In 1868 President Andrew Johnson appoints General Thomas to replace Edwin Stanton as Secretary of War, against the wishes of Congress. This leads to his impeachment trial. Kansas Senator Edmund G. Ross will cast the deciding vote.
Aired: Nov 8, 1964A finely study of a relatively obscure figure, Oscar W. Underwood, and a prob...
Aired: Nov 15, 1964Mary S. McDowell is a Brooklyn school teacher at the outbreak of WWI. As a Qu...
Aired: Nov 29, 1964In 1850 Senator Thomas Hart Benton of Missouri hopes for California statehood...
Aired: Dec 6, 1964In 1894, Richard T. Ely is a professor at the University of Wisconsin. When t...
Aired: Dec 13, 1964Gov. Sam Houston's losing battle to keep Texas in the Union during the secess...
Aired: Dec 20, 1964The story of Gov. John Slaton of Georgia, who in the early 1900s pardoned Leo...
Aired: Dec 27, 1964As a young lawyer and politician, John Adams takes on the unpopular task of d...
Aired: Jan 3, 1965In 1946 many Nazis are sentenced to death at the Nuremberg trials. Senator Ro...
Aired: Jan 10, 1965In early Boston, midwife Anne Hutchinson is put on trial for preaching her un...
10. General Alexander William Doniphan
Aired: Jan 17, 1965In 1838 tensions are rising between the Mormons and the other settlers of Mis...
Aired: Jan 24, 1965Illinois Governor, John Peter Altgeld, reviews the cases of the men convicted...
Aired: Jan 31, 1965The story of Frederick Douglass, an escaped slave who fled to the North in th...
Aired: Feb 7, 1965In 1850 Daniel Webster is a US Senator from Massachusetts and an outspoken ab...
Aired: Feb 14, 1965In 1916 Woodrow Wilson nominates Judge Louis D. Brandeis to the US Supreme Co...
Aired: Feb 21, 1965In 1833, Prudence Crandall runs a girls boarding school in Canterbury CT. Tro...
Aired: Feb 28, 1965In 1860 Andrew Johnson is a US Senator from Tennessee. He desperately tries t...
Aired: Mar 7, 1965In 1869 Cuba is struggling for its independence from Spain. Secretary of Stat...
Aired: Mar 14, 1965In 1920 the New York Legislature threatens to expel 5 members who are in the ...
Aired: Mar 21, 1965In 1868 President Andrew Johnson appoints General Thomas to replace Edwin Sta...
Aired: Mar 28, 1965In 1917 a lame duck US House of Representatives passes the Armed Ships Bill. ...
Aired: Apr 4, 1965In 1887 President Grover Cleveland goes up against the GAR when he threatens ...
Aired: Apr 11, 1965In 1807 British warships are raiding US vessels and conscripting US sailors. ...
Aired: Apr 18, 1965In 1807 Aaron Burr is on trial for treason. President Jefferson and the major...
24. Judge Benjamin Barr Lindsey
Aired: Apr 25, 1965The true story of Judge Ben B. Lindsey, a judge in Denver, Colorado, who led ...
Aired: May 2, 1965In 1787 George Mason refused to sign the US Constitution because it did not c...
Aired: May 9, 1965The story of U.S. Senator Thomas Corwin, a rising star in the Whig party in t...
