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Will The Next Episode Be Before The Book?
2 mins; April 15, 2025
Sally Hemings Part 2: Sally Becomes Front Page News
37 mins; April 09, 2025
Sally Hemings Part 1: He Came for Me
40 mins; April 02, 2025
Next Podcast April 2, 2025
10 secs; March 04, 2025
William Shakespeare Part 2: The Words Will Outlive Us.
43 mins; February 26, 2025
William Shakespeare Part 1: These Words Mean Nothing, Until They Are Spoken.
50 mins; February 19, 2025
George Custer Part 2: The Army is the Last Form of Diplomacy
47 mins; February 12, 2025
George Custer Part 1: There are not Enough Indians in the World to Defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
51 mins; February 05, 2025
Samuel Adams Part 2: I Was Cautious When the Young Lieutenant Was Waiting to Assassinate Me
53 mins; January 08, 2025
Samuel Adams Part 1: Sometimes We Must Shed Blood so that Liberty can Prevail.
58 mins; January 01, 2025
Eleanor Roosevelt Part 2: You Have to Do What You Think You Can Not Do.
52 mins; December 11, 2024
Eleanor Roosevelt Part 1: Father Took Us to the Slums after Dinner.
51 mins; December 04, 2024
Thomas Gage Part 2: The American’s Rebel Under the Veneer of Liberty.
51 mins; November 27, 2024
Thomas Gage Part 1: The Colonist See the Law Very Selectively.
50 mins; November 20, 2024
Walt Disney Part 2: Did Mickey Mouse Throw Minnie out of a Plane?
50 mins; November 13, 2024
Walt Disney Part 1: I Don’t Care About Making Money
44 mins; November 06, 2024
A message from Tony Dean - Next episode November 6, 2024
1 min; September 25, 2024
Abraham Lincoln Part 2: Without Total Devastation, the South Will Not Give up.
50 mins; September 18, 2024
Abraham Lincoln Part 1: I Thought the South was Out-Praying Us
56 mins; September 11, 2024
Alexander Hamilton Part 2: When a Person is Without Honor, there is no Limit to What They Might Find Reasonable.
54 mins; September 04, 2024
Alexander Hamilton Part 1: I’m Not from a State, I’m an American.
55 mins; August 28, 2024
Thomas Paine Part 2: The World is my Country; all Mankind are My Brethren.
45 mins; August 21, 2024
Thomas Paine Part 1: These are the Times That Try Men’s Souls
49 mins; August 14, 2024
Anne Frank Part 2: There is so Much that I Can’t Say Out Loud.
34 mins; August 07, 2024
Anne Frank Part 1: When I Write My Courage is Reborn.
34 mins; July 31, 2024
Albert Einstein Part 2: My Theory Gave Birth to the Atomic Bomb.
57 mins; July 24, 2024
Albert Einstein Part 1: Why Can I Not Be a Citizen of the World?
59 mins; July 17, 2024
PT Barnum Part 2: Money is an Excellent servant, but a Terrible Master
44 mins; July 10, 2024
PT Barnum Part 1: Without Promotion, Something Terrible Happens, Nothing.
51 mins; July 03, 2024
A Message From Tony Dean - Next Podcast July 3, 2024
1 min; June 05, 2024
James Bowie Part 2: I am Not in the Habit of Backing Down
42 mins; May 29, 2024
James Bowie Part 1: We are Doomed Sir. We Have No Chance.
45 mins; May 22, 2024
Ruby Waller Part 2: That Was My Introduction into The World of Whoredom
55 mins; May 15, 2024
Ruby Waller Part 1: How Did She End Up Drinking Gin with Charles Dickens?
52 mins; May 08, 2024
Frances Perkins Part 2: World War II Rolled My Career into a Ball and Threw it in the Trash.
37 mins; May 01, 2024
Frances Perkins Part 1: People Were Jumping From the 10th Story.
47 mins; April 24, 2024
Nathaniel Hawthorne Part 2: I Find the Shadowy Side of our Nature More Interesting.
