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Whenever the story of Alexander Hamilton or Thomas Jefferson is told, Aaron Burr always takes the role of villain. However, is that accurate? Is it time for Aaron Burr to get an image upgrade? Please check out my YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/ThreeMinutesofHistory/videos More of my podcasts episodes can be found here: https://www.podpage.com/the-history-cafe/ Please check out the musically talented Marielle Mimes: https://www.youtube.com/c/MarielleMimes

I am excited to do this episode because I have a very special guest, my Chinese Language teacher, Su, Yi-Wen. She was born in Taiwan and is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin. She has been a Chinese language teacher for many years, teaching a variety of language learners, in a variety of settings. We will talk about the Chinese language in terms of its history and linguistic features as it relates to the English language. Here is her email address if you are interested in...

For this episode, we are going to the island nation of Japan. It is one of my favorite countries. I am fortunate to have lived there for several years, I still try to keep with the language as best I can, and I still keep in touch with many Japanese friends. So, I am well aware of the controversial nature of this topic. This episode will not take a side in the controversy. It will just give an historical presentation on Yasukuni Shrine (靖國神社) and attempt to answer the following question, why...

This episode will address the following question ~ why was a person like Sam Houston, who so important to the history of Texas, removed from the office of governor in 1861? Please check out my YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/ThreeMinutesofHistory/videos Please check out the link for the talented Marielle Mimes, she wrote and performed the theme song for my podcast: https://www.youtube.com/c/MarielleMimes/videos

This podcast episode will analyze the appeal of Malcolm X, through activities and speeches delivered to African Americans in northern American cities during the 1950s and 1960s. Does dismissing Malcolm X as the violent counterpart to the largely non-violent Civil Rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s overshadow his importance in advancing black self-esteem? Could it be that in the attraction to and the departure from the Nation of Islam, Malcolm X continued to affirm the cultural heritage...

The topic for this episode is Bacon’s Rebellion. It was the first popular revolt in England’s North American colonies. The questions that will frame our discussion is, what was the pivotal event that led the colony of Virginia to turn to enslaved Africans to solve its labor shortage? Was it the arrival of about 20 Africans in 1619? Or was it the aftermath of Bacon’s Rebellion of 1675? Or was it something else? And historians who have specialized in the study of slavery in America, will be...

On this episode we’ll talk about the importance of the 1950 Supreme Court case Sweatt v Painter. That case began in Austin, TX when in 1946, Heman Marion Sweatt, a black man, applied for admission to the University of Texas Law School. State law restricted access to that university to whites, and Sweatt's application was, therefore, rejected. Please check out my YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/ThreeMinutesofHistory/videos And please check out the YouTube channel of the talented...

The story of William Eaton and the Mission of 1805 represents the end of Federalist Party power and the rise of Thomas Jefferson’s Democratic Republican Party. It also is a story in which the first time a nation declared war on the United States; the first time the American military was sent to a foreign country to engage in combat operations; the first time an American flag was raised in military victory on foreign soil; and America's first overseas covert operation.

Throughout the Edo Period (江戸時代) to about five years after the Meiji Restoration (明治維新), that’s 1603 to 1873, Christianity was banned in Japan. It wasn’t just banned, but violently put down by the Tokugawa Shogunate (徳川幕府). This led to many Christians hiding their faith. In time, they earned the name “Hidden Christians” or Kakure Kirishitan (隠れキリシタン). For about two hundred years, this Japanese community continued to practice Christianity in secret. Please check out my YouTube channel...

On September 23, 1952, California senator Richard Milhous Nixon reserved time on national television to make an important speech. Many historians consider it to be the most important speech of his political career. He hoped to silence claims that he had accepted $18,000 in illegal political contributions to help cover personal expenses. The speech, which came to be known as the “Checker’s” speech, was the first ever nationally televised address. and convinced many in the American public...

On this episode, I will explore the controversy over Chiang Kai-shek (蔣中正) within US foreign policy as well as in Taiwan. He was born on October 31, 1887 and was the leader of the Republic of China, first in mainland China from 1928 until 1949 and then in Taiwan until his death on April 5, 1975. Please check out my YouTUbe Channel https://www.youtube.com/c/ThreeMinutesofHistory/videos

We are heading to the Williamson County Courthouse is to talk about a series of trials that took place there from September 1923 to February 1924. Members of the Ku Klux Klan were put on trial, found guilty, and given significant jail time. These trials resulted in the first successful prosecution by jury trial in the US of members of the 1920s Klan. Please check out my YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/c/ThreeMinutesofHistory/videos

In a general sense, the New Deal was a response to the calamity of the Great Depression. But over the course of a decade, it came to encompass a multifaceted domestic policy that transformed the role of the federal government, improved the lives of countless Americans, and marked the American landscape with an array of new public features, from swimming pools to hydroelectric dams. But was it a big deal? Please check out my YouTube channel...

The story for this podcast will be the Japanese holdouts (残留日本兵). They were soldiers of the Imperial Japanese Army and Imperial Japanese Navy who continued fighting even after the surrender of Japan in August 1945. Japanese holdouts either doubted the veracity of the formal surrender or were not aware that the war had ended because communications had been cut off by Allied advances. More than 120 stragglers were rounded up on various islands throughout the Pacific between 1947 and...

This is the last of a three-part series. In the first episode I gave the political, economic, and social contexts of the Atlantic World ~ that is, Europe, Africa, and the Americas ~ to show that the Atlantic World as a defined frame work provides a transnational context for historical study. In the second episode I looked at the British colony of Virginia in the context of the Atlantic World and came to some conclusions about who was responsible for the development of exploitative practices...

This is part two of a three-part series that will argue that local and regional factors facilitated policies of exploitation and that nothing was pre-determined in the Europeans assuming an exploitative balance of power. The last episode gave the political and economic contexts of Europe, Africa, and the Americas during the Age of Exploration. This episode will focus on the English Colony of Virginia. The next episode will focus on French Colonial Louisiana. Please check out my YouTube...

I am excited because this will be the first of a three-part series that examines on THE DEVELOPMENT OF EXPLOITATIVE PRACTICES IN THE ATLANTIC WORLD, by focusing on the English colony of Virginia in episode two and the French colony of Louisiana in episode three. This episode will provide the context for the Age of Exploration and the subsequent Columbian Exchange that significantly altered the political, economic, and social landscape of the Atlantic World. Western Europe was transformed...

The transcontinental railroad is considered to have been one of the greatest American technological accomplishments of the nineteenth century. It was completed on May 10, 1869 with the driving of the “golden spike” in Promontory Point, Utah and served as a vital link for trade, commerce, and travel by joining the eastern and western halves of the United States. The story of the transcontinental railroad from its earliest conception to its completion, spans three decades; from the 1840s to...

In an earlier podcast episode, I argued that in Taiwan’s history, the 17th century was the most important. It was significant because a failed attempt at European colonization was followed by a successful attempt by the Han Chinese. In a century when Taiwan could have developed along a similar history to the Philippines as a Spanish colony or Indonesia as a Dutch colony, Taiwan became Chinese. In this episode, I will return to the beautiful island nation. This time to discuss Taiwan in...

Do you remember the Iran hostage crisis, from 1979 to 1981? It was an event in which Iranian protestors seized 66 American citizens at the U.S. embassy in Tehran and held them hostage for 444 days. The crisis took place during the chaotic aftermath of the Iranian Revolution which resulted in the overthrow of the Pahlavi monarchy. The crisis, as will be discussed in this podcast episode, had dramatic effects on domestic politics in the United States, particularly the 1980 presidential...