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1

WWII's Operation Fish

2

Russia's Invisible Rocket Man

3

The Cold War's Most Extraordinary Spy w/ Ben Macintyre

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The Persian King who Punished the Ocean

5

The WWI Sepoy Mutiny of Singapore

6

CIA's Secret Weather Weapon in Vietnam

7

Was Benjamin Franklin a British Spy?

8

The 1835 Bat Men of the Moon

9

President Wilson Has a Stroke

10

Robert Harris on Agrippa: Friendship, Power & the Making of the Roman Empire

11

Geronimo Surrenders

12

Did FDR Push the U.S. into World War II?

13

Peter the Great's Grand Embassy

14

The 1618 Defenestration of Prague

15

Emperor Basil: The Bulgar-Slayer Who Blinded a Whole Army

16

The Houston Riot of 1917

17

The Insane 1909 Coast-to-Coast Race That Changed America, w/ Eric Moskowitz

18

Nizari Ismailis & the Origin of the Word 'Assassin'

19

The Union Spy in the Confederate White House

20

The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire

21

Paul Revere's Ride: The Night That Saved America, w/ Kostya Kennedy

22

The Day Americans and Germans Fought Together in WWII

23

The Man Who Sued Satan

24

The Newspaper Revolution & Birth of America's Media Empire, w/ Alex Wright

25

Was There a Female Paul Revere?

26

The Great Game: Britain v. Russia in Central Asia

27

Did a Cake Start the Salem Terror of 1692?

28

King William's War: P. Schuyler, the Iroquois & America's Forgotten Conflict, w/ Samuel Marquis

29

The Polio Vaccine's Cutter Incident of 1955

30

The Wilmington Massacre of 1898

31

Inside the White House as Chief of Staff to Laura Bush & Learning from the First Ladies, w/ Anita McBride

32

The Truth About the Children's Crusade of 1212

33

The Eastland Disaster of 1915

34

Zheng He and the Treasure Fleets of Ming China

35

The WWII Battle of LA: The Night America Shelled an Empty Sky

36

From Medieval Monastic Timekeeping to Our 9-5 Workday

37

1800s Telegram Networks that Invented Modern Insider Trading

38

Ghosts of Sicily: Navy-Mob Alliance vs. Nazis, w/ Leon Carroll, Jr.

39

The Tailor Who Saved Washington - Twice

40

The Polish Mathematicians Who Cracked the Engima

41

Project Iceworm: A Secret Cold War Base Under Greenland

42

The Civil War Hospital Ships that Invented Modern Trauma Care

43

The Man Who Sold 'Winter'

44

Napoleon & the Invention of Canned Food

45

Reviving Civic Education in American Classrooms, w/ Jack Miller Center President, Hans Zeiger

46

The Forgotten WWI Choctaw Code Talkers

47

Abraham Lincoln's Lifelong Battle with Depression

48

When the Coffeehouse Became the Most Dangerous Room in Europe

49

THE HISTORIANS #2 - How "Wild" was the Wild West? I Paul Andrew Hutton & Mark Lee Gardner

50

Clara Barton's Missing Soldiers Office

51

When Teachers Waged War Against Calculators

52

The Dark WWII History of Paris's Hotel Lutetia, w/ Jane Rogoyska

53

The Resolute Desk's Ghost Ship Past

54

Poinsettismo: The Christmas Flower's Forgotten Diplomatic Disaster

55

Marcus Garvey's Fleet of Dreams

56

The Last Stands of Custer, Crazy Horse, & Sitting Bull, w/ Tom Clavin

57

Merrill's Marauders

58

Stalin's Cannibal Island

59

Are We Heading Toward Great Power War? w/ Odd Arne Westad

60

The Age of Pericles

61

The Last Hours of Alexander Hamilton

62

The 1637 Mystic Massacre

63

Inside the National WWII Museum w/ Cory Graff

64

Mansa Musa and the Pilgrimage that Broke an Economy

65

The Last Revolutionary War Soldier: Daniel Frederick Bakeman

66

How the American Revolution was GLOBAL, w/ Sarah Pearsall

67

Why did Hitler call it the "Third" Reich?

