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Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Professor Wilford reveals how the CIA transformed from an intelligence agency to housing the United States' premier covert-action unit in the space of just two years. Central to this conversion is George F. Kennan, who declared "political warfare" against the Soviet Union through his policies of both containment and "rollback."
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
To understand the history of the American West, you have to understand the mark left by its earliest colonists. Among those you'll encounter here are the Spaniards (who introduced horses), the French (who developed a complex trade system), and the English (who, ironically, had little interest at first in colonizing west of the Appalachians).
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Why did the CIA secretly fund groups of Americans at home in the United States (the longest-running and most expensive operation of the Cold War era)? What did the groups themselves think of the roles they played? Investigate how the rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union quickly became a global ideological battle.
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Before the ratification of the Constitution, there were presidents not of the United States but of the Congress created by the Articles of Confederation. As you'll discover, the failures of one president, Thomas Mifflin, offer a window into the potent problems facing the United States of America in 1783.
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Franklin lived during a great age of rationality and questioning, but also through one of the greatest religious revivals in world history. Franklin himself was a close friend of both George Whitefield, a famous evangelist, and David Hume, a powerful skeptic. Find out what Franklin made of these divergent intellectual movements.
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
The Oregon Trail has become a symbol of westward migration. Professor Allitt invites you to consider the challenges of the journey, as they were experienced by thousands of travelers. Among the most exceptional were Brigham Young's Mormons, fleeing persecution back East as they headed to Utah.
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
The year 1819 blew up in the faces of the bankers, brokers, National Republicans, and everyone else who had leveraged themselves to the market system. It was the year of the Great Panic. The United States had to learn that committing itself to the world market system exacted a price in the form of the unpredictable cycle of boom and bust.
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
In the past, Thomas Jefferson denounced political parties. Now, after the ratification of the Constitution, he began to form the nation's first political party. Discover how he did this by assembling allies, appealing to selected individuals to run for Congress, and playing for control of the media.
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Deep South states seceded in response to Lincoln's election, but only the crisis at Fort Sumter in April 1861 convinced the Upper South to secede. A range of opinion existed in most slaveholding states regarding secession. This episode also describes the formation of the Confederate States of America.
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
What are some of the ways we think about the American West? How did this vast, fascinating region come into being, and how was it shaped by centuries of myth-making? What is it about westward expansion that has fascinated every generation of Americans? These and other questions are the topic of this introduction.
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Congress took control of Reconstruction policy in early 1867. Ulysses S. Grant, who supported Congress, won the presidency in 1868. This episode examines the struggle between Johnson and Congress, analyzes Reconstruction legislation, describes the state governments set up under that legislation in former Confederate states, and assesses the meaning of the election of 1868.
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
What does a balance sheet of the CIA's wins and losses since its creation look like? As Professor Wilford reveals, the CIA's intelligence performance hasn't been as poor as some have argued. But there still remains, in the world's largest democracy, an abiding tension between secret government power and accountability.
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
The first transcontinental railroad was finished in 1869. Completion cut travel time from the Mississippi to the West Coast from three months to about one week. The line was joined by other transcontinentals; a national network facilitated settlement in the plains and mountain states that had been too remote.
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Explore intelligence officer James Angleton's dramatic hunt for Soviet moles inside the CIA, a story of deception, betrayal, and tragedy. Angleton's story (and his ultimate fate) hold powerful lessons for our own time, when secret state power is the source of renewed public debate and concern.
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
The Spanish tapped sources of wealth in the Americas, displaying the most wanton cruelty in obtaining it. By 1600, they had evolved from an extraction society to a settler society. The French attempted extraction incursions and to settle in North America but did not succeed as the Spanish had in the South.
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
The immense vitality and diversity of American life have been sustained by several recurrent themes. Compared to its high ideals, America always fell short. Compared to the other nations of the world, however, America was far more impressive for its successes than for its failings.
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Why did the United States create a secret foreign intelligence service in the first place? For the answer, examine three key periods of U.S. government intelligence before the birth of the CIA: the American Revolution to the late 1930s, World War II, and the postwar years from 1945 to 1947.
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
It might be strange to consider, but Franklin knew more about Native Americans than modern historians do. The Iroquois, Delaware, and other natives loomed large in his world and held the balance of power in North America. Witness his negotiations with these groups and reflect on his views toward American Indians.
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
This episode examines the experiences of African Americans on both sides, addressing, among other topics, black soldiers in US military forces, the experience of hundreds of thousands of black refugees in the South, the weakening of the bonds of slavery in much of the Confederacy, and Confederate debates over emancipation late in the conflict.
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