GIGGLE CLUB: FDR'S PRESS STRATEGY - OUR MEDIATED REPUBLIC, PART FIVE
First rule is: Nobody talks about Giggle Club. Second. When he says no pencils, it's no pencils. Third. Get a buddy. Fourth. Don't take it s...
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Today's political debates, particularly on cable news, talk radio and blog comments can be limiting. In this podcast, Bruce Carlson applies as much history as possible to the politics of tod...
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GRANT'S TROLL AND THE MAN IN THE CASTLE: OUR MEDIATED REPUBLIC, PART FOUR
Press has power. Can it be too much? Or is it needed to offset governmental power? We look at some interesting, powerful, and at times probl...
GET ME ON TV: OUR MEDIATED REPUBLIC - PART THREE
TV technology arrives on the scene half press and half novelty. Politicians learn they can bring messages on at times that won't be critique...
LINCOLN'S CRITIC: OUR MEDIATED REPUBLIC - PART TWO
The Battle of Chancellorsville. The Union has got the Confederates in their sights. But not for long. All the while, a reporter named Whitel...
OUR MEDIATED REPUBLIC, PART ONE
Eisenhower gets irritated. Lincoln finds a friend. Theodore Roosevelt seeks the truth at lunch. Madison sees talent. Greeley won't miss his...
20 YEARS OF MY HISTORY CAN BEAT UP YOUR POLITICS
It went by fast! Show update. We've reached a milestone. And a few things you can do if you are interested. Learn more about your ad choices...
PROTEST: HOW CHANGE IS MADE -(From 2013) Montgomery Bus Boycott, Freedom Summer and Other Change Movements
Does Protest work? Maybe, with other steps & factors. Looking at the Montgomery Bus Boycott, Freedom Summer, Mothers of the Disappeared and...
PRESIDENTS AND MIDDLE EAST: 1979 US EMBASSY IN PAKISTAN INCIDENT
A now forgotten incident about an attempt to have a second hostage crisis during the Carter administration, only narrowly averted by heroic...
INFLATION: NIXON VERSUS PLYWOOD, LBJ AND COPPER
Stories of Presidential inflation fighting and fund-raising that seem to have a similar ring to today's events, in this episode. Nixon's pla...
W.E.B. DuBois and The Wounded World w/ Chad L. Williams
In 1917, the most prominent spokesperson for African Americans, W.E.B. DuBois, shocked many when he threw his support behind enthusiastic an...
SHAYS' REBELLION
The history behind a rebellion against a state of the new United States, why it happened, its impact on our Constitution, and what it means...
Who is AMOS ELLMAKER? Lincoln Tells a Story, Inkeeps of Old, Finding Marvin Gardens
As the name says, a bunch of stories from books and clippings. We are part of Airwave Media Network Patreon - http://www.patreon.com/mhcbuyp...
THE MAN WHO SOLD YORK, PENNSYLVANIA. AND OTHER STORIES
A.B. Farquhar would go on to be an advisor to President Cleveland and run his successful non consecutive re election campaign. But prior to...
THE ZILCH MEMO
Nixon's long buried memo reveals a lot, maybe Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TRUMP AND HARRAH'S
an early project doesn't go so well. A corporate entity finds it can't work well with the Don, and walk away, after court battles. For Trump...
CHESTER ARTHUR'S SON AND GRANDSON
A brief look at the family legacy of Chester Arthur, his son and grandson. From the White House to San Francisco's hippie scene. Learn more...
CHESTER ARTHUR TAKES AIM AT TARIFFS
Many know of President Arthur's work on civil service reform. Less known is that he also sought to change his party's position on the use of...
WHAT HAPPENED TO THE GOLD STANDARD?
Officially, as any part of US policy, tiny room in 1982. We tell that story. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
NATIONAL VAHALLA: ALL ABOUT STATUES, MONUMENTS, STATUE REMOVAL
From the early attempts to depict Washington, to the first Congressional attempts to block Confederate statues, to today's debate. In this e...
SCOTUS BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP DECISION - Trump v. Barbara, Decision and Kavanaugh and Gorsuch's Takes
not a surprise in my book, but the SCOTUS recently ruled on Trump's executive order of 2025 denying citizenship by birth in the United State...