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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
Marcus Garvey's Fleet of Dreams
The Last Stands of Custer, Crazy Horse, & Sitting Bull, w/ Tom Clavin
Merrill's Marauders
Stalin's Cannibal Island
Are We Heading Toward Great Power War? w/ Odd Arne Westad
The Age of Pericles
The Last Hours of Alexander Hamilton
The 1637 Mystic Massacre
Inside the National WWII Museum w/ Cory Graff
Mansa Musa and the Pilgrimage that Broke an Economy
The Last Revolutionary War Soldier: Daniel Frederick Bakeman
How the American Revolution was GLOBAL, w/ Sarah Pearsall
Why did Hitler call it the "Third" Reich?
The Forgotten Race to Map the Amazon's Last Wilderness
An American Adventurer Steals Nicaragua
America's First Serial Killers & the Dark Side of the Revolution, w/ Katherine Grandjean
How the 1944 Bretton Woods Conference Still Runs the World
Lights, Camera, Propaganda: Hollywood and the Cold War
The Black Death - A Global History of Humanity's Deadliest Pandemic, w/ Thomas Asbridge
The Extraordinary History of SPAM
How the 1964 Tokyo Olympics Rewrote Japan's Story
How the Bicycle Launched the Women's Rights Movement
Were the Founding Fathers Good Men? | The Historians with Joseph Ellis & Carol Berkin
The Killer Fog: London's Great Smog of 1952
How a Teenage Chemist's Failed Experiment Launched a Modern Industry
Life Lessons from the Lost Greek Plays, w/ James Romm
The Man Who Stopped WWIII
Philadelphia's Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793
The Story Behind TR's Man in the Arena Speech
France's SS and the Men Who Fought for Hitler
How Roman Military Logistics Conquered the Ancient World
How the Blizzard of 1888 Built the New York Subway
A Day in the Life of a Gladiator, w/ Harry Sidebottom
The 1897 Ghost Who Solved Her Own Murder
The Complicated History of Miss America
How Medieval Guilds Invented Modern Commerce
Hitler on Trial: The Lawyer Who Put the Fuhrer on the Stand
The Catnip Riot of 1909
One Last Run: Billy the Kid's Great Escape
The Two Ships that Divided America, w/ David S. Reynolds
The Alaska Triangle - America's Own Bermuda Triangle
Rome's Forgotten Female Gladiators
The Lost Tribes of Israel
When the Vikings 'Discovered' North America
JFK's Missing Brain
The Moon Rock Heist
How Do You Repay Those Who Died for Your Freedom? w/ Robert M. Edsel
The Quest for the Holy Grail
The Confederate Gold Mystery
Saipan: D-Day in the Pacific
Naked and Unafraid: Did Celtic Warriors Really Fight in the Nude?
The Maharaja Who Broke Rolls-Royce
The Real Story of Ponce de Leon's Quest for the Fountain of Youth
Truman's Real Decision on Dropping the Atomic Bomb, w/ Alex Wellerstein
Patton and the Story of How a Latrine Pit Became a Hero
How Medieval Monks Invented Food Safety
The Underwater Shipwreck Graves of the Great Lakes
How Victorian Forensic Science Solved London's Poison Epidemics
Vlad the Impaler and the Massacre of 1457
John Muir: The Man Who Saved the Wild
Conversations: What can George Washington Still Teach America Today? w/ H.W. Brands
CIA's Project Acoustic Kitty
Skull and Bones: A Pipeline to Power in America?
The Controversial Sokushinbutsu Monks of Japan
Napoleon and the Rosetta Stone
Hitler's Volkssturm: the Children of a Dying Reich
Peter the Great Takes Revenge on His Wife
Conversations: The Lost Empire of Emanuel Nobel, w/ Douglas Brunt
A Short History of Ice Cream
The Whiskey Rebellion
The American Lioness: Lady Randolph Churchill
The Crazy Horse Memorial
The Theft of Owens Valley's Water
Capturing Al Capone
Conversations: 1970s - The Decade that Made the Marathon Cool
JFK vs. Israel: The Forgotten Standoff
The Women of the Nazi SS
John Tyler and the Presidency Nobody Wanted Him to Have
The Rise and Fall of Sparta
The London Bridge Comes to Arizona
The Jesuits of Hiroshima
The Morristown Ghost Hoax of 1788
Russia & The Third Rome Prophecy
The Bena Tshadi Lightning Strike
The Vestal Virgins of Rome
Conversations: The Lost Cities of El Norte, w/ Peter Stark
Legend of the Loveland Frogman
Who Was Muhammad? The Story of Islam's Prophet
Grisly Papal Deaths
The Last U.S. Cavalry Charge in History
Audie Murphy and the Cost of Courage
Killing Hypatia
Conversations: A Road Trip Through U.S. History, w/ Beverly Gage
The Fall of Valerian and Rome's Darkest Hour
Battle of Hastings
The Man Who Became John Paul II
The Untold Story of WWII War Brides
The Pig War of 1859: The Most Peaceful War in History?
