Conservative Historian

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History is too important to be left to the left. The Conservative Historian provides history governed by conservative principles.  It is comprehensively researched but also entertainingly presented in a way accessible to history or non history buffs.  


Episode Date
Gerrymandering and Uncapping the House: A Discussion with Jeff Mayhugh
Jun 04, 2026
Lyndon Johnson and the Limits of Progressivism: A Critique of the Great Society
May 28, 2026
Memorial Day: A History
May 24, 2026
Diocletian: Opportunist or Savior Emperor
May 21, 2026
Frenemy Kings: Richard the Lionheart and Philip Augustus
May 14, 2026
Stuck Up: Getting Caught in the War Trap
May 07, 2026
Bacon's Rebellion: An Interview with Jack Henneman
Apr 30, 2026
Cato and Caesar: Reform, Rigidity and One Person Rule
Apr 22, 2026
Antioch: Crossroads of Empire
Apr 16, 2026
Lord Liverpool: The Napoleonic Era and Beyond
Apr 09, 2026
No Kings: Incoherent and a Failure
Apr 06, 2026
A Brief History of Easter
Apr 02, 2026
Charles II: The Paradoxical King
Mar 26, 2026
Paul Erlich and the Willful Ignorance of History
Mar 18, 2026
Oscar 2026
Mar 12, 2026
The Top Ten Greatest Generals of All Time
Mar 06, 2026
American Presidents on Film: A Review of Executive Branch Cinema
Feb 26, 2026
The Wars of the Roses Part II: The Limits of Loyalty
Feb 19, 2026
The Wars of the Roses Part I: The Limits of Kingship
Feb 12, 2026
Outfoxing the British and Hunting Gangsters: A discussion of Two Books with John Oller
Feb 06, 2026
Casting Away: Selecting the Best Actors for Historical Movie Roles
Feb 03, 2026
Government by Theater Kids
Jan 30, 2026
Rational Policy in an Irrational World: An Interview with Mike Coté
Jan 21, 2026
Revisiting the Monroe Doctrine
Jan 14, 2026
The Comeback Kids: Seven Historical Figures Who Were Down but Came Back
Jan 07, 2026
The Dates of Christmas
Dec 22, 2025
Yi Sun-Sin: The Greatest Admiral of all Time?
Dec 13, 2025
Freedom to Choose: How Milton Friedman Saved Capitalism
Dec 05, 2025
Thankfulness and Thanksgiving
Nov 25, 2025
The Mirror, the Window and the Anchor: A Conservative Stand
Nov 21, 2025
Exorcising the Movies: A Look at 1970s Cinema compared to the 80s
Nov 13, 2025
A History of American Government Shutdowns
Nov 06, 2025
It's a Long Road to the Top If You Wanna Rock and Rule: Ten Rulers who Rose from Nothing
Oct 28, 2025
The Holy Roman States of America
Oct 16, 2025
Warrior Spirit: What Pete Hegseth Got Right and Wrong in his Big Speech
Oct 09, 2025
Repairing the House: Jeff Mayhugh and the Effort to Add Representation to Congress
Sep 25, 2025
My Plan for Fixing our Historic Debt and Deficit: Let the Madness Begin
Sep 18, 2025
Bad Apples: A History of Government Run Grocery Stores
Sep 12, 2025
What is Conservatism: A Discussion with Josh Lewis
Sep 04, 2025
Lost Cause, Lost Minds: A History of the Origins of the Civil War – Part Two
Aug 28, 2025
Lost Cause, Lost Minds: A History of the Origins of the Civil War – Part One
Aug 21, 2025
Conservative Historian Bookshelf - Volume 3
Aug 14, 2025
Drunk Cinema: A History of Movies about Alcoholics
Aug 07, 2025
Top 10 Historical Upgrades: Nations whose Rulers Went from Zero to Hero
Jul 31, 2025
A Critique of the Leftist View of History
Jul 24, 2025
Top 10 Historical Downgrades: Going from Good Leaders to Terrible, Awful Ones
Jul 18, 2025
The Luddites: Fear of Technology in 19th Century Britain
Jul 10, 2025
A History of Protests
Jul 02, 2025
Giving Up Power: Presidents Who Did not Run Again
Jul 01, 2025
(Nathanael) Greene New Deal
Jun 26, 2025
