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History That Doesn't Suck

Prof. Greg Jackson

History That Doesn't Suck with Prof. Greg Jackson. 237 episodes in the official feed, 215 hr 42 min of listening. Free official feed published by the creator.

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237 episodes · 215 hr 42 min
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237
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English
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Lifelong
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  1. 215: D-Day, Part II: June 6, 1944 1:02:07
  2. 214: D-Day, Part I: From the First Quebec Conference to June 5, 1944 1:00:39
  3. 213: Halloween Special VI: The ASEs & Guy de Maupassant 42:10
  4. Bonus: GTDS: NASA and the Commercialization of Space 1:18:25
  5. 212: The European Theater, 1943 1:01:53
  6. 15 (Second Edition): “We the People:” Constitution Making in Philly 1:07:31
  7. 211: Pacific Theater Epilogue with Capt. Mac Caldwell 54:43
  8. 210: The Pacific War 1944: From the Cairo Conference to the Marianas Turkey Shoot 58:34
  9. 209: The Pacific War 1943: Operation Cartwheel, Tarawa, & Eleanor Roosevelt's Pacific Tour 57:06
  10. 208: The Pacific War, 1942–43: Guadalcanal, the Aleutians, and Operation Vengeance 59:07
  11. Introducing: Government That Doesn't Suck! with Professors Greg Jackson and Lindsey Cormack 48:26
  12. The Declaration of Independence at 250 11:06
  13. America250 Episode 8 Rerelease: Declaring Independence, the Rise of Alexander Hamilton, & the Fall of New York 1:02:13
  14. Bonus: Prof. Greg Jackson interview on The Road to Now with Dr. Ben Sawyer 1:00:51
  15. 207: Japanese Internment: Removal, Relocation, & Reckoning 1:06:08
  16. 206: American Propaganda: Cap’s Debut, Frank Capra’s War Docs, and Casablanca 1:03:02
  17. 205: Total War on the Home Front: Victory Gardens, Volunteering, and the Double V 58:33
  18. Bonus: “Messy Tales,” an Excerpt from the Prof’s book, Been There, Done That 34:37
  19. 204: The Holocaust: Anne Frank, the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, & Auschwitz 1:02:34
  20. 203: The Holocaust: Killing Squads, Ghettos, & Gas Chambers 1:04:22
  21. 202: Holocaust Prologue with US Holocaust Memorial Museum Director, Sara J. Bloomfield 44:21
  22. 201: A Soft Underbelly: The Allied Invasion of Sicily & the Fall of Il Duce 54:53
  23. 200: The North African Campaign: Desert Rats, the Desert Fox, & Operation Torch 1:01:00
  24. 199: Building the Anglo-American Alliance: The US Enters the European Theater 58:49
  25. 198: The Pacific Tide Turns at Coral Sea & Midway 59:08
  26. 197: The Doolittle Raid & the Bataan Death March (Spring 1942) 1:00:02
  27. 196: An Epilogue to Pearl Harbor with Steve Twomey 55:50
  28. 195: Holiday Special IX: Chanukah in Warsaw & Christmas in Washington, D.C. 34:25
  29. 194: Pearl Harbor: December 7, 1941 59:23
  30. 193: The Empire of the Rising Sun: Military Imperialism in Japan (1853–1941) 59:38
  31. 192: A Conversation with Ken Burns and Sarah Botstein: The American Revolution and WWII 53:46
  32. Bonus: Eleanor Roosevelt "Over Our Coffee Cups" 5:34
  33. 191: Halloween Special V: “The War of the Worlds” on the Radio 38:50
  34. 190: Epilogue to US Pre-WWII Isolationism to Interventionism with Lynne Olson 1:06:00
