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Snippets Of History — 94 episodes

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Witnessing The Final Destruction of Hitler’s War Machine

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What if the Nazis Had Won World War Two?

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Part 1: Holocaust Survivor Describes Being Taken To And Life Living In Auschwitz

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

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

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The Reasons the Mongolian Army Was Unstoppable

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Christopher Columbus Wasn’t as Good—Or as Terrible—As You Think

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Understanding the Rise of Islam Through Military History

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

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

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

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If I Were Sent Back in Time to the Roman Empire, How Would I Take Over?

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

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

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

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How Religion Has Influenced Politics Across History, From Ancient Sumeria to the 21st Century—Paul Rahe

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

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

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

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

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

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

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The Causes of World War 2

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The Lives of Slaves, Heretics, Cave-Dwellers, and Other People Ancient History Never Tells You About—Robert Garland

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

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Why Almost No Medieval Peasant Cottages Survive Today

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

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

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

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Discovering Your Grandfather Was Joseph Stalin's Bodyguard

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Last Night on the Titanic: Conclusion

32

Winston Churchill: Political Master, Military Commander

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

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The Normans: A History of Conquest

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

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

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

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Who Were Worse—The Spanish Conquistadors or the Aztecs?

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

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

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Did Medieval Women Really Wear Chastity Belts?

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

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How to Build a 13th-Century Castle From Scratch

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When Did The Roman Empire Really End?

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

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"How Important Was the Spice Trade to Medieval Europe"

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

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Winston Churchill And Hitler

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How America Prepared for a Japanese West Coast Invasion after Pearl Harbor

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The Cold War

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

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The Last Night on the Titanic- Overview of the 1500 Passengers and Crew Who Lost Their Lives

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The Average WW1 Soldier Was a 110-Pound Villager

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WW1 And The Use of Gas As A Weapon

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Introduction To The Titanic

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Cherokee Nation

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The Nullification Crisis

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Jackie Robinson, The Negro League and Civil Rights

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The Start Of Abolition

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Success Stories of Oregon Trail

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The Concept Of The Union

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The Railroad War

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Slavery And The Auctions

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Lincoln And The Antebellum Period

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Jefferson, The Declaration of Independence, and Radical Ideas

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George Washington And The American Revolution

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Training For D-Day

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D-Day And The Use of Deception

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D-Day And Planning

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Landing On The Beaches

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The Logistics Of D-Day

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Operation Overlord and The Ramp Up To D-Day

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What Did America Do After Pearl Harbor?

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The Vikings and Russia

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Alexander Hamilton And His Enemies

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Medieval Punishment and Court

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Samuel Colt and the Industrial Revolution

78

What Was The Last Night On The Titanic Like?

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Empire During World War One

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World War I And European Nationalism

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Germany and Alliances

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"We Will Bury You": How Khrushchev Almost Inadvertently Started a Nuclear War

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Wilson, The League Of Nations, and The Treaty Of Versailles

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The Birth Of the Outpost and The Importance Of Long Distance Trading

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How Did Development Effect Mesopotamian Trade?

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What Social Class Were The Merchants And Traders?

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But What Social Class Were The Pyramid Builders?

88

Argument Against Dropping The Atomic Bomb!

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The Incredible Logistics Of D-Day

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Understanding Russia's Deep and Complex History

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What If Hitler Didn't Commit Suicide?

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Effects of WW1: Loss Of Life and Psychological Impact

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World War One: Its Effects On WW2

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Far Reaching Effects of WW1