By Joyce Sutphen
Everything Everywhere Daily - The American Whig Party
American politics has been called a two-party system. While there are two major parties today, and those two parties have been around a long time, they weren’t always the only two parties. In fact, there was a political party in the US that, took its name from a British political party, had four US presidents, and even held control of Congress for several years. Today, they are all but unknown to most people.
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Audio Poem of the Day - Strange Little Prophets
By Barbara Perez
Everything Everywhere Daily - How Do Satellites Work?
Somewhere over your head, right the moment is an artificial satellite. Many of them actually.
They beam television and radio signals down to Earth. They can tell us our exact time and location, and they can also help us predict the weather and they are now even providing broadband internet.
But how do they work? How do you get something to wiz around in space without crashing down?
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Audio Poem of the Day - Hard Rain
By Tony Hoagland
Everything Everywhere Daily - The Great Lisbon Earthquake
On the morning of November 1, 1755, the citizens of Lisbon, Portugal set out to go to church for the feast of All Saints Day.
Little did they know that moments later, their lives and the lives of everyone in Lisbon were about to be turned upside down and that the city of Lisbon would almost cease to exist.
Learn more about the Great Lisbon Earthquake, one of the most devastating earthquakes in history, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.
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Read Me a Poem - “Sonnet: Grief Dies” by Henry Timrod
Amanda Holmes reads Henry Timrod’s poem “Sonnet: Grief Dies.” Have a suggestion for a poem by a (dead) writer? Email us: podcast@theamericanscholar.org. If we select your entry, you’ll win a copy of a poetry collection edited by David Lehman.This episode was produced by Stephanie Bastek and features the song “Canvasback” by Chad Crouch.
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Audio Poem of the Day - Land’s End
By Weldon Kees
Everything Everywhere Daily - The Periodic Table of the Elements
You’ve seen it in your science classrooms, and there was probably a copy of it on the inside cover of your chemistry book. Maybe if you are a real nerd, you might even have your own personal copy.
Yet its very creation was a revolutionary breakthrough that helped scientists and generations of students understand the very things which make up our world.
Learn more about the Periodic Table of the Elements and how it helped explain the natural world, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.
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Audio Poem of the Day - To What You Said
By Walt Whitman