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Conservative Historian — 324 episodes

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1

The Seleucids and Alexander's Legacy

2

Hidden History - Revealed!

3

Five Historical Movies that Should be Made Today

4

Two-fer: Directors and Actors who Made More than One Historical Movie

5

Wickedness in the White House: A History of Presidential Financial Corruption

6

Roping History

7

250 Years and Counting: The Birth of American Independence

8

250 Years and Counting: What Would the Founders Think of America Today?

9

250 Years and Counting: Why the American Revolution was Special

10

The Obama Library (sorry) Center Accurately Represents its Subject

11

Quirky Historical Movies

12

Negotiable Nonsense: Do Most Major Conflicts End with Negotiation?

13

250 Years and Counting: The Top Eleven Events that Defined American Greatness

14

Gerrymandering and Uncapping the House: A Discussion with Jeff Mayhugh

15

Lyndon Johnson and the Limits of Progressivism: A Critique of the Great Society

16

Memorial Day: A History

17

Diocletian: Opportunist or Savior Emperor

18

Frenemy Kings: Richard the Lionheart and Philip Augustus

19

Stuck Up: Getting Caught in the War Trap

20

Bacon's Rebellion: An Interview with Jack Henneman

21

Cato and Caesar: Reform, Rigidity and One Person Rule

22

Antioch: Crossroads of Empire

23

Lord Liverpool: The Napoleonic Era and Beyond

24

No Kings: Incoherent and a Failure

25

A Brief History of Easter

26

Charles II: The Paradoxical King

27

Paul Erlich and the Willful Ignorance of History

28

Oscar 2026

29

The Top Ten Greatest Generals of All Time

30

American Presidents on Film: A Review of Executive Branch Cinema

31

The Wars of the Roses Part II: The Limits of Loyalty

32

The Wars of the Roses Part I: The Limits of Kingship

33

Outfoxing the British and Hunting Gangsters: A discussion of Two Books with John Oller

34

Casting Away: Selecting the Best Actors for Historical Movie Roles

35

Government by Theater Kids

36

Rational Policy in an Irrational World: An Interview with Mike Coté

37

Revisiting the Monroe Doctrine

38

The Comeback Kids: Seven Historical Figures Who Were Down but Came Back

39

The Dates of Christmas

40

Yi Sun-Sin: The Greatest Admiral of all Time?

41

Freedom to Choose: How Milton Friedman Saved Capitalism

42

Thankfulness and Thanksgiving

43

The Mirror, the Window and the Anchor: A Conservative Stand

44

Exorcising the Movies: A Look at 1970s Cinema compared to the 80s

45

A History of American Government Shutdowns

46

It's a Long Road to the Top If You Wanna Rock and Rule: Ten Rulers who Rose from Nothing

47

The Holy Roman States of America

48

Warrior Spirit: What Pete Hegseth Got Right and Wrong in his Big Speech

49

Repairing the House: Jeff Mayhugh and the Effort to Add Representation to Congress

50

My Plan for Fixing our Historic Debt and Deficit: Let the Madness Begin

51

Bad Apples: A History of Government Run Grocery Stores

52

What is Conservatism: A Discussion with Josh Lewis

53

Lost Cause, Lost Minds: A History of the Origins of the Civil War – Part Two

54

Lost Cause, Lost Minds: A History of the Origins of the Civil War – Part One

55

Conservative Historian Bookshelf - Volume 3

56

Drunk Cinema: A History of Movies about Alcoholics

57

Top 10 Historical Upgrades: Nations whose Rulers Went from Zero to Hero

58

A Critique of the Leftist View of History

59

Top 10 Historical Downgrades: Going from Good Leaders to Terrible, Awful Ones

60

The Luddites: Fear of Technology in 19th Century Britain

61

A History of Protests

62

Giving Up Power: Presidents Who Did not Run Again

63

(Nathanael) Greene New Deal

64

Ancient Alexandria and Modern LA: Riotous Behaviors

65

Growing up in the Depression and the War Years: Recollections of a Different Era

66

Memorial Day 2025

67

Wars of the Lord: Religion and Conflict in Colonial America

68

A History of Bribes and Trump’s Palace in the Sky

69

The Roots of the Imperial Presidency

70

Belisarius and the Roman Empire

71

Top Ten Diplomatic Triumphs

72

History vs. Nostalgia: A Tale of US Manufacturing

73

Chinese Dreams and History: An Interview with Professor Stephen R Platt

74

Readying for Surrender: The Lack of Money and Decline of Military Power in History

