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Every 2 Weeks a Language Dies: Whether By Assimilation or Targeted Extinction

The Boston Tea Party Was a Protest Against the East India Company Being Too Big to Fail

The 1873 Global Financial Meltdown that Cause 20 Years of Deflation and Destroyed 2 Empires

Johnny Appleseed's Trees Were for Booze, Not Pies, and He Dressed Like a Hobo for Marketing Purposes

All the World’s Empires Became Nations in Less Than 100 Years, and What That Means for the Next 100

Five Cambridge Graduates Became Soviet Spies and Built Stalin’s Empire

Washington’s Power Went Beyond President or General – He Was a Full-Fledged Patriarch

Abigail Adams Beat Warren Buffet’s Rate of Return and Ben Franklin Loved Debt: Personal Finance Lessons From Colonial America

The Highs and Lows of Roman Slavery: From the Emperor's Advisor to Suffocating in Sulfur Mines

A Day at the Gladiatorial Games: Beast Hunts, Mass Slaughter, and Flooding the Colosseum to Reenact Roman Naval Battles

The Black Death’s Global Ripple Effects, and How They Were Felt Outside Europe

The Part of the Declaration of Independence Nobody Reads (Grievances Against King George) Is the Part That Actually Mattered

Children of Abraham: The 1,400-Year History of Jewish–Muslim Relations

How 10 Whalers Survived Three Years Shipwrecked in the South Pacific

The Nobels Built Russia’s Oil Industry, Invented Dynamite and the Oil Tanker, But Were Still Crushed by the Bolshevik Revolution

The American Revolution Went Way Outside of America, Pulling in Caribbean Colonies, African Forts, and Chinese Trading Houses

Ford’s Auto Domination Came From a 1909 Race Across America Through Mud-Choked Roads

Al Capone’s Missing $100 Million, and the TV Journalist Who Embarrassed Himself to Find It

How the Dollar Created America (Part 2)

How the Dollar Created America (Part 1)

From Patriot to Pirate: How Revolutionary War Hero Sam Mason Became a River Outlaw

Rasputin and the Downfall of the Romanovs

The Revolutionary War’s Charlie Wilson: A Spanish Spy Chief Funded the Siege of Yorktown, Helping Washington Win

Europe Dominated Because It Never Stopped Fighting Itself

A Land Flowing with Pork and Beef: Colonial America’s Rise to the World’s Meat Consumption Capital

Passenger Pigeons Once Numbered in the Billions and Blotted Out the Skies for Days. They Went Extinct in 30 Years.

Tooth Enamel Tells All: Genetic Testing and Why It’s Rewriting Our Understanding of Early Medieval Migration

95% of Ancient Greek Theater Is Gone. Here's How One Classicist Resurrected 500 Lost Playwrights

How Medieval Monks Used the 7 Deadly Sins to Map Human Behavior…and LinkedIn Weaponized them Against Us

1,000% Profit Per Voyage: The Economics of Civil War Smuggling and Blockade Running

The Lost Voices of Pompeii: Lives Cut Short When Vesuvius Erupted, Including a Fish Sauce Tycoon and an Isis Priest

The Body Worth Stealing: Why Medieval Cities Fought Over Francis of Assisi’s Corpse

The Alphabet as Artifact: How Egyptian Pictograms Became Your ABCs

Greenland is Nothing: American Nearly Acquired El Salvador, Canada, and the Kamchatka Peninsula

From Big Village to Global Power: The Thousand-Year Rise of Moscow, Russia's Fortress Capital

American Civilians Caught Behind Enemy Lines After Pearl Harbor, and How They Were Repatriated

Washington's Crossing from the Other Side: Three Hessian Soldiers' Stories of Defeat and Capture at the Battle of Trenton

From Bronze to Blood: How the Sword Became Humanity's First Murder Weapon

Scientists Who Were Ridiculed, Exiled, and Imprisoned for Being Right

How Two California Wines Shattered Centuries of French Supremacy in a Blind Taste Test

How an Italian Engineer with 700 Knights Defeated 100,000 Ottoman Troops at the Siege Rhodes

Why America's Military Never Became a Threat to Democracy

How Christianity Shaped America's 500-Year Mission to Become a Holy Land

Every Communication Breakthrough—From Cave Art to AI Video—Exists to Tell Stories

The East’s Auschwitz: How Imperial Japan’s Secret Experimenters Escaped Justice

The Chemistry of Conquest: Behind the USSR’s State-Sponsored (and Steroid-Powered) Olympic Glory

Daniel Boone’s Life as a Frontiersman and Adopted Son of a Shawnee Chief

The Loss and Re-Discovery of the $20 Billion Imperial Spanish Treasure Ship

Thomas Willing: The Revolutionary War Arms Dealer Who Led the First Bank of the United States

The Man Who Sold the War: Tom Paine's Journey from Common Sense to Global Firebrand

The Original Body Builders: How Greek Halteres and Celtic Gabal Stone Lifts Built the World's First Strongmen

Truman’s Deep Regret at the Atomic Age He Created

How Soccer Created African and Latin American Nations

The Sawmill – Along With Gunpowder and the Printing Press – Created the Modern World

Gears, Gold, and Global Peace: A Steampunk Bitcoin Journey Through an Alternate 20th Century

Before the Cold War, Russia and America Were the Closest of Distant Friends

The Horrifying Sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald, the Titanic of the Great Lakes

Inside the Deadly German U-Boats That Brought Britain to Its Knees (But Were Deadlier for Their Own Crews)

Manifest Destiny, Powered by Coal: How “Black Gold” Conquered the American Continent

Ancient Athens Picked Its Leaders by Lottery for Over 200 Years. Some Think This System Should Replace Electoral Democracy

How Would Nixon Have Handled the Cuban Missile Crisis?

Diogenes, the Father of Ancient Greek Stoicism, Loving Trolling His Audience and Could Out-Shock Borat

Blown Off Course: How History’s Windy Turning Points Sank the Armada and Saved Japan from the Mongols

Maps Have Bigger Problems Than the Mercator Projection. They Invent Mountain Ranges and Usually Eliminate New Zealand

The Great Mathematicians of the Early 1900s Ran into an Unsolvable Problem. They Realized Math Made No Sense

The American Revolution was a World War in All but Name

How Napoleon and Churchill Used Neuroscience to Make a Better Soldier and More Loyal Public

William F. Buckley JR.'s Guide to Friendship in a Polarized Era

What it Was Like Living Through the USSR’s Collapse

The Battle of Agincourt, 1415: Longbowmen, Bands of Brothers, and Henry V’s Triumph

Clarence Dillon: The Roaring 20s Wall Street Baron Who Wrote the Rules for Corporate Takeovers, Junk Bonds, and Bankruptcy

A Utah Indian Chief Controlled the 1800s Mountain West Through Slave Trading, Building Pioneer Trails, Horse Stealing, and Becoming Mormon

Why Did Rome Fall? Wrong Question. How Did it Last 2,000 Years Despite Changing its Religion, Language, and Government?

The Real Deadwood: A Gold Rush Town Built in a War Zone but Obliterated in an Inferno

America's Pacific Dawn: The Spanish-American War Ushered In Global Reach and Savage Conflict

The Unhealed Wounds of WW2 POWs and Combat Veterans

Robert McNamara Thought Enough Data Could Win Any War. Instead, It Led America to the Vietnam Quagmire

The Philistine Connection: Do the Roots of October 7 Go Back 3,000 Years?

The Thucydides Trap: How A Rising Athens Made The Peloponnesian War Inevitable

The Free French Army in North Africa, 1940-1945

An Inventor’s Quest to Build a Pneumatic Subway System in 1870s New York

Spirited Rivalry: Did Ireland or Scotland Invent Whisky?

The Horse That Ate the Legion: Rome’s Cavalry's Triumph Over the Infantry

Beyond Joan of Arc and Agincourt: How the 100 Years War Crushed Medieval Europe and Launched its Global Order

Reverse Ellis Island: American Migrants Who Fought for Mussolini and Built Stalin’s USSR

Don’t Use Rome as a Model of Why Societies Collapse; Use Crime Syndicates and Somalia Instead

A Union General Found a Loophole in the Fugitive Slave Act, Causing 1 Million Slaves to Flee North

The Civil War’s Brutal Finale: A War of Attrition as Terrible as WW2-Pacific and the Napoleonic Wars

Camp David Looks Like a 1970s Lakeside Retreat. Why is it the Site of the World’s Biggest Political Summits?

How British Scientists' Self-Experiments on Underwater Rebreathing Created D-Day Submarine Tech (And Nearly Killed Them in the Process)

Over 200,000 Allied Troops Tried and Failed to Crush the Soviet Revolution After World War One

How the U.S. Occupation of Japan After WW2 Forged the Most Durable Peace of the 20th Century

Homer Couldn't Have Written the Iliad, But He Probably Dictated it Word for Word

Depression-Era Planners Thought They’d End Poverty with Public Housing. Instead, They Created the Projects

The Alabaman Jacksonians Who Rejected the Confederacy and Marched with Sherman to the Sea

Frederick Douglass’s Private Writings on Abraham Lincoln, His Strong Critiques and Stronger Praise

The Industrial Revolution Was Supposed to Lead to Unlimited Free Time But Only Gave Us Smartphones and Endless Dopamine

James Cook Mapped the Globe Before Dying At the Hands of Hawaiians Who Once Worshipped Him

American Anarchists: The Original Domestic Extremists

100 Years Before Ford v. Ferrari, a Horse Breeder Revolutionized Thoroughbred Racing Through a Similar Obsession With Progress

Western Rome Fell Due to Germanic Immigration, Mass Inflation, and a Bloated Bureaucracy

Why the Atomic Bombing of Japan is as Justified in 2025 as it was in 1945

Surviving the Siege of Leningrad with Sawdust Bread and Iron Determination

Depression-Era Governor Huey Long Wanted to Confiscate Individual Fortunes Over $1 Million, Possibly Leading to His 1935 Assassination

Rope Equals Fire as Humanity’s Most Important Invention: It Allowed Hunting Mammoths and Building Pyramids

The Scopes Trial Was Entirely Orchestrated But Became an Unintended 1920s Culture War Touchpoint

The Panda Was First Discovered By Theodore Roosevelt’s Sons During a 9-Month Expedition in Himalayan China

How Do We Really Know What Happened in the Past When Many Historians Were Propagandists and AI is Fabricating Everything Else?

Eugénie de Montijo: The Spanish Empress Who Built Modern Paris and is Blamed For Imperial France’s Downfall

John Adams: The Most Influential Yet Overlooked Founding Father?

Why Thomas More -- Henry VIII’s Hatchet Man and Heretic Hunter -- Was Himself Executed For Heresy After the English Reformation

Don’t Look to 1903s Germany to Understand American Populism. Look to 1830s New York Revivals Instead.