Ancient Alexandria and Modern LA: Riotous Behaviors
Jun 12, 2025
Growing up in the Depression and the War Years: Recollections of a Different Era
Jun 06, 2025
Memorial Day 2025
May 26, 2025
Wars of the Lord: Religion and Conflict in Colonial America
May 22, 2025
A History of Bribes and Trump’s Palace in the Sky
May 15, 2025
The Roots of the Imperial Presidency
May 08, 2025
Belisarius and the Roman Empire
May 01, 2025
Top Ten Diplomatic Triumphs
Apr 17, 2025
History vs. Nostalgia: A Tale of US Manufacturing
Apr 10, 2025
Chinese Dreams and History: An Interview with Professor Stephen R Platt
Apr 03, 2025
Readying for Surrender: The Lack of Money and Decline of Military Power in History
Mar 27, 2025
Perversions of History: The Platforming of Darryl Cooper and Martyr Made
Mar 21, 2025
Movies from the 1990s and Today
Mar 13, 2025
Top Ten Diplomatic Blunders in History
Mar 06, 2025
Bouncing Back: History Shows the Democrats Could Rebound Quickly
Feb 27, 2025
Revisiting the Crusades
Feb 20, 2025
Overreach: The Role of Executive Power
Feb 13, 2025
Trade Wind-bags: A Tale of Three Tariffs
Feb 07, 2025
The Perils of Single Person Rule
Jan 31, 2025
California Dreamin': A History of LA
Jan 25, 2025
Healthcare History and a Primer for Today
Jan 16, 2025
Top Five Historical Events of 2024
Jan 10, 2025
Top Ten Most Influential Figures of the Ancient World
Dec 18, 2024
Bloody Anti-Capitalism
Dec 12, 2024
Lies My Liberal Teacher Told Me: An Interview with Prof. Wilfred Reilly
Dec 05, 2024
Inside Job
Nov 22, 2024
Fourteen Historical Takeaways from the 2024 Election
Nov 15, 2024
Movies: Future Tense
Nov 08, 2024
Too Close to Call: Seven Close American Elections
Oct 31, 2024
A Brief History of Rent Control
Oct 27, 2024
Columbus vs. Indigenous Peoples Day
Oct 17, 2024
America is Not Rome
Oct 10, 2024
Dune and the Most Influential Man in History
Oct 10, 2024
Buchanan vs. Reagan: The Fight for the Soul of the Right: Part Two – Bad Politics
Oct 02, 2024
Buchanan vs. Reagan: The Fight for the Soul of the Right: Part One – Bad History
Sep 26, 2024
Russian Endgames
Sep 13, 2024
Heroes and Villains of World War II
Sep 06, 2024
Imbibing Them Vibes: (Other) Times When Our Politics Were Dumb
Aug 29, 2024
The Decline of Minds and Empires
Aug 22, 2024
Elites and Today's Politics
Jul 27, 2024
The Nightmare of Assassinations
Jul 18, 2024
Should Have Been Better: Historical Movies that Fell Flat
Jul 12, 2024
The American Revolution Was Exceptional
Jul 04, 2024
The Purpose of the American Revolution
Jun 28, 2024
The British Go South: A Story of the American War for Independence
Jun 21, 2024
Seven Reasons to Keep the Electoral College
Jun 14, 2024
Conservative Bookshelf - Volume 2
Jun 08, 2024
Flags of our (Founding) Fathers
May 31, 2024
Memorial Day
May 26, 2024
Congressional Kerfuffles, Catholicism, and the Kansas City Kicker
May 24, 2024
Settler Colonialism Through History
May 17, 2024
Bonfire of the Academies
May 10, 2024
The Historian and Hardihood Books: A Discussion with Ben Connelly About Non-Fiction and Fiction Writing
May 09, 2024
The Spider King: Successful Foreign Policy
Apr 25, 2024
Protests, Freedom of Speech and History
Apr 18, 2024
The Fourteen Most Pivotal Moments in Early American History
Apr 11, 2024
Civil Wars in History and Today
Apr 04, 2024
Ghosts of World War I
Mar 28, 2024
Rebel Yelling: The State of Adults in America
Mar 21, 2024
Party Crashings
Mar 07, 2024
Rank Rankings: Something Smells Bad About APSA"s Latest Presidential Survey
Feb 29, 2024
Politics, Parenting and History
Feb 22, 2024
Movies from 2023 (and a few from 2024)
