What do you get a country that has conquered the North American continent and exhausted Manifest Destiny?  Land overseas!  We chat about some of the land that the US had scooped up and why we created the Panama Canal!

The Spanish-American War was one of the, if not the quickest war in US History.  What is quicker than that?  This podcast.  We give you a bite-sized look into the war and what it meant for American imperialism.

We talk about muckraking and what used to be passed off as beef.  We also talk about the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire and how it was just failure after failure after failure.  We also talk about early union history in the US and wrap things up with the Progressive Era and ole Teddy Roosevelt.

Better late than never!  Today we talk about the Gilded Age.  We talk about the good that came out of it and we hint at the bad.  We talk about light bulbs and trains that won't stop!

Now that Reconstruction is underway, do you think everything is going to go back to normal?  Of course not.  We talk about how the South actively undermined the Civil War amendments.

We now have playlists of all the music you hear in these episodes.  You can find them here:

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4WNHLPWYjFiujO9T3A240X?si=vtTYc4RITga1tWrETS4Aug 

Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/us/playlist/founding-podthers/pl.u-76jytNy2KaV 

What do we talk about in this episode?  I'm glad you asked.

The Civil War.  North v. South. Union v. Confederacy.  Brother v. Brother.   Toilet paper front v. Toilet paper back.....wait, that's a different episode.  Anyway, the war divided the entire nation.  Find out what the Podthers have to say about the Civil War.

What happens when your country has too much damage for Flex Seal to take care of?  You make compromises.  What happens when one side keeps moving the goalposts?   You try to compromise.  What happens when you're sick of compromises?  Well, apparently James Buchanan did nothing.

Now that we've discussed slavery, let's talk about what people did to get rid of slavery.  We talk about Uncle Tom's Cabin, John Brown and Harriet Tubman.

We take a look at what is called the "Peculiar Institution" that is slavery.  We talk about its place in America and why the US was so reliant on it.