The Bunker: Recent Episodes
Mr. Hengsterman
"The Bunker" is a podcast for students of American History. Launched by a upstate NY history teacher during the 2020 Coronavirus Pandemic, the goal is to deliver audio content for students studying United States History. The Bunker will continue to experiment with creative ways to post new episodes for our hybrid/remote learning arrangement in 2020-21.
Contact: rhengsterman@bscsd.org
Episode #39 Throw Back Thursday [Nov 3 2006] - My first attempt at Podcasting with students in my A.P. United States History program at Ballston Spa High School. Original program retrieved from www. archive.org
Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/ballstonbunker/message
Episode #38 Capital District 1900
DIRECT LINK TO CLASS NOTES: Progress and Poverty in Urban America [1865 to 1898]The explosive growth of America’s large urban centers was accompanied by often disturbing changes, including the new immigrants, crowded slums, and conflicts over cultural values.
LINK TO ARTICLE: Capital District 1900
SOURCE CITATION: Mark McGuire (1999) "The region bulged at its 19th century seams." Albany Times Union. Available at https://bit.ly/3jZDki3
Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/ballstonbunker/message
Episode#37 Chinese Exclusion Act (1882)
DIRECT LINK TO CLASS NOTES: Immigration and Cultural Conflict in Gilded Age America -Is America a haven for the poor and oppressed or guided by fluctuating feelings about race and ethnicity, and fear of foreign political and labor agitation?
DIRECT LINK TO ARTICLE: The Chinese Exclusion Act
SOURCE CITATION: "Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness," Bill of Rights Institute. https://cnx.org/contents/NgBFhmUc%4013.2%3ALKzu_mbq%406/9-15-%F0%9F%93%8D-The-Chinese-Exclusion-Act
Primary Sources Kearney, Denis. “’Our Misery and Despair’: Kearney Blasts Chinese Immigration.” http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5046/
Scharf, J. Thomas. “The Farce of the Chinese Exclusion Laws.” http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/disp_textbook.cfm?smtid=3&psid=4055
University of California. “Chinese Exclusion Act.” Calisphere. https://calisphere.org/exhibitions/17/chinese-exclusion-act/
Suggested Resources Hong, Jane. Opening the Gates to Asia: A Transpacific History of How American Repealed Asian Exclusion. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2019.
Lee, Erika. At America’s Gates: Chinese Immigration during the Exclusion Era. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2003.
Lee, Erika. The Making of Asian America: A History. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2015.
Lew-Williams, Beth. The Chinese Must Go: Chinese, Exclusion, and the Making of the Alien in America. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2018.
Salyer, Lucy E. Laws Harsh as Tigers: Chinese Immigrants and the Shaping of Modern Immigration Law. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1995.
Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/ballstonbunker/message
"30 for 30" Winter Exam Review
Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/ballstonbunker/message
"30 for 30" Fall Quarterly Exam Review
Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/ballstonbunker/message
To The Halls of Montezuma - The Mexican War [1846 to 1848] A one term president extends American territory across the continent by threatening war with England and manufacturing a controversial and unpopular two-year war with Mexico.
DIRECT LINK TO ARTICLE: A Brief Overview of the Mexican-American War
Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/ballstonbunker/message
Manifest Destiny - An Expression of Our National Spirit [1848 to 1852] Manifest Destiny, one of the most influential ideologies in American history, served as the justification for the nation’s territorial expansion in the antebellum era.
DIRECT LINK TO ARTICLE: Manifest Destiny: What It Meant for American Expansion
SOURCE CITATION: McNamara, Robert. "Manifest Destiny: What It Meant for American Expansion." ThoughtCo, Aug. 25, 2020, thoughtco.com/what-is-manifest-destiny-1773604.
Author Robert J. McNamara is a history expert and former magazine journalist. He was Amazon.com's first-ever history editor and has bylines in New York, the Chicago Tribune, and other national outlets.
Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/ballstonbunker/message
Sarah Moore Grimké (1792–1873) and Angelina Emily Grimké (1805–1879), were the first nationally-known white American female advocates of abolition of slavery and women's rights. They were speakers, writers, and educators.
Direct Link to ThoughtCo.com Article: The Grimke Sisters
Source Citation for ThoughtCo.com Article: McNamara, Robert. "The Grimké Sisters." ThoughtCo, Aug. 26, 2020, thoughtco.com/the-grimke-sisters-1773551.
Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/ballstonbunker/message
The Great Triumvirate refers to three statesmen who dominated American politics for much of the first half of the 19th century, namely Henry Clay of Kentucky, Daniel Webster of Massachusetts and John C. Calhoun of South Carolina. These men's interactions in large part tell the story of politics under the Second Party System. All three were extremely active in politics, served at various times as Secretary of State and served together in both the House of Representatives and the Senate.
