Civics & Coffee

The people, events and topics of United States history, shared in the time it takes to enjoy a cup of coffee. Come hang with me as I nerd out a little on America's history.

The Memphis Massacre

Radical Reconstruction

Pearl Harbor

Alien Soil with Dr. Katie Singer

Andrew Johnson's Presidential Reconstruction

Third Annual Friendsgiving

Union Leagues, Reconstruction, and the KKK: The Rise and Fall of Black Political Power

Robert Smalls (Listener Request)

Black Woman on Board with Dr. Donna Nicol

Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds

Murderess: Belle Gunness

Witch Hunt with Andrea Balis and Elizabeth Levy

Hiram Revels: The First Black Senator

The Freedmen's Bureau

Reconstruction: An Introduction

The Incorruptibles with Dan Slater

The Sultana Disaster

Surrender: Appomattox

Introducing: Civics & Cocktails

New Deal Law & Order with Dr. Anthony Gregory

Voice of Change: Barbara Jordan

The 1968 Democratic National Convention

"Justifying" Slavery with Kristin Kessinger

Slavery No More: The 13th Amendment

Transatlantic Commuter: A Conversation about James Baldwin with Ethan Healey

Abraham Lincoln with Jerry Landry

Abraham Lincoln: Part Two

From Beans to Brews: Coffee in America

Behind Everest with Kate Nicholson

The First: Mary Eliza Mahoney

The First Queen of Drag

Freeman's Challenge with Dr. Robin Bernstein

No Experience Required: Women In the Federal Workforce

Charlotte Forten Grimke

The Dakota 38 (Listener Request)

"Madam Elizabeth": Elizabeth Keckly

Lemuria with Justin McHenry

Civil War Home Fronts

Edwin Stanton

How to Start a War with Michael Trapani

420: Cannabis in the United States

Mary Todd Lincoln: Part Two

Mary Todd Lincoln: Part One

The Bishop and the Butterfly with Michael Wolraich

Indigenous Americans in the Civil War

Gettysburg

Public Assistance in California (Request)

Jefferson Davis

Civil War Medical Advancements

By Her Own Design with Piper Huguley

The History Conference

Clara Barton & The Red Cross

Democracy in Darkness with Dr. Katlyn Carter

The Massachusetts 54th

Spying In the Civil War

It Begins: Fort Sumter

Before the Movement with Dr. Dylan Penningroth

Dolly Parton

Chaos: The Election of 1860

Abraham Lincoln: Part One

Harpers Ferry

The Mountain Meadows Massacre

Bonus: 2nd Annual Friendsgiving

Dred Scott

James Buchanan

Passionate Mothers, Powerful Sons with Dr. Charlotte Gray

The Trailside Killer

Mary Ann Shadd Cary

Imperfect Spouse: Jane Pierce

Franklin Pierce

The Rough Rider & The Professor with Laurence Jurdem

The Fillmore Women

Millard Fillmore

James Baldwin - Part Two

James Baldwin: Part One

The Wounded World with Dr. Chad Williams

Violence in Congress

The Long Island Murders

Celebrity Nation with Landon Jones

Zachary Taylor

Anna Kingsley

Sarah Winchester's Mystery House

Sustaining the Carrier War with Dr. Stan Fisher

The New York Times

James McCune Smith

First in Her Class: Elizabeth Blackwell, MD

Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin

William Wells Brown

Supreme Court: The Confirmation Process

Making Airwaves at the Society for Military History

The Bloody Island Massacre

Speaking While Female with Dana Rubin

Ah Toy

The Fight for Speaker of the House (Listener Request)

Rise of the Mavericks with Philip C Shackelford

The Gold Rush

Seneca Falls

Gatekeeper: Sarah Childress Polk

Making Americans with Jessica Lander

Disneyland

Mourning the Presidents with Dr. Lindsay Chervinsky

The Mexican-American War

Surfing the South with Steve Estes

Dark Horse? James Polk

Alice Walker (Listener Request)

The Smithsonian

Explosive Love: The USS Princeton & Julia Gardiner Tyler

Letitia Tyler

Presidential Transitions with David Marchick

A Man Without A Party: John Tyler

A Charlie Brown Christmas (Miracle)

Double Shot: Ethan Healey & Mastering History

Anna Symmes Harrison

William Henry Harrison

Fort King with Kathleen Ramirez

Podcast Friendsgiving Spectacular (Bonus Episode)

The United States Post Office

California Tycoon: William Leidesdorff

Time for a Woman: Sandra Day O'Connor (Intelligent Speech)

John Carpenter's Halloween

American Horror Story: Edgar Allan Poe

This is the Zodiac Speaking: Part Two

This is the Zodiac Speaking (Part One)

