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A recent library trip and some unused tidbits generated an episode of various items of interest about politics and history.

More demonstration of WEB DuBois uncanny ability to use words to describe his experience.  Also a bit more about Claude Kirk and why, despite 3 episodes, I wish I hit some points more.  About his lost hat, run for governor … Continued

a bit about vice President Humphrey

Episode 2 of our podcast series on the fall of the USSR takes us into the afternoon of August 19th, where activists are waking up to what is going on, and a bit into the history of events that lead … Continued

You hear it hear first – the first version rough edit of THE FALL OF USSR series.  EP1 Wake Up Cassandra Soviet citizens wake up to tanks out the window, and strange announcements mixed with music.  Citizens react.  One leader … Continued

I found a few gems in a couple recent library trips that will probably show up in future episodes.  That and a show update, and an update on where we are with the USSR podcast.

A hodge podge of new material for future episodes not yet released and some older content that has new significance given recent events.   Given our look at Argentina’s dictatorship we visit another Latin American country.  A small country that found … Continued

It’s not what you were told in school, but it’s not totally wrong either.  Some highlights of the Thanksgiving and one of America’s origin stories.  What really happened, and the unknown story of how the original Mayflower history was undiscovered … Continued

I’ve been looking through the buried treasure of the old MHCBUYP server (as a recent business change it went from Yahoo to Verizon) and found a few episodes that were released in their time but are no longer on the … Continued

In this we share a little extra info about Bruce Givner, the intern at the DNC at the time of the Watergate breakin, and also about Congress’s Subpoena power, items that did not make it into the main casts.

More information left on the legal pads from the Student Loan and Midterm about nothing cast.  Including Sputnik landing in America, Nixon and Midterms and other notes.

We take a look at what the folks who met in New England’s moment of near – secession, the Hartford Convention wanted.  What would have American life been like under their suggested rules and amendments to the Constitution? This and … Continued

We look at the Vice President who – maybe – described the office as a “bucket of warm spit.”  He also may have been its most powerful occupant up to his time, and he’s responsible in a little way for … Continued

Fast food, department store shopping and taking tea in a hotel room.  How Three British visitors to America in two different time periods saw the country.  Pictured is the English novelist Francis Trollope, who wrote about her visit to 1820’s … Continued

We talk about Vichy France, Jazz music and the Hull note, items left out of the Visions of a Fever cast on 1941, and develop these topics more.  FDR’s cooperation with Vichy is considered a clear mistake by many historians … Continued

Reporter William C Hudson on the meeting between a young Theodore Roosevelt and then Governor Grover Cleveland.  And a moment about how the losing candidate handled the 1876 election, from an eyewitness.

A few left over notes from the Cal Coolidge and Ethiopia Invasion Podcasts.  About Coolidge’s Electric Horse, and about the death of Ethiopia Emperor Halie Selassie.

Washington’s big mistake, the term speakeasy’s origin, George Wallace unloads on Jimmy Carter [unfairly], the origins of New Jersey, I read notes from a recent library trip with varied bits of history and ideas for future podcasts, perhaps and look … Continued

A look at Schuyler Colfax, Grant’s first Vice President lived a full life but died in obscurity and some shame.  We examine the smiling vice president, former Speaker and friend to Lincoln.

The only Vice President (who didn’t become President) to have his image on American money.  Well spoken, a powerful debater, a close-election winner and loser, Thomas Hendricks is the subject of a future episode of the Vice Presidents podcast we … Continued

A preview of an upcoming cast on a prime minster of the UK that was the first to visit America in office.  And about the end of the gold standard.  Will air in December – you hear it today.

From selling people, drafting Americans for the Spanish Legion, Hollywood in Trouble and a Unsung Jazz Legend’s death – More discussion of news events 100 years ago with WSJ editor Jon Blackwell, whose Twitter records events from 1921.    

A bunch of ‘leftovers’ but as promised in the episode about the Anti-Masonic party, we look at that party’s VP candidate.  Being a third party with very little chance to win and being the #2 spot did not spare Ellmaker … Continued

For premium and patreon subscribers, I’ve made an early release of an episode that will air in November – TIN MAN, dealing with populism, anti-populism, silver and gold and a little about the Wizard of OZ.

A bit about Senators that have caused problems for Presidents of their party and gone their own way, and a bit about British Prime Minster Harold Wilson and his role in virtual education, Vietnam and the UK and Europe.