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History Notes — 143 episodes
The Investiture Controversy
The Treaty of Lausanne and the End of the Ottoman Empire
The Story of Alcoholics Anonymous
The 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival
Jamaican Independence
The Greco-Turkish War
Waitangi Day: The Complicated Story
The 14th Amendment
The Duel Between Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton
Who was Typhoid Mary?
The Battle of Bosworth Field
The 1992 Los Angeles Rebellion
President James Garfield's Assassination
The Discovery of Pluto
Ten Iconic World Series
Gwangju Then and Now
Project Blue Book: America's Obsession with UFOs
1066: The Normans Conquer England
War of the Pacific, 1879-1884: Chile vs. Peru and Bolivia
The Bhopal Chemical Gas Disaster
The Legacy of the Magna Carta
The Birth of Peronism
Top Ten Popes Before 1500
Albert Hofmann and the Discovery of LSD
Justice for the Rwandan Genocide
The Great Fire of Rome
The Tunguska Mystery Explosion
10 Great World War II Films
Haile Selassie I and an Independent Ethiopia
Joseph Smith and the Book of Mormon
The Berlin Airlift
The Founding of the People's Republic of China
The Story of Poinsettia Day and U.S.-Mexico Relations
Our Top Ten Historical Musicals
Congolese Rumba: Soundtrack to African Political Struggle
The Very Modern Alice in Wonderland
Solar Eclipses in American History
The 1956 Hungarian Revolution
The Battle for Manila
The Historical Dominance of the Electric Car
SpaghettiOs and the Age of Processed Foods
Operation Barbarossa
Mariner 9: Our 1st Steps to Mars
The 1st Modern Olympic Games, Athens 1896
The Marshall Plan
The Ludlow Massacre: Fighting for Workers’ Rights, 1914
History's Top Spies
Making Sense of South Korean Politics
Martin Luther and the Protestant Reformation
Idi Amin's Uganda
Gorillas in the Mist: The Life and Legacy of Dian Fossey
Operation Wetback: The Roots of Immigrant Deportations Today
Rumble in the Jungle: The 1974 Foreman / Ali Heavyweight Title Fight
Betty Friedan's "The Feminine Mystique"
The First Insulin Injection for Diabetes
The Nuremberg Judgment
Remembering Roman Emperor Augustus
Why Did Japan Attack Pearl Harbor?
Defining Refugees
The Mother of Rock and Roll: Sister Rosetta Tharpe
The Sandino Manifesto and the Birth of the Nicaraguan Revolution
The Versailles Treaty Fight
The Evian Accords: An Uncertain Peace
The 1848 German Revolutions
America’s National Parks: 10 Moments of Insight
The Seventeen Point Agreement: China’s Occupation of Tibet
The Provisional Irish Republican Army
The Remarkable Life of Robert Smalls
Japan’s Meiji Restoration
The 19th Amendment: Women's Right to Vote
The Beatles, Rock, and Race in America
Stonewall and the Unfinished Gay Revolution
The Sterilization of Carrie Buck
The Boston Massacre
The Dawes Act
The Cossacks, Ukraine’s Paradigmatic Warriors
The Religious Roots of the War in Ukraine
The Kent State Massacre
November 11, 1918: The End of World War I?
Andy Warhol’s Campbell’s Soup Cans, 1962
Captain America: Changing Conscience of a Nation
“No Victor and No Vanquished” - The Biafran War
The Guatemala Inoculation Experiments
The Suez Crisis (1956)
The Nature of World War II
West Ukraine's War Stories: A New Chapter?
Fly Me to the Moon
The Second Opium War
Liu Bang, from Peasant Rebel to Emperor
Süleyman the Magnificent
The Greek Civil War, 1946–1949
The Bangladesh Liberation War
Remembering Rachel Carson’s "Silent Spring"
Ukrainian Architecture at war
The Bataan Death March
Ukrainian Theater on the Soviet Stage
The Fall of Tenochtitlan
Taras Shevchenko, Poet of Ukraine
Ukraine in War and Revolution
Soviet Ukraine in a Nutshell
Heroes Never Die: The Legacies of Euromaidan
The Origins of Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein"
Ukraine: The Breadbasket of Europe
Rus Not Russia
The Murdered Churchwomen in El Salvador
The Tour de France and The Yellow Jersey
Magellan and Elcano: The First Circumnavigation of the Earth
Copernicus, Galileo, and the Catholic Church
Gavrilo Princip and the Beginning of World War I
Bombing Hiroshima
Mendeleev's Periodic Table
COVID, the New Deal, and the Importance of Leadership
Early American Contagions
The People Power Revolution, Philippines 1986
The Death of Franco
What HIV Teaches Us: The Need for Affordable Health Care
Srebrenica and Its Memory
From the Transatlantic Telephone to the iPhone
Stalingrad: The Turning Point of WWII in Europe
Going Viral: COVID Conspiracies in Historical Perspective
The Blame Game: The USSR’s Response to HIV/AIDS
What's "Natural" on the Galapagos Islands?
The Liberation of Paris
The Ancient Roman Origins of Government Disaster Response
The History of Vaccination: Top 10 Things to Know
The Amritsar Massacre (1919)
The Black Death and Its Aftermath
The Respirator and Cloth Mask
The 1918 Flu Pandemic
Corona in Context: Lessons From the SARS Pandemic of 2003
The India Pakistan Partitian
The October Revolution in Russia
Elizabeth Cady Stanton: Wife, Mother, Revolutionary Thinker
Storming the Bastille (July 14, 1789)
Bartolomé de las Casas and 500 Years of Racial Injustice
The Assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
White Supremacist Violence
History's Great Walls, Good Neighbors or Bad Policy?
What happened to Louis XVI? A swift public execution
Searching for Wakanda: The African Roots of the Black Panther Story
Top 10 Best Things to Know About D-Day
The History of International Women's Day
Climate Change - Top 10 Things to Know