In the Shadow of Yesterday

In the Shadow of Yesterday is for stories about the people and events that shaped our country, and the moments that still seem to echo.

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It’s Episode #9 of Behind the Dial, SPERDVAC VP Zach Eastman’s podcast of historic club interviews, this time a 1978 doozy with George Fenneman! Hear him dish on Groucho, Martin&Lewis Jack Webb and more! https://t.co/4FLJHkEHH4

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Seventy-two hours. Fourteen hundred men. One carrier that had no business being seaworthy. The Battle of Midway almost didn’t happen — here’s the part of the story nobody tells. #BattleOfMidway #WWII #WWIIHistory #USSYorktown #PacificWar #USHistory

https://t.co/5agTjWFg63

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One Detroit radio station created the Lone Ranger, the Green Hornet, and Sergeant Preston. Here’s the story of the men who built them — and what it cost them. #LoneRanger #GoldenAgeOfRadio #OTR #OldTimeRadio #RadioHistory #AmericanHistory #GreenHornet

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SPERDVAC, REPS, and ACB3 have combined to launch a new and improved version of YUSA Red called the Classic Radio Network - now with more content, higher quality files and more. Check it out! https://t.co/9F7rBSDLVG

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By government order, Waterloo, New York is the official birthplace of Memorial Day. The real story involves three communities, three different meanings, and a century of forgetting. #MemorialDay #DecorationDay #AmericanHistory #CivilWarHistory #USHistory

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In Louisville, the most widely read editor in the region told his readers that their Catholic neighbors were enemies of the republic. On August 6, 1855, they listened. #LouisvilleHistory #KnowNothings #AmericanHistory #KentuckyHistory #ElectionHistory

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Tuberculosis marked Doc Holliday’s life and choices. A brilliant man adrift in the frontier, he gambled and drank, defied expectation, and embraced a fate that made legend from tragedy. #USHistory #DocHolliday #AmericanWest #WildWestHistory #OldWest

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Andrew Carnegie spent his final years building a legacy of peace, but Henry Clay Frick never stopped building a monument to his own anger. This is the cost of a lifelong grudge. #GildedAge #AndrewCarnegie #AmericanHistory #IndustrialRevolution

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Explore Henry J. Kaiser’s WWII innovations, from record-breaking Liberty ships, to the birth of Kaiser Permanente, the modern west, and America’s first mass-scale industrial childcare centers. #USHistory #WWIIHistory #KaiserPermanente #RosieTheRiveter

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In 1898, Roosevelt’s Rough Riders, Pershing’s Buffalo Soldiers, and former Confederate General Joseph Wheeler climbed San Juan Hill together—reshaping American history in a battle larger and more complex than legend remembers. #USHistory #RoughRiders

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History remembers the tanks and planes that won the war, but it forgot the people broken by the machines. Explore the hidden and often fatal sacrifice of America’s industrial home front. #USHistory #WWIIHistory #ArsenalOfDemocracy #IndustrialHistory

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Deaths, men wounded, a failed assassination, and the total collapse of the most powerful union in America. Explore how the 1892 Homestead Strike solidified corporate power for forty years. #HomesteadStrike #AmericanHistory #GildedAge #AndrewCarnegie

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Accused of profiting from war, one of America’s largest companies was on the brink of ruin. Its radical solution? A brilliant and audacious radio show that would redefine public relations forever. #OTR #DuPont #OldTimeRadio #RadioHistory

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She was a Maine girl who chased stardom but found infamy. Discover how Mildred Gillars became Axis Sally, the seductive voice of Nazi radio, and her long road to American justice. #USHistory #AxisSally #MildredGillars #WWIIHistory

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The men who tarred and feathered British tax collectors were patriots. When they did the same to Hamilton’s excisemen, it was treason. Same poles. Different government. #WhiskeyRebellion #AmericanHistory #GeorgeWashington #USHistory #FoundingFathers

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John Dillinger had no criminal record and cooperated. He got a max sentence. His partner, with a prior record, did months. The system made him, then spent a year trying to kill him. #JohnDillinger #AmericanHistory #TrueCrime #Prohibition #GreatDepression

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Andrew Carnegie rose from poverty to build a steel empire that reshaped America. Then he declared that dying rich was a disgrace — and set out to give it all away. #AndrewCarnegie #GospelOfWealth #IndustrialRevolution #AmericanHistory

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Henry Knox had no military training, just years of reading every military text he could find. In the winter of 1775, George Washington handed him the impossible job anyway. #AmericanRevolution #USA250 #HenryKnox #AmericanHistory #BostonHistory

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Hollywood was built on illusions, but kept upright by shadowy figures. Meet Sidney Korshak: the Chicago-born lawyer who orchestrated an invisible, mob-backed peace that saved the studio system from total collapse. #USHistory #OldHollywood #TrueCrime

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The Hatfield-McCoy feud became a national myth. The real story is how violence, media distortion, and outside interests reshaped Appalachia’s reputation, leaving consequences that lasted far beyond the valley. #HatfieldMcCoy #Appalachia #AmericanHistory

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