle.</p> <p>Sources:</p> <p>https://colonialquills.blogspot.com/2017/07/revolutionary-mothers-nonhelema-of.html</p> <p>https://kentucky-museum.org/ ... Show More

<p>Margaret talks to Jamie Loftus about Shawnee resistance to the American colonialism and a woman who led them in battle</p> <p>Sources:</p> <p>https://colonialquills.blogspot.com/2017/07/revolutionary-mothers-nonhelema-of.html</p> <p>https://kentucky-museum.org/nonhelema-hokole ... Show More

<p>More mighty beasts assail our brave antiheroes!</p><p>See <a href="https://omnystudio.com/listener">omnystudio.com/listener</a> for privacy information.</p> 

From the Spanish to the French, to the British — everyone had their eye on the vast expanse of America’s western frontier. Then, in the early 1800s, Thomas Jefferson saw an opportunity and made a deal no one expected.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. 

<p>Robert sits down with Jason Petty, AKA Prop, to discuss how Thomas Jefferson became a global prophet of liberty despite owning human beings and helping to invent modern racism.</p> <p>(4 Part Series)</p> <p> </p><p>See <a href="https://omnystudio.com/listener">omnystudio.com/l ... Show More

Robert weaves a hideous story for Margaret, about how post-war Germans started out trying to make Nazism impossible and wound up harming generations of poor children.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. 

One of the very first union strikes in US history was mounted by a group of African American women in the deep South. Listen in and learn all about this little known slice of history.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. 

During the 1870s, more than a dozen African American men, many of whom had been born into slavery, were elected to the U.S. Congress. These political pioneers symbolized the sky high hopes of millions of former slaves during the years right after the Civil War. It was a period th ... Show More

At the end of a forgotten study of convicted murderers, the author left a devastating footnote.  We travel to an old plantation house outside Montgomery Alabama to hear his story — and what it tells us about American gun violence.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy informatio ... Show More

<p>In 1848, after almost two years of fighting, the US annexation of former Mexican territory was signed into a treaty.</p><br><p>Mexico lost a third of its territory, land which would later yield metals and stretch the United States from coast to coast.</p><br><p>To find out how ... Show More

<p>Belle Boyd got her start as a spy in Martinsburg, Virginia, at the age of 17. In 1862, the "Cleopatra of the Secession" obtained - and risked her life to deliver -- information that may have been pivotal to the outcome of the Battle of Front Royal.</p><p> </p> Learn more about ... Show More

Ep 1: In one of the most tumultuous moments in American history, Martin Luther King Jr. travels to Memphis to address the issue of racial and economic injustice. With eloquent language and brilliant rhetoric, he creates a mosaic of the ongoing Civil Rights struggle, culminating w ... Show More

<p>Although the Spanish-American War was a short conflict, many historians believe this conflict marked the United States' emergence as a major world power. Tune in and learn more about the Spanish-American War in this podcast from HowStuffWorks.com.</p><p> </p> Learn more about ... Show More