68

The Forgotten Race to Map the Amazon's Last Wilderness

69

An American Adventurer Steals Nicaragua

70

America's First Serial Killers & the Dark Side of the Revolution, w/ Katherine Grandjean

71

How the 1944 Bretton Woods Conference Still Runs the World

72

Lights, Camera, Propaganda: Hollywood and the Cold War

73

The Black Death - A Global History of Humanity's Deadliest Pandemic, w/ Thomas Asbridge

74

The Extraordinary History of SPAM

75

How the 1964 Tokyo Olympics Rewrote Japan's Story

76

How the Bicycle Launched the Women's Rights Movement

77

Were the Founding Fathers Good Men? | The Historians with Joseph Ellis & Carol Berkin

78

The Killer Fog: London's Great Smog of 1952

79

How a Teenage Chemist's Failed Experiment Launched a Modern Industry

80

Life Lessons from the Lost Greek Plays, w/ James Romm

81

The Man Who Stopped WWIII

82

Philadelphia's Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793

83

The Story Behind TR's Man in the Arena Speech

84

France's SS and the Men Who Fought for Hitler

85

How Roman Military Logistics Conquered the Ancient World

86

How the Blizzard of 1888 Built the New York Subway

87

A Day in the Life of a Gladiator, w/ Harry Sidebottom

88

The 1897 Ghost Who Solved Her Own Murder

89

The Complicated History of Miss America

90

How Medieval Guilds Invented Modern Commerce

91

Hitler on Trial: The Lawyer Who Put the Fuhrer on the Stand

92

The Catnip Riot of 1909

93

One Last Run: Billy the Kid's Great Escape

94

The Two Ships that Divided America, w/ David S. Reynolds

95

The Alaska Triangle - America's Own Bermuda Triangle

96

Rome's Forgotten Female Gladiators

97

The Lost Tribes of Israel

98

When the Vikings 'Discovered' North America

99

JFK's Missing Brain

100

The Moon Rock Heist

101

How Do You Repay Those Who Died for Your Freedom? w/ Robert M. Edsel

102

The Quest for the Holy Grail

103

The Confederate Gold Mystery

104

Saipan: D-Day in the Pacific

105

Naked and Unafraid: Did Celtic Warriors Really Fight in the Nude?

106

The Maharaja Who Broke Rolls-Royce

107

The Real Story of Ponce de Leon's Quest for the Fountain of Youth

108

Truman's Real Decision on Dropping the Atomic Bomb, w/ Alex Wellerstein

109

Patton and the Story of How a Latrine Pit Became a Hero

110

How Medieval Monks Invented Food Safety

111

The Underwater Shipwreck Graves of the Great Lakes

112

How Victorian Forensic Science Solved London's Poison Epidemics

113

Vlad the Impaler and the Massacre of 1457

114

John Muir: The Man Who Saved the Wild

115

Conversations: What can George Washington Still Teach America Today? w/ H.W. Brands

116

CIA's Project Acoustic Kitty

117

Skull and Bones: A Pipeline to Power in America?

118

The Controversial Sokushinbutsu Monks of Japan

119

Napoleon and the Rosetta Stone

120

Hitler's Volkssturm: the Children of a Dying Reich

121

Peter the Great Takes Revenge on His Wife

122

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

123

A Short History of Ice Cream

124

The Whiskey Rebellion

125

The American Lioness: Lady Randolph Churchill

126

The Crazy Horse Memorial

127

The Theft of Owens Valley's Water

128

Capturing Al Capone

129

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

130

JFK vs. Israel: The Forgotten Standoff

131

The Women of the Nazi SS

132

John Tyler and the Presidency Nobody Wanted Him to Have

133

The Rise and Fall of Sparta

134

The London Bridge Comes to Arizona

135

The Jesuits of Hiroshima

136

The Morristown Ghost Hoax of 1788

137

Russia & The Third Rome Prophecy

138

The Bena Tshadi Lightning Strike

139

The Vestal Virgins of Rome

140

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

141

Legend of the Loveland Frogman

142

Who Was Muhammad? The Story of Islam's Prophet

143

Grisly Papal Deaths

144

The Last U.S. Cavalry Charge in History

145

Audie Murphy and the Cost of Courage

146

Killing Hypatia

147

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

148

The Fall of Valerian and Rome's Darkest Hour

149

Battle of Hastings

150

The Man Who Became John Paul II

151

The Untold Story of WWII War Brides

152

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

153

Stalin Gives Mariya a Tank

154

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

155

Malta, 1565: The Siege That Saved Europe

156

The Riddle that Killed Homer

157

The Debate over Hawaii Annexation

158

USO: Entertainment on the Front Lines

159

James Earl Ray Escapes from Prison

160

Artemas Ward - America's First Commander in Chief

161

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

162

The Abdication of King Edward VIII

163

The Rise and Fall of the Oracle at Delphi

164

Eva Brown: Hitler's Invisible Woman

165

The American Expeditionary Forces of WWI

166

The Lost Tomb of Queen Hetepheres

167

Most Fascinating Presidential Pardons

168

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

169

The A-Team: When Teenage Athletes Replaced Migrant Farmworkers

170

Department of War - Defense - then War Again

171

Cromwell

172

The Real Gangs of New York

173

Mahan and the Influence of Sea Power

174

History of the Paperbacks

175

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

176

Why American Troops Mutinied After VE Day

177

The Underground Railroad

178

What did the Founders Think About Religion?

