This weeks podcast has a format! Thanks Todd! Hear about Hernan Cortez the Conqueror of Mexico and the Aztecs. Learning
what’s coming on the next podcast and some great book recommendations!
Links:
Lies My Teacher Told Me : Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong
The Brassey’s Book of Naval Blunders (Blunders Series)
Today’s show is special, because we have our first request. Michelle from Irvine would like to know more about Stonewall Jackson.
Books on the Subject:
Stonewall Jackson: The Man, the Soldier, the Legend
Beloved Bride: The Letters of Stonewall Jackson to His Wife
Stonewall: A Biography of General Thomas J. Jackson
All Things for Good: The Steadfast Fidelity of Stonewall Jackson (Leaders in Action Series)
Stonewall Jackson’s Book of Maxims
Lost Victories: The Military Genius of Stonewall Jackson
Lees Lieutenants Volume 1 (Vol 1. Repr ed) (1st of a 3 Vol Set)
As many of you, I know the term filibuster to mean a long speech that a senator makes when trying to stall for time. Also, like many of you I associate this term with the movie “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington”. However, there is another meaning of this term: “An adventurer who engages in unauthorized warfare against a country with which his own country is at peace.”
Works Cited:
American History Illustrated, El presidente gringo, Feb 1989, Vol. 24 Issue 10, p.14
Links:
History Detectives: Preston Brook’s Riding Crop
http://www.pbs.org/opb/historydetectives/case/206_index.html
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Books on the Subject:
Lopez’s expeditions to Cuba, 1850 and 1851, (Filson club publications)
The Free Flag of Cuba: The Lost Novel of Lucy Holcombe Pickens (Library of Southern Civilization)
Fatal Glory: Narciso Lopez and the First Clandestine U. S. War Against Cuba
Cuban Confederate Colonel: The Life of Ambrosio Jose Gonzales
An American U-2 spy plane is shot down over Russia it’s pilot captured and later traded for a Russian Spy.
American Heritage Magazine, Sept. 2000, Vol. 51 Issue 5 p.36, The Day we Shot Down the U-2 by Sergei Krushchev
Links:
Many Pictures Pertaining to the U-2 and Gary Powers
Books on the Subject:
Memoirs of Nikita Khrushchev: Commissar (1918-1945)
Operation Overflight: A Memoir of the U-2 Incident
Secret Empire: Eisenhower, the CIA, and the Hidden Story of America’s Space Espionage
This is an actual event that occurred on March 11, 1958. This is the era of the Cold War. At precisely 4:19 PM a B-47E medium bomber serial number 53-1876A accidentally released their atomic bomb over the Gregg family property in Mars Bluff, South Carolina.
Links:
Broken Arrow
Google Map of Hunter Army Airfield
Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (Special Edition)
American Heritage – Flexible Ed
Tybee Bomb.com Picture of Crater
The State, South Carolina News Article on Clyde Gregg
Link to Other Nuclear Accidents
Books on the Subject:
American Prometheus : The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
I am pleased to announce our first promo performed by Ron and Stephanie from Griddlecakes Radio. Thanks guys, it sounds great!
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