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American History Hit

History Hit

Join Don Wildman twice a week for your hit of American history, as he explores the past to help us understand the United States of today. We’ll hear how codebreakers uncovered secret Japanese plans for the Battle of Midway, visit Chief Powhatan as he prepares for war with the British, see Walt Disney accuse his former…

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American History Hit

The Truth About the Louisiana Purchase

Did Lee's Surrender End the Civil War?

Why Did Reconstruction Fail?

The Fire That Changed New York

Reconstruction Era: Terror in the South

Civil War Battle Of The Ironclads

Reconstruction Era: A False Dawn of Freedom?

Plessy v. Ferguson: The Supreme Court Case That Enshrined Jim Crow

What Happened to the Confederates?

How Did the Supreme Court Claim Power?

Life in Mobland Chicago

Long Walk of the Navajo

The Robin Hood of the Wild West

The Best Presidential Speeches

The Truth about Billy the Kid

Staten Island v. New York City | Revisionist History

America's Deadliest Battle: Gettysburg

What Made America? Birth Of A Superpower

The Nazi Ship that Became a US Flagship

What Made America? The Abolitionists

Lewis & Clark & Sacagawea's Expedition

What Made America? Victory in the Civil War

The Harlem Renaissance

What Made America? The Professional Military

Eisenhower's Countdown to D-Day

What Made America: The Constitution & The Franklins

Inside a Serial Killer's 'Murder Castle'

How 'New Amsterdam' Became 'New York'

Worst Siege of the Civil War: Vicksburg

When Was the Revolutionary War Won?

America's War Against Pirates

King Phillip's War

Annexation of Alaska

The Quaker Who Put Penn in Pennsylvania

Stonewall Jackson's Last Battle: Chancellorsville

A Day in the Life of a Puritan

George Washington's Spies

Geronimo's Rebellion and the Apache Wars

The Astors, The Gilded Age & The Building of New York

Shays' Rebellion: An Honorable Rebellion?

How to Escape Alcatraz

When the Mormons Rebelled Against America

The Origins of Chicago

Nat Turner's Rebellion

What Is The Kennedy Curse?

The Trail of Tears | The Frontier

Rise and Fall of the Shakers

The Texas Rangers | The Frontier

The Battle of Fredericksburg

Murder on the California Trail | The Frontier

America's Bloodiest Day: Battle of Antietam

How Wild Was the Wild West? | The Frontier

What Did FDR Get Wrong?

Life and Death on the Oregon Trail | The Frontier

The Making of Malcolm X

Darkest Hours: Origins of Slavery

Rodeo: An All American History?

Darkest Hours: The Kent State Shootings

The Monroe Doctrine

Darkest Hours: The Great Depression

Battle of Baton Rouge: Civil War on the Mississippi

Darkest Hours: Brother Against Brother

The Annexation of Hawaiʻi

America's Worst General

Origins of the First Amendment

America's Greatest General

The Truth about the Two-Term Limit

America's Most Innovative General

How Revolutionary was the Declaration of Independence?

America's Bloodiest General

How Dangerous Was The Oregon Trail?

How Much Power Does the President Have?

How Did Fossils Change America?

Lincoln: The First Presidential Assassination

The Boston Tea Party

Life on a Mississippi Steamboat

What Was The Ghost Dance?

The German Spies at Pearl Harbor

The Quakers' Rebellious Origins