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  • Blues and the Mississippi Flood of 1927 Part 5 Mounds Landing

    Blues and the Mississippi Flood of 1927 Part 5 Mounds Landing
    Jul 5 2025
    The Mississippi River could no longer be contained as even the vaunted federal levees started to fail.
    The nation as a whole though would not fully take notice of this unfolding disaster until the events at the Mounds Landing levee on the morning of the 21st of April 1927. As the destruction unleashed at this sight would prove to be impossible to ignore

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    29 m
  • The Labor Uprising of 1877 Part 4

    The Labor Uprising of 1877 Part 4
    Jun 28 2025
    As the strike spreads into the mid-west the cities of St. Louis and Chicago see massive demonstrations that look to shut down not just thie railroads but all their industries and businesses.


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    1 h y 38 m
  • The Labor Uprising of 1877 Part 3

    The Labor Uprising of 1877 Part 3
    Jun 14 2025
    As blood of workers ran through the streets of Baltimore and Pittsburgh. Blood that was shed by soldiers of the government at the behest of the railroad corporations the great strike of 1877 continued to spread to states like New York and Ohio.



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  • Blues and the Mississippi Flood of 1927 Part 4 Lonnie Johnson

    Blues and the Mississippi Flood of 1927 Part 4 Lonnie Johnson
    Jun 7 2025
    As the federal levees along the Mississippi are barely holding some are forced to labor and put their lives on the line to try and hold the rising waters back. A subject which legendary bluesman Lonnie Johnson covers in one of the 2 songs he penned about this disaster.


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    29 m
  • The Labor Uprising of 1877 Part 2

    The Labor Uprising of 1877 Part 2
    May 31 2025
    Events which started in the small railroad community of Martinsburg West Virginia soon begin to spread as railroad workers all around the country are insnpired by their actions. The response by the railroad corporations and their allies in the government however soon result in violence


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    1 h y 12 m
  • The Labor Uprising of 1877 Part 1

    The Labor Uprising of 1877 Part 1
    May 17 2025
    The year 1877 saw workers across the country rise up in defiance as a massive strike effort swept across the nation.

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    1 h y 32 m
  • Blues and the Mississippi Flood of 1927 Part 3 Backwater Rising

    Blues and the Mississippi Flood of 1927 Part 3 Backwater Rising
    May 10 2025
    Unusual weather starting in the summer of 1926 pours a huge amount of water in the Mississippi valley. This soon leads to flooding displacing people from their homes and leading the creation of blues songs illustrating these experiences.

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    32 m
  • Fossil Wars Part 4 The Feud Goes Public (Finale)

    Fossil Wars Part 4 The Feud Goes Public (Finale)
    May 3 2025
    After years of back and forth the feud between paleontologists Edward Drinker Cope and OC Marsh erupts onto the front page of one of the most widely read newspapers in the nation.

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    1 h y 27 m