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Conservative Historian — 330 episodes
The Top Ten Dumbest Words in Our Dumb Political World
Coining History: A View of the Past through Coinage
The Origins of Labor Day
A History of Astronomy
The So Called Robber Barons
Sitcoms as History
The Seleucids and Alexander's Legacy
Hidden History - Revealed!
Five Historical Movies that Should be Made Today
Two-fer: Directors and Actors who Made More than One Historical Movie
Wickedness in the White House: A History of Presidential Financial Corruption
Roping History
250 Years and Counting: The Birth of American Independence
250 Years and Counting: What Would the Founders Think of America Today?
250 Years and Counting: Why the American Revolution was Special
The Obama Library (sorry) Center Accurately Represents its Subject
Quirky Historical Movies
Negotiable Nonsense: Do Most Major Conflicts End with Negotiation?
250 Years and Counting: The Top Eleven Events that Defined American Greatness
Gerrymandering and Uncapping the House: A Discussion with Jeff Mayhugh
Lyndon Johnson and the Limits of Progressivism: A Critique of the Great Society
Memorial Day: A History
Diocletian: Opportunist or Savior Emperor
Frenemy Kings: Richard the Lionheart and Philip Augustus
Stuck Up: Getting Caught in the War Trap
Bacon's Rebellion: An Interview with Jack Henneman
Cato and Caesar: Reform, Rigidity and One Person Rule
Antioch: Crossroads of Empire
Lord Liverpool: The Napoleonic Era and Beyond
No Kings: Incoherent and a Failure
A Brief History of Easter
Charles II: The Paradoxical King
Paul Erlich and the Willful Ignorance of History
Oscar 2026
The Top Ten Greatest Generals of All Time
American Presidents on Film: A Review of Executive Branch Cinema
The Wars of the Roses Part II: The Limits of Loyalty
The Wars of the Roses Part I: The Limits of Kingship
Outfoxing the British and Hunting Gangsters: A discussion of Two Books with John Oller
Casting Away: Selecting the Best Actors for Historical Movie Roles
Government by Theater Kids
Rational Policy in an Irrational World: An Interview with Mike Coté
Revisiting the Monroe Doctrine
The Comeback Kids: Seven Historical Figures Who Were Down but Came Back
The Dates of Christmas
Yi Sun-Sin: The Greatest Admiral of all Time?
Freedom to Choose: How Milton Friedman Saved Capitalism
Thankfulness and Thanksgiving
The Mirror, the Window and the Anchor: A Conservative Stand
Exorcising the Movies: A Look at 1970s Cinema compared to the 80s
A History of American Government Shutdowns
It's a Long Road to the Top If You Wanna Rock and Rule: Ten Rulers who Rose from Nothing
The Holy Roman States of America
Warrior Spirit: What Pete Hegseth Got Right and Wrong in his Big Speech
Repairing the House: Jeff Mayhugh and the Effort to Add Representation to Congress
My Plan for Fixing our Historic Debt and Deficit: Let the Madness Begin
Bad Apples: A History of Government Run Grocery Stores
What is Conservatism: A Discussion with Josh Lewis
Lost Cause, Lost Minds: A History of the Origins of the Civil War – Part Two
Lost Cause, Lost Minds: A History of the Origins of the Civil War – Part One
Conservative Historian Bookshelf - Volume 3
Drunk Cinema: A History of Movies about Alcoholics
Top 10 Historical Upgrades: Nations whose Rulers Went from Zero to Hero
A Critique of the Leftist View of History
Top 10 Historical Downgrades: Going from Good Leaders to Terrible, Awful Ones
The Luddites: Fear of Technology in 19th Century Britain
