LearnOutLoud.com Audio - History That Doesn't Suck Podcast

175: The Dirty Thirties (The New Deal pt. 2): Dust, Doubts, and the “Second” New Deal (Mon, Mar 10, 2025)
174: The First “First Hundred Days:” FDR Kicks Off the New Deal (Mon, Feb 24, 2025)
173: From Hyde Park to the White House: The Early Life and Election of Franklin Delano Roosevelt (Mon, Feb 10, 2025)
14 (Second Edition): The Newburgh Conspiracy and The Peace of Paris (Mon, Jan 27, 2025)
13 (Second Edition): The Battle of the Chesapeake & the World Turns Upside Down at Yorktown (Mon, Jan 13, 2025)
12 (Second Edition): An American Judas Betrays & Nathanael Greene Saves! (Mon, Dec 30, 2024)
172: Breadlines, Bank Failures, & the Bonus Army: Hoover & the Early Great Depression (Mon, Dec 16, 2024)
171: Christmas Special VIII: Festivities in the Jazz Age (Mon, Dec 02, 2024)
170: The Crash of 1929 & Meeting President Herbert Hoover (Mon, Nov 18, 2024)
169: An Epilogue to the 1920s: Youth culture, The Great Gatsby, and more with Professor Sarah Churchwell (Mon, Nov 04, 2024)
168: Halloween Special IV: Nosferatu and Silent Horror (Mon, Oct 21, 2024)
167: The Golden Age of Sports: Horse Racing, Boxing, Basketball, Football, & Jim Thorpe (Mon, Oct 07, 2024)
166: A Conversation on Negro Leagues Baseball History with Bob Kendrick (Mon, Sep 30, 2024)
165: America’s Favorite Pastime: Baseball, the Negro Leagues, and the Great Bambino (Mon, Sep 23, 2024)
164: Harlem Renaissance: The Great Migration, Jazz, and the Flowering of Black Culture (Mon, Sep 09, 2024)
163: The Show (Boat) Must Go On: Broadway and the American Musical (Mon, Aug 26, 2024)
162: The Birth of the Movies: From Silent Cinema to the Rise of Hollywood & the First “Talkie” (Mon, Aug 12, 2024)
161: An Epilogue Toast to Prohibition’s End with Author Daniel Okrent (Mon, Jul 29, 2024)
160: Al Capone & the End of Prohibition (Mon, Jul 15, 2024)
159: Scofflaws, Moonshiners, Bootleggers, and Crime Lords (Mon, Jul 01, 2024)
158: Prohibition - So You Wanna Be a Rum Runner? (Mon, Jun 17, 2024)
157: Temperance, Prohibition, and the Path to the 18th Amendment (Mon, Jun 03, 2024)
156: The Presidency of “Silent” Cal Coolidge (Mon, May 20, 2024)
155: The Life & Times of Warren G. Harding & The Teapot Dome Scandal (Mon, May 06, 2024)
154: An Epilogue Discussion with Ben Sawyer (Mon, Apr 22, 2024)
153: West Virginia’s Mine Wars: From Trouble in Matewan to the Battle of Blair Mountain (Mon, Apr 08, 2024)
152: The Second Ku Klux Klan: Racism, Anti-Semitism, & Anti-Catholicism in the 1920s (Mon, Mar 25, 2024)
151: The First Red Scare - Bombings, The Palmer Raids, Eugene Debs, and J. Edgar Hoover (Mon, Mar 11, 2024)
150: The Great War’s Aftermath: Coming Home, The Spanish Flu, & The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier (Mon, Feb 26, 2024)
149: WWI Epilogue (Mon, Jan 01, 2024)
148: Tales of Christmas from World War I (A Truce, Plum Pudding, and Love) (Mon, Dec 04, 2023)
147: Peacemaking in Paris: The Treaty of Versailles (Mon, Nov 20, 2023)
146: The Armistice of November 11, 1918 (Mon, Nov 06, 2023)
145: Halloween Special III: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (Mon, Oct 23, 2023)
144: A Conversation with Ken Burns - Storytelling and the American Buffalo (Mon, Oct 09, 2023)
143: The Meuse-Argonne Offensive (pt.2) – Breaking the Kriemhilde Line (Mon, Sep 25, 2023)
