That American Century
A history podcast about the people and events shaping the United States in the 20th Century. Communists, Capitalists, Populists, Feminists, Imperialists, Isolationists, Anarchists, Atheists and Fundamentalists welcome 🇺🇸
That American Century
Latest Episodes
May Day 1914 | Ep 10
Veracruz, the Ludlow Massacre, Bill Haywood, the IWW, and Rockefeller. All are "In the News" at the beginning of May - 1914.After the Ludlow Massacre in April 1914, Picketers head down to Standard Oil headquarters at 26 Broadway to prote...
Remember Ludlow! | Ep 9
In April 1914, two weeks before the Ludlow Massacre, John D. Rockefeller Jr. testifies before Congress about the ongoing Coal Miner's strike in Southern Colorado. The Rockefellers have a controlling interest in the company that owns...
The Ludlow Massacre | Ep 8
The conflict between striking mineworkers and the Colorado Fuel & Iron Company comes to a deadly climax on April 20, 1914. Two women and 11 children will suffocate to death in a cellar dug underneath a tent in the colony where striking mine...
The Mountain Meadows Massacre | Ep 7
“This is the right place” declared Brigham Young as he entered the Salt Lake Valley on July 24, 1847. Persecuted and harassed in every place they had tried to make a home, the Latter-Day Saints, the Mormons, establish Zion in the Gr...
Los Niños Héroes | The Invasion of Veracruz Part 2 | Ep 6
On the anniversary of the Battle of Chapultepec (September 13, 1847), the President of Mexico recites the names of eight Los Niños Héroes (boy heroes) during the annual ceremony commemorating the young boy's ultimate act of patriotism and sacri...
