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Every date on the calendar marks a moment that changed everything.Welcome to The Daily History Chronicle, where host Richard Backus, publisher of University Teaching Edition, brings history to life through compelling 15-minute stories that connect the past to our present.Each…
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The Bailout Vote That Crashed Wall Street - September 29, 2008 (opens the original)
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On September 29, 2008, the House of Representatives rejected a $700 billion bank bailout, and the Dow Jones lost more value in a single day than it ever had before. Conservatives who feared government overreach and progressives who refused to rescue Wall Street cast the identical vote for opposite reasons, while the same government they'd just voted against was already propping up another failing bank on the very same day. This episode traces the ten days that led to that vote, the four days tha
Yorktown: Freedom Promised, Then Betrayed - September 28, 1781 (opens the original)
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The siege that ended the Revolutionary War is remembered as America's founding victory, but inside Cornwallis's lines at Yorktown were thousands of formerly enslaved people who had trusted a British promise of freedom with their lives. As food and medicine ran out, that promise collapsed, and the record shows the collapse was not an accident. This episode holds Cornwallis's tactical desperation, Washington's alliance-driven triumph, and a wartime betrayal that most retellings of Yorktown leave o
Black Sox Scandal: America's Pastime Exposed - September 27, 1920 (opens the original)
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On September 27, 1920, a washed-up prizefighter's confession forced open a year-long cover-up: eight Chicago White Sox players had conspired with gamblers to throw the 1919 World Series. This episode traces the underpaid players, the skimming gamblers, and the owner who buried his own investigation, then asks what changed now that the leagues sell the gambling instead of hiding it.
Stanislav Petrov and the 1983 Nuclear Scare - September 26, 1983 (opens the original)
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On September 26, 1983, a Soviet officer alone in a bunker outside Moscow had minutes to decide whether five blinking lights on a screen meant the end of the world. History remembers Stanislav Petrov as the man who saved it, but the fuller record includes a Soviet military embarrassed by its own machine, a hero quietly punished for paperwork, and a decision that still asks how much we should trust a system's confidence over our own judgment. This episode traces the night the Cold War nearly ended
The Battle of Loos: Britain First Gas Attack - September 25, 1915 (opens the original)
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On September 25, 1915, Britain used poison gas for the first time in the war it had condemned Germany for starting five months earlier at Ypres, only to watch the wind carry it back onto its own men at Loos. This episode follows the volunteers of Kitchener's New Army into that battle, including Rudyard Kipling's son John, and asks whether a moral line drawn against an enemy survives the moment it becomes inconvenient to keep.
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