Operation Barbarossa Saw Millions of POW Executions, Civilian Murders, and Starvation Deaths

Pistol Duels Existed Across the 19th-Century World, But Only the Chaos of the American West Produced Gunfighters

Rome Definitively Eclipsed Greece in 197 BC By Making the Alexandrian Phalanx/Cavalry Obsolete

Exploring the Wreckage of the Britannic (the Titanic’s Sister Ship) and Discovering Why It Sunk in 50 Minutes

Did Tariffs Make America a Manufacturing Powerhouse Or Trigger Economic Misery and Stifle Global Trade?

Alan Pinkerton: The Private Detective Who Saved Lincoln’s Life and Built America’s Contract Security State

MacArthur’s Plans to Drop 50 Nuclear Bombs During the Korean War

The Many Ways That Rome Never Fell and Lives On Today

Hooves of History: How Horses Created Ancient Warfare, Built the Silk Road, and Became the Dividing Line Between Nobleman and Peasant

Moonshining Survived (and Thrived) At Least Two Decades After Prohibition Ended

How to Cross the Sahara as a Tenth-Century Cameleer

How American Slaves Fled By Sea, Whether as Stowaways or Commandeering a Confederate Ship

Did WW2 Heads of State Want to Preserve Their Empires As Much as Defend Their Homelands?

How a British Governor of Virginia Raised an Ex-Slave Regiment in 1776 to Fight Patriots and Triggered the Revolutionary War

How a Marine Embedded with Mao Zedong’s Guerrillas in the 30s Became WW2’s Most Celebrated Special Forces Leader

Microbes Were Discovered in the 1600s. Why It Take 200 Years For Doctors To Start Washing Their Hands?

From Einstein’s Chalkboard to Oppenheimer’s Nuclear Test: The 50-Year Path to the Atomic Bomb

Japan’s Desperate Air Battles Against the US in the Final Months of WW2

D-Day From the East: The Soviet Operation Bagration Crippled the Wehrmacht in Late 1944

Pilgrimages Involved Penitent Marches, Visiting Holy Places, and Watching Drunken Emperors Go on Chariot Rides

Britain Learned How to Set Up Its Global Empire on a Tiny Bermudan Island

The Hatfield-McCoy Feud Started Over a Pig and Nearly Escalated Into a Regional War

The 1845 Potato Blight Struck Across Northern Europe. Why Did Only Ireland Starve?

A Simple Tennessee Preacher Transformed Abolitionism from a Deeply Unpopular Radical Movement to a Centrist Cause

How Benjamin Franklin’s Stove Invention Kept Early America From Freezing

Roman Churches Had No Involvement in Marriage. How Did It Become a Holy Sacrament by the Middle Ages?

How a Mess Cook Saved Dozens of Sailors from Shark Infested Waters Off the Coast of Guadalcanal

Humanity’s Past Suggests We Only Have 10,000 Years to Change or Go Extinct

The 16th Century Ottomans Nearly Conquered Europe. Why Did European Kingdoms Make So Many Alliances With Them?

Fort Stanwix and the Forgotten Revolutionary War Siege That Convinced France to Help the US

Enough is Enuf, Our Failed Attempts to Make English Easier to Spell

Did Haiti’s First and Last King Squander the Revolution or Succeed in Underappreciated Ways?

What Ancient Greeks and Victorian Explorers Thought Was at the North Pole

Nothing Healed America’s Wounds After the Civil War Like Baseball

How an 1870 Murder Created San Francisco

Failed Futures: If Alexander The Great Hadn’t Died, He Might Have Conquered Europe, Circumnavigated Africa, and Built His Own Silk Road

Why the Anabasis is the Second-Most Influential Greek Epic (After Homer’s Works)

The American Revolution Would Have Been Lost Without a Ragtag Fleet of Thousands of Privateers

Did Lincoln Save Global Democracy or Undermine It Using Wartime Powers?

The 1541 Spanish Expedition Down the Amazon to Find the Imaginary “El Dorado” and Valley of Cinnamon

Everyday Life for the 500K German POWs House in America During World War Two

The Arsenal of Democracy: How the Revolver and Repeating Rifle Democratized Gun Ownership and Armed the United States

Owning Land Was The Best – and Usually Only – Way to Be Rich in the Ancient World

Benjamin Franklin – In the 200 Years After His Death – Funded New Businesses, Supported Boston and Philadelphia, and Play Pranks

When American Gilded Elite Bought Up English Country Houses, It Create an Epic Transatlantic Clash of Cultures

The Untold History of Earth: Hobbits Really Existed, Dinosaurs Had Feathers, and Yetis Roamed Our Planet

How Did Gold Beat Out Every Other Precious Metal To Become Humanity’s Dominant Currency For the Last 2,600 Years?

The 160-Minute Race to Save the Titanic

200 Years Before the French Revolution, German Peasants Tried to Overthrow The Holy Roman Empire

What the Middle Ages Can Teach Us About Pandemics, Mass Migration, and Tech Disruption

Did Orson Welles’s 1938 ‘War of the Worlds’ Broadcast Really Cause a Mass Panic?

A Talk With The Polar Geographer Who Discovered Shackleton’s Endurance Under 10,000 ft of Frozen Water

The Founding Fathers Were 20 and 30-Somethings. Why Is America Now a Gerontocracy?

A Pre-WWI French Philosopher Was More Popular Than Elvis and Possibly Entered the US Into the Great War

While Starving at Besieged Leningrad, Scientists Hid Drought-Resistant Crop Seeds That Could Prevent Future Famines

Surviving Nearly 2 Years of Shipwreck on a South Pacific Island in the 1880s

How Did 450 Boers Defeat 15,000 Zulus at the Battle of Blood River in 1838?

Key Battles of the Barbary Wars, Episode 9: The End of North African Piracy and the Beginning of American Global Naval Hegemony

When Did Americans Become Americans? 1945, 1865, 1787, or 1776?

Key Battles of the Barbary Wars, Episode 8: The Second Barbary War (1815)

How Much of a Nation’s Fate is Bound Up In Its Geography?

Key Battles of the Barbary War, Episode 7: An Uneasy Peace -- The Interbellum Period and the War of 1812

The Scramble for More Aircraft Carriers in WW2 Meant Retrofitting Cruisers Into These Sorts of Ships

Key Battles of the Barbary War, Episode 6: Swashbuckling Ship Battles and 500-Mile Desert Marches Won the First Barbary War

Knights Could Still Be Found on English Battlefields in the 1640s. What Were They Doing There?

Key Battles of the Barbary Wars, Episode 5: The Destruction of the USS Philadelphia

The Jewish Confederates

Key Battles of the Barbary Wars, Episode 4: The First Barbary War (1801-05)

Was The Vietnam War Unwinnable?

Key Battles of the Barbary Wars, Episode 3: The Barbary States and Their 300-Year Reign of Mediterranean Piracy

What a Modern-Day Stonemason Can Tell Us About Hand Building 13th- Century Gothic Cathedrals and Carving Gargoyles

Key Battles of the Barbary Wars, Episode 2: The British Origins of the US Navy

The Conquest of Constantinople in 1453 Permanently Altered Siege Warfare, Middle Eastern Demographics, and Global Trade

Key Battles of the Barbary Wars, Episode 1: America Wanted to Take 1776 to the High Seas. North African Pirates Disagreed.

New Series Launches Tomorrow: Key Battles of the Barbary Wars (with James Early)

How Civil War Vets Continued Living Despite Being Double, Triple, or Even Quadruple Amputees

What’s the Difference Between a Pirate, a Privateer, and a Naval Officer? In the 1700s, Very Little

After Genghis Khan Conquered the Earth, Kublai Khan Conquered the Seas

Aesop’s Fables and Whether They Were Written By an Ugly, Enslaved “Barbarian” Who Discretely Mocked His Masters

"Thermopylae, the “300” Spartans, and the 26 Other Battles Fought There Over the Last 2,400 Years

The Last Emperor of Mexico: How a Habsburg Archduke Set Up a Kingdom in the New World in the 1860s

First-Hand Account of Hiroshima: Before, During, and After the Atomic Bomb Drop

America’s Professional Sports Grew From Farm Teams to Multi-Billion Dollar Franches Thanks to the Harlem Globetrotters Founder

Why Did Presidents Seem Incredibly Rich Yet Were Completely Broke Most of the Time?

A 1,300 History of the Middle East in Seven Religious Wars

When Good Ideas Were Bad Medicine: Why Vitamin C and Handwashing was Rejected by the Medical Establishment

Appleton Oaksmith: The Confederate Blockade Runner Who Became Lincoln’s Public Enemy #1

The Bible Triggered Two Communications Revolutions: The Codex and the Printing Press

Steering an Aerial Plywood Box Through Enemy Fire: The Glider Pilots of WW2

Why Few Presidents Had Beards, And Only One Had a Mullet

How Much Did Average Germans Know About the Holocaust During World War Two?

Carthage Lost the 2nd Punic War from Hannibal’s Logistics Failure and His Brother’s Bad Strategy

The Real Robin Hood May Have Been an Anglo-Saxon Hitman Who Killed an English King

Civilization Owes Its Existence to the Horse

Charles Cowlam: The Civil War Con-Man Who Received Presidential Pardons From Both Lincoln and Jefferson Davis

The Extent of Soviet Infiltration Into Depression and Cold War America

America’s First Crime Boss Was Female Immigrant-Turned-Criminal Mastermind

The War Under No-Man’s Land: Military Mining and Tunnel Combat in World War One

Eisenhower’s Logistics and Diplomatic Nightmare: Planning and Executing D-Day

53 Days on Starvation Island: How The US Marines Fought on Guadalcanal While Completely Surrounded

Taiwan’s 100-Year Rise From Japanese Colony to Monopoly Producer of Microchips

When States Rights Were Emancipatory and Federalism was Restrictive: The Interbellum Constitution of 1812-1865

Is America Going Through a Late Roman Moment of Its Own?

How Five Castaways Survived After Being Left for Dead on the Falklands in 1812

The Capetians: The Dynasty That Made Medieval France and Gave Us the Fleur-De-Lys

Why the Book is Humanity’s Most Important Invention

How and Why Humans Started Speaking

The American Detective Who Fought the Kaiser’s Spy Ring and an Anarchist Bombing Syndicate

Patton’s Tactician: Geoffrey Keys, “The Best Tactical Mind” of WWII

The Seven Cleopatras Who Ruled Egypt

Modern Black Ops Warfare Began with a British WW2 Operation to Steal Boats Off Africa’s Coast

The 7 Wonders of the Ancient World Were Colossal, Prone to Destruction, and Not All May Have Existed

Being the Ultimate Constitutional Originalist in 2024 Means Donning a Tricorn Hat and Applying to Practice Piracy

The Last Time Humanity Believed in Unstoppable Progress: Paris in the Belle Époque (1871-1914)

The Silk Road Travel Adventures of a 16th Century Mughal Princess and Her Massive Royal Retinue

The Months Leading up to the Civil War That Inflamed North-South Tensions from Animosity to Murderous Hatred

LSD’s Origins in Nazi Germany Brain-Washing Experiments, the CIA’s MKUltra Program, and the Dawn of the Psychedelic Age

How Duke Ellington and Other Jazzmen Became America’s First Globally Famous Musicians

Why America Could Have a Presidential Succession Crisis

Dunkirk from the German Perspective

The Global Manhunt For The Confederate Ship That Sunk Union Supply Vessels, From the Caribbean to the South Pacific

Which Statues Should We Take Down? How To Fairly Judge Historical Figures by Today’s Standards

The 160-Minute Race to Save the Titanic

Vikings Went Everywhere in the Middle Ages, From Baghdad to Constantinople to….. Oklahoma?

