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June 19, 1865 - Galveston, Texas, a general in the Union army announced to the people of Texas that all enslaved African Americans were free. Over time the date has grown from a local to a national holiday, a marker of freedom, of family, and of joy and continued struggle that emerged from this cauldron of the war.
Don's guest today is Mark Anthony Neal, Professor of African & African American Studies at Duke University and host of Left of Black.
Edited by Tim Arstall. Produced by Freddy Chick. Senior Producer is Charlotte Long.
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How did the British win the first major battle of the Revolutionary War? In this episode, Don is joined by Major Jonathan Bratten of the Maine Army National Guard.
Together, they discuss the myths of the battle, the missteps of the British and what George Washington thought about it all.
Edited by Aidan Lonergan, produced by Sophie Gee, Senior Producer is Charlotte Long.
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The Federal Government. Tens of thousands of Native American children. Around 50 boarding schools across the United States. This is the story of one of the darkest practices in American History.
Our expert guest for this episode is Mary Annette Pember, author of 'Medicine River: A Story of Survival and the Legacy of Indian Boarding Schools'. Together, Mary and Don explore why Native American boarding schools were set up, who ran them, and what life was like for the children who went there.
Produced and edited by Sophie Gee. Senior Producer was Charlotte Long.
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Since their respective revolutions, the USA and France have been intrinsically linked. But what have the highest points in their relationship been? And what about the lowest?
In this episode, Professor Kathryn Statler joins Don to take us through 250 years of cooperation and conflict.
Kathryn is a Professor of History at the University of San Diego, and author of books including 'Replacing France: The Origins of American Intervention in Vietnam' and 'Lafayette’s Ghost: How Women and War Kept the Franco-American Alliance Alive'.
Edited by Tim Arstall, Produced by Sophie Gee, Senior Producer is Charlotte Long.
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Think what you like about him, Ronald Reagan was a big hitter and his presidency changed America. This ex-Hollywood actor's eight years in office set the political agenda in ways we live with today.
To discuss this most charismatic of Presidents, Don is joined by Jeremi Suri host of the 'This Is Democracy' podcast & author of 'The Impossible Presidency: The Rise and Fall of America's Highest Office'.
Edited by Sophie Gee. Produced by Freddy Chick. Senior Producer is Charlotte Long.
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With almost 2,000 miles of shared border, the United States and Mexico have a long history of cooperation and conflict. From territory and trade, to migration and the war on drugs - in this episode we are going to explore this relationship.
Don is joined by Professor Renata Keller from the University of Nevada, Reno. Renata's upcoming book is 'The Fate of the Americas: The Cuban Missile Crisis and the Hemispheric Cold War'. She is also the author of 'Nuclear Reactions: Latin America and the Cuban Missile Crisis' and 'Mexico's Cold War: Cuba, the United States, and the Legacy of the Mexican Revolution'.
Edited by Tim Arstall, Produced by Sophie Gee, Senior Producer is Charlotte Long.
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The staggering casualties of the Battle of Shiloh shocked both the North and South, marking a turning point in public perception of the Civil War's likely length and brutality. It also cemented a name in the public imagination - Ulysses S. Grant.
Don's guest is Dr Timothy B. Smith, author of 'Shiloh: Conquer or Perish'.
Editor Ayman Alolayan, Producer Sophie Gee, Senior Producer Charlotte Long.
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What did the appearance of a comet in 1997 have to do with a tragic event in San Diego? Was Heaven's Gate a cult? And how does it compare to the other groups we have looked into on American History Hit?
Benjamin Zeller, author of 'Heaven's Gate: America's UFO Religion', joins Don to discuss the group's history, beliefs, and their final act. Ben is Professor of Religion at Lake Forest College.
Edited by Tim Arstall, Produced by Sophie Gee, Senior Producer is Charlotte Long.
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Gerald Ford is the only person to serve as president without being elected to either the presidency or the vice presidency. He was handed a poisoned chalice and for many he's only remembered as the butt of Saturday Night Live. But there's much more to his story.
Don's guest is Professor Kathryn Brownell, author of 24/7 Politics: Cable Television and the Fragmenting of America from Watergate to Fox News.
Edited by Tim Arstall, Produced by Freddy Chick, Senior Producer is Charlotte Long.
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In the summer of 1969, Hollywood was shaken by a set of brutal murders. Their perpetrators? The infamous Charles Manson and his 'family'.
In this episode Jeff Melnick joins Don to discuss how Manson and his followers came to occupy such a strong position in our cultural imagination.
Jeff is Graduate Program Director for American Studies at the University of Massachusetts, and the author of 'Creepy Crawling: Charles Manson and the Many Lives of America's Most Infamous Family'.
Edited by Aidan Lonergan, produced by Sophie Gee, Senior Producer is Charlotte Long.
