Ten Minute History

Everyone knows about Prohibition, America's 14 year experiment with banning all alcohol. What they don't know is the unlikely combination of factors that allowed the 18th Amendment to be passed.

Women's history is largely overlooked and outright ignored, that's just a fact. Which is too bad, since the women in our history were INSTRUMENTAL in so much social justice and democratic reform in this nation. We could teach a whole set of classes on nothing else. This podcast is going to look at three amazing women in the early 1900s that you will find interesting and inpisiring.

America was a brand new baby empire in 1900. But WHY? What did Teddy Roosevelt do as President (and an imperialist) to establish and spread this empire? Let's take a look.

Here we talk about Teddy Roosevelt the President and the Progressive, his efforts to protect Americans from poisoned meat and dangerous drugs, and to establish National Parks and help workers.