The 15-Hour Work Week Was Standard For Nearly All of History. What Happened?

Pancho Villa’s 1916 Raid on New Mexico: The Pearl Harbor Bombing of Its Time

A Radical Abolitionist Youth Movement Consumed America in 1860, Elected Lincoln, Then Disappeared Completely

Socrates May Have Been Executed For Revealing Secrets of Athens’ Religious Rituals

The Age of Discovery Through American-Indian Eyes

A Short History of the Sioux Wars (1862-1890)

The Deerfield Massacre: The Infamous 1704 Indian Raid That Left Hundreds Dead and More Captured

The Dangerous and Thrilling Life of a 19th-Century Whaler

Fiorello LaGuardia: Immigrant Son and Ellis Island Interpreter Who Became America’s Mayor

How the West Tried and Failed to Stop the Russian Revolution

Kings Were Inevitable and Untouchable Until They Suddenly Weren’t After a Few 1700s Revolutions

The Fall Of Japanese-held Hong Kong in January 1945

WW1 German Spies Infiltrated America and Attempted to Start a Race War

The Air Battles of the 1945 Eastern Front Forged Air Force Doctrines of the Cold War

The First Pre-Columbian Explorers to Reach North America

A Classicist Believes that Homer Directly Dictated the Iliad, and Was Also an Excellent Horseman

In 1860, Damascus Nearly Committed Genocide Against Christians. How Did it Pull Back?

Silk: The History of a Fabric That Was Civilization’s First Burial Cloth, Body Armor, and Much More

Frank Lloyd Wrong – When America’s Greatest Architect Created His Masterpiece While Written-Off as a Has-Been

Frederick Rutland, Britain’s Most Beloved WW1 Pilot, Became a Spy for Imperial Japan

The Rise and Fall of the Global Age of Piracy (17-19th Centuries)

A WW2 Polish Diplomat Forged Thousands of Paraguayan Passports to Save Jews from the Holocaust

Stories From Captives on The Last Slave Ship to America

Was Union Support in the Confederacy Actually Widespread? The Alabamans Who Fought for Sherman Say 'Yes'

The Heroes, Legends, and Liars Who Fought in WW2

Turning Okies Into New Dealers: How 1930s Technocrats Pushed Progressivism on Dust Bowl Refugees in Federal Farm Camps

Whistle-Stop Tours: When Trains Ruled American Presidential Elections

The Jewish Bankers Who Built Wall Street, Financed the American Century, and Spawned Countless Conspiracy Theories

The Ghost Army of World War 2

How Free Time Transformed From Strolls Through Aristocratic Gardens to Doomscrolling on TikTok

Everyday Life In a War Zone: How To Live For Years With Air Raid Sirens and Tanks in the Street

Behind the Bulldog: Winston Churchill's Public Image vs. Private Reality, Based on Those Who Knew Him

American Anarchy of the Early 1900s and The First U.S. War Against Domestic Extremists

Why Armies Stopped Burning Libraries and Weaponized Them Instead

Shining Light on the British Dark Ages: Anglo-Saxon Warfare, 400-1070

The Last Ship From Hamburg: How Russian Jews Escaped Death on the Eve of World War I

James Longstreet: The Confederate General Who Defied The South And Was Scapegoated for Its Loss

The Septuagint – It Really is Greek to Me

Benedict Arnold Was America’s Greatest Hero Before He Became Its Worst Villain

The Sacking of Rome in 410: Caused By Sclerotic Bureaucrats or Unassimilated Barbarians?

How Scientists Learned to Stop Deuling With Each Other (Literally) and Start Cooperating

Victory to Defeat: The British Army, 1918–40

The Most Interesting American: Personal Encounters, Quotations, and First-Hand Impressions of Theodore Roosevelt

The History of Equality, and How Close Different Civilizations Were to Attaining It

How the Catholic Church Maintained Civilization in the Lowest Points of the Middle Ages

Marty Glickman: The New York Sports Legend Who Lost His Spot in the 1936 Olympics For Being Jewish

Tecumseh and William Henry Harrison’s Struggle for the Destiny of a Nation

The Great Chicago Fire of 1871 and Rebuilding The Windy City Into a World Metropolis

Commemorating the 60th Anniversary of JFK's Assassination

Hitler, Stalin, and a Jewish Couple Who Met After Surviving Their Extermination Programs

Crown, Cloak, and Dagger: How the British Royal Family Spied on Others and Was Spied on in Turn

Joshua Chamberlain: From Stuttering Child to Civil War Hero to Polyglot Governor of Maine

White House Wild Child: How Alice Roosevelt Charmed Early 1900s America

The First Attempted Nazi Takeover of Germany: The Beer Hall Putsch of 1923

The Franco-Prussian War of 1870-1871 and the Making of Modern European Warfare

How Ancient Religions Affect What We Do and Don’t Eat in 2023

Life in Rome at the Very Height of Its Power

How Russians Survive the 900-Day-Long Siege of Leningrad

The Origins of the KKK and its First Death in the 1870s

A Nazi Defector Revealed Germany’s Infiltration in All Major Governments in His 1945 Memoir

From Orphan to RAF Hero

The Life and Tragic Death of R101, The World’s Largest Flying Machine

The Postwar Lives of WW2 Leaders, Both Axis and Allies

Why Robert E. Lee was America’s Most Admired General For Over a Century

Parthenon Roundtable: Which Person From History Deserves a Movie?

Charlie Chaplin vs. America

Joe McCarthy, the Hydrogen Bomb, and Ten Fateful Months That Kicked Off the Cold War

The SAS Began as a Lie but Became Britain’s Most Elite WW2 Commando Unit

Eyewitnesses of History Share Stories of the 1980 Miracle on Ice, Pablo Escobar, Jonestown, and Much More

In 1864, Nine Union Officers Escaped from a POW Camp and Trekked 300 Miles to the North

Teddy Roosevelt Nearly Died in a Cavalry Charge Against German Machine Guns in WW1

Beyond the Wall: What Life Was Really Like in East Germany

How An Unlikely Cohort of Black Nurses at a New York Sanatorium Helped Cure Tuberculosis

The Mississippi Was First Mapped by a Polyglot Priest and a College Dropout-Turned-Fur Trapper

The Eurasian Steppes Gave Us Atilla the Hun, Genghis Khan, Global Trade and Hybrid Camels

Decades of Turbulent Decolonization After WW2 Launched With The Dutch-Indonesian Wars of 1945-49

Could the Pacific War of WW2 Have Been Entirely Avoided if Not For U.S. Diplomats in Over Their Heads?

The WW2 Pacific Theatre of January-May 1942: When Japan Was Omnipotent and America Was a Fearful Underdog

The History of America’s Ice Obsession: Why The U.S. Loves Frozen Drinks and Ice Rinks

Introducing Mark Vinet's New Show: Historical Jesus

Leyte Gulf: The Largest Naval Battle in History and the Downfall of the Japanese Navy

Britain Controlled the Globe by Farming Out Colonial Governance to the East Indian Company and other Corporations

How the Monroe Doctrine Led to America Occupying Cuba, Panama, Hawaii, and Haiti

A 1943 Translation Blunder Saved FDR, Churchill, and Eisenhower From Being Assassinated

James Garfield – Overlooked for his Short Presidency – Was the Most Beloved Politician of Reconstruction

Road Tripping with Henry Ford and Thomas Edison Through Rural America In Beat-Up Model Ts

Did the South Lose the Entire Civil War Because One General Got Lost at the Battle of Gettysburg?

Alexander the Great’s Final Battle Nearly Killed Him with Drowning and War Elephants

In 1938, America Underwent a 7-Year Transformation From an Weak, Pacifist Nation to the Arsenal of Democracy

Exploring the Aztec Empire and Indigenous Mexico

The First War on Terror: How Europe Fought Anarchist Suicide Attacks, From 1850 to WW1

The Italian Squad: A Group of 1920s NYPD Immigrant Detectives Who Fought the Rise of the Mafia

Conspiracy Theories Haunt the Assassination of MLK 55 Years After His Death

Early 1800s Newspaperman William Hunter Was a British Soldier’s Son Who Built Early America

Long Before Seabiscuit, a Civil War-era Racehorse Smashed Records and Sired Thousands of Colts

How the 1910 Return of Halley's Comet (Almost) Destroyed Civilization

The Coronation of Charles III and the Meaning Behind His Vestments, 5-Pound Crown, and the "Sovereign Orb"

Why Did WW2 Advance Civil Rights When WW1 Reversed Them? Here's What WEB DuBois Said

What It Was Like to be a WW2 Paratrooper

Vlad the Impaler is the (Partial) Inspiration for Count Dracula

In the Premodern Era, Survival Meant Overcoming Earthquakes, Sieges, Global Cooling, Asteroid Strikes, and Cannibalism

The Time in 1943 That Eleanor Roosevelt Disappeared for 10 Days in the South Pacific

"Witches" Weren't Burned During The Middle Ages. That Actually Happened in the Renaissance Period.

Pandemics Cause Misery and Death, But They Also Created Agriculture and Put Humans on Top of the Food Chain

The 1920s Female Hungarian Murder Ring That Left 160 Dead

How a Flying Ace Survived 24 Days Lost at Sea on the Pacific

Civil War Barons: The Tycoons, Entrepreneurs, and Inventors and Visionaries Who Forged Victory and Shaped a Nation

The Forage War of 1777 Saw George Washington Launch Numerous Hit-and-Run Assaults on the British that Crippled the Army

Medieval Gender Roles Were Much More -- and Less -- Strict Than We Can Imagine

Firsthand Account of the Vietnam War from a "Tunnel Rat"

Why Do We Consider Assyria The Most Sadistically Violent Empire When Oftentimes It Wasn't?

Moral Panics and Mass Hysteria: The Dancing Plague, Salem Witch Trials, and The Tulip Market Bubble

A French Archeologist – Considered the Female Indiana Jones – Saved Dozens of Ancient Egyptian Temples From Flooding

Eugenics is Considered a Form of Scientific Fascism Today, But 100 Years Ago It Was Universally Popular

James Early Launches New Series: The Second World War in Europe

Light-Horse Harry Lee: A Founding Father's Journey From Glory to Ruin

Abraham Lincoln’s Religious Transformation Mirrored Larger Revival Trends of 1860s America

Augustine Built the Medieval World With the Help of His Mother, Concubine, Empress, and 10-Year-Old Fiancé

When Irish Vets of the American Civil War Invaded Canada in 1866

The Destructive Power of the Family, From Oedipus to the Godfather

A 15th-Century Islamic Scholar Has Surprisingly Contemporary Advice on Handling Pandemics

Andrew Jackson’s Victory in the Creek War Set the Stage for Southern Secession 50 Years Later

After Woodrow Wilson Suffered a Stroke, His Wife Edith Secretly Served As President for a Year

Victory Gardens Produced Nearly Half of America’s Fresh Produce in WW2. With Today's Supply-Chain Meltdowns, Are They Ready for a Comeback?

