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I found a few gems in a couple recent library trips that will probably show up in future episodes.  That and a show update, and an update on where we are with the USSR podcast.

A hodge podge of new material for future episodes not yet released and some older content that has new significance given recent events.   Given our look at Argentina’s dictatorship we visit another Latin American country.  A small country that found they could economize the oppression due to their size.  Plus Grover Cleveland’s scandal and what happened afterwards, from a 2013 episode, Prince Charles and Other notes.

It’s not what you were told in school, but it’s not totally wrong either.  Some highlights of the Thanksgiving and one of America’s origin stories.  What really happened, and the unknown story of how the original Mayflower history was undiscovered by Americans until the 1890’s, when it was found in a British church library.

I’ve been looking through the buried treasure of the old MHCBUYP server (as a recent business change it went from Yahoo to Verizon) and found a few episodes that were released in their time but are no longer on the feed.  One of them is this gem from 2016 getting into electoral ties. Some comments about 2016 that were at least a little prophetic.  The audio was bad due to the mike I used but some processing at least helped it a bit.  Please enjoy.

In this we share a little extra info about Bruce Givner, the intern at the DNC at the time of the Watergate breakin, and also about Congress’s Subpoena power, items that did not make it into the main casts.

More information left on the legal pads from the Student Loan and Midterm about nothing cast.  Including Sputnik landing in America, Nixon and Midterms and other notes.

We take a look at what the folks who met in New England’s moment of near – secession, the Hartford Convention wanted.  What would have American life been like under their suggested rules and amendments to the Constitution?

This and some British newspaper reaction to the War of 1812 that didn’t make it into the episode.

We look at the Vice President who – maybe – described the office as a “bucket of warm spit.”  He also may have been its most powerful occupant up to his time, and he’s responsible in a little way for making two President’s careers.  He’s also the first Vice President to campaign against the President, though since the President wasn’t officially campaigning at the time, perhaps it doesn’t count.

Fast food, department store shopping and taking tea in a hotel room.  How Three British visitors to America in two different time periods saw the country.  Pictured is the English novelist Francis Trollope, who wrote about her visit to 1820’s Cincinnati.

Also some quick humor from F Scott Fitzgerald.

We talk about Vichy France, Jazz music and the Hull note, items left out of the Visions of a Fever cast on 1941, and develop these topics more.  FDR’s cooperation with Vichy is considered a clear mistake by many historians today.  Also a look at Hull Note, that is, US Secretary of State Cordell Hull’s note to Japan which could be seen as a ‘my way or highway’ and the Japanese felt was an ultimatum.

Also an intro to what Bruce is working on – the Soviet Magnitofon podcast.  In the works since 2010 in one form, mostly in a notebook.  It is a podcast on the fall of the Soviet Union and the later period of the Soviet Union from 1975 to 1991.  it’s in the works, but I read a preview.