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CIA's Project Acoustic Kitty

2

Skull and Bones: A Pipeline to Power in America?

3

The Controversial Sokushinbutsu Monks of Japan

4

Napoleon and the Rosetta Stone

5

Hitler's Volkssturm: the Children of a Dying Reich

6

Peter the Great Takes Revenge on His Wife

7

Conversations: The Lost Empire of Emanuel Nobel, w/ Douglas Brunt

8

A Short History of Ice Cream

9

The Whiskey Rebellion

10

The American Lioness: Lady Randolph Churchill

11

The Crazy Horse Memorial

12

The Theft of Owens Valley's Water

13

Capturing Al Capone

14

Conversations: 1970s - The Decade that Made the Marathon Cool

15

JFK vs. Israel: The Forgotten Standoff

16

The Women of the Nazi SS

17

John Tyler and the Presidency Nobody Wanted Him to Have

18

The Rise and Fall of Sparta

19

The London Bridge Comes to Arizona

20

The Jesuits of Hiroshima

21

The Morristown Ghost Hoax of 1788

22

Russia & The Third Rome Prophecy

23

The Bena Tshadi Lightning Strike

24

The Vestal Virgins of Rome

25

Conversations: The Lost Cities of El Norte, w/ Peter Stark

26

Legend of the Loveland Frogman

27

Who Was Muhammad? The Story of Islam's Prophet

28

Grisly Papal Deaths

29

The Last U.S. Cavalry Charge in History

30

Audie Murphy and the Cost of Courage

31

Killing Hypatia

32

Conversations: A Road Trip Through U.S. History, w/ Beverly Gage

33

The Fall of Valerian and Rome's Darkest Hour

34

Battle of Hastings

35

The Man Who Became John Paul II

36

The Untold Story of WWII War Brides

37

The Pig War of 1859: The Most Peaceful War in History?

38

Stalin Gives Mariya a Tank

39

Conversations: What the Seven Deadly Sins Can Teach Us About Living, w/ Peter Jones

40

Malta, 1565: The Siege That Saved Europe

41

The Riddle that Killed Homer

42

The Debate over Hawaii Annexation

43

USO: Entertainment on the Front Lines

44

James Earl Ray Escapes from Prison

45

Artemas Ward - America's First Commander in Chief

46

Conversations: The Lost Voices of Pompeii, w/ Jess Venner

47

The Abdication of King Edward VIII

48

The Rise and Fall of the Oracle at Delphi

49

Eva Brown: Hitler's Invisible Woman

50

The American Expeditionary Forces of WWI

51

The Lost Tomb of Queen Hetepheres

52

Most Fascinating Presidential Pardons

53

Conversations: Seven Daughters of Empress Maria Theresa of Austria, w/ Veronica Buckley

54

The A-Team: When Teenage Athletes Replaced Migrant Farmworkers

55

Department of War - Defense - then War Again

56

Cromwell

57

The Real Gangs of New York

58

Mahan and the Influence of Sea Power

59

History of the Paperbacks

60

Conversations: How a Motley Crew of Characters Stopped the Invasion of America, w/ Sara Vladic

61

Why American Troops Mutinied After VE Day

62

The Underground Railroad

63

What did the Founders Think About Religion?

64

The Flying Tigers

65

The Man Who Jumped from Space

66

The Patty Hearst Kidnapping Ordeal

67

Conversations: Berlin During WWII, w/ Ian Buruma

68

The Man Who Exposed the Mafia

69

The Rise and Fall of Rommel

70

History's Most Stolen Painting

71

The Death of Stalin's Wife

72

The Fox Sisters Who Talked to the Dead

73

The Big Stick Policy

74

Conversations: Family of Spies, w/ Christine Kuehn

75

How 'Dark' Were the Greek Dark Ages?

76

George Washington's Spies

77

Berlin: The Brutal Last Chapter of WWII

78

Pen Pals with the President

79

The Roaring 20s

80

Saint Louis IX: The Perfect Medieval King?

81

Conversations: The Real Story Behind the Blood Countess, w/ Shelley Puhak

82

Germany vs. Japan: The Forgotten Conflict of WWI

83

Penny Auctions: Defiance in the Great Depression

84

Charlemagne: The Man Who Rebuilt Europe

85

The Sesame Street Story

86

Harvard Professor Finds 'Perfect Woman'

87

The Story of the Smithsonian Institution

88

Conversations: Lessons from Alternative History, w/ Harry Turtledove

89

Mutiny on the Bounty

90

The Somme, 1916

91

Amazons: Warrior Women of Myth and Legend

92

22nd Amendment: Putting a Clock on the Presidency

93

The Monroe Doctrine

94

Hussars: History's Most Terrrifying Cavalry

95

Conversations: Our Man in Tokyo Before Pearl Harbor, w/ Steve Kemper

96

Vatican City: The Smallest Nation

97

The Cats of History

98

The Age of Metternich: Europe After Napoleon

99

Killing Peter and Paul

100

Ho Chi Minh Trail: Vietnam's Invisible Weapon

101

The Fall of the Ottoman Empire

102

Conversations: Preserving History at the National Museum of the U.S.A.F. w/ Meghan Anderson

103

Brutus: The Man Who Killed Caesar

104

Ullamaliztli: The Deadly Sport of Mesoamerica

105

The Castrated Angel Singers of Rome

106

Pulaski: The Father of American Cavalry

107

The Great Awakenings: When America Found Religion

108

Did President Van Buren Invent How We Do Politics Today?

