Podcast: The Story of America in 365 Days

It is March 27th. Welcome to Episode 86 of History in a Year. Today, the United States enters a bizarre, brief period of political peace. Following th…

It is March 26th. Welcome to Episode 85 of History in a Year. Today, an entire American political party commits spectacular political suicide. While A…

It is March 25th. Welcome to Episode 84 of History in a Year. Today, a frontier general becomes a political juggernaut. Following his miraculous, lops…

It is March 24th. Welcome to Episode 83 of History in a Year. Today, the bloodiest battle of the War of 1812 is fought after the war is already over. …

It is March 23rd. Welcome to Episode 82 of History in a Year. Today, the War of 1812 ends in a freezing Belgian city with an incredibly ironic piece o…

It is March 22nd. Welcome to Episode 81 of History in a Year. Today, the United States finds its anthem in the rockets’ red glare. After burning Washi…

It is March 21st. Welcome to Episode 80 of History in a Year. Today, the First Lady holds the line. As the American army collapses at Bladensburg and …

It is March 20th. Welcome to Episode 79 of History in a Year. Today, the United States pays a devastating price for starting a war. In the spring of 1…

It is March 19th. Welcome to Episode 78 of History in a Year. Today, the greatest indigenous resistance movement in North American history dies on a b…

It is March 18th. Welcome to Episode 77 of History in a Year. Today, a 28-year-old naval commander refuses to give up the ship. Following the humiliat…