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Title :- History That Doesn't Suck

Release Date :- 2025-06-16

Artist Name :- Prof. Greg Jackson

Genre Name :- History

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182: A Prologue to World War II: US Army Interwar Preparation

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181: American Aviation: The Growth of the Industry Through the Eyes of Amelia Earhart, Charles Lindbergh, and Howard Hughes

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180: “A Race to the Sky”: The Rise of New York City’s Chrysler, Manhattan Company, and Empire State Buildings

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179: Bridging the Bay: San Francisco’s Golden Gate and Bay Bridges (Infrastructure pt. 2)

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178: “A Damn Big Dam”: Taming the Colorado River with the Hoover (or Boulder) Dam (Infrastructure pt. 1)

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America 250: The Boston Campaign 1775-76: A Leadership Discussion with Gen. William Rapp

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177: An Epilogue to the New Deal and CCC Deep Dive with Neil Maher

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176: FDR v. “The Nine Old Men” (The New Deal pt. 3): Court Packing and Closing the New Deal

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175: The Dirty Thirties (The New Deal pt. 2): Dust, Doubts, and the “Second” New Deal

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174: The First “First Hundred Days:” FDR Kicks Off the New Deal

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173: From Hyde Park to the White House: The Early Life and Election of Franklin Delano Roosevelt

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172: Breadlines, Bank Failures, & the Bonus Army: Hoover & the Early Great Depression

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171: Christmas Special VIII: Festivities in the Jazz Age

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170: The Crash of 1929 & Meeting President Herbert Hoover

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169: An Epilogue to the 1920s: Youth culture, The Great Gatsby, and more with Professor Sarah Churchwell

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168: Halloween Special IV: Nosferatu and Silent Horror

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167: The Golden Age of Sports: Horse Racing, Boxing, Basketball, Football, & Jim Thorpe

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166: A Conversation on Negro Leagues Baseball History with Bob Kendrick

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165: America’s Favorite Pastime: Baseball, the Negro Leagues, and the Great Bambino

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164: Harlem Renaissance: The Great Migration, Jazz, and the Flowering of Black Culture

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163: The Show (Boat) Must Go On: Broadway and the American Musical

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162: The Birth of the Movies: From Silent Cinema to the Rise of Hollywood & the First “Talkie”

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161: An Epilogue Toast to Prohibition’s End with Author Daniel Okrent

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160: Al Capone & the End of Prohibition

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159: Scofflaws, Moonshiners, Bootleggers, and Crime Lords

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158: Prohibition - So You Wanna Be a Rum Runner?

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157: Temperance, Prohibition, and the Path to the 18th Amendment

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156: The Presidency of “Silent” Cal Coolidge

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155: The Life & Times of Warren G. Harding & The Teapot Dome Scandal

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154: An Epilogue Discussion with Ben Sawyer

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153: West Virginia’s Mine Wars: From Trouble in Matewan to the Battle of Blair Mountain

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152: The Second Ku Klux Klan: Racism, Anti-Semitism, & Anti-Catholicism in the 1920s

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151: The First Red Scare - Bombings, The Palmer Raids, Eugene Debs, and J. Edgar Hoover

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150: The Great War’s Aftermath: Coming Home, The Spanish Flu, & The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier

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149: WWI Epilogue

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148: Tales of Christmas from World War I (A Truce, Plum Pudding, and Love)

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147: Peacemaking in Paris: The Treaty of Versailles

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146: The Armistice of November 11, 1918

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145: Halloween Special III: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

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144: A Conversation with Ken Burns - Storytelling and the American Buffalo

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143: The Meuse-Argonne Offensive (pt.2) – Breaking the Kriemhilde Line

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142: The Meuse-Argonne Offensive (pt.1) – “The Lost Battalion”

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141: Wartime Interlude

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140: WWI Aviators: From the Lafayette Escadrille to the Red Baron and More

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139: From Yeomen (F) to “Hello Girls:” American Women in World War I

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138: The 15th New York/369th or The Harlem Hellfighters

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137: The First Battle of the First American Army: St. Mihiel

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136: The German Spring Offensive’s End, or The Second Battle of the Marne

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135: Belleau Wood – A Cut Deeper with Captain Mac Caldwell

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134: (Most of) The German Spring Offensive of 1918 & The Fight for Belleau Wood

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133: Heading “Over There:” “Black Jack” Pershing & Creating WWI’s American Expeditionary Force

