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Why Did WW2 Advance Civil Rights When WW1 Reversed Them? Here's What WEB DuBois Said
30 mins; June 22, 2023
What It Was Like to be a WW2 Paratrooper
48 mins; June 20, 2023
Vlad the Impaler is the (Partial) Inspiration for Count Dracula
54 mins; June 15, 2023
In the Premodern Era, Survival Meant Overcoming Earthquakes, Sieges, Global Cooling, Asteroid Strikes, and Cannibalism
33 mins; June 13, 2023
The Time in 1943 That Eleanor Roosevelt Disappeared for 10 Days in the South Pacific
28 mins; June 08, 2023
"Witches" Weren't Burned During The Middle Ages. That Actually Happened in the Renaissance Period.
53 mins; June 06, 2023
Pandemics Cause Misery and Death, But They Also Created Agriculture and Put Humans on Top of the Food Chain
49 mins; June 01, 2023
The 1920s Female Hungarian Murder Ring That Left 160 Dead
38 mins; May 30, 2023
How a Flying Ace Survived 24 Days Lost at Sea on the Pacific
44 mins; May 25, 2023
Civil War Barons: The Tycoons, Entrepreneurs, and Inventors and Visionaries Who Forged Victory and Shaped a Nation
52 mins; May 25, 2023
The Forage War of 1777 Saw George Washington Launch Numerous Hit-and-Run Assaults on the British that Crippled the Army
33 mins; May 23, 2023
Medieval Gender Roles Were Much More -- and Less -- Strict Than We Can Imagine
56 mins; May 18, 2023
Firsthand Account of the Vietnam War from a "Tunnel Rat"
15 mins; May 17, 2023
Why Do We Consider Assyria The Most Sadistically Violent Empire When Oftentimes It Wasn't?
63 hours 2 mins; May 16, 2023
Moral Panics and Mass Hysteria: The Dancing Plague, Salem Witch Trials, and The Tulip Market Bubble
50 mins; May 11, 2023
A French Archeologist – Considered the Female Indiana Jones – Saved Dozens of Ancient Egyptian Temples From Flooding
34 mins; May 09, 2023
Eugenics is Considered a Form of Scientific Fascism Today, But 100 Years Ago It Was Universally Popular
61 hours 40 mins; May 04, 2023
James Early Launches New Series: The Second World War in Europe
16 mins; May 03, 2023
Light-Horse Harry Lee: A Founding Father's Journey From Glory to Ruin
62 hours 39 mins; May 02, 2023
Abraham Lincoln’s Religious Transformation Mirrored Larger Revival Trends of 1860s America
36 mins; April 27, 2023
Augustine Built the Medieval World With the Help of His Mother, Concubine, Empress, and 10-Year-Old Fiancé
51 mins; April 25, 2023
When Irish Vets of the American Civil War Invaded Canada in 1866
50 mins; April 20, 2023
The Destructive Power of the Family, From Oedipus to the Godfather
32 mins; April 18, 2023
A 15th-Century Islamic Scholar Has Surprisingly Contemporary Advice on Handling Pandemics
51 mins; April 13, 2023
Andrew Jackson’s Victory in the Creek War Set the Stage for Southern Secession 50 Years Later
39 mins; April 11, 2023
After Woodrow Wilson Suffered a Stroke, His Wife Edith Secretly Served As President for a Year
56 mins; April 06, 2023
Victory Gardens Produced Nearly Half of America’s Fresh Produce in WW2. With Today's Supply-Chain Meltdowns, Are They Ready for a Comeback?
