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Brown Brothers Harriman: The Shadowy Investment Bank That Built America’s Financial System
37 mins; September 02, 2021
Drunk: How We Singed, Danced, and Stumbled Our Ways to Civilization
44 mins; August 31, 2021
Teaser: Key Battles of WW2 Pacific - Guadalcanal, Part 1
21 mins; August 27, 2021
Vikings Went Everywhere in the Middle Ages, From Baghdad to Constantinople to….. Oklahoma?
45 mins; August 26, 2021
A Small Island in the English Channel Was the Birthplace of the Russian Revolution
46 mins; August 24, 2021
The Best-Selling Books in American History Include Self-Help Shams and ‘7 Habits of Highly Effective People’
27 mins; August 19, 2021
The Common Factors That Cause Societies To Die, From Viking Greenland to Modern Somalia
42 mins; August 17, 2021
America Won the Space Race Because of a Horrible Accident That Killed 3 Astronauts
42 mins; August 12, 2021
The Daring WW1 Prison Break That Required an Ouija Board and a Life-or-Death Ruse
46 mins; August 10, 2021
How the Broken Marriage of Abraham and Mary Todd Lincoln Saved the Civil War
61 hours 12 mins; August 05, 2021
The Roman Brexit: How Civilization Collapsed in Britain After the Legions Withdrew in 409 AD
55 mins; August 03, 2021
The Dive: The Untold Story of the World's Deepest Submarine Rescue
37 mins; July 29, 2021
The Civil War Battle That Resembled Dante’s Inferno
48 mins; July 27, 2021
X-Troop: The Secret Jewish Commandos of World War II
55 mins; July 22, 2021
The 1919 Tour de France That Took Place in the Bombed-Out Ruins of WW1
44 mins; July 20, 2021
The Apollo Program Had a Surprising Close Relationship With 1960s Counterculture
45 mins; July 15, 2021
Travelers & Explorers, Epilogue – What is the Point of Exploration in the 21st Century?
17 mins; July 13, 2021
Travelers and Explorers, Part 8: Ernest Shackleton's Frozen March at the Bottom of the World
49 mins; July 08, 2021
Travelers and Explorers, Part 7: Sir Henry Stanley (1841-1904) – “Dr. Livingstone, I Presume?”
41 mins; July 06, 2021
Travelers and Explorers, Part 6: James Cook (1728-1797), England's Poseidon
51 mins; July 01, 2021
Travelers and Explorers, Part 5: Ferdinand Magellan (1480-1521) and His Terrifying Voyage Across an Endless Ocean
41 mins; June 29, 2021
Announcement: “Beyond the Big Screen” – a New Movie Podcast – Launches Next Week
17 mins; June 28, 2021
Travelers and Explorers, Part 4: Zheng He -- the Admiral Who Turned the Indian Ocean Into a Chinese Lake
31 mins; June 24, 2021
Travelers and Explorers, Part 3: Ibn Battuta (1304-1368) -- The Everlasting Pilgrim
43 mins; June 22, 2021
Travelers and Explorers, Part 2: Marco Polo (1254-1324) -- Opening the Door to the East
42 mins; June 17, 2021
Explorers Who Pushed the Boundary of the Known World, Part 1: Rabban Bar Sauma (1220-1294) – the Reverse Marco Polo
53 mins; June 15, 2021
What Egyptian Crocodile Mummies Tell us About Life, Death, and Taxes Thousands of Years Ago
54 mins; June 10, 2021
The 1911 Meeting of Albert Einstein and Marie Curie that Changed Physics Forever
55 mins; June 08, 2021
Pancho Villa’s 1916 Raid on New Mexico: The Pearl Harbor Bombing of Its Time
53 mins; June 03, 2021
How a Member of Easy Company’s “Band of Brothers” Found an Unlikely Friendship with a Former Nazi
38 mins; June 01, 2021
U.S. Presidents and Their 160-Year Love/Hate Relationship With the Camera
45 mins; May 27, 2021
Announcement: Steve Guerra’s History of the Papacy Podcast is Joining Forces with History Unplugged – Free Giveaway!