Feb 16, 2024
The Rot in Our Institutions - Part Four: Life and Liberty
Feb 09, 2024
The Rot in Our Institutions – Part Three: My Time With the AMA
Feb 02, 2024
The Rot in Our Institutions – Part Two: Fixing the Academy
Jan 26, 2024
The Rot in Our Institutions - Part One: The Academy
Jan 19, 2024
Taiwan: Flashpoint in the East
Jan 11, 2024
Form Without Substance: Tojo, Trump, Biden and The Squire of Gothos
Jan 04, 2024
Haley Won't Be Running With Trump
Dec 22, 2023
Why are Historical Bio Pics Seldom Historical
Dec 14, 2023
The Road to Rational Policy
Dec 07, 2023
Starting the Clock: The Use of History with Israel and Palestine
Dec 01, 2023
Thanksgiving: A Historical Perspective of Gratitude
Nov 22, 2023
Trying to Save the Elephants
Nov 16, 2023
Debating the Value of Debates
Nov 09, 2023
Persia and Iran - Part Three: Terrors of the Future
Nov 02, 2023
Persia and Iran - Part Two: The Road to Revolution
Oct 26, 2023
Persia and Iran - Part One: Splendors of the Past
Oct 19, 2023
The Destruction of the Order of Assassins: Lessons for our Time
Oct 12, 2023
Escape or Educate: the Purpose of Movies
Oct 05, 2023
Six Reasons Why Rome Matters
Sep 28, 2023
Climate Change and Religion
Sep 21, 2023
Immigrations and Migrations - A Tale of Attila the Hun
Sep 14, 2023
Aged Rulers
Sep 07, 2023
The Folly of Isolationism in History
Aug 31, 2023
Lying in Plain Sight
Aug 26, 2023
Alarm Veeps
Aug 16, 2023
Masculinity and History - Part II
Aug 11, 2023
Masculinity and History - Part I
Aug 03, 2023
Dropping the Bomb: Why Truman was Right
Jul 27, 2023
Word Play
Jul 22, 2023
The Union that Dominates American Education: A Brief History of the American Federation of Teachers
Jul 15, 2023
Childlike Dissonance
Jul 08, 2023
Mercenaries: Italy, Persia and Putin
Jul 02, 2023
We Need More Babies
Jun 24, 2023
Can You Dig It? Archeology and Assyria
Jun 18, 2023
Movies and Rebels
Jun 04, 2023
Memorial Day
May 27, 2023
Black Cleopatra and Historical Documentaries
May 21, 2023
Leisure Time in the Past and Present
May 13, 2023
Opportunists and Leadership Vacuums
May 06, 2023
Despising Your Audience
Apr 29, 2023
Time to Move on From Trump: A Historical Look at his Chances of Election
Apr 22, 2023
Historical Insanities: Doing the Same Thing Over Again
Apr 15, 2023
The Left Acts and the Right Reacts
Apr 02, 2023
The Fog of War
Mar 25, 2023
Not RINOs, CINOs are the Problem
Mar 19, 2023
The 1619 Project and the Falsification of History
Mar 12, 2023
National Anthems: Only One Per Nation
Feb 23, 2023
Historical Movies and the Academy Awards
Feb 18, 2023
Before the Industrial Age: The False Eden
Feb 12, 2023
African American Conservative Writers: Black History Month Bookshelf
Feb 05, 2023
The Sad Endurance of Tyranny
Jan 21, 2023
The Hard Way - Clown House II
Jan 14, 2023
Clown House
Jan 08, 2023
The Necessity for Strong Allies
Jan 04, 2023
The Reagan Reaction and the Road to Trump
Dec 26, 2022
Youth Must be Served
Dec 16, 2022
The Corruption of Business
Dec 03, 2022
Fighting, Winning and Losing: Jackson, Trump and Ulysses S. Grant
Nov 25, 2022
Thomas Cahill: Great Historian
Nov 11, 2022
Missed Appropriation: No more Tacos, or Tuesday, and Definitely Not Taco Tuesday
Nov 08, 2022
The Stories We Tell
Oct 31, 2022
1894: The Midterm Election that Changed Everything
Oct 23, 2022
Gaslighting and History
Oct 16, 2022
Teacher Teacher: Plato and the Modern Academy
Oct 01, 2022
Movie Series and Prequals: Art or Money
Sep 18, 2022
How Sweet It Isn’t: American Historical Association President James Sweet Abjectly Cringes Before the Woke Mob
Sep 10, 2022
Are We Getting Dumber?
