https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/mhcbuyp/Itraveledthroughtimetotellyouthis.mp3 Host Bruce Carlson reflects on 14 years of the podcast, provides a show update. Plus some listener questions on masks then and now, Presidents leaving (or not leaving) the Oval, and Kennedy’s 1960 election and allegations of fraud. Reminder about that MHCBUYP Patreon – Support the Show and Get Episodes!
Month: July 2020
Partisanship, 1850’s Style, w/ Josh Mensch, co-author of The Lincoln Conspiracy
High political stakes, secret plots, Plug Uglies armed with sharp awls to help ‘convince’ voters… Baltimore in the 1850’s was a fearsome place where politics and gangs were hard to separate. Yet it was the connecting stop for new Presidents and Union Soldiers getting to Washington D.C. We speak with Josh Mensch. Josh is the…
A Powder Keg About to Explode: Newark, NJ 1967
Newark N.J. suffered a brutal and consuming riot, or rebellion, depending on how you see things, in the hot summer of 1967. Through the voices of history, we hear about those events, what caused it, and the musician who got caught up and became an unlikely spark. Caught off guard, state police and National Guard…
The Man in the Cave and Other Stories of the Signers of The Declaration of Independence
We know Jefferson and Franklin, but what about the other signers – John Hart, John Penn, William Williams, Richard Stockton, William Whipple, John Morton, William Floyd, George Read and others. In this long episode, stories of the Signers, including: A man who had to hide in a cave while his property was ransacked. Another whose…
My History Can Beat Up Your Politics 