43 mins; April 17, 2024
Nathaniel Hawthorne Part 1: It Doesn’t Matter What You Think, It Only Matters That You Think.
44 mins; April 10, 2024
Mercy Otis Warren Part 2: Liberty Must Reign in the Hearts and Minds of the People.
39 mins; April 03, 2024
Mercy Otis Warren Part 1: History Shows Us That Peaceful Times Controlled by Men, Don’t Seem to Last.
49 mins; March 27, 2024
Sacagawea Part 2: While Traveling West, Why Didn’t Other Tribes Attack Your Group?
52 mins; March 20, 2024
Sacagawea Part 1: I Don’t Understand, Because Nobody Owns the Land.
54 mins; March 13, 2024
Rebecca Nurse Part 2: Salem Witch Trials – I am Guilty, Until Proven Innocent.
42 mins; March 06, 2024
Rebecca Nurse Part 1: Salem Witch Trials – If They Believe in Their Hearts that I am a Witch, Then I Must Accept That.
43 mins; February 28, 2024
The Unsinkable Molly Brown Part 2: Money Opened Doors for Me.
36 mins; February 21, 2024
The Unsinkable Molly Brown Part 1: I am a Daughter of Adventure.
43 mins; February 14, 2024
Richard Allen Part 2: You Fight and You Struggle and You Hold on to Your Faith.
54 mins; February 07, 2024
Richard Allen Part 1: I No Longer Saw Myself as Trapped.
55 mins; January 31, 2024
Isabella Gardner Part 2: The Seventh Wonder of Boston
40 mins; January 24, 2024
Isabella Gardner Part 1: She Lives at an Intensity that Makes Other lives Seem Pale
48 mins; January 17, 2024
Napoleon Bonaparte Part 2: Did You Bayonet and Drowned 5000 Prisoners?
55 mins; January 10, 2024
Napoleon Bonaparte Part 1: Why Wouldn’t They Kill You Rather Than Risking Exile Again?
64 hours 19 mins; January 06, 2024
A Message from Tony Dean – Next Podcast Jan 6th
2 mins; November 22, 2023
Edgar Allan Poe Part 2: Violence Makes it that Much More Entertaining.
54 mins; November 15, 2023
Edgar Allan Poe Part 1: Isn’t Alcohol Part of the Creation?
57 mins; November 08, 2023
Rochambeau Part 2: Was the French Revolution America’s Fault?
59 mins; November 01, 2023
Rochambeau 1: We Saw General Washington Jumping on the Docks and Waving His Hat.
56 mins; October 25, 2023
Theodore Roosevelt 2: If You Call Roosevelt Four-Eyes in a Bar, You’ll Regret it.
59 mins; October 18, 2023
Theodore Roosevelt 1: There Are Good People that Do Good Things, And I Want to be One of Them.
62 hours 12 mins; October 11, 2023
Daniel Boone Part 2: After Being Chased by His Captors for 167 Miles, His Feet Were Bleeding and Raw.
35 mins; October 04, 2023
Daniel Boone Part 1: I Thought for Sure I’d Freeze to Death that Night.
40 mins; September 27, 2023
John Andre Part 2: If I Was Going to Die Young, It Would Be on an Adventure Seeing the World.
34 mins; September 20, 2023
John Andre Part 1: Washington Was the Master of Retreat.
36 mins; September 13, 2023
Octavius Catto Part 2: Did He Intentionally Lose the First Blacks vs. Whites Baseball game?
55 mins; September 06, 2023
Octavius Catto Part 1: I See White People as Being Deceived
55 mins; August 30, 2023
Deborah Sampson Part 2: What Happened When the Doctor Discovered She Was a Female Soldier Dressed as a Man?
55 mins; August 23, 2023
Deborah Sampson Part 1: I Knew No Freedom, I Knew No Future.
57 mins; August 16, 2023
Jane Austen Part 2: “I Think Ladies Have to Have a Sense of Humor or We Would Always Be Fainting on the Sofa.”
58 mins; August 09, 2023
Jane Austen Part 1: “Pictures of Perfection Make Me Sick and Wicked.”
