History Unplugged Podcast
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May 5, 2023
PowerDan
Feb 4, 2023
loved the content and flow, great podcast if you are interested in Roman history.
Brid
Nov 29, 2022
Excellent!
Dec 9, 2021
May 25, 2021
great stories and narration
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For history lovers who listen to podcasts, History Unplugged is the most comprehensive show of its kind. It's the only show that dedicates episodes to both interviewing experts and answering questions from its audience. First, it features a call-in show where you can ask our resident historian (Scott Rank, PhD) absolutely anything (What was it like to be a Turkish sultan with four wives and twelve concubines? If you were sent back in time, how would you kill Hitler?). Second, it features long-form interviews with best-selling authors who have written about everything. Topics include gruff World War II generals who flew with airmen on bombing raids, a war horse who gained the rank of sergeant, and presidents who gave their best speeches while drunk.
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Surviving Nearly 2 Years of Shipwreck on a South Pacific Island in the 1880s
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Dec 19, 2024 |
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How Did 450 Boers Defeat 15,000 Zulus at the Battle of Blood River in 1838?
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Dec 17, 2024 |
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Key Battles of the Barbary Wars, Episode 9: The End of North African Piracy and the Beginning of American Global Naval Hegemony
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Dec 12, 2024 |
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When Did Americans Become Americans? 1945, 1865, 1787, or 1776?
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Dec 10, 2024 |
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Key Battles of the Barbary Wars, Episode 8: The Second Barbary War (1815)
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Dec 05, 2024 |
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How Much of a Nation’s Fate is Bound Up In Its Geography?
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Dec 03, 2024 |
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Key Battles of the Barbary War, Episode 7: An Uneasy Peace -- The Interbellum Period and the War of 1812
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Nov 28, 2024 |
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The Scramble for More Aircraft Carriers in WW2 Meant Retrofitting Cruisers Into These Sorts of Ships
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Nov 26, 2024 |
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Key Battles of the Barbary War, Episode 6: Swashbuckling Ship Battles and 500-Mile Desert Marches Won the First Barbary War
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Nov 21, 2024 |
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Knights Could Still Be Found on English Battlefields in the 1640s. What Were They Doing There?
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Nov 19, 2024 |
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Key Battles of the Barbary Wars, Episode 5: The Destruction of the USS Philadelphia
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Nov 14, 2024 |
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The Jewish Confederates
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Nov 12, 2024 |
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Key Battles of the Barbary Wars, Episode 4: The First Barbary War (1801-05)
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Nov 07, 2024 |
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Was The Vietnam War Unwinnable?
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Nov 05, 2024 |
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Key Battles of the Barbary Wars, Episode 3: The Barbary States and Their 300-Year Reign of Mediterranean Piracy
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Oct 31, 2024 |
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What a Modern-Day Stonemason Can Tell Us About Hand Building 13th- Century Gothic Cathedrals and Carving Gargoyles
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Oct 29, 2024 |
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Key Battles of the Barbary Wars, Episode 2: The British Origins of the US Navy
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Oct 24, 2024 |
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The Conquest of Constantinople in 1453 Permanently Altered Siege Warfare, Middle Eastern Demographics, and Global Trade
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Oct 22, 2024 |
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Key Battles of the Barbary Wars, Episode 1: America Wanted to Take 1776 to the High Seas. North African Pirates Disagreed.
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Oct 17, 2024 |
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New Series Launches Tomorrow: Key Battles of the Barbary Wars (with James Early)
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Oct 15, 2024 |
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How Civil War Vets Continued Living Despite Being Double, Triple, or Even Quadruple Amputees
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Oct 15, 2024 |
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What’s the Difference Between a Pirate, a Privateer, and a Naval Officer? In the 1700s, Very Little
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Oct 10, 2024 |
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After Genghis Khan Conquered the Earth, Kublai Khan Conquered the Seas
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Oct 08, 2024 |
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Aesop’s Fables and Whether They Were Written By an Ugly, Enslaved “Barbarian” Who Discretely Mocked His Masters
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Oct 03, 2024 |
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"Thermopylae, the “300” Spartans, and the 26 Other Battles Fought There Over the Last 2,400 Years
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Oct 01, 2024 |
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The Last Emperor of Mexico: How a Habsburg Archduke Set Up a Kingdom in the New World in the 1860s
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Sep 26, 2024 |
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First-Hand Account of Hiroshima: Before, During, and After the Atomic Bomb Drop
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Sep 24, 2024 |
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America’s Professional Sports Grew From Farm Teams to Multi-Billion Dollar Franches Thanks to the Harlem Globetrotters Founder
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Sep 19, 2024 |
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Why Did Presidents Seem Incredibly Rich Yet Were Completely Broke Most of the Time?
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Sep 17, 2024 |
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A 1,300 History of the Middle East in Seven Religious Wars
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Sep 12, 2024 |
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When Good Ideas Were Bad Medicine: Why Vitamin C and Handwashing was Rejected by the Medical Establishment
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Sep 10, 2024 |
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Appleton Oaksmith: The Confederate Blockade Runner Who Became Lincoln’s Public Enemy #1
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Sep 05, 2024 |
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The Bible Triggered Two Communications Revolutions: The Codex and the Printing Press
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Sep 03, 2024 |
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Steering an Aerial Plywood Box Through Enemy Fire: The Glider Pilots of WW2
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Aug 29, 2024 |
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Why Few Presidents Had Beards, And Only One Had a Mullet
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Aug 27, 2024 |
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How Much Did Average Germans Know About the Holocaust During World War Two?
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Aug 22, 2024 |
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Carthage Lost the 2nd Punic War from Hannibal’s Logistics Failure and His Brother’s Bad Strategy
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Aug 20, 2024 |
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The Real Robin Hood May Have Been an Anglo-Saxon Hitman Who Killed an English King
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Aug 15, 2024 |
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Civilization Owes Its Existence to the Horse
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Aug 13, 2024 |
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Charles Cowlam: The Civil War Con-Man Who Received Presidential Pardons From Both Lincoln and Jefferson Davis
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Aug 08, 2024 |
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The Extent of Soviet Infiltration Into Depression and Cold War America
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Aug 06, 2024 |
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America’s First Crime Boss Was Female Immigrant-Turned-Criminal Mastermind
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Aug 01, 2024 |
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The War Under No-Man’s Land: Military Mining and Tunnel Combat in World War One
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Jul 30, 2024 |
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Eisenhower’s Logistics and Diplomatic Nightmare: Planning and Executing D-Day
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Jul 25, 2024 |
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53 Days on Starvation Island: How The US Marines Fought on Guadalcanal While Completely Surrounded
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Jul 23, 2024 |
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Taiwan’s 100-Year Rise From Japanese Colony to Monopoly Producer of Microchips
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Jul 18, 2024 |
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When States Rights Were Emancipatory and Federalism was Restrictive: The Interbellum Constitution of 1812-1865
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Jul 16, 2024 |
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Is America Going Through a Late Roman Moment of Its Own?
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Jul 11, 2024 |
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How Five Castaways Survived After Being Left for Dead on the Falklands in 1812
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Jul 09, 2024 |
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The Capetians: The Dynasty That Made Medieval France and Gave Us the Fleur-De-Lys
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Jul 04, 2024 |
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Why the Book is Humanity’s Most Important Invention
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Jul 02, 2024 |
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How and Why Humans Started Speaking
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Jun 27, 2024 |
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The American Detective Who Fought the Kaiser’s Spy Ring and an Anarchist Bombing Syndicate
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Jun 25, 2024 |
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Patton’s Tactician: Geoffrey Keys, “The Best Tactical Mind” of WWII
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Jun 20, 2024 |
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The Seven Cleopatras Who Ruled Egypt
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Jun 18, 2024 |
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Modern Black Ops Warfare Began with a British WW2 Operation to Steal Boats Off Africa’s Coast
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Jun 13, 2024 |
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The 7 Wonders of the Ancient World Were Colossal, Prone to Destruction, and Not All May Have Existed
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Jun 11, 2024 |
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Being the Ultimate Constitutional Originalist in 2024 Means Donning a Tricorn Hat and Applying to Practice Piracy
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Jun 06, 2024 |
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The Last Time Humanity Believed in Unstoppable Progress: Paris in the Belle Époque (1871-1914)
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Jun 04, 2024 |
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The Silk Road Travel Adventures of a 16th Century Mughal Princess and Her Massive Royal Retinue
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May 30, 2024 |
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The Months Leading up to the Civil War That Inflamed North-South Tensions from Animosity to Murderous Hatred
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May 28, 2024 |
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LSD’s Origins in Nazi Germany Brain-Washing Experiments, the CIA’s MKUltra Program, and the Dawn of the Psychedelic Age
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May 23, 2024 |
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How Duke Ellington and Other Jazzmen Became America’s First Globally Famous Musicians
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May 21, 2024 |
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Why America Could Have a Presidential Succession Crisis
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May 17, 2024 |
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Dunkirk from the German Perspective
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May 16, 2024 |
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The Global Manhunt For The Confederate Ship That Sunk Union Supply Vessels, From the Caribbean to the South Pacific
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May 14, 2024 |
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Which Statues Should We Take Down? How To Fairly Judge Historical Figures by Today’s Standards
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May 09, 2024 |
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The 160-Minute Race to Save the Titanic
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May 07, 2024 |
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Vikings Went Everywhere in the Middle Ages, From Baghdad to Constantinople to….. Oklahoma?
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May 02, 2024 |
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The 15-Hour Work Week Was Standard For Nearly All of History. What Happened?
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Apr 30, 2024 |
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Pancho Villa’s 1916 Raid on New Mexico: The Pearl Harbor Bombing of Its Time
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Apr 25, 2024 |
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A Radical Abolitionist Youth Movement Consumed America in 1860, Elected Lincoln, Then Disappeared Completely
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Apr 23, 2024 |
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Socrates May Have Been Executed For Revealing Secrets of Athens’ Religious Rituals
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Apr 18, 2024 |
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The Age of Discovery Through American-Indian Eyes
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Apr 16, 2024 |
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A Short History of the Sioux Wars (1862-1890)
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Apr 12, 2024 |
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The Deerfield Massacre: The Infamous 1704 Indian Raid That Left Hundreds Dead and More Captured
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Apr 11, 2024 |
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The Dangerous and Thrilling Life of a 19th-Century Whaler
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Apr 09, 2024 |
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Fiorello LaGuardia: Immigrant Son and Ellis Island Interpreter Who Became America’s Mayor
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Apr 04, 2024 |
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How the West Tried and Failed to Stop the Russian Revolution
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Apr 02, 2024 |
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Kings Were Inevitable and Untouchable Until They Suddenly Weren’t After a Few 1700s Revolutions
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Mar 28, 2024 |
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The Fall Of Japanese-held Hong Kong in January 1945
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Mar 26, 2024 |
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WW1 German Spies Infiltrated America and Attempted to Start a Race War
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Mar 21, 2024 |
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The Air Battles of the 1945 Eastern Front Forged Air Force Doctrines of the Cold War
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Mar 19, 2024 |
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The First Pre-Columbian Explorers to Reach North America
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Mar 15, 2024 |
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A Classicist Believes that Homer Directly Dictated the Iliad, and Was Also an Excellent Horseman
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Mar 14, 2024 |
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In 1860, Damascus Nearly Committed Genocide Against Christians. How Did it Pull Back?
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Mar 12, 2024 |
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Silk: The History of a Fabric That Was Civilization’s First Burial Cloth, Body Armor, and Much More
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Mar 07, 2024 |
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Frank Lloyd Wrong – When America’s Greatest Architect Created His Masterpiece While Written-Off as a Has-Been
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Mar 05, 2024 |
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Frederick Rutland, Britain’s Most Beloved WW1 Pilot, Became a Spy for Imperial Japan
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Feb 29, 2024 |
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The Rise and Fall of the Global Age of Piracy (17-19th Centuries)
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Feb 27, 2024 |
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A WW2 Polish Diplomat Forged Thousands of Paraguayan Passports to Save Jews from the Holocaust
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Feb 22, 2024 |
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Stories From Captives on The Last Slave Ship to America
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Feb 20, 2024 |
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Was Union Support in the Confederacy Actually Widespread? The Alabamans Who Fought for Sherman Say 'Yes'
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Feb 15, 2024 |
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The Heroes, Legends, and Liars Who Fought in WW2
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Feb 13, 2024 |
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Turning Okies Into New Dealers: How 1930s Technocrats Pushed Progressivism on Dust Bowl Refugees in Federal Farm Camps
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Feb 08, 2024 |
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Whistle-Stop Tours: When Trains Ruled American Presidential Elections
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Feb 06, 2024 |
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The Jewish Bankers Who Built Wall Street, Financed the American Century, and Spawned Countless Conspiracy Theories
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Feb 01, 2024 |
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The Ghost Army of World War 2
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Jan 30, 2024 |
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How Free Time Transformed From Strolls Through Aristocratic Gardens to Doomscrolling on TikTok
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Jan 25, 2024 |
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Everyday Life In a War Zone: How To Live For Years With Air Raid Sirens and Tanks in the Street
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Jan 23, 2024 |
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Behind the Bulldog: Winston Churchill's Public Image vs. Private Reality, Based on Those Who Knew Him
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Jan 18, 2024 |
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American Anarchy of the Early 1900s and The First U.S. War Against Domestic Extremists
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Jan 16, 2024 |
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Why Armies Stopped Burning Libraries and Weaponized Them Instead
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Jan 11, 2024 |
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Shining Light on the British Dark Ages: Anglo-Saxon Warfare, 400-1070
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Jan 09, 2024 |
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The Last Ship From Hamburg: How Russian Jews Escaped Death on the Eve of World War I
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Jan 04, 2024 |
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James Longstreet: The Confederate General Who Defied The South And Was Scapegoated for Its Loss
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Jan 02, 2024 |
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The Septuagint – It Really is Greek to Me
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Dec 30, 2023 |
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Benedict Arnold Was America’s Greatest Hero Before He Became Its Worst Villain
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Dec 28, 2023 |
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The Sacking of Rome in 410: Caused By Sclerotic Bureaucrats or Unassimilated Barbarians?