Stalin Gives Mariya a Tank
Conversations: What the Seven Deadly Sins Can Teach Us About Living, w/ Peter Jones
Malta, 1565: The Siege That Saved Europe
The Riddle that Killed Homer
The Debate over Hawaii Annexation
USO: Entertainment on the Front Lines
James Earl Ray Escapes from Prison
Artemas Ward - America's First Commander in Chief
Conversations: The Lost Voices of Pompeii, w/ Jess Venner
The Abdication of King Edward VIII
The Rise and Fall of the Oracle at Delphi
Eva Brown: Hitler's Invisible Woman
The American Expeditionary Forces of WWI
The Lost Tomb of Queen Hetepheres
Most Fascinating Presidential Pardons
Conversations: Seven Daughters of Empress Maria Theresa of Austria, w/ Veronica Buckley
The A-Team: When Teenage Athletes Replaced Migrant Farmworkers
Department of War - Defense - then War Again
Cromwell
The Real Gangs of New York
Mahan and the Influence of Sea Power
History of the Paperbacks
Conversations: How a Motley Crew of Characters Stopped the Invasion of America, w/ Sara Vladic
Why American Troops Mutinied After VE Day
The Underground Railroad
What did the Founders Think About Religion?
The Flying Tigers
The Man Who Jumped from Space
The Patty Hearst Kidnapping Ordeal
Conversations: Berlin During WWII, w/ Ian Buruma
The Man Who Exposed the Mafia
The Rise and Fall of Rommel
History's Most Stolen Painting
The Death of Stalin's Wife
The Fox Sisters Who Talked to the Dead
The Big Stick Policy
Conversations: Family of Spies, w/ Christine Kuehn
How 'Dark' Were the Greek Dark Ages?
George Washington's Spies
Berlin: The Brutal Last Chapter of WWII
Pen Pals with the President
The Roaring 20s
Saint Louis IX: The Perfect Medieval King?
Conversations: The Real Story Behind the Blood Countess, w/ Shelley Puhak
Germany vs. Japan: The Forgotten Conflict of WWI
Penny Auctions: Defiance in the Great Depression
Charlemagne: The Man Who Rebuilt Europe
The Sesame Street Story
Harvard Professor Finds 'Perfect Woman'
The Story of the Smithsonian Institution
Conversations: Lessons from Alternative History, w/ Harry Turtledove
Mutiny on the Bounty
The Somme, 1916
Amazons: Warrior Women of Myth and Legend
22nd Amendment: Putting a Clock on the Presidency
The Monroe Doctrine
Hussars: History's Most Terrrifying Cavalry
Conversations: Our Man in Tokyo Before Pearl Harbor, w/ Steve Kemper
Vatican City: The Smallest Nation
The Cats of History
The Age of Metternich: Europe After Napoleon
Killing Peter and Paul
Ho Chi Minh Trail: Vietnam's Invisible Weapon
The Fall of the Ottoman Empire
Conversations: Preserving History at the National Museum of the U.S.A.F. w/ Meghan Anderson
Brutus: The Man Who Killed Caesar
Ullamaliztli: The Deadly Sport of Mesoamerica
The Castrated Angel Singers of Rome
Pulaski: The Father of American Cavalry
The Great Awakenings: When America Found Religion
Did President Van Buren Invent How We Do Politics Today?
