Episode 46 – His Rotundity
It is February 15th. Welcome to Episode 46 of History in a Year. Today, we profile the man who had the impossible job of following George Washington. …
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Episode 45 – The Election of 1796
It is February 14th. Welcome to Episode 45 of History in a Year. Today, the training wheels come off. George Washington is gone, and for the first tim…
Episode 44 – Washington’s Farewell
It is February 13th. Welcome to Episode 44 of History in a Year. Today, the Father of the Country decides it is time to go home. After eight grueling …
Episode 43 – The Reynolds Pamphlet
It is February 12th. Welcome to Episode 43 of History in a Year. Today, we step away from the battlefield and into the bedroom for the first major pol…
Episode 42 – The Jay Treaty
It is February 11th. Welcome to Episode 42 of History in a Year. Today, war with Great Britain seems inevitable. The British are seizing American ship…
Episode 41 – Fallen Timbers
It is February 10th. Welcome to Episode 41 of History in a Year. Today, we march into the deep woods of Ohio for the final showdown of the Northwest I…
Episode 40 – The Whiskey Rebellion (Part 2)
It is February 9th. Welcome to Episode 40 of History in a Year. Today, the hammer falls. Following the violence in Western Pennsylvania, George Washin…
Episode 39 – The Whiskey Rebellion (Part 1)
It is February 8th. Welcome to Episode 39 of History in a Year. Today, we travel to the wild frontier of Western Pennsylvania, where the spirit of 177…
Episode 38 – The Cotton Gin
It is February 7th. Welcome to Episode 38 of History in a Year. Today, a young Yankee schoolteacher named Eli Whitney sits on a porch in Georgia and t…
Episode 37 – The Plague
It is February 6th. Welcome to Episode 37 of History in a Year. Today, the political fever of the summer breaks, only to be replaced by a biological n…