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How did cities grow in America's largest and hottest desert? How did the rivers of the South West shape its history? Don is joined by Kyle Paoletta, author of American Oasis, to explore the complex and diverse history of the American South West.
Edited by Aidan Lonergan, produced by Sophie Gee, Senior Producer is Charlotte Long.
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Did you ever wonder where the phrase 'drink the Kool-Aid' came from? In this second episode about the Peoples Temple, we rejoin them in Jonestown, Guyana.
How planned was the final 'white night'? Did anyone survive? And what happened to the notorious Jim Jones?
Don is joined once again by author and scholar Annie Dawid, who has spent over two decades researching Peoples Temple.
Produced by Sophie Gee. Edited by Tim Arstall. Senior Producer was Charlotte Long.
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May 8th saw the final surrender of Nazi Germany, marking the end of the Second World War in Europe. Eighty years on, we're taking a look at the final months of fighting in 1945. What were the experiences of US troops like on the ground? And what motivated the strategies of its political leaders?
Don's guest is James Holland, co-host of the podcast We Have Ways of Making You Talk. His new book, Victory ‘45: The End of the War in Eight Surrenders, is out on April 24th.
Edited and produced by Tom Delargy. Senior Producer was Charlotte Long.
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On November 18th, 1978, over 900 people died at an American settlement in the jungle of Guyana called Jonestown. In this first of two episodes, we are going to find out how they ended up in South America.
Who was the eponymous Reverend Jim Jones, notorious leader of the cult? What did the Peoples Temple believe in? How and why did they make the journey from Indiana to California to Guyana?
Don is joined by author and scholar Annie Dawid, who has spent over two decades researching Peoples Temple.
Produced by Sophie Gee. Edited by Tim Arstall. Senior Producer was Charlotte Long.
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Who was the real Richard Nixon? There are sides to him that get overlooked, like that he had a deeper understanding of foreign affairs than any other US President. But it's hard to see the light for the shade and the tragic fall that overshadows everything.
Don's guest today is Professor Nicole Hemmer whose latest book is "Partisans: The Conservative Revolutionaries Who Remade American Politics in the 1990s".
Produced by Freddy Chick. Edited by Tim Arstall. Senior Producer was Charlotte Long.
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How did the US get out of Vietnam? In this episode, we are diving into how 'peace' was agreed in Paris, and what it really meant for Vietnam.
Don is joined by Pierre Asselin, professor at San Diego State University and author of, among others, ‘A Bitter Peace: Washington, Hanoi, and the Making of the Paris Agreement’ and ‘Hanoi’s Road to the Vietnam War, 1954-1965’.
Produced by Sophie Gee. Edited by Tim Arstall. Senior Producer was Charlotte Long.
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To understand Watergate, to understand the fall of Nixon, you need to look first at the rise. How the turbulence of his sky rocketing career left bruises and bitternesses that lingered. Don's guest today is Professor Nicole Hemmer whose latest book is "Partisans: The Conservative Revolutionaries Who Remade American Politics in the 1990s". She takes Don on a journey into the psychology and politics of the most fascinating President of them all.
Produced by Freddy Chick. Edited by Aidan Lonergan. Senior Producer was Charlotte Long.
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During the Vietnam War, 170,000 men received conscientious objector deferments. In this episode, we speak to one of them.
Sidney Morrison joins Don to discuss his service and experiences as a medic during the war, from camaraderie in the face of danger to the psychological impacts of war.
Sidney is the author of 'Frederick Douglass: A Novel'.
Produced by Sophie Gee. Edited by Max Carrey. Senior Producer was Charlotte Long.
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Paul Revere's Midnight Ride is a legend of the American Revolutionary War - galloping through the Massachusetts' dark to warn Sam Adams, John Hancock and the rest that the British were coming. The next morning, those Patriots in Lexington and Concord were ready for battle. But what really happened? Who was Paul Revere? Why has his name gone down in history?
Don's guest is Michael Hattem, historian of the American revolution and author of The Memory of ’76: The Revolution in American History.
Produced by Freddy Chick. Edited by Aidan Lonergan. Senior Producer was Charlotte Long.
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How did a US Army mission in Vietnam end with the massacre of up to 500 people?
In this episode, Don is joined by Christopher Levesque to examine one of the most harrowing chapters of the war in Vietnam. They return to March 1968, when the men of Charlie Company undertook a 'search and destroy' mission in the Quang Ngai province village of Son My.
Chris holds a joint appointment at the University of West Florida Libraries and the UWF Historic Trust. He is an archivist and teaches at the University of Western Florida, Pensacola, and the University of Charleston.
Produced by Sophie Gee. Edited by Aidan Lonergan. Senior Producer was Charlotte Long.
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