Conversations: Spies in My Blood, w/ Alex Storozynski
The Dred Scott Decision that shook America
Ike's Heart Attack That made America Health-Conscious
Killing Margaret Thatcher
America's Century of Foreign Regime Change
The Rise and Fall of the Mongol Empire
Kosciuszko's Last Will and Jefferson's Broken Promise
Conversations: Unmasking Thomas Jefferson? w/ Andrew Burstein
History's Most "Unkillable" Soldier: Adrian Carton de Wiart
Morristown 1779: The Winter That Nearly Ended the Revolution
Voltaire and Frederick's Messy Friendship
Copernicus Moves the Earth
Brief History of Cemeteries
The Mann Act: America's Morality Law
Conversations: How Our History Shows What We Can Overcome, w/ Greg Jackson
Killing Philip II of Macedon
History's Worst Nun? Juana Inés de la Cruz
Judicial Life Appointments Gone Wrong
Laika: First Casualty of the Space Race
A Brief History of Cannibalism
Mythbusting Paul Revere's Ride
An American Journalist, a German Serial Killer, & Paris on the Eve of WWII, w/ Mark Braude
Carville: U.S.' Forgotten Leper City
Biblical Monsters
The Great Depression Serial Killer of Cleveland
Sultana: Civil War's Last Forgotten Disaster
When Bloodletting was the Cure
WWII's Battle Against Venereal Disease
Why History Matters, with David McCullough
JFK's Hidden Health Crisis
The Teenager Who Invented the Television
Bigfoot: America's Most Enduring Legend
What is the Secret to Happiness? Harvard's 80 Year Old Study's Findings
The Forgotten Kingdom of Man and the Isles
Killing George Washington
'The Greatest Generation' OR 'The 'Wounded Generation'? w/ David Nasaw
The Freemasons
Napoleon's Missing Penis: A History No One Asked For
Sacagawea: Beyond the Myth
Belleau Wood: The Battle That Made the Marines
Killing Che Guevara
'The Conqueror' Movie Curse
Conversations: Life and Legacy of King James VI and I, w/ Clare Jackson
Jesse Strang & the Kingdom Hidden Inside America
Actium: The Battle That Shaped the Roman Empire
The Silk Road: Inside the World's First Global Network
Vietnam War's Secret Phoenix Program
The Short-Lived Fascist Republic of Salo
Miracle Mike: The Headless Chicken
Conversations: Why the Year 1776 Still Matters Today, w/ Edward J. Larson
How Mata Hari Became the World's Most Famous Spy
The Forgotten World of House Detectives
How the Normans Changed the World
The Final Days of Napoleon
Weekend Show #2: History of the 'Weekend'
Conversations: Three Roads to Gettysburg, w/ Tim McGrath
Eddie Slovik: The Only American Killed for Desertion in WWII
Conversations: How the American Revolution was a Global Conflict, w/ Richard Bell
The Lost Labyrinth of Egypt
The Madness of Emperor Caligula
The Woman Spy Who Outsmarted Hoover's FBI
The Labor Revolt that Shook America (Pullman Strike)
History Shorts Weekend Show #1
Conversations: The Nazi and the Psychiatrist - the Book Behind the film 'Nuremberg' w. Jack El-Hai
The Katyn Massacre
Conversations: Why the U.S. is Not a Nation State (But a Federation of Stateless Nations), w/ Colin Woodard
Why We Can't Look Away from the Girl With a Pearl Earring
Akhenaten: The Pharaoh Who Tried to Erase History
The Real Conjuring (The Story of Ed & Lorraine Warren)
When the EPA Erased a Whole Town from Existence
The British Woman Who Fell in Love With Hitler
Benjamin Franklin Goes to France
Conversations: When maps seize being tools and become narratives, w/ James Cheshire
TODAY IN CONTEXT: The Penny Retires Into History (& What That Means for Us)
When Women Went to War: Women's Overseas Hospital
See It OR Skip It: Nuremberg (2025)
What Former U.S. Presidents Thought About the Civil War When It Was Happening
So, You Want To Become a Knight?
See it OR Skip It: Netflix's 'Death By Lightning'
Marcus Aurelius: The Philosopher Emperor
The Economist Who Predicted World War II
What Happened to Cleopatra's Kids?
Conversations: The Real Story of Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday, w/ Mark Lee Gardner
The Real Pirates of the Caribbean
When Poetry was an Olympic Event
TODAY IN CONTEXT: Dick Cheney's Legacy
Before Hitler Stole the Swastika
Conversations: How much do you know about Christopher Columbus? w/ Matthew Restall
YOU DECIDE: The Vietnam War - Necessary Intervention or Disastrous Mistake?
The Death that Shaped U.S.-Iran Relations
Conversations: Malcolm Gladwell's Revenge of the Tipping Point
The Japanese Schindler
Home Rule: D.C.'s Fight for its own Democracy
The War Hero Who Refused to Die: Eddie Rickenbacker's 24 Days at Sea
Conversations: How the Jefferson/Hamilton Debate Still Defines Us Today, w/ Jeffrey Rosen
YOU DECIDE: Napoleon - Military Genius or Tyrant?
The Speech that Sparked the American Revolution
Conversations: The Tastes, Smells, and Feels of Ancient History, w/ Sam Kean
Death Below the Waves: The Curse of UB-65
The Phantom Continent that Fooled the World
Hollywood's Hays Code
Conversations: Reevaluating Robert McNamara, w/ Philip and William Taubman
YOU DECIDE: The Crusades - Holy War or Colonial Agression?
Galen: The Doctor of the Roman Empire
Conversations: How Ancient India Transformed the World, w/ William Dalrymple
Lincoln's Lost Speech
The Assyrian Empire
Levi's Jeans
Conversations: Inside Hitler's U-Boat War, w Roger Moorhouse
YOU DECIDE: The Civil War - About States' Rights or Slavery?
National Park Service's Special Agents
Conversations: How Travel Helps Us Understand Our Place in the World, w/ Rick Steves
Imperial Germany's Plan For the Invasion of the U.S.