  35. 189: World War II in Europe & the American Response (1941): Production & Preparation 1:02:16
  36. The Unlikely Union: "A house divided against itself cannot stand." 10:23
  37. 188: World War II in Europe & The American Response (1939–40): Isolationism vs. Arsenal of Democracy 1:04:05
  38. 187: From the Rhineland to Poland (1935–1939): Annexation, Appeasement, & the Start of World War II 1:04:46
  39. 186: From Czardom to Stalinism: Building the USSR & the Ascent of Joseph Stalin 1:02:39
  40. 185: The Early Holocaust: From the “Jewish Question” to Kristallnacht 1:04:59
  41. The Unlikely Union: New Tour Dates 7:53
  42. 184: The Rise of Adolf Hitler: From Failure to Führer of Nazi Germany or the Third Reich 1:03:14
  43. 183: The Origin of Fascism: “Il Duce” Benito Mussolini & the Rise of Fascist Italy 1:06:40
  44. 182: A Prologue to World War II: US Army Interwar Preparation 41:50
  45. 181: American Aviation: The Growth of the Industry Through the Eyes of Amelia Earhart, Charles Lindbergh, and Howard Hughes 1:00:22
  46. 180: “A Race to the Sky”: The Rise of New York City’s Chrysler, Manhattan Company, and Empire State Buildings 57:19
  47. 179: Bridging the Bay: San Francisco’s Golden Gate and Bay Bridges (Infrastructure pt. 2) 1:00:26
  48. 178: “A Damn Big Dam”: Taming the Colorado River with the Hoover (or Boulder) Dam (Infrastructure pt. 1) 1:02:54
  49. America 250: The Boston Campaign 1775-76: A Leadership Discussion with Gen. William Rapp 55:28
  50. 177: An Epilogue to the New Deal and CCC Deep Dive with Neil Maher 46:46
  51. 176: FDR v. “The Nine Old Men” (The New Deal pt. 3): Court Packing and Closing the New Deal 1:03:33
  52. 175: The Dirty Thirties (The New Deal pt. 2): Dust, Doubts, and the “Second” New Deal 1:03:43
  53. 174: The First “First Hundred Days:” FDR Kicks Off the New Deal 59:20
  54. 173: From Hyde Park to the White House: The Early Life and Election of Franklin Delano Roosevelt 1:03:39
  55. 172: Breadlines, Bank Failures, & the Bonus Army: Hoover & the Early Great Depression 1:00:40
  56. 171: Christmas Special VIII: Festivities in the Jazz Age 28:10
  57. 170: The Crash of 1929 & Meeting President Herbert Hoover 1:00:14
  58. 169: An Epilogue to the 1920s: Youth culture, The Great Gatsby, and more with Professor Sarah Churchwell 38:36
  59. 168: Halloween Special IV: Nosferatu and Silent Horror 34:17
  60. 167: The Golden Age of Sports: Horse Racing, Boxing, Basketball, Football, & Jim Thorpe 53:43
  61. 166: A Conversation on Negro Leagues Baseball History with Bob Kendrick 47:58
  62. 165: America’s Favorite Pastime: Baseball, the Negro Leagues, and the Great Bambino 56:35
  63. 164: Harlem Renaissance: The Great Migration, Jazz, and the Flowering of Black Culture 58:33
  64. 163: The Show (Boat) Must Go On: Broadway and the American Musical 55:46
  65. 162: The Birth of the Movies: From Silent Cinema to the Rise of Hollywood & the First “Talkie” 58:06
  66. 161: An Epilogue Toast to Prohibition’s End with Author Daniel Okrent 35:11
  67. 160: Al Capone & the End of Prohibition 59:35
  68. 159: Scofflaws, Moonshiners, Bootleggers, and Crime Lords 55:51
  69. 158: Prohibition - So You Wanna Be a Rum Runner? 52:25
  70. 157: Temperance, Prohibition, and the Path to the 18th Amendment 56:31
  71. 156: The Presidency of “Silent” Cal Coolidge 57:03