A History of Protests
Giving Up Power: Presidents Who Did not Run Again
(Nathanael) Greene New Deal
Ancient Alexandria and Modern LA: Riotous Behaviors
Growing up in the Depression and the War Years: Recollections of a Different Era
Memorial Day 2025
Wars of the Lord: Religion and Conflict in Colonial America
A History of Bribes and Trump’s Palace in the Sky
The Roots of the Imperial Presidency
Belisarius and the Roman Empire
Top Ten Diplomatic Triumphs
History vs. Nostalgia: A Tale of US Manufacturing
Chinese Dreams and History: An Interview with Professor Stephen R Platt
Readying for Surrender: The Lack of Money and Decline of Military Power in History
Perversions of History: The Platforming of Darryl Cooper and Martyr Made
Movies from the 1990s and Today
Top Ten Diplomatic Blunders in History
Bouncing Back: History Shows the Democrats Could Rebound Quickly
Revisiting the Crusades
Overreach: The Role of Executive Power
Trade Wind-bags: A Tale of Three Tariffs
The Perils of Single Person Rule
California Dreamin': A History of LA
Healthcare History and a Primer for Today
Top Five Historical Events of 2024
Top Ten Most Influential Figures of the Ancient World
Bloody Anti-Capitalism
Lies My Liberal Teacher Told Me: An Interview with Prof. Wilfred Reilly
Inside Job
Fourteen Historical Takeaways from the 2024 Election
Movies: Future Tense
Too Close to Call: Seven Close American Elections
A Brief History of Rent Control
Columbus vs. Indigenous Peoples Day
America is Not Rome
Dune and the Most Influential Man in History
Buchanan vs. Reagan: The Fight for the Soul of the Right: Part Two – Bad Politics
Buchanan vs. Reagan: The Fight for the Soul of the Right: Part One – Bad History
Russian Endgames
Heroes and Villains of World War II
Imbibing Them Vibes: (Other) Times When Our Politics Were Dumb
The Decline of Minds and Empires
Elites and Today's Politics
The Nightmare of Assassinations
Should Have Been Better: Historical Movies that Fell Flat
The American Revolution Was Exceptional
The Purpose of the American Revolution
The British Go South: A Story of the American War for Independence
Seven Reasons to Keep the Electoral College
Conservative Bookshelf - Volume 2
Flags of our (Founding) Fathers
Memorial Day
Congressional Kerfuffles, Catholicism, and the Kansas City Kicker
Settler Colonialism Through History
Bonfire of the Academies
The Historian and Hardihood Books: A Discussion with Ben Connelly About Non-Fiction and Fiction Writing
The Spider King: Successful Foreign Policy
Protests, Freedom of Speech and History
The Fourteen Most Pivotal Moments in Early American History
Civil Wars in History and Today
Ghosts of World War I
Rebel Yelling: The State of Adults in America
Party Crashings
Rank Rankings: Something Smells Bad About APSA"s Latest Presidential Survey
Politics, Parenting and History
Movies from 2023 (and a few from 2024)
The Rot in Our Institutions - Part Four: Life and Liberty
The Rot in Our Institutions – Part Three: My Time With the AMA
The Rot in Our Institutions – Part Two: Fixing the Academy
The Rot in Our Institutions - Part One: The Academy
Taiwan: Flashpoint in the East
Form Without Substance: Tojo, Trump, Biden and The Squire of Gothos
Haley Won't Be Running With Trump
Why are Historical Bio Pics Seldom Historical
The Road to Rational Policy
Starting the Clock: The Use of History with Israel and Palestine
Thanksgiving: A Historical Perspective of Gratitude