Temporary Roman Dictatorships
When NYC Almost Seceded from the Union in 1861
The Office of Strategic Services
Zoroastrianism
When the New Deal Became Unconstitutional
Conversations: NYC's Secret Subway & the Origins of Mass Transit, w/ Matthew Algeo
MASH Units
The Kidnapping Epidemic of the Great Depression
Nixon's Checkers Speech
The Twelve Labors of Hercules
Secret WW2: Gortz - WWIIs Unluckiest Spy?
The Surprisingly Eccentric U.S. Postal Service
Conversations: The Horse and the Rise of Empires, w/ David Chaffetz
Thomas Nast Battles Corruption
The Nazi History of the VW Beetle
The 'Cool' in Coolidge
The U.S. Army Camel Experiment
Secret WW2: The 1945 Plot to Surrender Nazi Forces
TODAY IN CONTEXT: Jimmy Kimmel & The First Amendment
The Berlin Wall
Conversations: Ken Burns' The American Revolution
Who Were the American Whigs?
FDR's Struggle Against Opposition
The Madness of Goya: Secrets of the Black Paintings
Conversations: Suffrage, Free Love, & the First Woman to Run for President, w/ Eden Collinsworth
Secret WW2: Salon Kitty
The State of Franklin That Never Was
Conversations: Ancient Mesopotamia and the Birth of History, w/ Moudhy Al Rashid
The Free City of Danzig
Jefferson and the Barbary Wars
The History of Scientology
The 1932 Battle of Washington D.C.
TODAY IN CONTEXT: U.S. Presidents' History of Urban Interventions
Secret WW2: Operation Himmler
Grover Cleveland's Secret Surgery
Conversations: Revisiting the Last Year of the American Civil War, w/ Scott Ellsworth
Ghiberti vs. Brunelleschi
Mystery of Evita's Corpse
History of Concubines
Operation Unthinkable
The Lioness Program
Truman Resurrects Hoover
Conversations: Triumph, Tragedy & the Shaping of the American West, w/ Paul A. Hutton
The Gaspee Affair of 1772
Codex Gigas - The Devil's Bible
German Revolution of 1918
Socrates the Warrior
Native American Scouts of the Civil War
Justinian's Quest to Unify the Roman Empire
Conversations: The Marine "Bastard" Battalion, w/ Gregg Zoroya
Stealing the Superfortress
Adding 'God' to the Pledge of Allegiance
History of the G-Men
The Search for 'Little Albert'
Conversations: The Warsaw Ghetto & the Holocaust, w/ Katarzyna Person
Andrew Jackson Arms His Slaves
Conversations: Why the Scopes Trial Still Matters Today, w/ Brenda Wineapple
The RMS Titanic Prophecy
The Failed Lincoln Assassinations
Sex, STDs, and the Lewis & Clark Expedition
Circuit Judges of the American West
Conversations: Was Charles Sumner the most important Civil Rights Leader of the 19th Century, w/ Zaakir Tameez
Lincoln's Forgotten Vice President
Conversations: The American women who flew in World War II, w/ Becky Aikman
Tsar Nicholas' Forbidden Love for a Ballerina
The Great Train Robbery of 1963
The Search for Cleopatra's Tomb
The Vatican's WWII Spy Network
Conversations: How Habsburgs Transformed Europe, w/ Martyn Rady
The Black Hole of Calcutta
TODAY IN CONTEXT: A.I. - Mankind's Dream Dating Back Thousands of Years
Conversations: Lessons from Cats for Surviving Fascism, w/ Brittlestar
Dr. Crippen - The Second Jack the Ripper?
The Solidarity Movement
Could the SS Californian Have Saved the Titanic?
Trojan War
The Beast of New Orleans
Debs Runs for President... from Jail
Conversations: Lessons from the Renaissance, w/ Ross King
Kent State
Secret Plot to Kill Jefferson Davis
The Legend of Jesse James
Killing Sitting Bull
The Shame of Benedict Arnold
War Crimes Trial of Andersonville's H. Wirtz (Civil War True Crime)
Barbed Wire Tames the West
Conversations: Everything is Tuberculosis, w/ John Green
Irish Americans Attack Canada
America's Stonehenge
Mad Gasser of Mattoon
Killing Wild Bill Hickok
TODAY IN CONTEXT: Third Parties in American Politics- A History
Bloody Bill Anderson (Civil War True Crime)
COINTELPRO: America's Secret Surveillance Program
Captain James Cook's Final Voyage w/ Hampton Sides
The Man in the Iron Mask
The Peggy Eaton Affair
The Tuskegee Syphilis Study
The Bible's Greatest Battles
Fort Pillow Massacre (Civil War True Crime)
Mystery of Sir Francis Drake's Treasure
TODAY IN CONTEXT: The History of How We Celebrate July 4th
Conversations: The Fragile Alliance of WWIIs 'Big Three,' w/ Tim Bouverie
Michelangelo's David
Vietnam: America's Lost War
Fast & Furious PT Boats
Jefferson & Adams: Founding Frenemies?