Sep 04, 2022
Presidential Historians - A Thirst for Influence
Aug 28, 2022
Banana Republic
Aug 18, 2022
A Brief History of the Supreme Court - Part V: Borking, Thomas, and SCOTUS at the Center of Society
Aug 14, 2022
A Brief History of the United States Supreme Court - Part IV: Judicial Activism and the Road to Roe
Aug 07, 2022
A Brief History of the United States Supreme Court – Part III: Two Presidents and a Marshall
Jul 24, 2022
A Brief History of the United States Supreme Court - Part II: The Nadir of the Supreme Court - Plessy V. Ferguson
Jul 17, 2022
A Brief History of the United States Supreme Court - Part I: The Role of the Court
Jul 10, 2022
Are You Serious
Jun 28, 2022
The Fall of the Game of Thrones and Real History
Jun 19, 2022
I Say Whip It, WHIP it Good!: A Story of Gerald Ford’s Whip Inflation Now Campaign
Jun 12, 2022
Fakery in History
Jun 05, 2022
No Easy Answers
May 29, 2022
Heroes, History and the Woke Left
May 25, 2022
Diversity and Military Success
May 15, 2022
Historical Movie Awokenings
May 08, 2022
Show Me the Money
May 01, 2022
Naked Cynicism in History and the Democrat plan for 2022
Apr 20, 2022
The Fall of the Soviet Union and Rise of Putin: Russian and Ukrainian History - Part V
Apr 13, 2022
The Soviet Union: Russian and Ukrainian History - Part IV
Mar 31, 2022
The Largest Nation on Earth: Russian and Ukrainian History – Part III
Mar 25, 2022
The pull of East and West: Russian and Ukrainian History – Part II
Mar 13, 2022
False Justifications for War: Russian and Ukrainian History - Part I
Feb 27, 2022
Legislators vs. Executives: Who are the better Presidents?
Feb 20, 2022
The Movie Back to School, Academia, Business, and Fame
Feb 15, 2022
Presidential Resets in American History
Feb 08, 2022
Americans, Meat Loaf, Maturation and Mortality
Jan 31, 2022
The Ghosts in the Machine
Jan 21, 2022
Peasants Revolt: Freedom and Risk
Jan 16, 2022
Four Revolutions
Jan 05, 2022
True Believers in History
Dec 21, 2021
The Seven Greatest Blunders in History
Dec 12, 2021
Security, Bridges, Babies and Behavior
Dec 05, 2021
The MOST Historically Accurate Movies - and More
Nov 20, 2021
A Brief History of American Education: Part II – The Dewey Disease
Nov 13, 2021
A Brief History of American Education: Part I – Purpose and Public Schools
Nov 01, 2021
Trojan Horses and the Biden Build Back Better Bloated Boondoggle Bomination
Oct 20, 2021
American Royal
Oct 10, 2021
Politics as Performance: Boris, Julius, and AOC
Sep 26, 2021
A Brief History of Social Security
Sep 15, 2021
The Political Generals and the Withdraw from Afghanistan
Sep 05, 2021
On the Frontiers: Foreign Policy in Ancient Rome, Tang Dynasty China, and America
Aug 26, 2021
Afghanistan: Graveyard of Empires or U.S. Exceptionalism
Aug 15, 2021
The Art of War
Jul 27, 2021
Historical Hits - Episode 1
Jul 23, 2021
Henry VIII, Marcus Aurelius, Abdul Aziz and Voting in a Republic
Jul 15, 2021
They Blinded Me With Science
Jul 08, 2021
A Brief History of Taxation
Jul 03, 2021
The Hollywood Dilemma
Jun 26, 2021
Top Ten Historical Movies that Should Be Made
Jun 21, 2021
Who's in Charge? A History of Figurehead Rulers
Jun 16, 2021
What is Conservative History
Jun 06, 2021
The Purpose of a Military
Jun 01, 2021
Two States: A Brief History of the Jews and Israel - Part II
May 27, 2021
To Your Offspring I will Give this Land: A Brief History of the Jews and Israel - Part I
May 23, 2021
5 Good Historical TV Shows and Their Sort of Evil Twin
May 15, 2021
Why Big Corporate America is Going Woke
May 11, 2021
The Virus Attacking our Republic
May 03, 2021
Jim Crow and the False Narrative of 2021
Apr 24, 2021
Historically Old and COVID-19
Apr 18, 2021
Real Historical Crisis
Apr 11, 2021
Asian American Discrimination in the United States
Apr 04, 2021
Naked Moments in History
Mar 30, 2021
A Brief History of "Media"
Mar 22, 2021
Meghan and Harry and the Monarchial Presidency
