American history, 18th century American history, United States history, and 18th century United States history begin in this third 18th Century Turning Points program. In this series, eight half hour programs tell the ex..
American history, 18th century American history, United States history, and 18th century United States history begin in this fourth 18th Century Turning Points program. In this series, eight half hour programs tell the e..
American history, 18th century American history, United States history, and 18th century United States history begin in this fifth 18th Century Turning Points program. In this series, eight half hour programs tell the ex..
American history, 18th century American history, United States history, and 18th century United States history begin in this sixth 18th Century Turning Points program. In this series, eight half hour programs tell the ex..
American history, 18th century American history, United States history, and 18th century United States history begin in this seventh 18th Century Turning Points program. In this series, eight half hour programs tell the ..
American history, 18th century American history, United States history, and 18th century United States history begin in this eighth and final 18th Century Turning Points program. In this series, eight half hour programs ..
Farmers had expanded production rapidly during World War I. Now that the war is over, competition from recovered foreign producers lowers potential returns while costs remain fixed. The decade of the 1920s is difficult f..
President Warren Harding takes office in 1921 choosing cabinet members that prove to have a long political history; Herbert Hoover and Charles Evan Hughes. President Harding is linked to a political scandal known as the ..
The secular culture that emerges in the 1920s coexists with an older, more provincial sect that views this "new era" as a threat to their way of life. Prohibition fails, the Ku Klux Klan expands their targets to not only..
Republicans choose Herbert Hoover as their Presidential candidate in 1928. Democrats nominate New York Governor Al Smith. While Smith is popular with the metropolitan areas in the north, he has little in common with the ..