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History in Decades
Join host Jim Rand on History in Decades as he explores one decade at a time. Engaging stories of American and world history, faith, resilience, and practical lessons from the past that still matter today.
Episodes
History in DecadesLeisler's Rebellion: Power and the Gallows in Colonial New York
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History in Decades1690–1700: Salem’s Fear and the War’s Unsettled Peace
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History in Decades1670–1680: King Philip’s War and Bacon’s Rebellion
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History in Decades1660–1670: The Restoration and New York
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History in Decades1650–1660: Between Kings and Commonwealth
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History in DecadesAnne Hutchinson: The Antinomian Controversy
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History in DecadesThe Bay Psalm Book: First Book Printed in America
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History in DecadesJohn Winthrop: A City upon a Hill
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History in DecadesThe Pequot War: Fire at Mystic
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History in Decades1640–1650: When the Colonies Stood Alone
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History in Decades1630–1640: The Limits of Order
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History in Decades1620–1630: Survival and a City upon a Hill
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History in DecadesThe Wreck That Saved Jamestown
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History in DecadesAppointed to Be Read in the Churches: The King James Bible
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History in DecadesThe Cellar Under the Lords: The Gunpowder Plot
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History in DecadesThe Berlin Airlift: A City Supplied from the Sky
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History in Decades1960–1970: Promise, Fire, and the Moon
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History in Decades1950–1960: Prosperity, the Cold War, and a Movement Rising
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History in DecadesSeptember 11, 2001: The Day, the Doctrine, and the Duty to Remember
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History in Decades1940–1950: The Arsenal of Democracy and the Dawn of the Atomic Age
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History in Decades1930–1940: Depression, the New Deal, and the Gathering Storm
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History in Decades1920–1930: The Roaring Twenties and the Crash
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History in DecadesBonus: World War I: The War That Remade America and the World
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History in Decades1910–1920: War, Reform, and the End of the Progressive Era
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History in Decades1900–1910: The Age of Roosevelt and the Machine Age Begins
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History in Decades1890–1900: The Closing of the Frontier and the Opening of an Empire
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History in DecadesBonus: Little Bighorn: The Day the Sioux Stood
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History in Decades1880–1890: Steel, Steam, and the End of the Open West
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History in Decades1870–1880: Reconstruction’s End and the Hard Bargain of Peace
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History in Decades1860–1870: War, Emancipation, and the Hard Work of Reunion
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History in DecadesBonus: Frederick Douglass: From Slave to Conscience
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History in Decades1850–1860: The Decade Compromise Failed
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History in DecadesBonus: Thirteen Days at the Alamo
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History in DecadesBonus: The American Revolution – A War for Independence
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History in Decades1840–1850: Manifest Destiny, War with Mexico, and the Gold Rush
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History in Decades1830–1840: Jackson’s Democracy, the Trail of Tears, and Texas Rising
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History in Decades1820–1830: Canals, Compromises, and the Common Man
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History in Decades1810–1820: After the Second Test – A Young Nation Steadies Itself
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History in DecadesBonus: Revolutionary War: The Men Who Signed – Risk, Courage, and the Declaration
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History in DecadesBonus: Revolutionary War: Valley Forge – Suffering, Faith, and the Making of an Army
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History in DecadesBonus: Revolutionary War: France Secretly Aids the American Revolution
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History in DecadesBonus: Revolutionary War: George Washington and the Continental Army
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History in DecadesBonus: Revolutionary War: The Militias – Ordinary Men Who Answered the Call
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History in DecadesBonus: The War of 1812 – Why It Still Matters
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History in Decades1800–1810: Doubling a Nation, Testing a Republic
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History in Decades1790–1800: Building the Young Republic
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History in Decades1780–1790: From Victory to a New Nation
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History in Decades1770-1780: The American Revolution Begins
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History in Decades1760–1770: Taxes, Tension, and the Road to Revolution
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History in DecadesHistory vs. Hollywood – The French and Indian War
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History in Decades1750-1760: The Global Struggle for North America
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History in Decades1740-1750 Revivals and King George's War
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History in DecadesFaith in the Early 1700s – Building a New World
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History in Decades1730-1740 Seeds of Awakening and Expansion
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History in Decades1720-1730 The South Sea Crash & Steady Colonial Life
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History in Decades1710-1720 Peace After the Storm
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History in Decades1700-1710 The War That Reshaped Empires
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History in DecadesIntroduction to History in Decades
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