History, researched deeply.
Free for every classroom.
43 documentary podcast series built from sourced, human-reviewed research dossiers — constitutional standoffs, the Panama Canal, the 1953 Iran coup, missionaries in the Americas, the Civilian Conservation Corps, public-lands extraction, the Public Health Service, eugenics and the politics of intelligence, and more. Narrated by AI voices; researched, reviewed, and edited by a human who was sometimes there.
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Ordinary people and local officials manufacturing their own jurisdiction and declaring it supreme over the federal government. © 2026 Selway Solutions LLC · <a href="https://history.selwaysolutions.io/index.html#license">Educational & Institutional Use License</a> · <a href="mailto:nick@selwaysolutions.io">Contact</a>.
7 EPISODES
Panama: Crossroads of the World
The complete history of the Isthmus of Panama in 18 episodes.
18 EPISODES
Iran & America: A Century and Counting
From the oil concessions of 1901 to the standoffs of today.
11 EPISODES
Two Parties, One Coup
In 1951 Iran nationalized its oil.
6 EPISODES
Missionaries: From Alaska to Patagonia
Faith, power, and indigenous resistance across 500 years and two continents.
10 EPISODES
Power of the County
Northern Idaho, where federal authority goes to be tested: from the armed miners of the 1890s Coeur d'Alene wars through the John Birch Society, the Aryan Nations, and the rifle-over-permit standoffs of the modern Panhandle.
7 EPISODES
Backyard Empire: The United States in Latin America
For two centuries the United States has treated the Western Hemisphere as its sphere of influence.
14 EPISODES
Roosevelt's Forest Army
In the spring of 1933, with a quarter of the country out of work, Franklin Roosevelt did something never repeated: in thirty-seven days he turned a campaign idea into a standing army of young men with shovels.
14 EPISODES
The Uncosted West
The United States owns roughly a third of its own landmass, and for a century and a half it has let private industry mine, graze, and log that land for almost nothing while keeping the bill for the damage.
15 EPISODES
Rise and Fall of the U.S. Public Health Service
America's stepchild uniformed service.
34 EPISODES
Ground Truth: Forest Service Research in Action
Since 1908, the U.S.
10 EPISODES
The Politics of Intelligence
In 1969 a single journal article reopened a question many believed WWII had closed: is the racial gap in IQ scores genetic? The Politics of Intelligence tells that story in full.
9 EPISODES
Eugenics: The Well-Born Science
We're taught that science is pure.
9 EPISODES
What Abundance Built
What do people build when survival is solved? What Abundance Built is a history of the human surplus.
8 EPISODES
Global Blueprint: Extraction Goes Global
The extraction models perfected in Latin America.
5 EPISODES
Liberty Ships, Closed Doors
The home-front migrations that remade America.
13 EPISODES
The Orphan Market
International adoption's rise, corruption, and 95% collapse.
10 EPISODES
Storm Warning: America's Earth Science Under Threat
Every weather forecast, every hurricane warning, every sustainable fishing season rests on a century of patient federal measurement.
12 EPISODES
Title IX: It Opened Doors That Had Been Bolted Shut
For most of American history the doors were simply bolted shut.
10 EPISODES
The Infinite Dividend: How the WPA Built the America You Use Every Day
You have used a WPA project.
13 EPISODES
A Wall of Separation: Church, State & the American Experiment
Thomas Jefferson borrowed the phrase from a persecuted Baptist: 'a wall of separation between Church & State.' For 250 years Americans have fought over what it means.
14 EPISODES
No Fixed Address: Why America Can't House Its People — and Who Finally Is
Why does the richest country on earth have more than 770,000 people sleeping outside on a single night.
11 EPISODES
As Long as the Grass Grows: 250 Years of Broken Treaties with Native Nations
Between 1778 and 1871 the United States ratified roughly 370 treaties with Native nations.
15 EPISODES
The Least Dangerous Branch? The Supreme Court on Trial
Your civics textbook says the Supreme Court is a neutral umpire, nine robed experts reading the plain text of the Constitution, above politics.
12 EPISODES
Rivers Reborn: How the West Dammed Its Salmon Rivers — and Tore the Dams Back Down
For three-quarters of a century, Americans threw concrete across the great salmon rivers of the West.
12 EPISODES
California and Water: How the Driest Rich Place on Earth Plumbed Itself
California grows a third of the nation's vegetables and waters forty million people on a brutal mismatch: about three-quarters of the water falls in the north, and about four-fifths of the demand sits in the south and the farm belt.
8 EPISODES
Higher Ground: How America's Mound Builders Beat the Flood
Thousands of ancient earthen mounds rise along the rivers of the American South and Midwest, some older than the pyramids.
7 EPISODES
The Smallest Nations: How California's Tribes Lost Everything and Fought Back
California has more Native nations.
8 EPISODES
Salmon Counting: How AI, Drones & Sonar Are Learning to See the Salmon Run
Since 1955, one of the most consequential numbers in conservation.
8 EPISODES
Take the Land, Not the People: The Mexican War, the Filibusters, and the Racial Logic of American Empire
Between 1846 and 1860 the United States fought a war that swallowed half of Mexico.
8 EPISODES
The First Highways: The Trade Routes That Connected the Americas Before Columbus
Europeans told themselves they discovered the Americas, that before Columbus the people here were scattered vestiges who wandered over a land bridge and waited to be found.
12 EPISODES
The Politics of Produce: How the Crops We Eat and Wear Built and Broke the Americas
Nothing an economy makes is fought over harder than the things that keep us alive: the crops we eat and the fibers we wear.
17 EPISODES
A Woman's Place: How the Americas Decided What Women Could Be
Who was the first woman in the Americas to vote? Not an American.
12 EPISODES
The Land Returns: Restitution and Co-Management of Native Land Across the Americas
Across the Americas, an idea once dismissed as impossible is quietly becoming policy: give the land back.
14 EPISODES
Nations, Inc.: How Native America Became One of the Country's Great Economic Engines
Ask most Americans to picture the Native economy and you'll get casinos, per-capita checks, and dependency.
10 EPISODES
The Mother Tree
The real science of how forests communicate.
6 EPISODES
Best Supporting Actress: How the Church Rewrote Women's Roles
In 1974, evangelical women were publishing biblical arguments for full equality.
10 EPISODES
The Fourth Arm: America's Merchant Marine and the Country That Kept Forgetting It
Before the United States had a Navy, it had merchant ships.
11 EPISODES
The Long Run
The United States owns roughly a third of its own landmass, and on 240 million acres of it, private cattle, sheep, and goats graze the public's grass for $1.69 an animal a month while the public keeps the bill for the damage.
7 EPISODES
Greeting: Who America Sent to War — and Who Refused
For two centuries, one word.
12 EPISODES
A Shot of Reason
You've heard a hundred contradictory things about vaccines.
6 EPISODES
Wonder Drug? The GLP-1 Story
A gut hormone that, on its own, does almost nothing became the most talked-about medicine of the decade.
6 EPISODES
The Way We Learn
From the Three Rs to the AI tutor: how the factory-model classroom failed every mind that didn't fit, what the science of learning actually says, and why.
8 EPISODESFor Teachers, Librarians & Museums
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