Military History Episodes
November 29, 2021
The Yakama War
In October 1805, the Yakama encountered the Lewis and Clark Expedition near the confluence of the Yakima and Columbia rivers. By fifty years later, so many European and American trappers, traders, and eventually, settlers, ha...
19TH Century Military History Native American History
November 08, 2021
Alaska Territorial Guard in World War II
Prior to World War II, most of the US military deemed the territory of Alaska as militarily unimportant, to the point where the Alaska National Guard units were stationed instead in Washington state in August of 1941. That ch...
20TH Century Military History Native American History World War II
October 04, 2021
Women in the U.S. Military during the Cold War
Nearly 350,000 American women served in the US military during World War II. Although the women in the military didn’t engage in combat their presence was vital to the American effort, in clerical work as well as in driving t...
20TH Century Military History Women's History
June 21, 2021
Susie King Taylor
Susie King Taylor was born into slavery in Georgia in 1848. With the help of family members, she was educated and escaped, joining the Union army at the age of 14, to serve ostensibly as a laundress, but in reality as a nurse...
19TH Century 20TH Century Biographical History Black History Civil War Military History Women's History
June 07, 2021
Knitting Brigades of World War I
Between America’s entry into World War I and the end of the war less than two years later, Americans knit 23 million articles of clothing and bandages for soldiers overseas, directed by the American Red Cross. How was this kn...
20TH Century Military History Women's History World War I