109

Conversations: Spies in My Blood, w/ Alex Storozynski

110

The Dred Scott Decision that shook America

111

Ike's Heart Attack That made America Health-Conscious

112

Killing Margaret Thatcher

113

America's Century of Foreign Regime Change

114

The Rise and Fall of the Mongol Empire

115

Kosciuszko's Last Will and Jefferson's Broken Promise

116

Conversations: Unmasking Thomas Jefferson? w/ Andrew Burstein

117

History's Most "Unkillable" Soldier: Adrian Carton de Wiart

118

Morristown 1779: The Winter That Nearly Ended the Revolution

119

Voltaire and Frederick's Messy Friendship

120

Copernicus Moves the Earth

121

Brief History of Cemeteries

122

The Mann Act: America's Morality Law

123

Conversations: How Our History Shows What We Can Overcome, w/ Greg Jackson

124

Killing Philip II of Macedon

125

History's Worst Nun? Juana Inés de la Cruz

126

Judicial Life Appointments Gone Wrong

127

Laika: First Casualty of the Space Race

128

A Brief History of Cannibalism

129

Mythbusting Paul Revere's Ride

130

An American Journalist, a German Serial Killer, & Paris on the Eve of WWII, w/ Mark Braude

131

Carville: U.S.' Forgotten Leper City

132

Biblical Monsters

133

The Great Depression Serial Killer of Cleveland

134

Sultana: Civil War's Last Forgotten Disaster

135

When Bloodletting was the Cure

136

WWII's Battle Against Venereal Disease

137

Why History Matters, with David McCullough

138

JFK's Hidden Health Crisis

139

The Teenager Who Invented the Television

140

Bigfoot: America's Most Enduring Legend

141

What is the Secret to Happiness? Harvard's 80 Year Old Study's Findings

142

The Forgotten Kingdom of Man and the Isles

143

Killing George Washington

144

'The Greatest Generation' OR 'The 'Wounded Generation'? w/ David Nasaw

145

The Freemasons

146

Napoleon's Missing Penis: A History No One Asked For

147

Sacagawea: Beyond the Myth

148

Belleau Wood: The Battle That Made the Marines

149

Killing Che Guevara

150

'The Conqueror' Movie Curse

151

Conversations: Life and Legacy of King James VI and I, w/ Clare Jackson

152

Jesse Strang & the Kingdom Hidden Inside America

153

Actium: The Battle That Shaped the Roman Empire

154

The Silk Road: Inside the World's First Global Network

155

Vietnam War's Secret Phoenix Program

156

The Short-Lived Fascist Republic of Salo

157

Miracle Mike: The Headless Chicken

158

Conversations: Why the Year 1776 Still Matters Today, w/ Edward J. Larson

159

How Mata Hari Became the World's Most Famous Spy

160

The Forgotten World of House Detectives

161

How the Normans Changed the World

162

The Final Days of Napoleon

163

Weekend Show #2: History of the 'Weekend'

164

Conversations: Three Roads to Gettysburg, w/ Tim McGrath

165

Eddie Slovik: The Only American Killed for Desertion in WWII

166

Conversations: How the American Revolution was a Global Conflict, w/ Richard Bell

167

The Lost Labyrinth of Egypt

168

The Madness of Emperor Caligula

169

The Woman Spy Who Outsmarted Hoover's FBI

170

The Labor Revolt that Shook America (Pullman Strike)

171

History Shorts Weekend Show #1

172

Conversations: The Nazi and the Psychiatrist - the Book Behind the film 'Nuremberg' w. Jack El-Hai

173

The Katyn Massacre

174

Conversations: Why the U.S. is Not a Nation State (But a Federation of Stateless Nations), w/ Colin Woodard

175

Why We Can't Look Away from the Girl With a Pearl Earring

176

Akhenaten: The Pharaoh Who Tried to Erase History

177

The Real Conjuring (The Story of Ed & Lorraine Warren)

178

When the EPA Erased a Whole Town from Existence

179

The British Woman Who Fell in Love With Hitler

180

Benjamin Franklin Goes to France

181

Conversations: When maps seize being tools and become narratives, w/ James Cheshire

182

TODAY IN CONTEXT: The Penny Retires Into History (& What That Means for Us)

183

When Women Went to War: Women's Overseas Hospital

184

See It OR Skip It: Nuremberg (2025)

185

What Former U.S. Presidents Thought About the Civil War When It Was Happening

186

So, You Want To Become a Knight?

