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106: The US Annexation of the Hawaiian Kingdom
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2022-02-28
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105: “A Splendid Little War:” The Spanish-American War and Theodore Roosevelt’s Rough Riders
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2022-02-14
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104: The Road to the Spanish-American War
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2022-01-31
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103: A Gilded Age Christmas: Joseph Pulitzer’s Christmas Tree Fund
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2021-12-20
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102: Epilogue to the Gilded Age
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2021-11-22
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101: The New South, Jim Crow (Plessy v. Ferguson), & the Death of Frederick Douglass
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2021-11-08
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100: Halloween Special! Edgar Allan Poe: The Tell-tale Heart, The Cask of Amontillado, & The Raven
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2021-10-25
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99: The Gilded Age’s Singer Sewing Machines & Dangerous Bananas w/ Dr. Ben Sawyer of The Road To Now
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2021-10-11
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98: Silver & Gold: From Grover Cleveland to William Jennings Bryan & William McKinley
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2021-09-27
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97: The Gilded Age’s Robber Barons: John D. Rockefeller & Andrew Carnegie
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2021-09-13
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96: The War of the Currents: (Thomas Alva Edison v. Nikola Tesla & George Westinghouse)
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2021-08-30
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95: "Several Thousand Things that Won't Work:" Thomas Alva Edison and His Electric Light
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2021-08-16
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94: Epilogue to Gilded Age Part I (or Gilded Age interlude w/ Significant HTDS Updates)
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2021-08-02
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93: La Liberté éclairant le monde: Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi’s Statue of Liberty
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2021-07-19
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92: The Brooklyn Bridge, or the Story of the Roebling Family
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2021-06-21
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91: The Gilded Age, Industrialization, and Assassination of President James Garfield
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2021-06-07
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90: Epilogue to the Wild West
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2021-05-10
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89: Closing the Wild West: (Wounded Knee, Buffalo Bill & the 1893 Colombian Expo)
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2021-04-26
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88: “The Last Frontier:” The Purchase of Alaska and the Klondike Gold Rush
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2021-04-12
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87: Gunslingers & Outlaws (pt 2): Pearl Hart, Tombstone, Jesse James, B. Cassidy & The Sundance Kid
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2021-03-29
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