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
10 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...
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. The President is allowed to use t...
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 Huert...
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...