187

See it OR Skip It: Netflix's 'Death By Lightning'

188

Marcus Aurelius: The Philosopher Emperor

189

The Economist Who Predicted World War II

190

What Happened to Cleopatra's Kids?

191

Conversations: The Real Story of Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday, w/ Mark Lee Gardner

192

The Real Pirates of the Caribbean

193

When Poetry was an Olympic Event

194

TODAY IN CONTEXT: Dick Cheney's Legacy

195

Before Hitler Stole the Swastika

196

Conversations: How much do you know about Christopher Columbus? w/ Matthew Restall

197

YOU DECIDE: The Vietnam War - Necessary Intervention or Disastrous Mistake?

198

The Death that Shaped U.S.-Iran Relations

199

Conversations: Malcolm Gladwell's Revenge of the Tipping Point

200

The Japanese Schindler

201

Home Rule: D.C.'s Fight for its own Democracy

202

The War Hero Who Refused to Die: Eddie Rickenbacker's 24 Days at Sea

203

Conversations: How the Jefferson/Hamilton Debate Still Defines Us Today, w/ Jeffrey Rosen

204

YOU DECIDE: Napoleon - Military Genius or Tyrant?

205

The Speech that Sparked the American Revolution

206

Conversations: The Tastes, Smells, and Feels of Ancient History, w/ Sam Kean

207

Death Below the Waves: The Curse of UB-65

208

The Phantom Continent that Fooled the World

209

Hollywood's Hays Code

210

Conversations: Reevaluating Robert McNamara, w/ Philip and William Taubman

211

YOU DECIDE: The Crusades - Holy War or Colonial Agression?

212

Galen: The Doctor of the Roman Empire

213

Conversations: How Ancient India Transformed the World, w/ William Dalrymple

214

Lincoln's Lost Speech

215

The Assyrian Empire

216

Levi's Jeans

217

Conversations: Inside Hitler's U-Boat War, w Roger Moorhouse

218

YOU DECIDE: The Civil War - About States' Rights or Slavery?

219

National Park Service's Special Agents

220

Conversations: How Travel Helps Us Understand Our Place in the World, w/ Rick Steves

221

Imperial Germany's Plan For the Invasion of the U.S.

222

Temporary Roman Dictatorships

223

When NYC Almost Seceded from the Union in 1861

224

The Office of Strategic Services

225

Zoroastrianism

226

When the New Deal Became Unconstitutional

227

Conversations: NYC's Secret Subway & the Origins of Mass Transit, w/ Matthew Algeo

228

MASH Units

229

The Kidnapping Epidemic of the Great Depression

230

Nixon's Checkers Speech

231

The Twelve Labors of Hercules

232

Secret WW2: Gortz - WWIIs Unluckiest Spy?

233

The Surprisingly Eccentric U.S. Postal Service

234

Conversations: The Horse and the Rise of Empires, w/ David Chaffetz

235

Thomas Nast Battles Corruption

236

The Nazi History of the VW Beetle

237

The 'Cool' in Coolidge

238

The U.S. Army Camel Experiment

239

Secret WW2: The 1945 Plot to Surrender Nazi Forces

240

TODAY IN CONTEXT: Jimmy Kimmel & The First Amendment

241

The Berlin Wall

242

Conversations: Ken Burns' The American Revolution

243

Who Were the American Whigs?

244

FDR's Struggle Against Opposition

245

The Madness of Goya: Secrets of the Black Paintings

246

Conversations: Suffrage, Free Love, & the First Woman to Run for President, w/ Eden Collinsworth

247

Secret WW2: Salon Kitty

248

The State of Franklin That Never Was

249

Conversations: Ancient Mesopotamia and the Birth of History, w/ Moudhy Al Rashid

250

The Free City of Danzig

251

Jefferson and the Barbary Wars

252

The History of Scientology

253

The 1932 Battle of Washington D.C.

254

TODAY IN CONTEXT: U.S. Presidents' History of Urban Interventions

255

Secret WW2: Operation Himmler

256

Grover Cleveland's Secret Surgery

257

Conversations: Revisiting the Last Year of the American Civil War, w/ Scott Ellsworth

258

Ghiberti vs. Brunelleschi

259

Mystery of Evita's Corpse

260

History of Concubines

261

Operation Unthinkable

262

The Lioness Program

263

Truman Resurrects Hoover

264

Conversations: Triumph, Tragedy & the Shaping of the American West, w/ Paul A. Hutton

265

The Gaspee Affair of 1772

266

Codex Gigas - The Devil's Bible

267

German Revolution of 1918

268

Socrates the Warrior

269

Native American Scouts of the Civil War

270

Justinian's Quest to Unify the Roman Empire

271

Conversations: The Marine "Bastard" Battalion, w/ Gregg Zoroya

272

Stealing the Superfortress

273

Adding 'God' to the Pledge of Allegiance

274

History of the G-Men

275

The Search for 'Little Albert'