Despite the Spartans’ Last Stand at Thermopylae, They Are Still the Most Overrated Warriors of the Ancient World

The Real-Life King Arthur May Have Been a Roman Equestrian Who Served Marcus Aurelius

How Botany Was Weaponized in the 19th Century For Imperial Expansion of Plantations, And How Humble Gardeners Pushed Back

Nicolas Said was an Enslaved Africa Who Gain Emancipation, Traveled to Europe’s Royal Courts, and Fought in the Civil War

Pizza, Pinocchio and the Papacy: Finding the Very Best and Very Worst of Italy

This 1791 US Military Defeat Was 3x Worse than Little Bighorn And Nearly Destroyed the Army

The KGB Agent Who Lived Incognito in New York for 10 Years That Was Exchanged at the Bridge of Spies

How a Slave Coupled Escaped the Antebellum South in Disguise

Operation Torch: WW2’s first Paratrooper Missions Were On One-Way Flights With Drops Into Total Darkness

Anne Frank Was Only One of Thousands in Occupied Netherlands That Kept Diaries. Others Include Dutch Nazis, Farmers, and Resisters

How Shakespeare Impacted U.S. Presidents, from John Adams to JFK

The Unexpected Turbulence of the Eisenhower Years

A Union Spy's Mission to Stop the Confederates From Building a Secret Navy in Britain

WW2 Bombing Raids on Germany Were Bloodbaths for the Allies Until a Futurist Fighter Plane (the P-51) Was Developed

John Burgoyne: The British Playboy Who Lost the Revolutionary War

How Britain Stole Intelligence from Nazi High Command Via Their German Drinking Buddies

The Encyclopedia: One Book’s Quest to Hold the Sum of All Knowledge

How Much Can One Individual Alter History? More and Less Than You Think

The Mongol Storm: Making and Breaking Empires in the Medieval Near East

Weather Itself Was WW2's Fiercest Enemy: The Sinking of the USS Macaw

A Short History of War

Stories From 300 British Men Executed For Cowardice During WW1

The 1911 McNamara Bros. Murder Trial was the OJ Simpson/Johnny Depp v. Amber Heard Case of Its Time

Daniel Webster -- Perhaps History’s Greatest Orator -- Turned Virginians and New Yorkers Into Americans

How Ottoman Sultan Suleyman Conquered Most of Europe and the Mediterranean While Avoiding Assassination

Yoga Came to America via an Indian Monk at the 1893 Worlds Fair

A Modern-Day Knight Discusses What Knightly Service Means in 2023 (Essentially, Less Crusading and More Volunteering)

J. Edgar Hoover’s 50-Year Career of Blackmail, Entrapment, and Taking Down Communist Spies

The Irish Conquered the World With Plentiful Cheap Labor and Pints of Guinness

Two British Sisters – A Typist and a Romance Novelist – Save Jewish Artists from the Holocaust With a Clever Con Involving Opera

The Double Victory Campaign: Over 1 Million Black Americans Enlisted in WW2 To Fight Fascism Abroad and Win Equality at Home

Everyone Loves Free Markets. But This Meant One Thing To Romans And Something Completely Different to Milton Friedman

Failed Futures: Russia's Plans to Defeat the U.S. in the Cold War

Failed Futures: The Confederacy Had Colossal Plans After the Civil War to Spread Slavery Across the Globe And Become Fabulously Wealthy

Failed Futures: The Post-War Plans of Alexander the Great, the Confederacy, and the Soviet Union that Never Happened

Thomas Edison, Nikola Tesla, and the Other Brilliant But Eccentric Characters That Electrified Our World

Republicans Controlled 1920s America But Were Later Crushed By the New Deal Coalition. How Do These Realignments Happen?

F. Scott Fitzgerald was Every Bit the Alcoholic, Grandiose Delusional Dreamer as His Fictional Character Jay Gatsby

The Most Underrated People in History Include a U.S. President, Soviet Officer, and a Farmer Who Saved 2 Billion Lives

How a Founding Father and His Family Went From Slave Owners to Radical Abolitionists

Growing Up as the Daughter of WW2 Spies

Entrepreneurs in the Ancient World: From Neolithic Fashion Tycoons to Babylon’s 'Silicon Valley' Startup Founders

The Abolitionist Who Was Chaplain to Black Civil War Soldiers and Started a College Burned Down by the KKK

The Russian-Jewish Woman Who Voluntarily Interred Herself in a WW2 Japanese Internment Camp

In 1963, A Stuttering, Nebbish Magazine Editor Negotiated a Secret Deal Between JFK and Khrushchev, Averting Nuclear War

A Traumatized Civil War Vet -- Suffering Crippling Alcoholism and PTSD -- Spent 40 Years Wandering America as a Hobo

The Secret Role of Japanese Americans Who Fought in the WW2 Pacific Theatre

FDR’s Polio Made Him Wheelchair Bound, But Also an Incredible Orator and Strategic Mastermind

John Donne: The Genius Priest/Poet Who Saw Infinity and Triggered Stampedes At His Sermons

Sigmund Freud Deluded Himself Into Thinking The Nazis Weren’t A Threat Until It Was Nearly Too Late

The Most Important Diplomat in 1700s North America was a Cherokee Woman Who Saved Washington’s Life and Introduced Dairy to Her Tribe

Do Racial Preferences in U.S. College Admissions Process Date Back to Ivy League Attempts to Limit Jewish Enrollment?

Uber Succeed in the US but Failed in the UK and China Because of Jefferson and Hamilton’s Fight Over State Licensing

James Early Explains Why the War of 1812 Turned America Into an Expansionist Military Power

How to Escape From a Nazi Prison Fortress

Thomas Jefferson’s European Travel Guide Includes Architectural Sketches, Farming Tips, and an Astronomical Wine Expense Report

The Michigan Politician Who Created a Proto-New Deal, Defeated the KKK in Court, and Defended Interred Japanese-Americans

The Rag-Tag Art Renegades that Brought Picasso and Modernist Art to the United States

The Oldest Stories of King Arthur Have Female Warriors, Black Knights, and Whole Lot of Supernatural Encounters

Steve Guerra on Freemasonry, The Catholic Church, and the Modern World

Mata Hari Was Either the World’s Greatest Female Spy or a WWI Exotic Dancer Way In Over Her Head

Vikings Definitely Came to the New World Before Columbus. Did Celtic Monks, the Chinese, and Phoenicians Do So Also?

How America Chooses to Remember Itself: 200 Years of U.S. Museums, and Presenting the Civil War, Spanish Flu, and the Culture Wars

The Many Ways To Die While Building an Aircraft Carrier

The Divorce Colony: Why Women Fled to South Dakota in the 1880s to End Their Troubled Marriages

America's Universal Education System Exists From a Coalition of Progressives, the Know-Nothing Party, and the Ku Klux Klan

How 2 Men Escaped Auschwitz, Exposed the Holocaust to the World, and Saved Hundreds of Thousands of Hungarian Jews

Josie Underwood: The Civil War-Era Socialite Who Owned Slaves, Hated Lincoln, and Loved the Union

The American Revolution Would Have Been Lost Without a Ragtag Fleet of Thousands of Privateers

Gen. George Marshall and Henry Stimson Built America’s WW2 War Machine and Created the Postwar Global Order

Bruce Lee Became a Global Celebrity by Embodying 400 Years of Western-Chinese Cultural Trade

John McWhorter Describes Human Language's 20,000-Year Journey from Proto-Sumerian to Ebonics

No Supply Chain Was More Complicated Than the Allies’ During WW2. How Did They Maintain It?

New Yorkers Feared Jack the Ripper Invaded the City in 1891 After a Prostitute Was Found Brutally Murdered

When a Soldier’s Bravery is So Great His Comrades Fear Him: The Story of Band of Brothers’ Ronald “Killer “ Spiers

Did Pope Pius XII Collaborate With the Nazis? This Historian Viewed the Vatican Archives and Has the Answer

Eating Roman Mouse-on-a-Stick, Shakespeare's Tavern Bread, and Other Forgotten Culinary "Treats" From the Past

Beyond Camelot: What It Was Like to Live Through the JFK Era

After Custer’s Last Stand, Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse Fought an Impossible Battle To Preserve the Sioux Nation

Introducing the Vlogging Through History Podcast

How a WW2 Soldier Persevered Through Concentration Camps, Death Marches, and Starvation

Did Thomas Edison Murder The Real Inventor of the Motion Picture Camera and Steal His Invention?

Cars Are the Id of the Countries that Built Them. What Do The Model T and Pontiac Aztek Tell Us About the US?

Making Sense of America’s Worst Moments: Jon Meacham on Understanding -- But Not Excusing -- Slavery and the Indian Removal Act

Parthenon Roundtable: Which Single Event Would You Eliminate From History

The Worst Movie Ever Made Cast John Wayne as Genghis Khan and Exposed the Cast to Nuclear Radiation

The Arsenal of Democracy: How the Revolver and Repeating Rifle Democratized Gun Ownership and Armed the United States

Seeking Hitler’s Horses: How a WW2 Infantryman Rescued Equines Caught Up Germany’s “Super Horse” Breeding Program

Almost President: Stephen Douglas, Thomas Dewey, and Other Failed Candidates That Would’ve Altered History Most by Winning

4 Foreign Correspondents Spent the 30s Warning About European Fascism. Why Didn't More Listen?

In 1970, a Cyclone Killed 500,000 in Pakistan, Triggered a Genocide, and Nearly Started a Nuclear War.

Nazi Billionaires: The Business Dynasties That Built Hitler’s War Machine and Still Profit Today

War Isn’t the Natural State of Human Affairs: It Shouldn’t Happen, and Most of the Time It Doesn't.