Trying to Save the Elephants
Debating the Value of Debates
Persia and Iran - Part Three: Terrors of the Future
Persia and Iran - Part Two: The Road to Revolution
Persia and Iran - Part One: Splendors of the Past
The Destruction of the Order of Assassins: Lessons for our Time
Escape or Educate: the Purpose of Movies
Six Reasons Why Rome Matters
Climate Change and Religion
Immigrations and Migrations - A Tale of Attila the Hun
Aged Rulers
The Folly of Isolationism in History
Lying in Plain Sight
Alarm Veeps
Masculinity and History - Part II
Masculinity and History - Part I
Dropping the Bomb: Why Truman was Right
Word Play
The Union that Dominates American Education: A Brief History of the American Federation of Teachers
Childlike Dissonance
Mercenaries: Italy, Persia and Putin
We Need More Babies
Can You Dig It? Archeology and Assyria
Movies and Rebels
Memorial Day
Black Cleopatra and Historical Documentaries
Leisure Time in the Past and Present
Opportunists and Leadership Vacuums
Despising Your Audience
Time to Move on From Trump: A Historical Look at his Chances of Election
Historical Insanities: Doing the Same Thing Over Again
The Left Acts and the Right Reacts
The Fog of War
Not RINOs, CINOs are the Problem
The 1619 Project and the Falsification of History
National Anthems: Only One Per Nation
Historical Movies and the Academy Awards
Before the Industrial Age: The False Eden
African American Conservative Writers: Black History Month Bookshelf
The Sad Endurance of Tyranny
The Hard Way - Clown House II
Clown House
The Necessity for Strong Allies
The Reagan Reaction and the Road to Trump
Youth Must be Served
The Corruption of Business
Fighting, Winning and Losing: Jackson, Trump and Ulysses S. Grant
Thomas Cahill: Great Historian
Missed Appropriation: No more Tacos, or Tuesday, and Definitely Not Taco Tuesday
The Stories We Tell
1894: The Midterm Election that Changed Everything
Gaslighting and History
Teacher Teacher: Plato and the Modern Academy
Movie Series and Prequals: Art or Money
How Sweet It Isn’t: American Historical Association President James Sweet Abjectly Cringes Before the Woke Mob
Are We Getting Dumber?
Presidential Historians - A Thirst for Influence
Banana Republic
A Brief History of the Supreme Court - Part V: Borking, Thomas, and SCOTUS at the Center of Society
A Brief History of the United States Supreme Court - Part IV: Judicial Activism and the Road to Roe
A Brief History of the United States Supreme Court – Part III: Two Presidents and a Marshall
A Brief History of the United States Supreme Court - Part II: The Nadir of the Supreme Court - Plessy V. Ferguson
A Brief History of the United States Supreme Court - Part I: The Role of the Court
Are You Serious
The Fall of the Game of Thrones and Real History
I Say Whip It, WHIP it Good!: A Story of Gerald Ford’s Whip Inflation Now Campaign
Fakery in History
No Easy Answers
Heroes, History and the Woke Left
Diversity and Military Success
Historical Movie Awokenings
Show Me the Money
Naked Cynicism in History and the Democrat plan for 2022
The Fall of the Soviet Union and Rise of Putin: Russian and Ukrainian History - Part V
The Soviet Union: Russian and Ukrainian History - Part IV
The Largest Nation on Earth: Russian and Ukrainian History – Part III
The pull of East and West: Russian and Ukrainian History – Part II
False Justifications for War: Russian and Ukrainian History - Part I
Legislators vs. Executives: Who are the better Presidents?
