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Gunmaking & the Roots of Mass Production

12/14/2025 • 76 min

Northwestern professor Ken Alder presented an image of an 1851 Colt Navy Revolver and asked why the gun was one of the first mass produced technologies in the United States. Professor Alder chronicled the origins of American mass production through gunmaking. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Play episode

How FDR Built a 12-Million-Strong Military: Robert Brigham on America’s WW…
FEEDDROP: Chef José Andrés on Food, Humanity, and Global Relief Efforts
Geri Spieler on Housewife Assassin: The True Story Behind a Suburban Doubl…
The 1967 Six-Day War and America’s Role in the Arab-Israeli Peace Process
FEED DROP: ABC David Grann on Killers of the Flower Moon and America’s Hid…
The Mexican-American War: Causes, Consequences, and Legacy
How Constitutional Order Emerged From Crisis
Gettysburg College’s Timothy Shannon on the Mystery of Roanoke
The 1876 Great Sioux War and the Battle of the Little Bighorn
World War II History: Vichy France Collaboration and the U.S.-UK Alliance
Kentucky and Slavery: From Statehood to the Civil War
Black Education in Colonial America: The Story of the Williamsburg Bray Sc…
Lectures in History: 1992 Republican National Convention
FEED DROP: BN+ Richard J. Evans, "Hitler's People"
James Broussard, Colonial America Before the Revolution
Eric Hinderaker, Western Lands Before and After the American Revolution
Professor Joyce Lee Malcolm, Benedict Arnold
Garrett Graff, "The Devil Reached Toward the Sky"
George Washington's Character
Colonial Tensions Pre-Revolution
1607 Jamestown Settlement
Army Explorers of the West
Weapons Technology in the Revolutionary War
Gilded Age Bohemians
World War II Interracial Relationships in Japan & Hawaii
America's National Pastime
Christian Nightlife in the 1970s
Islam & Judaism in American History
Schools of Thought on the Vietnam War
Ronald Reagan & the 1980s Conservative Resurgence
Native Americans & the American Revolution
FEED DROP: BN+ Alexandra Richie, "Warsaw 1944"
Winston Churchill, the Special Relationship and the Cold War
Cold War Refugees & the 1980 Refugee Act
World War II Interracial Relationships in Japan & Hawaii
"The Education of Henry Adams" (1918)
19th Century American Landscape Painting
Development of the Atomic Bomb
FEED DROP: Q&A: Heath Hardage Lee, "The Mysterious Mrs. Nixon"
America & the Northern Ireland Peace Process
Prison Gangs
Henry Christophe & the 1791 Haitian Revolution
The U.S. Border Patrol
World War I Propaganda
1607 Jamestown Settlement
History of Latinos in the South
World War I Propaganda
American Civil Religion During the Cold War
John Kennedy's 1961 Inaugural Address

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