Western Religion of the 19th Century Competed with Darwin and Marx By Dabbling in Hinduism, Occultism, and Wellness

The 1541 Spanish Expedition Down the Amazon to Find the Imaginary “El Dorado” and Valley of Cinnamon

Lost Airmen: The Epic Rescue of WWII U.S. Bomber Crews Stranded in the Yugoslavian Mountains

The Way that Lincoln Financed the Civil War Led to Transcontinental Railroads, Public Colleges, the Homestead Act, and Income Tax

Lt. Sonia Vagliano Helped Liberate Concentration Camp Victims, Repatriate WW2 Refugees, All While Avoiding Landmines and Kidnapping

Little Slaughterhouse on the Prairie: The Serial Killer Family Who Terrorized 1870s Kansas

Benjamin Franklin – In the 200 Years After His Death – Funded New Businesses, Supported Boston and Philadelphia, and Play Pranks

The Rise and Fall of 1970s Mob-Run Chicago

An Antebellum-Era Irish Maid’s Incredible Determination and Business Savvy Led to the Creation of the Kennedy Dynasty

Six Kentucky Nuns Founded a Hospital in 1940s War-Torn India That Saved Hundreds of Thousands of Lives

A 1719 Prison Ship Transported Dozens of Women Accused of Sex Crimes to New Orleans. They Became the Founding Mothers of the Gulf

Introducing the Eyewitness History Podcast

The Global Manhunt For The Confederate Ship That Sunk Union Supply Vessels, From the Caribbean to the South Pacific

Most Historians Consider Warren G. Harding America’s Worst President. This One Thinks He Belongs in the Top 10

Why the Information Revolution Would Happened in Europe Even Without the Printing Press

Deeply-Held Religious Beliefs Can’t Be Easily Eradicated. That’s Why Stalin Co-Opted Russian Orthodoxy As a Ruler.

What “Dear John” Letters Tell Us About the Fragility of Wartime Relationships…and How They Unexpectedly Lead to Greater Camaraderie

Cassie Chadwick Scammed the Gilded Age Elite Out of Millions and Convinced The World She Was Andrew Carnegie’s Bastard Daughter

How China Changed Its Language From Archaic Confucian Bureaucracy to the Lingua Franca of Globalization

Which Statues Should We Take Down? How To Fairly Judge Historical Figures by Today’s Standards

On the Eve of World War One, Woodrow Wilson, Teddy Roosevelt, and the Suffragette Jane Addams Sought to Prevent Armageddon

A Union Woman in Civil War Kentucky

Does Waging War Viciously Actually Save Lives? A Look at the WW2 Decisions to Firebomb Tokyo and Drop Atomic Bombs

Successes and Failures of The Last Century of U.S. Presidents, From Harding to Trump

Teaser: Key Battles of WW2 Pacific - The Rise of Imperial Japan

Mutiny on the Rising Sun: A Tragic Tale of Slavery, Smuggling, and Chocolate

A Real-Life French Serial Killer Inspired Dostoyevsky to Write “Crime and Punishment”

The NAACP Leader Who Passed As White, Infiltrated Lynching Rings, Architected ‘Brown v. Board of Education’, and Ended His Life in Scandal

How Clocks Created Earth’s First Global Supply Chain in the 1700s – And Keep GPS Alive Today

Parthenon Roundtable: Which Person From History Would You Keep From Dying Too Soon? (And You Can’t Choose JFK)

Assassination Attempts of U.S. President – From JFK to Joe Biden

No, the Ancient Greeks Weren’t Color Blind. They Justed Had Unique Ways to Describe the World

The Severing Of a Sea Captain’s Ear Led to a Global War Between Spain and Britain in the 1740s

Future History: The Story Behind '2001: A Space Odyssey'

The Last King of America: George III, His Battles With Madness, and Being a Thoroughly Underrated Monarch

Dragons Exist In Nearly Every Culture’s Mythology As a Mirror of Their Fears. What Are Ours?

Harry Guggenheim: The Elon Musk of the Gilded Age

Are Cities Humanity’s Greatest Invention or an Incubator of Disease, Crime, and Horrific Exploitation?

Revolutionary Monsters: Why Lenin, Mao, Castro, and Others Turned Liberation into Tyranny

Robert E. Lee Was America’s Most Gallant, Decorated Traitor

Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, and the Contentious Path to Emancipation

Henry Kissinger Used Cold Realpolitik to Create Order in the Middle East. Did it Work?

Europe’s Babylon: 16th-Century Antwerp was a City of Wealth, Vice, Heresy, and Freedom

Parthenon Podcast Roundtable: Who Would You Eliminate From History? (And No, You Can’t Choose Hitler)

WASPs: The Splendors and Miseries of an American Aristocracy

The Untold History of Earth: Hobbits Really Existed, Dinosaurs Had Feathers, and Yetis Roamed Our Planet

George Washington’s 1789 Road Trip Across the New United States

The Allied Race to Retake Paris in 1945 Before the Nazis Could Destroy It

The Son of Mississippi Slaves Who Fled to Russia and Brought Jazz to Istanbul

What the Middle Ages Can Teach Us About Pandemics, Mass Migration, and Tech Disruption

Marine Raiders: The WW2 Special Forces Who Conquered Pacific Islands One Knife Fight At a Time

The Boer Wars: The South African Conflict That Created Winston Churchill and (Possibly) Concentration Camps

Kim Philby: The KGB Mole Who Nearly Became the Leader of Britain’s MI6

George Washington: The First American Action Hero

Why the 1619 Project is Dangerous and Should Be Totally Rejected

Rebroadcast: Turkey is Both a Bird and a Country. Which Came First?

The 160-Minute Race to Save the Titanic

Age of Discovery 2.0, Part 6: Will SpaceX Control Mars Like the British East India Company Controlled the Indian Subcontinent?

Age of Discovery 2.0, Part 5: Death Has Always Been an Inevitable Part of Discovery, Whether on Magellan’s Voyage or a Trip to Mars

Age of Discovery 2.0, Part 4: How Lessons From U.S. History Will Help Space Colonies Be More Like Star Trek and Less Like Blade Runner

Age of Discovery 2.0, Part 3: Space Colonization Will Reinvigorate Humanity More Than the New World Discovery 500 Years Ago

Age of Discovery 2.0, Part 2: America’s New Destiny in Space, With Glenn Reynolds

Welcome to the Age of Discovery 2.0

American’s Political Polarization Traces Back to 18th-Century Enlightenment Factions That Never Resolved Their Differences

The Iowa Boy Who Loved Baseball, Leaked Atomic Secrets to the USSR, and Jump Started the Cold War

Winston Churchill: Political Master, Military Commander

How This Union General Who Executed Guerrillas and Imprisoned Political Foes Became the Most Hated Man in Kentucky

The Escape of Jack the Ripper: History’s Most Infamous Serial Killer, and the Cover-up to Protect His Identity

Two Revolutions and the Constitution

Alfred Hubbard Was a 1920s Inventor, Bootlegger, and Psychedelic Pioneer Who Became the Patron Saint of Silicon Valley

The Normans: A History of Conquest

Electric City: Ford and Edison’s Vision of Creating a Steampunk Utopia

Half Lives: The Unlikely History of Radium

An Alternate History of the Lincoln Assassination Plot

What if Tsarist Russia Hadn’t Gone Communist? Revolutionaries Like Boris Savinkov Tried to Accomplish This

Reviving Lost WW2 Stories With An M1 Rifle

Hollywood Hates History: El Cid (1961)

Hollywood Hates History: The Messenger – The Story of Joan of Arc (1999)

American Dunkirk – How Half a Million New Yorkers Were Evacuated from Manhattan Island on 9/11

Columbus of the Pacific: The Forgotten Portuguese Sailor Who Opened Up Earth’s Largest Ocean in 1564

Brown Brothers Harriman: The Shadowy Investment Bank That Built America’s Financial System

Drunk: How We Singed, Danced, and Stumbled Our Ways to Civilization

Teaser: Key Battles of WW2 Pacific - Guadalcanal, Part 1

Vikings Went Everywhere in the Middle Ages, From Baghdad to Constantinople to….. Oklahoma?

A Small Island in the English Channel Was the Birthplace of the Russian Revolution

The Best-Selling Books in American History Include Self-Help Shams and ‘7 Habits of Highly Effective People’

The Common Factors That Cause Societies To Die, From Viking Greenland to Modern Somalia

America Won the Space Race Because of a Horrible Accident That Killed 3 Astronauts

The Daring WW1 Prison Break That Required an Ouija Board and a Life-or-Death Ruse

How the Broken Marriage of Abraham and Mary Todd Lincoln Saved the Civil War

The Roman Brexit: How Civilization Collapsed in Britain After the Legions Withdrew in 409 AD

The Dive: The Untold Story of the World's Deepest Submarine Rescue

The Civil War Battle That Resembled Dante’s Inferno

X-Troop: The Secret Jewish Commandos of World War II

The 1919 Tour de France That Took Place in the Bombed-Out Ruins of WW1

The Apollo Program Had a Surprising Close Relationship With 1960s Counterculture

Travelers & Explorers, Epilogue – What is the Point of Exploration in the 21st Century?

Travelers and Explorers, Part 8: Ernest Shackleton's Frozen March at the Bottom of the World

Travelers and Explorers, Part 7: Sir Henry Stanley (1841-1904) – “Dr. Livingstone, I Presume?”

Travelers and Explorers, Part 6: James Cook (1728-1797), England's Poseidon

Travelers and Explorers, Part 5: Ferdinand Magellan (1480-1521) and His Terrifying Voyage Across an Endless Ocean

Announcement: “Beyond the Big Screen” – a New Movie Podcast – Launches Next Week

Travelers and Explorers, Part 4: Zheng He -- the Admiral Who Turned the Indian Ocean Into a Chinese Lake

Travelers and Explorers, Part 3: Ibn Battuta (1304-1368) -- The Everlasting Pilgrim

Travelers and Explorers, Part 2: Marco Polo (1254-1324) -- Opening the Door to the East

Explorers Who Pushed the Boundary of the Known World, Part 1: Rabban Bar Sauma (1220-1294) – the Reverse Marco Polo

What Egyptian Crocodile Mummies Tell us About Life, Death, and Taxes Thousands of Years Ago

The 1911 Meeting of Albert Einstein and Marie Curie that Changed Physics Forever

Pancho Villa’s 1916 Raid on New Mexico: The Pearl Harbor Bombing of Its Time

How a Member of Easy Company’s “Band of Brothers” Found an Unlikely Friendship with a Former Nazi

U.S. Presidents and Their 160-Year Love/Hate Relationship With the Camera

Announcement: Steve Guerra’s History of the Papacy Podcast is Joining Forces with History Unplugged – Free Giveaway!

Lincolnomics: How President Lincoln Constructed the Great American Economy

The Gulf of Time Separating You From Napoleon III is Bridged By One Brandy Bottle

The Japanese-Americans Who Fought Nazis in Europe

Meet the Four Congressmen Who Won the Civil War and Shaped Reconstruction

Madhouse at the End of the Earth: The Belgica’s 1897 Journey into the Dark Antarctic Night

Teaser: Key Battles of WW2 Pacific - The Rise Of Imperial Japan

Gold Fever and Disaster in the Great Klondike Stampede of 1897-98.

From the River to the Sea: The Railroad War of the 1870s that Made the West

Lady Bird Johnson: The Most Underestimated – and Most Powerful? – First Lady of the 20th Century

American Espionage Was Born in the Dark Taverns of Philadelphia

The Jazz Age Tale of America’s First Gangster Couple, Margaret and Richard Whittemore

Announcement: Next Week James Early and I Launch "Key Battles of the Pacific Theatre (WW2)"

For Centuries, America’s Best Friend in the Middle East Was…Iran?