179

The Flying Tigers

180

The Man Who Jumped from Space

181

The Patty Hearst Kidnapping Ordeal

182

Conversations: Berlin During WWII, w/ Ian Buruma

183

The Man Who Exposed the Mafia

184

The Rise and Fall of Rommel

185

History's Most Stolen Painting

186

The Death of Stalin's Wife

187

The Fox Sisters Who Talked to the Dead

188

The Big Stick Policy

189

Conversations: Family of Spies, w/ Christine Kuehn

190

How 'Dark' Were the Greek Dark Ages?

191

George Washington's Spies

192

Berlin: The Brutal Last Chapter of WWII

193

Pen Pals with the President

194

The Roaring 20s

195

Saint Louis IX: The Perfect Medieval King?

196

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

197

Germany vs. Japan: The Forgotten Conflict of WWI

198

Penny Auctions: Defiance in the Great Depression

199

Charlemagne: The Man Who Rebuilt Europe

200

The Sesame Street Story

201

Harvard Professor Finds 'Perfect Woman'

202

The Story of the Smithsonian Institution

203

Conversations: Lessons from Alternative History, w/ Harry Turtledove

204

Mutiny on the Bounty

205

The Somme, 1916

206

Amazons: Warrior Women of Myth and Legend

207

22nd Amendment: Putting a Clock on the Presidency

208

The Monroe Doctrine

209

Hussars: History's Most Terrrifying Cavalry

210

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

211

Vatican City: The Smallest Nation

212

The Cats of History

213

The Age of Metternich: Europe After Napoleon

214

Killing Peter and Paul

215

Ho Chi Minh Trail: Vietnam's Invisible Weapon

216

The Fall of the Ottoman Empire

217

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

218

Brutus: The Man Who Killed Caesar

219

Ullamaliztli: The Deadly Sport of Mesoamerica

220

The Castrated Angel Singers of Rome

221

Pulaski: The Father of American Cavalry

222

The Great Awakenings: When America Found Religion

223

Did President Van Buren Invent How We Do Politics Today?

224

Conversations: Spies in My Blood, w/ Alex Storozynski

225

The Dred Scott Decision that shook America

226

Ike's Heart Attack That made America Health-Conscious

227

Killing Margaret Thatcher

228

America's Century of Foreign Regime Change

229

The Rise and Fall of the Mongol Empire

230

Kosciuszko's Last Will and Jefferson's Broken Promise

231

Conversations: Unmasking Thomas Jefferson? w/ Andrew Burstein

232

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

233

Morristown 1779: The Winter That Nearly Ended the Revolution

234

Voltaire and Frederick's Messy Friendship

235

Copernicus Moves the Earth

236

Brief History of Cemeteries

237

The Mann Act: America's Morality Law

238

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

239

Killing Philip II of Macedon

240

History's Worst Nun? Juana Inés de la Cruz

241

Judicial Life Appointments Gone Wrong

242

Laika: First Casualty of the Space Race

243

A Brief History of Cannibalism

244

Mythbusting Paul Revere's Ride

245

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

246

Carville: U.S.' Forgotten Leper City

247

Biblical Monsters

248

The Great Depression Serial Killer of Cleveland

249

Sultana: Civil War's Last Forgotten Disaster

250

When Bloodletting was the Cure

251

WWII's Battle Against Venereal Disease

252

Why History Matters, with David McCullough

253

JFK's Hidden Health Crisis

254

The Teenager Who Invented the Television

255

Bigfoot: America's Most Enduring Legend

256

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

257

The Forgotten Kingdom of Man and the Isles

258

Killing George Washington

259

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

260

The Freemasons

261

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

262

Sacagawea: Beyond the Myth

263

Belleau Wood: The Battle That Made the Marines

264

Killing Che Guevara

265

'The Conqueror' Movie Curse

266

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

267

Jesse Strang & the Kingdom Hidden Inside America

268

Actium: The Battle That Shaped the Roman Empire

269

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

270

Vietnam War's Secret Phoenix Program

271

The Short-Lived Fascist Republic of Salo

272

Miracle Mike: The Headless Chicken

273

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

274

How Mata Hari Became the World's Most Famous Spy

275

The Forgotten World of House Detectives

276

How the Normans Changed the World

277

The Final Days of Napoleon

278

Weekend Show #2: History of the 'Weekend'