276

Conversations: The Warsaw Ghetto & the Holocaust, w/ Katarzyna Person

277

Andrew Jackson Arms His Slaves

278

Conversations: Why the Scopes Trial Still Matters Today, w/ Brenda Wineapple

279

The RMS Titanic Prophecy

280

The Failed Lincoln Assassinations

281

Sex, STDs, and the Lewis & Clark Expedition

282

Circuit Judges of the American West

283

Conversations: Was Charles Sumner the most important Civil Rights Leader of the 19th Century, w/ Zaakir Tameez

284

Lincoln's Forgotten Vice President

285

Conversations: The American women who flew in World War II, w/ Becky Aikman

286

Tsar Nicholas' Forbidden Love for a Ballerina

287

The Great Train Robbery of 1963

288

The Search for Cleopatra's Tomb

289

The Vatican's WWII Spy Network

290

Conversations: How Habsburgs Transformed Europe, w/ Martyn Rady

291

The Black Hole of Calcutta

292

TODAY IN CONTEXT: A.I. - Mankind's Dream Dating Back Thousands of Years

293

Conversations: Lessons from Cats for Surviving Fascism, w/ Brittlestar

294

Dr. Crippen - The Second Jack the Ripper?

295

The Solidarity Movement

296

Could the SS Californian Have Saved the Titanic?

297

Trojan War

298

The Beast of New Orleans

299

Debs Runs for President... from Jail

300

Conversations: Lessons from the Renaissance, w/ Ross King

301

Kent State

302

Secret Plot to Kill Jefferson Davis

303

The Legend of Jesse James

304

Killing Sitting Bull

305

The Shame of Benedict Arnold

306

War Crimes Trial of Andersonville's H. Wirtz (Civil War True Crime)

307

Barbed Wire Tames the West

308

Conversations: Everything is Tuberculosis, w/ John Green

309

Irish Americans Attack Canada

310

America's Stonehenge

311

Mad Gasser of Mattoon

312

Killing Wild Bill Hickok

313

TODAY IN CONTEXT: Third Parties in American Politics- A History

314

Bloody Bill Anderson (Civil War True Crime)

315

COINTELPRO: America's Secret Surveillance Program

316

Captain James Cook's Final Voyage w/ Hampton Sides

317

The Man in the Iron Mask

318

The Peggy Eaton Affair

319

The Tuskegee Syphilis Study

320

The Bible's Greatest Battles

321

Fort Pillow Massacre (Civil War True Crime)

322

Mystery of Sir Francis Drake's Treasure

323

TODAY IN CONTEXT: The History of How We Celebrate July 4th

324

Conversations: The Fragile Alliance of WWIIs 'Big Three,' w/ Tim Bouverie

325

Michelangelo's David

326

Vietnam: America's Lost War

327

Fast & Furious PT Boats

328

Jefferson & Adams: Founding Frenemies?

329

Custer's Last Stand

330

The Kings' Crusade

331

Conversations: The Mystery Behind Socrates' Death w/ Matt Gatton

332

The Pill, the Nurse, and the Revolution

333

The Last Nazi Fuhrer

334

Rome's Five Good Emperors

335

The "Other" Rosa Parks

336

Today in Context: Iran/U.S Relations: A History

337

Frozen Hell of the Chosin Reservoir

338

Killing Trotsky

339

Conversations: Which Founding Father Would Get the Highest SAT Score? w/ Joseph Ellis

340

Reformation: The Hammer that Shook the World

341

Sink the Bismarck!

342

Did Taft Get Stuck in a Tub?

343

Manhunt for Jefferson Davis

344

How U.S. Reporters Started China's Boxer Rebellion

345

Camp Leach: Ghosts of WWI Research

346

Conversations: Would you eat black vomit to fight off Yellow Fever? w/ Kathryn Olivarius

347

What Plato Warned Us About Reality

348

A Prince Among Slaves

349

Indentured Servants Who Became Presidents

350

When H.W. Bush Got Shot Down in the Pacific

351

Chinese Exclusion Act: U.S.' First Immigration Ban

352

Franco-Prussian War Forges Modern Europe

353

TODAY IN CONTEXT: History of D-Day Celebrations

354

Conversations: How We Almost Lost the Revolutionary War, w/ Rick Atkinson

355

Reagan's Joke that Bombed

356

Playboy Bunnies and Operation Babylift

357

The "Other" Great Depressions

358

Hamilton Jr. Battles Burr in Court

359

Schism: Catholic vs. Orthodox Christianity

360

Unsolved: Did Hitler Kill His Niece?