Mar 15, 2021
Presidential Priest Kings
Mar 08, 2021
The CH Fixes Seven Liberal Movies
Mar 01, 2021
Cleveland, Trump and Teddy and the Hard Math
Feb 22, 2021
Mansa Musa - African Titan
Feb 15, 2021
Washington vs. Du Bois: The Fight for the African American Identity
Feb 09, 2021
GameStop and the Ghost of JP Morgan
Feb 01, 2021
Activists - The Running Sore on the Body Politic
Jan 29, 2021
Augustus Caesar - What History has to Teach
Jan 25, 2021
A Peaceful March on Washington
Jan 21, 2021
Ida Tarbell, John D Rockefeller, and the Falsity of Progressive History
Jan 18, 2021
Conservatism at the Crossroads
Jan 11, 2021
Two Days that Cost Donald Trump the Presidency
Jan 06, 2021
Monopolies are Very Bad - Except Big Education Part II
Jan 02, 2021
Monopolies are Very Bad - Except Big Education Part I
Dec 30, 2020
Guns, Opportunities and Gender
Dec 23, 2020
Western Colonialism - A Different Perspective
Dec 17, 2020
Doctor Doctor, Give Me the News (or the prognosis)
Dec 15, 2020
Walter Williams - A Different Way
Dec 09, 2020
Top 14 Least Historically Accurate Movies
Dec 02, 2020
Barack Obama: The Promise and the Promised Land
Nov 30, 2020
Historical Book Shelf Volume 1
Nov 26, 2020
Six Reasons to Keep the Electoral College
Nov 23, 2020
Alexander of Macedon and the Sometimes Badness of Being "Great"
Nov 18, 2020
NPR and PBS – A Case for Privatization
Nov 16, 2020
A Selected History of Presidential Defeats
Nov 11, 2020
Conservative Historian Book Excerpt Number 3
Nov 09, 2020
A Wariness of Certitude
Nov 04, 2020
Bruce Springsteen, Joe Biden, and Conservatism
Nov 02, 2020
Movies, Mayhem and the Media - An Interview with Gustavus Aves
Oct 29, 2020
Conservative Historian Book - Free Excerpt Number 2
Oct 27, 2020
Conservative Historian Book Free Excerpt - "On History"
Oct 20, 2020
Patrisse Cullors vs. Shelby Steele - A Tale of Two African American Voices
Oct 20, 2020
The Post Presidential Money Grab
Oct 16, 2020
The Pyramids, the Taj Mahal, and Social Security
Oct 13, 2020
Lamentations of Our Times
Oct 09, 2020
Dr. Seuss and the College Experience
Oct 08, 2020
Joe Biden, Henry Wallace, the election of 1944, and Kamala Harris
Oct 07, 2020
The Supreme Court of United States: Selected History
Oct 05, 2020
Reason for Being: The People’s Party and the BLM Organization
Sep 18, 2020
Joe Biden and the Potemkin Campaign
Sep 11, 2020
The Maginot Line and American Politics
Sep 09, 2020
The Vice Presidential Choice through U.S. History
Sep 02, 2020
Vive la révolution: The French Revolution and Modern American Protests
Aug 31, 2020
What Makes Civilizations Strong
Aug 26, 2020
Elections that Actually Did Change Everything
Aug 24, 2020
Top 20 Historical Movies
Aug 19, 2020
COVID Chronicles: Three Pieces about the Coronavirus
Aug 17, 2020
The Historical Context of Class Envy, Marxism and the Road to Power
Aug 13, 2020
The Four Pillars of the Academy: Is this Institution Necessary?
Aug 11, 2020
Heroes, History, and the Woke Left
Aug 04, 2020
The Seven Deadly Sins and Conservative Philosophy
Jul 30, 2020
Never Sports: Why I am Quitting Support of Sports (At Least for Now)
Jul 27, 2020
Follow the Dream, Follow the Money: How a Sultan and a Pope explain the New York Times Pivot
Jul 23, 2020
Why Reparations is a Bad Idea
Jul 21, 2020
Defund the University
Jul 04, 2020
Star Trek: Race and Risk in 2020
Jul 02, 2020
Systemic Racism: A New View
Jun 25, 2020
A Revival of the Case for Term Limits
Jun 23, 2020
The American President Movie - 25 Years Later
Jun 17, 2020
Trump: TV and Real Life
Jun 09, 2020
The Myth of Publicly Funded Infrastructure
Jun 04, 2020
The American Family and the Emanation of Affluence
May 26, 2020
1619 Project and the Minting of Money
May 25, 2020
China in the Past and Today
May 17, 2020
A Modest Proposal on Climate Change
Apr 29, 2020
Is Healthcare a Right?
Apr 28, 2020
Worst Historical Movies
Apr 28, 2020