279

Conversations: Three Roads to Gettysburg, w/ Tim McGrath

280

Eddie Slovik: The Only American Killed for Desertion in WWII

281

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

282

The Lost Labyrinth of Egypt

283

The Madness of Emperor Caligula

284

The Woman Spy Who Outsmarted Hoover's FBI

285

The Labor Revolt that Shook America (Pullman Strike)

286

History Shorts Weekend Show #1

287

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

288

The Katyn Massacre

289

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

290

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

291

Akhenaten: The Pharaoh Who Tried to Erase History

292

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

293

When the EPA Erased a Whole Town from Existence

294

The British Woman Who Fell in Love With Hitler

295

Benjamin Franklin Goes to France

296

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

297

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

298

When Women Went to War: Women's Overseas Hospital

299

See It OR Skip It: Nuremberg (2025)

300

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

301

So, You Want To Become a Knight?

302

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

303

Marcus Aurelius: The Philosopher Emperor

304

The Economist Who Predicted World War II

305

What Happened to Cleopatra's Kids?

306

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

307

The Real Pirates of the Caribbean

308

When Poetry was an Olympic Event

309

TODAY IN CONTEXT: Dick Cheney's Legacy

310

Before Hitler Stole the Swastika

311

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

312

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

313

The Death that Shaped U.S.-Iran Relations

314

Conversations: Malcolm Gladwell's Revenge of the Tipping Point

315

The Japanese Schindler

316

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

317

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

318

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

319

YOU DECIDE: Napoleon - Military Genius or Tyrant?

320

The Speech that Sparked the American Revolution

321

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

322

Death Below the Waves: The Curse of UB-65

323

The Phantom Continent that Fooled the World

324

Hollywood's Hays Code

325

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

326

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

327

Galen: The Doctor of the Roman Empire

328

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

329

Lincoln's Lost Speech

330

The Assyrian Empire

331

Levi's Jeans

332

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

333

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

334

National Park Service's Special Agents

335

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

336

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

337

Temporary Roman Dictatorships

338

When NYC Almost Seceded from the Union in 1861

339

The Office of Strategic Services

340

Zoroastrianism

341

When the New Deal Became Unconstitutional

342

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

343

MASH Units

344

The Kidnapping Epidemic of the Great Depression

345

Nixon's Checkers Speech

346

The Twelve Labors of Hercules

347

Secret WW2: Gortz - WWIIs Unluckiest Spy?

348

The Surprisingly Eccentric U.S. Postal Service

349

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

350

Thomas Nast Battles Corruption

351

The Nazi History of the VW Beetle

352

The 'Cool' in Coolidge

353

The U.S. Army Camel Experiment

354

Secret WW2: The 1945 Plot to Surrender Nazi Forces

355

TODAY IN CONTEXT: Jimmy Kimmel & The First Amendment

356

The Berlin Wall

357

Conversations: Ken Burns' The American Revolution

358

Who Were the American Whigs?

359

FDR's Struggle Against Opposition

360

The Madness of Goya: Secrets of the Black Paintings

361

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

362

Secret WW2: Salon Kitty

363

The State of Franklin That Never Was

364

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

365

The Free City of Danzig

366

Jefferson and the Barbary Wars

367

The History of Scientology

368

The 1932 Battle of Washington D.C.

369

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

370

Secret WW2: Operation Himmler

371

Grover Cleveland's Secret Surgery

372

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

373

Ghiberti vs. Brunelleschi

374

Mystery of Evita's Corpse

375

History of Concubines

376

Operation Unthinkable

377

The Lioness Program

378

Truman Resurrects Hoover

379

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

380

The Gaspee Affair of 1772

381

Codex Gigas - The Devil's Bible

382

German Revolution of 1918

383

Socrates the Warrior

384

Native American Scouts of the Civil War

385

Justinian's Quest to Unify the Roman Empire

386

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

387

Stealing the Superfortress

388

Adding 'God' to the Pledge of Allegiance

389

History of the G-Men

390

The Search for 'Little Albert'

391

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

392

Andrew Jackson Arms His Slaves

393

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

394

The RMS Titanic Prophecy

395

The Failed Lincoln Assassinations

396

Sex, STDs, and the Lewis & Clark Expedition

397

Circuit Judges of the American West

398

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

399

Lincoln's Forgotten Vice President

400

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

401

Tsar Nicholas' Forbidden Love for a Ballerina

402

The Great Train Robbery of 1963

403

The Search for Cleopatra's Tomb

404

The Vatican's WWII Spy Network

405

Conversations: How Habsburgs Transformed Europe, w/ Martyn Rady

406

The Black Hole of Calcutta

407

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

408

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

409

Dr. Crippen - The Second Jack the Ripper?

