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
Serpico, Roosevelt, and the New York Police | Ep 14
On April 25, 1970 The New York Times runs a story with the headline "Graft Paid to Police Here Said to Run Into Millions." One of the sources for the story was Detective Frank Serpico. For years, he had been trying to get the NYPD to take his c...
Arnold Rothstein | Ep 13
What does the Black Sox Scandal and the Becker-Rosenthal case have in common? Arnold Rothstein. His career in New York City's world of vice spans the 1890s to the 1920s, adjusting during periods of reform and always staying steps re...
The Becker-Rosenthal Case | Ep 12
It was called "The Trial of the Century." In July 1912, a New York City Bookmaker is assassinated in front of the Hotel Metropole. Four gunmen and one NYPD Lieutenant are implicated in the crime. Lieutenant Charles Becke...
Sinclair v. Rockefeller | Ep 11
From The Jungle to HUAC to California in 2003 - entertainment and politics collide time after time in the 20th century. Upton Sinclair, Ronald Reagan, and Arnold Schwarzenegger. All three were celebrities first then California guber...