142: The Meuse-Argonne Offensive (pt.1) – “The Lost Battalion” (Mon, S 11, )(ep 06:00:00 2023, -0000)
141: Wartime Interlude (Mon, Aug 28, 2023)
140: WWI Aviators: From the Lafayette Escadrille to the Red Baron and More (Mon, Aug 14, 2023)
139: From Yeomen (F) to “Hello Girls:” American Women in World War I (Mon, Jul 31, 2023)
138: The 15th New York/369th or The Harlem Hellfighters (Mon, Jul 17, 2023)
137: The First Battle of the First American Army: St. Mihiel (Mon, Jul 03, 2023)
136: The German Spring Offensive’s End, or The Second Battle of the Marne (Mon, Jun 19, 2023)
135: Belleau Wood – A Cut Deeper with Captain Mac Caldwell (Mon, Jun 05, 2023)
134: (Most of) The German Spring Offensive of 1918 & The Fight for Belleau Wood (Mon, May 22, 2023)
133: Heading “Over There:” “Black Jack” Pershing & Creating WWI’s American Expeditionary Force (Mon, May 08, 2023)
132: The US Enters WWI (RMS Lusitania, Black Tom Island, & The Zimmermann Telegram) (Mon, Apr 24, 2023)
131: Epilogue on World War 1 before the US (Mon, Apr 10, 2023)
130: Russia: From the Great War to Revolution with Deputy Provost Kat Brown (Mon, Mar 27, 2023)
129: World War I Before the US (Military Tech, Trenches, Global Armies, Ypres, Verdun & the Somme) (Mon, Mar 13, 2023)
128: The Causes of World War I (From the Congress of Vienna to Franz Ferdinand & the Marne) (Mon, Feb 27, 2023)
127: Mr. Wilson Goes to Washington (Progressive Policies & Foreign Affairs in South America) (Mon, Feb 13, 2023)
126: Christmas Special 6: Jacob Riis’ “Is There a Santa Claus?” (Mon, Dec 19, 2022)
125: Epilogue: The Progressive Era (Mon, Dec 05, 2022)
124: The “Bull Moose” Election of 1912 (Mon, Nov 21, 2022)
123: The Wright Brothers Fly at Kitty Hawk (Mon, Nov 07, 2022)
122: Halloween Special II: H.P. Lovecraft – “The Outsider” & “Dagon” (Mon, Oct 24, 2022)
121: Henry Ford: The Model T & Mass Production (Mon, Oct 10, 2022)
120: From Atlanta to the NAACP, or Booker T. Washington v. W.E.B. Du Bois (Mon, Sep 26, 2022)
119: Women’s Suffrage & the Passage of the 19th Amendment (Mon, Sep 12, 2022)
118: “The Island of Hope and Tears:” Ellis Island (Mon, Aug 29, 2022)
117: Epilogue on Progressive Era Part I (Teddy Roosevelt) (Mon, Aug 15, 2022)
116: Teddy Roosevelt’s Foreign Policy: From Big Stick Diplomacy to the Panama Canal (Mon, Aug 01, 2022)
115: History–Doomed to Repeat It? A Conversation with Lindsay Graham (Mon, Jul 18, 2022)
114: A Square Deal (pt. 3): “Leave it as it is” (Teddy Roosevelt & Conservationism) (Mon, Jun 20, 2022)
113: A Square Deal (pt. 2): Consumer Protection–The FDA, & Ida Tarbell muckrakes Standard Oil (Mon, Jun 06, 2022)
112: A Square Deal (pt. 1): Corp. Regulation—a coal strike, a trust, & Teddy’s Frenemy J.P. Morgan (Mon, May 23, 2022)
111: The Assassination of Will McKinley & The Strenuous Life of Theodore Roosevelt (Mon, May 09, 2022)
110: Epilogue to the Age of Imperialism (Mon, Apr 25, 2022)
109: The Election of 1900 & the Rise of Anti-Imperialism (Mon, Apr 11, 2022)
108: G.O. 100, “The Water Cure,” & The Law of War in the Early-20th Century with Professor Ryan Vogel (Mon, Mar 28, 2022)
107: The Philippine-American War (Mon, Mar 14, 2022)
106: The US Annexation of the Hawaiian Kingdom (Mon, Feb 28, 2022)
105: “A Splendid Little War:” The Spanish-American War and Theodore Roosevelt’s Rough Riders (Mon, Feb 14, 2022)
