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Calling History: Listen In on Conversations with History’s Most Influential People.

The Calling History Podcast is an unscripted, interview style phone conversation with the heroes, the villains, and the great thinkers of history. It’s an opportunity to ask them anything, in their time, while they are living it. How did Benjamin Franklin feel about leaving his comfortable life of fame and excess in London as a loyal British citizen to risk it all and return to America as a rebel? How did record setting Louise Thaden feel about racing and beating Amelia Earhart and yet her name is almost unknown? Who is Jack the Ripper and why did he enter th...

Paul Revere Part 1: Why Was he Charged with Cowardice After Risking His Freedom at the Boston Tea Party, and His Life on the Midnight Ride?

54 mins; February 15, 2023

Harriet Tubman Part 2: “What? There Is a Regular Bible and a Slave Bible?”

44 mins; February 08, 2023

Harriet Tubman Part 1: “I’ll Either Pray for You or I’ll Pray Over you.”

46 mins; February 01, 2023

Abigail Adams Part 2: When Asked If “Violence Was Necessary”, Abigail Outsmarted Me Again.

45 mins; January 25, 2023

Abigail Adams Part 1: Why Did Abigail Adams Threaten a “Women’s Revolt” in a Letter to John Adams.

51 mins; January 18, 2023

Jack the Ripper Part 2: Why Was Only One Ripper Murder Committed Indoors and Why Was It the Most Gruesome of All?

57 mins; January 11, 2023

Jack the Ripper Part 1: Who Was the Russian Prince That Hired Three Men to Commit the Ripper Murders?

59 mins; January 04, 2023

Mary Todd Lincoln Part 2: Did Mary Take Money on the Side from Those Wanting to Influence the President?

52 mins; December 28, 2022

Mary Todd Lincoln Part 1: Was She a Reckless Shopaholic Spending Money that Could Have Helped Battlefield Soldiers or a Brilliant Political Ally for Abe?

53 mins; December 21, 2022

Jefferson Davis Part 2: “The Constitution Was a Pro-Slavery Document”

38 mins; December 14, 2022

Jefferson Davis Part 1: “The Civil War Was Not About Slavery, it Was About …”

57 mins; December 07, 2022

John Hancock Part 2: The Answer About His Involvement in the Boston Tea Party is Hilarious!

48 mins; November 30, 2022

John Hancock Part 1: “I Respect People That Bend the Law Like That.”

52 mins; November 23, 2022

Louise Thaden: She Beat Amelia Earhart, She Beat the Men, and She Raised the Bar for Women in the Air Forever.

61 hours 39 mins; November 16, 2022

Joseph Warren Part 2: He Was the First Doctor to Arrive at the Boston Massacre.

43 mins; November 09, 2022

Joseph Warren Part 1: At The Battle of Bunker Hill, Joseph Warren Said, “Send Me to Where the Fighting is Fiercest.”

51 mins; November 09, 2022

Ulysses S. Grant Part 2: There Were So Many Flies Hovering Over the Bodies, the Sky Went Dark.

74 hours 1 min; November 02, 2022

Ulysses S. Grant Part 1: How did Grant Handle losing 23,746 men in 36 hours?

63 hours 10 mins; November 02, 2022

Aaron Burr Part 2: Aaron Burr Saved Alexander Hamilton’s Life Before He Took It.

42 mins; October 26, 2022

Aaron Burr Part 1: How Was He Serving as Vice President While Dodging Jefferson’s Warrant to Have Him Arrested?

47 mins; October 26, 2022

Henry David Thoreau Part 2: “I Will Break That Law as Often as I Can.”

48 mins; October 19, 2022

Henry David Thoreau Part 1: Why Did He Choose to Live at Walden Pond For Exactly 2 years, 2 Months, and 2 Days?

49 mins; October 12, 2022

George Washington Part 2: ”Would You Rather Be a Great General or a Great President?”

53 mins; October 12, 2022

George Washington Part 1: Did Fate Prevent the Assassin’s Bullet from Killing Young George Washington Long Before He Crossed the Delaware?

54 mins; October 05, 2022

Benedict Arnold Part 2: Why Did He Lead the Attack to Destroy His Hometown?

57 mins; September 27, 2022

Benedict Arnold Part 1: His Justification for NOT Being a Traitor Will Make You Question What You Think You Know

62 hours 28 mins; September 27, 2022

Mark Twain Part 2: How Was He a Best-Selling Author, A Highly Paid Speaker, and Bankrupt?

56 mins; September 27, 2022

Mark Twain Part 1: “You Want to Know What I Think of the Damned Human Race…”

52 mins; September 27, 2022

Benjamin Franklin Part 2: Why Did He Give His Inventions to The World Without Profiting From Them?

51 mins; September 27, 2022

Benjamin Franklin Part 1: That Is the exact Moment I Became a Patriot!

55 mins; September 27, 2022

John Adams Part 2: Adams Knew That He Could Do More with His Words Than He Could with a Musket.

63 hours 22 mins; September 20, 2022

John Adams Part 1: Why Were the French Attacking American Ships When Adams Was Elected?

59 mins; September 20, 2022

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