13 mins; May 26, 2021
Lincolnomics: How President Lincoln Constructed the Great American Economy
39 mins; May 25, 2021
The Gulf of Time Separating You From Napoleon III is Bridged By One Brandy Bottle
46 mins; May 20, 2021
The Japanese-Americans Who Fought Nazis in Europe
35 mins; May 18, 2021
Meet the Four Congressmen Who Won the Civil War and Shaped Reconstruction
48 mins; May 13, 2021
Madhouse at the End of the Earth: The Belgica’s 1897 Journey into the Dark Antarctic Night
59 mins; May 11, 2021
Teaser: Key Battles of WW2 Pacific - The Rise Of Imperial Japan
10 mins; May 07, 2021
Gold Fever and Disaster in the Great Klondike Stampede of 1897-98.
40 mins; May 06, 2021
From the River to the Sea: The Railroad War of the 1870s that Made the West
68 hours 2 mins; May 04, 2021
Lady Bird Johnson: The Most Underestimated – and Most Powerful? – First Lady of the 20th Century
40 mins; April 29, 2021
American Espionage Was Born in the Dark Taverns of Philadelphia
37 mins; April 27, 2021
The Jazz Age Tale of America’s First Gangster Couple, Margaret and Richard Whittemore
41 mins; April 22, 2021
Announcement: Next Week James Early and I Launch "Key Battles of the Pacific Theatre (WW2)"
10 mins; April 21, 2021
For Centuries, America’s Best Friend in the Middle East Was…Iran?
45 mins; April 20, 2021
George Washington Became Great Because He Spent Years in the Political Wilderness as a Washed-Up Has-Been
44 mins; April 15, 2021
The Nazi’s Granddaughter -- Discovering War Crimes in Your Family's Past
35 mins; April 13, 2021
The 15-Hour Work Week Was Standard For Nearly All of History. What Happened?
38 mins; April 08, 2021
Low Troop Morale Can Literally Destroy a Nation. That’s Why the USO Was Formed in 1941.
48 mins; April 06, 2021
Defining Treason – Why Are Founding Fathers Heroes But Confederate Leaders Not?
33 mins; April 01, 2021
“Fire Eaters” of the Confederacy: The Foot Soldiers of the South Who Made Secession Possible
38 mins; March 30, 2021
Witnessing The Final Destruction of Hitler’s War Machine
39 mins; March 25, 2021
The USS Plunkett: The Unsinkable Navy Destroyer That Fought at Manzio, D-Day, and Southern France
43 mins; March 23, 2021
How Ex-Slaves Built New Lives for Themselves – and America – After the Civil War
46 mins; March 18, 2021
George Washington’s Final (And Most Important?) Battle Was Uniting America By Building a New Capital
49 mins; March 16, 2021
Lessons Companies Should Learn From Mobsters' Business Practices
45 mins; March 11, 2021
All of Human History, Civilization, and Culture Converge in One Place: Turkish Food
55 mins; March 09, 2021
The Forgotten Fourteenth Colony of British North America
44 mins; March 04, 2021
How to Recover Family Treasure The Nazis Plundered in the 1940s
40 mins; March 02, 2021
How 9 Former Slaves Started a Proto University in Alabama in 1867
52 mins; February 25, 2021
The Pen or the Sword? How Lincoln and John Brown Disagreed on Achieving Emancipation
71 hours 1 min; February 23, 2021
How States Got Their Shapes
29 mins; February 18, 2021
Great News! Frequent Guest James Early Has Launched His Own Podcast - Key Battles of American History.
22 mins; February 17, 2021
When to Let the Past Die: The Case of Obersalzberg and Denazification
27 mins; February 16, 2021
The Mountain Man Was Once Considered To Be The Purest Distillation of the American Spirit
30 mins; February 11, 2021
Sally Rand Was America's Sex Symbol, From the Roaring 20s to the Apollo Era
45 mins; February 09, 2021
If the 1700s American Fur Trade Had Turned Out Differently, Californians Would Be Speaking Russian Today
48 mins; February 04, 2021
The Most Giant Leap in the Evolution of Modern Warfare was...the Jeep?