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Dec 26, 2023 |
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How Scientists Learned to Stop Deuling With Each Other (Literally) and Start Cooperating
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Dec 21, 2023 |
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Victory to Defeat: The British Army, 1918–40
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Dec 19, 2023 |
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The Most Interesting American: Personal Encounters, Quotations, and First-Hand Impressions of Theodore Roosevelt
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Dec 14, 2023 |
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The History of Equality, and How Close Different Civilizations Were to Attaining It
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Dec 12, 2023 |
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How the Catholic Church Maintained Civilization in the Lowest Points of the Middle Ages
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Dec 07, 2023 |
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Marty Glickman: The New York Sports Legend Who Lost His Spot in the 1936 Olympics For Being Jewish
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Dec 05, 2023 |
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Tecumseh and William Henry Harrison’s Struggle for the Destiny of a Nation
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Nov 30, 2023 |
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The Great Chicago Fire of 1871 and Rebuilding The Windy City Into a World Metropolis
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Nov 28, 2023 |
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Commemorating the 60th Anniversary of JFK's Assassination
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Nov 27, 2023 |
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Hitler, Stalin, and a Jewish Couple Who Met After Surviving Their Extermination Programs
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Nov 23, 2023 |
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Crown, Cloak, and Dagger: How the British Royal Family Spied on Others and Was Spied on in Turn
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Nov 21, 2023 |
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Joshua Chamberlain: From Stuttering Child to Civil War Hero to Polyglot Governor of Maine
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Nov 16, 2023 |
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White House Wild Child: How Alice Roosevelt Charmed Early 1900s America
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Nov 14, 2023 |
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The First Attempted Nazi Takeover of Germany: The Beer Hall Putsch of 1923
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Nov 09, 2023 |
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The Franco-Prussian War of 1870-1871 and the Making of Modern European Warfare
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Nov 07, 2023 |
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How Ancient Religions Affect What We Do and Don’t Eat in 2023
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Nov 02, 2023 |
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Life in Rome at the Very Height of Its Power
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Oct 31, 2023 |
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How Russians Survive the 900-Day-Long Siege of Leningrad
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Oct 26, 2023 |
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The Origins of the KKK and its First Death in the 1870s
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Oct 24, 2023 |
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A Nazi Defector Revealed Germany’s Infiltration in All Major Governments in His 1945 Memoir
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Oct 19, 2023 |
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From Orphan to RAF Hero
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Oct 17, 2023 |
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The Life and Tragic Death of R101, The World’s Largest Flying Machine
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Oct 12, 2023 |
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The Postwar Lives of WW2 Leaders, Both Axis and Allies
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Oct 11, 2023 |
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Why Robert E. Lee was America’s Most Admired General For Over a Century
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Oct 10, 2023 |
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Parthenon Roundtable: Which Person From History Deserves a Movie?
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Oct 05, 2023 |
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Charlie Chaplin vs. America
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Oct 03, 2023 |
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Joe McCarthy, the Hydrogen Bomb, and Ten Fateful Months That Kicked Off the Cold War
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Sep 28, 2023 |
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The SAS Began as a Lie but Became Britain’s Most Elite WW2 Commando Unit
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Sep 26, 2023 |
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Eyewitnesses of History Share Stories of the 1980 Miracle on Ice, Pablo Escobar, Jonestown, and Much More
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Sep 22, 2023 |
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In 1864, Nine Union Officers Escaped from a POW Camp and Trekked 300 Miles to the North
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Sep 21, 2023 |
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Teddy Roosevelt Nearly Died in a Cavalry Charge Against German Machine Guns in WW1
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Sep 19, 2023 |
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Beyond the Wall: What Life Was Really Like in East Germany
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Sep 14, 2023 |
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How An Unlikely Cohort of Black Nurses at a New York Sanatorium Helped Cure Tuberculosis
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Sep 12, 2023 |
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The Mississippi Was First Mapped by a Polyglot Priest and a College Dropout-Turned-Fur Trapper
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Sep 07, 2023 |
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The Eurasian Steppes Gave Us Atilla the Hun, Genghis Khan, Global Trade and Hybrid Camels
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Sep 05, 2023 |
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Decades of Turbulent Decolonization After WW2 Launched With The Dutch-Indonesian Wars of 1945-49
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Aug 31, 2023 |
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Could the Pacific War of WW2 Have Been Entirely Avoided if Not For U.S. Diplomats in Over Their Heads?
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Aug 29, 2023 |
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The WW2 Pacific Theatre of January-May 1942: When Japan Was Omnipotent and America Was a Fearful Underdog
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Aug 24, 2023 |
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The History of America’s Ice Obsession: Why The U.S. Loves Frozen Drinks and Ice Rinks
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Aug 22, 2023 |
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Introducing Mark Vinet's New Show: Historical Jesus
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Aug 20, 2023 |
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Leyte Gulf: The Largest Naval Battle in History and the Downfall of the Japanese Navy
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Aug 17, 2023 |
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Britain Controlled the Globe by Farming Out Colonial Governance to the East Indian Company and other Corporations
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Aug 15, 2023 |
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How the Monroe Doctrine Led to America Occupying Cuba, Panama, Hawaii, and Haiti
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Aug 10, 2023 |
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A 1943 Translation Blunder Saved FDR, Churchill, and Eisenhower From Being Assassinated
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Aug 08, 2023 |
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James Garfield – Overlooked for his Short Presidency – Was the Most Beloved Politician of Reconstruction
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Aug 03, 2023 |
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Road Tripping with Henry Ford and Thomas Edison Through Rural America In Beat-Up Model Ts
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Aug 01, 2023 |
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Did the South Lose the Entire Civil War Because One General Got Lost at the Battle of Gettysburg?
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Jul 27, 2023 |
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Alexander the Great’s Final Battle Nearly Killed Him with Drowning and War Elephants
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Jul 25, 2023 |
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In 1938, America Underwent a 7-Year Transformation From an Weak, Pacifist Nation to the Arsenal of Democracy
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Jul 20, 2023 |
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Exploring the Aztec Empire and Indigenous Mexico
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Jul 19, 2023 |
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The First War on Terror: How Europe Fought Anarchist Suicide Attacks, From 1850 to WW1
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Jul 18, 2023 |
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The Italian Squad: A Group of 1920s NYPD Immigrant Detectives Who Fought the Rise of the Mafia
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Jul 13, 2023 |
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Conspiracy Theories Haunt the Assassination of MLK 55 Years After His Death
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Jul 11, 2023 |
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Early 1800s Newspaperman William Hunter Was a British Soldier’s Son Who Built Early America
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Jul 06, 2023 |
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Long Before Seabiscuit, a Civil War-era Racehorse Smashed Records and Sired Thousands of Colts
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Jul 04, 2023 |
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How the 1910 Return of Halley's Comet (Almost) Destroyed Civilization
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Jun 29, 2023 |
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The Coronation of Charles III and the Meaning Behind His Vestments, 5-Pound Crown, and the "Sovereign Orb"
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Jun 27, 2023 |
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Why Did WW2 Advance Civil Rights When WW1 Reversed Them? Here's What WEB DuBois Said
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Jun 22, 2023 |
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What It Was Like to be a WW2 Paratrooper
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Jun 20, 2023 |
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Vlad the Impaler is the (Partial) Inspiration for Count Dracula
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Jun 15, 2023 |
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In the Premodern Era, Survival Meant Overcoming Earthquakes, Sieges, Global Cooling, Asteroid Strikes, and Cannibalism
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Jun 13, 2023 |
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The Time in 1943 That Eleanor Roosevelt Disappeared for 10 Days in the South Pacific
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Jun 08, 2023 |
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"Witches" Weren't Burned During The Middle Ages. That Actually Happened in the Renaissance Period.
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Jun 06, 2023 |
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Pandemics Cause Misery and Death, But They Also Created Agriculture and Put Humans on Top of the Food Chain
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Jun 01, 2023 |
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The 1920s Female Hungarian Murder Ring That Left 160 Dead
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May 30, 2023 |
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How a Flying Ace Survived 24 Days Lost at Sea on the Pacific
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May 25, 2023 |
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Civil War Barons: The Tycoons, Entrepreneurs, and Inventors and Visionaries Who Forged Victory and Shaped a Nation
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May 25, 2023 |
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The Forage War of 1777 Saw George Washington Launch Numerous Hit-and-Run Assaults on the British that Crippled the Army
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May 23, 2023 |
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Medieval Gender Roles Were Much More -- and Less -- Strict Than We Can Imagine
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May 18, 2023 |
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Firsthand Account of the Vietnam War from a "Tunnel Rat"
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May 17, 2023 |
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Why Do We Consider Assyria The Most Sadistically Violent Empire When Oftentimes It Wasn't?
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May 16, 2023 |
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Moral Panics and Mass Hysteria: The Dancing Plague, Salem Witch Trials, and The Tulip Market Bubble
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May 11, 2023 |
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A French Archeologist – Considered the Female Indiana Jones – Saved Dozens of Ancient Egyptian Temples From Flooding
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May 09, 2023 |
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Eugenics is Considered a Form of Scientific Fascism Today, But 100 Years Ago It Was Universally Popular
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May 04, 2023 |
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James Early Launches New Series: The Second World War in Europe
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May 03, 2023 |
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Light-Horse Harry Lee: A Founding Father's Journey From Glory to Ruin
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May 02, 2023 |
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Abraham Lincoln’s Religious Transformation Mirrored Larger Revival Trends of 1860s America
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Apr 27, 2023 |
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Augustine Built the Medieval World With the Help of His Mother, Concubine, Empress, and 10-Year-Old Fiancé
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Apr 25, 2023 |
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When Irish Vets of the American Civil War Invaded Canada in 1866
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Apr 20, 2023 |
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The Destructive Power of the Family, From Oedipus to the Godfather
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Apr 18, 2023 |
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A 15th-Century Islamic Scholar Has Surprisingly Contemporary Advice on Handling Pandemics
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Apr 13, 2023 |
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Andrew Jackson’s Victory in the Creek War Set the Stage for Southern Secession 50 Years Later
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Apr 11, 2023 |
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After Woodrow Wilson Suffered a Stroke, His Wife Edith Secretly Served As President for a Year
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Apr 06, 2023 |
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Victory Gardens Produced Nearly Half of America’s Fresh Produce in WW2. With Today's Supply-Chain Meltdowns, Are They Ready for a Comeback?
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Apr 04, 2023 |
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Despite the Spartans’ Last Stand at Thermopylae, They Are Still the Most Overrated Warriors of the Ancient World
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Mar 30, 2023 |
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The Real-Life King Arthur May Have Been a Roman Equestrian Who Served Marcus Aurelius
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Mar 28, 2023 |
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How Botany Was Weaponized in the 19th Century For Imperial Expansion of Plantations, And How Humble Gardeners Pushed Back
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Mar 23, 2023 |
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Nicolas Said was an Enslaved Africa Who Gain Emancipation, Traveled to Europe’s Royal Courts, and Fought in the Civil War
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Mar 21, 2023 |
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Pizza, Pinocchio and the Papacy: Finding the Very Best and Very Worst of Italy
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Mar 20, 2023 |
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This 1791 US Military Defeat Was 3x Worse than Little Bighorn And Nearly Destroyed the Army
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Mar 16, 2023 |
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The KGB Agent Who Lived Incognito in New York for 10 Years That Was Exchanged at the Bridge of Spies
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Mar 09, 2023 |
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How a Slave Coupled Escaped the Antebellum South in Disguise
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Mar 07, 2023 |
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Operation Torch: WW2’s first Paratrooper Missions Were On One-Way Flights With Drops Into Total Darkness
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Mar 02, 2023 |
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Anne Frank Was Only One of Thousands in Occupied Netherlands That Kept Diaries. Others Include Dutch Nazis, Farmers, and Resisters
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Feb 28, 2023 |
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How Shakespeare Impacted U.S. Presidents, from John Adams to JFK
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Feb 23, 2023 |
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The Unexpected Turbulence of the Eisenhower Years
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Feb 22, 2023 |
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A Union Spy's Mission to Stop the Confederates From Building a Secret Navy in Britain
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Feb 21, 2023 |
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WW2 Bombing Raids on Germany Were Bloodbaths for the Allies Until a Futurist Fighter Plane (the P-51) Was Developed
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Feb 16, 2023 |
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John Burgoyne: The British Playboy Who Lost the Revolutionary War
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Feb 14, 2023 |
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How Britain Stole Intelligence from Nazi High Command Via Their German Drinking Buddies
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Feb 09, 2023 |
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The Encyclopedia: One Book’s Quest to Hold the Sum of All Knowledge
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Feb 07, 2023 |
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How Much Can One Individual Alter History? More and Less Than You Think
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Feb 02, 2023 |
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The Mongol Storm: Making and Breaking Empires in the Medieval Near East
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Jan 31, 2023 |
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Weather Itself Was WW2's Fiercest Enemy: The Sinking of the USS Macaw
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Jan 26, 2023 |
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A Short History of War
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Jan 24, 2023 |
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Stories From 300 British Men Executed For Cowardice During WW1
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Jan 19, 2023 |
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The 1911 McNamara Bros. Murder Trial was the OJ Simpson/Johnny Depp v. Amber Heard Case of Its Time
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Jan 19, 2023 |
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Daniel Webster -- Perhaps History’s Greatest Orator -- Turned Virginians and New Yorkers Into Americans
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Jan 17, 2023 |
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How Ottoman Sultan Suleyman Conquered Most of Europe and the Mediterranean While Avoiding Assassination
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Jan 12, 2023 |
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Yoga Came to America via an Indian Monk at the 1893 Worlds Fair
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Jan 10, 2023 |
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A Modern-Day Knight Discusses What Knightly Service Means in 2023 (Essentially, Less Crusading and More Volunteering)
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Jan 05, 2023 |
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J. Edgar Hoover’s 50-Year Career of Blackmail, Entrapment, and Taking Down Communist Spies
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Jan 03, 2023 |
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The Irish Conquered the World With Plentiful Cheap Labor and Pints of Guinness
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Dec 29, 2022 |
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Two British Sisters – A Typist and a Romance Novelist – Save Jewish Artists from the Holocaust With a Clever Con Involving Opera
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Dec 27, 2022 |
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The Double Victory Campaign: Over 1 Million Black Americans Enlisted in WW2 To Fight Fascism Abroad and Win Equality at Home
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Dec 22, 2022 |
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Everyone Loves Free Markets. But This Meant One Thing To Romans And Something Completely Different to Milton Friedman
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Dec 20, 2022 |
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Failed Futures: Russia's Plans to Defeat the U.S. in the Cold War
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Dec 15, 2022 |
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Failed Futures: The Confederacy Had Colossal Plans After the Civil War to Spread Slavery Across the Globe And Become Fabulously Wealthy
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Dec 13, 2022 |
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Failed Futures: If Alexander The Great Hadn’t Died, He Might Have Conquered Europe, Circumnavigated Africa, and Built His Own Silk Road
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Dec 08, 2022 |
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Failed Futures: The Post-War Plans of Alexander the Great, the Confederacy, and the Soviet Union that Never Happened
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Dec 07, 2022 |
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Thomas Edison, Nikola Tesla, and the Other Brilliant But Eccentric Characters That Electrified Our World
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Dec 06, 2022 |
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Republicans Controlled 1920s America But Were Later Crushed By the New Deal Coalition. How Do These Realignments Happen?
