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When Did the US Civil War End?

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Irish Things that are Actually British: Flashback Friday!

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The Irish Slaves Myth: 2025 Encore

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The Sound of Music - 60th Anniversary Show!

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The Bombing of Dresden: 80th Anniversary Episode

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“Dear Miss Perkins”: Frances Perkins and Refugees from Nazi Germany

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Auld Lang Syne: That Grand Old Song!

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"It's a Wonderful Life" Myths and Urban Legends: a Professor Buzzkill Classic!

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How Churchill Waged War

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The Weeping Frenchman: the Emotion of National Loss

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“Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory” - Why the Battle Hymn of the Republic Still Matters

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The Battle Hymn of the Republic: the Song that Marches On

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The "Glory Hallelujah Suite" with Sparky and Rhonda Rucker

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Julia Ward Howe: a Biographical Discussion with Professor Elaine Showalter

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Julia Ward Howe and “The Battle Hymn of the Republic” Week: Intro Episode

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Justice in Kelly Country: Laws and Outlaws in 19th Century Australia

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Code Name Puritan: Norman Holmes Pearson, Super Spy Professor

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Understanding the Cuban Missile Crisis: 2024 Encore

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Why Was World War II So Bad: 2024 Encore

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Battle of Stalingrad, Part 2

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Battle of Stalingrad, Part 1

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German POWs in the USSR

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Birthright Citizenship: 2024 Election Special!

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Image and the Nixon-Kennedy 1960 Election Debates

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An Unholy Traffic: Slave Trading in the Civil War South

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Women in Nazi Germany, Part 2

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Women in Nazi Germany, Part 1

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Pat Nixon

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The USS Indianapolis and the Famous Shark Attack - 2024 Encore

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Presidential Primaries and Conventions: Just What is the Deal with Them?

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Southern Violence and White Supremacy in the Civil War Era

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"May You Live in Interesting Times" - Ancient Chinese Curse? 2024 Encore

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The John Birch Society and Its Influence on American Politics

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Felons and the Declaration of Independence

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The American Liberty Pole

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Before Trans: Three Gender Stories from 19th Century France

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Juneteenth and the End of Slavery in the US: What’s in a Date? 2024 Encore

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Loving Day: 2024 Encore

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Heather Haley: Historian for the US Navy

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Coming Out Republican: a History of the Gay Right

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Malcolm Browne and the Self Immolation of Thích Quảng Đức

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Churchill’s Wartime Speeches: the Untold Story

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Was the Wild West as Wild as the Myths Say?

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The Myth of Colorblind Christians

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Americans Bailing Out the French

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British Dandies: Engendering Scandal and Fashioning a Nation

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Once a King: The Lost Memoir of Edward VIII

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The False Cause: Fraud, Fabrication, and White Supremacy in Confederate Memory

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Hitler's Rise to Power: History and Myth

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The Press and Women Politicians from Victoria Woodhull to Kamala Harris

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The "Princess Qajar" Meme: Junk History and Conceptions of Beauty

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Irish America: Race and Politics

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Who Said "Well-Behaved Women Rarely Make History"?

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Green Book Sites: Local History and Architecture

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Traveling While Black: The Green Book Guides to African-American Motoring - Encore!

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Henry Kissinger Part 2: Perpetual Power?

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Henry Kissinger Part 1: Meteoric Rise

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Ben Franklin, "A Republic, if You Can Keep It" - Quote or No Quote? Encore

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Lies of the Land: Rural America in History and Myth

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America a Continental History

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The Unknown Martin Luther King: 2024 MLK Encore!

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America's Origin Stories and Myths

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America: What's in a Name?

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New Year's Eve and New Year's Day

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Auld Lang Syne: an Appreciation

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12 Days of Christmas: a Coded Song?

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Candy Cane Myths! Encore!

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The Mozart-Saleri Feud: Did “Amadeus” Tell the Real Story?

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"It's a Wonderful Life" 1947 Radio Drama

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"It's a Wonderful Life" Myths and Urban Legends: 2023 Encore!

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The Best Years of Our Lives: the Greatest Film You Haven’t Seen!

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Pearl Harbor 2023 Encore

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Resistance from the Right: Conservatives and the Campus Wars in Modern America

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Quote or No Quote? Who Said “If you don’t have anything nice to say, come and sit here by me”?

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1932: Politics, Protests, and Electioneering in a Crucial American Year

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Thanksgiving History and Myth

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Democracy Dies in Darkness? Philadelphia and Paris in the 1780s

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Ben Franklin and the Turkey - Thanksgiving Myths!

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Thanksgiving Popcorn - MiniMyth!

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Medieval Myths

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Gun Country: Gun Capitalism, Culture, and Control in Cold War America

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Halloween Myths

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Dracula in Fiction and History

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Clement Attlee, 1945, and the Year of Hope in Britain

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Columbus and Taino People

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Christopher Columbus Myths Large and Small!

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Hands of Time: a Watchmaker's History

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Heather Cox Richardson on Saving Democracy - Wisdom Wednesday!

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McCarthy and McCarthyism: American Demagoguery During the Cold War

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Naming Gotham: The Villains, Rogues and Heroes Behind New York’s Place Names

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Coffee with Hitler: Civilized Diplomacy?

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Anarcha: One of the Mothers of Gynecology

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Gun Carnage in the United States

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Titanic Myths Smashed!

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Undelivered Speeches and What They Can Tell Us About History

96

Oppenheimer: the Man, the Myth, the Movie

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The Atomic Bombs: Flashback Friday 2023

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Religious Conversions in Modern America

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Lawyers in Japanese-American Concentration Camps during World War II

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Absalom Markland and Freedom's Mail