361

TODAY IN CONTEXT: The Grandson of a President Born in 1700s Just Died

362

Conversations: A Forgotten Charge that Helped Win D-Day with James Donovan

363

The Sinister World of Brothers Grimm

364

Teddy's Last Stand: the Bull Moose Party

365

Secrets of Egypt's Book of the Dead

366

What is your favorite Little Golden Book?

367

Conversations: Making scholars readable and relevant, with Meilan Solly

368

Unsolved: Was Mozart Poisoned?

369

Dido: The Legendary Queen of Carthage

370

Conversations: Why there is always more to say about Midway, with Martin Dugard

371

Washington Square Park's Dark Secret

372

Dr. Pepper's Secret Recipe Exposed?

373

A Bonaparte's Encounter with the NJ Devil

374

When a Boy Became the Last Emperor of Rome

375

Unsolved: Did Mary Queen of Scots Kill Her Husband?

376

TODAY IN CONTEXT: Menendez's 2025 Parole Echoes Leopold and Loeb's 1924 Case

377

The Curse of the Little Rascals

378

Conversations: Carol Berkin on Women's Right to Vote in 1776

379

Boers vs. Empire: The First Modern War?

380

Library: Humanity's Greatest Invention?

381

Colt: Forging the American Gun

382

Rin Tin Tin

383

Unsolved: Did Jesus Die on the Cross?

384

Antikythera Mechanism

385

TODAY IN CONTEXT: Best - And Worst - Popes in History

386

Conversations: What does the Medal of Honor mean to those who earned it, with Greg Waters

387

Rise and Fall of Pancho Villa

388

Worst Terrorist Attack in Canadian History

389

Did Roman Legionaries Make it to China?

390

Rudolf Hess' Last Flight

391

Escaping Slavery in a Box

392

Rise and Fall of William Franklin

393

TODAY IN CONTEXT: Federal Government vs. Higher Education

394

Conversations: What is actually taught in our history classrooms, w/ Brendan Gillis

395

The Lincoln Curse

396

Partition of India

397

Banana Republics

398

President's Daughter

399

History of IQ Tests

400

The House of David

401

Conversations: Future Presidents who Fought in WWII, w/ Steven Gillon

402

Typhoid Mary

403

Rough Riders

404

Stealing Lincoln's Body

405

Duke of Russia's Buffalo Hunt

406

Fall of Saigon

407

Iran-Contra Affair

408

Conversations: What can the Civil War still teach us today? w/ James M. McPherson

409

Bombing of Guernica

410

Marco Polo's Travels

411

CIA Classifies 'End of World' Book

412

Rosenbergs Die For Spying

413

TODAY IN CONTEXT: History of American Immigration

414

Killing Ford

415

Church Brothels of the Middle Ages

416

Conversations: Was Stalin a step ahead of Churchill and FDR? w/ Giles Milton

417

Mary Lincoln Declared Insane

418

Edo's Little Matchgirl

419

Galileo's Trial

420

The Communist Manifesto

421

Patton's Task Force Baum Blunder

422

Boy Scouts of America

423

Conversations: What it was like to talk to a WWI Veteran, w/ Richard Rubin

424

BONUS: War Plan Red - U.S. Invasion of Canada

425

Beowulf

426

Booth's Other Victim

427

Champagne and the Treaty of Versailles

428

Bacon's Rebellion

429

Grimaldi Curse: Princess Grace

430

William Jennings Bryan

431

Conversations: Murders in German WWII POW Camps Across the U.S. w/ William Geroux

432

Comic Books on Trial

433

Napoleon's Polish Countess

434

Palmer Raids

435

CIA and the Dalai Lama

436

Grimaldi Curse: Louis' Unfaithful Wife

437

Vietnam War POWs

438

Conversations: The story behind Apple TV's Masters of the Air, w/ Donald L. Miller

439

Teddy's Bear

440

Killing Houdini

441

The Great Molasses Flood

442

The Real Raiders of the Ark

443

Grimaldi Curse: Lucien and Jean

444

King Solomon's Mines

445

Conversations: Why Napoleon Does Not Get Enough Credit, w/ Adam Zamoyski

446

TODAY IN CONTEXT: Tariff Wars in American History

447

Turbulent Life of Lucrezia Borgia

448

Chester A. Arthur and Ms. Jennings

449

Musketeers

450

Queen Elizabeth's Spy Network

451

Grimaldi Curse: Lady Claudine

452

Battle Axes of Free Love

453

Conversations: The Falklands War and power of storytelling w/ Sir Max Hastings

454

Vidocq - the First Modern Detective

455

Shipping Kids Through USPS

456

America First Movement

457

Spanish Inquisition

458

Nazi Aktion T4 Project

459

Roger Sherman's Compromise

460

TODAY IN CONTEXT: Pope Francis and a Conclave

461

Conversations: A Story of Britian's Forgotten Rogue Agent, w/ James Crossland

462

Flannan Lighthouse Mystery

463

The Russian Sleeper Agent

464

Hoover Ball

465

Stealing Batman

466

Jezebel - Bible's Femme Fatale

467

TODAY IN CONTEXT: Revisiting the Start of the War in Ukraine

468

Police Woman Badge No. 1

469

Conversations: How did the Comanche Shape the American West, w/ S.C. Gwynne

470

Tecumseh's Curse

471

The Boxer of Auschwitz

472

Stopping the Spanish Armada

473

Mussolini vs. the Mafia

474

Gulf War Syndrome

475

The Cleveland Headache

476

TODAY IN CONTEXT: Who is Roland L. Bragg?

