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Before It Became History | The First Transcontinental Telegram…
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This is the official podcast of the Sandra Day O'Connor Institute. Our mission is to continue the distinguished legacy and lifetime work of Justice Sandra Day O'Connor to advance American democracy through multigenerational civics education, civil discourse and civic engagement.
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- Before It Became History | The First Transcontinental Telegram: Wiring a Continent in Wartime · 14 dk · Sezon 2 Bölüm 35On October 24, 1861, crews joined telegraph wires at Salt Lake City, linking the coasts. California’s first message pledged its loyalty to Lincoln, and two days later the Pony…
- Before It Became History | The Erie Canal: The Ditch That Built a National Economy · 18 dk · Sezon 2 Bölüm 34Critics mocked it as Clinton’s Ditch. In 1825, the 363-mile Erie Canal linked Lake Erie to the Hudson River, cut shipping costs by about 90 percent, made New York City a…
- Before It Became History | The Haudenosaunee Confederacy: The Great Law of Peace and a Treaty That Endures · 22 dk · Sezon 2 Bölüm 33Long before the Constitution, five nations united under the Great Law of Peace. We explore how the Haudenosaunee Confederacy governs through clans and council, survived the…
- Before It Became History | Tecumseh and Tenskwatawa: Two Brothers, One Movement, Many Nations · 16 dk · Sezon 2 Bölüm 32In 1805 a Shawnee man had visions and became Tenskwatawa, the Prophet. With his brother Tecumseh, he built Prophetstown and a movement uniting many nations to resist land…
- Before It Became History | Black Hawk: The Treaty He Never Accepted and the War of 1832 · 18 dk · Sezon 2 Bölüm 31In 1804, five men signed a treaty the U.S. said ceded Saukenuk, the Sauk village Black Hawk called home. He never accepted that. We follow his return to Illinois in 1832, the war…
- Before It Became History | The Trail of Tears: Cherokee Removal and the Long Road to Rebuilding · 13 dk · Sezon 2 Bölüm 30The Trail of Tears was never one road. In 1838 and 1839, seventeen detachments of Cherokee people were forced west by land and river. We trace the roundup, the camps, the routes…
- Before It Became History | Chief John Ross: A Nation’s Fight to Keep Its Word and Its Land · 16 dk · Sezon 2 Bölüm 29John Ross led the Cherokee Nation for nearly four decades through petitions, Supreme Court cases, a treaty his council rejected, and forced removal. We explore how Ross and his…
- Before It Became History | Harriette J. Cooke: Equal Rank, Equal Pay, and the Question of "First" · 13 dk · Sezon 2 Bölüm 28In 1871, an Iowa college made Harriette J. Cooke a full professor and reportedly paid her the same as the men. Was it the nation's first? We weigh the evidence, then trace her…
- Before It Became History | Sequoyah: The Syllabary That Gave a Nation Its Written Voice · 11 dk · Sezon 2 Bölüm 27Sequoyah never learned to read English, yet he gave the Cherokee language a written form. We trace his 85-character syllabary from his daughter's demonstration to the Cherokee…
- Before It Became History | The Homestead Act of 1862: 160 Acres, Five Years, and a Contested West · 15 dk · Sezon 2 Bölüm 24In 1862, Lincoln signed a law offering 160 acres to settlers who could live on it, farm it, and prove it up. We explore who could claim a homestead, what it actually took to keep…
- Before It Became History | The Kansas-Nebraska Act: How Organizing the West Divided the Nation · 14 dk · Sezon 2 Bölüm 26Stephen Douglas wanted a railroad west. To get it, he let Kansas and Nebraska settlers vote on slavery, and the country cracked open: ballot fraud, a sacked town, a caned…
- Before It Became History | Laura Ingalls Wilder: Memory Meets the Federal Record · 12 dk · Sezon 2 Bölüm 25Behind the Little House novels lies a federal paper trail: land claims, sworn testimony, survey lines, railroad jobs, and treaties. We follow the Ingalls family from Osage land…
- Before It Became History | Andrew Jackson: Frontier Orphan to President · 16 dk · Sezon 2 Bölüm 22Orphaned by war, forged on the battlefield, and elected on a cry against elite corruption — Andrew Jackson reshaped the presidency itself. War hero, populist icon, slaveholder…
- Before It Became History | The Indian Removal Act: From Treaty Table to Trail of Tears · 17 dk · Sezon 2 Bölüm 23A brief 1830 law authorized land "exchanges" with Native nations — nothing in its text ordered a forced march. What followed was a decade of treaties, fraud, and coercion, and…
- Before It Became History | From Republic to State: Texas's Long Road to Annexation · 13 dk · Sezon 2 Bölüm 20For nine years, Texas stood as its own republic — courted by Britain, rejected by one U.S. Senate vote, then finally admitted by a different route entirely. Mexico called it an…
- Before It Became History | The Mexican-American War Begins: Lincoln, Polk, and a War's Uncertain Origins · 9 dk · Sezon 2 Bölüm 19A skirmish on disputed land. A president's claim that blood had been spilled on American soil. In 1846, that argument pushed the U.S. and Mexico into war within weeks — one…
- Before It Became History | The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo: How One Signature Redrew a Nation · 6 dk · Sezon 2 Bölüm 18In 1848, a single treaty ended a war, handed the U.S. half of Mexico's land, and promised citizenship rights that weren't kept. Join us as we unpack the Treaty of Guadalupe…
- Before It Became History | Mexican Independence and the Colonization of Texas · 18 dk · Sezon 2 Bölüm 21Eleven years of war, a negotiated treaty, and an army's peaceful march into Mexico City in 1821 secured Mexican independence. What came next — colonization laws meant to secure…
- Before It Became History | Tamsen Donner: A Voice Before the Disaster · 11 dk · Sezon 2 Bölüm 17Tamsen Donner wrote home from the trail in 1846, months before catastrophe struck her party in the Sierra snow. Her letters, and Patrick Breen's diary from the winter camp, offer…
- Before It Became History | The Untested Shortcut: Lansford Hastings and the Donner Party · 13 dk · Sezon 2 Bölüm 16In 1845, Lansford Hastings published a guidebook promoting a California shortcut he'd never traveled. In 1846, he urged wagon families onto it anyway. The Donner-Reed Party…
