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Do Napoleons or Hitlers Really Matter? Whether Leaders Make History or Their Societies Make Them
Washington’s Most Revolutionary Moment Was Surrendering Absolute Power
Japan's Military Refused to Surrender Even After Two Atomic Bombs and a Coup Nearly Succeeded
Is Patton America’s Most Overrated General?
Stalin’s Ordered Killing of Trotsky Created the Playbook for Modern Political Assassination
Belisarius Reconquered Africa and Italy for Rome. Why Did Rome Destroy Him for It?
Summer of Death: America’s Heat Wave of 1936 That Killed 12,000
New Archeological Tech Is Rewriting Everything We Know About the Ancient Past
The AI Jobs Panic of the 1890s: The Linotype Triggered Fears of Mass Layoffs but Created an Explosion in Newspaper Work
April 1945 in Berlin: The Final Month of the Third Reich
Writing Was Invented for Accounting and Scrawled on Baboon Bones
It Took Russia 300 Years To Destroy the Final Pieces of Genghis Khan’s Empire
The Wunderkind George Forster: Voyaging with Captain Cook at 10 and Dining with Benjamin Franklin in Paris in his 20s
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
Last Night on the Titanic: The Popcorn Vendor
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
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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
September 1918: War, Plague, and The World Series
Teaser: Ottoman Lives, Part 3—The Eunuch
6 Historical Figures Who Deserve Their Own Movie—History Unplugged Meets 1001 Stories
The Story of Bravo, The Greatest Rescue Mission in Navy SEAL History
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)
Teaser: Ottoman Lives, Part 2—The Sultan
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
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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
Why U.S. Political Elections Have Always Been Chaotic—David Severa from the Early and Often Podcast
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
What are Arguments For and Against Bombing Japan, Why Don't Militias Matter in American, and What is Close-Air Support?
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
The Causes of World War 1
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?