The Pentagon, The Building (1943)

Our conversation about the "silent majority" continues with a look at the so-called Hard Hat Riots in New York City, and how the idea of a conservative backlash politics began to coalesce.Join our America250 newsletter community! Subscribe for free to get the latest news and anal ...  Show more

For the nineteenth installment of “50 Weeks That Shaped America” we talk about a fateful week in the spring of 1970, when the anti-Vietnam movement was confronted by a conservative backlash. We discuss the tragedy at Kent State University in Ohio, when four students were killed b ...  Show more

In 1939 Franklin D Roosevelt received a letter from Albert Einstein, warning him that the Nazis might be developing nuclear weapons. America has to act fast.

What follows is the creation of a secret city in the rural area of Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Aroun ...

What is a bat bomb? Why would you cover a fox in radioactive paint? And who are the masterminds behind the Office of Strategic Services, the precursor to the CIA?

In this episode, Don is joined by John Lisle to discuss the creations of the Research and Development br ...

Dans cet épisode de Crousti-History, on vous parle du D-Day, ce qu’on chante aux anniversaires. Ah non, c’est pas ça ?1944, en pleine Seconde Guerre mondiale, les Allemands ne sont pas au top. Les Américains préparent un débarquement en Normandie. Hitler sait qu’il va avoir lieu, ...  Show more

Join Don Wildman twice a week for your hit of American history, as he explores the past to help us understand the United States of today.

We’ll hear how codebreakers uncovered secret Japanese plans for the Battle of Midway, visit Chief Powha ...