Custer's Last Stand
The Kings' Crusade
Conversations: The Mystery Behind Socrates' Death w/ Matt Gatton
The Pill, the Nurse, and the Revolution
The Last Nazi Fuhrer
Rome's Five Good Emperors
The "Other" Rosa Parks
Today in Context: Iran/U.S Relations: A History
Frozen Hell of the Chosin Reservoir
Killing Trotsky
Conversations: Which Founding Father Would Get the Highest SAT Score? w/ Joseph Ellis
Reformation: The Hammer that Shook the World
Sink the Bismarck!
Did Taft Get Stuck in a Tub?
Manhunt for Jefferson Davis
How U.S. Reporters Started China's Boxer Rebellion
Camp Leach: Ghosts of WWI Research
Conversations: Would you eat black vomit to fight off Yellow Fever? w/ Kathryn Olivarius
What Plato Warned Us About Reality
A Prince Among Slaves
Indentured Servants Who Became Presidents
When H.W. Bush Got Shot Down in the Pacific
Chinese Exclusion Act: U.S.' First Immigration Ban
Franco-Prussian War Forges Modern Europe
TODAY IN CONTEXT: History of D-Day Celebrations
Conversations: How We Almost Lost the Revolutionary War, w/ Rick Atkinson
Reagan's Joke that Bombed
Playboy Bunnies and Operation Babylift
The "Other" Great Depressions
Hamilton Jr. Battles Burr in Court
Schism: Catholic vs. Orthodox Christianity
Unsolved: Did Hitler Kill His Niece?
TODAY IN CONTEXT: The Grandson of a President Born in 1700s Just Died
Conversations: A Forgotten Charge that Helped Win D-Day with James Donovan
The Sinister World of Brothers Grimm
Teddy's Last Stand: the Bull Moose Party
Secrets of Egypt's Book of the Dead
What is your favorite Little Golden Book?
Conversations: Making scholars readable and relevant, with Meilan Solly
Unsolved: Was Mozart Poisoned?
Dido: The Legendary Queen of Carthage
Conversations: Why there is always more to say about Midway, with Martin Dugard
Washington Square Park's Dark Secret
Dr. Pepper's Secret Recipe Exposed?
A Bonaparte's Encounter with the NJ Devil
When a Boy Became the Last Emperor of Rome
Unsolved: Did Mary Queen of Scots Kill Her Husband?
TODAY IN CONTEXT: Menendez's 2025 Parole Echoes Leopold and Loeb's 1924 Case
The Curse of the Little Rascals
Conversations: Carol Berkin on Women's Right to Vote in 1776
Boers vs. Empire: The First Modern War?
Library: Humanity's Greatest Invention?
Colt: Forging the American Gun
Rin Tin Tin
Unsolved: Did Jesus Die on the Cross?
Antikythera Mechanism
TODAY IN CONTEXT: Best - And Worst - Popes in History
Conversations: What does the Medal of Honor mean to those who earned it, with Greg Waters
Rise and Fall of Pancho Villa
Worst Terrorist Attack in Canadian History
Did Roman Legionaries Make it to China?
Rudolf Hess' Last Flight
Escaping Slavery in a Box
Rise and Fall of William Franklin
TODAY IN CONTEXT: Federal Government vs. Higher Education
Conversations: What is actually taught in our history classrooms, w/ Brendan Gillis
The Lincoln Curse
Partition of India
Banana Republics
President's Daughter
History of IQ Tests
The House of David
Conversations: Future Presidents who Fought in WWII, w/ Steven Gillon
Typhoid Mary
Rough Riders
Stealing Lincoln's Body
Duke of Russia's Buffalo Hunt
Fall of Saigon
Iran-Contra Affair
Conversations: What can the Civil War still teach us today? w/ James M. McPherson
Bombing of Guernica
Marco Polo's Travels
CIA Classifies 'End of World' Book
Rosenbergs Die For Spying
TODAY IN CONTEXT: History of American Immigration
Killing Ford
Church Brothels of the Middle Ages
Conversations: Was Stalin a step ahead of Churchill and FDR? w/ Giles Milton
Mary Lincoln Declared Insane
Edo's Little Matchgirl
Galileo's Trial
The Communist Manifesto
Patton's Task Force Baum Blunder
Boy Scouts of America
Conversations: What it was like to talk to a WWI Veteran, w/ Richard Rubin
BONUS: War Plan Red - U.S. Invasion of Canada
Beowulf
Booth's Other Victim
Champagne and the Treaty of Versailles
Bacon's Rebellion
Grimaldi Curse: Princess Grace
William Jennings Bryan