George Washington Became Great Because He Spent Years in the Political Wilderness as a Washed-Up Has-Been

The Nazi’s Granddaughter -- Discovering War Crimes in Your Family's Past

The 15-Hour Work Week Was Standard For Nearly All of History. What Happened?

Low Troop Morale Can Literally Destroy a Nation. That’s Why the USO Was Formed in 1941.

Defining Treason – Why Are Founding Fathers Heroes But Confederate Leaders Not?

“Fire Eaters” of the Confederacy: The Foot Soldiers of the South Who Made Secession Possible

Witnessing The Final Destruction of Hitler’s War Machine

The USS Plunkett: The Unsinkable Navy Destroyer That Fought at Manzio, D-Day, and Southern France

How Ex-Slaves Built New Lives for Themselves – and America – After the Civil War

George Washington’s Final (And Most Important?) Battle Was Uniting America By Building a New Capital

Lessons Companies Should Learn From Mobsters' Business Practices

All of Human History, Civilization, and Culture Converge in One Place: Turkish Food

The Forgotten Fourteenth Colony of British North America

How to Recover Family Treasure The Nazis Plundered in the 1940s

How 9 Former Slaves Started a Proto University in Alabama in 1867

The Pen or the Sword? How Lincoln and John Brown Disagreed on Achieving Emancipation

How States Got Their Shapes

Great News! Frequent Guest James Early Has Launched His Own Podcast - Key Battles of American History.

When to Let the Past Die: The Case of Obersalzberg and Denazification

The Mountain Man Was Once Considered To Be The Purest Distillation of the American Spirit

Sally Rand Was America's Sex Symbol, From the Roaring 20s to the Apollo Era

If the 1700s American Fur Trade Had Turned Out Differently, Californians Would Be Speaking Russian Today

The Most Giant Leap in the Evolution of Modern Warfare was...the Jeep?

Abraham Lincoln Survived and Thrived in the Anarchy of Antebellum America

The Cuban Missile Crisis Was Horrifyling Close to Becoming a Nuclear Holocaust

Atomic Bombs, Ancient Women Warriors, and Alien Conspiracy Theories of WW2

How Ancient Egypt Lives On

In 1813, a Shawnee "Prophet" Launched a War to Conquer the Great Lakes Region

Millions Were Left Homeless After WW2. What Happened To Those Who Were Permanently Exiled?

The Mafia Was the Glue That Held Entire American Cities Together in the 20th Century

Iron Empires: Robber Barons, Railroads, and the Making of Modern America

An Army Without a Country: Prussia’s Cult of the Military and the Road to World War One

William Miller Predicted Christ’s Return in 1844. Here's What Happened After His Prophecy Failed

This Civil War-Era Luke Skywalker Destroyed an Ironclad Death Star

The Greek Triple Agent: Alcibiades, The Strategist Who Fought On 3 Sides of the Peloponnesian War

America’s Worst President Can Teach Us Much About Writing Raunchy Poetry and Dying Suspiciously

The Eternal Legacy of the First World War

The Sad Afterlives of WW1's Leaders: The Humbling (and Exiling) of Generals, Emperors, and Sultans

The 1919 Paris Peace Conference Laid The First Bricks of the Road to World War Two

WW1 Ends with Armistice: The Moment of Silence That Sounded Like the Voice of God

The 1918 Battle of Meggido Shattered the Ottoman Empire and Created the Modern Middle East

The Pilgrims and Native Americans Were Both On the Verge of Death Upon Meeting. Here's How They Saved Each Others' Lives.

Thanksgiving Owes Its Existence To The 19th Century's Biggest Social Media Influencer

The Empire Strikes Back: Germany's Final Push to Win WW1 in Spring 1918

Tank Warfare--How Military Tech Took a Quantum Leap at the Battle of Cambrai (1917)

The Yanks Are Coming -- America Enters World War One

The Slog of War -- the Passchendaele Campaign of 1917

Teaser: Forging a President, Part 6: The Newly-Minted Cowboy

The Russian Revolutions of 1917-1923--A Bigger Threat Than the Kaiser?

The Election of 1800 Was Worse Than 2020 in Every Way Imaginable

Why WW1 Was the Graveyard of Empires (Russian, Ottoman, Austro-Hungarian)

The Battle of the Somme Caused 1 Million Casualties But Was a Turning Point for WW1

The Flying Aces of World War One

The Brusilov Offensive: Russia's Mortal Blow to Austria-Hungary

Teaser: Forging a President, Part 5: Four-Eyes

WW1 At Sea: The Battle of Jutland (1916)

Verdun - The 299-Day Battle That Killed 300K Soldiers And Still Scars The Earth With Unexploded Shells

1915: World War One's Year of Poison Gas, Genocide, and Millions of Refugees

The Battle of Gallipoli (1915) How Ataturk and the Ottomans Hurled the Allies (Including Winston Churchill) Into the Sea

Teaser: Forging a President, Part 4, Man vs. Beast

World War 1 Trenches Were A Labyrinth of Rats, Disease, Decaying Flesh, and the Omnipresent Threat of Death

The Average WW1 Soldier Was a 110-Pound Villager Who Suffered Disease, Hunger, and PTSD

Germany's Plans For Total French Defeat in 1914 Failed at the Battle of the Marne

Germany So Completely Annihilated Russia At the WW1 Battle of Tannenberg That A Russian General Committed Suicide

Teaser: Forging a President, Part 3, Teddy Roosevelt's First Buffalo Hunt

Europe's Pre-WW1 Alliances Were a Doomsday Machine That Pulled the Entire Continent Into War

Introducing "Key Battles of World War One": Why Europe in 1914 Had Absolutely No Idea It Was About To Enter The Most Hellish War Ever

2 Announcements: Key Battles of WW1 Begins Soon; History Unplugged Launches Youtube Channel

Dreams of India's Vast Wealth Made Everyone From Ancient Greeks to Renaissance Portuguese Risk Death To Reach It

Why 1776 -- Not 1619 -- Matters More Than Ever in 2020

A Jewish Family Couldn’t Flee Nazi Germany. So They Wrote Letters to Strangers in America Asking For Help

Teaser: Forging a President, Part 2

The Fall of Constantinople in 1453 Ended the European Middle Ages and Sealed the Rise of the Ottomans

George Washington's Dream of Eternal Harmony Between White Settlers and Indians, and Why It Failed

Adolf Hitler Didn’t Survive WW2 or Secretly Flee to Argentina. Here’s Why So Many Think He Did

God's Shadow: Why A 16th-Century Ottoman Sultan Created the Modern World

Teaser: Forging a President, Part 1

Making a Book in the Middle Ages Took Years and Was Literally Physical Torture

Martha Dodd: The American Soviet Spy and Hitler’s Would-Be Lover Who Dreamed of a Communist World

America’s First Black Fighter Pilot Was Also a Boxer, Night Club Owner, and WW2 Spy in France

Sam Colt's Six-Shooter Launched The American Industrial Revolution and Sped Western Settlement

The Nazi Spy Ring in America: The Third Reich's Agents, the FBI, and the Case That Stirred the Nation

In 1200 AD, This Indian City on the Mississippi Was Larger Than London And On the Verge Of Starting an Advanced Civilization

America's Hub of Global Trade and Culture Was and Is....the Midwest?

How Hollywood First Depicted the Atomic Bomb and the Manhattan Project

A Time of Perfect American National Unity is a Myth, But Some US Origin Stories Are Better Than Others

40 Thieves on Saipan: The Elite Marine Scout-Snipers in One of WWII’s Bloodiest Battles

George Washington’s Team of Rivals: How His Cabinet Forefathered One of America’s Most Powerful Institutions

Lessons From James Monroe, Who Defeated a Pandemic and Overcame Partisanship

Empires of the Sky: Zeppelins, Airplanes, and Two Men’s Epic Duel to Rule the World

Nazis Nearly Assassinated Stalin, Churchill, and FDR in 1943. What If They Had Succeeded?

In the 1850s, A Mormon Renegade Started a Massive Pirate Colony in Michigan

The Good Assassin: A Mossad Agent's Hunt For WW2’s “Butcher of Latvia”

Death From Above - How Paratroopers Evolved From a WW1 Pipe Dream To A Key Part of Combined-Arms Assault

Want to Star Your Own Nation? That's What a Family Did in 1967 When it Created "Sealand"

Why the Galileo Affair is One of History's Most Misunderstood Events

Henry Knox's Noble Train: How a Boston Bookseller’s Expedition Saved the American Revolution

Dewey Defeats Truman: The 1948 Election and the Battle for America's Soul

History’s First Global Manhunt: The Search for 18th Century Pirate Henry Every

History's Most Insane Rulers, Part 5: Ludwig II of Bavaria

History's Most Insane Rulers, Part 4: George III

History's Most Insane Rulers, Part 3: Ibrahim I -- The Sultan Who Loved Fur and Drowned His Harem

History's Most Insane Rulers, Part 2: Charles VI -- The King Who Thought He Was Made of Glass

History's Most Insane Rulers, Part 1: Emperor Caligula--Bankrupting Rome By Appointing Your Horse Senator

These Are History's Nine Most Insane Rulers

D-Day Girls: The Female Spies Who Armed the French Resistance, Sabotaged the Nazis, and Made the Normandy Invasion Possible

How Economies Bounce Back From Total Collapse: The German Economic Miracle (1948-1957)

Discovering Your Grandfather Was Joseph Stalin's Bodyguard

A Confederate Civil War Submarine Was Lost 150 Years Ago. Its Reappearance Was An Unsolved Mystery...Until Now

Reconstruction: America’s Terrible National Hangover After the Civil War

The Lincoln Assassination: Did John Wilkes Booth Act Alone Or Was it a Confederacy-Ordered Hit?

Japan Developed an Atomic Bomb in WW2. It Laid the Groundwork for North Korea's Nuclear Program

The Celebrity Power Couple Who Mapped the West and Helped Cause the Civil War

Nazi Super Science: The Third Reich's Plans for Transatlantic Bombers, Atomic Weapons, and Orbital Death Rays

Why Dan Carlin Believes That The End is Always Near

American Sherlock -- Meet The 1920s Forensic Scientist Who Created Modern CSI

How Does a Nation Have an Identity When Its People Speak Different Languages? Ask Canada (Quebec Specifically)

Scott's Book "History's 9 Most Insane Rulers" Launch Update and Bonus Offer

How the Florida of the Roaring 20s Created Modern America and Triggered the Great Depression

History Has Lots of Great Ideas About What To Do During a Quarantine

The Civil War in the American West: When Multi-Racial Armies Fought Over Gold Mines and Indian Lands

St. Patrick Didn't Get Rid of Any Snakes, But He Is The Patron Saint of Exterminators

COVID-19 is Nothing Compared to the 1918 Spanish Flu

The Lost History of James Madison's Black Family

The Cold War -- Not WW2 -- Was Arguably the Defining Event of the 20th Century

Fight House: Cutthroat White House Rivalries From Truman to Trump

How An American Tank Gunner Successfully Dueled with Panzers in World War Two

New York Has Been America's Capital of Spying Since the Beginning of the U.S.