477

Conversations: Can you outrun a dinosaur? with Cody Cassidy

478

Jesuits - The Pope's Soldiers

479

Willow Run

480

Charles V Abdicates

481

Tea

482

Hitler's Favorite Commando

483

Captain James J. T. Waddell's Mission

484

Conversations: One history podcaster to another, w/ Gary Arndt

485

States Named After Individuals

486

BONUS Deep Dive: Department of Education - A History

487

Disappearance of Agatha Christie

488

Food Riots in History

489

Princes in the Tower

490

Vintage News: Death of Jayne Mansfield

491

Michelangelo Paints the Sistine Chapel

492

Conversations: How "Wild" was the Wild West? w/ Tom Clavin

493

Ninjas

494

Mesopotamia - The First Civilization

495

North Korea's Three Generations Rule

496

War of the Roses

497

BONUS Deep Dive: WWI and Military Service Tribunals

498

Akwesasne: A Nation Among Nations

499

Last Days of the Dinosaurs

500

Conversations: A History of the World in 6 Glasses, w/ Tom Standage

501

1956 Suez Canal Crisis

502

Leaflet Propaganda of WWII

503

King Gillette's Razor

504

Warrior Queens Who Challenged Rome

505

Vintage News: Pentagon Papers

506

Firebombing of Dresden

507

Conversations: How Important was Henry Cabot Lodge to TRs Success? w/ Laurence Jurdem

508

Blood on the Senate Floor

509

U.S. Invades Canada - Twice!

510

Remembering John Q. Adams

511

The Legend of King Arthur

512

U.S. and Greenland: A History

513

Mormon Army of Nauvoo

514

Conversations: Speaking with those who knew MLK Jr., w/ Jonathan Eig

515

Stealing the Panama Canal

516

Romulus and Remus of Rome

517

Kosovo Student Poisoning Incident

518

FBI's Long Manhunt for Fugitive Webb

519

Trivia: Accidental Inventions

520

Father of the Doughnut Hole

521

Rasputin's Autopsy Secrets

522

Conversations: Poland's Place in World History, w/ Norman Davies

523

Killing Dillinger

524

The $36 Million Dollar Scam

525

Pope's Line Across the World

526

The Fall of Boss Tweed

527

Trivia: Candy

528

Brazilian Expeditionary Force of WWII

529

Landmarks: Washington Monument

530

Conversations: How Rome's Roads Shaped History, w/ Catherine Fletcher

531

A City Built on Bones

532

Charlie Brown Christmas

533

Killing Spartacus

534

Chappaquiddick

535

Remastered: It's a Wonderful Life

536

OSS' Psychological Analysis of Hitler

537

Landmarks: Kremlin

538

Conversations: What are some positive lessons from history? w/ Roman Krznaric

539

Hollywood Urban Legends

540

Ford and Edison's Electric Car

541

Building a Beer Empire

542

The Chicken of Tomorrow Contest

543

Vintage News: Archduke Ferdinand

544

Landmarks: Stonehenge

545

Conversations: On the Unsung Heroes of America's History w/ Sharon McMahon

546

Businesses that Worked w/ the Nazis

547

Ali Stops the Fight

548

Did Nixon Delay Peace in Vietnam?

549

The Fall of Ferdinand Magellan

550

BONUS Deep Dive: The Death of General Sikorski

551

Just the Facts: Military History

552

Landmarks: Taj Mahal

553

Conversations: Writing about flawed historical characters is more fun, w/ Ben Macintyre

554

Battle of the Overpass

555

Kidnapping the Pope

556

Killing J.P. Morgan

557

Marathon to Athens

558

Trivia: Ancient Landmarks

559

Remastered: Sending Nazi POWs to College

560

Conquerors: Napoleon

561

Conversations: The Importance of a National History Day, w/ Cathy Gorn

562

History of the Potato

563

King Kong Breaks the Box Office

564

Fort Dearborn Massacre

565

Machiavelli's The Prince

566

VINTAGE NEWS: Al Capone 1926

567

Conquerors: Attila the Hun

568

Conversations: Winston Churchill During the Cold War, w/ Anthony Tucker Jones

569

Ivan's Bloodless Faceoff

570

Chrysler vs. the Empire

571

Nixon's Silent Majority

572

I am an American Day

573

JUST THE FACTS: Alcohol

574

Conquerors: Julius Caesar

575

Conversations: Learning History from YouTube, w/ Steve Heimler

576

Trials by Ordeal

577

Joan of Arc

578

Absaroka - the State that Never Was

579

Ten Thousand Immortals

580

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581

Trivia: Literary Classics

582

Conquerors: Hannibal of Carthage

583

New England Secession?

