Whether it's bad luck, bad decisions, bad timing, or bad inventions; well-intentioned bad decisions have plagued history for thousands of years. Join us on Historic Hindsight. Where we make fun of historically bad decisions on our weekly Podcast.
The Federal forces secure a foothold in South Carolina while Grant tests his strength in Missouri!
It's 2021 and I just bought a first generation Microsoft Zune! We do a quick unboxing and discuss the brilliantly flawed and failed tech on our first Historic Tech Playlist!
This week there is some good news for the Union and Sherman sets sail with the largest naval force assembled in the U.S.
This week is full of bad news for the Union and Lincoln is now arresting his generals for being so bad that he thinks they are traitors!
Oh that time F.D.R. crapped on the constitution in order to steal your gold, jack up the price, and bail out his rich banking friends at the expense of the U.S. Dollar!
This week is full of naval activity with both sides introducing Iron Plated Warships!
This week it is Union victory on the high sea's of confederate pirate hunting and on land at Fort Pickens!
The story of North Carolina's Robin Hood that robbed from the Confederate Elite and gave to the free people of color. The story of Henry Berry Lowry.
Another month comes and goes with no substantial battles to speak of and a war that has very much grown kind of cold.
It's 1910 and America is facing a meat shortage...the proposed answer, farming hippo's in the Louisiana bayou. Bonus, two of the men behind it were spies assigned to kill each other!
This week Lexington Falls due to General Fremont failing to send aid....but he does continue his spree of illegal arrests....so there's that!
When the Governor of North Carolina is left no other option then to declare war on the KKK that ran rampant through the state in 1870, you get the Kirk Holden War.
This week Lee tucks tail and runs from the Cheat Mountain Campaign, while things go sideways in Missouri for the Union.
Mother Teresa will forever be canonized in Catholicism as a saint....but should she be? The less than favorable actions taken by the Saint of Calcutta.
This week Union General Fremont free's all the slaves with his emancipation proclamation.....also Kentucky's neutrality is broken by the Confederates.
This week we have three active fronts: Kentucky tells the South to kick rocks, siege of Lexington Missouri begins, and the battle for Kanawha is on with the start of the Cheat Mountain campaign!
D.A.R.E. to keep kids off drugs with a program that actually inadvertently got kids to use drugs.....whoops....
This week Union General Fremont free's all the slaves with his emancipation proclamation.....also Kentucky's neutrality is broken by the Confederates.
The true story of Sergei Krikalev, a Russian Cosmonaut that was abandoned in space when the Soviet Union Collapsed.
Under orders from Lincoln, newspapers deemed to support southernism are seized! What the hell happened to the first amendment?
The morbid and true history of electroshock therapy, more commonly known as electroconvulsive therapy.
Second major battle of the American Civil War kicks off in Missouri...and its more of the same, poor training, lack of equipment, and friendly fire!
The search of the Titanic was a giant government cover up for lost nuclear weapons.....
This week Lincoln will pay for the war by issuing new taxes....pretty sure we went to war over this in the past.
Well....looks like this war is going to last a little bit longer after the loss at Bull Run...and can someone please establish a uniform for these armies!
All the peaceful ways workers obtained their workers rights.....This multi part series explores the paths taken for American Workers to enjoy 8 hour workdays, with weekends off, and fair wages.....
Welp...this week is the first major battle of the Civil War....and needless to say, it does not go as planned....Battle of Bull Run/Manassas
This war has gone on long enough. Time for one quick decisive battle before the Confederate Congress meets on July 20th in Richmond.
When that old adage of try try again meets the definition of insanity......it pretty much sums up the first submarine to sink an enemy ship.
The true story behind Paul Revere and Israel Bissell!
Union forces lose a battle in Carthage Missouri but gain one at Rich Mountain in Western Virginia.
This week confederate pirates dressed as women take over Union commercial vessels while Lincoln admits that suspending habeas corpus was outside the purview of the president.....but he will keep on doing it!
The horrific story of Indian Boarding Schools and the U.S. Assimilation Policy that was nothing short of cultural genocide.
This week the Union test balloons while confederates push back union forces at Mathias Point, Virginia.
This week the Union pushes confederate sympathizers out of Missouri!
Oh the years of mandatory minimums, 3 strikes, and CIA smuggling in drugs through Nicaragua......
This week the Union loses a land battle to itself and war is declared...again...in Missouri.....
Want proof that Lizard People are real....Jean Hilliard froze solid walking home in the 1980's....and somehow survived.
Confederates lose more ground when they retreat from Philippi without even putting up a fight! We apologize for the bad audio on Lt. Tommy....not sure what happened here but it will be fixed moving forward.
This week the Union takes swaths of land from Virginia....THE REBELS ARE ALREADY ON THE RUN!!!!! War will be over in a week!
So apparently in 1968 parents in England let their children wander free and somehow were surprised when they started killing each other.......
Confederate President Davis issues a 50 million dollar loan and starts printing money like it was grown on cotton.....Also Jonny gives us a geography lesson!
Battle of the Ironclads....or battle of Hampton Roads....or battle of Monitor vs Merrimack....or battle of Monitor vs Virginia.....man...civil war battles have way too many names....whatever you call it, its the first battle between ironclad ships!
This week we have our first war crime!
This week the Confederacy declares war on the Union....the Union still refuses to acknowledge them as a nation so refuses to declare war.
This week Lincoln will say to heck with the constitution while a New York yacht club vows to volunteer its boats for the Union blockade!
I introduced Jonny to this glorious piece of cinematography from the 80's.....So we try our hand at a Glory Movie Review!
This week Baltimore is in full riot resulting in Union and Civilian Casualties. Sorry for the delay in this episode....telegraph wires were cut. Next week will resume war reports as usual.
Americas war on drugs from pre-war through the Nixon years.
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