Henry Clay – The Great Compromiser
Thirty years before Abraham Lincoln was elected President, a Congressman named Henry Clay was doing everything he could to address the American states' growing...
Henry Wallace – The Great Turning Point
When the Great Depression hit, everyone saw their political philosophies and ideologies upended. Franklin Roosevelt himself said much of the New Deal was just...
William Jennings Bryan – American Progressive
This first episode in our podcast, The Losers, tells the story of William Jennings Bryan. Bryan is what you would get if you combined...
The History of AIDS
Growing up in a small town in the Bible Belt presented a different perspective of the AIDS and HIV crisis of the 1980s and...
Eradicating Disease
Plagued: Humanity’s History with Disease, Outbreaks, and Pandemics – Podcast Series – Part 7
We take for granted the giant leap humanity took over the course of...
Polio – The American Plague
Polio is an ancient disease but in the 20th-century, few plagues better captured the American spirit than polio did.
Plagued: Humanity’s History with Disease, Outbreaks,...
The Spanish Flu Pandemic of 1918
The Great Influenza, Spanish Flu, of 1918
Plagued: Humanity’s History with Disease, Outbreaks, and Pandemics –
Podcast Series - Part 5
It is called the Spanish...
Living and Dying Before Medical Science (Part 1)
This is a two-part episode in the series and it discusses living and dying before medical science came of age in human history.
Plagued:...
The Black Death – Plagued: Humanity’s History with Disease, Outbreaks, and Pandemics
The Black Death
Plagued: Humanity’s History with Disease, Outbreaks, and Pandemics
Podcast Series - Part 2
The Black Death spread across the eastern hemisphere in the...
A Plague of Locusts Descending Upon East Africa
In today's podcast episode, Terrell Spencer and Jonathan Webster join JB Shreve to discuss the plague of locusts currently descending upon East Africa.
Basic Facts...