Lost to History: The Van Buren Women

Martin Van Buren

Sisters in Arms: Women Anti Slavery Conventions

The Second Seminole War

Public Spaces: A Conversation with Holley Snaith

Harriet Tubman: Part Two

Harriet Tubman (Part One)

Debtors Prisons (Listener Request)

Nat Turner's Rebellion

The Liberty Line: The History of the Underground Railroad

The Grimke Sisters: A Conversation with Broadly Underestimated

The Case of Henrietta Wood (Listener Request)

Unspoken: Healthcare Before Roe

Unexpected Bravery: A Conversation with A.J. Schenkman

The Almost First Lady: Rachel Jackson

Andrew Jackson: A Discussion with Presidencies of the United States

The Indian Removal Act of 1830

The Original Outsider: Andrew Jackson

Missing: The Kidnapping of Black Americans

Woodstock

The Freedom's Journal

The Adams Men (with Abridged Presidential Histories)

The Chosen Son: John Quincy Adams

Resilient: Louisa Adams (Part Two)

Resilient: Louisa Adams (Part One)

Gendered Citizenship with Dr. Rebecca DeWolf

California Missions (Listener Request)

Women in Politics

The Gilded Age: A Conversation with Dr. Einav Rabinovitch-Fox

Women in Baseball

Her Cold War with Dr. Tanya Roth

Frederick Douglass: Part Two

Frederick Douglass: Part One

The Second Great Awakening

David Walker's Appeal

The Filibuster (Listener Request)

The Elusive Mrs. Monroe

The Monroe Presidency

Sojourner Truth: Part Two

Sojourner Truth: Part One

Christmas in America

The Alamo (Listener Request)

Immigration & The Steerage Act of 1819

The Seminole War

Watergate (with Hashtag History)

Presidentress: Dolley Madison

James Madison: The Presidency

The Battle of Horseshoe Bend

The Donner Party

The Great Quakes

Black Cemeteries (Listener Request)

The Uprising: The Slave Revolt of 1811

Banning the Trade, Not the Practice

The Presidency of Thomas Jefferson

The Library of Congress

Twenty Years Later: Memories of September 11th

Sally Hemings

Marbury v Madison

Sacagawea & New Discovery

Happy Podcast Anniversary

The Little Rock Nine - Part Two

The Little Rock Nine - Part One

Dirty Tricks: The Election of 1800

Two Songs One Couple / Civics & Coffee Crossover - Part TWO

Miss Independent: Abigail Adams

The Cabinet with Dr. Lindsay M Chervinksy

The White House

A Man Alone: John Adams

Two Parties Emerge

The Forgotten Hannah Adams

HH Holmes Part 2 - Listener Request

HH Holmes Part 1 - Listener Request

People v Levi Weeks - The First True Crime

Early American Medicine

The Whiskey Rebellion

History of Death: Capital Punishment in the United States (Listener Request)

The Precedent Setting President: George Washington

I Am Free: Ona Judge

Martha Washington: Protector In Chief

George Washington - The Early Years

The Notorious: Ruth Bader Ginsburg

The Northwest Indian War

Communist, Activist: Angela Davis

The Bill of Rights

Unapologetically SHE: Zora Neale Hurston

From Confederation to Constitution

A Catalyst for Change - Shirley Chisholm

Franklin, Benjamin Franklin

Hidden Computers - Women in Tech

Frida Kahlo

The Constitution - A Break Down

The Compromises of the Convention

The Madison Dash to the Constitution

A Man of Science: The Life of Benjamin Banneker

Apollo 11 - Part Two

Apollo 11 - Part One (Listener Request)

Articles of Confederation - Doomed From the Start

The Revolution & Slavery - All Men Created Equal?

2020: What a Decade this Year Has Been - BONUS Episode

The American Revolution - Impacts

Propaganda With a Legacy - The Declaration of Independence

The Culper Spy Ring, Part 2

The Culper Spy Ring, Part 1

World's Fair Part 3 - The Conclusion

Happy Thanksgiving (Bonus Episode)

World's Fair Part 2 - Chicago, St. Louis & San Francisco

The World's Fair - Part 1 (Listener Request)

The Rebel Rousers

BONUS EPISODE - Election Day - A Voting History

Happy Halloween!

From Boycott to Bloodshed

Mother of African American Literature - Phillis Wheatley

A History of Debates

She Boss - The Elizabeth Murray Story

First Comes War...

Witchcraft in Massachusetts - The Salem Witch Trials

The Bacon Rebellion

Women in Activism - Mary Dyer & the Boston Martyrs

John Punch & the Emergence of Slavery

Colonies, Colonies - But Not Plymouth

1492? Says Who?

Civics & Coffee - An Introduction