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American History Hotline — 68 episodes
25 Years After 9/11: What Did America Learn from the War on Terror? | Peter Bergen
Trump Ranked the Presidents. A Historian Responds
Why Does America Have the Electoral College? Peter Sagal Explains
Why Did the U.S. Army Keep Disbanding the Rangers?
How Did the Cold War End? Reagan, Gorbachev & the Secret Summit That Changed History
Why Did Disease Devastate Native Americans—but Not European Colonists? | Charles C. Mann
The Man Who Saved Kyoto?
Did Amelia Earhart survive her disappearance? (Part 2)
What Happened to Amelia Earhart? Inside the World's Greatest Aviation Mystery (Part 1)
Do Americans Have a Right to Know the President's Health?
Did Jim Morrison's Dad Start the Vietnam War?
Who Invented School? The Surprising History of Education in America
Was Abortion Always Controversial? From the Pilgrims to Dobbs v. Jackson
Why Is Congress So Old? And How Can We Change This?
The Pequot War: Native American Diplomacy and Warfare
What was Ellis Island Really Like?
Did JFK Save a Man's Life?
Is it Time for a Third Party?
Did Thomas Jefferson Steal the Declaration of Independence?
Was Clara Barton a Bad Ass? [from American History Hotline]
Was Clara Barton a Bad Ass?
What's the Real Story of Disney's "Newsies"?
John Quincy Adams: From President to Anti-Slavery Firebrand (Live in DC)
Mary Had a Little Typhoid
The Constitution vs. Authoritarianism
How Did Hollywood Survive the Great Depression?
Sybil Ludington: 16-Year-Old Hero of the American Revolution
What Happened to Aaron Burr After He Killed Alexander Hamilton?
Why Do We Spring Forward?
Was Disney's Balto a True Story?
Did Willy Wonka's Creator Spy on America?
A Washington & Lincoln Birthday Special!
Are the Olympics an Appropriate Place for Protest?
Who Integrated the NFL?
Can the President Tear Down the White House?
Abraham Lincoln Before the Presidency: What He Learned as a Lawmaker
Montezuma's Revenge! Debunking the Myth of the Spanish Conquest
America Loves Trains. Why Can't We Build Them Anymore? Inside NYC's Second Avenue Subway
Can We Add a Fifth Face to Mount Rushmore? The History and Future of the Monument
Are These Really the Best Movies of the 21st Century? Debating the NYT's Top 100
Death by Lightning: What Netflix Got Right (and Wrong) About a Presidential Assassination
Was Johnny Appleseed a Real Person? The Man Behind the Myth
The Surprising History of Vaccines in America with Kathryn Olivarius
Why Were There So Many Serial Killers in 1970s America?
Is Thanksgiving a Feast of Lies?! Historian David J. Silverman Separates Myth from Truth
When Murder Was Legal …ish
How Did Big Tech Take Over Our Elections?
Why Won't Daylight Saving Time Die?
Hunting Witches: What Started the Salem Witch Trials?
Hail to the Cheapskate: How Presidents Made (and Spent) Their Money
What Was Columbus REALLY Like?
What's Wrong with Blackface?
Why Watergate Didn't Bother Lynyrd Skynyrd / Ozzy vs. Winged Creatures
Dueling in Early America: Hamilton, Burr, and Honor Culture with Lindsay Chervinsky
What's a Buffalo Soldier?
Why Do Third Parties Fail?
Episode Title Redacted: From the Files of the CIA
Arsenic and Cyanide: The Dark Side of Victorian Womanhood in America
Peter Sagal: Is the Electoral College "America's Worst Idea"?
Why Haven't We Returned to the Moon in 50+ Years?
America's Favorite Fighting Frenchman: Lafayette
Was Disease the Biggest Killer in the Civil War?
What's up with George Washington's Teeth?
Would Lincoln Be a Republican Today?
Can the Great Depression Happen Again?
Does the Constitution Prevent A Dictator?
Dead on the 4th of July
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