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Dec 01, 2022 |
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F. Scott Fitzgerald was Every Bit the Alcoholic, Grandiose Delusional Dreamer as His Fictional Character Jay Gatsby
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Nov 29, 2022 |
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The Most Underrated People in History Include a U.S. President, Soviet Officer, and a Farmer Who Saved 2 Billion Lives
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Nov 24, 2022 |
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How a Founding Father and His Family Went From Slave Owners to Radical Abolitionists
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Nov 22, 2022 |
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Growing Up as the Daughter of WW2 Spies
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Nov 17, 2022 |
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Entrepreneurs in the Ancient World: From Neolithic Fashion Tycoons to Babylon’s 'Silicon Valley' Startup Founders
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Nov 15, 2022 |
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The Abolitionist Who Was Chaplain to Black Civil War Soldiers and Started a College Burned Down by the KKK
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Nov 10, 2022 |
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The Russian-Jewish Woman Who Voluntarily Interred Herself in a WW2 Japanese Internment Camp
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Nov 08, 2022 |
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In 1963, A Stuttering, Nebbish Magazine Editor Negotiated a Secret Deal Between JFK and Khrushchev, Averting Nuclear War
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Nov 03, 2022 |
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A Traumatized Civil War Vet -- Suffering Crippling Alcoholism and PTSD -- Spent 40 Years Wandering America as a Hobo
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Nov 01, 2022 |
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The Secret Role of Japanese Americans Who Fought in the WW2 Pacific Theatre
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Oct 27, 2022 |
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FDR’s Polio Made Him Wheelchair Bound, But Also an Incredible Orator and Strategic Mastermind
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Oct 25, 2022 |
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John Donne: The Genius Priest/Poet Who Saw Infinity and Triggered Stampedes At His Sermons
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Oct 20, 2022 |
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Sigmund Freud Deluded Himself Into Thinking The Nazis Weren’t A Threat Until It Was Nearly Too Late
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Oct 18, 2022 |
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The Most Important Diplomat in 1700s North America was a Cherokee Woman Who Saved Washington’s Life and Introduced Dairy to Her Tribe
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Oct 13, 2022 |
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Do Racial Preferences in U.S. College Admissions Process Date Back to Ivy League Attempts to Limit Jewish Enrollment?
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Oct 11, 2022 |
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Uber Succeed in the US but Failed in the UK and China Because of Jefferson and Hamilton’s Fight Over State Licensing
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Oct 06, 2022 |
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James Early Explains Why the War of 1812 Turned America Into an Expansionist Military Power
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Sep 29, 2022 |
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How to Escape From a Nazi Prison Fortress
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Sep 27, 2022 |
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Thomas Jefferson’s European Travel Guide Includes Architectural Sketches, Farming Tips, and an Astronomical Wine Expense Report
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Sep 22, 2022 |
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The Michigan Politician Who Created a Proto-New Deal, Defeated the KKK in Court, and Defended Interred Japanese-Americans
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Sep 20, 2022 |
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The Rag-Tag Art Renegades that Brought Picasso and Modernist Art to the United States
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Sep 15, 2022 |
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The Oldest Stories of King Arthur Have Female Warriors, Black Knights, and Whole Lot of Supernatural Encounters
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Sep 13, 2022 |
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Steve Guerra on Freemasonry, The Catholic Church, and the Modern World
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Sep 09, 2022 |
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Mata Hari Was Either the World’s Greatest Female Spy or a WWI Exotic Dancer Way In Over Her Head
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Sep 08, 2022 |
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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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Sep 06, 2022 |
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How America Chooses to Remember Itself: 200 Years of U.S. Museums, and Presenting the Civil War, Spanish Flu, and the Culture Wars
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Sep 01, 2022 |
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The Many Ways To Die While Building an Aircraft Carrier
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Aug 30, 2022 |
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The Divorce Colony: Why Women Fled to South Dakota in the 1880s to End Their Troubled Marriages
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Aug 25, 2022 |
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America's Universal Education System Exists From a Coalition of Progressives, the Know-Nothing Party, and the Ku Klux Klan
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Aug 23, 2022 |
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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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Aug 18, 2022 |
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Josie Underwood: The Civil War-Era Socialite Who Owned Slaves, Hated Lincoln, and Loved the Union
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Aug 16, 2022 |
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The American Revolution Would Have Been Lost Without a Ragtag Fleet of Thousands of Privateers
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Aug 11, 2022 |
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Gen. George Marshall and Henry Stimson Built America’s WW2 War Machine and Created the Postwar Global Order
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Aug 09, 2022 |
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Bruce Lee Became a Global Celebrity by Embodying 400 Years of Western-Chinese Cultural Trade
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Aug 04, 2022 |
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John McWhorter Describes Human Language's 20,000-Year Journey from Proto-Sumerian to Ebonics
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Aug 02, 2022 |
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No Supply Chain Was More Complicated Than the Allies’ During WW2. How Did They Maintain It?
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Jul 28, 2022 |
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New Yorkers Feared Jack the Ripper Invaded the City in 1891 After a Prostitute Was Found Brutally Murdered
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Jul 26, 2022 |
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When a Soldier’s Bravery is So Great His Comrades Fear Him: The Story of Band of Brothers’ Ronald “Killer “ Spiers
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Jul 21, 2022 |
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Did Pope Pius XII Collaborate With the Nazis? This Historian Viewed the Vatican Archives and Has the Answer
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Jul 19, 2022 |
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Eating Roman Mouse-on-a-Stick, Shakespeare's Tavern Bread, and Other Forgotten Culinary "Treats" From the Past
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Jul 14, 2022 |
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Beyond Camelot: What It Was Like to Live Through the JFK Era
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Jul 12, 2022 |
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After Custer’s Last Stand, Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse Fought an Impossible Battle To Preserve the Sioux Nation
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Jul 07, 2022 |
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Introducing the Vlogging Through History Podcast
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Jul 06, 2022 |
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How a WW2 Soldier Persevered Through Concentration Camps, Death Marches, and Starvation
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Jul 05, 2022 |
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Did Thomas Edison Murder The Real Inventor of the Motion Picture Camera and Steal His Invention?
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Jun 30, 2022 |
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Cars Are the Id of the Countries that Built Them. What Do The Model T and Pontiac Aztek Tell Us About the US?
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Jun 28, 2022 |
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Making Sense of America’s Worst Moments: Jon Meacham on Understanding -- But Not Excusing -- Slavery and the Indian Removal Act
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Jun 23, 2022 |
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Parthenon Roundtable: Which Single Event Would You Eliminate From History
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Jun 21, 2022 |
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The Worst Movie Ever Made Cast John Wayne as Genghis Khan and Exposed the Cast to Nuclear Radiation
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Jun 16, 2022 |
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The Arsenal of Democracy: How the Revolver and Repeating Rifle Democratized Gun Ownership and Armed the United States
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Jun 14, 2022 |
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Seeking Hitler’s Horses: How a WW2 Infantryman Rescued Equines Caught Up Germany’s “Super Horse” Breeding Program
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Jun 09, 2022 |
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Almost President: Stephen Douglas, Thomas Dewey, and Other Failed Candidates That Would’ve Altered History Most by Winning
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Jun 07, 2022 |
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4 Foreign Correspondents Spent the 30s Warning About European Fascism. Why Didn't More Listen?
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Jun 02, 2022 |
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In 1970, a Cyclone Killed 500,000 in Pakistan, Triggered a Genocide, and Nearly Started a Nuclear War.
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May 31, 2022 |
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Nazi Billionaires: The Business Dynasties That Built Hitler’s War Machine and Still Profit Today
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May 26, 2022 |
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War Isn’t the Natural State of Human Affairs: It Shouldn’t Happen, and Most of the Time It Doesn't.
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May 24, 2022 |
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Western Religion of the 19th Century Competed with Darwin and Marx By Dabbling in Hinduism, Occultism, and Wellness
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May 19, 2022 |
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The 1541 Spanish Expedition Down the Amazon to Find the Imaginary “El Dorado” and Valley of Cinnamon
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May 17, 2022 |
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Lost Airmen: The Epic Rescue of WWII U.S. Bomber Crews Stranded in the Yugoslavian Mountains
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May 12, 2022 |
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The Way that Lincoln Financed the Civil War Led to Transcontinental Railroads, Public Colleges, the Homestead Act, and Income Tax
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May 10, 2022 |
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Lt. Sonia Vagliano Helped Liberate Concentration Camp Victims, Repatriate WW2 Refugees, All While Avoiding Landmines and Kidnapping
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May 05, 2022 |
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Little Slaughterhouse on the Prairie: The Serial Killer Family Who Terrorized 1870s Kansas
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May 03, 2022 |
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Benjamin Franklin – In the 200 Years After His Death – Funded New Businesses, Supported Boston and Philadelphia, and Play Pranks
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Apr 28, 2022 |
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The Rise and Fall of 1970s Mob-Run Chicago
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Apr 26, 2022 |
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An Antebellum-Era Irish Maid’s Incredible Determination and Business Savvy Led to the Creation of the Kennedy Dynasty
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Apr 21, 2022 |
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Six Kentucky Nuns Founded a Hospital in 1940s War-Torn India That Saved Hundreds of Thousands of Lives
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Apr 19, 2022 |
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A 1719 Prison Ship Transported Dozens of Women Accused of Sex Crimes to New Orleans. They Became the Founding Mothers of the Gulf
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Apr 14, 2022 |
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Introducing the Eyewitness History Podcast
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Apr 13, 2022 |
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The Global Manhunt For The Confederate Ship That Sunk Union Supply Vessels, From the Caribbean to the South Pacific
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Apr 12, 2022 |
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Most Historians Consider Warren G. Harding America’s Worst President. This One Thinks He Belongs in the Top 10
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Apr 07, 2022 |
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Why the Information Revolution Would Happened in Europe Even Without the Printing Press
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Apr 05, 2022 |
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Deeply-Held Religious Beliefs Can’t Be Easily Eradicated. That’s Why Stalin Co-Opted Russian Orthodoxy As a Ruler.
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Mar 31, 2022 |
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What “Dear John” Letters Tell Us About the Fragility of Wartime Relationships…and How They Unexpectedly Lead to Greater Camaraderie
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Mar 29, 2022 |
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Cassie Chadwick Scammed the Gilded Age Elite Out of Millions and Convinced The World She Was Andrew Carnegie’s Bastard Daughter
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Mar 24, 2022 |
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How China Changed Its Language From Archaic Confucian Bureaucracy to the Lingua Franca of Globalization
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Mar 21, 2022 |
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Which Statues Should We Take Down? How To Fairly Judge Historical Figures by Today’s Standards
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Mar 17, 2022 |
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On the Eve of World War One, Woodrow Wilson, Teddy Roosevelt, and the Suffragette Jane Addams Sought to Prevent Armageddon
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Mar 15, 2022 |
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A Union Woman in Civil War Kentucky
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Mar 10, 2022 |
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Does Waging War Viciously Actually Save Lives? A Look at the WW2 Decisions to Firebomb Tokyo and Drop Atomic Bombs
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Mar 08, 2022 |
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Successes and Failures of The Last Century of U.S. Presidents, From Harding to Trump
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Mar 03, 2022 |
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Teaser: Key Battles of WW2 Pacific - The Rise of Imperial Japan
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Mar 02, 2022 |
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Mutiny on the Rising Sun: A Tragic Tale of Slavery, Smuggling, and Chocolate
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Mar 01, 2022 |
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A Real-Life French Serial Killer Inspired Dostoyevsky to Write “Crime and Punishment”
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Feb 24, 2022 |
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The NAACP Leader Who Passed As White, Infiltrated Lynching Rings, Architected ‘Brown v. Board of Education’, and Ended His Life in Scandal
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Feb 22, 2022 |
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How Clocks Created Earth’s First Global Supply Chain in the 1700s – And Keep GPS Alive Today
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Feb 17, 2022 |
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Parthenon Roundtable: Which Person From History Would You Keep From Dying Too Soon? (And You Can’t Choose JFK)
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Feb 15, 2022 |
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Assassination Attempts of U.S. President – From JFK to Joe Biden
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Feb 10, 2022 |
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No, the Ancient Greeks Weren’t Color Blind. They Justed Had Unique Ways to Describe the World
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Feb 08, 2022 |
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The Severing Of a Sea Captain’s Ear Led to a Global War Between Spain and Britain in the 1740s
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Feb 03, 2022 |
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Future History: The Story Behind '2001: A Space Odyssey'
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Feb 02, 2022 |
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The Last King of America: George III, His Battles With Madness, and Being a Thoroughly Underrated Monarch
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Feb 01, 2022 |
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Dragons Exist In Nearly Every Culture’s Mythology As a Mirror of Their Fears. What Are Ours?