104: The Road to the Spanish-American War (Mon, Jan 31, 2022)
103: A Gilded Age Christmas: Joseph Pulitzer’s Christmas Tree Fund (Mon, Dec 20, 2021)
102: Epilogue to the Gilded Age (Mon, Nov 22, 2021)
101: The New South, Jim Crow (Plessy v. Ferguson), & the Death of Frederick Douglass (Mon, Nov 08, 2021)
100: Halloween Special! Edgar Allan Poe: The Tell-tale Heart, The Cask of Amontillado, & The Raven (Mon, Oct 25, 2021)
99: The Gilded Age’s Singer Sewing Machines & Dangerous Bananas w/ Dr. Ben Sawyer of The Road To Now (Mon, Oct 11, 2021)
98: Silver & Gold: From Grover Cleveland to William Jennings Bryan & William McKinley (Mon, Sep 27, 2021)
97: The Gilded Age’s Robber Barons: John D. Rockefeller & Andrew Carnegie (Mon, Sep 13, 2021)
96: The War of the Currents: (Thomas Alva Edison v. Nikola Tesla & George Westinghouse) (Mon, Aug 30, 2021)
95: "Several Thousand Things that Won't Work:" Thomas Alva Edison and His Electric Light (Mon, Aug 16, 2021)
94: Epilogue to Gilded Age Part I (or Gilded Age interlude w/ Significant HTDS Updates) (Mon, Aug 02, 2021)
93: La Liberté éclairant le monde: Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi’s Statue of Liberty (Mon, Jul 19, 2021)
92: The Brooklyn Bridge, or the Story of the Roebling Family (Mon, Jun 21, 2021)
91: The Gilded Age, Industrialization, and Assassination of President James Garfield (Mon, Jun 07, 2021)
90: Epilogue to the Wild West (Mon, May 10, 2021)
89: Closing the Wild West: (Wounded Knee, Buffalo Bill & the 1893 Colombian Expo) (Mon, Apr 26, 2021)
88: “The Last Frontier:” The Purchase of Alaska and the Klondike Gold Rush (Mon, Apr 12, 2021)
87:Gunslingers & Outlaws (pt 2): Pearl Hart, Tombstone, Jesse James, B. Cassidy & The Sundance Kid (Mon, Mar 29, 2021)
86: Gunslingers & Outlaws (pt 1): The Second Industrial Revolution, Sam Bass & Billy the Kid (Mon, Mar 15, 2021)
85: Transcontinental Railroad (pt 3): The Central Pacific, Chinese Workers, & The Golden Spike (Mon, Mar 01, 2021)
84: Transcontinental Railroad (pt 2): Dr. Thomas Durant, The Union Pacific & “Hell on Wheels” (Mon, Feb 15, 2021)
83: Transcontinental Railroad (pt 1): Industrialization, Ted Judah & The Rise of the Central Pacific (Mon, Feb 01, 2021)
82: Best Mini Episodes and Cold Opens of 2020 (Mon, Jan 18, 2021)
81: Epilogue to Volume 6: Reconstruction and The Indian Wars (Mon, Jan 04, )(2021 -0000 06:00:00, )
80: “Yes, Virginia, There is a Santa Claus:” A History (Mon, Dec 21, 2020)
79: The Indian Wars (Part 3): Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce & Standing Bear’s Fight for Civil Rights (Mon, Dec 07, 2020)
78: The Indian Wars (Part 2): The Battle of the Little Bighorn (the Greasy Grass) (Mon, Nov 23, 2020)
77: The Indian Wars (Part 1): The U.S.-Dakota War (Mon, Nov 09, 2020)
76: Reconstruction (Part 4): The Battle of Liberty Place and the Mississippi Plan (Mon, Oct 26, 2020)
75: Reconstruction (Part 3): The Rise of the KKK and the First Black Men in Government (Mon, Oct 12, 2020)
74: Reconstruction (Part 2): The Presidency of Ulysses S. Grant (Mon, Sep 28, 2020)
73: Reconstruction (Part 1): The Impeachment of Andrew Johnson (Mon, Sep 14, 2020)
72: The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln (Mon, Aug 31, 2020)
71: Revisiting the Hamilton/Burr Duel: An Affair of Honor (Mon, Aug 17, 2020)
