It’s the 100th episode!!!!!! To mix things up, today we’re traveling to the 1919 to see how three different events shaped the last 100 years, and will continue to shape the future. 

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Guests:

Cathleen D. Cahill, professor of history at Penn State University

Adam Green, professor of history at the University of Chicago

Virginia Scharff, professor of history at the University of New Mexico

→ → → Further reading on today’s episode can be found here ← ← ← Actors:

Monica Byrne (motor convoy)

Tamara Krinsky (suffrage)

James T. Green (prohibition)

Michael Resweber (Chicago riot)

Content Notes: [27:00 - 38:53]: Discussion of racism and hate crimes

Music Notes:

Swing Low, Sweet Chariot -- Tuskegee Institute Singers

Baby Won't You Please Come Home -- Ted Lewis

Daughters of Freedom -- Edwin Christie

Every Day Will Be Sunday When the Town Goes Dry -- Edward Meeker

Steal Away -- Tuskegee Institute Singers

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