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New Yorkers Feared Jack the Ripper Invaded the City in 1891 After a Prostitute Was Found Brutally Murdered
45 mins; July 26, 2022
When a Soldier’s Bravery is So Great His Comrades Fear Him: The Story of Band of Brothers’ Ronald “Killer “ Spiers
38 mins; July 21, 2022
Did Pope Pius XII Collaborate With the Nazis? This Historian Viewed the Vatican Archives and Has the Answer
45 mins; July 19, 2022
Eating Roman Mouse-on-a-Stick, Shakespeare's Tavern Bread, and Other Forgotten Culinary "Treats" From the Past
62 hours 56 mins; July 14, 2022
Beyond Camelot: What It Was Like to Live Through the JFK Era
31 mins; July 12, 2022
After Custer’s Last Stand, Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse Fought an Impossible Battle To Preserve the Sioux Nation
61 hours 32 mins; July 07, 2022
Introducing the Vlogging Through History Podcast
22 mins; July 06, 2022
How a WW2 Soldier Persevered Through Concentration Camps, Death Marches, and Starvation
45 mins; July 05, 2022
Did Thomas Edison Murder The Real Inventor of the Motion Picture Camera and Steal His Invention?
81 hours 25 mins; June 30, 2022
Cars Are the Id of the Countries that Built Them. What Do The Model T and Pontiac Aztek Tell Us About the US?
41 mins; June 28, 2022
Making Sense of America’s Worst Moments: Jon Meacham on Understanding -- But Not Excusing -- Slavery and the Indian Removal Act
37 mins; June 23, 2022
Parthenon Roundtable: Which Single Event Would You Eliminate From History
65 hours 9 mins; June 21, 2022
The Worst Movie Ever Made Cast John Wayne as Genghis Khan and Exposed the Cast to Nuclear Radiation
46 mins; June 16, 2022
The Arsenal of Democracy: How the Revolver and Repeating Rifle Democratized Gun Ownership and Armed the United States
58 mins; June 14, 2022
Seeking Hitler’s Horses: How a WW2 Infantryman Rescued Equines Caught Up Germany’s “Super Horse” Breeding Program
57 mins; June 09, 2022
Almost President: Stephen Douglas, Thomas Dewey, and Other Failed Candidates That Would’ve Altered History Most by Winning
38 mins; June 07, 2022
4 Foreign Correspondents Spent the 30s Warning About European Fascism. Why Didn't More Listen?
47 mins; June 02, 2022
In 1970, a Cyclone Killed 500,000 in Pakistan, Triggered a Genocide, and Nearly Started a Nuclear War.
44 mins; May 31, 2022
Nazi Billionaires: The Business Dynasties That Built Hitler’s War Machine and Still Profit Today
41 mins; May 26, 2022
War Isn’t the Natural State of Human Affairs: It Shouldn’t Happen, and Most of the Time It Doesn't.
46 mins; May 24, 2022
Western Religion of the 19th Century Competed with Darwin and Marx By Dabbling in Hinduism, Occultism, and Wellness
55 mins; May 19, 2022
The 1541 Spanish Expedition Down the Amazon to Find the Imaginary “El Dorado” and Valley of Cinnamon
42 mins; May 17, 2022
Lost Airmen: The Epic Rescue of WWII U.S. Bomber Crews Stranded in the Yugoslavian Mountains
32 mins; May 12, 2022
The Way that Lincoln Financed the Civil War Led to Transcontinental Railroads, Public Colleges, the Homestead Act, and Income Tax
42 mins; May 10, 2022
Lt. Sonia Vagliano Helped Liberate Concentration Camp Victims, Repatriate WW2 Refugees, All While Avoiding Landmines and Kidnapping
50 mins; May 05, 2022
Little Slaughterhouse on the Prairie: The Serial Killer Family Who Terrorized 1870s Kansas
29 mins; May 03, 2022
Benjamin Franklin – In the 200 Years After His Death – Funded New Businesses, Supported Boston and Philadelphia, and Play Pranks
39 mins; April 28, 2022
The Rise and Fall of 1970s Mob-Run Chicago
42 mins; April 26, 2022
An Antebellum-Era Irish Maid’s Incredible Determination and Business Savvy Led to the Creation of the Kennedy Dynasty
41 mins; April 21, 2022
Six Kentucky Nuns Founded a Hospital in 1940s War-Torn India That Saved Hundreds of Thousands of Lives
50 mins; April 19, 2022
A 1719 Prison Ship Transported Dozens of Women Accused of Sex Crimes to New Orleans. They Became the Founding Mothers of the Gulf
48 mins; April 14, 2022
Introducing the Eyewitness History Podcast
16 mins; April 13, 2022
The Global Manhunt For The Confederate Ship That Sunk Union Supply Vessels, From the Caribbean to the South Pacific
39 mins; April 12, 2022
Most Historians Consider Warren G. Harding America’s Worst President. This One Thinks He Belongs in the Top 10
38 mins; April 07, 2022
Why the Information Revolution Would Happened in Europe Even Without the Printing Press
55 mins; April 05, 2022
Deeply-Held Religious Beliefs Can’t Be Easily Eradicated. That’s Why Stalin Co-Opted Russian Orthodoxy As a Ruler.
