EPISODE LINK: https://cms.megaphone.fm/channel/ADV1329580829?selected=ADV7055465576 This episode is all about voting in the federal capital we now call the District of Columbia. We talk about a movement to get voting rights that succeeded for a group of (then) D.C. residents 180 years ago, And about the petitions, committees, tea parties, bus trips and statements by Presidents over…
Category: Politics, History
Terrible Tuesday 1987 (The Ark of Commerce, Part 6b)
For Wall Street Insiders, Black Monday was not the worst day. The next day, Terrible Tuesday was an agonizing test of the financial system. As part of our series on the commercial history of the United States, we examine the events of Tuesday the 20th. And we look at the history of insurance in America,…
We Are Part of Airwave Media Podcast Network
LOS ANGELES, Cali – Airwave Media, the award-winning production company behind the popular podcast Kickass News announced plans to form a brand new podcast network called Airwave. Airwave will officially launch this May 24, and it will be a curated collection of shows featuring some of the leading storytellers and thought leaders in audio entertainment….
The ‘Ark of Commerce’ Series on The Commercial History of The United States
Here are all the episodes for the ‘Ark of Commerce’ a series that has run since 2019. Part 1 – Crash Party – 1929 Stock Market Crash, Edison and Other Things. Part 2 – Two if By Sea: Maritime Commerce, Arks and More Part 3 – Loco – Train and Other Land Commerce Part 4…
Black Monday 1987 and The Shock of Risk (Ark of Commerce, Part 6a)
Worried hands gripping phones. Black screens with green digits, going downward. Faces pressed against fancy brokerage office glass. Busy signals. The history of Black Monday 1987 crash and the history of what came before it, from stock commodities and even butter and eggs. This is the first of what will be a two-parter on commerce,…
1995: A Story of Politics On The Information Superhighway
Stealth ads. Secret advice. Kids in uniforms. Soft money and hard choices in the information age. As we discuss in this cast, a Presidential election was almost completely settled a year before it happened. Some knew an election was going on and some didn’t. In a time when money was soft and people said things…
Young Dick Cheney
We know the globe-running, terror-fighting, meeting master Vice President Cheney, but did you know his parents were hardcore Democrats? or that he thought his father turned into a bird (albeit at a pretty young age), or that he was first refused a job when he came to DC? As we discuss with Tim Pearson, author…
The Man Behind the UN Who Never Got Credit – Edward Stettinius, Jr. w/ Bill Scher
Edward Stettinius, Jr. served a short but important time as Secretary of State serving F.D.R. and Truman. Without him, there may not have been a UN. And because he got very little credit, he was able to be successful. With journalist Bill Scher, host of the “When America Worked” Podcast we discuss Stettinius and pragmatists…
Vaccines Then and Now
A history of vaccines and the politics of vaccines. Vaccine history, acceptance and denial. The leap of faith required for vaccines in past times. Vaccines and The Revolutionary War. The man who saved Boston and never got credit. Law and the citizen when it comes to medicine. FDR’s polio – if it was polio –…
Golden Beauty Boss: Madame Sara Spencer Washington w/ Cheryl Woodruff-Brooks
With Cheryl Woodruff-Brooks, author of Golden Beauty Boss we talk about Madame Sara Spencer Washington, an African American woman whose beauty empire made her a millionaire in the 1920’s Washington was a cosmetic entrepreneur whose company turned her into one of of America’s first black millionaires. She was founder and president of Apex Enterprises consisting…
We’ve Got Problems. We’ve Always Had Problems. Free Speech, Cancel Culture? and Rhetoric Envelope-Pushing
In this episode, no big deal, we just tackle about every significant problem we have in our politics today. norm-breaking, free-speech and free-speech limits, threats and violence, double impeachments, pushing envelopes and reverse virtue signaling is all part of this episode. Also, Abigail Adams, a treaty won by a forceful speech, a shadowy organization rising…
This is William Rufus King w/ Thomas Balcerski – The Forgotten VP, His Role in The Compromise of 1850, His Relationship with James Buchanan and More
The 13th Vice President of the United States remains obscure. Where King’s name does come up, it’s often with the wrong picture. Or he’s confused with Rufus King. According to our guest, Thomas Balcerski, Associate Professor of History at Eastern Connecticut State University, he should be in the discussion with Clay and Calhoun and Webster…