  72. 155: The Life & Times of Warren G. Harding & The Teapot Dome Scandal 1:03:11
  73. 154: An Epilogue Discussion with Ben Sawyer 57:35
  74. 153: West Virginia’s Mine Wars: From Trouble in Matewan to the Battle of Blair Mountain 58:36
  75. 152: The Second Ku Klux Klan: Racism, Anti-Semitism, & Anti-Catholicism in the 1920s 58:49
  76. 151: The First Red Scare - Bombings, The Palmer Raids, Eugene Debs, and J. Edgar Hoover 58:52
  77. 150: The Great War’s Aftermath: Coming Home, The Spanish Flu, & The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier 1:00:01
  78. 149: WWI Epilogue 46:49
  79. 148: Tales of Christmas from World War I (A Truce, Plum Pudding, and Love) 36:12
  80. 147: Peacemaking in Paris: The Treaty of Versailles 1:03:04
  81. 146: The Armistice of November 11, 1918 1:01:47
  82. 145: Halloween Special III: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow 45:10
  83. 144: A Conversation with Ken Burns - Storytelling and the American Buffalo 31:38
  84. 143: The Meuse-Argonne Offensive (pt.2) – Breaking the Kriemhilde Line 55:32
  85. 142: The Meuse-Argonne Offensive (pt.1) – “The Lost Battalion” 52:48
  86. 141: Wartime Interlude 1:05:48
  87. 140: WWI Aviators: From the Lafayette Escadrille to the Red Baron and More 52:51
  88. 139: From Yeomen (F) to “Hello Girls:” American Women in World War I 55:44
  89. 138: The 15th New York/369th or The Harlem Hellfighters 58:50
  90. 137: The First Battle of the First American Army: St. Mihiel 56:50
  91. 136: The German Spring Offensive’s End, or The Second Battle of the Marne 52:28
  92. 135: Belleau Wood – A Cut Deeper with Captain Mac Caldwell 1:03:12
  93. 134: (Most of) The German Spring Offensive of 1918 & The Fight for Belleau Wood 54:14
  94. 133: Heading “Over There:” “Black Jack” Pershing & Creating WWI’s American Expeditionary Force 56:53
  95. 132: The US Enters WWI (RMS Lusitania, Black Tom Island, & The Zimmermann Telegram) 54:11
  96. 131: Epilogue on World War 1 before the US 1:04:15
  97. 130: Russia: From the Great War to Revolution with Deputy Provost Kat Brown 1:13:52
  98. 129: World War I Before the US (Military Tech, Trenches, Global Armies, Ypres, Verdun & the Somme) 57:12
  99. 128: The Causes of World War I (From the Congress of Vienna to Franz Ferdinand & the Marne) 1:04:37
  100. 127: Mr. Wilson Goes to Washington (Progressive Policies & Foreign Affairs in South America) 56:50
  101. 126: Christmas Special 6: Jacob Riis’ “Is There a Santa Claus?” 25:18
  102. 125: Epilogue: The Progressive Era 1:08:26
  103. 124: The “Bull Moose” Election of 1912 58:12
  104. 123: The Wright Brothers Fly at Kitty Hawk 55:29
  105. 122: Halloween Special II: H.P. Lovecraft – “The Outsider” & “Dagon” 45:30
  106. 121: Henry Ford: The Model T & Mass Production 57:51
  107. 120: From Atlanta to the NAACP, or Booker T. Washington v. W.E.B. Du Bois 58:53
  108. 119: Women’s Suffrage & the Passage of the 19th Amendment 59:57
  109. 118: “The Island of Hope and Tears:” Ellis Island 1:01:01
  110. 117: Epilogue on Progressive Era Part I (Teddy Roosevelt) 42:15
  111. 116: Teddy Roosevelt’s Foreign Policy: From Big Stick Diplomacy to the Panama Canal 59:11
  112. 115: History–Doomed to Repeat It? A Conversation with Lindsay Graham 48:58
  113. 114: A Square Deal (pt. 3): “Leave it as it is” (Teddy Roosevelt & Conservationism) 50:36