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Jan 27, 2022 |
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Harry Guggenheim: The Elon Musk of the Gilded Age
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Jan 25, 2022 |
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Are Cities Humanity’s Greatest Invention or an Incubator of Disease, Crime, and Horrific Exploitation?
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Jan 20, 2022 |
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Revolutionary Monsters: Why Lenin, Mao, Castro, and Others Turned Liberation into Tyranny
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Jan 18, 2022 |
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Robert E. Lee Was America’s Most Gallant, Decorated Traitor
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Jan 13, 2022 |
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Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, and the Contentious Path to Emancipation
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Jan 11, 2022 |
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Henry Kissinger Used Cold Realpolitik to Create Order in the Middle East. Did it Work?
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Jan 06, 2022 |
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Europe’s Babylon: 16th-Century Antwerp was a City of Wealth, Vice, Heresy, and Freedom
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Jan 04, 2022 |
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Parthenon Podcast Roundtable: Who Would You Eliminate From History? (And No, You Can’t Choose Hitler)
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Jan 01, 2022 |
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WASPs: The Splendors and Miseries of an American Aristocracy
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Dec 30, 2021 |
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The Untold History of Earth: Hobbits Really Existed, Dinosaurs Had Feathers, and Yetis Roamed Our Planet
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Dec 28, 2021 |
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George Washington’s 1789 Road Trip Across the New United States
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Dec 23, 2021 |
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The Allied Race to Retake Paris in 1945 Before the Nazis Could Destroy It
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Dec 21, 2021 |
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The Son of Mississippi Slaves Who Fled to Russia and Brought Jazz to Istanbul
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Dec 16, 2021 |
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What the Middle Ages Can Teach Us About Pandemics, Mass Migration, and Tech Disruption
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Dec 14, 2021 |
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Marine Raiders: The WW2 Special Forces Who Conquered Pacific Islands One Knife Fight At a Time
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Dec 09, 2021 |
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The Boer Wars: The South African Conflict That Created Winston Churchill and (Possibly) Concentration Camps
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Dec 07, 2021 |
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Kim Philby: The KGB Mole Who Nearly Became the Leader of Britain’s MI6
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Dec 02, 2021 |
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George Washington: The First American Action Hero
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Dec 01, 2021 |
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Why the 1619 Project is Dangerous and Should Be Totally Rejected
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Nov 30, 2021 |
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Rebroadcast: Turkey is Both a Bird and a Country. Which Came First?
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Nov 25, 2021 |
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The 160-Minute Race to Save the Titanic
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Nov 23, 2021 |
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Age of Discovery 2.0, Part 6: Will SpaceX Control Mars Like the British East India Company Controlled the Indian Subcontinent?
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Nov 18, 2021 |
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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
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Nov 16, 2021 |
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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
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Nov 11, 2021 |
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Age of Discovery 2.0, Part 3: Space Colonization Will Reinvigorate Humanity More Than the New World Discovery 500 Years Ago
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Nov 09, 2021 |
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Age of Discovery 2.0, Part 2: America’s New Destiny in Space, With Glenn Reynolds
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Nov 04, 2021 |
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Welcome to the Age of Discovery 2.0
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Nov 02, 2021 |
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American’s Political Polarization Traces Back to 18th-Century Enlightenment Factions That Never Resolved Their Differences
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Oct 28, 2021 |
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The Iowa Boy Who Loved Baseball, Leaked Atomic Secrets to the USSR, and Jump Started the Cold War
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Oct 26, 2021 |
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Winston Churchill: Political Master, Military Commander
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Oct 21, 2021 |
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How This Union General Who Executed Guerrillas and Imprisoned Political Foes Became the Most Hated Man in Kentucky
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Oct 21, 2021 |
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The Escape of Jack the Ripper: History’s Most Infamous Serial Killer, and the Cover-up to Protect His Identity
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Oct 19, 2021 |
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Two Revolutions and the Constitution
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Oct 14, 2021 |
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Alfred Hubbard Was a 1920s Inventor, Bootlegger, and Psychedelic Pioneer Who Became the Patron Saint of Silicon Valley
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Oct 12, 2021 |
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The Normans: A History of Conquest
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Oct 07, 2021 |
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Electric City: Ford and Edison’s Vision of Creating a Steampunk Utopia
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Oct 05, 2021 |
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Half Lives: The Unlikely History of Radium
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Sep 30, 2021 |
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An Alternate History of the Lincoln Assassination Plot
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Sep 28, 2021 |
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What if Tsarist Russia Hadn’t Gone Communist? Revolutionaries Like Boris Savinkov Tried to Accomplish This
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Sep 23, 2021 |
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Reviving Lost WW2 Stories With An M1 Rifle
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Sep 21, 2021 |
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Hollywood Hates History: El Cid (1961)
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Sep 16, 2021 |
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Hollywood Hates History: The Messenger – The Story of Joan of Arc (1999)
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Sep 14, 2021 |
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American Dunkirk – How Half a Million New Yorkers Were Evacuated from Manhattan Island on 9/11
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Sep 09, 2021 |
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Columbus of the Pacific: The Forgotten Portuguese Sailor Who Opened Up Earth’s Largest Ocean in 1564
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Sep 07, 2021 |
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Brown Brothers Harriman: The Shadowy Investment Bank That Built America’s Financial System
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Sep 02, 2021 |
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Drunk: How We Singed, Danced, and Stumbled Our Ways to Civilization
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Aug 31, 2021 |
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Teaser: Key Battles of WW2 Pacific - Guadalcanal, Part 1
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Aug 27, 2021 |
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Vikings Went Everywhere in the Middle Ages, From Baghdad to Constantinople to….. Oklahoma?
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Aug 26, 2021 |
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A Small Island in the English Channel Was the Birthplace of the Russian Revolution
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Aug 24, 2021 |
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The Best-Selling Books in American History Include Self-Help Shams and ‘7 Habits of Highly Effective People’
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Aug 19, 2021 |
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The Common Factors That Cause Societies To Die, From Viking Greenland to Modern Somalia
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Aug 17, 2021 |
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America Won the Space Race Because of a Horrible Accident That Killed 3 Astronauts
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Aug 12, 2021 |
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The Daring WW1 Prison Break That Required an Ouija Board and a Life-or-Death Ruse
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Aug 10, 2021 |
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How the Broken Marriage of Abraham and Mary Todd Lincoln Saved the Civil War
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Aug 05, 2021 |
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The Roman Brexit: How Civilization Collapsed in Britain After the Legions Withdrew in 409 AD
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Aug 03, 2021 |
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The Dive: The Untold Story of the World's Deepest Submarine Rescue
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Jul 29, 2021 |
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The Civil War Battle That Resembled Dante’s Inferno
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Jul 27, 2021 |
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X-Troop: The Secret Jewish Commandos of World War II
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Jul 22, 2021 |
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The 1919 Tour de France That Took Place in the Bombed-Out Ruins of WW1
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Jul 20, 2021 |
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The Apollo Program Had a Surprising Close Relationship With 1960s Counterculture
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Jul 15, 2021 |
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Travelers & Explorers, Epilogue – What is the Point of Exploration in the 21st Century?
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Jul 13, 2021 |
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Travelers and Explorers, Part 8: Ernest Shackleton's Frozen March at the Bottom of the World
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Jul 08, 2021 |
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Travelers and Explorers, Part 7: Sir Henry Stanley (1841-1904) – “Dr. Livingstone, I Presume?”
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Jul 06, 2021 |
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Travelers and Explorers, Part 6: James Cook (1728-1797), England's Poseidon
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Jul 01, 2021 |
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Travelers and Explorers, Part 5: Ferdinand Magellan (1480-1521) and His Terrifying Voyage Across an Endless Ocean
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Jun 29, 2021 |
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Announcement: “Beyond the Big Screen” – a New Movie Podcast – Launches Next Week
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Jun 28, 2021 |
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Travelers and Explorers, Part 4: Zheng He -- the Admiral Who Turned the Indian Ocean Into a Chinese Lake
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Jun 24, 2021 |
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Travelers and Explorers, Part 3: Ibn Battuta (1304-1368) -- The Everlasting Pilgrim
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Jun 22, 2021 |
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Travelers and Explorers, Part 2: Marco Polo (1254-1324) -- Opening the Door to the East
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Jun 17, 2021 |
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Explorers Who Pushed the Boundary of the Known World, Part 1: Rabban Bar Sauma (1220-1294) – the Reverse Marco Polo
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Jun 15, 2021 |
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What Egyptian Crocodile Mummies Tell us About Life, Death, and Taxes Thousands of Years Ago
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Jun 10, 2021 |
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The 1911 Meeting of Albert Einstein and Marie Curie that Changed Physics Forever
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Jun 08, 2021 |
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Pancho Villa’s 1916 Raid on New Mexico: The Pearl Harbor Bombing of Its Time
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Jun 03, 2021 |
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How a Member of Easy Company’s “Band of Brothers” Found an Unlikely Friendship with a Former Nazi
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Jun 01, 2021 |
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U.S. Presidents and Their 160-Year Love/Hate Relationship With the Camera
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May 27, 2021 |
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Announcement: Steve Guerra’s History of the Papacy Podcast is Joining Forces with History Unplugged – Free Giveaway!
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May 26, 2021 |
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Lincolnomics: How President Lincoln Constructed the Great American Economy
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May 25, 2021 |
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The Gulf of Time Separating You From Napoleon III is Bridged By One Brandy Bottle
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May 20, 2021 |
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The Japanese-Americans Who Fought Nazis in Europe
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May 18, 2021 |
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Meet the Four Congressmen Who Won the Civil War and Shaped Reconstruction
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May 13, 2021 |
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Madhouse at the End of the Earth: The Belgica’s 1897 Journey into the Dark Antarctic Night
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May 11, 2021 |
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Teaser: Key Battles of WW2 Pacific - The Rise Of Imperial Japan
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May 07, 2021 |
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Gold Fever and Disaster in the Great Klondike Stampede of 1897-98.
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May 06, 2021 |
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From the River to the Sea: The Railroad War of the 1870s that Made the West
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May 04, 2021 |
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Lady Bird Johnson: The Most Underestimated – and Most Powerful? – First Lady of the 20th Century
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Apr 29, 2021 |
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American Espionage Was Born in the Dark Taverns of Philadelphia
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Apr 27, 2021 |
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The Jazz Age Tale of America’s First Gangster Couple, Margaret and Richard Whittemore
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Apr 22, 2021 |
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Announcement: Next Week James Early and I Launch "Key Battles of the Pacific Theatre (WW2)"
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Apr 21, 2021 |
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For Centuries, America’s Best Friend in the Middle East Was…Iran?
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Apr 20, 2021 |
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George Washington Became Great Because He Spent Years in the Political Wilderness as a Washed-Up Has-Been
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Apr 15, 2021 |
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The Nazi’s Granddaughter -- Discovering War Crimes in Your Family's Past
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Apr 13, 2021 |
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The 15-Hour Work Week Was Standard For Nearly All of History. What Happened?
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Apr 08, 2021 |
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Low Troop Morale Can Literally Destroy a Nation. That’s Why the USO Was Formed in 1941.
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Apr 06, 2021 |
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Defining Treason – Why Are Founding Fathers Heroes But Confederate Leaders Not?
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Apr 01, 2021 |
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“Fire Eaters” of the Confederacy: The Foot Soldiers of the South Who Made Secession Possible
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Mar 30, 2021 |
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Witnessing The Final Destruction of Hitler’s War Machine
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Mar 25, 2021 |
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The USS Plunkett: The Unsinkable Navy Destroyer That Fought at Manzio, D-Day, and Southern France
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Mar 23, 2021 |
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How Ex-Slaves Built New Lives for Themselves – and America – After the Civil War
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Mar 18, 2021 |
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George Washington’s Final (And Most Important?) Battle Was Uniting America By Building a New Capital
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Mar 16, 2021 |
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Lessons Companies Should Learn From Mobsters' Business Practices
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Mar 11, 2021 |
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All of Human History, Civilization, and Culture Converge in One Place: Turkish Food
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Mar 09, 2021 |
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The Forgotten Fourteenth Colony of British North America
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Mar 04, 2021 |
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How to Recover Family Treasure The Nazis Plundered in the 1940s
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Mar 02, 2021 |
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How 9 Former Slaves Started a Proto University in Alabama in 1867
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Feb 25, 2021 |
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The Pen or the Sword? How Lincoln and John Brown Disagreed on Achieving Emancipation
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Feb 23, 2021 |
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How States Got Their Shapes
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Feb 18, 2021 |
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Great News! Frequent Guest James Early Has Launched His Own Podcast - Key Battles of American History.
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Feb 17, 2021 |
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When to Let the Past Die: The Case of Obersalzberg and Denazification
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Feb 16, 2021 |
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The Mountain Man Was Once Considered To Be The Purest Distillation of the American Spirit
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Feb 11, 2021 |
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Sally Rand Was America's Sex Symbol, From the Roaring 20s to the Apollo Era
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Feb 09, 2021 |
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If the 1700s American Fur Trade Had Turned Out Differently, Californians Would Be Speaking Russian Today
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Feb 04, 2021 |
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The Most Giant Leap in the Evolution of Modern Warfare was...the Jeep?