The 1881 Expedition to Reach Farthest North Led to Starvation, Madness, and Glory

The Terrifying Conquests of Hannibal of Carthage

The Negro Leagues Made Baseball a Global Sport and Kickstarted the Civil Rights Movement

The Royal Touch: When British and French Kings Were Thought to Have Healing Powers

The Worst Gambling Scandal in NCAA History Led to an Unlikely Story of Redemption

The Confederate States of America, An Alternate History: 1865-2020

An Admiral's List of the 10 Greatest Admirals in History

Pearl Harbor May Have Been Avoided If a Lone US Diplomat Had Gotten His Way

How 20K Marines Held Out Against 300K Chinese Soldiers At The Chosin Reservoir, The Korean War's Greatest Battle

Dragons Never Existed. So Why Are They Found in Absolutely Every Ancient Folklore?

The Crusades, From Both Arab and European Perspectives

How the Nazi Ministry of Propaganda Radicalized Germany

Star Spangled Scandal: The Antebellum Murder Trial that Changed America

237 Years After the Revolutionary War, Some Say It Was a Mistake. Are They Right?

George Washington's Spies: The Culper Ring, Nathan Hale, and the Plot to Capture Benedict Arnold

The Revolutionary War Comes to an End

The Battle of Yorktown: Britain's Surrender in the Revolutionary War

The Siege of Yorktown: American and France Corner Britain

King’s Mountain: The Revolutionary War's Largest 'All-American Fight'

The Treason of Benedict Arnold

How France and America Cooperated During the Revolutionary War

American Politicians Nearly Had George Washington Fired During the Revolutionary War

The Philadelphia Campaign: When Britain Took Over Ben Franklin's House

The Battle of Saratoga—Benedict Arnold, An American Hero

Rebroadcast: Turkey is Both a Bird and a Country. Which Came First?

The Saratoga Campaign: Turning Point of the Revolutionary War

The Battle of Princeton Proves George Washington Was So Lucky, It Was Almost Supernatural

19th-Century American Radicals: Vegans, Abolitionists, and Free Love Advocates

Benedict Arnold, Vidkun Quisling, and Other Historical Villains—When is Someone Misunderstood vs. Truly Bad?

When Does A Scorched-Earth Policy Work? A Look at the Civil War's Final Year

Medic! First Aid in Combat, From WW1 Trenches to Operation Iraqi Freedom

The Confederacy Dominated the Early Civil War. So Why Did It Ultimately Lose?

Constantine's Conversion to Christianity: Opportunism or a Sincere Gesture?

Was the US Involvement in World War One a Mistake?

Hans Kammler, Nazi Architect of Auschwitz, Defector to the US?

Announcement: Mid-Season Break for "Key Battles of the Revolutionary War"

Key Battles of the Revolutionary War, Part 12: Crossing the Delaware

Key Battles of the Revolutionary War, Part 11: New York Campaign (2/2)

Key Battles of the Revolutionary War, Part 10: The New York Campaign (1/2)

Key Battles of the Revolutionary War, Part 9: Sidetrack Episode -- the Declaration of Independence

Key Battles of the Revolutionary War, Part 8: The Battle of Quebec

Key Battles of the Revolutionary War, Part 7: The Quebec Campaign

Key Battles of the Revolutionary War, Part 6: Bunker Hill (2/2)

Key Battles of the Revolutionary War, Part 5: Bunker Hill (1/2)

Key Battles of the Revolutionary War, Part 4: British and Continental Soldiers

Key Battles of the Revolutionary War, Part 3: Lexington and Concord

Key Battles of the Revolutionary War, Part 2: Background to the War

Key Battles of the Revolutionary War, Part 1: The World of the American Revolution

Announcement: Key Battles of the Revolutionary War Starts Next Week

Opium: How an Ancient Flower Shaped and Poisoned Our World

Eisenhower's Interstates: The Modern-Day Roman Roads

After Watergate, Richard Nixon Created the Career Path for All Ex-Presidents

Women Warriors: How Females Have Fought in Combat Since History's Beginning

Hollywood Hates History, Part 8: Dracula Untold (2014)

Hollywood Hates History, Part 7: The Alamo (2004)

Teaser: Rendezvous With Death, Part 8

Hollywood Hates History, Part 6: The Scarlet Letter (1995)

Hollywood Hates History, Part 5—The Conqueror (1956)

Hollywood Hates History, Part 4—The Green Berets (1968)

Hollywood Hates History, Part 3—The Da Vinci Code (2006)

Hollywood Hates History, Part 2: Agora (2009)

Hollywood Hates History, Part 1: Kingdom of Heaven

Announcement: 'Hollywood Hates History' Starts Next Week

A Vote of No Confidence: How to Obliterate Your Current Government

George Washington as Man, General, Leader, and Mule Pioneer

A Shred to End All Shreds: World War I Meets Swedish Metal

Has The Lost Colony of Roanoke Been Found?

Einstein's War: How Relativity Triumphed Amid the Vicious Nationalism of World War I

The Forgotten Assassin – Sirhan Sirhan and the Killing of Robert F. Kennedy

Chief Executives in the Cockpit—When Presidents Take to the Skies

George Mason: The Most Important Founding Father Nobody Remembers

Teaser: Rendezvous With Death, Part 7

Spies in the Ancient World, Part 2: On His Roman Emperor's Secret Service

Spies in the Ancient World, Part 1: How a Bronze-Age Tribe Infiltrated Jericho

Teaser: Rendezvous With Death, Part 6

The Real Oregon Trail: Beyond Dysentery and the Apple II Game

How to Get Processed Through Ellis Island In 2 Hours or Less

Special Announcement: Check Out My New Show 'Ottoman Lives'

George Armstrong Custer: Cocky Military Officer or America's Version of Leonidas at Thermopylae?

An Interview with 95-Year-Old Tuskegee Airman Lt. Col. Harry Stewart

Vlad the Impaler is the (Partial) Inspiration for Count Dracula

'A Woman of No Importance': The One-Legged WW2 Spy Virginia Hall

The 4,000-Year-Old Question: Is Judaism a Religion, Ethnicity, Race, or Culture?

The 500-Year Story of a Gutenberg Bible And Everyone Who Owned It

Teaser: Rendezvous With Death, Part 5

Hitler’s “Desert Fox”: The Military Career of Erwin Rommel

When Irish Vets of the American Civil War Invaded Canada in 1866

The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present

How Industrialists Plotted to Overthrow FDR Over The New Deal in 1934

Teaser: Rendezvous With Death, Part 4

Making Your Death Memorable: The Oldest Tombs We Can Trace To One Person

The Kremlin Letters: Stalin's Wartime Correspondence with Churchill and Roosevelt

The RAF Won the Battle of Britain With Strategy But Also Plenty of Luck

Why The Printing Press Appeared in the Middle East 400 Years After Europe

Teaser: Rendezvous With Death, Part 3

Last Night on the Titanic: Conclusion

Last Night on the Titanic: Doctors and Con Artists

Last Night on the Titanic: The Musicians

Last Night on the Titanic: The Trend Setters

Teaser: Rendezvous With Death, Part 2

Last Night on the Titanic: The Life Savers

Last Night on the Titanic: The Cooks

Sneak Peek of the New Podcast Series "Espionage"

Last Night on the Titanic: The Writers

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Teaser: Rendezvous With Death

Last Night on the Titanic: The Bakers

The Last Night on the Titanic: Overview of the 1,500 Passengers and Crew Who Lost Their Lives

ANNOUNCEMENT: Special Series 'Last Night on the Titanic' Starts Next Week

Light-Horse Harry Lee: A Founding Father's Journey From Glory to Ruin

Bad Puns and Dirty Jokes in Rome and Ancient Greece

Wright Brothers, Wrong Story? Why Some Say Wilbur—Not Orville—Discovered Manned Flight

When Danzig Became Gdańsk: What Happens to a City When Its Demographics Change Completely

The Revolution Before the Revolution: How 1776 Happened

An Active Neutrality: The WW2 Experiences of Switzerland, Portugal, and Turkey

Kangaroo Squadron: The Tip of the American Spear in the WW2 Pacific Theatre

Common Knowledge About The Middle Ages That Is Incorrect, Part 5: Crusades In The Renaissance

Common Knowledge About The Middle Ages That Is Incorrect, Part 4: The Medieval Technological Explosion

Common Knowledge About The Middle Ages That Is Incorrect, Part 3: Witch Burnings

Common Knowledge About The Middle Ages That Is Incorrect, Part 2: Were Indulgences a Get-out-of-Hell-Free Card Or Something Else?

Common Knowledge About The Middle Ages That Is Incorrect, Part 1: Why the Middle Ages, Not the Renaissance, Created the Modern World

Civil War Barons: The Tycoons, Entrepreneurs, and Inventors and Visionaries Who Forged Victory and Shaped a Nation

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War Animals: How 55 Birds, Dogs, and Horses Saved Thousands of Lives in World War Two

Hunting the President: Threats, Plots and Assassination Attempts, Part 5: Barack Obama

Hunting the President: Threats, Plots and Assassination Attempts, Part 4: Bill Clinton

Hunting the President: Threats, Plots and Assassination Attempts, Part 3: Ronald Reagan

Hunting the President: Threats, Plots and Assassination Attempts, Part 2: JFK

Hunting the President: Threats, Plots and Assassination Attempts, Part 1: FDR

Understanding the Rise of Islam Through Military History

Fugitive Slaves in America, From the Revolution to the Civil War

Moral Panics and Mass Hysteria: The Dancing Plague, Salem Witch Trials, and The Tulip Market Bubble

How a Researcher Discovered That Her Grandparents Were in the Nazi SS

Teaser: Ottoman Lives Part 7—The Outlaw

James Holman Traveled Over 250,000 Miles in the Early 1800s. He Was Also Completely Blind.

The History of Cannabis and Its Use By Humans

Bonus Q&A on the Civil War Series with Scott & James

What Would the Real St. Nicholas Drink? Here's What an Ancient History Professor Thinks

How Ancient Europeans Circumnavigated Africa, Explored Iceland, and Sent Goods all the Way to Japan

What if George Custer Had Survived the Battle of Little Bighorn?

Teaser: Ottoman Lives Part 6—The Holy Man

History of the Civil War in 10 Battles, Part 22: How the Civil War Lives on Today

History of the Civil War in 10 Battles, Part 21: What Became of the Men Who Wore the Blue and the Grey

History of the Civil War in 10 Battles, Part 20: The Naval War

History of the Civil War in 10 Battles, Part 19: African Americans in Uniform

Teaser: Ottoman Lives Part 5—The Peasant

History of the Civil War in 10 Battles, Part 18: The Overland Campaign

History of the Civil War in 10 Battles, Part 17: Sherman's March to the Sea

Turkey is Both a Bird and a Country. Which Came First?