70: Epilogue: The Civil War Comes to a Close (Mon, Aug 03, 2020)
69: Surrender at Appomattox: The Last Days of the Civil War (Mon, Jul 20, 2020)
68: Sherman's March to the Sea and the Thirteenth Amendment (Mon, Jul 06, 2020)
67: Ending 1864: The Battles of the Crater, Mobile Bay, Centralia, and Franklin (Mon, Jun 22, 2020)
66: The Election of 1864: Lincoln's Bid for Reelection (Mon, Jun 08, 2020)
65: Sherman’s Atlanta Campaign & The Free State of Jones (Mon, May 25, 2020)
Bonus: A New Sound for HTDS (Farewell to Josh, Hello to Lindsay Graham & Airship) (Mon, May 18, 2020)
64: Grant's Overland Campaign: The Battles of the Wilderness, Spotsylvania, Cold Harbor, & Petersburg (Mon, May 11, 2020)
Bonus: A Chat about Southern Accents w/ Jeremy Collins from "Podcasts We Listen To" (Wed, May 06, 2020)
63: Wounded and Dying: Nurses, Doctors, and Disease in the Civil War (Mon, Apr 27, 2020)
62: The War in Tennessee: Chickamauga and Chattanooga (Mon, Apr 13, 2020)
61: The Louisiana Native Guard, the 54th Massachusetts & On: Black Soldiers in the Civil War (Mon, Mar 30, 2020)
60: Gettysburg (Mon, Mar 16, 2020)
59: Stone’s River, Suspending Habeas Corpus, Vicksburg, & Stonewall’s Death at Chancellorsville (Mon, Mar 02, 2020)
58: Conscription & Riots (“A Rich Man’s War, But a Poor Man’s Fight”) (Mon, Feb 17, 2020)
57: Recap of The Civil War's First Half (1861-63) (Mon, Feb 03, 2020)
56: The Battle of Fredericksburg and the First Campaign of Vicksburg (Mon, Jan 20, 2020)
55: The Road to The Emancipation Proclamation (Mon, Jan 06, 2020)
54: The Best Opening Scenes in HTDS History (Mon, Dec 23, 2019)
53: A Civil War Christmas with Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Mon, Dec 09, 2019)
52: From Second Bull Run, or Second Manassas to Antietam, or Sharpsburg (Mon, Nov 25, 2019)
51: A Change in Command: Seven Days Battles to the Battle of Cedar Mountain (Mon, Nov 11, 2019)
50: Mississippi Valley 1862: The Battles of New Orleans, Corinth, Memphis, and Vicksburg (Mon, Oct 28, 2019)
49: From Little Mac McClellan to Stonewall Jackson: The Peninsula and Shenandoah Valley Campaigns (Mon, Oct 14, 2019)
48: The Battle of Shiloh: “Now boys, pitch in!” (Mon, Sep 30, 2019)
47: Bull Run, Trent Affair, the Merrimack, & Fort Donelson: The Early Days of the Civil War (Mon, Sep 16, 2019)
46: The Civil War Begins: Fort Sumter, Secession, & Raising Armies (Mon, Sep 02, 2019)
45: Volume IV Epilogue (Mon, Aug 19, 2019)
44: Abraham Lincoln Becomes President of the Divided States of America (Mon, Aug 05, 2019)
43: Honest Abe, the Lincoln-Douglas Debates, & John Brown’s Raid on Harpers Ferry (Mon, Jul 22, 2019)
42: Solomon Northup’s 12 Years a Slave (Mon, Jul 08, 2019)
41: Kansas! (Bleeding Kansas, the Kansas-Nebraska Act, & Caning of Charles Sumner) (Mon, Jun 24, 2019)
40: Elizabeth Cady Stanton, the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention & the Explosion of Social Reform (Mon, Jun 10, 2019)
39: The California Gold Rush and the Compromise of 1850 (Mon, May 27, 2019)
38: The (Early) Life and Times of Frederick Douglass (Mon, May 13, 2019)
37: La Amistad Slave Rebellion and the Rise of Abolitionism (Mon, Apr 29, 2019)
Volume III Epilogue (Mon, Apr 15, 2019)
36: Mexican-American War (Part 4): Los Niños Héroes, St. Patrick’s Battalion, & the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (Mon, Apr 01, 2019)