75

Perversions of History: The Platforming of Darryl Cooper and Martyr Made

76

Movies from the 1990s and Today

77

Top Ten Diplomatic Blunders in History

78

Bouncing Back: History Shows the Democrats Could Rebound Quickly

79

Revisiting the Crusades

80

Overreach: The Role of Executive Power

81

Trade Wind-bags: A Tale of Three Tariffs

82

The Perils of Single Person Rule

83

California Dreamin': A History of LA

84

Healthcare History and a Primer for Today

85

Top Five Historical Events of 2024

86

Top Ten Most Influential Figures of the Ancient World

87

Bloody Anti-Capitalism

88

Lies My Liberal Teacher Told Me: An Interview with Prof. Wilfred Reilly

89

Inside Job

90

Fourteen Historical Takeaways from the 2024 Election

91

Movies: Future Tense

92

Too Close to Call: Seven Close American Elections

93

A Brief History of Rent Control

94

Columbus vs. Indigenous Peoples Day

95

America is Not Rome

96

Dune and the Most Influential Man in History

97

Buchanan vs. Reagan: The Fight for the Soul of the Right: Part Two – Bad Politics

98

Buchanan vs. Reagan: The Fight for the Soul of the Right: Part One – Bad History

99

Russian Endgames

100

Heroes and Villains of World War II

101

Imbibing Them Vibes: (Other) Times When Our Politics Were Dumb

102

The Decline of Minds and Empires

103

Elites and Today's Politics

104

The Nightmare of Assassinations

105

Should Have Been Better: Historical Movies that Fell Flat

106

The American Revolution Was Exceptional

107

The Purpose of the American Revolution

108

The British Go South: A Story of the American War for Independence

109

Seven Reasons to Keep the Electoral College

110

Conservative Bookshelf - Volume 2

111

Flags of our (Founding) Fathers

112

Memorial Day

113

Congressional Kerfuffles, Catholicism, and the Kansas City Kicker

114

Settler Colonialism Through History

115

Bonfire of the Academies

116

The Historian and Hardihood Books: A Discussion with Ben Connelly About Non-Fiction and Fiction Writing

117

The Spider King: Successful Foreign Policy

118

Protests, Freedom of Speech and History

119

The Fourteen Most Pivotal Moments in Early American History

120

Civil Wars in History and Today

121

Ghosts of World War I

122

Rebel Yelling: The State of Adults in America

123

Party Crashings

124

Rank Rankings: Something Smells Bad About APSA"s Latest Presidential Survey

125

Politics, Parenting and History

126

Movies from 2023 (and a few from 2024)

127

The Rot in Our Institutions - Part Four: Life and Liberty

128

The Rot in Our Institutions – Part Three: My Time With the AMA

129

The Rot in Our Institutions – Part Two: Fixing the Academy

130

The Rot in Our Institutions - Part One: The Academy

131

Taiwan: Flashpoint in the East

132

Form Without Substance: Tojo, Trump, Biden and The Squire of Gothos

133

Haley Won't Be Running With Trump

134

Why are Historical Bio Pics Seldom Historical

135

The Road to Rational Policy

136

Starting the Clock: The Use of History with Israel and Palestine

137

Thanksgiving: A Historical Perspective of Gratitude

138

Trying to Save the Elephants

139

Debating the Value of Debates

140

Persia and Iran - Part Three: Terrors of the Future

141

Persia and Iran - Part Two: The Road to Revolution

142

Persia and Iran - Part One: Splendors of the Past

143

The Destruction of the Order of Assassins: Lessons for our Time

144

Escape or Educate: the Purpose of Movies

145

Six Reasons Why Rome Matters

146

Climate Change and Religion

147

Immigrations and Migrations - A Tale of Attila the Hun

148

Aged Rulers

149

The Folly of Isolationism in History

150

Lying in Plain Sight

151

Alarm Veeps

152

Masculinity and History - Part II

153

Masculinity and History - Part I

154

Dropping the Bomb: Why Truman was Right

155

Word Play

156

The Union that Dominates American Education: A Brief History of the American Federation of Teachers

