Episode Title:

The United States in World War II: Pearl Harbor to Hiroshima (1941–1945)

Episode Description:

How a broke, isolationist America was thrown into World War II overnight...and what happened when the "sleeping giant" woke up. This episode follows the U.S. from Pearl Harbor through the war that ended the Great Depression, the women who rebuilt the industrial base, the Double V campaign and the Tuskegee Airmen, the Pacific turn at Midway, D-Day and the staggering Eastern Front, and the hardest decision of the war. Story-first, human-centered history — the numbers, but also the people behind them.

Keywords / Tags:

World War II, WWII, World War 2, Pearl Harbor, American history, US history, home front, Rosie the Riveter, women in WWII, Tuskegee Airmen, Double V campaign, A. Philip Randolph, war bonds, Great Depression, Lend-Lease, Battle of Midway, Guadalcanal, Bataan Death March, D-Day, Operation Overlord, Battle of the Bulge, Eastern Front, Stalingrad, Manhattan Project, Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Harry Truman, FDR, history podcast, US and WWII

YouTube Video Referenced (on Depression Era Recipes):

https://youtu.be/RQltDt1hxwk is=6rTAnxw9Wt5RDB_4

Episode Title: (HIS 223 -Week 4)

Water Pie: Stories of Provision from the Great Depression

Episode Description:

A kitchen table, flour, water, and a family that has to eat tonight. This episode traces the Great Depression from the

1929 crash through the human toll of hunger and unemployment, the Bonus Army tragedy, FDR’s election and the early New Deal, and the Dust Bowl migration west, read throughout alongside the ancient story of a widow whose flour and oil never ran dry.

Keywords / Tags:

Great Depression, Herbert

Hoover, FDR, New Deal, Bonus Army, Dust Bowl,

Okies, Grapes of Wrath, Fireside Chats, history

podcast, US history, biblical worldview

Episode Title: The Loudest Decade — Jazz, Gin,

and the Backlash of the 1920s

Episode Description: A nervous cornet player

steps off a train in Chicago in 1922, and the

sound he makes that night is the whole decade in

miniature. This episode traces the 1920s in full:

postwar disillusionment and modernism, the

Nativist backlash and the resurgence of the Ku

Klux Klan, Prohibition and the rise of Al Capone,

the Scopes Trial, the Jazz Age and the flapper,

and the economic cracks quietly forming

underneath all of it.

Keywords / Tags:

1920s, Roaring Twenties, Jazz

Age, Prohibition, Al Capone, Ku Klux Klan,

Nativism, Scopes Trial, flapper, history podcast,

US history, modernism

Episode Title: The Wrong Turn, America,

Wilson, and the Making of World War One

Episode Description: A wrong turn on a

Sarajevo street. A president who never wanted

to touch foreign policy. A war that reinvented

what a battlefield could look like. This episode

traces the deep causes of World War One,

America’s slow and reluctant slide from

neutrality into war, Woodrow Wilson’s Fourteen

Points and the peace that followed, and the

technologies, artillery, trenches, tanks, and

submarines, that made this war unlike any that

came before it.

Keywords / Tags: World War One, WWI causes,

Woodrow Wilson, Fourteen Points, Treaty of

Versailles, League of Nations, Zimmermann

Telegram, Lusitania, trench warfare, history

podcast, US history, World War I technology

Title: The Gilded Age: Robber Barons, Rockefeller, Carnegie & the Second Industrial Revolution (1877–1900)

Description:

After the Civil War, America's economy exploded — population tripled, manufacturing grew sixfold — and Mark Twain looked at the result and called it not golden but gilded: gold on the surface, something harder underneath. This episode traces the Second Industrial Revolution that built modern America: the telegraph and transatlantic cable, Bell's telephone and Edison's phonograph, Tesla and Westinghouse's electricity and the skyscraper city it powered. We follow the transcontinental railroad — the first true big business — from the Pacific Railway Act to the golden spike at Promontory, built by Chinese, Irish, and African American laborers, and shadowed by Robber Barons and the Crédit Mobilier scandal. Then the two titans who became the face of the age: John D. Rockefeller (Standard Oil, vertical integration, the trust) and Andrew Carnegie (steel, The Gospel of Wealth, and 2,500 libraries). We close on Gilded Age corruption and the first reforms, up to the Pendleton Civil Service Act of 1883. A people-first history of who got the gold — and who got the grind.

Keywords:

Gilded Age, Second Industrial Revolution, big business history, Robber Barons, John D. Rockefeller, Standard Oil, vertical integration, the trust, Sherman Anti-Trust Act, Andrew Carnegie, Carnegie Steel, The Gospel of Wealth, Social Darwinism, Herbert Spencer, transcontinental railroad, Pacific Railway Act, golden spike, Promontory, Crédit Mobilier, Chinese railroad workers, Mark Twain, Thomas Edison, Nikola Tesla, Alexander Graham Bell, Louis Sullivan, monopoly, laissez-faire, spoils system, Pendleton Civil Service Act, Chester A. Arthur, Rutherford B. Hayes, urbanization, American history, US history survey, late 19th century America

Title: The Second Founding — The 13th, 14th & 15th Amendments and the Civil Rights Acts of 1866–1875

Episode Description: After the Civil War, Congress didn’t just patch the Constitution — it rewrote what it means to be an American. This episode walks through the three Reconstruction Amendments: the 13th, which abolished slavery (and the exception clause that left a loophole); the 14th, which delivered citizenship, due process, and equal protection; and the 15th, which guaranteed the right to vote. Then we get into the three laws that gave those promises teeth — the Civil Rights Acts of 1866, 1871, and 1875 — including the 1871 Ku Klux Klan Act, whose Section 1 still powers civil rights lawsuits today, and the 1875 public-accommodations law the Supreme Court struck down in 1883.

We start at the grave of Congressman Thaddeus Stevens, because this is a people-first history: every clause has a person standing behind it.

Keywords / Tags:

Reconstruction Amendments, 13th Amendment, 14th Amendment, 15th Amendment, Civil Rights Act of 1866, Civil Rights Act of 1871, Civil Rights Act of 1875, Ku Klux Klan Act, Section 1983, Civil Rights Cases 1883, Thaddeus Stevens, Frederick Douglass, Charles Sumner, John Bingham, equal protection, due process, citizenship, due process clause, the right to vote, abolition of slavery, Reconstruction era, American history, US Constitution, Black history, Andrew Johnson veto, post-Civil War