Get it on Google Play

MIDTERMS: VOTES DURING WARTIME: 1942 MIDTERMS

MIDTERMS: VOTES DURING WARTIME: 1942 MIDTERMS

Author: Bruce Carlson May 11, 2026 Duration: 29:52
My History Can Beat Up Your Politics
HistoryNewsPolitics
The island-hopping and Second-front hoping after Pearl Harbor did not bring FDR a reverse of the traditional midterm curse or a victory for his party. The GOP and anti FDR Democratic winners of this midterm would ensure there would be scrutiny of the war effort and that New Deal programs domestically would be ended. They would lay the seeds for Truman's difficult Presidency and the eventual GOP recapture of Congress and the White House. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Podcast Episodes
GUNS: THE WORD "INFRINGE": History of a Word and The Gun Debate [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 51:28
What's in a word? Lots, maybe, when its a key word in the most contentious debate in America. The word "infringe" determines the threshold of how the Constitution should be enforced. But do we understand the word, and if…
DEMOCRACY AND FASCISM: THOMAS WOLFE TURNS AGAINST TOTALITARIANISM [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 41:53
The writer Thomas Wolfe, known for his large novels and spewing prose, was a fan of Germany. On a trip there for the 1936 Berlin Olympics, he found joy, and worry. Initially he admired the changes, but would soon change…
WAS WATERGATE A BIG DEAL?: Part III: Grand Jury Anger [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 33:49
Average Americans, in the form of a DC jury, get the evidence. They hear the tapes, and they are shocked. But what will shock them more is what happens when Nixon testifies. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaph…
ARTICLE ONE GUY: Listener Talk with Page Brousseau [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 45:13
Congress should be doing a lot more, and they would in Listener Page Brousseau's world. He and Bruce talk about Michigan, Article I, tariffs, and partisanship. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoic…

«12345»