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History isn't just what we read in textbooks - it's the story of us, the United States. As America celebrates its 250th birthday, Bill Hemmer brings listeners compelling interviews with historians, experts, and eyewitnesses who detail the triumphs, trials, and breakthroughs that defined our nation. In order to understand where the country's heading, it's important to know where we've been. New episodes available every Wednesday.
Unknown Host hosts 250 Most Impactful Moments in American History, a history show with 25 episodes published.
125: Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer is killed by Native American forces led by Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse at the Battle of Little Bighorn ft. Author of Vengeance: The Last Stands of Custer, Crazy Horse, and Sitting B
135: The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier is dedicated at Arlington National Cemetery 134: Four Black students in Greensboro, NC begin a sit in at a segregated Woolworth's lunch counter 133: America's fourth largest bank Lehm
145: Vietnam War: The U.S. involvement in the Vietnam war ends 144: President Eisenhower sends federal troops to Arkansas to escort Black students into a newly integrated Little Rock Central High School. Three years late
150: Whiskey Rebellion - President Washington mobilizes a federal army to put down an insurrection in western Pennsylvania ft. Historian, Lecturer at Robert Morris University, Associate Editor of the Journal of the Ameri
155: US Airways Flight 1549 loses both of its engines after striking a flock of birds. Pilot Chesley Sullenberger successfully lands the plane in the Hudson River saving all 155 passengers. ft. Resilience Partners Group’
160: Black Monday - DJIA falls 508 points - 22.6%, its largest single day percentage drop in history 159: The Land Act of 1820 lowers prices in the Missouri and Northwest territories with the goal of encouraging western
165: The first televised presidential debate takes place between Democrat John F. Kennedy and Republican Richard Nixon ft. Author of Presidential Debates: Risky Business on the Campaign Trail, Alan Schroeder 164: Nicole
170: Al Qaeda suicide bombers crash a small craft into the USS Cole killing 17 sailors ft. Former USS Cole Commander Kirk Lippold 169: The last draft lottery for the US military is held 168: Charles Goodyear receives a p
175: Bleeding Kansas escalates as anti and pro slavery forces take up arms in the Wakarusa War 174: Amelia Earhart disappears after taking off from New Guinea 173: The FBI raids a compound in Waco, Texas led by cult lead
180: President Eisenhower in his farewell address warns against the power of a "military industrial complex" ft. Founding Director of the Eisenhower Institute and Author of How Ike Led, Susan Eisenhower 179: The Donner P
185: Samuel Colt receives a patent for his revolver 184: The Missouri Compromise becomes law: admitting Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state 183: 2000 Presidential Election ends in controversy with numerou
190: Apple CEO Steve Jobs announces the first iPhone ft. former Senior Vice President of Apple Computer, & author of best-selling books The Steve Jobs Way, & Leading Apple with Steve Jobs, Jay Elliot 189: Simultaneous bo
195: Sally Ride becomes the first American woman in space, aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger 194: George Eastman founds the Eastman Kodak Company 193:The Empire State Building is completed displacing the Chrysler Build
Featured Moments: 200: Entrepreneur Ray Kroc opens his first McDonald's in Des Plaines, Illinois, ft. biographer and author of Ray & Joan: The Man Who Made the McDonald's Fortune and the Woman Who Gave it all Away, Lisa
Featured moments: 205: Somali rebels shoot down two US Black Hawk helicopters. The ensuing firefight sees 18 US soldiers dead 204:Twenty children aged 6 and 7 and six teachers are killed in a school shooting at Sandy Hoo
Featured moments: 210: 46 year old George Floyd is killed by police during an arrest in Minneapolis, MN - the bystander video sparks nationwide outrage resulting in the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement resulting i
Featured moments: 235: The Coors Brewing Company begins producing beer in Golden, CO. Three years later Anheuser-Busch brewery in St. Louis, MO markets their pale lager for the first time. 234: President Trump becomes th
Featured moments: 220: FBI agent Robert Hanssen is arrested and charged with spying for Russia ft. Eric O'Neill, lawyer, cybersecurity expert, former FBI counter-terrorism and counter-intelligence operative 219: US Natio
Featured moments: 225: Oil tanker Exxon Valdez spills roughly 240k barrels of oil after running aground in Alaska's Prince William Sound ft. Climate journalist and author, Charles Wohlforth 224: A bomb explodes at Northw
Featured moments: 230: Against protests in the South, President Theodore Roosevelt invites Booker T. Washington to the White House ft. Brian Kilmeade, Co-host of Fox & Friends, Host of The Brian Kilmeade Show, Author of
Daniel Yergin
Vice Chairman of S&P Global and Author of “The New Map” · S&P Global
1 appearance on this show
Dave Sanderson
author, leadership speaker, inspirational survivor · Resilience Partners Group
1 appearance on this show
Kirk Lippold
Commander of the USS Cole when attacked by Al-Qaeda · USS Cole
1 appearance on this show
Bill Barr
Former Attorney General and Founding Partner at Torridon Law PLLC
1 appearance on this show
Karl Rove
former Deputy Chief of Staff to President George W. Bush
1 appearance on this show
Steve Jobs
co-founder, chairman, CEO · Apple Inc.
1 appearance on this show
Jay Elliot
former Senior Vice President of Apple Computer · Apple
1 appearance on this show
Eric O'Neill
lawyer, cybersecurity expert, former FBI counter-terrorism and counter-intelligence operative · FBI
1 appearance on this show
Eric O'Neill
former FBI counterintelligence operative, author, and current national security strategist with Nexasure · FBI
1 appearance on this show
Brian Kilmeade
Co-Host of Fox and Friends and Host of One Nation with Brian Kilmeade and The Brian Kilmeade Show · Fox and Friends
1 appearance on this show
Steve Case
Co-Founder of AOL, Revolution, and Rise of the Rest · Maranatha
1 appearance on this show
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