Why was the Tet Offensive defeat in victory?
Author: Paige BaileyInterviewer: Mathew ReidOn the night of January 30/31, 1968, communist forces totaling about 84,000 sprang from hiding to surprise U.S. military and ARVN forces across South Vietnam. Gunfire abruptly ended the Tet holiday ceasefire...
Did the Civilian Conservation Corps improve the lives of the nation’s youth?
Author: Blake PearsallInterviewer: Gretchen Shahriari The Civilian Conservation Corps was President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's experimental answer to the nation's impoverished and under-educated youth. The nation's young boys between the ages of 18...
Kansas: Land of Liberty?
Author: Henry Ford VI Interviewer: Thomas Kidd Fleeing the violent, racist oppression of the postbellum South, thousands of African-Americans sought to create a community where they could flourish and survive independent of the society...
How did Nationalism fuel the Polish Resistance
Author: Riley O'ShaughnessyInterviewer: Taylor DominiqueAfter Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union invaded Poland, Poles were presented with a dilemma. The Poles either fight, or they submit. Many Poles chose to fight. Poland was, at the time, only...
How Does a Constitutional Republic Act as a Safeguard Against the Threat of Factions?
Author: Myles Peckham Interviewer: Carly Chisholm It is not their immediate impact on voters at the time of the ratification of the Constitution that The Federalist Papers are famous for. Instead, it is the insight they provide into the minds of the men...
Pope’s Day Riots in Colonial America
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The Addicted Soldier
Author: Jackson Irby
Interviewer: Henry Ford VI
Lurking in the forests and villages of Vietnam, a second force affected US soldiers during the Vietnam war. They confronted an enemy even more dangerous than the Viet Cong soldier: opium. The use of opium and marijuana was rampant throughout the Golden Triangle of Southeast Asia. It did not take much time for these drugs to spread into Vietnam and into the hands of the US Army. During the Vietnam War, U.S. Soldiers experimented with drugs as get away from the war experience. The drug culture in America during the 1970s bled into the warfront in Vietnam, infecting soldiers and affecting their lives back home. The U.S. was unable to control the drug scene during the 1970s and the return of the addicted soldier only elevated that culture. Despite the fact that many soldiers used heroin while in Vietnam very few came back to the U.S. with addictions
How Did the Native American View of Slavery Shift Due to Contact With Europeans?
Author: Sam Lewellen Interviewer: Mary Connell
History’s Deadliest Warning-Shots: Why were Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombed?
Atomic bomb mushroom cloud from Big Man (plutonium bomb dropped on Nagasaki); the photo was taken from the B-29 “Necessary Evil” on August 9, 1945....
What Role did Organized Labor Play in the Anti-Chinese Movement?
Author: Chloe KeefeInterviewer: Nicholas MaysWhen Chinese immigrants initially came to the United States in search of job opportunities, they were hailed for their diligent work ethic. They seemed to work longer and harder than the native born American,...
What Opposition Did Hitler Face During his Control?
Author: Walker Ross Interviewer: Tiffany Parra Front Page of the New York 'Daily News' announcing the attempted assassination of Adolf Hitler, 21st July 1944 (litho) by American School, (20th century); lithograph; Private Collection; (add. info.: Generals Rebel,...
What Role Did Andrew Jackson’s Paternalism Play in Indian Removal?
Author: Joseph AltmanInterviewer: Genesis Palacios-Castro
What happened to gravity in war?
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How did American prejudice towards the Japanese help create white identity?
Author: Nicholas MaysInterviewer: Chloe KeefeIn the early 20th century, common knowledge held that "Caucasian" meant "white person." However, the reverse was not necessarily true, until the Supreme Court, in 1922, handed down a statement that legally...
What Made Alexander Hamilton and George Washington’s Relationship So Complex?
This podcast is about the complex relationship between Alexander Hamilton and George Washington. These two men were both individually important to history in their own ways. Alexander Hamilton went through many, many obstacles to get to where he was, but it did not come without help and dedication. Though Hamilton wanted to make his own way up the latter, he needed help and who better to receive help from than one of the most respected men in the country? With perseverance and a refusal to back down, Hamilton became a colonial in the Revolutionary War at the Battle of Yorktown and helped win the War for Independence.