37 mins; March 31, 2022
What “Dear John” Letters Tell Us About the Fragility of Wartime Relationships…and How They Unexpectedly Lead to Greater Camaraderie
43 mins; March 29, 2022
Cassie Chadwick Scammed the Gilded Age Elite Out of Millions and Convinced The World She Was Andrew Carnegie’s Bastard Daughter
52 mins; March 24, 2022
How China Changed Its Language From Archaic Confucian Bureaucracy to the Lingua Franca of Globalization
33 mins; March 21, 2022
Which Statues Should We Take Down? How To Fairly Judge Historical Figures by Today’s Standards
38 mins; March 17, 2022
On the Eve of World War One, Woodrow Wilson, Teddy Roosevelt, and the Suffragette Jane Addams Sought to Prevent Armageddon
42 mins; March 15, 2022
A Union Woman in Civil War Kentucky
47 mins; March 10, 2022
Does Waging War Viciously Actually Save Lives? A Look at the WW2 Decisions to Firebomb Tokyo and Drop Atomic Bombs
50 mins; March 08, 2022
Successes and Failures of The Last Century of U.S. Presidents, From Harding to Trump
34 mins; March 03, 2022
Teaser: Key Battles of WW2 Pacific - The Rise of Imperial Japan
17 mins; March 02, 2022
Mutiny on the Rising Sun: A Tragic Tale of Slavery, Smuggling, and Chocolate
49 mins; March 01, 2022
A Real-Life French Serial Killer Inspired Dostoyevsky to Write “Crime and Punishment”
37 mins; February 24, 2022
The NAACP Leader Who Passed As White, Infiltrated Lynching Rings, Architected ‘Brown v. Board of Education’, and Ended His Life in Scandal
39 mins; February 22, 2022
How Clocks Created Earth’s First Global Supply Chain in the 1700s – And Keep GPS Alive Today
54 mins; February 17, 2022
Parthenon Roundtable: Which Person From History Would You Keep From Dying Too Soon? (And You Can’t Choose JFK)
71 hours 21 mins; February 15, 2022
Assassination Attempts of U.S. President – From JFK to Joe Biden
34 mins; February 10, 2022
No, the Ancient Greeks Weren’t Color Blind. They Justed Had Unique Ways to Describe the World
47 mins; February 08, 2022
The Severing Of a Sea Captain’s Ear Led to a Global War Between Spain and Britain in the 1740s
46 mins; February 03, 2022
Future History: The Story Behind '2001: A Space Odyssey'
22 mins; February 02, 2022
The Last King of America: George III, His Battles With Madness, and Being a Thoroughly Underrated Monarch
42 mins; February 01, 2022
Dragons Exist In Nearly Every Culture’s Mythology As a Mirror of Their Fears. What Are Ours?
50 mins; January 27, 2022
Harry Guggenheim: The Elon Musk of the Gilded Age
38 mins; January 25, 2022
Are Cities Humanity’s Greatest Invention or an Incubator of Disease, Crime, and Horrific Exploitation?
56 mins; January 20, 2022
Revolutionary Monsters: Why Lenin, Mao, Castro, and Others Turned Liberation into Tyranny
25 mins; January 18, 2022
Robert E. Lee Was America’s Most Gallant, Decorated Traitor
54 mins; January 13, 2022
Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, and the Contentious Path to Emancipation
54 mins; January 11, 2022
Henry Kissinger Used Cold Realpolitik to Create Order in the Middle East. Did it Work?