584

SMS Cormoran

585

Bomb City USA

586

Conversations: Writing Speeches for Presidents Nixon and Reagan, w/ Ken Khachigian

587

Conversations: Why John Adams Gets a Bad Rap, w/ Lindsay Chervinsky

588

Trivia: Presidential Nicknames

589

Conversations: America's Contentious Elections w/ David Pietrusza

590

Conversations: Separating Reagan, the man, from the myth. w/ Max Boot

591

America's Most Haunted House?

592

Mark Twain's Nightmare

593

A Storm Prevents a War

594

LBJ Goes to the Bathroom - and Lives

595

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596

Conquerors: Alexander the Great

597

Religions: Christianity

598

Conversations: How the Read Dead Redemption games mirror history, w/ Tore Olsson

599

The First Female Pharaoh

600

The Black Swallow of Death

601

The Man Who Killed Booth

602

Ernesto and the Miranda Rights

603

Trivia: Women's Suffrage

604

Religions: Islam

605

Conversations: The Clandestine World of Josephine Baker, w/ Damien Lewis

606

The Lady with the Medal of Honor

607

Wacky History of the Flag Salute

608

Who Were Mr. Mason and Mr. Dixon?

609

Mad King and the Real Disney Castle

610

Trivia: Classic Video Games

611

Religions: Judaism

612

Conversations: Legacy of Harry S. Truman, w/ Kurt Graham

613

History's Most Mysterious Book

614

Why Don't We Like Aaron Burr?

615

The Women of Mercury 13

616

Paris Catacombs

617

Trivia: Food Origins

618

Religions: Hinduism

619

Conversations: What is the job of the U.S. National Archives? w/ Colleen Shogan

620

Killing Castro

621

What's the Deal w/ Carrier Pigeons?

622

Sweet Voices of Evil

623

Henry's Kids' Game of Thrones

624

Trivia: Infamous Cults in History

625

Mysteries: Tomb of the Unknown Soldier

626

Conversations: Untold Story of Lincoln's Special Forces, w/ Patrick K. O'Donnell

627

Who Cracked the Liberty Bell?

628

Native American Leaders

629

The First American Novel Scandal

630

The Amber Room Mystery

631

Trivia: Deaths of Famous People

632

Mysteries: Betraying Anne Frank

633

Conversations: Why history is cyclical. w/ Dan Carlin

634

Chocolate

635

First Female Presidential Candidate

636

1605 Demolition Men

637

Emperor's Ransom

638

Trivia: The Great Depression

639

Mysteries: Sunken Civilizations

640

Conversations: The 16th Century Contest that Shaped the World, w/ Roger Crowley

641

Hitler Diaries

642

Bloody Angle NYC

643

Mummifying Lenin

644

Teapot Dome Scandal

645

Trivia: The Movies

646

Mysteries: Marilyn Monroe

647

Conversations: A fictional hero in a real world of WWII, w/ James R. Benn

648

Confederados

649

White House Ghosts

650

Doctors of Death

651

Bombing a Royal Wedding

652

TRAILER : Dan Carlin

653

Trivia: American Revolution

654

What If: A Lindbergh Presidency

655

Conversations: Destroying the Nazi Atomic Bomb Program, w/ Neal Bascomb

656

Real Indiana Jones

657

Naming America

658

Nostradamus

659

Killing the Red Baron

660

Trivia: Ancient History

661

What If: Cuban Missile Crisis

662

Conversations: How Narrative History Brings the Past to Life, w/ Jeff Shaara

663

The Curse of the Hope Diamond

664

Bringing Down the Knights Templar

665

Mohawk Skywalkers

666

The Tunguska Event

667

Trivia: Cold War

668

What If: League of Nations

669

Conversations: The power of art in the historical narrative, w/ Sabin Howard

670

Lost City of Angkor

671

Ghosts of a Murdered Dynasty

672

Lolita Shocks the World

673

Van Gogh's Ear

674

Trivia: Famous Women

675

What If: Mexico Defeated the U.S.

676

Conversations: William H. Harrison, w/ Jerry Landry

677

Killing Truman

678

Fountain of Youth

679

Mt. Everest Death Zone

680

Uncle Sam

681

Trivia: American Presidents

682

What If: RFK Became President

683

Conversations: The Importance of Compromise in the United States, w/ Alan Taylor

684

Titanic by the Numbers

685

Sex and Corn Flakes

686

Sheep Wars

687

Four Diaries of Anne Frank

688

Genghis Khan (Where are they now?)