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132: The US Enters WWI (RMS Lusitania, Black Tom Island, & The Zimmermann Telegram)

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131: Epilogue on World War 1 before the US

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130: Russia: From the Great War to Revolution with Deputy Provost Kat Brown

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129: World War I Before the US (Military Tech, Trenches, Global Armies, Ypres, Verdun & the Somme)

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128: The Causes of World War I (From the Congress of Vienna to Franz Ferdinand & the Marne)

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127: Mr. Wilson Goes to Washington (Progressive Policies & Foreign Affairs in South America)

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126: Christmas Special 6: Jacob Riis’ “Is There a Santa Claus?”

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125: Epilogue: The Progressive Era

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124: The “Bull Moose” Election of 1912

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123: The Wright Brothers Fly at Kitty Hawk

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122: Halloween Special II: H.P. Lovecraft – “The Outsider” & “Dagon”

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121: Henry Ford: The Model T & Mass Production

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120: From Atlanta to the NAACP, or Booker T. Washington v. W.E.B. Du Bois

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119: Women’s Suffrage & the Passage of the 19th Amendment

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118: “The Island of Hope and Tears:” Ellis Island

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117: Epilogue on Progressive Era Part I (Teddy Roosevelt)

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116: Teddy Roosevelt’s Foreign Policy: From Big Stick Diplomacy to the Panama Canal

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115: History–Doomed to Repeat It? A Conversation with Lindsay Graham

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114: A Square Deal (pt. 3): “Leave it as it is” (Teddy Roosevelt & Conservationism)

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113: A Square Deal (pt. 2): Consumer Protection–The FDA, & Ida Tarbell muckrakes Standard Oil

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112: A Square Deal (pt. 1): Corp. Regulation—a coal strike, a trust, & Teddy’s Frenemy J.P. Morgan

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111: The Assassination of Will McKinley & The Strenuous Life of Theodore Roosevelt

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110: Epilogue to the Age of Imperialism

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109: The Election of 1900 & the Rise of Anti-Imperialism

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108: G.O. 100, “The Water Cure,” & The Law of War in the Early-20th Century with Professor Ryan Vogel

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107: The Philippine-American War

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106: The US Annexation of the Hawaiian Kingdom

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105: “A Splendid Little War:” The Spanish-American War and Theodore Roosevelt’s Rough Riders

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104: The Road to the Spanish-American War

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103: A Gilded Age Christmas: Joseph Pulitzer’s Christmas Tree Fund

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102: Epilogue to the Gilded Age

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101: The New South, Jim Crow (Plessy v. Ferguson), & the Death of Frederick Douglass

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100: Halloween Special! Edgar Allan Poe: The Tell-tale Heart, The Cask of Amontillado, & The Raven

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99: The Gilded Age’s Singer Sewing Machines & Dangerous Bananas w/ Dr. Ben Sawyer of The Road To Now

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98: Silver & Gold: From Grover Cleveland to William Jennings Bryan & William McKinley

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97: The Gilded Age’s Robber Barons: John D. Rockefeller & Andrew Carnegie

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96: The War of the Currents: (Thomas Alva Edison v. Nikola Tesla & George Westinghouse)

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95: "Several Thousand Things that Won't Work:" Thomas Alva Edison and His Electric Light

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94: Epilogue to Gilded Age Part I (or Gilded Age interlude w/ Significant HTDS Updates)

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93: La Liberté éclairant le monde: Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi’s Statue of Liberty

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92: The Brooklyn Bridge, or the Story of the Roebling Family

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91: The Gilded Age, Industrialization, and Assassination of President James Garfield

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90: Epilogue to the Wild West

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89: Closing the Wild West: (Wounded Knee, Buffalo Bill & the 1893 Colombian Expo)

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88: “The Last Frontier:” The Purchase of Alaska and the Klondike Gold Rush

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87:Gunslingers & Outlaws (pt 2): Pearl Hart, Tombstone, Jesse James, B. Cassidy & The Sundance Kid

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86: Gunslingers & Outlaws (pt 1): The Second Industrial Revolution, Sam Bass & Billy the Kid

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85: Transcontinental Railroad (pt 3): The Central Pacific, Chinese Workers, & The Golden Spike

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84: Transcontinental Railroad (pt 2): Dr. Thomas Durant, The Union Pacific & “Hell on Wheels”

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