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When FDR Wanted Hoover to be President
How Baghdad Saved Ancient Greek Philosophy
The Third Tier: Theaters & Prostitutes
The Home Remedies that Killed
The Most Expensive American War is...
Eight Days that Ended the Gilded Age
Poland: What Does it Take For a Nation to Survive, w/ Norman Davies
The Search for the Last Rebel Yell
From Burnsides to Sideburns
Thucydides Invents History
Why did Hitler Declare War on America?
The Dreyfus Affair
The Nixon v. Khrushchev Kitchen Debate
The Rise of American Air Power in WWII, w/ A.J. Baime
The Lost Romanov Fortune
Nellie Bly Around the World
Debunking the 1637 Tulip Mania
The Lost Tomb of Genghis Khan
Alexander the Great's Road to Tyre
J. Colter - America's First Mountain Man
Reassessing the Hindenburg Disaster, w/ Catherine Katz
Warsaw 1920 - The Battle that Saved Europe
The Worst Military Decision in Ancient History
The Rise of Catherine the Great
South Sea Company - The Original Economic Bubble
Two Days in Berlin 1961 - Cold War (Almost) Turns Hot
Seven Days in Korea - To Fight or Not to Fight?
Morris - The Forsaken Founder w/ Scott Greenberger
Eight Days in Manila - When the U.S. Became an Empire
Four Days in April - The Spark of the Civil War
Six Days in March - The End of the Roman Republic
Eight Days in August - The Collapse of Japan
The Osage Reign of Terror
The 1927 Bath School Disaster
Inside the National WWI Museum, w/ Christopher Warren
Battle of Blair Mt. and the Origins of 'Redneck'
Ishi Walks Out of the Foothills
The Crazy 1904 St. Louis Olympic Marathon
The Truth About the Mad Queen of Madagascar
Dearfield: A Microcosm of Great Depression's Ghost Towns
The Poison Squad
Fascism Didn't Come From Europe, w/ Joseph Kelly
The Cold War's Most Extraordinary Spy w/ Ben Macintyre
Princess Caraboo Fools England
The Complicated History of the Pinkertons
The Truth Behind the War of the Worlds Broadcast
Anti-German Hysteria of World War I
WWII's Operation Fish
Russia's Invisible Rocket Man
The Persian King who Punished the Ocean
The WWI Sepoy Mutiny of Singapore
CIA's Secret Weather Weapon in Vietnam
Was Benjamin Franklin a British Spy?
The 1835 Bat Men of the Moon
President Wilson Has a Stroke
Robert Harris on Agrippa: Friendship, Power & the Making of the Roman Empire
Geronimo Surrenders
Did FDR Push the U.S. into World War II?
Peter the Great's Grand Embassy
The 1618 Defenestration of Prague
Emperor Basil: The Bulgar-Slayer Who Blinded a Whole Army
The Houston Riot of 1917
The Insane 1909 Coast-to-Coast Race That Changed America, w/ Eric Moskowitz
Nizari Ismailis & the Origin of the Word 'Assassin'
The Union Spy in the Confederate White House
The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
Paul Revere's Ride: The Night That Saved America, w/ Kostya Kennedy
The Day Americans and Germans Fought Together in WWII
The Man Who Sued Satan
The Newspaper Revolution & Birth of America's Media Empire, w/ Alex Wright
Was There a Female Paul Revere?
The Great Game: Britain v. Russia in Central Asia
Did a Cake Start the Salem Terror of 1692?
King William's War: P. Schuyler, the Iroquois & America's Forgotten Conflict, w/ Samuel Marquis
The Polio Vaccine's Cutter Incident of 1955
The Wilmington Massacre of 1898
Inside the White House as Chief of Staff to Laura Bush & Learning from the First Ladies, w/ Anita McBride
The Truth About the Children's Crusade of 1212
The Eastland Disaster of 1915
Zheng He and the Treasure Fleets of Ming China
The WWII Battle of LA: The Night America Shelled an Empty Sky
From Medieval Monastic Timekeeping to Our 9-5 Workday
1800s Telegram Networks that Invented Modern Insider Trading
Ghosts of Sicily: Navy-Mob Alliance vs. Nazis, w/ Leon Carroll, Jr.
The Tailor Who Saved Washington - Twice
The Polish Mathematicians Who Cracked the Engima
Project Iceworm: A Secret Cold War Base Under Greenland
The Civil War Hospital Ships that Invented Modern Trauma Care
The Man Who Sold 'Winter'
Napoleon & the Invention of Canned Food
Reviving Civic Education in American Classrooms, w/ Jack Miller Center President, Hans Zeiger
The Forgotten WWI Choctaw Code Talkers
Abraham Lincoln's Lifelong Battle with Depression
When the Coffeehouse Became the Most Dangerous Room in Europe
THE HISTORIANS #2 - How "Wild" was the Wild West? I Paul Andrew Hutton & Mark Lee Gardner
Clara Barton's Missing Soldiers Office
When Teachers Waged War Against Calculators
The Dark WWII History of Paris's Hotel Lutetia, w/ Jane Rogoyska
The Resolute Desk's Ghost Ship Past
Poinsettismo: The Christmas Flower's Forgotten Diplomatic Disaster