  114. 113: A Square Deal (pt. 2): Consumer Protection–The FDA, & Ida Tarbell muckrakes Standard Oil 59:56
  115. 112: A Square Deal (pt. 1): Corp. Regulation—a coal strike, a trust, & Teddy’s Frenemy J.P. Morgan 58:47
  116. 111: The Assassination of Will McKinley & The Strenuous Life of Theodore Roosevelt 52:44
  117. 110: Epilogue to the Age of Imperialism 43:10
  118. 109: The Election of 1900 & the Rise of Anti-Imperialism 1:01:34
  119. 108: G.O. 100, “The Water Cure,” & The Law of War in the Early-20th Century with Professor Ryan Vogel 55:20
  120. 107: The Philippine-American War 54:14
  121. 106: The US Annexation of the Hawaiian Kingdom 47:51
  122. 105: “A Splendid Little War:” The Spanish-American War and Theodore Roosevelt’s Rough Riders 46:48
  123. 104: The Road to the Spanish-American War 46:46
  124. 103: A Gilded Age Christmas: Joseph Pulitzer’s Christmas Tree Fund 19:45
  125. 102: Epilogue to the Gilded Age 57:22
  126. 101: The New South, Jim Crow (Plessy v. Ferguson), & the Death of Frederick Douglass 1:02:30
  127. 100: Halloween Special! Edgar Allan Poe: The Tell-tale Heart, The Cask of Amontillado, & The Raven 50:30
  128. 99: The Gilded Age’s Singer Sewing Machines & Dangerous Bananas w/ Dr. Ben Sawyer of The Road To Now 53:28
  129. 98: Silver & Gold: From Grover Cleveland to William Jennings Bryan & William McKinley 56:31
  130. 97: The Gilded Age’s Robber Barons: John D. Rockefeller & Andrew Carnegie 1:04:42
  131. 96: The War of the Currents: (Thomas Alva Edison v. Nikola Tesla & George Westinghouse) 58:47
  132. 95: "Several Thousand Things that Won't Work:" Thomas Alva Edison and His Electric Light 57:59
  133. 94: Epilogue to Gilded Age Part I (or Gilded Age interlude w/ Significant HTDS Updates) 1:00:31
  134. 93: La Liberté éclairant le monde: Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi’s Statue of Liberty 1:08:07
  135. 92: The Brooklyn Bridge, or the Story of the Roebling Family 1:04:41
  136. 91: The Gilded Age, Industrialization, and Assassination of President James Garfield 54:26
  137. 90: Epilogue to the Wild West 1:15:27
  138. 89: Closing the Wild West: (Wounded Knee, Buffalo Bill & the 1893 Colombian Expo) 1:00:55
  139. 88: “The Last Frontier:” The Purchase of Alaska and the Klondike Gold Rush 53:22
  140. 87: Gunslingers & Outlaws (pt 2): Pearl Hart, Tombstone, Jesse James, B. Cassidy & The Sundance Kid 1:01:10
  141. 86: Gunslingers & Outlaws (pt 1): The Second Industrial Revolution, Sam Bass & Billy the Kid 55:50
  142. 85: Transcontinental Railroad (pt 3): The Central Pacific, Chinese Workers, & The Golden Spike 1:04:57
  143. 84: Transcontinental Railroad (pt 2): Dr. Thomas Durant, The Union Pacific & “Hell on Wheels” 57:02
  144. 83: Transcontinental Railroad (pt 1): Industrialization, Ted Judah & The Rise of the Central Pacific 52:42
  145. 82: Best Mini Episodes and Cold Opens of 2020 43:35
  146. 81: Epilogue to Volume 6: Reconstruction and The Indian Wars 57:51
  147. 80: “Yes, Virginia, There is a Santa Claus:” A History 18:58
  148. 79: The Indian Wars (Part 3): Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce & Standing Bear’s Fight for Civil Rights 56:18
  149. 78: The Indian Wars (Part 2): The Battle of the Little Bighorn (the Greasy Grass) 55:47
