Author Archives: bruce

A bit about the election that just happened.

A bunch of questions from listeners.

Extras from the legal pad for the 1916 podcast series.

The original name of the city of Atlanta, Terminus, reflected its importance to the economy of the South.  It was the factory of the Confederacy and the train junction as well.

Lincoln faces his own general in an election.

In our four-part series on the 1864 Election, we look at Lincoln’s political situation.

Story of the convention that ruined a campaign.

A deeper look into Gary Hart’s scandal, and other items.

Using Grover Cleveland’s letters we tell the story of Grover Cleveland’s post-Presidency.

We take a look at Benjamin Perley’s book of remembrances from 1886, and look at his description of Washington D.C. in 1844 and the time of the Texas Annexation, and how and why John Tyler put the policy through.

What was FDR doing around the time at D-day, Hoover deals with hecklers on his train and other stories.

The American Revolution ended in Yorktown, but that wasn’t necessarily a sure thing.  A bit about the events after Yorktown, most of them in Britain that contributed to the end of the war.

In this episode we talk about two battles that began the end of the American Revolution.  It wasn’t easy to tell at the time that they would be decisive.  One was clear win for the Americans, the other a technical … Continued

From Trump’s VP run to the Lyndon Johnson Rule, we talk about some topics that didn’t make it into the six-part series.

Thorough the pages of New York Magazine in 1988, we look at the culture of the times of 1988 as America decides who will be President.

A good haul from some recent library trips – story about an NYC cop, What Zachary Taylor did for fun and other stories.

An incident at the US Embassy in Pakistan in 1979, that almost turned into another hostage crisis, and related events.

What if Carter’s rescue mission had worked?

A look at Grant’s second vice president, one of 7 to die in office.

A bunch of leftovers from the Carter cast mixed with books I’ve read over the summer and early fall here.  Hope they are enjoyed.

As a young assemblyman, Theodore Roosevelt was ready to vote against a ban on cigar making in homes in New York.  It was he thought ‘socialistic’  Then Samuel Gompers took him on a tour.

From some trips to the library a few isolated history-political stories.

In a tight race, Bush-Cheney tried a novel, and now forgotten strategy.  They looked to multi-level marketing groups and emulated some tactics.  It may have worked, or not.