40 mins; April 04, 2023
Despite the Spartans’ Last Stand at Thermopylae, They Are Still the Most Overrated Warriors of the Ancient World
41 mins; March 30, 2023
The Real-Life King Arthur May Have Been a Roman Equestrian Who Served Marcus Aurelius
47 mins; March 28, 2023
How Botany Was Weaponized in the 19th Century For Imperial Expansion of Plantations, And How Humble Gardeners Pushed Back
32 mins; March 23, 2023
Nicolas Said was an Enslaved Africa Who Gain Emancipation, Traveled to Europe’s Royal Courts, and Fought in the Civil War
41 mins; March 21, 2023
Pizza, Pinocchio and the Papacy: Finding the Very Best and Very Worst of Italy
18 mins; March 20, 2023
This 1791 US Military Defeat Was 3x Worse than Little Bighorn And Nearly Destroyed the Army
38 mins; March 16, 2023
The KGB Agent Who Lived Incognito in New York for 10 Years That Was Exchanged at the Bridge of Spies
29 mins; March 09, 2023
How a Slave Coupled Escaped the Antebellum South in Disguise
48 mins; March 07, 2023
Operation Torch: WW2’s first Paratrooper Missions Were On One-Way Flights With Drops Into Total Darkness
34 mins; March 02, 2023
Anne Frank Was Only One of Thousands in Occupied Netherlands That Kept Diaries. Others Include Dutch Nazis, Farmers, and Resisters
46 mins; February 28, 2023
How Shakespeare Impacted U.S. Presidents, from John Adams to JFK
40 mins; February 23, 2023
The Unexpected Turbulence of the Eisenhower Years
19 mins; February 22, 2023
A Union Spy's Mission to Stop the Confederates From Building a Secret Navy in Britain
36 mins; February 21, 2023
WW2 Bombing Raids on Germany Were Bloodbaths for the Allies Until a Futurist Fighter Plane (the P-51) Was Developed
35 mins; February 16, 2023
John Burgoyne: The British Playboy Who Lost the Revolutionary War
31 mins; February 14, 2023
How Britain Stole Intelligence from Nazi High Command Via Their German Drinking Buddies
52 mins; February 09, 2023
The Encyclopedia: One Book’s Quest to Hold the Sum of All Knowledge
32 mins; February 07, 2023
How Much Can One Individual Alter History? More and Less Than You Think
42 mins; February 02, 2023
The Mongol Storm: Making and Breaking Empires in the Medieval Near East
42 mins; January 31, 2023
Weather Itself Was WW2's Fiercest Enemy: The Sinking of the USS Macaw
34 mins; January 26, 2023
A Short History of War
50 mins; January 24, 2023
Stories From 300 British Men Executed For Cowardice During WW1
13 mins; January 19, 2023
The 1911 McNamara Bros. Murder Trial was the OJ Simpson/Johnny Depp v. Amber Heard Case of Its Time
34 mins; January 19, 2023
Daniel Webster -- Perhaps History’s Greatest Orator -- Turned Virginians and New Yorkers Into Americans
37 mins; January 17, 2023
How Ottoman Sultan Suleyman Conquered Most of Europe and the Mediterranean While Avoiding Assassination
44 mins; January 12, 2023
Yoga Came to America via an Indian Monk at the 1893 Worlds Fair
45 mins; January 10, 2023
A Modern-Day Knight Discusses What Knightly Service Means in 2023 (Essentially, Less Crusading and More Volunteering)
30 mins; January 05, 2023
J. Edgar Hoover’s 50-Year Career of Blackmail, Entrapment, and Taking Down Communist Spies
52 mins; January 03, 2023
The Irish Conquered the World With Plentiful Cheap Labor and Pints of Guinness
43 mins; December 29, 2022
Two British Sisters – A Typist and a Romance Novelist – Save Jewish Artists from the Holocaust With a Clever Con Involving Opera
31 mins; December 27, 2022
The Double Victory Campaign: Over 1 Million Black Americans Enlisted in WW2 To Fight Fascism Abroad and Win Equality at Home
41 mins; December 22, 2022
Everyone Loves Free Markets. But This Meant One Thing To Romans And Something Completely Different to Milton Friedman
45 mins; December 20, 2022
Failed Futures: Russia's Plans to Defeat the U.S. in the Cold War
45 mins; December 15, 2022
Failed Futures: The Confederacy Had Colossal Plans After the Civil War to Spread Slavery Across the Globe And Become Fabulously Wealthy
58 mins; December 13, 2022
Failed Futures: The Post-War Plans of Alexander the Great, the Confederacy, and the Soviet Union that Never Happened
1 min; December 07, 2022
Thomas Edison, Nikola Tesla, and the Other Brilliant But Eccentric Characters That Electrified Our World
41 mins; December 06, 2022
Republicans Controlled 1920s America But Were Later Crushed By the New Deal Coalition. How Do These Realignments Happen?