57 mins; August 02, 2023
What Author Sold 6K Books While She Was Alive and 30M After Her Death?
4 mins; July 31, 2023
Albert Gallatin Part 2: What Happens When You Interrupt George Washington?
53 mins; July 26, 2023
Albert Gallatin Part 1: Why Do They Call Him the Swiss Founding Father?
57 mins; July 19, 2023
Can You Guess Which Founding Father is Next with These 3 Hints?
4 mins; July 17, 2023
Tycho Brahe Part 2: Once His Uncle Died Saving the King, Tycho Was Set for Life, at Least Until the King Died.
46 mins; July 12, 2023
Tycho Brahe Part 1: What Happens When the Pet Moose Living in your Mansion Drinks a Bucket of Beer?
55 mins; July 05, 2023
If You Can Guess This Next Guest, You’ll Get 5 Stars.
8 mins; July 03, 2023
Thomas Jefferson Part 2: “If John Adams Could Decide Not to Own Slaves, Why Couldn’t You?”
60 hours 53 mins; June 28, 2023
Thomas Jefferson Part 1: Why Did Young Thomas Wrap Bacon Around a Metal Spring to Attract a Wolf?
56 mins; June 21, 2023
Can You Guess Who the Next Guest is with 3 Hints?
7 mins; June 19, 2023
Stonewall Jackson Part 2: “I Was No Longer a Citizen of the United States, I Was a Citizen of Virginia.”
63 hours 38 mins; June 14, 2023
Stonewall Jackson Part 1: “Sir, I Am Not Fighting This War to Defend Slavery, I assure you.”
63 hours 55 mins; June 07, 2023
Can You Guess Who is Next With These 4 Hints?
5 mins; June 05, 2023
Santa Anna Part 2: Why Didn’t He Attack Sam Houston When He Had the Advantage?
43 mins; May 31, 2023
Santa Anna Part 1: “If You Have the Army, You Can Take Control of Mexico!”
46 mins; May 24, 2023
Can You Guess Who is Next With These 5 Hints?
8 mins; May 22, 2023
Peggy Shippen 2: Why Did You Have a Locket of John Andre’s Hair?
48 mins; May 17, 2023
Peggy Shippen Part 1: Victim or Mastermind?
53 mins; May 10, 2023
Can You Guess Who the Next Guest is With These 3 Hints?
5 mins; May 08, 2023
Bonus Episode: Happy ”May The Fourth Be With You!”
30 mins; May 04, 2023
Davy Crockett Part 2: You Can All Go to Hell! I’m Going to Texas.
54 mins; May 03, 2023
Davy Crockett Part 1: “Did You Really Kill a Bear with Your Bare hands?”
56 mins; April 26, 2023
James Madison Part 2: “… After That, George Washington Didn’t Talk to Me Again.”
51 mins; April 19, 2023
James Madison Part 1: “When You Wrote “Right to Bear Arms” in the Second Amendment, What Did You Mean?”
49 mins; April 12, 2023
John Brown Part 2: “…Nothing Was Being Done to Stop the Pro-Slavery Murderers!”
47 mins; April 05, 2023
John Brown Part 1: He Could Have Escaped at Harpers Ferry, But He Chose Death Instead.
50 mins; March 29, 2023
Martha Washington Part 2: If George Goes Back into Public Life, That Will Be a Difficult Conversation in the Bedroom.
48 mins; March 22, 2023
Martha Washington Part 1: What Happened After She Outlived Both Husbands and all Her Children?
51 mins; March 15, 2023
Frederick Douglass Part 2: What Did Frederick Douglas Say to Abraham Lincoln Once the Confederates Committed to Executing all Captured Black Soldiers?
44 mins; March 08, 2023
Frederick Douglass Part 1: After Fighting the “Slave Breaker” for 2 Hours, the Whippings Stopped, and Douglass Changed the World!
43 mins; March 01, 2023
Paul Revere Part 2: After Being Caught on his Midnight Ride the Major said, “If He Tries to Escape, Blow His Brains Out!”
50 mins; February 22, 2023
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