45 mins; February 02, 2021
Abraham Lincoln Survived and Thrived in the Anarchy of Antebellum America
43 mins; January 28, 2021
The Cuban Missile Crisis Was Horrifyling Close to Becoming a Nuclear Holocaust
50 mins; January 26, 2021
Atomic Bombs, Ancient Women Warriors, and Alien Conspiracy Theories of WW2
46 mins; January 21, 2021
How Ancient Egypt Lives On
42 mins; January 19, 2021
In 1813, a Shawnee "Prophet" Launched a War to Conquer the Great Lakes Region
62 hours 14 mins; January 14, 2021
Millions Were Left Homeless After WW2. What Happened To Those Who Were Permanently Exiled?
49 mins; January 12, 2021
The Mafia Was the Glue That Held Entire American Cities Together in the 20th Century
53 mins; January 07, 2021
Iron Empires: Robber Barons, Railroads, and the Making of Modern America
42 mins; January 05, 2021
An Army Without a Country: Prussia’s Cult of the Military and the Road to World War One
63 hours 22 mins; December 31, 2020
William Miller Predicted Christ’s Return in 1844. Here's What Happened After His Prophecy Failed
46 mins; December 29, 2020
This Civil War-Era Luke Skywalker Destroyed an Ironclad Death Star
33 mins; December 24, 2020
The Greek Triple Agent: Alcibiades, The Strategist Who Fought On 3 Sides of the Peloponnesian War
50 mins; December 22, 2020
America’s Worst President Can Teach Us Much About Writing Raunchy Poetry and Dying Suspiciously
51 mins; December 17, 2020
The Eternal Legacy of the First World War
57 mins; December 15, 2020
The Sad Afterlives of WW1's Leaders: The Humbling (and Exiling) of Generals, Emperors, and Sultans
53 mins; December 10, 2020
The 1919 Paris Peace Conference Laid The First Bricks of the Road to World War Two
46 mins; December 08, 2020
WW1 Ends with Armistice: The Moment of Silence That Sounded Like the Voice of God
53 mins; December 03, 2020
The 1918 Battle of Meggido Shattered the Ottoman Empire and Created the Modern Middle East
40 mins; December 01, 2020
The Pilgrims and Native Americans Were Both On the Verge of Death Upon Meeting. Here's How They Saved Each Others' Lives.
46 mins; November 26, 2020
Thanksgiving Owes Its Existence To The 19th Century's Biggest Social Media Influencer
27 mins; November 24, 2020
The Empire Strikes Back: Germany's Final Push to Win WW1 in Spring 1918
45 mins; November 19, 2020
Tank Warfare--How Military Tech Took a Quantum Leap at the Battle of Cambrai (1917)
23 mins; November 17, 2020
The Yanks Are Coming -- America Enters World War One
52 mins; November 12, 2020
The Slog of War -- the Passchendaele Campaign of 1917
39 mins; November 10, 2020
Teaser: Forging a President, Part 6: The Newly-Minted Cowboy
12 mins; November 06, 2020
The Russian Revolutions of 1917-1923--A Bigger Threat Than the Kaiser?
45 mins; November 05, 2020
The Election of 1800 Was Worse Than 2020 in Every Way Imaginable
35 mins; November 03, 2020
Why WW1 Was the Graveyard of Empires (Russian, Ottoman, Austro-Hungarian)
47 mins; October 29, 2020
The Battle of the Somme Caused 1 Million Casualties But Was a Turning Point for WW1
48 mins; October 27, 2020
The Flying Aces of World War One
43 mins; October 22, 2020
The Brusilov Offensive: Russia's Mortal Blow to Austria-Hungary
31 mins; October 20, 2020
Teaser: Forging a President, Part 5: Four-Eyes
10 mins; October 16, 2020
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