35: Mexican-American War (Part 3): Nuevo México and the Final Push from Vera Cruz (Mon, Mar 18, 2019)
34: Mexican-American War (Part 2): The Pathfinder, the Bear Flag Revolt, y Los Californios (Mon, Mar 04, 2019)
33: Mexican-American War (Part 1): From the Nueces River to the Rio Grande (Mon, Feb 18, 2019)
32: Mormonism and the Mormon Trail (Mon, Feb 04, 2019)
31: The California Trail: From the Donner Party to the Gold Rush (Mon, Jan 21, 2019)
30: The Oregon Trail (“You Have Died of Dysentery”) (Mon, Jan 07, 2019)
Christmas Special II: A Jackson White House Christmas (Mon, Dec 24, 2018)
29: The Bank War, Whigs, & Revolution in Texas (Mon, Dec 10, 2018)
28: Ushering in the Age of Jackson (Mon, Nov 26, 2018)
Epilogue to Volume 2 (Sun, Nov 11, 2018)
27: The Last of the Founding Fathers (Mon, Oct 29, 2018)
26: Peace in Ghent, War in New Orleans (Mon, Oct 15, 2018)
25: From Lake Champlain to the “Defense of Fort M’Henry” (Mon, Oct 01, 2018)
24: From Granny to Old Ironsides: The Campaigns of 1812 and 1813. (Mon, Sep 17, 2018)
23: Prelude to America's Forgotten War (Sun, Sep 02, 2018)
22: An Affair of Honor: Alexander Hamilton & Aaron Burr (Sun, Aug 19, 2018)
21: Thomas Jefferson Presents: Lewis & Clark’s Excellent Expedition (Mon, Aug 06, 2018)
20: "A Wolf by the Ears": Gabriel Rebels and Cotton Becomes King (Mon, Jul 23, 2018)
19: The Traitor and The Thieving Spy: The Start of American Industrialization (Mon, Jul 09, 2018)
18: Affairs! Foreign and ..."Domestic" (Mon, Jun 25, 2018)
Historians (of The) Roundtable: I (Thu, Jun 07, 2018)
17: Death of a Nation's Father (Mon, May 28, 2018)
16: The Founding Fractures: Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson (Tue, May 08, 2018)
Epilogue To The Revolution; Or The Big Stuff You Should’ve Caught (Wed, Apr 25, 2018)
Q&A with The HTDS Team (Thu, Apr 12, 2018)
15: “We the People:” Constitution Making in Philly (Mon, Mar 26, 2018)
14: Peace in Paris; Turmoil in New York (Wed, Mar 14, 2018)
13: The World Turns Upside Down at Yorktown (Wed, Feb 28, 2018)
12: An American Judas Betrays & Nathanael Greene Saves! (Tue, Feb 13, 2018)
Second Edition Episodes: A Discussion (Wed, Jan 31, 2018)
11: Southern Discomfort: Savannah & Charleston Captured, Slavery, Massacres, & 1779’s Sundries (Wed, Jan 31, 2018)
10: Dueling, Life Sucks at Valley Forge, von Steuben's Cool & the Battle of Monmouth (Fri, Jan 19, 2018)
9: (Almost) Everything Important in 1777--Saratoga, Lafayette & George Returns Gen. Howe’s Dog (Tue, Jan 02, 2018)
Christmas Special: George Wishes Some Hessians a Merry F’ing Christmas (Sat, Dec 23, 2017)
8: From Independence to NY (meeting A. Ham, Nathan Hale & Charles Lee is a Sneaky Bastard) (Sun, Dec 17, 2017)
7: An Olive Branch Rejected, Tom's a Royal Pain(e), & the Siege of Boston (Mon, Dec 04, 2017)
6: "The Shot Heard Round the World" (Sat, Nov 18, 2017)
5: "Delenda est Bostonia:" a Congress, Paul Rides, & the First Shot at Lexington (Wed, Nov 01, 2017)
4: "Boston Harbor A Tea-Pot This Night:" The Boston Tea Party (Tue, Oct 17, 2017)
3: "Clean My Sh*t House!" The Boston Massacre (Mon, Oct 09, 2017)
2: Patrick Henry and Boston Get Pissed about Taxes (Sat, Sep 30, 2017)
1: That One Time When George Washington Sort of Triggered an International War (Thu, Sep 28, 2017)
0: Preamble (Tue, Sep 26, 2017)