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History That Doesn't Suck

Prof. Greg Jackson

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History That Doesn't Suck

209: The Pacific War 1943: Operation Cartwheel, Tarawa, & Eleanor Roosevelt's Pacific Tour

208: The Pacific War, 1942–43: Guadalcanal, the Aleutians, and Operation Vengeance

Introducing: Government That Doesn't Suck! with Professors Greg Jackson and Lindsey Cormack

The Declaration of Independence at 250

America250 Episode 8 Rerelease: Declaring Independence, the Rise of Alexander Hamilton, & the Fall of New York

Bonus: Prof. Greg Jackson interview on The Road to Now with Dr. Ben Sawyer

207: Japanese Internment: Removal, Relocation, & Reckoning

206: American Propaganda: Cap’s Debut, Frank Capra’s War Docs, and Casablanca

205: Total War on the Home Front: Victory Gardens, Volunteering, and the Double V

Bonus: “Messy Tales,” an Excerpt from the Prof’s book, Been There, Done That

204: The Holocaust: Anne Frank, the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, & Auschwitz

203: The Holocaust: Killing Squads, Ghettos, & Gas Chambers

202: Holocaust Prologue with US Holocaust Memorial Museum Director, Sara J. Bloomfield

201: A Soft Underbelly: The Allied Invasion of Sicily & the Fall of Il Duce

200: The North African Campaign: Desert Rats, the Desert Fox, & Operation Torch

199: Building the Anglo-American Alliance: The US Enters the European Theater

198: The Pacific Tide Turns at Coral Sea & Midway

197: The Doolittle Raid & the Bataan Death March (Spring 1942)

196: An Epilogue to Pearl Harbor with Steve Twomey

195: Holiday Special IX: Chanukah in Warsaw & Christmas in Washington, D.C.

194: Pearl Harbor: December 7, 1941

193: The Empire of the Rising Sun: Military Imperialism in Japan (1853–1941)

192: A Conversation with Ken Burns and Sarah Botstein: The American Revolution and WWII

Bonus: Eleanor Roosevelt "Over Our Coffee Cups"

191: Halloween Special V: “The War of the Worlds” on the Radio

190: Epilogue to US Pre-WWII Isolationism to Interventionism with Lynne Olson

189: World War II in Europe & the American Response (1941): Production & Preparation

The Unlikely Union: "A house divided against itself cannot stand."

188: World War II in Europe & The American Response (1939–40): Isolationism vs. Arsenal of Democracy

187: From the Rhineland to Poland (1935–1939): Annexation, Appeasement, & the Start of World War II

186: From Czardom to Stalinism: Building the USSR & the Ascent of Joseph Stalin

185: The Early Holocaust: From the “Jewish Question” to Kristallnacht

The Unlikely Union: New Tour Dates

184: The Rise of Adolf Hitler: From Failure to Führer of Nazi Germany or the Third Reich

183: The Origin of Fascism: “Il Duce” Benito Mussolini & the Rise of Fascist Italy

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

171: Christmas Special VIII: Festivities in the Jazz Age

170: The Crash of 1929 & Meeting President Herbert Hoover

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

168: Halloween Special IV: Nosferatu and Silent Horror

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

160: Al Capone & the End of Prohibition

159: Scofflaws, Moonshiners, Bootleggers, and Crime Lords

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

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

156: The Presidency of “Silent” Cal Coolidge

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

154: An Epilogue Discussion with Ben Sawyer

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

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

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

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

149: WWI Epilogue

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

147: Peacemaking in Paris: The Treaty of Versailles

146: The Armistice of November 11, 1918

145: Halloween Special III: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

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

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

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

141: Wartime Interlude

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