Three classic The History Guy episodes about some of the biggest, baddest warships ever to sail under the American flag.
00:00 Battleship USS Tennessee and the Second World War
14:40 The WWII Naval Bombardment of Japan
29:37 Last of the Battleships: The Iowa Class
The “Great Sedition Trial” uncovered shocking connections at the time with the German reich that we were fighting, and challenged the idea that the nation was of a single mind during the war. It also challenged exactly how far the national commitment to freedom of speech and opinion reached, especially in extraordinary times.