Conversations: Murders in German WWII POW Camps Across the U.S. w/ William Geroux
Comic Books on Trial
Napoleon's Polish Countess
Palmer Raids
CIA and the Dalai Lama
Grimaldi Curse: Louis' Unfaithful Wife
Vietnam War POWs
Conversations: The story behind Apple TV's Masters of the Air, w/ Donald L. Miller
Teddy's Bear
Killing Houdini
The Great Molasses Flood
The Real Raiders of the Ark
Grimaldi Curse: Lucien and Jean
King Solomon's Mines
Conversations: Why Napoleon Does Not Get Enough Credit, w/ Adam Zamoyski
TODAY IN CONTEXT: Tariff Wars in American History
Turbulent Life of Lucrezia Borgia
Chester A. Arthur and Ms. Jennings
Musketeers
Queen Elizabeth's Spy Network
Grimaldi Curse: Lady Claudine
Battle Axes of Free Love
Conversations: The Falklands War and power of storytelling w/ Sir Max Hastings
Vidocq - the First Modern Detective
Shipping Kids Through USPS
America First Movement
Spanish Inquisition
Nazi Aktion T4 Project
Roger Sherman's Compromise
TODAY IN CONTEXT: Pope Francis and a Conclave
Conversations: A Story of Britian's Forgotten Rogue Agent, w/ James Crossland
Flannan Lighthouse Mystery
The Russian Sleeper Agent
Hoover Ball
Stealing Batman
Jezebel - Bible's Femme Fatale
TODAY IN CONTEXT: Revisiting the Start of the War in Ukraine
Police Woman Badge No. 1
Conversations: How did the Comanche Shape the American West, w/ S.C. Gwynne
Tecumseh's Curse
The Boxer of Auschwitz
Stopping the Spanish Armada
Mussolini vs. the Mafia
Gulf War Syndrome
The Cleveland Headache
TODAY IN CONTEXT: Who is Roland L. Bragg?
Conversations: Can you outrun a dinosaur? with Cody Cassidy
Jesuits - The Pope's Soldiers
Willow Run
Charles V Abdicates
Tea
Hitler's Favorite Commando
Captain James J. T. Waddell's Mission
Conversations: One history podcaster to another, w/ Gary Arndt
States Named After Individuals
BONUS Deep Dive: Department of Education - A History
Disappearance of Agatha Christie
Food Riots in History
Princes in the Tower
Vintage News: Death of Jayne Mansfield
Michelangelo Paints the Sistine Chapel
Conversations: How "Wild" was the Wild West? w/ Tom Clavin
Ninjas
Mesopotamia - The First Civilization
North Korea's Three Generations Rule
War of the Roses
BONUS Deep Dive: WWI and Military Service Tribunals
Akwesasne: A Nation Among Nations
Last Days of the Dinosaurs
Conversations: A History of the World in 6 Glasses, w/ Tom Standage
1956 Suez Canal Crisis
Leaflet Propaganda of WWII
King Gillette's Razor
Warrior Queens Who Challenged Rome
Vintage News: Pentagon Papers
Firebombing of Dresden
Conversations: How Important was Henry Cabot Lodge to TRs Success? w/ Laurence Jurdem
Blood on the Senate Floor
U.S. Invades Canada - Twice!
Remembering John Q. Adams
The Legend of King Arthur
U.S. and Greenland: A History
Mormon Army of Nauvoo
Conversations: Speaking with those who knew MLK Jr., w/ Jonathan Eig
Stealing the Panama Canal
Romulus and Remus of Rome
Kosovo Student Poisoning Incident
FBI's Long Manhunt for Fugitive Webb
Trivia: Accidental Inventions
Father of the Doughnut Hole
Rasputin's Autopsy Secrets
Conversations: Poland's Place in World History, w/ Norman Davies
Killing Dillinger
The $36 Million Dollar Scam
Pope's Line Across the World
The Fall of Boss Tweed
Trivia: Candy
Brazilian Expeditionary Force of WWII
Landmarks: Washington Monument
Conversations: How Rome's Roads Shaped History, w/ Catherine Fletcher
A City Built on Bones
Charlie Brown Christmas
Killing Spartacus
Chappaquiddick
Remastered: It's a Wonderful Life
OSS' Psychological Analysis of Hitler
Landmarks: Kremlin
Conversations: What are some positive lessons from history? w/ Roman Krznaric
Hollywood Urban Legends
Ford and Edison's Electric Car
Building a Beer Empire
The Chicken of Tomorrow Contest
Vintage News: Archduke Ferdinand
Landmarks: Stonehenge
Conversations: On the Unsung Heroes of America's History w/ Sharon McMahon
Businesses that Worked w/ the Nazis
Ali Stops the Fight
Did Nixon Delay Peace in Vietnam?