157

Childlike Dissonance

158

Mercenaries: Italy, Persia and Putin

159

We Need More Babies

160

Can You Dig It? Archeology and Assyria

161

Movies and Rebels

162

Memorial Day

163

Black Cleopatra and Historical Documentaries

164

Leisure Time in the Past and Present

165

Opportunists and Leadership Vacuums

166

Despising Your Audience

167

Time to Move on From Trump: A Historical Look at his Chances of Election

168

Historical Insanities: Doing the Same Thing Over Again

169

The Left Acts and the Right Reacts

170

The Fog of War

171

Not RINOs, CINOs are the Problem

172

The 1619 Project and the Falsification of History

173

National Anthems: Only One Per Nation

174

Historical Movies and the Academy Awards

175

Before the Industrial Age: The False Eden

176

African American Conservative Writers: Black History Month Bookshelf

177

The Sad Endurance of Tyranny

178

The Hard Way - Clown House II

179

Clown House

180

The Necessity for Strong Allies

181

The Reagan Reaction and the Road to Trump

182

Youth Must be Served

183

The Corruption of Business

184

Fighting, Winning and Losing: Jackson, Trump and Ulysses S. Grant

185

Thomas Cahill: Great Historian

186

Missed Appropriation: No more Tacos, or Tuesday, and Definitely Not Taco Tuesday

187

The Stories We Tell

188

1894: The Midterm Election that Changed Everything

189

Gaslighting and History

190

Teacher Teacher: Plato and the Modern Academy

191

Movie Series and Prequals: Art or Money

192

How Sweet It Isn’t: American Historical Association President James Sweet Abjectly Cringes Before the Woke Mob

193

Are We Getting Dumber?

194

Presidential Historians - A Thirst for Influence

195

Banana Republic

196

A Brief History of the Supreme Court - Part V: Borking, Thomas, and SCOTUS at the Center of Society

197

A Brief History of the United States Supreme Court - Part IV: Judicial Activism and the Road to Roe

198

A Brief History of the United States Supreme Court – Part III: Two Presidents and a Marshall

199

A Brief History of the United States Supreme Court - Part II: The Nadir of the Supreme Court - Plessy V. Ferguson

200

A Brief History of the United States Supreme Court - Part I: The Role of the Court

201

Are You Serious

202

The Fall of the Game of Thrones and Real History

203

I Say Whip It, WHIP it Good!: A Story of Gerald Ford’s Whip Inflation Now Campaign

204

Fakery in History

205

No Easy Answers

206

Heroes, History and the Woke Left

207

Diversity and Military Success

208

Historical Movie Awokenings

209

Show Me the Money

210

Naked Cynicism in History and the Democrat plan for 2022

211

The Fall of the Soviet Union and Rise of Putin: Russian and Ukrainian History - Part V

212

The Soviet Union: Russian and Ukrainian History - Part IV

213

The Largest Nation on Earth: Russian and Ukrainian History – Part III

214

The pull of East and West: Russian and Ukrainian History – Part II

215

False Justifications for War: Russian and Ukrainian History - Part I

216

Legislators vs. Executives: Who are the better Presidents?

217

The Movie Back to School, Academia, Business, and Fame

218

Presidential Resets in American History

219

Americans, Meat Loaf, Maturation and Mortality

220

The Ghosts in the Machine

221

Peasants Revolt: Freedom and Risk

222

Four Revolutions

223

True Believers in History

224

The Seven Greatest Blunders in History

225

Security, Bridges, Babies and Behavior

226

The MOST Historically Accurate Movies - and More

227

A Brief History of American Education: Part II – The Dewey Disease

228

A Brief History of American Education: Part I – Purpose and Public Schools

229

Trojan Horses and the Biden Build Back Better Bloated Boondoggle Bomination

230

American Royal

231

Politics as Performance: Boris, Julius, and AOC

232

A Brief History of Social Security

233

The Political Generals and the Withdraw from Afghanistan

234

On the Frontiers: Foreign Policy in Ancient Rome, Tang Dynasty China, and America

