NowMerican History
Latest Episodes
Episode XIV: LBJ Makes Good, Mostly: History of the Oval Office and the Press: Part 14
NowMerican History is resonating, RIGHT NOW. Episode XIV sees LBJ get inaugurated, then elected. He passes massive Civil Rights reform and his landmark Great Society agenda, but begins to screw the pooch in Vietnam.
Episode XIII: Jack and Jackie's Legacy: History of the Oval Office and the Press, Part 13
NowMerican History is resonating RIGHT NOW. In Episode XIII, we cover the Kennedy's foreign visits, the Cuban Missile Crisis, James Meredith and Ole Miss, and the assassination by Lee Harvey Oswald.
Episode XII: Jack and Jackie Shoot for the Moon: History of the Oval Office and the Press
NowMerican History is resonating RIGHT NOW! In Episode XII, we discuss the earlier, easier half of the Kennedy administration, look into JFK's mastery of the White House/ Press relationship, orbit the Earth, and travel to Cuba's Bay of Pigs.
Episode XII: History of the Oval Office and the Press: Part 12
NowMerican History is resonating... RIGHT NOW! In Episode XII, we cover the early 1960's: JFK's mastery of the American news media, the Bay of Pigs Fiasco, and the Space Race strategy.
Episode XI: History of the Oval Office and the Press
NowMerican History is resonating RIGHT NOW. In Episode XI, we cover Rosa Parks, Emmett Till, the U2 Spy Plane incident, the Nixon-Kennedy Debate, and how television was changing the country.
Episode X: History of the Oval Office and the Press: Part 10
NowMerican History is resonating RIGHT NOW. In Episode X, Harry Truman goes off to Korea, The Cold War gets quite a bit chillier, the American press heats things up, Ike gets elected, Nixon gets a dog, Senator Joe McCarthy gets drunk on power, and...
Episode IX: History of the Oval Office and the Press: Part 9
NowMerican History is resonating RIGHT NOW! In Episode IX, Joe and Sean (with special guest Jessalynn) cover Eleanor Roosevelt, the death of FDR, Harry S. Truman, the start of the Cold War, and the birth of television.
Episode VIII: The History of the Oval Office and the Press: Part 8
NowMerican History is resonating RIGHT NOW in our current events. In Episode VIII, Joe and Sean discuss FDR, his Polio, his near-assassination, his New Deal, his Fireside Chats with America, and his missteps. We contrast FDR's first...
Episode VII: History of the Oval Office and the Press: Part 7
NowMerican History resonates RIGHT NOW! In Episode VII, we cover the explosion of radio, America's first secret President/ first female President, Woodrow Wilson's stroke, prohibition and women's suffrage, Warren Harding's insatiable sex drive...
Episode VI: History of the Oval Office and the Press: Part 6
NowMerican History is resonating RIGHT NOW in our current events. In Episode VI, Sean and Joe read more into Teddy Roosevelt, touched on Taft, and went to war with Woodrow Wilson. We peered in on the first Presidential Press Conference, and slammed...