Loading…
Hosted by Karl Stomberg · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 13 episodes
Established thought leaders with verified media credentials.
A series about the Noble and Holy Order of the Knights of Labor, the first nationwide labor organization that organized all workers regardless of craft, race, or gender. This podcast covers their rise and fall, as well as the lessons that we can learn today from their efforts to organize the multi-racial working class. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Karl Stomberg hosts Storm The Fort, a history show with 13 episodes published.
The Knights of Labor ends, not with a bang, but with a whimper. However, even as the order itself dies out, the individuals, organizations, and ideas that it inspired go on to make up a new vanguard in the labor and prog
After years of turmoil and decline, the Knights of Labor make an agrarian pivot, becoming part of the coalition which founds the People’s Party in the 1890s. However, this new strategy begins to lay the groundwork for th
All of a sudden, everything is going wrong for the Knights of Labor. Between lockouts from employers, racial violence, and rapidly intensifying internal divisions, the order faces attacks from all sides and struggles to
As the year of the Great Upheaval comes to a close, the Knights face their biggest tests yet: their largest ever General Assembly and a rash of elections in the 1886 midterms. Meanwhile, their enemies in the labor moveme
With the failure of the largest strikes of the Great Upheaval, the Knights continue to grow but find themselves facing a series of internal divisions and external attacks that require them to revisit old tactics and deve
After becoming the largest labor organization in American history, the Knights of Labor find themselves drawn into a series of titanic conflicts with some of the most powerful men and organizations of the Gilded Age. Thi
In the wake of the greatest victory that American organized labor had ever seen, the Knights of Labor become the fastest growing labor organization in history. In this growth they see more diversity, more opportunity, an
After a series of bruising defeats, many Knights begin to look at different options for how to bring about the cooperative commonwealth. As the national organization begins to rebuild, a renegade group of railroad worker
The Knights’ move away from secrecy brings in more members from different backgrounds, but also more division and challenges as trade unionists and radicals make their voices heard. Organizers spread across the country a
The most violent strike in US labor history brings in new members and new leadership, forcing the Knights of Labor to become a truly national organization. Taking on the mantle of Grand Master Workman, machinist Terence
America emerges from the Civil War a newly industrialized nation. As the dust settles and industry expands rapidly, the labor movement seeks to keep up with a newly concentrated capitalism and offer its own interpretatio
After its founding in 1869, the Knights of Labor remains a relatively secretive and covert operation in its early years. All around it, the country is transformed by a major depression, third-party political action, and
On Storm The Fort, we'll dive into the history of the Noble and Holy Order of the Knights of Labor, the first national labor organization to organize all workers regardless of class, race, or gender, to learn what made t
Sponsor detection runs nightly. Check back soon.
No public pitch examples yet for this show.
Generate your own personalised pitchBased on semantic analysis of episode topics and host coverage, this show is a strong guest fit for executives in:
Industry fit is computed by PitchCentric using vector embeddings of the show's episode catalog.
Shows with the most semantically similar episode content. Pitch one, pitch all; producers cluster.
Storm The Fort has a verified contact on file. Create a free PitchCentric account to access it and generate a personalised pitch in seconds. Research at least 3 recent episodes first and lead with a specific angle that serves their history audience.
Storm The Fort is hosted by Karl Stomberg. The show is categorised under history (government) and has published 13 episodes.
Storm The Fort has published 13 episodes.
Storm The Fort regularly covers history, government, news. It sits in the history category, with a government focus.
Storm The Fort is accessible for guests with genuine history expertise. A personalised, episode-aware pitch will still outperform a generic one every time.
Storm The Fort hasn't explicitly signalled guest openness in recent episodes. That doesn't rule out pitching. your hook just needs to be especially compelling and relevant to their recent content.
Episodes of Storm The Fort average 51 minutes. a focused format where a clear narrative arc and tight preparation matter most.
Our data rates Storm The Fort's guest bar at 80/100 (Premium tier). Established thought leaders with verified media credentials. Sign in to PitchCentric to see how your own Pod Score compares against this show.
Methodology. Booking Probability™ blends Listen Score, 30-day Virality, open-to-guests detection, and Apple ratings. Data refreshed every 60 minutes. Listen Score and Booking Probability are calculated by PitchCentric. Last enriched today.