The Fall of Ferdinand Magellan
BONUS Deep Dive: The Death of General Sikorski
Just the Facts: Military History
Landmarks: Taj Mahal
Conversations: Writing about flawed historical characters is more fun, w/ Ben Macintyre
Battle of the Overpass
Kidnapping the Pope
Killing J.P. Morgan
Marathon to Athens
Trivia: Ancient Landmarks
Remastered: Sending Nazi POWs to College
Conquerors: Napoleon
Conversations: The Importance of a National History Day, w/ Cathy Gorn
History of the Potato
King Kong Breaks the Box Office
Fort Dearborn Massacre
Machiavelli's The Prince
VINTAGE NEWS: Al Capone 1926
Conquerors: Attila the Hun
Conversations: Winston Churchill During the Cold War, w/ Anthony Tucker Jones
Ivan's Bloodless Faceoff
Chrysler vs. the Empire
Nixon's Silent Majority
I am an American Day
JUST THE FACTS: Alcohol
Conquerors: Julius Caesar
Conversations: Learning History from YouTube, w/ Steve Heimler
Trials by Ordeal
Joan of Arc
Absaroka - the State that Never Was
Ten Thousand Immortals
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Trivia: Literary Classics
Conquerors: Hannibal of Carthage
New England Secession?
SMS Cormoran
Bomb City USA
Conversations: Writing Speeches for Presidents Nixon and Reagan, w/ Ken Khachigian
Conversations: Why John Adams Gets a Bad Rap, w/ Lindsay Chervinsky
Trivia: Presidential Nicknames
Conversations: America's Contentious Elections w/ David Pietrusza
Conversations: Separating Reagan, the man, from the myth. w/ Max Boot
America's Most Haunted House?
Mark Twain's Nightmare
A Storm Prevents a War
LBJ Goes to the Bathroom - and Lives
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Conquerors: Alexander the Great
Religions: Christianity
Conversations: How the Read Dead Redemption games mirror history, w/ Tore Olsson
The First Female Pharaoh
The Black Swallow of Death
The Man Who Killed Booth
Ernesto and the Miranda Rights
Trivia: Women's Suffrage
Religions: Islam
Conversations: The Clandestine World of Josephine Baker, w/ Damien Lewis
The Lady with the Medal of Honor
Wacky History of the Flag Salute
Who Were Mr. Mason and Mr. Dixon?
Mad King and the Real Disney Castle
Trivia: Classic Video Games
Religions: Judaism
Conversations: Legacy of Harry S. Truman, w/ Kurt Graham
History's Most Mysterious Book
Why Don't We Like Aaron Burr?
The Women of Mercury 13
Paris Catacombs
Trivia: Food Origins
Religions: Hinduism
Conversations: What is the job of the U.S. National Archives? w/ Colleen Shogan
Killing Castro
What's the Deal w/ Carrier Pigeons?
Sweet Voices of Evil
Henry's Kids' Game of Thrones
Trivia: Infamous Cults in History
Mysteries: Tomb of the Unknown Soldier
Conversations: Untold Story of Lincoln's Special Forces, w/ Patrick K. O'Donnell
Who Cracked the Liberty Bell?
Native American Leaders
The First American Novel Scandal
The Amber Room Mystery
Trivia: Deaths of Famous People
Mysteries: Betraying Anne Frank
Conversations: Why history is cyclical. w/ Dan Carlin
Chocolate
First Female Presidential Candidate
1605 Demolition Men
Emperor's Ransom
Trivia: The Great Depression
Mysteries: Sunken Civilizations
Conversations: The 16th Century Contest that Shaped the World, w/ Roger Crowley
Hitler Diaries
Bloody Angle NYC
Mummifying Lenin
Teapot Dome Scandal
Trivia: The Movies
Mysteries: Marilyn Monroe
Conversations: A fictional hero in a real world of WWII, w/ James R. Benn
Confederados
White House Ghosts
Doctors of Death
Bombing a Royal Wedding
TRAILER : Dan Carlin
Trivia: American Revolution
What If: A Lindbergh Presidency
Conversations: Destroying the Nazi Atomic Bomb Program, w/ Neal Bascomb
Real Indiana Jones
Naming America
Nostradamus
Killing the Red Baron
Trivia: Ancient History
What If: Cuban Missile Crisis
Conversations: How Narrative History Brings the Past to Life, w/ Jeff Shaara
The Curse of the Hope Diamond
Bringing Down the Knights Templar
Mohawk Skywalkers
The Tunguska Event
Trivia: Cold War
What If: League of Nations
Conversations: The power of art in the historical narrative, w/ Sabin Howard
Lost City of Angkor
Ghosts of a Murdered Dynasty
Lolita Shocks the World
Van Gogh's Ear
Trivia: Famous Women
What If: Mexico Defeated the U.S.