59 mins; December 01, 2022
F. Scott Fitzgerald was Every Bit the Alcoholic, Grandiose Delusional Dreamer as His Fictional Character Jay Gatsby
41 mins; November 29, 2022
The Most Underrated People in History Include a U.S. President, Soviet Officer, and a Farmer Who Saved 2 Billion Lives
45 mins; November 24, 2022
How a Founding Father and His Family Went From Slave Owners to Radical Abolitionists
68 hours 20 mins; November 22, 2022
Growing Up as the Daughter of WW2 Spies
42 mins; November 17, 2022
Entrepreneurs in the Ancient World: From Neolithic Fashion Tycoons to Babylon’s 'Silicon Valley' Startup Founders
49 mins; November 15, 2022
The Abolitionist Who Was Chaplain to Black Civil War Soldiers and Started a College Burned Down by the KKK
40 mins; November 10, 2022
The Russian-Jewish Woman Who Voluntarily Interred Herself in a WW2 Japanese Internment Camp
50 mins; November 08, 2022
In 1963, A Stuttering, Nebbish Magazine Editor Negotiated a Secret Deal Between JFK and Khrushchev, Averting Nuclear War
47 mins; November 03, 2022
A Traumatized Civil War Vet -- Suffering Crippling Alcoholism and PTSD -- Spent 40 Years Wandering America as a Hobo
41 mins; November 01, 2022
The Secret Role of Japanese Americans Who Fought in the WW2 Pacific Theatre
34 mins; October 27, 2022
FDR’s Polio Made Him Wheelchair Bound, But Also an Incredible Orator and Strategic Mastermind
45 mins; October 25, 2022
John Donne: The Genius Priest/Poet Who Saw Infinity and Triggered Stampedes At His Sermons
38 mins; October 20, 2022
Sigmund Freud Deluded Himself Into Thinking The Nazis Weren’t A Threat Until It Was Nearly Too Late
44 mins; October 18, 2022
The Most Important Diplomat in 1700s North America was a Cherokee Woman Who Saved Washington’s Life and Introduced Dairy to Her Tribe
41 mins; October 13, 2022
Do Racial Preferences in U.S. College Admissions Process Date Back to Ivy League Attempts to Limit Jewish Enrollment?
37 mins; October 11, 2022
Uber Succeed in the US but Failed in the UK and China Because of Jefferson and Hamilton’s Fight Over State Licensing
46 mins; October 06, 2022
James Early Explains Why the War of 1812 Turned America Into an Expansionist Military Power
69 hours 5 mins; September 29, 2022
How to Escape From a Nazi Prison Fortress
47 mins; September 27, 2022
Thomas Jefferson’s European Travel Guide Includes Architectural Sketches, Farming Tips, and an Astronomical Wine Expense Report
46 mins; September 22, 2022
The Michigan Politician Who Created a Proto-New Deal, Defeated the KKK in Court, and Defended Interred Japanese-Americans
50 mins; September 20, 2022
The Rag-Tag Art Renegades that Brought Picasso and Modernist Art to the United States
50 mins; September 15, 2022
The Oldest Stories of King Arthur Have Female Warriors, Black Knights, and Whole Lot of Supernatural Encounters
46 mins; September 13, 2022
Steve Guerra on Freemasonry, The Catholic Church, and the Modern World
18 mins; September 09, 2022
Mata Hari Was Either the World’s Greatest Female Spy or a WWI Exotic Dancer Way In Over Her Head
33 mins; September 08, 2022
Vikings Definitely Came to the New World Before Columbus. Did Celtic Monks, the Chinese, and Phoenicians Do So Also?
65 hours 47 mins; September 06, 2022
How America Chooses to Remember Itself: 200 Years of U.S. Museums, and Presenting the Civil War, Spanish Flu, and the Culture Wars
42 mins; September 01, 2022
The Many Ways To Die While Building an Aircraft Carrier
46 mins; August 30, 2022
The Divorce Colony: Why Women Fled to South Dakota in the 1880s to End Their Troubled Marriages
47 mins; August 25, 2022
America's Universal Education System Exists From a Coalition of Progressives, the Know-Nothing Party, and the Ku Klux Klan
72 hours 30 mins; August 23, 2022
How 2 Men Escaped Auschwitz, Exposed the Holocaust to the World, and Saved Hundreds of Thousands of Hungarian Jews
38 mins; August 18, 2022
Josie Underwood: The Civil War-Era Socialite Who Owned Slaves, Hated Lincoln, and Loved the Union
24 mins; August 16, 2022
The American Revolution Would Have Been Lost Without a Ragtag Fleet of Thousands of Privateers
61 hours 3 mins; August 11, 2022
Gen. George Marshall and Henry Stimson Built America’s WW2 War Machine and Created the Postwar Global Order
56 mins; August 09, 2022
Bruce Lee Became a Global Celebrity by Embodying 400 Years of Western-Chinese Cultural Trade
47 mins; August 04, 2022
John McWhorter Describes Human Language's 20,000-Year Journey from Proto-Sumerian to Ebonics
54 mins; August 02, 2022
No Supply Chain Was More Complicated Than the Allies’ During WW2. How Did They Maintain It?
53 mins; July 28, 2022
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