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A Historian Learns About
A podcast series where a historian talks about the things he found interesting while researching a topic for his blog, hereforhistory.com Here For History presents quick digestible history for those new or experienced in the topics.
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A Historian Learns About: J.P. Morgan and the Panic of 1907
For one month in 1907, America's financial industry stood on the brink of disaster. There were bank runs, and the New York Stock Exchange stood poised...
A Historian Learns About: The Quakers and the American Revolution
Why did a group of pacifists feel the ire of their fellow colonists during the American Revolution? What led people to dislike them? Why were the Quak...
A Historian Learns About: Jay Cooke & The Northern Pacific Railroad
How does a man known as a successful banker, businessman, and "Financier of the Civil War" fail so badly that he gets accused of starting a global dep...
A Historian Learns About: The Smoot Hawley Tariff Act
The Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act is one of the most infamous pieces of legislation in American History. So what was it? Ryan sets out to learn about the ac...
A Historian Learns About: The West Virginia Mining Wars 1912-1921
Did you know there was a series of violent clashes between West Virginia miners and the mining companies between 1912 and 1922? Ryan sure didn't befor...