410

The Solidarity Movement

411

Could the SS Californian Have Saved the Titanic?

412

Trojan War

413

The Beast of New Orleans

414

Debs Runs for President... from Jail

415

Conversations: Lessons from the Renaissance, w/ Ross King

416

Kent State

417

Secret Plot to Kill Jefferson Davis

418

The Legend of Jesse James

419

Killing Sitting Bull

420

The Shame of Benedict Arnold

421

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

422

Barbed Wire Tames the West

423

Conversations: Everything is Tuberculosis, w/ John Green

424

Irish Americans Attack Canada

425

America's Stonehenge

426

Mad Gasser of Mattoon

427

Killing Wild Bill Hickok

428

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

429

Bloody Bill Anderson (Civil War True Crime)

430

COINTELPRO: America's Secret Surveillance Program

431

Captain James Cook's Final Voyage w/ Hampton Sides

432

The Man in the Iron Mask

433

The Peggy Eaton Affair

434

The Tuskegee Syphilis Study

435

The Bible's Greatest Battles

436

Fort Pillow Massacre (Civil War True Crime)

437

Mystery of Sir Francis Drake's Treasure

438

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

439

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

440

Michelangelo's David

441

Vietnam: America's Lost War

442

Fast & Furious PT Boats

443

Jefferson & Adams: Founding Frenemies?

444

Custer's Last Stand

445

The Kings' Crusade

446

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

447

The Pill, the Nurse, and the Revolution

448

The Last Nazi Fuhrer

449

Rome's Five Good Emperors

450

The "Other" Rosa Parks

451

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

452

Frozen Hell of the Chosin Reservoir

453

Killing Trotsky

454

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

455

Reformation: The Hammer that Shook the World

456

Sink the Bismarck!

457

Did Taft Get Stuck in a Tub?

458

Manhunt for Jefferson Davis

459

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

460

Camp Leach: Ghosts of WWI Research

461

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

462

What Plato Warned Us About Reality

463

A Prince Among Slaves

464

Indentured Servants Who Became Presidents

465

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

466

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

467

Franco-Prussian War Forges Modern Europe

468

TODAY IN CONTEXT: History of D-Day Celebrations

469

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

470

Reagan's Joke that Bombed

471

Playboy Bunnies and Operation Babylift

472

The "Other" Great Depressions

473

Hamilton Jr. Battles Burr in Court

474

Schism: Catholic vs. Orthodox Christianity

475

Unsolved: Did Hitler Kill His Niece?

476

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

477

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

478

The Sinister World of Brothers Grimm

479

Teddy's Last Stand: the Bull Moose Party

480

Secrets of Egypt's Book of the Dead

481

What is your favorite Little Golden Book?

482

Conversations: Making scholars readable and relevant, with Meilan Solly

483

Unsolved: Was Mozart Poisoned?

484

Dido: The Legendary Queen of Carthage

485

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

486

Washington Square Park's Dark Secret

487

Dr. Pepper's Secret Recipe Exposed?

488

A Bonaparte's Encounter with the NJ Devil

489

When a Boy Became the Last Emperor of Rome

490

Unsolved: Did Mary Queen of Scots Kill Her Husband?

491

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

492

The Curse of the Little Rascals

493

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

494

Boers vs. Empire: The First Modern War?

495

Library: Humanity's Greatest Invention?

496

Colt: Forging the American Gun

497

Rin Tin Tin

498

Unsolved: Did Jesus Die on the Cross?

499

Antikythera Mechanism

500

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

501

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

502

Rise and Fall of Pancho Villa

503

Worst Terrorist Attack in Canadian History

504

Did Roman Legionaries Make it to China?

