American History Tellers

If you'd like to learn more about Tombstone, we recommend The Last Gunfight by Jeff Gwynn.

And The Ride the Devil's Heard by John Bozenegger.

He's the author of Escape, the story of the Confederacy's infamous Libby Prison and the Civil War's largest jailbreak.

You add all those ingredients for each of these three books that I wrote, including the book Escape on the Libby Prison Breakout.

That ended up being, I guess, an inadvertent positive thing for me because Cavada speaks multiple languages. He's very smart. He's a great observer and he survives this hellacious imprisonment at Libby and he writes about it. So his journal was a treasure trove for me.

That was my conversation with Robert P. Watson, distinguished professor of history and author of Escape, the story of the Confederacy's infamous Libby Prison and the Civil War's largest jailbreak.

If you'd like to learn more about this story, we recommend Leavenworth Train, A Fugitive Search for Justice in the Vanishing West by Joe Jackson.

If you'd like to learn more about this story, we recommend Escape from Alcatraz by Jay Campbell Bruce.

If you'd like to learn more about the gold rush, we recommend The Age of Gold by H.W. Brands and The Rush by Edward Dalnik.

Here with me now to discuss the significance of the Scopes trial a hundred years later is Brenda Wineapple, author of the best-selling book, Keeping the Faith, God, Democracy, and the Trial that Riveted a Nation.

That was my conversation with Brenda Wineapple, author of the best-selling book Keeping the Faith, God, Democracy, and the Trial that Riveted a Nation, available wherever you get your books.

In the next episode, I'll speak about the significance of the Scopes trial 100 years later with Brenda Wineapple, author of the best-selling book, Keeping the Faith, God, Democracy, and the Trial that Riveted a Nation.

He began by introducing the textbook Hunter's Civic Biology and reading out passages that explained how humans evolved from earlier life forms through natural selection.

Hand me the textbook, Fred. Robinson passes you a copy of the high school biology textbook he sells in the store.

But it turned out that he had taught evolution while filling in as a substitute for the regular biology instructor when he was sick. And Scopes confirmed that he had used the state-approved textbook, Hunter's Civic Biology, which discussed evolution as a scientific fact.

Here with me now to discuss Theodore Roosevelt's power of personality and the ways in which the women in his life influence his progressivism is Ed O'Keefe, chief executive officer of the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library Foundation and author of The Loves of Theodore Roosevelt, The Women Who Created A President.

The Loves of Theodore Roosevelt, The Women Who Created A President, is available now from Simon & Schuster.

By 1904, Steffens had enough material to collect his articles into a book, The Shame of Cities.

The spirit of graft and of lawlessness is the American spirit.

Later in 1904, Tarble's series was compiled into a book titled The History of the Standard Oil Company.

She concluded the series with a detailed character study of Rockefeller calling him money-mad, a hypocrite, and a living mummy.

Tarble's book, The History of the Standard Oil Company, became a landmark piece of investigative journalism, fueling public distrust of Standard Oil and building support for government regulation of big business.

Inspired by the hit Wondery podcast Against the Odds comes the gripping guidebook How to Survive Against the Odds. Tales and tips for animal attacks and natural disasters. This might just be the most important book you'll ever read.

So three of the characters from Robert Louis Stevenson's novel Treasure Island were based on the Welsh pirates.

In 1890, Danish immigrant Jacob Rees published his groundbreaking book How the Other Half Lives, a damning account of New York City's disease-ridden slums.

Roosevelt had read and admired Reese's pioneering study of living conditions in New York's tenements titled How the Other Half Lives.

Here with me now to discuss this crisis and what it cost the Carter administration is journalist Mark Bowden, author of Guests of the Ayatollah, the Iran Hostage Crisis, the First Battle in America's War with Militant Islam.

That was my conversation with Mark Bowden, author of Guests of the Ayatollah, The Iran Hostage Crisis, The First Battle in America's War with Militant Islam.

On the next episode, I speak with journalist Mark Bowden, author of Guests of the Ayatollah, the Iran Hostage Crisis, the First Battle in America's War with Militant Islam.