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Cover of Fears of a Setting Sun: The Disillusionment of America's Founders by Dennis C. Rasmussen
Such a Disappointment
President Biden, standing in front of a blue flag with an eagle emblem
First 100 Days of the Biden Administration: Insights from History
the cover of a Captain America comic book
Captain America: Changing Conscience of a Nation
Black Women's Rights Leaders
Prologued: Women and the Vote
Donald Trump and Joe Biden
Election 2020: Insights from History
Image of Shirley Chishorm, Hillary Clinton, Condaleeza Rice, and Kamala Harris
Episode 8: The New Normal
Crowd with sign: "Black Caucus for Chisholm"
Episode 7: "Earn Your Spurs"
Group of women protesting against the ERA with signs: "Stop the web of deception," "ERA means Amy register for the draft at 18," "Maternity ward - persons only"
Episode 6: Mom and Apple Pie
Group of women marching with signs: "GWU Women's Liberation," "I'm a second-class citizen," "Women demand equality"
Episode 5: A Slut from East Toledo
Women at desk marked "Learn to Vote"
Episode 4: So...what now?
Pamphlet of "Virginia Women Opposed to Suffrage"
Episode 3: Equal Suffrage Awaits Trial
Large group of suffragists on steps
One Hundred Years of Women and the Vote
Official Program: Woman Suffrage Procession, Washington DC March 3, 1913
Episode 2: I have many things to say
Harper's Weekly illustration
Top Ten Contested Political Conventions
The headquarters of the National Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage in 1911.
The Nineteenth Amendment
Suffragettes protest for the right to vote
Prologued Podcast celebrating the 19th Amendment Centennial
poster supporting those lost in Pearl Harbor
Mobilizing for Common Purpose in the COVID Era
Suffragists with signs: "Votes for Women"
Trailer
President Franklin D. Roosevelt and outgoing President Herbert Hoover on Inauguration Day in 1933.
COVID, the New Deal, and the Importance of Leadership
John Filo's iconic photograph of Mary Ann Vecchio kneeling over the body of Jeffrey Miller
Kent State after Fifty Years
"Where do we go from here?," a 1920 cartoon depicting the League of Nations Covenant and the Treaty of Versailles
The Versailles Treaty Fight
In 2014, the debate about the underlying causes of "long, hot summers" remerged with the high-profile police killings of Michael Brown, Tamir Rice, Eric Garner, and others.
Long Hot Summers and Separate Societies
Person holding sign that reads "Stop Voter Suppression"
From Poll Taxes to Partisan Gerrymandering: Voter Disenfranchisement in the United States
Illustration of the duel between Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr (1887)
The Hamilton-Burr Duel