The Movie Back to School, Academia, Business, and Fame
Presidential Resets in American History
Americans, Meat Loaf, Maturation and Mortality
The Ghosts in the Machine
Peasants Revolt: Freedom and Risk
Four Revolutions
True Believers in History
The Seven Greatest Blunders in History
Security, Bridges, Babies and Behavior
The MOST Historically Accurate Movies - and More
A Brief History of American Education: Part II – The Dewey Disease
A Brief History of American Education: Part I – Purpose and Public Schools
Trojan Horses and the Biden Build Back Better Bloated Boondoggle Bomination
American Royal
Politics as Performance: Boris, Julius, and AOC
A Brief History of Social Security
The Political Generals and the Withdraw from Afghanistan
On the Frontiers: Foreign Policy in Ancient Rome, Tang Dynasty China, and America
Afghanistan: Graveyard of Empires or U.S. Exceptionalism
The Art of War
Historical Hits - Episode 1
Henry VIII, Marcus Aurelius, Abdul Aziz and Voting in a Republic
They Blinded Me With Science
A Brief History of Taxation
The Hollywood Dilemma
Top Ten Historical Movies that Should Be Made
Who's in Charge? A History of Figurehead Rulers
What is Conservative History
The Purpose of a Military
Two States: A Brief History of the Jews and Israel - Part II
To Your Offspring I will Give this Land: A Brief History of the Jews and Israel - Part I
5 Good Historical TV Shows and Their Sort of Evil Twin
Why Big Corporate America is Going Woke
The Virus Attacking our Republic
Jim Crow and the False Narrative of 2021
Historically Old and COVID-19
Real Historical Crisis
Asian American Discrimination in the United States
Naked Moments in History
A Brief History of "Media"
Meghan and Harry and the Monarchial Presidency
Presidential Priest Kings
The CH Fixes Seven Liberal Movies
Cleveland, Trump and Teddy and the Hard Math
Mansa Musa - African Titan
Washington vs. Du Bois: The Fight for the African American Identity
GameStop and the Ghost of JP Morgan
Activists - The Running Sore on the Body Politic
Augustus Caesar - What History has to Teach
A Peaceful March on Washington
Ida Tarbell, John D Rockefeller, and the Falsity of Progressive History
Conservatism at the Crossroads
Two Days that Cost Donald Trump the Presidency
Monopolies are Very Bad - Except Big Education Part II
Monopolies are Very Bad - Except Big Education Part I
Guns, Opportunities and Gender
Western Colonialism - A Different Perspective
Doctor Doctor, Give Me the News (or the prognosis)
Walter Williams - A Different Way
Top 14 Least Historically Accurate Movies
Barack Obama: The Promise and the Promised Land
Historical Book Shelf Volume 1
Six Reasons to Keep the Electoral College
Alexander of Macedon and the Sometimes Badness of Being "Great"
NPR and PBS – A Case for Privatization
A Selected History of Presidential Defeats
Conservative Historian Book Excerpt Number 3
A Wariness of Certitude
Bruce Springsteen, Joe Biden, and Conservatism
Movies, Mayhem and the Media - An Interview with Gustavus Aves
Conservative Historian Book - Free Excerpt Number 2
Conservative Historian Book Free Excerpt - "On History"
Patrisse Cullors vs. Shelby Steele - A Tale of Two African American Voices
The Post Presidential Money Grab
The Pyramids, the Taj Mahal, and Social Security
Lamentations of Our Times
Dr. Seuss and the College Experience
Joe Biden, Henry Wallace, the election of 1944, and Kamala Harris
The Supreme Court of United States: Selected History
Reason for Being: The People’s Party and the BLM Organization
Joe Biden and the Potemkin Campaign
The Maginot Line and American Politics
The Vice Presidential Choice through U.S. History
Vive la révolution: The French Revolution and Modern American Protests
What Makes Civilizations Strong
Elections that Actually Did Change Everything
Top 20 Historical Movies
COVID Chronicles: Three Pieces about the Coronavirus
The Historical Context of Class Envy, Marxism and the Road to Power
The Four Pillars of the Academy: Is this Institution Necessary?
Heroes, History, and the Woke Left
The Seven Deadly Sins and Conservative Philosophy
Never Sports: Why I am Quitting Support of Sports (At Least for Now)
Follow the Dream, Follow the Money: How a Sultan and a Pope explain the New York Times Pivot
Why Reparations is a Bad Idea
Defund the University
Star Trek: Race and Risk in 2020
Systemic Racism: A New View
A Revival of the Case for Term Limits
The American President Movie - 25 Years Later
Trump: TV and Real Life
The Myth of Publicly Funded Infrastructure
The American Family and the Emanation of Affluence
1619 Project and the Minting of Money
China in the Past and Today
A Modest Proposal on Climate Change
Is Healthcare a Right?
Worst Historical Movies