History of the Civil War in 10 Battles, Part 16: The Battle of Atlanta

Teaser: Ottoman Lives, Part 4—The Concubine

History of the Civil War in 10 Battles, Part 15: Chattanooga

History of the Civil War in 10 Battles, Part 14: Chickamauga

History of the Civil War in 10 Battles, Part 13: The Battle of Gettysburg

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History of the Civil War in 10 Battles, Part 12: (Vicksburg 2 of 2)

History of the Civil War in 10 Battles, Part 11: Vicksburg (1 of 2)

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History of the Civil War in 10 Battles, Part 10: Battle of Chancellorsville

History of the Civil War in 10 Battles, Part 9: The Battle of Fredericksburg

History of the Civil War in 10 Battles, Part 8: Sidetrack Episode on Emancipation

History of the Civil War in 10 Battles, Part 7: The Battle of Antietam

Teaser: Ottoman Lives, Part 1: The Janissary

History of the Civil War in 10 Battles, Part 6: The Seven Days' Battle

History of the Civil War in 10 Battles, Part 5: The 1862 Peninsula Campaign

History of Civil War in 10 Battles, Part 4: The Battle of Shiloh

History of the Civil War in 10 Battles, Part 3: Border States and the War in the West

History of the Civil War in 10 Battles, Part 2: First Battle of Bull Run

History of the Civil War in 10 Battles, Part 1: Background to the Civil War

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How a 1522 Battled Transformed Russia from a Minor Duchy into Earth's Largest Empire

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Lost Civilizations, Part 3: European Visitors to the New World Before Columbus

Lost Civilizations, Part 2: The Egyptian Pyramid Builders, the Nabateans, and the Aksumites.

Lost Civilizations: Ancient Societies that Vanished Without a Trace, Part 1

The Most Powerful Women in the Middle Ages, Part 3: Elizabeth of Tudor and Ottoman Queen Mother Kösem Sultan

Teaser: Intro to Audie Murphy Series

The Most Powerful Women in the Middle Ages, Part 2: Catherine of Sienna and Isabella of Castile

The Most Powerful Women in the Middle Ages, Part 1: Queens, Empresses, and Viking Slayers

How the Vicksburg Siege May Have Turned the Tide of the Civil War—Samuel Mitcham

The Story of Malaria, The Killer of Half of Humanity

An Archeologist Talks About the Discovery of a Civil War Surgeon's Burial Pit at Manassas Field

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The History of Slavery, Part 5: The Road to Abolition

The History of Slavery, Part 4: African Slavery in the New World, 1500-1865

The History of Slavery, Part 3: Christian Slaves and Muslim Masters—Barbary Pirates in the Mediterranean, 1500-1800

The History of Slavery, Part 2: The Medieval Slave Trade to Arabia

The History of Slavery, Part 1: Shackled and Chained in the Ancient World

Prohibition: How it Happened, Why it Failed, and How it Still Affects America Today

What Did People Eat in the Middle Ages?

Almost Everything in American Politics has Happened Before, Even Donald Trump—Bruce Carlson from My History Can Beat Up Your Politics

The Quest to Make Information Free Forever: Copyright Battles From Venetian Printers in the Renaissance to 21st Century Hackers

How a Rivalry Between Two Cherokee Chiefs Led to the Trail of Tears and the Collapse of Their Nation

If It Weren't For Two Iowans, Billions Would Have Died of Starvation or Been Left in a Technological Dark Age

Introducing the History Unplugged Membership Program

Life After Auschwitz: How European Jews Attempted to Assimilate in America After Unspeakable Tragedy

Patton and Churchill's Experiences Before and During World War Two

Special Announcement: Presidential Fight Club Is Now Its Own Podcast

An Infantry Officer's Fight Through Nazi Europe, From D-Day to VE Day

Everything You Need to Know About D-Day: H-Hour, Weapons Info, and First-Hand Accounts via Soldiers, Beachmasters, and the French Resistance

Benjamin Franklin: Diplomat, Polymath, and Member of 18th Century Jet Set—Elizabeth Covart of the Ben Franklin's World Podcast

From Farm Fields to Classrooms: Horace Mann's War for Universal and Compulsory Education for Children

Meet Joan: The Female Pope—Stephen Guerra of the History of the Papacy Podcast

The Most Productive People in History, Part 2: Thomas Aquinas to Thomas Edison

The Most Productive People in History, Part 1: From Archimedes to Ben Franklin

The Union's Secret Rebels: The Story of Gettysburg's Five Rebellious Double Crossers Who Returned as Foreign Invaders

How to Reach Allied Territory When Your Plane Is Shot Down in Nazi-Occupied France

Anthology: How Switzerland Remained Neutral In Two World Wars

Grammar Girl (Mignon Fogarty) on the Strange History of the English Language

History's Most Insane Rulers: From Emperor Caligula to Muammar Gaddafi

Meet Pico, The 23-Year-Old Wunderkind Who Kicked Off the Renaissance

Richard Burton: The Victorian Explorer Who Discovered the Kama Sutra, Made a Secret Pilgrimage to Mecca, and Knew 29 Languages

Panic on the Pacific: How America Prepared for a Japanese West Coast Invasion after Pearl Harbor

The Hypothetical Economy of a Present-Day Confederate States of America, Alternate Theories to the Titanic Sinking, and Other Counterfactual

The 4 Successful (And Hundreds of Unsuccessful) Assassination Attempts of U.S. Presidents—Mel Ayton

Prostitution Throughout History: Sumerian Temple Priestesses, Ottoman Brothel Workers, and Call-Girls for the Medieval Clergy

The Ladykiller who Killed Lincoln: The Scandalous Love Life of John Wilkes Booth

Ulysses S. Grant Was (Mostly) Responsible For Winning the Civil War. Robert E. Lee Was Responsible For Losing It.

How Long Have Foreign Governments Attempted to Meddle in U.S Elections? Answers to This And 3 Other Questions

The Life and Times of Aristotle, and How His Philosophy Conquered the World—Lantern Jack from the Ancient Greece Declassified Podcast

World War Two Spycraft: Stealing Nuclear Secrets, Blowing Up Nazi Factories, and Infiltrating Japanese High Command

A Retired Policeman Tells us the Story of The Most Daring Jailbreak in the Underground Railroad's History

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Daily Lives of Middle Eastern Women in the School, the Home, the Harem, and Everywhere Else—Marie Grace Brown

How Archeologists Decide What We Remember—Chris Webster, Archeology Podcast Network

When Weather Wipes Out Civilization -- Four Cases of Climate Killing Empires

George Washington's Guide to Greatness, As Told by His Great Nephew —Austin Washington

Medieval Health Care: Bloodletting, Primitive Surgery, and How Surprisingly Good Doctors Could Be Despite Knowing Almost Nothing

A First-Hand Account of the Battle of Ramadi, Iraq – Maj. Scott Huesing

Mesopotamian Civilization (2): Everyday Life of Merchants, Temple Priests, and Prostitutes

One Nation Under (the Influence of) Alcohol: Drinking During the Civil War—Mark Will-Weber

Mesopotamian Civilization: Gilgamesh, Sargon, and Why 1 GB of Information on Cuneiform Tablets Weights as Much as a 747

Race to the Top of the World: Richard Byrd and the First Flight to the North Pole—Sheldon Bart

Positive Legacies of the Mongolian Empire: International Trade, Religious Tolerance, Career Opportunities, and Horse Milk

America's Utopian Communities: From Plymouth Colony's Failed Experiments in Collective Farming to 60s Hippie Communes—Timothy Miller

The Reasons the Mongolian Army Was Unstoppable

Horse and Bow- A Mongol's Two Best Friends

The Rise of Genghis- From Temujin to the Great Khan

The Mongols Killed So Many People They Lowered the Global Temperature

Chester A. Arthur's Presidency Was a Colossal Accident...And a Huge Success

The Vietnam War Was About...Stealing Asia's Tin?

About 70-90 Percent of a Society Needs to Die Before It Completely Collapses

Why The Black Plague is Partially (But Not Completely) Responsible For the Renaissance?

Did Mussollini Really Make the Trains Run on Time?

How Teddy Roosevelt Became The Man He Was in the Badlands—William Hazelgrove of “Forging a President”

The Origin of the High Five

Nobody in the Middle Ages Thought the Earth Was Flat

Which Leader Had the Best Shot at World Domination?

Pinetti, the 18th-Century Illusionist and Forerunner of Chris Angel and David Copperfield—Brian Earl from the Illusion Podcast

The Origin of the Military Salute

Would Somebody from 1000 BC Transported to 1000 AD Notice the Difference?

The English Channel—The 26-Mile Strait That Has Stopped Armies For Millenia

The Richest Man in History Was the 14th c. King of Mali

Canines in Combat: How the 8125th Sentry Dog Detachment Saved Countless Lives in the Korean War—Rachel Reed

Europe's Military Quantum Leap (1350-1650)—Patrick Wyman From Tides of History

Christmas Special: Fr. Longenecker on Why The 3 Wise Men Were Real...But They Weren't From the Orient or Kings (Rebroadcast)

Bringing Abraham and Mary Todd to Life in Steven Spielberg's “Lincoln”—Historical Consultant Catherine Clinton

Meet Nathaniel Clark Smith, the Melchizedek of Jazz—Bill McKemy

The Story of Human Language, From Proto Indo-European to Ebonics English—John McWhorter

The Causes of World War 2

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Is There Any Hard Evidence Hannibal Took Elephants Over the Alps?

The Greek Military Owned The Ancient World. Why Did They Roll Over For the Romans?

Why Food Tells Us More About a Culture Than Anything Else—Ken Alba

The Electoral College Isn't an Outdated 18th-Century Relic; It Keeps America From Falling Apart—Tara Ross

Arabic Numerals Took Over 600 Years To Spread Across the West

A Short History of the War of the Roses

Richard Francis Burton—The Man Who Knew the Most Languages in History

The Scopes Monkey Trial, HL Mencken, and Religion in Public Life—Darryl Hart

The Reformation Happened 500 Years Ago, But It's More Timely Than Ever—Benjamin Wiker

How Did You Call the Police Before the Phone Was Invented?

All the Presidents Who Owned Slaves and How They Treated Them

Who Were Worse—The Spanish Conquistadors or the Aztecs?

The Lives of Slaves, Heretics, Cave-Dwellers, and Other People Ancient History Never Tells You About—Robert Garland

What Did Entertainment Do To The Romans?

Syriac-The Best Language for Conquering The Ancient World

The Most Valuable Lost Treasure That Still Exists

Did Vikings Have Tattoos?

Call of Duty: WW2's Historical Advisor Marty Morgan on Bringing the War to Life

The Codpiece—The Worst Fashion Trend in History

Why Almost No Medieval Peasant Cottages Survive Today

How a Nikita Khruschev Mistranslation Threatened Nuclear War

British Girl, Nazi German POW—A Love Story

Assassin's Creed's Resident Historian Maxime Durand on Mixing Fact with Fiction

Cruel and Unusual (Medieval) Punishment

The Easter Uprising of 1916

Misattributed Quotes—No, Mark Twain Didn't Say That

How to Build a 13th-Century Castle From Scratch

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