Professor Buzzkill History Podcast
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When Did the US Civil War End?
41 mins; April 02, 2025
Irish Things that are Actually British: Flashback Friday!
15 mins; March 14, 2025
The Irish Slaves Myth: 2025 Encore
35 mins; March 11, 2025
The Sound of Music - 60th Anniversary Show!
58 mins; March 04, 2025
The Bombing of Dresden: 80th Anniversary Episode
34 mins; February 11, 2025
“Dear Miss Perkins”: Frances Perkins and Refugees from Nazi Germany
39 mins; January 21, 2025
Auld Lang Syne: That Grand Old Song!
15 mins; December 31, 2024
"It's a Wonderful Life" Myths and Urban Legends: a Professor Buzzkill Classic!
41 mins; December 19, 2024
How Churchill Waged War
30 mins; December 12, 2024
The Weeping Frenchman: the Emotion of National Loss
11 mins; December 05, 2024
“Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory” - Why the Battle Hymn of the Republic Still Matters
34 mins; December 03, 2024
The Battle Hymn of the Republic: the Song that Marches On
24 mins; October 25, 2024
The "Glory Hallelujah Suite" with Sparky and Rhonda Rucker
47 mins; October 23, 2024
Julia Ward Howe: a Biographical Discussion with Professor Elaine Showalter
32 mins; October 22, 2024
Julia Ward Howe and “The Battle Hymn of the Republic” Week: Intro Episode
4 mins; October 21, 2024
Justice in Kelly Country: Laws and Outlaws in 19th Century Australia
33 mins; October 15, 2024
Code Name Puritan: Norman Holmes Pearson, Super Spy Professor
47 mins; October 08, 2024
Understanding the Cuban Missile Crisis: 2024 Encore
69 hours 8 mins; October 05, 2024
Why Was World War II So Bad: 2024 Encore
60 hours 33 mins; October 04, 2024
Battle of Stalingrad, Part 2
50 mins; October 03, 2024
Battle of Stalingrad, Part 1
52 mins; September 24, 2024
German POWs in the USSR
37 mins; September 16, 2024
Birthright Citizenship: 2024 Election Special!
33 mins; September 10, 2024
Image and the Nixon-Kennedy 1960 Election Debates
12 mins; September 03, 2024
An Unholy Traffic: Slave Trading in the Civil War South
31 mins; August 27, 2024
Women in Nazi Germany, Part 2
41 mins; August 20, 2024
Women in Nazi Germany, Part 1
32 mins; August 13, 2024
Pat Nixon
44 mins; August 06, 2024
The USS Indianapolis and the Famous Shark Attack - 2024 Encore
10 mins; July 30, 2024
Presidential Primaries and Conventions: Just What is the Deal with Them?
24 mins; July 25, 2024
Southern Violence and White Supremacy in the Civil War Era
41 mins; July 23, 2024
"May You Live in Interesting Times" - Ancient Chinese Curse? 2024 Encore
4 mins; July 16, 2024
The John Birch Society and Its Influence on American Politics
40 mins; July 09, 2024
Felons and the Declaration of Independence
13 mins; July 04, 2024
The American Liberty Pole
37 mins; July 02, 2024
Before Trans: Three Gender Stories from 19th Century France
37 mins; June 25, 2024
Juneteenth and the End of Slavery in the US: What’s in a Date? 2024 Encore
15 mins; June 18, 2024
Loving Day: 2024 Encore
9 mins; June 12, 2024
Heather Haley: Historian for the US Navy
32 mins; June 11, 2024
Coming Out Republican: a History of the Gay Right
33 mins; June 04, 2024
Malcolm Browne and the Self Immolation of ThĂ­ch QuáșŁng Đức
34 mins; May 28, 2024
Churchill’s Wartime Speeches: the Untold Story
29 mins; May 21, 2024
Was the Wild West as Wild as the Myths Say?
33 mins; May 14, 2024
The Myth of Colorblind Christians
32 mins; May 07, 2024
Americans Bailing Out the French
41 mins; April 30, 2024
British Dandies: Engendering Scandal and Fashioning a Nation
36 mins; April 23, 2024
Once a King: The Lost Memoir of Edward VIII
48 mins; April 16, 2024
The False Cause: Fraud, Fabrication, and White Supremacy in Confederate Memory
42 mins; April 09, 2024
Hitler's Rise to Power: History and Myth
66 hours 50 mins; April 02, 2024
The Press and Women Politicians from Victoria Woodhull to Kamala Harris
45 mins; March 26, 2024
The "Princess Qajar" Meme: Junk History and Conceptions of Beauty
22 mins; March 19, 2024
Irish America: Race and Politics
40 mins; March 12, 2024
Who Said "Well-Behaved Women Rarely Make History"?
