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 🇺🇸
That American Century
Latest Episodes
Sinclair v. Rockefeller | Ep 11
Upton Sinclair, Ronald Reagan, and Arnold Schwarzenegger. All three were celebrities first then California gubernatorial candidates second. Sinclair and Reagan also have something else in common - they were both players during cruci...
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...
