Author: Matthew Colon

Interviewer: Nick Moon

The Civil War, a time of change in industry and technology, was home to the notorious act of sharpshooting. With a men marching into walls of gunfire, it is no surprise that sharpshooting was so effective. From acting as scouts and skirmishers, to fighting in full regiments, sharpshooters were versatile units that not only had an effect on individual battles, but on the future of warfare. Although sharpshooters, men who were very talented with rifled weapons, were neglected at the start of the war, by the close, sharpshooters were used in mass, taking their rightful place as elite soldiers.

Author: [Caroline Reardon]

Interviewer: [Logan Olszewski]

[Caroline Reardon digs for truth on the first permanent settlement, Jamestown, in North America. For the past four-hundred years, people have believed that the settlers of Jamestown were lazy, incompetent men that had horrible relationships with the Native Americans that lived in the surrounding lands prior to them. Due to recent archaeological digs by William Kelso and the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities (APVA) Jamestown has now been deemed a success story that needs to be known. Over two million artifacts had been dug up that are proving that the settlers were determined men that had to go through many hardships, deaths, cannibalism and challenges in order for them to meaningful. By the end of this settlement, the settlers had become prosperous and even established the first general assembly in the new world that endures to this day.]

Author: Drew Hutson

Interviewer: Jacob Adams

After almost thirty years of oppression under the absolute rule of Governor William Berkeley, colonial Virginia was on the brink of a significant change in 1676. Conflicts with local Indian tribes created tensions that allowed Nathaniel Bacon, a large planter from England, to lead frustrated groups of small farmers and free Africans on attacks against these tribes. Bacon then set his sights on Jamestown, the colony’s capital, in the Summer of 1676. After overtaking the Governor, Bacon effectively occupied the city until the following fall, when he died in October of the same year. Once peace was restored to the colony, the reaction by the elites was to separate and weaken the lower classes, which was done along the boundary of race, so that another uprising would never happen again. This created a permeant social divide between blacks and whites that would have major effects on the future United States.

Author: Jacob Adams

Interviewer: Drew Hutson

The Supreme Court's ruling against the Standard Oil Company in 1911 was a significant turning point in American History. The rule of reason eliminated monopolies in America as a direct result of public agenda, making the antitrust movement one of the first successful national grassroots movements in American history. Following cases and legislation to advance the American economy, while protecting the consumer were suddenly made possible as a result of the decision, making the case a powerful benchmark in American society. The transformation from laisse-faire economics to a regulatory system not only restructured the entire American economic perspective, but also created widespread support for a more powerful central government leading up to World War I.

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Interviewer:Kiril Velikov

The rocky course of the Cold War led to conflict after conflict between the Russians and the Americans, but the end of the Space Race led to a rare case of cooperation between these two superpowers. The commission by U.S. President Ronald Reagan to build the International Space Station led to the greatest cooperative scientific undertaking in the history of these two nations. The United States considered the possibility of completing the program without the Russians, but they soon discovered that they were too inter-dependent to work on their own. Because of the necessity of cooperation, the two were forced to learn how to communicate and operate together in the climate of a post-Cold War world.

Author: [Ryan Dean]

Interviewer: [Christopher Huber]

[In 1932, the United States Public Health Service chose rural Macon County, Alabama to conduct a series of medical tests on roughly 400 syphilis-infected and 200 healthy African-Americans, originally offering rudimentary treatments to observe how the disease progressed in blacks versus whites. After useful data was absent in the early years, the researchers decided to turn their attention to how the disease progressed in infected individuals while withholding treatment. For 40 years, the men tested were never given treatment, nor were they told what condition they had, except for the generic "bad blood." When the truth came out about the study in 1972, facts surrounding it pointed to three factors that explain how the U.S. Government could have pulled off this 40 year period of medical experimentation: racism, the lack of ethics, and the strong desire of researchers to control syphilis as a disease and the results of the study.]

Author: Evan Slupe

Interviewer: Patrick Cook

This project examines how the Iranian Revolution of 1979 and the formation of an Islamic Republic influenced a diaspora of educated persons from Iran. Many educated persons in Iran supported the revolution, however, did not anticipate the state of the new government under Khomeini. Persecution and social tensions between these educated persons and their Iranian peers led to a brain drain out of Iran.

Author: Christopher Huber

Interviewer: Ryan Dean

[The Stamp Act of 1765 marked the first time that Great Britain applied a direct tax on the North American colonies, beginning the decade-long argument of colonial rights and Parliamentary authority that culminated in the American Revolution. Thomas Hutchinson, the lieutenant governor of Massachusetts, was treated as a traitor and supporter of the Act, had his home destroyed, and was exiled to England, however, he should be recognized as a hero with Conway, Barré, Pitt, Otis, and other revolutionary patriots as he shared and even provided their arguments and opinions. Had it not been for his wealth, ambition, and prudence these views would have been made public and his name not erased from history.]

Unknown to the American public until January of 1944, American prisoners of war were brutally mistreated in the hands of the Japanese in the Philippines after the Battle of Bataan. This podcast focuses on the mistreatment of American POWs by the Japanese and the Bataan Death March. It covers the shared feeling of abandonment by both the POWs and their Japanese guards. U.S. propaganda surrounding World War II in the Pacific was based on ideological differences and racism where as Japanese propaganda focused on the infidelity of American troops in Australia. Most of my information on the Bataan Death March came from memoirs including Of Rice and Men.

Author: [Sarah Fowkes]

Interviewer: [Kim Sang]

The Loving v. Virginia (1967) case would become a landmark case resulting in the elimination of the long-standing Jim Crow laws. Mildred and Richard Loving were an interracial couple who fled Virginia to Washington, D.C. to escape Virginia's anti-miscengation law, which stemmed from the Racial Integrity Act of 1924. After getting married and returning to Virginia they got arrested and were given the option of either moving to Washington, D.C. or going to jail for one year. They opted to move to Washington, D.C. and with the help of lawyers from the Civil Liberties Union there case would move through each state court until it got appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court. Chief Justice Earl Warren would overturn Virginia's rulings, putting an end to anti-miscegenation laws in every state and also putting an end to the last Jim Crow Law.