Plodding Through The Presidents
Irreverent dives into lesser-known stories about the early American presidents.
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The Shipwrecked Ring of John C. Calhoun
This episode's deep dive takes us to the bottom of the Pacific where a relic belonging to the family of John C. Calhoun was discovered 61 years after...
Living Monuments of the Lost Cause with Karen L. Cox
We explore the Lost Cause narrative—the myth that the South didn't actually secede from the Union and fight the Civil War over slavery. First, we...
Assassinating Andrew Jackson
In 1835 a man ambushed Andrew Jackson outside the Capitol and fired at him with two different pistols from less than 10 feet away—yet Jackson was...
Washington & Madison's Founding Fracture
How did James Madison go from being one of George Washington's best friends to someone Washington went to his grave despising? We look at the rise and...
Populism in The Wizard of Oz
We go on a bimetal-curious adventure over the rainbow to dig into the history of L. Frank Baum's American fairy tale The Wizard of Oz and its alleged...
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