505

Rudolf Hess' Last Flight

506

Escaping Slavery in a Box

507

Rise and Fall of William Franklin

508

TODAY IN CONTEXT: Federal Government vs. Higher Education

509

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

510

The Lincoln Curse

511

Partition of India

512

Banana Republics

513

President's Daughter

514

History of IQ Tests

515

The House of David

516

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

517

Typhoid Mary

518

Rough Riders

519

Stealing Lincoln's Body

520

Duke of Russia's Buffalo Hunt

521

Fall of Saigon

522

Iran-Contra Affair

523

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

524

Bombing of Guernica

525

Marco Polo's Travels

526

CIA Classifies 'End of World' Book

527

Rosenbergs Die For Spying

528

TODAY IN CONTEXT: History of American Immigration

529

Killing Ford

530

Church Brothels of the Middle Ages

531

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

532

Mary Lincoln Declared Insane

533

Edo's Little Matchgirl

534

Galileo's Trial

535

The Communist Manifesto

536

Patton's Task Force Baum Blunder

537

Boy Scouts of America

538

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

539

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

540

Beowulf

541

Booth's Other Victim

542

Champagne and the Treaty of Versailles

543

Bacon's Rebellion

544

Grimaldi Curse: Princess Grace

545

William Jennings Bryan

546

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

547

Comic Books on Trial

548

Napoleon's Polish Countess

549

Palmer Raids

550

CIA and the Dalai Lama

551

Grimaldi Curse: Louis' Unfaithful Wife

552

Vietnam War POWs

553

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

554

Teddy's Bear

555

Killing Houdini

556

The Great Molasses Flood

557

The Real Raiders of the Ark

558

Grimaldi Curse: Lucien and Jean

559

King Solomon's Mines

560

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

561

TODAY IN CONTEXT: Tariff Wars in American History

562

Turbulent Life of Lucrezia Borgia

563

Chester A. Arthur and Ms. Jennings

564

Musketeers

565

Queen Elizabeth's Spy Network

566

Grimaldi Curse: Lady Claudine

567

Battle Axes of Free Love

568

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

569

Vidocq - the First Modern Detective

570

Shipping Kids Through USPS

571

America First Movement

572

Spanish Inquisition

573

Nazi Aktion T4 Project

574

Roger Sherman's Compromise

575

TODAY IN CONTEXT: Pope Francis and a Conclave

576

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

577

Flannan Lighthouse Mystery

578

The Russian Sleeper Agent

579

Hoover Ball

580

Stealing Batman

581

Jezebel - Bible's Femme Fatale

582

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

583

Police Woman Badge No. 1

584

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

585

Tecumseh's Curse

586

The Boxer of Auschwitz

587

Stopping the Spanish Armada

588

Mussolini vs. the Mafia

589

Gulf War Syndrome

590

The Cleveland Headache

591

TODAY IN CONTEXT: Who is Roland L. Bragg?

592

Conversations: Can you outrun a dinosaur? with Cody Cassidy

593

Jesuits - The Pope's Soldiers

594

Willow Run

595

Charles V Abdicates

596

Tea

597

Hitler's Favorite Commando

598

Captain James J. T. Waddell's Mission

599

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

600

States Named After Individuals

601

BONUS Deep Dive: Department of Education - A History

602

Disappearance of Agatha Christie

603

Food Riots in History

604

Princes in the Tower

605

Vintage News: Death of Jayne Mansfield

606

Michelangelo Paints the Sistine Chapel

607

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

608

Ninjas

609

Mesopotamia - The First Civilization

610

North Korea's Three Generations Rule

611

War of the Roses

612

BONUS Deep Dive: WWI and Military Service Tribunals

613

Akwesasne: A Nation Among Nations

614

Last Days of the Dinosaurs

615

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

616

1956 Suez Canal Crisis

617

Leaflet Propaganda of WWII

618

King Gillette's Razor

619

Warrior Queens Who Challenged Rome

620

Vintage News: Pentagon Papers

621

Firebombing of Dresden

622

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

623

Blood on the Senate Floor

624

U.S. Invades Canada - Twice!

625

Remembering John Q. Adams

626

The Legend of King Arthur

627

U.S. and Greenland: A History

628

Mormon Army of Nauvoo

629

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

630

Stealing the Panama Canal

631

Romulus and Remus of Rome

632

Kosovo Student Poisoning Incident

633

FBI's Long Manhunt for Fugitive Webb

634

Trivia: Accidental Inventions

635

Father of the Doughnut Hole

636

Rasputin's Autopsy Secrets

637

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

638

Killing Dillinger

639

The $36 Million Dollar Scam

640

Pope's Line Across the World

641

The Fall of Boss Tweed

642

Trivia: Candy

643

Brazilian Expeditionary Force of WWII

644

Landmarks: Washington Monument

645

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

646

A City Built on Bones

647

Charlie Brown Christmas

648

Killing Spartacus

649

Chappaquiddick

650

Remastered: It's a Wonderful Life

651

OSS' Psychological Analysis of Hitler

652

Landmarks: Kremlin

653

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

654

Hollywood Urban Legends

655

Ford and Edison's Electric Car

656

Building a Beer Empire

657

The Chicken of Tomorrow Contest

658

Vintage News: Archduke Ferdinand

659

Landmarks: Stonehenge

660

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

661

Businesses that Worked w/ the Nazis

662

Ali Stops the Fight

663

Did Nixon Delay Peace in Vietnam?