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Feb 02, 2021 |
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Abraham Lincoln Survived and Thrived in the Anarchy of Antebellum America
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Jan 28, 2021 |
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The Cuban Missile Crisis Was Horrifyling Close to Becoming a Nuclear Holocaust
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Jan 26, 2021 |
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Atomic Bombs, Ancient Women Warriors, and Alien Conspiracy Theories of WW2
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Jan 21, 2021 |
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How Ancient Egypt Lives On
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Jan 19, 2021 |
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In 1813, a Shawnee "Prophet" Launched a War to Conquer the Great Lakes Region
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Jan 14, 2021 |
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Millions Were Left Homeless After WW2. What Happened To Those Who Were Permanently Exiled?
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Jan 12, 2021 |
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The Mafia Was the Glue That Held Entire American Cities Together in the 20th Century
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Jan 07, 2021 |
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Iron Empires: Robber Barons, Railroads, and the Making of Modern America
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Jan 05, 2021 |
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An Army Without a Country: Prussia’s Cult of the Military and the Road to World War One
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Dec 31, 2020 |
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William Miller Predicted Christ’s Return in 1844. Here's What Happened After His Prophecy Failed
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Dec 29, 2020 |
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This Civil War-Era Luke Skywalker Destroyed an Ironclad Death Star
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Dec 24, 2020 |
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The Greek Triple Agent: Alcibiades, The Strategist Who Fought On 3 Sides of the Peloponnesian War
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Dec 22, 2020 |
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America’s Worst President Can Teach Us Much About Writing Raunchy Poetry and Dying Suspiciously
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Dec 17, 2020 |
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The Eternal Legacy of the First World War
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Dec 15, 2020 |
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The Sad Afterlives of WW1's Leaders: The Humbling (and Exiling) of Generals, Emperors, and Sultans
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Dec 10, 2020 |
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The 1919 Paris Peace Conference Laid The First Bricks of the Road to World War Two
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Dec 08, 2020 |
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WW1 Ends with Armistice: The Moment of Silence That Sounded Like the Voice of God
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Dec 03, 2020 |
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The 1918 Battle of Meggido Shattered the Ottoman Empire and Created the Modern Middle East
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Dec 01, 2020 |
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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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Nov 26, 2020 |
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Thanksgiving Owes Its Existence To The 19th Century's Biggest Social Media Influencer
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Nov 24, 2020 |
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The Empire Strikes Back: Germany's Final Push to Win WW1 in Spring 1918
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Nov 19, 2020 |
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Tank Warfare--How Military Tech Took a Quantum Leap at the Battle of Cambrai (1917)
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Nov 17, 2020 |
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The Yanks Are Coming -- America Enters World War One
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Nov 12, 2020 |
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The Slog of War -- the Passchendaele Campaign of 1917
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Nov 10, 2020 |
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Teaser: Forging a President, Part 6: The Newly-Minted Cowboy
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Nov 06, 2020 |
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The Russian Revolutions of 1917-1923--A Bigger Threat Than the Kaiser?
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Nov 05, 2020 |
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The Election of 1800 Was Worse Than 2020 in Every Way Imaginable
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Nov 03, 2020 |
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Why WW1 Was the Graveyard of Empires (Russian, Ottoman, Austro-Hungarian)
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Oct 29, 2020 |
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The Battle of the Somme Caused 1 Million Casualties But Was a Turning Point for WW1
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Oct 27, 2020 |
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The Flying Aces of World War One
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Oct 22, 2020 |
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The Brusilov Offensive: Russia's Mortal Blow to Austria-Hungary
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Oct 20, 2020 |
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Teaser: Forging a President, Part 5: Four-Eyes
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Oct 16, 2020 |
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WW1 At Sea: The Battle of Jutland (1916)
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Oct 15, 2020 |
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Verdun - The 299-Day Battle That Killed 300K Soldiers And Still Scars The Earth With Unexploded Shells
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Oct 13, 2020 |
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1915: World War One's Year of Poison Gas, Genocide, and Millions of Refugees
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Oct 08, 2020 |
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The Battle of Gallipoli (1915) How Ataturk and the Ottomans Hurled the Allies (Including Winston Churchill) Into the Sea
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Oct 06, 2020 |
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Teaser: Forging a President, Part 4, Man vs. Beast
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Oct 02, 2020 |
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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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Oct 01, 2020 |
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The Average WW1 Soldier Was a 110-Pound Villager Who Suffered Disease, Hunger, and PTSD
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Sep 29, 2020 |
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Germany's Plans For Total French Defeat in 1914 Failed at the Battle of the Marne
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Sep 24, 2020 |
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Germany So Completely Annihilated Russia At the WW1 Battle of Tannenberg That A Russian General Committed Suicide
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Sep 22, 2020 |
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Teaser: Forging a President, Part 3, Teddy Roosevelt's First Buffalo Hunt
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Sep 18, 2020 |
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Europe's Pre-WW1 Alliances Were a Doomsday Machine That Pulled the Entire Continent Into War
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Sep 17, 2020 |
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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
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Sep 15, 2020 |
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2 Announcements: Key Battles of WW1 Begins Soon; History Unplugged Launches Youtube Channel
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Sep 11, 2020 |
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Dreams of India's Vast Wealth Made Everyone From Ancient Greeks to Renaissance Portuguese Risk Death To Reach It
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Sep 10, 2020 |
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Why 1776 -- Not 1619 -- Matters More Than Ever in 2020
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Sep 03, 2020 |
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A Jewish Family Couldn’t Flee Nazi Germany. So They Wrote Letters to Strangers in America Asking For Help
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Sep 01, 2020 |
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Teaser: Forging a President, Part 2
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Aug 28, 2020 |
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The Fall of Constantinople in 1453 Ended the European Middle Ages and Sealed the Rise of the Ottomans
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Aug 27, 2020 |
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George Washington's Dream of Eternal Harmony Between White Settlers and Indians, and Why It Failed
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Aug 25, 2020 |
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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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Aug 20, 2020 |
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God's Shadow: Why A 16th-Century Ottoman Sultan Created the Modern World
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Aug 18, 2020 |
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Teaser: Forging a President, Part 1
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Aug 14, 2020 |
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Making a Book in the Middle Ages Took Years and Was Literally Physical Torture
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Aug 13, 2020 |
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Martha Dodd: The American Soviet Spy and Hitler’s Would-Be Lover Who Dreamed of a Communist World
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Aug 11, 2020 |
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America’s First Black Fighter Pilot Was Also a Boxer, Night Club Owner, and WW2 Spy in France
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Aug 06, 2020 |
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Sam Colt's Six-Shooter Launched The American Industrial Revolution and Sped Western Settlement
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Aug 04, 2020 |
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The Nazi Spy Ring in America: The Third Reich's Agents, the FBI, and the Case That Stirred the Nation
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Jul 30, 2020 |
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In 1200 AD, This Indian City on the Mississippi Was Larger Than London And On the Verge Of Starting an Advanced Civilization
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Jul 28, 2020 |
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America's Hub of Global Trade and Culture Was and Is....the Midwest?
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Jul 23, 2020 |
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How Hollywood First Depicted the Atomic Bomb and the Manhattan Project
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Jul 21, 2020 |
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A Time of Perfect American National Unity is a Myth, But Some US Origin Stories Are Better Than Others
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Jul 16, 2020 |
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40 Thieves on Saipan: The Elite Marine Scout-Snipers in One of WWII’s Bloodiest Battles
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Jul 14, 2020 |
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George Washington’s Team of Rivals: How His Cabinet Forefathered One of America’s Most Powerful Institutions
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Jul 09, 2020 |
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Lessons From James Monroe, Who Defeated a Pandemic and Overcame Partisanship
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Jul 07, 2020 |
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Empires of the Sky: Zeppelins, Airplanes, and Two Men’s Epic Duel to Rule the World
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Jul 02, 2020 |
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Nazis Nearly Assassinated Stalin, Churchill, and FDR in 1943. What If They Had Succeeded?
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Jun 30, 2020 |
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In the 1850s, A Mormon Renegade Started a Massive Pirate Colony in Michigan
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Jun 25, 2020 |
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The Good Assassin: A Mossad Agent's Hunt For WW2’s “Butcher of Latvia”
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Jun 23, 2020 |
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Death From Above - How Paratroopers Evolved From a WW1 Pipe Dream To A Key Part of Combined-Arms Assault
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Jun 18, 2020 |
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Want to Star Your Own Nation? That's What a Family Did in 1967 When it Created "Sealand"
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Jun 16, 2020 |
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Why the Galileo Affair is One of History's Most Misunderstood Events
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Jun 11, 2020 |
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Henry Knox's Noble Train: How a Boston Bookseller’s Expedition Saved the American Revolution
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Jun 09, 2020 |
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Dewey Defeats Truman: The 1948 Election and the Battle for America's Soul
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Jun 04, 2020 |
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History’s First Global Manhunt: The Search for 18th Century Pirate Henry Every
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Jun 02, 2020 |
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History's Most Insane Rulers, Part 5: Ludwig II of Bavaria
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May 28, 2020 |
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History's Most Insane Rulers, Part 4: George III
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May 26, 2020 |
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History's Most Insane Rulers, Part 3: Ibrahim I -- The Sultan Who Loved Fur and Drowned His Harem
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May 21, 2020 |
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History's Most Insane Rulers, Part 2: Charles VI -- The King Who Thought He Was Made of Glass
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May 19, 2020 |
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History's Most Insane Rulers, Part 1: Emperor Caligula--Bankrupting Rome By Appointing Your Horse Senator
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May 14, 2020 |
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These Are History's Nine Most Insane Rulers
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May 12, 2020 |
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D-Day Girls: The Female Spies Who Armed the French Resistance, Sabotaged the Nazis, and Made the Normandy Invasion Possible
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May 07, 2020 |
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How Economies Bounce Back From Total Collapse: The German Economic Miracle (1948-1957)
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May 05, 2020 |
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Discovering Your Grandfather Was Joseph Stalin's Bodyguard
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Apr 30, 2020 |
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A Confederate Civil War Submarine Was Lost 150 Years Ago. Its Reappearance Was An Unsolved Mystery...Until Now
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Apr 28, 2020 |
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Reconstruction: America’s Terrible National Hangover After the Civil War
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Apr 23, 2020 |
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The Lincoln Assassination: Did John Wilkes Booth Act Alone Or Was it a Confederacy-Ordered Hit?
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Apr 21, 2020 |
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Japan Developed an Atomic Bomb in WW2. It Laid the Groundwork for North Korea's Nuclear Program
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Apr 16, 2020 |
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The Celebrity Power Couple Who Mapped the West and Helped Cause the Civil War
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Apr 14, 2020 |
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Nazi Super Science: The Third Reich's Plans for Transatlantic Bombers, Atomic Weapons, and Orbital Death Rays
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Apr 09, 2020 |
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Why Dan Carlin Believes That The End is Always Near
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Apr 07, 2020 |
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American Sherlock -- Meet The 1920s Forensic Scientist Who Created Modern CSI
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Apr 02, 2020 |
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How Does a Nation Have an Identity When Its People Speak Different Languages? Ask Canada (Quebec Specifically)
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Mar 31, 2020 |
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Scott's Book "History's 9 Most Insane Rulers" Launch Update and Bonus Offer
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Mar 30, 2020 |
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How the Florida of the Roaring 20s Created Modern America and Triggered the Great Depression
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Mar 26, 2020 |
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History Has Lots of Great Ideas About What To Do During a Quarantine
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Mar 24, 2020 |
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The Civil War in the American West: When Multi-Racial Armies Fought Over Gold Mines and Indian Lands
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Mar 19, 2020 |
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St. Patrick Didn't Get Rid of Any Snakes, But He Is The Patron Saint of Exterminators
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Mar 17, 2020 |
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COVID-19 is Nothing Compared to the 1918 Spanish Flu
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Mar 12, 2020 |
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The Lost History of James Madison's Black Family
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Mar 10, 2020 |
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The Cold War -- Not WW2 -- Was Arguably the Defining Event of the 20th Century
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Mar 05, 2020 |
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Fight House: Cutthroat White House Rivalries From Truman to Trump
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Mar 03, 2020 |
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How An American Tank Gunner Successfully Dueled with Panzers in World War Two
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Feb 27, 2020 |
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New York Has Been America's Capital of Spying Since the Beginning of the U.S.
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Feb 25, 2020 |
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The 1881 Expedition to Reach Farthest North Led to Starvation, Madness, and Glory
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Feb 20, 2020 |
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The Terrifying Conquests of Hannibal of Carthage
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Feb 18, 2020 |
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The Negro Leagues Made Baseball a Global Sport and Kickstarted the Civil Rights Movement
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Feb 13, 2020 |
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The Royal Touch: When British and French Kings Were Thought to Have Healing Powers
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Feb 11, 2020 |
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The Worst Gambling Scandal in NCAA History Led to an Unlikely Story of Redemption
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Feb 06, 2020 |
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The Confederate States of America, An Alternate History: 1865-2020
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Feb 04, 2020 |
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An Admiral's List of the 10 Greatest Admirals in History
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Jan 30, 2020 |
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Pearl Harbor May Have Been Avoided If a Lone US Diplomat Had Gotten His Way
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Jan 28, 2020 |
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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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Jan 23, 2020 |
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Dragons Never Existed. So Why Are They Found in Absolutely Every Ancient Folklore?
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Jan 21, 2020 |
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The Crusades, From Both Arab and European Perspectives
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Jan 16, 2020 |
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How the Nazi Ministry of Propaganda Radicalized Germany
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Jan 14, 2020 |
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Star Spangled Scandal: The Antebellum Murder Trial that Changed America
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Jan 09, 2020 |
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237 Years After the Revolutionary War, Some Say It Was a Mistake. Are They Right?