235

Afghanistan: Graveyard of Empires or U.S. Exceptionalism

236

The Art of War

237

Historical Hits - Episode 1

238

Henry VIII, Marcus Aurelius, Abdul Aziz and Voting in a Republic

239

They Blinded Me With Science

240

A Brief History of Taxation

241

The Hollywood Dilemma

242

Top Ten Historical Movies that Should Be Made

243

Who's in Charge? A History of Figurehead Rulers

244

What is Conservative History

245

The Purpose of a Military

246

Two States: A Brief History of the Jews and Israel - Part II

247

To Your Offspring I will Give this Land: A Brief History of the Jews and Israel - Part I

248

5 Good Historical TV Shows and Their Sort of Evil Twin

249

Why Big Corporate America is Going Woke

250

The Virus Attacking our Republic

251

Jim Crow and the False Narrative of 2021

252

Historically Old and COVID-19

253

Real Historical Crisis

254

Asian American Discrimination in the United States

255

Naked Moments in History

256

A Brief History of "Media"

257

Meghan and Harry and the Monarchial Presidency

258

Presidential Priest Kings

259

The CH Fixes Seven Liberal Movies

260

Cleveland, Trump and Teddy and the Hard Math

261

Mansa Musa - African Titan

262

Washington vs. Du Bois: The Fight for the African American Identity

263

GameStop and the Ghost of JP Morgan

264

Activists - The Running Sore on the Body Politic

265

Augustus Caesar - What History has to Teach

266

A Peaceful March on Washington

267

Ida Tarbell, John D Rockefeller, and the Falsity of Progressive History

268

Conservatism at the Crossroads

269

Two Days that Cost Donald Trump the Presidency

270

Monopolies are Very Bad - Except Big Education Part II

271

Monopolies are Very Bad - Except Big Education Part I

272

Guns, Opportunities and Gender

273

Western Colonialism - A Different Perspective

274

Doctor Doctor, Give Me the News (or the prognosis)

275

Walter Williams - A Different Way

276

Top 14 Least Historically Accurate Movies

277

Barack Obama: The Promise and the Promised Land

278

Historical Book Shelf Volume 1

279

Six Reasons to Keep the Electoral College

280

Alexander of Macedon and the Sometimes Badness of Being "Great"

281

NPR and PBS – A Case for Privatization

282

A Selected History of Presidential Defeats

283

Conservative Historian Book Excerpt Number 3

284

A Wariness of Certitude

285

Bruce Springsteen, Joe Biden, and Conservatism

286

Movies, Mayhem and the Media - An Interview with Gustavus Aves

287

Conservative Historian Book - Free Excerpt Number 2

288

Conservative Historian Book Free Excerpt - "On History"

289

Patrisse Cullors vs. Shelby Steele - A Tale of Two African American Voices

290

The Post Presidential Money Grab

291

The Pyramids, the Taj Mahal, and Social Security

292

Lamentations of Our Times

293

Dr. Seuss and the College Experience

294

Joe Biden, Henry Wallace, the election of 1944, and Kamala Harris

295

The Supreme Court of United States: Selected History

296

Reason for Being: The People’s Party and the BLM Organization

297

Joe Biden and the Potemkin Campaign

298

The Maginot Line and American Politics

299

The Vice Presidential Choice through U.S. History

300

Vive la révolution: The French Revolution and Modern American Protests

301

What Makes Civilizations Strong

302

Elections that Actually Did Change Everything

303

Top 20 Historical Movies

304

COVID Chronicles: Three Pieces about the Coronavirus

305

The Historical Context of Class Envy, Marxism and the Road to Power

306

The Four Pillars of the Academy: Is this Institution Necessary?

307

Heroes, History, and the Woke Left

308

The Seven Deadly Sins and Conservative Philosophy

309

Never Sports: Why I am Quitting Support of Sports (At Least for Now)

310

Follow the Dream, Follow the Money: How a Sultan and a Pope explain the New York Times Pivot

311

Why Reparations is a Bad Idea

312

Defund the University

313

Star Trek: Race and Risk in 2020

314

Systemic Racism: A New View

315

A Revival of the Case for Term Limits

316

The American President Movie - 25 Years Later

317

Trump: TV and Real Life

318

The Myth of Publicly Funded Infrastructure

319

The American Family and the Emanation of Affluence

320

1619 Project and the Minting of Money

321

China in the Past and Today

322

A Modest Proposal on Climate Change

323

Is Healthcare a Right?

324

Worst Historical Movies