664

The Fall of Ferdinand Magellan

665

BONUS Deep Dive: The Death of General Sikorski

666

Just the Facts: Military History

667

Landmarks: Taj Mahal

668

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

669

Battle of the Overpass

670

Kidnapping the Pope

671

Killing J.P. Morgan

672

Marathon to Athens

673

Trivia: Ancient Landmarks

674

Remastered: Sending Nazi POWs to College

675

Conquerors: Napoleon

676

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

677

History of the Potato

678

King Kong Breaks the Box Office

679

Fort Dearborn Massacre

680

Machiavelli's The Prince

681

VINTAGE NEWS: Al Capone 1926

682

Conquerors: Attila the Hun

683

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

684

Ivan's Bloodless Faceoff

685

Chrysler vs. the Empire

686

Nixon's Silent Majority

687

I am an American Day

688

JUST THE FACTS: Alcohol

689

Conquerors: Julius Caesar

690

Conversations: Learning History from YouTube, w/ Steve Heimler

691

Trials by Ordeal

692

Joan of Arc

693

Absaroka - the State that Never Was

694

Ten Thousand Immortals

695

YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE: Kennedy Dynasty

696

Trivia: Literary Classics

697

Conquerors: Hannibal of Carthage

698

New England Secession?

699

SMS Cormoran

700

Bomb City USA

701

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

702

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

703

Trivia: Presidential Nicknames

704

Conversations: America's Contentious Elections w/ David Pietrusza

705

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

706

America's Most Haunted House?

707

Mark Twain's Nightmare

708

A Storm Prevents a War

709

LBJ Goes to the Bathroom - and Lives

710

YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE: Presidencies of the United States

711

Conquerors: Alexander the Great

712

Religions: Christianity

713

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

714

The First Female Pharaoh

715

The Black Swallow of Death

716

The Man Who Killed Booth

717

Ernesto and the Miranda Rights

718

Trivia: Women's Suffrage

719

Religions: Islam

720

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

721

The Lady with the Medal of Honor

722

Wacky History of the Flag Salute

723

Who Were Mr. Mason and Mr. Dixon?

724

Mad King and the Real Disney Castle

725

Trivia: Classic Video Games

726

Religions: Judaism

727

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

728

History's Most Mysterious Book

729

Why Don't We Like Aaron Burr?

730

The Women of Mercury 13

731

Paris Catacombs

732

Trivia: Food Origins

733

Religions: Hinduism

734

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

735

Killing Castro

736

What's the Deal w/ Carrier Pigeons?

737

Sweet Voices of Evil

738

Henry's Kids' Game of Thrones

739

Trivia: Infamous Cults in History

740

Mysteries: Tomb of the Unknown Soldier

741

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

742

Who Cracked the Liberty Bell?

743

Native American Leaders

744

The First American Novel Scandal

745

The Amber Room Mystery

746

Trivia: Deaths of Famous People

747

Mysteries: Betraying Anne Frank

748

Conversations: Why history is cyclical. w/ Dan Carlin

749

Chocolate

750

First Female Presidential Candidate

751

1605 Demolition Men

752

Emperor's Ransom

753

Trivia: The Great Depression

754

Mysteries: Sunken Civilizations

755

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

756

Hitler Diaries

757

Bloody Angle NYC

758

Mummifying Lenin

759

Teapot Dome Scandal

760

Trivia: The Movies

761

Mysteries: Marilyn Monroe

762

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

763

Confederados

764

White House Ghosts

765

Doctors of Death

766

Bombing a Royal Wedding

767

TRAILER : Dan Carlin

768

Trivia: American Revolution

769

What If: A Lindbergh Presidency

770

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

771

Real Indiana Jones

772

Naming America

773

Nostradamus

774

Killing the Red Baron

775

Trivia: Ancient History

776

What If: Cuban Missile Crisis

777

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

778

The Curse of the Hope Diamond

779

Bringing Down the Knights Templar

780

Mohawk Skywalkers

781

The Tunguska Event

782

Trivia: Cold War

783

What If: League of Nations

784

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

785

Lost City of Angkor

786

Ghosts of a Murdered Dynasty

787

Lolita Shocks the World

788

Van Gogh's Ear

789

Trivia: Famous Women

790

What If: Mexico Defeated the U.S.