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Jan 07, 2020 |
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George Washington's Spies: The Culper Ring, Nathan Hale, and the Plot to Capture Benedict Arnold
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Jan 02, 2020 |
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The Revolutionary War Comes to an End
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Dec 31, 2019 |
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The Battle of Yorktown: Britain's Surrender in the Revolutionary War
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Dec 26, 2019 |
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The Siege of Yorktown: American and France Corner Britain
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Dec 24, 2019 |
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King’s Mountain: The Revolutionary War's Largest 'All-American Fight'
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Dec 19, 2019 |
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The Treason of Benedict Arnold
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Dec 17, 2019 |
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How France and America Cooperated During the Revolutionary War
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Dec 12, 2019 |
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American Politicians Nearly Had George Washington Fired During the Revolutionary War
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Dec 10, 2019 |
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The Philadelphia Campaign: When Britain Took Over Ben Franklin's House
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Dec 05, 2019 |
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The Battle of Saratoga—Benedict Arnold, An American Hero
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Dec 03, 2019 |
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Rebroadcast: Turkey is Both a Bird and a Country. Which Came First?
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Nov 28, 2019 |
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The Saratoga Campaign: Turning Point of the Revolutionary War
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Nov 27, 2019 |
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The Battle of Princeton Proves George Washington Was So Lucky, It Was Almost Supernatural
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Nov 26, 2019 |
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19th-Century American Radicals: Vegans, Abolitionists, and Free Love Advocates
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Nov 21, 2019 |
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Benedict Arnold, Vidkun Quisling, and Other Historical Villains—When is Someone Misunderstood vs. Truly Bad?
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Nov 19, 2019 |
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When Does A Scorched-Earth Policy Work? A Look at the Civil War's Final Year
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Nov 14, 2019 |
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Medic! First Aid in Combat, From WW1 Trenches to Operation Iraqi Freedom
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Nov 12, 2019 |
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The Confederacy Dominated the Early Civil War. So Why Did It Ultimately Lose?
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Nov 07, 2019 |
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Constantine's Conversion to Christianity: Opportunism or a Sincere Gesture?
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Nov 05, 2019 |
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Was the US Involvement in World War One a Mistake?
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Oct 31, 2019 |
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Hans Kammler, Nazi Architect of Auschwitz, Defector to the US?
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Oct 29, 2019 |
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Announcement: Mid-Season Break for "Key Battles of the Revolutionary War"
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Oct 26, 2019 |
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Key Battles of the Revolutionary War, Part 12: Crossing the Delaware
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Oct 24, 2019 |
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Key Battles of the Revolutionary War, Part 11: New York Campaign (2/2)
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Oct 22, 2019 |
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Key Battles of the Revolutionary War, Part 10: The New York Campaign (1/2)
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Oct 17, 2019 |
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Key Battles of the Revolutionary War, Part 9: Sidetrack Episode -- the Declaration of Independence
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Oct 15, 2019 |
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Key Battles of the Revolutionary War, Part 8: The Battle of Quebec
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Oct 10, 2019 |
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Key Battles of the Revolutionary War, Part 7: The Quebec Campaign
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Oct 08, 2019 |
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Key Battles of the Revolutionary War, Part 6: Bunker Hill (2/2)
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Oct 03, 2019 |
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Key Battles of the Revolutionary War, Part 5: Bunker Hill (1/2)
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Oct 01, 2019 |
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Key Battles of the Revolutionary War, Part 4: British and Continental Soldiers
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Sep 26, 2019 |
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Key Battles of the Revolutionary War, Part 3: Lexington and Concord
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Sep 24, 2019 |
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Key Battles of the Revolutionary War, Part 2: Background to the War
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Sep 19, 2019 |
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Key Battles of the Revolutionary War, Part 1: The World of the American Revolution
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Sep 17, 2019 |
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Announcement: Key Battles of the Revolutionary War Starts Next Week
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Sep 14, 2019 |
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Opium: How an Ancient Flower Shaped and Poisoned Our World
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Sep 12, 2019 |
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Eisenhower's Interstates: The Modern-Day Roman Roads
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Sep 10, 2019 |
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After Watergate, Richard Nixon Created the Career Path for All Ex-Presidents
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Sep 05, 2019 |
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Women Warriors: How Females Have Fought in Combat Since History's Beginning
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Sep 03, 2019 |
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Hollywood Hates History, Part 8: Dracula Untold (2014)
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Aug 29, 2019 |
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Hollywood Hates History, Part 7: The Alamo (2004)
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Aug 27, 2019 |
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Teaser: Rendezvous With Death, Part 8
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Aug 24, 2019 |
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Hollywood Hates History, Part 6: The Scarlet Letter (1995)
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Aug 22, 2019 |
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Hollywood Hates History, Part 5—The Conqueror (1956)
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Aug 20, 2019 |
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Hollywood Hates History, Part 4—The Green Berets (1968)
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Aug 15, 2019 |
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Hollywood Hates History, Part 3—The Da Vinci Code (2006)
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Aug 13, 2019 |
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Hollywood Hates History, Part 2: Agora (2009)
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Aug 08, 2019 |
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Hollywood Hates History, Part 1: Kingdom of Heaven
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Aug 06, 2019 |
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Announcement: 'Hollywood Hates History' Starts Next Week
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Aug 03, 2019 |
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A Vote of No Confidence: How to Obliterate Your Current Government
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Aug 01, 2019 |
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George Washington as Man, General, Leader, and Mule Pioneer
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Jul 30, 2019 |
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A Shred to End All Shreds: World War I Meets Swedish Metal
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Jul 25, 2019 |
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Has The Lost Colony of Roanoke Been Found?
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Jul 23, 2019 |
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Einstein's War: How Relativity Triumphed Amid the Vicious Nationalism of World War I
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Jul 18, 2019 |
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The Forgotten Assassin – Sirhan Sirhan and the Killing of Robert F. Kennedy
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Jul 16, 2019 |
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Chief Executives in the Cockpit—When Presidents Take to the Skies
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Jul 11, 2019 |
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George Mason: The Most Important Founding Father Nobody Remembers
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Jul 09, 2019 |
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Teaser: Rendezvous With Death, Part 7
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Jul 06, 2019 |
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Spies in the Ancient World, Part 2: On His Roman Emperor's Secret Service
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Jul 04, 2019 |
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Spies in the Ancient World, Part 1: How a Bronze-Age Tribe Infiltrated Jericho
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Jul 02, 2019 |
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Teaser: Rendezvous With Death, Part 6
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Jun 29, 2019 |
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The Real Oregon Trail: Beyond Dysentery and the Apple II Game
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Jun 27, 2019 |
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How to Get Processed Through Ellis Island In 2 Hours or Less
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Jun 25, 2019 |
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Special Announcement: Check Out My New Show 'Ottoman Lives'
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Jun 22, 2019 |
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George Armstrong Custer: Cocky Military Officer or America's Version of Leonidas at Thermopylae?
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Jun 20, 2019 |
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An Interview with 95-Year-Old Tuskegee Airman Lt. Col. Harry Stewart
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Jun 18, 2019 |
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Vlad the Impaler is the (Partial) Inspiration for Count Dracula
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Jun 13, 2019 |
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'A Woman of No Importance': The One-Legged WW2 Spy Virginia Hall
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Jun 11, 2019 |
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The 4,000-Year-Old Question: Is Judaism a Religion, Ethnicity, Race, or Culture?
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Jun 06, 2019 |
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The 500-Year Story of a Gutenberg Bible And Everyone Who Owned It
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Jun 04, 2019 |
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Teaser: Rendezvous With Death, Part 5
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Jun 01, 2019 |
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Hitler’s “Desert Fox”: The Military Career of Erwin Rommel
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May 30, 2019 |
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When Irish Vets of the American Civil War Invaded Canada in 1866
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May 28, 2019 |
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The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present
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May 23, 2019 |
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How Industrialists Plotted to Overthrow FDR Over The New Deal in 1934
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May 21, 2019 |
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Teaser: Rendezvous With Death, Part 4
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May 18, 2019 |
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Making Your Death Memorable: The Oldest Tombs We Can Trace To One Person
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May 16, 2019 |
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The Kremlin Letters: Stalin's Wartime Correspondence with Churchill and Roosevelt
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May 14, 2019 |
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The RAF Won the Battle of Britain With Strategy But Also Plenty of Luck
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May 09, 2019 |
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Why The Printing Press Appeared in the Middle East 400 Years After Europe
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May 07, 2019 |
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Teaser: Rendezvous With Death, Part 3
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May 04, 2019 |
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Last Night on the Titanic: Conclusion
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May 02, 2019 |
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Last Night on the Titanic: Doctors and Con Artists
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Apr 30, 2019 |
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Last Night on the Titanic: The Musicians
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Apr 25, 2019 |
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Last Night on the Titanic: The Trend Setters
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Apr 23, 2019 |
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Teaser: Rendezvous With Death, Part 2
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Apr 20, 2019 |
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Last Night on the Titanic: The Life Savers
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Apr 18, 2019 |
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Last Night on the Titanic: The Cooks
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Apr 16, 2019 |
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Sneak Peek of the New Podcast Series "Espionage"
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Apr 13, 2019 |
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Last Night on the Titanic: The Writers
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Apr 11, 2019 |
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Last Night on the Titanic: The Popcorn Vendor
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Apr 09, 2019 |
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Teaser: Rendezvous With Death
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Apr 06, 2019 |
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Last Night on the Titanic: The Bakers
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Apr 04, 2019 |
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The Last Night on the Titanic: Overview of the 1,500 Passengers and Crew Who Lost Their Lives
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Apr 02, 2019 |
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ANNOUNCEMENT: Special Series 'Last Night on the Titanic' Starts Next Week
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Mar 30, 2019 |
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Light-Horse Harry Lee: A Founding Father's Journey From Glory to Ruin
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Mar 28, 2019 |
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Bad Puns and Dirty Jokes in Rome and Ancient Greece
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Mar 26, 2019 |
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Wright Brothers, Wrong Story? Why Some Say Wilbur—Not Orville—Discovered Manned Flight
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Mar 21, 2019 |
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When Danzig Became Gdańsk: What Happens to a City When Its Demographics Change Completely
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Mar 19, 2019 |
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The Revolution Before the Revolution: How 1776 Happened
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Mar 14, 2019 |
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An Active Neutrality: The WW2 Experiences of Switzerland, Portugal, and Turkey
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Mar 12, 2019 |
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Kangaroo Squadron: The Tip of the American Spear in the WW2 Pacific Theatre
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Mar 07, 2019 |
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Common Knowledge About The Middle Ages That Is Incorrect, Part 5: Crusades In The Renaissance
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Mar 05, 2019 |
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Common Knowledge About The Middle Ages That Is Incorrect, Part 4: The Medieval Technological Explosion
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Feb 28, 2019 |
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Common Knowledge About The Middle Ages That Is Incorrect, Part 3: Witch Burnings
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Feb 26, 2019 |
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Common Knowledge About The Middle Ages That Is Incorrect, Part 2: Were Indulgences a Get-out-of-Hell-Free Card Or Something Else?
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Feb 21, 2019 |
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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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Feb 19, 2019 |
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Civil War Barons: The Tycoons, Entrepreneurs, and Inventors and Visionaries Who Forged Victory and Shaped a Nation
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Feb 14, 2019 |
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Women Have Been Running For President Since 1872. Here Are 4 Of Their Stories
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Feb 12, 2019 |
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War Animals: How 55 Birds, Dogs, and Horses Saved Thousands of Lives in World War Two
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Feb 07, 2019 |
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Hunting the President: Threats, Plots and Assassination Attempts, Part 5: Barack Obama
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Feb 05, 2019 |
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Hunting the President: Threats, Plots and Assassination Attempts, Part 4: Bill Clinton
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Jan 31, 2019 |
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Hunting the President: Threats, Plots and Assassination Attempts, Part 3: Ronald Reagan
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Jan 29, 2019 |
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Hunting the President: Threats, Plots and Assassination Attempts, Part 2: JFK
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Jan 24, 2019 |
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Hunting the President: Threats, Plots and Assassination Attempts, Part 1: FDR
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Jan 22, 2019 |
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Understanding the Rise of Islam Through Military History
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Jan 17, 2019 |
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Fugitive Slaves in America, From the Revolution to the Civil War
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Jan 15, 2019 |
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Moral Panics and Mass Hysteria: The Dancing Plague, Salem Witch Trials, and The Tulip Market Bubble
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Jan 10, 2019 |
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How a Researcher Discovered That Her Grandparents Were in the Nazi SS
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Jan 08, 2019 |
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Teaser: Ottoman Lives Part 7—The Outlaw
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Jan 05, 2019 |
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James Holman Traveled Over 250,000 Miles in the Early 1800s. He Was Also Completely Blind.
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Jan 03, 2019 |
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The History of Cannabis and Its Use By Humans
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Jan 01, 2019 |
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Bonus Q&A on the Civil War Series with Scott & James
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Dec 27, 2018 |
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What Would the Real St. Nicholas Drink? Here's What an Ancient History Professor Thinks
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Dec 24, 2018 |
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How Ancient Europeans Circumnavigated Africa, Explored Iceland, and Sent Goods all the Way to Japan
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Dec 20, 2018 |
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What if George Custer Had Survived the Battle of Little Bighorn?
