Yesterday's News: Balboa Park (Special Episode)

Yesterday's News: Balboa Park (Special Episode)

Place:  San Diego's Balboa Park We interrupt our regularly scheduled A Place in Time programming to bring you a special event / bonus episode. We call it Yesterday's News - a time traveling podcast created by young history students! Under the guidance of their teacher Dr. Julie Watts (and with a little help from the folks at Historic America), the 8th grade history students of The Rhoades School in San Diego, CA have built something truly unique: a time traveling news podcast bringing you yesterday's news today! Our first episode focuses on the story of San Diego's world famous Balboa Park.  * Visit The Rhoades School [https://www.rhoadesschool.com/] online.  * Learn more about Balboa Park [https://www.balboapark.org] Don’t forget to visit us at www.historicamerica.org/podcast [https://www.historicamerica.org/podcast] for show notes, suggested reading & more!

9. Lincoln's Refuge (Part II)

Place:  Abraham Lincoln's Cottage at the Soldier's Home Time:  1864 Part 2 of a 2 part series focusing on Abraham Lincoln's Cottage - the president's sanctuary during the most turbulent days of the American Civil War. In this episode, Abraham Lincoln stargazes, recites Shakespeare to Edwin Stanton and befriends the soldiers who guard him before he & his family must evacuate their hideaway in the face of an advancing rebel army. Finally, an anonymous assassin takes aim at  the President during a moonlit horseback ride. * Visit President Lincoln's Cottage [https://www.lincolncottage.org/] - a fabulous museum & historic site that still exists today! Where should our next place in time be? Revolutionary era Philadelphia OR Revolutionary era New York City? VOTE by visiting www.historicamerica.org/podcast [https://www.historicamerica.org/podcast]. There you can also read show notes, browse our suggested reading(s) & more!

8. Lincoln’s Refuge - Expert Interview

In today's expert interview episode, we first go in-depth with special guest Erin Carlson Mast (the former President & CEO of President Lincoln’s Cottage) for an engrossing discussion about the tragic death of Willie Lincoln. Then we welcome aboard Bo Hammond (from the Bromances of History Podcast) for a fun & fascinating look at the pivotal relationship between Lincoln and Secretary of War Edwin Stanton. To learn more about President Lincoln’s Cottage please visit ... * LincolnCottage.org [https://www.lincolncottage.org]  * Q&Abe Podcast [https://www.lincolncottage.org/learn/podcast/]  * Reflections on Grief & Childloss [https://www.lincolncottage.org/exhibit/exhibit-on-grief/]  To learn more about Bo Hammond & Bromances of History please visit… * BromancesofHistory.com [https://www.bromancesofhistory.com/]  * ToursforHumanity.com [http://toursforhumanity.com] Don’t forget to visit us at www.historicamerica.org/podcast [//www.historicamerica.org/podcast] for show notes, suggested reading(s) & more!

7. Lincoln's Refuge (Part I)

Place:  Abraham Lincoln's Cottage at the Soldier's Home  Time:  1862 Part 1 of a 2 part series focusing on Abraham Lincoln's Cottage - the president's sanctuary during the most turbulent days of the American Civil War.  In this episode, Abraham Lincoln and his wife Mary Todd struggle with the loss of their son and seek solace in a suspicious seance. Afterwards, the nation's 16th president will commute into the city (alongside the God of War) and grapple with the thorny issue of Emancipation.  * Visit President Lincoln's Cottage [https://www.lincolncottage.org/] - a fabulous museum & historic site that still exists today!   A SPECIAL THANKS TO OUR NEW PATREON SUBSCRIBERS - Max Kinman (and the Kinman family), Mario Russo (and the Russo family), Michael Alderfer (and the Alderfer family), Anna & Aaron Eckert Don’t forget to visit us at www.historicamerica.org/podcast [//www.historicamerica.org/podcast] for show notes, suggested reading(s) & more!

6. The Dead of Antietam (Part II)

Place:  The Antietam Battlefield Time:  1862 Part 2 of a 2 part series on the intertwined lives of Mathew Brady & Alexander Gardner. This is the story of how America's most famous photographers collaborated to create the Civil War's most enduring images - an exhibit known as "The Dead of Antietam".  In this episode, Mathew Brady & Alexander Gardner meet with the Union army's new commander, Gardner ventures to the Antietam battlefield (twice) to capture the war's most searing imagery, and Mathew Brady unveils a disturbing new exhibition at his 'palace of light'.  Don’t forget to visit us at www.historicamerica.org/podcast [//www.historicamerica.org/podcast] for show notes, suggested reading(s) & more!