  150. 77: The Indian Wars (Part 1): The U.S.-Dakota War 1:02:07
  151. 76: Reconstruction (Part 4): The Battle of Liberty Place and the Mississippi Plan 1:01:35
  152. 75: Reconstruction (Part 3): The Rise of the KKK and the First Black Men in Government 53:56
  153. 74: Reconstruction (Part 2): The Presidency of Ulysses S. Grant 56:05
  154. 73: Reconstruction (Part 1): The Impeachment of Andrew Johnson 55:05
  155. 72: The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln 1:01:29
  156. 71: Revisiting the Hamilton/Burr Duel: An Affair of Honor 58:19
  157. 70: Epilogue: The Civil War Comes to a Close 1:19:46
  158. 69: Surrender at Appomattox: The Last Days of the Civil War 49:17
  159. 68: Sherman's March to the Sea and the Thirteenth Amendment 50:02
  160. 67: Ending 1864: The Battles of the Crater, Mobile Bay, Centralia, and Franklin 47:06
  161. 66: The Election of 1864: Lincoln's Bid for Reelection 54:52
  162. 65: Sherman’s Atlanta Campaign & The Free State of Jones 37:14
  163. Bonus: A New Sound for HTDS (Farewell to Josh, Hello to Lindsay Graham & Airship) 25:19
  164. 64: Grant's Overland Campaign: The Battles of the Wilderness, Spotsylvania, Cold Harbor, & Petersburg 54:47
  165. Bonus: A Chat about Southern Accents w/ Jeremy Collins from "Podcasts We Listen To" 1:06:12
  166. 63: Wounded and Dying: Nurses, Doctors, and Disease in the Civil War 56:16
  167. 62: The War in Tennessee: Chickamauga and Chattanooga 54:28
  168. 61: The Louisiana Native Guard, the 54th Massachusetts & On: Black Soldiers in the Civil War 56:23
  169. 60: Gettysburg 55:23
  170. 59: Stone’s River, Suspending Habeas Corpus, Vicksburg, & Stonewall’s Death at Chancellorsville 1:11:16
  171. 58: Conscription & Riots (“A Rich Man’s War, But a Poor Man’s Fight”) 48:34
  172. 57: Recap of The Civil War's First Half (1861-63) 40:28
  173. 56: The Battle of Fredericksburg and the First Campaign of Vicksburg 41:29
  174. 55: The Road to The Emancipation Proclamation 53:00
  175. 54: The Best Opening Scenes in HTDS History 52:49
  176. 53: A Civil War Christmas with Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 21:11
  177. 52: From Second Bull Run, or Second Manassas to Antietam, or Sharpsburg 52:59
  178. 51: A Change in Command: Seven Days Battles to the Battle of Cedar Mountain 52:44
  179. 50: Mississippi Valley 1862: The Battles of New Orleans, Corinth, Memphis, and Vicksburg 1:00:50
  180. 49: From Little Mac McClellan to Stonewall Jackson: The Peninsula and Shenandoah Valley Campaigns 52:56
  181. 48: The Battle of Shiloh: “Now boys, pitch in!” 57:13
  182. 47: Bull Run, Trent Affair, the Merrimack, & Fort Donelson: The Early Days of the Civil War 59:49
  183. 46: The Civil War Begins: Fort Sumter, Secession, & Raising Armies 56:00
  184. 45: Volume IV Epilogue 58:23
  185. 44: Abraham Lincoln Becomes President of the Divided States of America 56:00
  186. 43: Honest Abe, the Lincoln-Douglas Debates, & John Brown’s Raid on Harpers Ferry 1:06:40
  187. 42: Solomon Northup’s 12 Years a Slave 52:00
  188. 41: Kansas! (Bleeding Kansas, the Kansas-Nebraska Act, & Caning of Charles Sumner) 54:03
  189. 40: Elizabeth Cady Stanton, the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention & the Explosion of Social Reform 39:31
  190. 39: The California Gold Rush and the Compromise of 1850 57:23
