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 🇺🇸
Episodes
13 episodes
Arnold Rothstein | Ep 13
What does the Black Sox Scandal and the Becker-Rosenthal case have in common? Arnold Rothstein. His career in New York City's world of vice spans the 1890s to the 1920s, adjusting during periods of reform and always staying steps re...
The Becker-Rosenthal Case | Ep 12
It was called "The Trial of the Century." In July 1912, a New York City Bookmaker is assassinated in front of the Hotel Metropole. Four gunmen and one NYPD Lieutenant are implicated in the crime. Lieutenant Charles Becke...
Sinclair v. Rockefeller | Ep 11
From The Jungle to HUAC to California in 2003 - entertainment and politics collide time after time in the 20th century. Upton Sinclair, Ronald Reagan, and Arnold Schwarzenegger. All three were celebrities first then California gube...
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
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 mines, the...
The Ludlow Massacre | Ep 8
Labor v. Capital is a recurring theme in That American Century. 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 ...
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...
War is a Racket | The Invasion of Veracruz Part 1 | Ep 5
The President of the United States has refused to recognize the leader of a sovereign nation, US oil interests are in danger, and the use of military force has been authorized. It’s April 1914, and Woodrow Wilson has sent battleships to the por...
Durand v. Hollins | Ep 4
The Bombardment of Greytown, Durand v. Hollins, and Executive military power.The power of the President has expanded over the last 200 years. Is the President allowed to declare war? No. BUT. The President is allowed to use the ...
Colonel Edward House | Ep 3
The Man Behind Woodrow Wilson's Throne. In April 1914, Woodrow Wilson calls on his most trusted advisor, Colonel Edward House after luncheon. He is seeking counsel on what he should do about the "Mexican Situation." President Huerta...
The Incident at Tampico | Ep 2
Mexico's Oil and the Incident at Tampico. Two months before Franz Ferdinand is shot and three months before the Great War begins, an incident in the port city of Tampico causes Woodrow Wilson to seriously consider “intervention” in Mexico. ...
A Day That Shook the World | Ep 1
On what day did the 20th century begin? Franz Ferdinand is shot in Sarajevo on June 28, 1914 by South Slav nationalist Gavrilo Princip, and the world changes forever. Americans read the shocking details the following morning, June 29, and wonde...