Conversations: William H. Harrison, w/ Jerry Landry
Killing Truman
Fountain of Youth
Mt. Everest Death Zone
Uncle Sam
Trivia: American Presidents
What If: RFK Became President
Conversations: The Importance of Compromise in the United States, w/ Alan Taylor
Titanic by the Numbers
Sex and Corn Flakes
Sheep Wars
Four Diaries of Anne Frank
Genghis Khan (Where are they now?)
Conversations: Visiting the graves of all American Presidents, w/ Brady Carlson
Grant and Twain
Mayan Portal to the Underworld
1968 Democratic National Convention
Orphans Preferred
The Story of Pocahontas (Where are they now?)
Conversations: The true story of Sgt. York, w/ James C. Nelson
The Ghost Ship
FDR's Close Call
Shadow Amendment
Lenin Has Second Thoughts
Failed Presidential Assassination Attempts
Alexander Graham Bell (Where are they now?)
Conversations: What Role do Books Play in Wars? w/ Andrew Pettegree
Do We have Freedom of Speech?
Tower of London Kills Again
History's Deadliest King
William's Disastrous Funeral
Jesse Owens (Where are they now?)
Conversations: The Legacy of Former First Ladies, w/ Kate Andersen Brower
Presidential Sex Scandals
Hollywood's 1924 Murder Mystery
Got Milk?
Conversations: Battle of Britian w/ Martin Dugard
Christopher Columbus (Where are they now?)
Conversations: Why there is always more to say about Lincoln, w/ Harold Holzer
Booth Saves a Lincoln
Bounty Jumpers
Escaping the Confederacy
Bad Day for a Picnic
Wright Brothers (Where are they now?)
Conversations: How much did the U.S. help win WWI, w/Matt Seelinger
Annie Oakley Shoots the Kaiser?
WWI German Internment
The Black Chamber
Zeppelins Over London
Paul Revere (Where are they now?)
Conversations: Battle of Saipan, w/David Sears
Japan's Last Soldier
Bat Bombs
Cherry Blossoms at Night
Killing Tojo
Conversations: Writing About Strong Women of WWII, w/Clare Mulley
BONUS: Interview with a D-Day Veteran
Double Life of Josephine Baker
Nazi Prisoner on the Run
The White Rose Movement
Jeep: The Little Truck that Could
Conversations: Why Writing About Teddy Roosevelt is Draining, w/ H.W. Brands
Wall Street Under Attack!
Nero's Party House
The Father of History
The Hammurabi Way
Conversations: How History and Science go hand in hand, w/ Edward J. Larson
Aliens Over Texas
Nazi Bureaucracy
Virginia Breaks Up With Virginia
Edgar Allan Poe's Bad Reputation
Conversations: The Ghost Army, w/Rick Beyer
Alexander's Missing Body
Becoming Sherlock Holmes
Who Wrote the Bible?
Conversations: America's Founding Myths w/ Ray Raphael
A King's Deadly Dose
Medal of Honor: The Toughest Thing He's Ever Done: SP5 Clarence Eugene Sasser
No Civil War; No Coca Cola?
Stalin Needs a Doctor
Cleopatra and Caesar Have a Baby!
Cinco de Mayo is NOT Independence Day
Abe Lincoln Buys Cocaine
Conversations: The Meaning of Courage w/ Col. Jack H. Jacobs
The Lady Who Said "No" to War
King Tut's Curse
Elvis' Last Moments
Conversations: Forging Passports to save Jews from the Holocaust, w/ Roger Moorhouse
Boxing Gangsters vs. American Nazis
Killing Socrates
Cod Wars
The Search for Molly Pitcher
Sgt. York's Army of One
Who was Jim Crow?
Catherine's Doomed Husband
Thou Shall Not Kill Cats
Conversations: Flags of Our Fathers w/ James Bradley
Napoleon's Missing Hand
The Auschwitz's "Canada"
The Time of Three Popes
Harlem Hellfighters and Jazz
Britain's Twelve-Day Sleep
Serial Killer in Nazi Berlin
Barbers at Moscow's Gates
Mr. Celsius and Mr. Fahrenheit
Picasso Steals the Mona Lisa?
The Real Kamikaze
The Hollow Man
Cary Grant on Acid
Caligula Mourns his Sister
Murderer from the Mayflower
Nine Capitals of the United States
The Woman Called "Moses"
Our (Maybe) Gay President
Alcohol Fuels an American Sport
Stealing Charlie Chaplin's Body
Wealthiest Person in History
Reversing the Chicago River
The Nazis and the Pope?
Fordlandia
The Statue of Liberty Attacked
Khrushchev Meets Marilyn
It's a Wonderful Life
Gladiators drinking Gatorade
Did you say, Terracotta Army?
Sending Nazi POWs to College
Rosa Parks
The Real Dr. Frankenstein
The Nine Unknown Men