DIRECT LINK TO ARTICLE: The Great Triumvirate
SOURCE CITATION: McNamara, Robert. "The Great Triumvirate." ThoughtCo, Aug. 31, 2020, thoughtco.com/the-great-triumvirate-1773351.
Author Robert J. McNamara is a history expert and former magazine journalist. He was Amazon.com's first-ever history editor and has bylines in New York, the Chicago Tribune, and other national outlets.
Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/ballstonbunker/message
Holy Warriors: The Abolitionists and American Slavery [1820 to 1865]The campaign to abolish slavery in the United States, the most powerful and effective social movement of the nineteenth century, will serve as a recurring source of inspiration for every subsequent struggle against injustice.
DIRECT LINK TO ARTICLE: Biography - William Lloyd Garrison
SOURCE CITATION: Biography.com Editors. “William Lloyd Garrison Biography.” The Biography.com website, August 18, 2020, https://www.biography.com/writer/william-lloyd-garrisonl
Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/ballstonbunker/message
Elizabeth Cady Stanton was an American leader in the women’s rights movement who in 1848 formulated the first organized demand for woman suffrage in the United States.
DIRECT LINK TO ARTICLE: Elizabeth Cady Stanton
SOURCE CITATION: Michals, Debra. "Elizabeth Cady Stanton." National Women's History Museum. National Women's History Museum, 2017. Date accessed.
Debra Michals is the Director of Women's and Gender Studies at Merrimack College, and a women's/gender historian. Her work focuses on 20th century U.S. women's history, as well as LGBTQ history and the histories of people of color.
Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/ballstonbunker/message
Holy Warriors: The Abolitionists and American Slavery [1820 to 1865]The campaign to abolish slavery in the United States, the most powerful and effective social movement of the nineteenth century, will serve as a recurring source of inspiration for every subsequent struggle against injustice.
DIRECT LINK TO ARTICLE: Frederick Douglass: Abolitionist and Advocate for Women's Rights
SOURCE CITATION: Lewis, Femi. "Frederick Douglass: Abolitionist and Advocate for Women's Rights." ThoughtCo, Sep. 18, 2020, thoughtco.com/frederick-douglass-abolitionist-and-advocate-45214.
Author Femi Lewis is a former writer for ThoughtCo who contributed articles on African American history. An experienced educator, Lewis has taught at Lehman College, City College of New York, and Long Island University. She has written curricula on topics in African American history and participated in seminars through the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History. Lewis has lectured on topics such as "Harlem Renaissance Poets: Creating an Authentic Voice," "African-American Women Writers," and "Hip-Hop Studies."
Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/ballstonbunker/message
Episode #27 Ten Questions - Ronald Reagan
Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/ballstonbunker/message
Episode #26 Picture This - Birmingham, 1963
Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/ballstonbunker/message
Episode #25 Picture This - Little Rock, 1957
https://www.arkansasartscenter.org/image/2017-exhibitions/will-counts/7.jpg
Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/ballstonbunker/message
Episode #24 Roundtable Review 1957 to 1980
Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/ballstonbunker/message
Episode #23 Calm amid Chaos
Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/ballstonbunker/message
Episode #22 Roundtable Review 1945 to 1957
Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/ballstonbunker/message
Rosenberg Fund for Children was started by Robert Meeropol, who was orphaned at age six when his parents, Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, were executed at the height of the McCarthy Era.
In 1990 Robert figured out how he could repay the progressive community that helped him survive. He founded the RFC to help children of targeted activists in the U.S. today- children who are experiencing the same nightmare he and his brother endured as youngsters. In September 2013, Robert's daughter, Jennifer Meeropol, took over for him as the RFC's executive director.
Since its start, the RFC has awarded more than $7 million to benefit thousands of children in the U.S. whose parents have been targeted because of their involvement in progressive movements including the struggles to preserve civil liberties, wage peace, safeguard the environment, combat racism and homophobia, and organize on behalf of workers, prisoners, immigrants and others whose human rights are under threat.
Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/ballstonbunker/message
Episode #20 Marshall Matters
Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/ballstonbunker/message
Episode #19 Einstein in the Adirondacks
Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/ballstonbunker/message
Episode #18 Interview with Brian Kurth
Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/ballstonbunker/message
Episode #17 The Reilly Factor
Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/ballstonbunker/message
Episode #16 New Deal Throughline
Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/ballstonbunker/message
Episode #15 Becoming Frances Perkins
Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/ballstonbunker/message
Episode #14 Monkey Business in Dayton
Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/ballstonbunker/message
Episode Interview with Susan Tejada
Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/ballstonbunker/message
Episode #12 The Ballad or Sacco and Venzetti
Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/ballstonbunker/message
A look at the revival of the KKK in the 1920's
Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/ballstonbunker/message
A look at the Harlem Renaissance, a flowering of African American intellectual life during the 1920s and 1930s.
