Ten Minute History

You think YOU have complicated family relationships? Wait until you meet William Patrick Stewart.You think YOU have complicated political views? Wait until you meet Werner Von Braun.Two people you may have never heard of before, but that definitely make for some interesting storytelling. Let's listen...

It was a slow grind of agony, almost from the start. Until recently America's longest war, millions of young men would be sent to fight to stop communism in Southeast Asia, and the experience would change them and the country, forever.

It was a school year like no other - the first black students to attend Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. Nine brave young kids who endured all the racism that school and town could throw at them, with the official sanction of Governor Orval Faubus.  Let's take a listen

He was just a kid. He would unknowingly spark the modern civil rights movement. Just a high school student from Chicago, Emmitt Till was about to change the world by taking a trip south to see family in Money, Mississippi...

It's a military operation most people have never heard of - and its stunning success helped start a new friendship between two former adversaries, the United States and West Germany, and at a critical moment in the Cold War.Let's find out more!

Like no other event in American history, this war would change us and the world permanently. In the first of multiple installments, this episode starts to look at how that was true.

The worst economic time in our lives. How did America survive it? How did it affect small towns like Prosser? Let's take a look ...

Prohibition had failed miserably, and no one demonstrated that more effectively than Alfonse Capone, ruler of Chicago during the late 1920s and early 1930s. Let's find out more about this psychopath and his rise and fall in this episode of 10 Minute History.

Timothy Egan called it "The Worst Hard Time" in his book by the same name. A man-made ecological disaster turned much of the Great Plains into epic dust storms that removed millions of tons of topsoil and drove 2.5 million people west. Give us a listen to hear the stories...

This episode takes a look at the "Roaring 20s". While that reputation wasn't necessarily earned, it surely was a really interesting time. We will take a look at a slice of life from that time period, new inventions and heroes, and as part of Black History Month, we will focus on the Harlem Renaissance.  Enjoy!

Everyone knows about Prohibition, America's 14 year experiment with banning all alcohol. What they don't know is the unlikely combination of factors that allowed the 18th Amendment to be passed.

Women's history is largely overlooked and outright ignored, that's just a fact. Which is too bad, since the women in our history were INSTRUMENTAL in so much social justice and democratic reform in this nation. We could teach a whole set of classes on nothing else. This podcast is going to look at three amazing women in the early 1900s that you will find interesting and inpisiring.

America was a brand new baby empire in 1900. But WHY? What did Teddy Roosevelt do as President (and an imperialist) to establish and spread this empire? Let's take a look.

Here we talk about Teddy Roosevelt the President and the Progressive, his efforts to protect Americans from poisoned meat and dangerous drugs, and to establish National Parks and help workers.