689

Conversations: Visiting the graves of all American Presidents, w/ Brady Carlson

690

Grant and Twain

691

Mayan Portal to the Underworld

692

1968 Democratic National Convention

693

Orphans Preferred

694

The Story of Pocahontas (Where are they now?)

695

Conversations: The true story of Sgt. York, w/ James C. Nelson

696

The Ghost Ship

697

FDR's Close Call

698

Shadow Amendment

699

Lenin Has Second Thoughts

700

Failed Presidential Assassination Attempts

701

Alexander Graham Bell (Where are they now?)

702

Conversations: What Role do Books Play in Wars? w/ Andrew Pettegree

703

Do We have Freedom of Speech?

704

Tower of London Kills Again

705

History's Deadliest King

706

William's Disastrous Funeral

707

Jesse Owens (Where are they now?)

708

Conversations: The Legacy of Former First Ladies, w/ Kate Andersen Brower

709

Presidential Sex Scandals

710

Hollywood's 1924 Murder Mystery

711

Got Milk?

712

Conversations: Battle of Britian w/ Martin Dugard

713

Christopher Columbus (Where are they now?)

714

Conversations: Why there is always more to say about Lincoln, w/ Harold Holzer

715

Booth Saves a Lincoln

716

Bounty Jumpers

717

Escaping the Confederacy

718

Bad Day for a Picnic

719

Wright Brothers (Where are they now?)

720

Conversations: How much did the U.S. help win WWI, w/Matt Seelinger

721

Annie Oakley Shoots the Kaiser?

722

WWI German Internment

723

The Black Chamber

724

Zeppelins Over London

725

Paul Revere (Where are they now?)

726

Conversations: Battle of Saipan, w/David Sears

727

Japan's Last Soldier

728

Bat Bombs

729

Cherry Blossoms at Night

730

Killing Tojo

731

Conversations: Writing About Strong Women of WWII, w/Clare Mulley

732

BONUS: Interview with a D-Day Veteran

733

Double Life of Josephine Baker

734

Nazi Prisoner on the Run

735

The White Rose Movement

736

Jeep: The Little Truck that Could

737

Conversations: Why Writing About Teddy Roosevelt is Draining, w/ H.W. Brands

738

Wall Street Under Attack!

739

Nero's Party House

740

The Father of History

741

The Hammurabi Way

742

Conversations: How History and Science go hand in hand, w/ Edward J. Larson

743

Aliens Over Texas

744

Nazi Bureaucracy

745

Virginia Breaks Up With Virginia

746

Edgar Allan Poe's Bad Reputation

747

Conversations: The Ghost Army, w/Rick Beyer

748

Alexander's Missing Body

749

Becoming Sherlock Holmes

750

Who Wrote the Bible?

751

Conversations: America's Founding Myths w/ Ray Raphael

752

A King's Deadly Dose

753

Medal of Honor: The Toughest Thing He's Ever Done: SP5 Clarence Eugene Sasser

754

No Civil War; No Coca Cola?

755

Stalin Needs a Doctor

756

Cleopatra and Caesar Have a Baby!

757

Cinco de Mayo is NOT Independence Day

758

Abe Lincoln Buys Cocaine

759

Conversations: The Meaning of Courage w/ Col. Jack H. Jacobs

760

The Lady Who Said "No" to War

761

King Tut's Curse

762

Elvis' Last Moments

763

Conversations: Forging Passports to save Jews from the Holocaust, w/ Roger Moorhouse

764

Boxing Gangsters vs. American Nazis

765

Killing Socrates

766

Cod Wars

767

The Search for Molly Pitcher

768

Sgt. York's Army of One

769

Who was Jim Crow?

770

Catherine's Doomed Husband

771

Thou Shall Not Kill Cats

772

Conversations: Flags of Our Fathers w/ James Bradley

773

Napoleon's Missing Hand

774

The Auschwitz's "Canada"

775

The Time of Three Popes

776

Harlem Hellfighters and Jazz

777

Britain's Twelve-Day Sleep

778

Serial Killer in Nazi Berlin

779

Barbers at Moscow's Gates

780

Mr. Celsius and Mr. Fahrenheit

781

Picasso Steals the Mona Lisa?

782

The Real Kamikaze

783

The Hollow Man

784

Cary Grant on Acid

785

Caligula Mourns his Sister

786

Murderer from the Mayflower

787

Nine Capitals of the United States

788

The Woman Called "Moses"

789

Our (Maybe) Gay President

790

Alcohol Fuels an American Sport

791

Stealing Charlie Chaplin's Body

792

Wealthiest Person in History

793

Reversing the Chicago River

794

The Nazis and the Pope?

795

Fordlandia

796

The Statue of Liberty Attacked

797

Khrushchev Meets Marilyn

798

It's a Wonderful Life

799

Gladiators drinking Gatorade

800

Did you say, Terracotta Army?

801

Sending Nazi POWs to College

802

Rosa Parks

803

The Real Dr. Frankenstein

804

The Nine Unknown Men