  191. 38: The (Early) Life and Times of Frederick Douglass 1:01:05
  192. 37: La Amistad Slave Rebellion and the Rise of Abolitionism 56:04
  193. Volume III Epilogue 1:18:14
  194. 36: Mexican-American War (Part 4): Los Niños Héroes, St. Patrick’s Battalion, & the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo 1:04:04
  195. 35: Mexican-American War (Part 3): Nuevo México and the Final Push from Vera Cruz 51:38
  196. 34: Mexican-American War (Part 2): The Pathfinder, the Bear Flag Revolt, y Los Californios 58:57
  197. 33: Mexican-American War (Part 1): From the Nueces River to the Rio Grande 55:27
  198. 32: Mormonism and the Mormon Trail 1:02:49
  199. 31: The California Trail: From the Donner Party to the Gold Rush 54:11
  200. 30: The Oregon Trail (“You Have Died of Dysentery”) 59:25
  201. Christmas Special II: A Jackson White House Christmas 20:37
  202. 29: The Bank War, Whigs, & Revolution in Texas 57:56
  203. 28: Ushering in the Age of Jackson 1:01:18
  204. Epilogue to Volume 2 1:09:50
  205. 27: The Last of the Founding Fathers 1:01:15
  206. 26: Peace in Ghent, War in New Orleans 56:30
  207. 25: From Lake Champlain to the “Defense of Fort M’Henry” 1:02:02
  208. 24: From Granny to Old Ironsides: The Campaigns of 1812 and 1813. 1:00:04
  209. 23: Prelude to America's Forgotten War 53:45
  210. 22: An Affair of Honor: Alexander Hamilton & Aaron Burr 58:55
  211. 21: Thomas Jefferson Presents: Lewis & Clark’s Excellent Expedition 56:15
  212. 20: "A Wolf by the Ears": Gabriel Rebels and Cotton Becomes King 1:00:54
  213. 19: The Traitor and The Thieving Spy: The Start of American Industrialization 52:07
  214. 18: Affairs! Foreign and ..."Domestic" 56:13
  215. Historians (of The) Roundtable: I 54:40
  216. 17: Death of a Nation's Father 59:30
  217. 16: The Founding Fractures: Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson 54:05
  218. Epilogue To The Revolution; Or The Big Stuff You Should’ve Caught 55:08
  219. Q&A with The HTDS Team 47:03
  220. 15: “We the People:” Constitution Making in Philly 1:07:31
  221. Second Edition Episodes: A Discussion 43:07
  222. 14: Peace in Paris; Turmoil in New York 1:01:16
  223. 13: The World Turns Upside Down at Yorktown 1:04:21
  224. 12: An American Judas Betrays & Nathanael Greene Saves! 1:01:53
  225. 11: Southern Discomfort: Savannah & Charleston Captured, Slavery, Massacres, & 1779’s Sundries 56:35
  226. 10: Dueling, Life Sucks at Valley Forge, von Steuben's Cool & the Battle of Monmouth 54:26
  227. 9: (Almost) Everything Important in 1777--Saratoga, Lafayette & George Returns Gen. Howe’s Dog 58:19
  228. Christmas Special: George Wishes Some Hessians a Merry F’ing Christmas 30:10
  229. 8: From Independence to NY (meeting A. Ham, Nathan Hale & Charles Lee is a Sneaky Bastard) 59:45
  230. 7: An Olive Branch Rejected, Tom's a Royal Pain(e), & the Siege of Boston 58:12
  231. 6: "The Shot Heard Round the World" 55:43
  232. 5: "Delenda est Bostonia:" a Congress, Paul Rides, & the First Shot at Lexington 1:01:24
  233. 4: "Boston Harbor A Tea-Pot This Night:" The Boston Tea Party 54:20
  234. 3: "Clean My Sh*t House!" The Boston Massacre 54:02
  235. 2: Patrick Henry and Boston Get Pissed about Taxes 54:55
  236. 1: That One Time When George Washington Sort of Triggered an International War 1:03:29
  237. 0: Preamble 4:29