Sponsored | American Epidemics – The Great Pandemic | 1
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American History Tellers
J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI – Black Bag Job | 5
Between 1956 and 1971, the FBI carried out more than 2,000 top secret spying operations aimed at American citizens. Their target? The so-called Fifth Column, a network of undercover Soviet...
J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI – Controlling the Message | 4
The rise of fascism and World War II shifted the FBI’s focus in the 1940s from fighting midwestern outlaws to catching Communists. To Hoover and the FBI, nearly anyone on...
J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI – The Bobby Sox Bandit Queen | 3
During the mid-1930s, the FBI’s public relations department had effectively changed the image of its agents from accountants into action heroes; and its director, from a bureaucrat into an American...
J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI – Giant Among G-Men | 2
J. Edgar Hoover became director of the FBI when he was just 29 years old. His orders? Clean up the Bureau. At first, he proved to be a brilliant and...
J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI – The Department of Easy Virtues | 1
By the turn of the century, radical anarchists were becoming a growing -- and volatile -- political movement. As shifting workplace conditions exploited and endangered American workers, anarchists increasingly turned...
America’s Anthem | 7
“Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the lord.” That’s the opening line of “The Battle Hymn of the Republic” written by Julie Ward Howe in 1861....
The Great Depression: Justice and Infamy | 6
As legal challenges to his New Deal programs mounted, President Roosevelt and his attorney general devised dramatic reforms to the Supreme Court’s structure. The proposed changes would open new rifts...
The Great Depression – Progress and Pushback | 5
After two of President Roosevelt’s closest advisors competed to create a new federal jobs program, the White House launched one of Roosevelt's keystone initiatives: the Works Progress Administration. Under this...
The Great Depression – Dust | 4
The Great Depression wasn’t the only crisis facing the country when Franklin Roosevelt took office in 1933. Following a decade-long drought that had shriveled crops, massive dust storms were pummeling...