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Dec 18, 2018 |
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Teaser: Ottoman Lives Part 6—The Holy Man
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Dec 15, 2018 |
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History of the Civil War in 10 Battles, Part 22: How the Civil War Lives on Today
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Dec 13, 2018 |
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History of the Civil War in 10 Battles, Part 21: What Became of the Men Who Wore the Blue and the Grey
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Dec 11, 2018 |
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History of the Civil War in 10 Battles, Part 20: The Naval War
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Dec 06, 2018 |
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History of the Civil War in 10 Battles, Part 19: African Americans in Uniform
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Dec 04, 2018 |
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Teaser: Ottoman Lives Part 5—The Peasant
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Dec 01, 2018 |
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History of the Civil War in 10 Battles, Part 18: The Overland Campaign
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Nov 29, 2018 |
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History of the Civil War in 10 Battles, Part 17: Sherman's March to the Sea
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Nov 27, 2018 |
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Turkey is Both a Bird and a Country. Which Came First?
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Nov 22, 2018 |
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History of the Civil War in 10 Battles, Part 16: The Battle of Atlanta
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Nov 20, 2018 |
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Teaser: Ottoman Lives, Part 4—The Concubine
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Nov 17, 2018 |
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History of the Civil War in 10 Battles, Part 15: Chattanooga
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Nov 15, 2018 |
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History of the Civil War in 10 Battles, Part 14: Chickamauga
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Nov 13, 2018 |
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History of the Civil War in 10 Battles, Part 13: The Battle of Gettysburg
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Nov 08, 2018 |
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September 1918: War, Plague, and The World Series
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Nov 06, 2018 |
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Teaser: Ottoman Lives, Part 3—The Eunuch
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Nov 03, 2018 |
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6 Historical Figures Who Deserve Their Own Movie—History Unplugged Meets 1001 Stories
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Nov 01, 2018 |
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The Story of Bravo, The Greatest Rescue Mission in Navy SEAL History
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Oct 30, 2018 |
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History of the Civil War in 10 Battles, Part 12: (Vicksburg 2 of 2)
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Oct 25, 2018 |
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History of the Civil War in 10 Battles, Part 11: Vicksburg (1 of 2)
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Oct 23, 2018 |
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Teaser: Ottoman Lives, Part 2—The Sultan
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Oct 20, 2018 |
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History of the Civil War in 10 Battles, Part 10: Battle of Chancellorsville
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Oct 18, 2018 |
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History of the Civil War in 10 Battles, Part 9: The Battle of Fredericksburg
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Oct 16, 2018 |
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History of the Civil War in 10 Battles, Part 8: Sidetrack Episode on Emancipation
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Oct 11, 2018 |
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History of the Civil War in 10 Battles, Part 7: The Battle of Antietam
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Oct 09, 2018 |
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Teaser: Ottoman Lives, Part 1: The Janissary
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Oct 06, 2018 |
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History of the Civil War in 10 Battles, Part 6: The Seven Days' Battle
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Oct 04, 2018 |
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History of the Civil War in 10 Battles, Part 5: The 1862 Peninsula Campaign
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Oct 02, 2018 |
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History of Civil War in 10 Battles, Part 4: The Battle of Shiloh
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Sep 27, 2018 |
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History of the Civil War in 10 Battles, Part 3: Border States and the War in the West
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Sep 25, 2018 |
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History of the Civil War in 10 Battles, Part 2: First Battle of Bull Run
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Sep 20, 2018 |
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History of the Civil War in 10 Battles, Part 1: Background to the Civil War
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Sep 18, 2018 |
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Special Announcement: A History of the Civil War in 10 Battles Begins Next Week
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Sep 14, 2018 |
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How a 1522 Battled Transformed Russia from a Minor Duchy into Earth's Largest Empire
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Sep 13, 2018 |
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The Most Famous Founding Father You’ve Never Heard of Was Hamilton's Arch-Nemesis and a Deficit Hawk
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Sep 11, 2018 |
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Lost Civilizations, Part 3: European Visitors to the New World Before Columbus
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Sep 06, 2018 |
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Lost Civilizations, Part 2: The Egyptian Pyramid Builders, the Nabateans, and the Aksumites.
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Sep 04, 2018 |
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Lost Civilizations: Ancient Societies that Vanished Without a Trace, Part 1
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Aug 30, 2018 |
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The Most Powerful Women in the Middle Ages, Part 3: Elizabeth of Tudor and Ottoman Queen Mother Kösem Sultan
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Aug 28, 2018 |
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Teaser: Intro to Audie Murphy Series
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Aug 25, 2018 |
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The Most Powerful Women in the Middle Ages, Part 2: Catherine of Sienna and Isabella of Castile
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Aug 23, 2018 |
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The Most Powerful Women in the Middle Ages, Part 1: Queens, Empresses, and Viking Slayers
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Aug 21, 2018 |
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How the Vicksburg Siege May Have Turned the Tide of the Civil War—Samuel Mitcham
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Aug 16, 2018 |
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The Story of Malaria, The Killer of Half of Humanity
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Aug 14, 2018 |
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An Archeologist Talks About the Discovery of a Civil War Surgeon's Burial Pit at Manassas Field
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Aug 09, 2018 |
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Why U.S. Political Elections Have Always Been Chaotic—David Severa from the Early and Often Podcast
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Aug 07, 2018 |
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The History of Slavery, Part 5: The Road to Abolition
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Aug 02, 2018 |
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The History of Slavery, Part 4: African Slavery in the New World, 1500-1865
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Jul 31, 2018 |
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The History of Slavery, Part 3: Christian Slaves and Muslim Masters—Barbary Pirates in the Mediterranean, 1500-1800
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Jul 26, 2018 |
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The History of Slavery, Part 2: The Medieval Slave Trade to Arabia
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Jul 24, 2018 |
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The History of Slavery, Part 1: Shackled and Chained in the Ancient World
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Jul 19, 2018 |
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Prohibition: How it Happened, Why it Failed, and How it Still Affects America Today
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Jul 17, 2018 |
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What Did People Eat in the Middle Ages?
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Jul 12, 2018 |
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Almost Everything in American Politics has Happened Before, Even Donald Trump—Bruce Carlson from My History Can Beat Up Your Politics
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Jul 10, 2018 |
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The Quest to Make Information Free Forever: Copyright Battles From Venetian Printers in the Renaissance to 21st Century Hackers
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Jul 05, 2018 |
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How a Rivalry Between Two Cherokee Chiefs Led to the Trail of Tears and the Collapse of Their Nation
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Jul 03, 2018 |
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If It Weren't For Two Iowans, Billions Would Have Died of Starvation or Been Left in a Technological Dark Age
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Jun 28, 2018 |
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Introducing the History Unplugged Membership Program
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Jun 27, 2018 |
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Life After Auschwitz: How European Jews Attempted to Assimilate in America After Unspeakable Tragedy
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Jun 26, 2018 |
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Patton and Churchill's Experiences Before and During World War Two
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Jun 21, 2018 |
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Special Announcement: Presidential Fight Club Is Now Its Own Podcast
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Jun 20, 2018 |
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An Infantry Officer's Fight Through Nazi Europe, From D-Day to VE Day
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Jun 19, 2018 |
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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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Jun 14, 2018 |
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Benjamin Franklin: Diplomat, Polymath, and Member of 18th Century Jet Set—Elizabeth Covart of the Ben Franklin's World Podcast
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Jun 12, 2018 |
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From Farm Fields to Classrooms: Horace Mann's War for Universal and Compulsory Education for Children
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Jun 07, 2018 |
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Meet Joan: The Female Pope—Stephen Guerra of the History of the Papacy Podcast
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Jun 05, 2018 |
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The Most Productive People in History, Part 2: Thomas Aquinas to Thomas Edison
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May 31, 2018 |
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The Most Productive People in History, Part 1: From Archimedes to Ben Franklin
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May 29, 2018 |
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The Union's Secret Rebels: The Story of Gettysburg's Five Rebellious Double Crossers Who Returned as Foreign Invaders
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May 24, 2018 |
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How to Reach Allied Territory When Your Plane Is Shot Down in Nazi-Occupied France
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May 22, 2018 |
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Anthology: How Switzerland Remained Neutral In Two World Wars
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May 17, 2018 |
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Grammar Girl (Mignon Fogarty) on the Strange History of the English Language
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May 15, 2018 |
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History's Most Insane Rulers: From Emperor Caligula to Muammar Gaddafi
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May 10, 2018 |
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Meet Pico, The 23-Year-Old Wunderkind Who Kicked Off the Renaissance
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May 08, 2018 |
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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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May 03, 2018 |
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Panic on the Pacific: How America Prepared for a Japanese West Coast Invasion after Pearl Harbor
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May 01, 2018 |
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The Hypothetical Economy of a Present-Day Confederate States of America, Alternate Theories to the Titanic Sinking, and Other Counterfactual
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Apr 26, 2018 |
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The 4 Successful (And Hundreds of Unsuccessful) Assassination Attempts of U.S. Presidents—Mel Ayton
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Apr 24, 2018 |
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Prostitution Throughout History: Sumerian Temple Priestesses, Ottoman Brothel Workers, and Call-Girls for the Medieval Clergy
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Apr 19, 2018 |
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The Ladykiller who Killed Lincoln: The Scandalous Love Life of John Wilkes Booth
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Apr 17, 2018 |
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Ulysses S. Grant Was (Mostly) Responsible For Winning the Civil War. Robert E. Lee Was Responsible For Losing It.
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Apr 12, 2018 |
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How Long Have Foreign Governments Attempted to Meddle in U.S Elections? Answers to This And 3 Other Questions
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Apr 05, 2018 |
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The Life and Times of Aristotle, and How His Philosophy Conquered the World—Lantern Jack from the Ancient Greece Declassified Podcast
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Apr 03, 2018 |
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World War Two Spycraft: Stealing Nuclear Secrets, Blowing Up Nazi Factories, and Infiltrating Japanese High Command
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Mar 29, 2018 |
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A Retired Policeman Tells us the Story of The Most Daring Jailbreak in the Underground Railroad's History
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Mar 27, 2018 |
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What are Arguments For and Against Bombing Japan, Why Don't Militias Matter in American, and What is Close-Air Support?
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Mar 22, 2018 |
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Daily Lives of Middle Eastern Women in the School, the Home, the Harem, and Everywhere Else—Marie Grace Brown
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Mar 20, 2018 |
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How Archeologists Decide What We Remember—Chris Webster, Archeology Podcast Network
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Mar 13, 2018 |
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When Weather Wipes Out Civilization -- Four Cases of Climate Killing Empires
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Mar 08, 2018 |
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George Washington's Guide to Greatness, As Told by His Great Nephew —Austin Washington
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Mar 06, 2018 |
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Medieval Health Care: Bloodletting, Primitive Surgery, and How Surprisingly Good Doctors Could Be Despite Knowing Almost Nothing
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Mar 01, 2018 |
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A First-Hand Account of the Battle of Ramadi, Iraq – Maj. Scott Huesing
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Feb 27, 2018 |
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Mesopotamian Civilization (2): Everyday Life of Merchants, Temple Priests, and Prostitutes
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Feb 22, 2018 |
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One Nation Under (the Influence of) Alcohol: Drinking During the Civil War—Mark Will-Weber
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Feb 20, 2018 |
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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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Feb 15, 2018 |
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Race to the Top of the World: Richard Byrd and the First Flight to the North Pole—Sheldon Bart
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Feb 13, 2018 |
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Positive Legacies of the Mongolian Empire: International Trade, Religious Tolerance, Career Opportunities, and Horse Milk
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Feb 08, 2018 |
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America's Utopian Communities: From Plymouth Colony's Failed Experiments in Collective Farming to 60s Hippie Communes—Timothy Miller
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Feb 06, 2018 |
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The Reasons the Mongolian Army Was Unstoppable
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Feb 02, 2018 |
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Horse and Bow- A Mongol's Two Best Friends
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Feb 01, 2018 |
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The Rise of Genghis- From Temujin to the Great Khan
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Jan 31, 2018 |
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The Mongols Killed So Many People They Lowered the Global Temperature
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Jan 30, 2018 |
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Chester A. Arthur's Presidency Was a Colossal Accident...And a Huge Success
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Jan 29, 2018 |
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The Vietnam War Was About...Stealing Asia's Tin?
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Jan 26, 2018 |
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About 70-90 Percent of a Society Needs to Die Before It Completely Collapses
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Jan 25, 2018 |
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Why The Black Plague is Partially (But Not Completely) Responsible For the Renaissance?
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Jan 24, 2018 |
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Did Mussollini Really Make the Trains Run on Time?
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Jan 23, 2018 |
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How Teddy Roosevelt Became The Man He Was in the Badlands—William Hazelgrove of “Forging a President”
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Jan 22, 2018 |
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The Origin of the High Five
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Jan 18, 2018 |
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Nobody in the Middle Ages Thought the Earth Was Flat
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Jan 17, 2018 |
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Which Leader Had the Best Shot at World Domination?
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Jan 16, 2018 |
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Pinetti, the 18th-Century Illusionist and Forerunner of Chris Angel and David Copperfield—Brian Earl from the Illusion Podcast
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Jan 15, 2018 |
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The Origin of the Military Salute
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Jan 12, 2018 |
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Would Somebody from 1000 BC Transported to 1000 AD Notice the Difference?
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Jan 11, 2018 |
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The English Channel—The 26-Mile Strait That Has Stopped Armies For Millenia
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Jan 10, 2018 |
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The Richest Man in History Was the 14th c. King of Mali
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Jan 09, 2018 |
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Canines in Combat: How the 8125th Sentry Dog Detachment Saved Countless Lives in the Korean War—Rachel Reed
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Jan 08, 2018 |
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Europe's Military Quantum Leap (1350-1650)—Patrick Wyman From Tides of History
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Jan 01, 2018 |
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Christmas Special: Fr. Longenecker on Why The 3 Wise Men Were Real...But They Weren't From the Orient or Kings (Rebroadcast)
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Dec 25, 2017 |
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Bringing Abraham and Mary Todd to Life in Steven Spielberg's “Lincoln”—Historical Consultant Catherine Clinton
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Dec 18, 2017 |
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Meet Nathaniel Clark Smith, the Melchizedek of Jazz—Bill McKemy
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Dec 11, 2017 |
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The Story of Human Language, From Proto Indo-European to Ebonics English—John McWhorter
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Dec 04, 2017 |
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The Causes of World War 2
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Dec 01, 2017 |
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The Causes of World War 1
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Nov 30, 2017 |
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Is There Any Hard Evidence Hannibal Took Elephants Over the Alps?