52 mins; January 06, 2022
Europe’s Babylon: 16th-Century Antwerp was a City of Wealth, Vice, Heresy, and Freedom
52 mins; January 04, 2022
Parthenon Podcast Roundtable: Who Would You Eliminate From History? (And No, You Can’t Choose Hitler)
51 mins; January 01, 2022
WASPs: The Splendors and Miseries of an American Aristocracy
40 mins; December 30, 2021
The Untold History of Earth: Hobbits Really Existed, Dinosaurs Had Feathers, and Yetis Roamed Our Planet
71 hours 8 mins; December 28, 2021
George Washington’s 1789 Road Trip Across the New United States
37 mins; December 23, 2021
The Allied Race to Retake Paris in 1945 Before the Nazis Could Destroy It
29 mins; December 21, 2021
The Son of Mississippi Slaves Who Fled to Russia and Brought Jazz to Istanbul
57 mins; December 16, 2021
What the Middle Ages Can Teach Us About Pandemics, Mass Migration, and Tech Disruption
54 mins; December 14, 2021
Marine Raiders: The WW2 Special Forces Who Conquered Pacific Islands One Knife Fight At a Time
34 mins; December 09, 2021
The Boer Wars: The South African Conflict That Created Winston Churchill and (Possibly) Concentration Camps
80 hours 9 mins; December 07, 2021
Kim Philby: The KGB Mole Who Nearly Became the Leader of Britain’s MI6
41 mins; December 02, 2021
George Washington: The First American Action Hero
21 mins; December 01, 2021
Why the 1619 Project is Dangerous and Should Be Totally Rejected
46 mins; November 30, 2021
Rebroadcast: Turkey is Both a Bird and a Country. Which Came First?
21 mins; November 25, 2021
The 160-Minute Race to Save the Titanic
49 mins; November 23, 2021
Age of Discovery 2.0, Part 6: Will SpaceX Control Mars Like the British East India Company Controlled the Indian Subcontinent?
41 mins; November 18, 2021
Age of Discovery 2.0, Part 5: Death Has Always Been an Inevitable Part of Discovery, Whether on Magellan’s Voyage or a Trip to Mars
43 mins; November 16, 2021
Age of Discovery 2.0, Part 4: How Lessons From U.S. History Will Help Space Colonies Be More Like Star Trek and Less Like Blade Runner
46 mins; November 11, 2021
Age of Discovery 2.0, Part 3: Space Colonization Will Reinvigorate Humanity More Than the New World Discovery 500 Years Ago
45 mins; November 09, 2021
Age of Discovery 2.0, Part 2: America’s New Destiny in Space, With Glenn Reynolds
37 mins; November 04, 2021
Welcome to the Age of Discovery 2.0
19 mins; November 02, 2021
American’s Political Polarization Traces Back to 18th-Century Enlightenment Factions That Never Resolved Their Differences
44 mins; October 28, 2021
The Iowa Boy Who Loved Baseball, Leaked Atomic Secrets to the USSR, and Jump Started the Cold War
52 mins; October 26, 2021
Winston Churchill: Political Master, Military Commander
51 mins; October 21, 2021
How This Union General Who Executed Guerrillas and Imprisoned Political Foes Became the Most Hated Man in Kentucky
54 mins; October 21, 2021
The Escape of Jack the Ripper: History’s Most Infamous Serial Killer, and the Cover-up to Protect His Identity
43 mins; October 19, 2021
Two Revolutions and the Constitution
38 mins; October 14, 2021
Alfred Hubbard Was a 1920s Inventor, Bootlegger, and Psychedelic Pioneer Who Became the Patron Saint of Silicon Valley
56 mins; October 12, 2021
The Normans: A History of Conquest
40 mins; October 07, 2021
Electric City: Ford and Edison’s Vision of Creating a Steampunk Utopia
56 mins; October 05, 2021
Half Lives: The Unlikely History of Radium
49 mins; September 30, 2021
An Alternate History of the Lincoln Assassination Plot
42 mins; September 28, 2021
What if Tsarist Russia Hadn’t Gone Communist? Revolutionaries Like Boris Savinkov Tried to Accomplish This
52 mins; September 23, 2021
Reviving Lost WW2 Stories With An M1 Rifle
44 mins; September 21, 2021
Hollywood Hates History: El Cid (1961)
46 mins; September 16, 2021
Hollywood Hates History: The Messenger – The Story of Joan of Arc (1999)
57 mins; September 14, 2021
American Dunkirk – How Half a Million New Yorkers Were Evacuated from Manhattan Island on 9/11
48 mins; September 09, 2021
Columbus of the Pacific: The Forgotten Portuguese Sailor Who Opened Up Earth’s Largest Ocean in 1564
44 mins; September 07, 2021
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