Clips Used
The Century: America's Time: Featuring: Peter Jennings, Ossie Davis, Howard Stretch Johnson author Eudora Welty and Historian Ann Douglass
Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/ballstonbunker/message
A look at America coming of Age in the 1920’s as it was about to leave behind the formative experience of its rural past and embrace the promise of an urban future
Clips Used
Trailer for the Great Gatsby
Dennis Miller Standup set on the 1920s
Quotes from
Historians William E. Leuchtenburg and Joseph Interrante
Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/ballstonbunker/message
Michael Tash is a former student from my days at Hoosic Valley High School in the late 1990's This episode showcases his final project submission - a song who wrote and recorded, The Communist Manifesto. Enjoy
Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/ballstonbunker/message
Episode #7 Q and A World War I 3/26/2020
Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/ballstonbunker/message
Episode #6 The Betrayal of Great Expectations 3/26/2020
Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/ballstonbunker/message
The Post War Dream: Woodrow Wilson and the Quest for a New World Order President Wilson becomes the world's most ardent champion of peace.
Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/ballstonbunker/message
Justice at War: Civil Liberties and Civil Rights During the Great War[1917-1919]
President Wilson turned America’s participation in World War I into a fervent ideological crusade for democracy
leading to the clash of individual rights and national security under the Espionage Act during WWI
Nativism and Anti-German Sentiment
Espionage and Sedition Acts 1917
6,000 arrests|2,000 prosecutions| 1,500 convictions
Eugene V. Debs [Socialist]
Charles T. Schenck [Socialist]
Special Guest: Andy Menzie in a conversation about Schenck
Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/ballstonbunker/message
A Call to Arms: Mobilizing America for World War IThe colossal mobilization effort required to build and equip a military that was all but nonexistent before the war leads to an unprecedented scale of mobilization to create, outfit, transport, and supply huge armies, navies, and air forces on so many distant and disparate fronts.
Selective Service Act [Planning for the war]
Mobilization|African Americans “Harlem Hell Fighters”|Women|Native Americans
Financing the War [Sale of Liberty Bonds]
George Creel [Committee on Public Information] and Herbert Hoover [Food Administration]
Bernard Baruch [War Industries]|Promote efficiency and eliminate waste
Module Notes Sheets
Time Period #7 Module B - American in World War I
America in World War I Show Notes
Video Clips used in Episode #3
The History of Us - The Great War
Obama awards Medal of Honor to black, Jewish WWI veterans
SEND A VOICE MESSAGE:anchor.fm/startapodcast/message
Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/ballstonbunker/message
U.S. Entry into World War I - Making the World Safe for Democracy [1917 to 1919Entering World War I in response to Germany’s unrestricted submarine warfare, Wilson turned America’s participation into a fervent ideological crusade for democracy that successfully stirred the public to a great voluntary war effort, but at some cost to traditional civil liberties.
United States position of Neutrality 1914 to 1917
Wilson 1916| “He Kept us out of the War”
German Unrestricted Submarine Warfare
The Sussex pledge (May 4, 1916
The Zimmerman Telegram
Module Notes Sheets
Time Period #7 Module B - American in World War I
US Entry into World War I Show Notes
SEND A VOICE MESSAGE:
anchor.fm/startapodcast/message
Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/ballstonbunker/message
Episode #1 March 16, 2020 (9 minutes)
Thunder Across the Sea: Europe and the Outbreak of World War I [1914]After years growing nationalism and competition in Europe – a jostling for power and position, rivalries playing out over the acquisition of colonies and overseas territories eventually plunge Europe into the savage conflict that would redraw the map of the continent—and the globe.
Context Clip: America and Europe in 1914 (8 minutes)
M.A.I.N Causes of World War I
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Gavrilo Princip and the Black Hand
Mobilization of Alliances
Module Notes Sheets
Time Period #7 Module B - American in World War I
Supplemental Links and Resources
NPR Podcast: A Century Ago In Sarajevo: A Plot, A Farce And A Fateful Shot (5 minutes)
NPR Podcast: Princip Pulled 'The Trigger,' But Never Meant To Start A War (5 minutes)
SEND A VOICE MESSAGE:
anchor.fm/startapodcast/message
Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/ballstonbunker/message