The people had spoken: They wanted beer, and they wanted it now, but not just for drinking. Protestors wanted the jobs that came with breweries, and the country was desperate from the money that could come from alcohol taxes. As quickly as temperance organizations sprang up in the decade before, anti-Prohibition organizations appeared in every city. But, a c ... Show More
Mar 2018
Prohibition | Interview with Lillian Cunningham | 7
Do you know the record for the longest ratification period of any constitutional amendment? Lillian Cunningham did. She’s an editor with the Washington Post, host of two outstanding American History podcasts, Presidential and Constitutional, and she’s our guest today. We’ll talk ... Show More
32m 35s
Mar 2018
The Age of Jackson | Washington Burns | 1
In August 1814, the White House burned. A fire that would eventually consume the entire nation in Civil War was already burning. This is Antebellum America.This is the adolescence of the United States, when the country grew at tremendous speed, and when fundamental questions abou ... Show More
35m 3s
Apr 2018
The Age of Jackson | Good Feelings | 2
In the summer of 1817, President James Monroe toured the country in an effort to unite the ever-growing United States, torn between bitter political battles that overshadowed national conflict.To Monroe, the nation seemed ready “to get back into the great family of the union.” An ... Show More
31m 50s