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The HistoryNet Podcast — 107 episodes
This British Colonel Traveled with Robert E. Lee at Gettysburg. He?d Already Had His Share of Surprises..mp3
Nobody wanted the A-10 Warthog — now It's the military's most beloved plane
They were sent on a suicide mission at Cedar Creek. Their victory rallied the Union.
They say he burned down the Reichstag. But was he drugged into confessing?
Kars fortress stands as a monument to a turbulent past
This journalist risked his life to reveal the horrors of lynching in the South
John Fetterman isn't the first ill politician to serve. Here are examples from history
The death of Crazy Horse: Fables and forensics
The Ercoupe is easy to fly — but you better not be in a hurry
These Civil War warriors fought with the pen, and not the sword
The mysterious death of Johnny Ringo
Minié ball: The Civil War bullet that changed history
What if the Marines had skipped Iwo Jima
This German baroness dodged cannonballs during the American Revolution
'Weary of So Much Suffering': Letters from the Sheridan Field Hospital
'Medicine Flower' Brought the West East
Kidnapped during World War II, these German corpses proved a headache for the U.S. Army
This Supreme Court ruling on prayer in public schools made America go nuts
Robert E. Lee endured a precipitous reset in Maryland
Meet the man who sent the world's largest flying machine to its doom
One of this Western director's scenes looked so real that it provoked actual gunfire
Zap! American railroads go electric
Joe Hooker was an ineffectual general, but does he deserve credit for transforming the Union cavalry?
Napoleon's imperial guard tells of his fight for the emperor
Sharpshooter Billy Dixon owes his legacy to his widow
This German general made a deal with the devil
WWI American pilots wanted a great fighter plane. Instead, they got the Nieuport 28
One family, 10 sieges: How Spain's Guzman family spent centuries battling for Gibraltar
The Turkestan Incident
The Arikara War: avenging Americans
No, the London Blitz wasn't started by accident
When is a Mustang not a Mustang?
White Oaks, New Mexico: the onetime haunt of Billy the Kid
When a Vietnamese ally was wounded, two American soldiers had to choose obedience or compassion
Nobody could scale the walls of China's Forbidden City except this American soldier
This British officer developed a revolutionary rifle whose worth he was never able to prove in battle
The last surviving widow of the Civil War
The old world soldier who conquered the new
The Boeing 377 Stratocruiser was a great airplane until the propellers started falling off
The balloon pilots who went boldly where only animals had gone before
Lewis and Clark's race against Spain
The assassination of Ngo Dinh Diem
This 1945 New Guinea plane crash survivor became known as the Queen of Shangri-La
The bomber that almost wasn't
Mexican War: The proving ground for future American Civil War generals
Most POWs want to go home — but after World War II, some faced death on arrival
Patsy Cline's final flight
One week before this pioneering aviator's tragic death, an American watched him work
The man behind Monty
Marilyn Monroe's Death: Early victim of the opioid epidemic
The 100 greatest generals of all time
The 20th Maine's Little Round Top hero had a hardscrabble life
The suicide charge of two killer Cheyennes
The man who saved Korea
The surprising story of Japan's B-17 fleet
The fighting for this Italian town was so brutal they called it the Stalingrad of the Adriatic
The top 10 one-eyed commanders of all-time
Facing doom at the Battle of the Bulge, this tank commander wouldn't back down
Pat Garrett was the last great frontier lawman — even without his Billy the Kid Fame
Operation Highjump: 1946-47 Expedition to explore Antarctica from the air
The MiG-25 terrified the West until a defector exposed its true nature
This Abilene marshal was almost beheaded on his way out of office
This famed director was used to saying 'action,' Now he would experience some for himself at Midway.
The truth about JFK and his PT Boat's collision with a Japanese destroyer in WWII
Rejected! These famous people were turned down by the military. At least at first
The US Army envisioned using dogs in the Pacific to sniff out enemy Japanese soldiers. Things did not work out as planned.
Omar Bradley, the general's general
The 9 greatest Supreme Court justices
The real story behind 58 Confederate bodies tossed in a well
They saw the horrors of war: A nurse and 3 soldiers describe Shiloh and Corinth
Requiem for a forgotten West Texas cow town
The day the world's best aviator killed Will Rogers (and himself)
The South Vietnamese pilot who performed a daring feat to save his family
The deadliest Nazi POW massacre On US soil took place after WWII ended
The sky seemed the limit for Union General Fitz John Porter. Then came Second Bull Run
The day Miss America almost got shot down over Vietnam
The Gloster Gladiator looked outdated when WWII started. It was.
Penicillin: The wonder drug of World War II
The 'Hello Girls' arrived in Europe before the first Doughboys. Here's why they were so crucial
Rediscovered photos offer a window into the Army Arctic past
The men who followed Davy Crockett to the Alamo
The famed American aviatrix secretly on the Nazi payroll
The Christmas bombing of Hanoi: A great victory or an epic blunder?
The Beast turned loose in New Orleans
Target Berlin: The first air-raid on the German capital
The History of Pie
The Carpathian Winter War, 1915
The Allies' billion-dollar secret: The proximity fuze of World War II
The fight at Cedar Creek was over. So why couldn't Union troops let their guard down?
The 10 worst fighter planes of World War II
'The duty to respect is different than the duty to protect.': A return to Normandy
The American Civil War through the eyes of the French
Smallpox blankets: myth or massacre?
A Soviet icebreaker spelled doom for Allied ships in the Pacific
Riches and ruin on the high road to the Klondike Gold Rush
The Royal Navy diver who mysteriously vanished
A first-hand account of the 1863 New York City draft riots
The Gurkhas of Nepal are some of the world's toughest fighters
Were U.S. pilots crash landing in Sweden on purpose?
The 3 feudal warlords who unified Japan
The sailor who fought at Pearl Harbor with his football pads on
Fighting for survival in Oregon during the Civil War
The WWII quest to save Norway's gold
A 34-day war over a patch of Amazonian Jungle
Western lawman Bass Reeves, the invincible man-hunter
The Battle of Surigao Strait: the last battleship duel
The American socialite who saved thousands from the Nazis