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Nov 29, 2017 |
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The Greek Military Owned The Ancient World. Why Did They Roll Over For the Romans?
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Nov 28, 2017 |
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Why Food Tells Us More About a Culture Than Anything Else—Ken Alba
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Nov 27, 2017 |
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The Electoral College Isn't an Outdated 18th-Century Relic; It Keeps America From Falling Apart—Tara Ross
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Nov 24, 2017 |
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Arabic Numerals Took Over 600 Years To Spread Across the West
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Nov 23, 2017 |
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A Short History of the War of the Roses
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Nov 22, 2017 |
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Richard Francis Burton—The Man Who Knew the Most Languages in History
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Nov 21, 2017 |
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The Scopes Monkey Trial, HL Mencken, and Religion in Public Life—Darryl Hart
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Nov 20, 2017 |
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The Reformation Happened 500 Years Ago, But It's More Timely Than Ever—Benjamin Wiker
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Nov 17, 2017 |
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How Did You Call the Police Before the Phone Was Invented?
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Nov 16, 2017 |
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All the Presidents Who Owned Slaves and How They Treated Them
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Nov 15, 2017 |
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Who Were Worse—The Spanish Conquistadors or the Aztecs?
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Nov 14, 2017 |
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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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Nov 13, 2017 |
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What Did Entertainment Do To The Romans?
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Nov 10, 2017 |
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Syriac-The Best Language for Conquering The Ancient World
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Nov 09, 2017 |
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The Most Valuable Lost Treasure That Still Exists
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Nov 08, 2017 |
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Did Vikings Have Tattoos?
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Nov 07, 2017 |
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Call of Duty: WW2's Historical Advisor Marty Morgan on Bringing the War to Life
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Nov 06, 2017 |
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The Codpiece—The Worst Fashion Trend in History
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Nov 03, 2017 |
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Why Almost No Medieval Peasant Cottages Survive Today
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Nov 02, 2017 |
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How a Nikita Khruschev Mistranslation Threatened Nuclear War
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Nov 01, 2017 |
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British Girl, Nazi German POW—A Love Story
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Oct 31, 2017 |
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Assassin's Creed's Resident Historian Maxime Durand on Mixing Fact with Fiction
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Oct 30, 2017 |
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Cruel and Unusual (Medieval) Punishment
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Oct 27, 2017 |
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The Easter Uprising of 1916
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Oct 26, 2017 |
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Misattributed Quotes—No, Mark Twain Didn't Say That
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Oct 25, 2017 |
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How to Build a 13th-Century Castle From Scratch
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Oct 24, 2017 |
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Telling Japan’s Story in The Last Samurai, Letters From Iwo Jima, and Medal of Honor—Dan King
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Oct 23, 2017 |
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Teddy Roosevelt’s Journey Through Uncharted Amazonian Jungle
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Oct 20, 2017 |
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How Teddy Roosevelt Gave a 90-minute Speech After Being Shot
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Oct 19, 2017 |
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When Teddy Roosevelt Arrested Three Boat Thieves
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Oct 18, 2017 |
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Carrie Nation—The Hatch-Wielding Prohibitionist
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Oct 17, 2017 |
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Discovering Embarrassing Family Secrets and Famous Third Cousins with Genealogist Crista Cowan From Ancestry.com
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Oct 16, 2017 |
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Why Does American Give Automatic Birthright Citizenship?
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Oct 13, 2017 |
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What Was It Like To Be Enrolled at the University of Constantinople?
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Oct 12, 2017 |
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John Birch-The First Death in the Cold War
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Oct 11, 2017 |
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George Washington Wasn’t the First President. He Was the Ninth
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Oct 10, 2017 |
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Anthony Esolen on Translating Dante’s Divine Comedy and Dan Brown’s Supercilious Stupidity
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Oct 09, 2017 |
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Christopher Columbus Wasn’t as Good—Or as Terrible—As You Think
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Oct 06, 2017 |
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How the 1565 Siege of Malta Led to the Golden Age of Piracy
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Oct 05, 2017 |
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Europeans in the Far East Before Marco Polo
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Oct 04, 2017 |
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The Lost Technology of Damascus Steel
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Oct 03, 2017 |
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Alexander Hamilton’s Broadway Musical is Great, but Brion McClanahan Thinks He Screwed Up America
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Oct 02, 2017 |
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Timur the Tatar’s Revenge on Bayezit—When an Emperor Literally Made a Sultan His Footstool
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Sep 28, 2017 |
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A Revolutionary-Era Soldier Fights a Modern One Hand-to-Hand. Who Wins?
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Sep 27, 2017 |
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The Origin of the Middle Finger Insult
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Sep 26, 2017 |
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Why the Battle of Hastings in 1066 and the Norman Conquest of England Changed Everything—Jennifer Paxton
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Sep 25, 2017 |
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The Daily Schedule of a Samurai
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Sep 22, 2017 |
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Why Did British Men Wear Wigs in the 1700s?
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Sep 21, 2017 |
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Who Had the Worst Flatulence in History?
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Sep 20, 2017 |
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Constantinople’s Walls—The Strongest Fortress Ever Built
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Sep 19, 2017 |
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How Religion Has Influenced Politics Across History, From Ancient Sumeria to the 21st Century—Paul Rahe
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Sep 18, 2017 |
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Why The Potato Led to the Rise of Modern Europe
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Sep 15, 2017 |
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When Churchill Experimented with Chemical Weapons—Giles Milton of the Unknown History Podcast
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Sep 14, 2017 |
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Dan Carlin of Hardcore History on Why the German Military Was Better in WW1 Than WW2
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Sep 13, 2017 |
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The History of Pig Latin (ig-pay atin-lay)
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Sep 12, 2017 |
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Wait, Nixon Was Innocent?—Geoff Shepard
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Sep 11, 2017 |
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How Was Alexander Able to Supply His Army Deep Into Asia?
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Sep 08, 2017 |
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Daily Life During the Civil War for Non-Combatants
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Sep 07, 2017 |
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Why Gutenberg Didn’t Kick Off the Reformation
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Sep 06, 2017 |
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What if Japan Hadn’t Surrendered After Nagasaki?
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Sep 05, 2017 |
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Genghis Khan, Attila the Hun, and the Barbarian Empires of the Steppe—Kenneth Harl
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Sep 04, 2017 |
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Why the Galileo Affair is Completely Misunderstood
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Sep 01, 2017 |
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Did Medieval Women Really Wear Chastity Belts?
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Aug 31, 2017 |
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Why is Louis Such a Popular Name for French Kings?
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Aug 30, 2017 |
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Did People in the Past Get 8 Hours of Sleep a Night?
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Aug 29, 2017 |
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The Real-Life Pirates of the Caribbean—Matt Albers from The Pirate History Podcast
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Aug 28, 2017 |
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Would You Rather Be An Average Person Today or a Billionaire 100 Years Ago?
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Aug 25, 2017 |
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Why Wasn’t There a Scientific Revolution Under the Romans?
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Aug 24, 2017 |
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What if the Nazis Had Won World War Two?
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Aug 23, 2017 |
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If I Were Sent Back in Time to the Roman Empire, How Would I Take Over?
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Aug 22, 2017 |
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A Vietnam POW’s Story of 6 Years in the Hanoi Hilton — Amy Shively Hawk
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Aug 21, 2017 |
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What if Byzantium Had Never Fallen?
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Aug 18, 2017 |
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What if China Had Discovered the New World?
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Aug 17, 2017 |
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Could One Marine Corps MEU Destroy the Entire Roman Army?
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Aug 16, 2017 |
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The Bronze Age Collapse of 1177 BC: The Most Catastrophic Event in History
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Aug 15, 2017 |
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Is There a Roman City in Present-Day China?
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Aug 11, 2017 |
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Why The Irish May Have Really Saved Civilization
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Aug 10, 2017 |
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Did Rome And China Know of Each Other?
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Aug 09, 2017 |
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Americana: The Brazilian City Where the Confederacy Lives On
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Aug 08, 2017 |
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Curtis Lemay: World War II’s Greatest Hero or Worst War Criminal?—Warren Kozak
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Aug 07, 2017 |
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If the Moon Landings Weren’t Fake, Why Haven’t We Been Back?
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Aug 04, 2017 |
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An Interview With Jerry Yellin, the 93-Year-Old Vet Who Flew WW2’s Last Combat Mission
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Aug 03, 2017 |
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What Were Rome’s Persian Borderlands Like?
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Aug 02, 2017 |
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German POWs in the US During WW2
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Aug 01, 2017 |
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How Emperor Justinian Changed the World—Robin Pierson from The History of Byzantium Podcast
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Jul 31, 2017 |
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How Texas Almost Became German
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Jul 28, 2017 |
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Did America Switch from Tea to Coffee Due to the Boston Tea Party?
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Jul 27, 2017 |
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Did a 6th-Century Irishman Really Reach America?
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Jul 26, 2017 |
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Emperor Norton I of the United States
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Jul 25, 2017 |
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Dorsey Armstrong on the Legend of King Arthur: From Noble Knight to Guy Ritchie’s 'Excalibro'
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Jul 24, 2017 |
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What Can We Learn from the Kurds About Nationalism and Nation Building?
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Jul 21, 2017 |
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Had Native Americans Been Resistant to Old World Diseases How Different Would the New World Have Been?
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Jul 20, 2017 |
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What Is the Biggest Forgery in History?
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Jul 19, 2017 |
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How Did the Ottoman Imperial Harem Operate?
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Jul 18, 2017 |
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Where Did Sea Monsters From the Edge of Medieval Maps Come From?
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Jul 14, 2017 |
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What Are Some Inventions That Are Much Older Than We Think?
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Jul 13, 2017 |
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Who Was the Most Powerful Woman in the Middle Ages? 2/2
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Jul 12, 2017 |
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Who Was The Most Powerful Woman in the Middle Ages? 1/2
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Jul 11, 2017 |
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How One Man Ruled 1920s Kansas City Like a Caesar—Jason Roe
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Jul 10, 2017 |
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Was There a Real-Life Dr. Frankenstein?
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Jul 07, 2017 |
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Who is the Bravest Person Who Ever Lived?
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Jul 06, 2017 |
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Does China Really Have a 5,000-Year-Old History?
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Jul 05, 2017 |
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Why Is July 4 Celebrated The Way It Is (Fireworks n’ Hot Dogs)?
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Jul 04, 2017 |
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Is There Any Language In Use Today That Could Be Used 1,000 Years Ago?
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Jun 30, 2017 |
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When Did The Roman Empire Really End?
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Jun 29, 2017 |
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Why Did Hitler Hate the Jews?
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Jun 28, 2017 |
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Was There an Objective Reason for the European Colonization of Africa?
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Jun 27, 2017 |
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Understanding Putin Through the History of Russian Invasions — Mark Schauss from the Russian Rulers in History Podcast
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Jun 26, 2017 |
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Did People Get Depressed in Ancient Times?
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Jun 23, 2017 |
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Were Ancient People More Advanced Than Us?
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Jun 22, 2017 |
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Why Was Africa Never as Developed as The Rest of the World?
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Jun 21, 2017 |
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Did King Arthur and Merlin Truly Exist?
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Jun 20, 2017 |
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What the Saints Drank and Monks Brewed—Michael Foley
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Jun 19, 2017 |
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Who Built the Pyramids? Aliens?
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Jun 16, 2017 |
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Can You Explain the 1915 Armenian Genocide?
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Jun 15, 2017 |
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How Important Was the Spice Trade to Medieval Europe?
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Jun 14, 2017 |
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What Happened to Places Like Catalonia After Rome’s Fall?
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Jun 13, 2017 |
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Was Hitler a Christian, Atheist, or Something Else? — Richard Weikart
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Jun 12, 2017 |
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Who Was WW2 Spy Zig-Zag?
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Jun 09, 2017 |
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What Is The World’s Oldest University?
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Jun 08, 2017 |
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Tell Me About the Varangians (The Vikings of Russia)
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Jun 07, 2017 |
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Can We Really Know Anything in History Or Is It All Fake News?
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Jun 06, 2017 |
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Every President’s Go-to Drink, From Washington’s Whisky to Obama’s Homebrew—Mark Will-Weber
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Jun 05, 2017 |
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What Were French Trappers Doing in 1700s America?
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Jun 02, 2017 |
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Did the Inventor of the Guillotine Die By Guillotine?
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Jun 01, 2017 |
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What is the Bloody Mary Myth Based On?
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May 31, 2017 |
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Was Leif Erikson First to Visit the New World?
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May 30, 2017 |
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Tevi Troy on Pop Culture in the White House: From Washington’s Library to Trump’s Twitter Account
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May 29, 2017 |
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When Did People Start Using Last Names?
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May 26, 2017 |
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Did Conquering Armies Really Salt the Earth of Their Enemies?
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May 25, 2017 |
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What if JFK Had Lost the 1960 Election?
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May 24, 2017 |
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Justin from the Generation Why Podcast: What Assassination Had the Most Impact on History?
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May 23, 2017 |
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Why Your Favorite Presidents (Lincoln, Washington) Actually Screwed Up America—Brion McClanahan
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May 19, 2017 |
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How a Horse Became a Sergeant in the Korean War — Robin Hutton
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May 19, 2017 |
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When Camels Roamed the American Southwest—The U.S. Camel Corps (1856-1866)
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May 11, 2017 |