Ten Minute History
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Ten Minute History
Quick and easy history review, interesting topics, and cool stories, as told by Mr. D, Prosser High School.
Recent Episodes
14 episodes
10 Minute History Episode 14: The Nephew and the Rocket Man
You think YOU have complicated family relationships? Wait until you meet William Patrick Stewart.
You think YOU have complicated politica...
10 Minute History Episode 13: The Vietnam War Part I
It was a slow grind of agony, almost from the start. Until recently America's longest war, millions of young men would be sent to fight to stop commun...
10 Minute History Episode 12: The Little Rock 9
It was a school year like no other - the first black students to attend Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. Nine brave young kids who endure...
10 Minute History Episode 11: Emmitt Till goes to Money, Mississippi
He was just a kid. He would unknowingly spark the modern civil rights movement. Just a high school student from Chicago, Emmitt Till was about to chan...
10 Minute History Episode 10: Operation Little Vittles
It's a military operation most people have never heard of - and its stunning success helped start a new friendship between two former adversaries, the...
10 Minute History Episode 9: World War II at home and abroad
Like no other event in American history, this war would change us and the world permanently. In the first of multiple installments, this episode start...
10 Minute History Episode 8: The Great Depression, New Deal And Prosser
The worst economic time in our lives. How did America survive it? How did it affect small towns like Prosser? Let's take a look ...
10 Minute History Episode 7: Prohibition Part II, Al Capone
Prohibition had failed miserably, and no one demonstrated that more effectively than Alfonse Capone, ruler of Chicago during the late 1920s and early...
10 Minute History Episode 6: The Dust Bowl
Timothy Egan called it "The Worst Hard Time" in his book by the same name. A man-made ecological disaster turned much of the Great Plains into epic du...
10 Minute History Episode 5: The Roaring 20s
This episode takes a look at the "Roaring 20s". While that reputation wasn't necessarily earned, it surely was a really interesting time. We will take...
10 Minute History Episode 4: Prohibition Part I
Everyone knows about Prohibition, America's 14 year experiment with banning all alcohol. What they don't know is the unlikely combination of factors t...
10 Minute History: Episode 3 - Three Amazing Women
Women's history is largely overlooked and outright ignored, that's just a fact. Which is too bad, since the women in our history were INSTRUMENTAL in...
10 Minute History Episode 2: The American Empire
America was a brand new baby empire in 1900. But WHY? What did Teddy Roosevelt do as President (and an imperialist) to establish and spread this empir...
10 Minute History Episode 1: Teddy Roosevelt the Progressive
Here we talk about Teddy Roosevelt the President and the Progressive, his efforts to protect Americans from poisoned meat and dangerous drugs, and to...