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An upcoming episode on Grover Cleveland and his battle with Congress.  Also about William Jennings Bryan’s short military career and Lincoln and Rutherford B. Hayes and their coats, both of which didn’t get used too much.

A preview of an episode on Andrew Carnegie we are working on.

In this third installment of The American 1890’s History audio scrapbook we look at a number of modern issues that bubbled up in the Mauve Decade,  including: police violence and Indian rights, women’s rights, mental health, African American rights and an African American bicycle champion, homosexuality.  We also look at numerous attempts to put humans in the air in a controlled fashion, in a decade that wouldn’t see it work out but sure tried.

We look at an early series of letters that James Madison writes to a college chum William Bradford from Princeton which reveal his early thoughts on the coming Revolution, and the Northern part of America versus the Southern part.  If Madison showed a tendency to change his politics and thinking and try to hammer compromises, and to think nationally, it came from his Princeton years. It’s part of early research on an upcoming episode James Madison The American Mind.

A few notes we left out.  Love and deregulation, more Reggie Jackson and other things

More thoughts on a potential ‘dream ticket’ in 1980.  What happens when a President and former President enter the White House.

A cabbie’s view of the stock crashes, a tragedy in the news, and Donald Trump’s Black Monday, all left overs from the podcast

While cannons fired and infantry charged, a battle in the Civil War was fought on another front – the world financial markets – with implications for the war.  A section we recorded for the Ark of Commerce Part b but no longer made sense to keep in.

For members only, sneak preview of the first installment of the final Ark of Commerce, our series on the commercial history of the United States.  In this episode we discuss Black Monday 1987, and the exchange systems that led up to it.   We also talk about risk and the very early beginnings of insurance.

Continuing on our look at the 1890’s – many flying machines, Jack London goes from pirate to lawman, William Taft seeks gold, a cookie company and a cough drop company get their names, chicago and Southern California bloom, a city whose residents love their brown water, an author named Winston Churchill but not the one you think!