All Episodes

5.06 God is Dead

State of the Podcast 2025

State of the Podcast

5.05 The Long March

5.04 The Two Constitutions

5.03 Fiery But Mostly Forgotten

5.02 Selected Not Elected

5.01 The Great Unraveling

4.36 The Track of Ghosts

4.35 "Into the Green Hell" The New Guinea Campaign part 1

Interview: Samuel Marquis

Bonus Episode: 1983 Part 2

Bonus Episode: 1983 Part 1

Bonus Episode: 1983: the Year the World Almost Ended: Ronald Reagan

Bonus: 1983: The Year the World Almost Ended: American Decline to American Resurgence

Bonus Episode: 1983, the Year the World Almost Ended: Jimmy Carter and the Cold War

Bonus Episode: 1983 The Year the World Almost Ended: The Soviet Union from WWII to the 1970s

Bonus: 1983: The Year the World Almost Ended: The Workers State 2

Bonus: 1983, the Year the World Almost Ended: The Workers State 1

Bonus: 1983: The Year the World Almost Ended: The Cold War in the 1970s

Bonus: 1983: The Year the World Almost Ended: The Cold War in the 1960s

Bonus: 1983: The Year the World Almost Ended:: The Cold War Overview, the 1940s and 50's

Bonus: 1983: The Year the World Almost Ended: The Cold War

Bonus episode: Rednecks, Crackers and Donald Trump

Bonus Episode: Quagmire in the Middle East part 2

Bonus Episode: Quagmire in the Middle East

Interview: Author Stuart A Reid

4.34 WWII in China, part 3

Interview Episode: Eli Merritt

4.33 WWII in China part 2

Bonus Episode: Historian Katherine C. Mooney

Bonus Author Interview: Craig Nelson

4.32 WWII in China part 1

4.31 The Naval Battle of Guadalcanal

4.30 The Santa Cruz Islands

Bonus episode: Interview with author Kathy Joseph

4.29 Guadalcanal part 5

Bonus Interview: Author Debra Yates

Bonus Episode: Interview with historian Matthew Delmont

Bonus Episode: Interview with author Alexander Rose

Bonus Episode: Author William Inboden

4.28 The Guadalcanal campaign part 4

Bonus Episode: Scott Horton

4.27 The Guadalcanal Campaign, part 3

4.26 The Guadalcanal Campaign part 2

4.25 The Guadalcanal Campaign part 1

4.24. Summer 1942

4.23 The Battle of Midway

4.22 The Battle of the Coral Sea

Bonus Episode: Interview with Author William Taylor

4.21 Spring 1942

Bonus Episode: Cronyism in American History

Bonus Episode: Interview Peter Shae

Bonus Episode: Eric J. Dolan

Bonus Episode: Historian Neil Lanctot

Bonus Episode: Interview with historian Deborah Cohen

4.20 The Southwest Pacific Theater, part 2

4.19 The Southwest Pacific Theater, Part 1

4.18 Ramping Up the War Effort Part 2

4.17 Ramping Up the War Effort Part 1

4.16 The U.S. Navy Strikes Back

Bonus Episode: U.S.-Russia relations 1991-2014

4.15 The Admiral, the President and the Prime Minister

4.14 The Aftermath of Pearl Harbor

Bonus Episode: Horton on Afghanistan

Bonus Episode: the Cold War in the 1960s.

4.13 Pearl Harbor

4.12 The Road to War Part 3

4.11 The Road to War Part 2

4.10 The Road to War I

4.9 The Second Sino Japanese War, part 2

4.8 Chiang and Mao part 2

4.7 Chiang and Mao part I

4.6 China in the early 20th Century

4.5 Sino Japanese War, part 1

4.4 Rise of Militant Japan

4.3 Japan in the Early 20th Century

4.2 Meiji Japan

4.1 Introduction to WWII in the Pacific

Bonus Episode: Interview with Scott Horton

4th Anniversary Bonus Episode

4th of July Bonus Episode: The Declaration of Independence

Bonus Episode: Cold War Potpourri

3.32 Assessing the Progressive Era

3.31 The New Deal Part 2 and its Critics

3.30 The New Deal part 1

3.29 FDR and the Election of 1932

3.28 Causes of the Great Depression

3.27 Hoover and the Great Depression

3.26 Calvin Coolidge

3.25 Harding and the Depression of 1920

3.24 American Society in the 1920's part 2

3.23 American Society in the 1920s part 1

Bonus Episode: Germany and the United States

3.22 The Paris Peace Conference

3.21 The U.S. in WWI part 2

3.20 The United States in WWI part 1

3.19 The Imperial Moment part 4

3.18 The Imperial Moment Part 3

3.17 The Imperial Moment Part 2