791

Conversations: William H. Harrison, w/ Jerry Landry

792

Killing Truman

793

Fountain of Youth

794

Mt. Everest Death Zone

795

Uncle Sam

796

Trivia: American Presidents

797

What If: RFK Became President

798

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

799

Titanic by the Numbers

800

Sex and Corn Flakes

801

Sheep Wars

802

Four Diaries of Anne Frank

803

Genghis Khan (Where are they now?)

804

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

805

Grant and Twain

806

Mayan Portal to the Underworld

807

1968 Democratic National Convention

808

Orphans Preferred

809

The Story of Pocahontas (Where are they now?)

810

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

811

The Ghost Ship

812

FDR's Close Call

813

Shadow Amendment

814

Lenin Has Second Thoughts

815

Failed Presidential Assassination Attempts

816

Alexander Graham Bell (Where are they now?)

817

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

818

Do We have Freedom of Speech?

819

Tower of London Kills Again

820

History's Deadliest King

821

William's Disastrous Funeral

822

Jesse Owens (Where are they now?)

823

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

824

Presidential Sex Scandals

825

Hollywood's 1924 Murder Mystery

826

Got Milk?

827

Conversations: Battle of Britian w/ Martin Dugard

828

Christopher Columbus (Where are they now?)

829

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

830

Booth Saves a Lincoln

831

Bounty Jumpers

832

Escaping the Confederacy

833

Bad Day for a Picnic

834

Wright Brothers (Where are they now?)

835

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

836

Annie Oakley Shoots the Kaiser?

837

WWI German Internment

838

The Black Chamber

839

Zeppelins Over London

840

Paul Revere (Where are they now?)

841

Conversations: Battle of Saipan, w/David Sears

842

Japan's Last Soldier

843

Bat Bombs

844

Cherry Blossoms at Night

845

Killing Tojo

846

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

847

BONUS: Interview with a D-Day Veteran

848

Double Life of Josephine Baker

849

Nazi Prisoner on the Run

850

The White Rose Movement

851

Jeep: The Little Truck that Could

852

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

853

Wall Street Under Attack!

854

Nero's Party House

855

The Father of History

856

The Hammurabi Way

857

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

858

Aliens Over Texas

859

Nazi Bureaucracy

860

Virginia Breaks Up With Virginia

861

Edgar Allan Poe's Bad Reputation

862

Conversations: The Ghost Army, w/Rick Beyer

863

Alexander's Missing Body

864

Becoming Sherlock Holmes

865

Who Wrote the Bible?

866

Conversations: America's Founding Myths w/ Ray Raphael

867

A King's Deadly Dose

868

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

869

No Civil War; No Coca Cola?

870

Stalin Needs a Doctor

871

Cleopatra and Caesar Have a Baby!

872

Cinco de Mayo is NOT Independence Day

873

Abe Lincoln Buys Cocaine

874

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

875

The Lady Who Said "No" to War

876

King Tut's Curse

877

Elvis' Last Moments

878

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

879

Boxing Gangsters vs. American Nazis

880

Killing Socrates

881

Cod Wars

882

The Search for Molly Pitcher

883

Sgt. York's Army of One

884

Who was Jim Crow?

885

Catherine's Doomed Husband

886

Thou Shall Not Kill Cats

887

Conversations: Flags of Our Fathers w/ James Bradley

888

Napoleon's Missing Hand

889

The Auschwitz's "Canada"

890

The Time of Three Popes

891

Harlem Hellfighters and Jazz

892

Britain's Twelve-Day Sleep

893

Serial Killer in Nazi Berlin

894

Barbers at Moscow's Gates

895

Mr. Celsius and Mr. Fahrenheit

896

Picasso Steals the Mona Lisa?

897

The Real Kamikaze

898

The Hollow Man

899

Cary Grant on Acid

900

Caligula Mourns his Sister

901

Murderer from the Mayflower

902

Nine Capitals of the United States

903

The Woman Called "Moses"

904

Our (Maybe) Gay President

905

Alcohol Fuels an American Sport

906

Stealing Charlie Chaplin's Body

907

Wealthiest Person in History

908

Reversing the Chicago River

909

The Nazis and the Pope?

910

Fordlandia

911

The Statue of Liberty Attacked

912

Khrushchev Meets Marilyn

913

It's a Wonderful Life

914

Gladiators drinking Gatorade

915

Did you say, Terracotta Army?

916

Sending Nazi POWs to College

917

Rosa Parks

918

The Real Dr. Frankenstein

919

The Nine Unknown Men