4 mins; March 06, 2024
Green Book Sites: Local History and Architecture
46 mins; March 05, 2024
Traveling While Black: The Green Book Guides to African-American Motoring - Encore!
39 mins; February 25, 2024
Henry Kissinger Part 2: Perpetual Power?
61 hours 19 mins; February 20, 2024
Henry Kissinger Part 1: Meteoric Rise
49 mins; February 06, 2024
Ben Franklin, "A Republic, if You Can Keep It" - Quote or No Quote? Encore
13 mins; January 30, 2024
Lies of the Land: Rural America in History and Myth
40 mins; January 23, 2024
America a Continental History
30 mins; January 16, 2024
The Unknown Martin Luther King: 2024 MLK Encore!
40 mins; January 15, 2024
America's Origin Stories and Myths
49 mins; January 09, 2024
America: What's in a Name?
12 mins; January 02, 2024
New Year's Eve and New Year's Day
3 mins; December 29, 2023
Auld Lang Syne: an Appreciation
15 mins; December 28, 2023
12 Days of Christmas: a Coded Song?
12 mins; December 25, 2023
Candy Cane Myths! Encore!
5 mins; December 21, 2023
The Mozart-Saleri Feud: Did “Amadeus” Tell the Real Story?
25 mins; December 19, 2023
"It's a Wonderful Life" 1947 Radio Drama
62 hours 12 mins; December 15, 2023
"It's a Wonderful Life" Myths and Urban Legends: 2023 Encore!
41 mins; December 14, 2023
The Best Years of Our Lives: the Greatest Film You Haven’t Seen!
55 mins; December 12, 2023
Pearl Harbor 2023 Encore
47 mins; December 06, 2023
Resistance from the Right: Conservatives and the Campus Wars in Modern America
42 mins; December 05, 2023
Quote or No Quote? Who Said “If you don’t have anything nice to say, come and sit here by me”?
4 mins; November 29, 2023
1932: Politics, Protests, and Electioneering in a Crucial American Year
32 mins; November 28, 2023
Thanksgiving History and Myth
9 mins; November 22, 2023
Democracy Dies in Darkness? Philadelphia and Paris in the 1780s
33 mins; November 21, 2023
Ben Franklin and the Turkey - Thanksgiving Myths!
8 mins; November 20, 2023
Thanksgiving Popcorn - MiniMyth!
4 mins; November 17, 2023
Medieval Myths
41 mins; November 14, 2023
Gun Country: Gun Capitalism, Culture, and Control in Cold War America
37 mins; November 07, 2023
Halloween Myths
11 mins; October 31, 2023
Dracula in Fiction and History
36 mins; October 24, 2023
Clement Attlee, 1945, and the Year of Hope in Britain
33 mins; October 17, 2023
Columbus and Taino People
26 mins; October 10, 2023
Christopher Columbus Myths Large and Small!
35 mins; October 03, 2023
Hands of Time: a Watchmaker's History
26 mins; September 26, 2023
Heather Cox Richardson on Saving Democracy - Wisdom Wednesday!
21 mins; September 19, 2023
McCarthy and McCarthyism: American Demagoguery During the Cold War
59 mins; September 19, 2023
Naming Gotham: The Villains, Rogues and Heroes Behind New York’s Place Names
52 mins; September 11, 2023
Coffee with Hitler: Civilized Diplomacy?
32 mins; September 04, 2023
Anarcha: One of the Mothers of Gynecology
35 mins; August 29, 2023
Gun Carnage in the United States
44 mins; August 22, 2023
Titanic Myths Smashed!
39 mins; August 15, 2023
Undelivered Speeches and What They Can Tell Us About History
39 mins; August 08, 2023
Oppenheimer: the Man, the Myth, the Movie
96 hours 34 mins; August 01, 2023
The Atomic Bombs: Flashback Friday 2023
59 mins; July 28, 2023
Religious Conversions in Modern America
41 mins; July 25, 2023
Lawyers in Japanese-American Concentration Camps during World War II
38 mins; July 18, 2023
Absalom Markland and Freedom's Mail
30 mins; July 17, 2023