History Nerds United
By Brendan Dowd
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Let's make history fun again! Come listen to interviews with award winning authors, the rantings of a history nerd, and various other things. Enjoy!
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The Rise and Fall of Emanuel Nobel with Douglas Brunt
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May 19, 2026 |
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Marathons and the Worldwide Running Boom with Martin Dugard
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May 16, 2026 |
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Athens and Sparta with Adrian Goldsworthy
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May 12, 2026 |
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The Syrian Revolution with Anand Gopal
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May 05, 2026 |
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The Doomed Journey of Francisco Coronado with Peter Stark
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Apr 28, 2026 |
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Books I Don't Want You To Miss for April 2026
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Apr 25, 2026 |
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The Women of the Stuart Restoration Court with Breeze Barrington
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Apr 21, 2026 |
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The Supreme Court with Sarah Isgur
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Apr 18, 2026 |
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Rasputin with Antony Beevor
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Apr 14, 2026 |
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A Mysterious London Death with Patrick Radden Keefe
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Apr 07, 2026 |
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The British Crown and Slavery with Brooke Newman
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Mar 31, 2026 |
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Books I Don't Want You To Miss for March 2026
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Mar 29, 2026 |
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The Seven Daughters of Maria Theresa with Veronica Buckley
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Mar 24, 2026 |
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The Pursuit of Professional Wrestling Glory with Alison Lyn Miller and Hollywood Hunter James
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Mar 17, 2026 |
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Hawai'i, Family, and Legacy with Sara Kehaulani Goo
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Mar 10, 2026 |
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Larry Bird at Indiana State University with Keith O'Brien
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Mar 03, 2026 |
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Books I Don't Want You To Miss for February 2026
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Feb 28, 2026 |
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Ruby Ridge with Chris Jennings
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Feb 24, 2026 |
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The Most Prolific Female Serial Killer in History, Elizabeth Bathory, with Shelley Puhak
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Feb 17, 2026 |
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The Bernie Goetz Case with Elliot Williams
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Feb 10, 2026 |
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American Sports Gambling With Danny Funt
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Feb 07, 2026 |
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Con Men, Call Centers, and Rogue Doctors with Elizabeth Chamblee Burch
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Feb 03, 2026 |
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Books I Don't Want You To Miss for January 2026
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Jan 31, 2026 |
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The Search for a Sunken Spanish Galleon with Julian Sancton
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Jan 27, 2026 |
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Thomas Paine and the American Revolution with Jack Kelly
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Jan 20, 2026 |
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Charlotte Brontë's Legacy With Graham Watson
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Jan 13, 2026 |
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St. Joan of Arc with Helen Castor
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Dec 16, 2025 |
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The History of Whiskey with Noah Rothbaum
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Dec 09, 2025 |
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James VI and I with Gareth Russell
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Dec 02, 2025 |
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The History and Future of the Wind with Simon Winchester
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Nov 25, 2025 |
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The Life of Joan Crawford with Scott Eyman
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Nov 18, 2025 |
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NASA's Gemini Space Program With Jeffrey Kluger
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Nov 11, 2025 |
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Elizabeth I, James I, and the Death of the Tudor Dynasty With Tracy Borman
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Nov 04, 2025 |
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Teddy Roosevelt with Bret Baier
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Oct 28, 2025 |
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The Exoneration Fight of Leo Schofield With Pulitzer Prize Winner Gilbert King
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Oct 21, 2025 |
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The Zorg, The Slave Ship That Ignited Abolition with Siddharth Kara
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Oct 14, 2025 |
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The Trial of Al Qaeda Terrorist Spin Ghul with Jake Tapper
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Oct 07, 2025 |
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The Sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald with John Bacon
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Sep 30, 2025 |
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Deadwood with Peter Cozzens
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Sep 23, 2025 |
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The Special Counsel Cases of Nixon, Reagan, Bush, Clinton, Biden, and Trump with Elie Honig
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Sep 16, 2025 |
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1999 with Ross Benes
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Sep 07, 2025 |
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"Pirate" Captain William Kidd with Samuel Marquis
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Sep 02, 2025 |
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The World War II Women of the Italian Resistance with Suzanne Cope
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Aug 26, 2025 |
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Catholic Saints and Canonization with Kate Sidley
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Aug 19, 2025 |
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Saint Thomas More with Joanne Paul
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Aug 12, 2025 |
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The Iranian Revolution with Scott Anderson
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Aug 05, 2025 |
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Argentina's Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo Who Fought to Find Their Lost Grandchildren with Haley Cohen Gilliland
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Jul 29, 2025 |
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Amelia Earhart and Her Husband George Putnam with Laurie Gwen Shapiro
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Jul 22, 2025 |
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The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln and the People Overlooked in Civil War History with Scott Ellsworth
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Jul 15, 2025 |
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The Murders of the London Blitz with Amy Helen Bell and Roosevelt to Roosevelt with Stan Haynes
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Jul 08, 2025 |
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The Roosevelt Brothers' Search for the Elusive Giant Panda with Nathalia Holt
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Jul 01, 2025 |
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The Viking Age and the Lives of Everyday Norsemen with Eleanor Barraclough
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Jun 24, 2025 |
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The Greatest Monsters of History Including Vampires, Rougarou, Dragons, and Even Godzilla with Nick Jubber
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Jun 17, 2025 |
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Ted Bundy, the Rise of Serial Killers, Pacific Northwest Life, and the Lead Crime Hypothesis with Pulitzer Prize Winner Caroline Fraser
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Jun 10, 2025 |
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English Kings, Their Favorites, and the Upheaval of the 14th Century with Helen Carr
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Jun 03, 2025 |
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The Battle of the Atlantic and the Heist of a German U-Boat with Alexander Rose
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May 27, 2025 |
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Midway Island and the World War II Battle That Changed the Pacific Theater with Martin Dugard
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May 20, 2025 |
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World War II Art Spy Rose Valland with Michelle Young
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May 13, 2025 |
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WWII Era Serial Killer Reg Christie and (Maybe?) the Execution of an Innocent Man with Kate Summerscale
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May 06, 2025 |
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The Publishing World and How to Be More Grateful About the Little Things with Todd Doughty
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Apr 29, 2025 |
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When Women Took Over the American Fashion on Fifth Avenue in 1900s New York City with Julie Satow
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Apr 22, 2025 |
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How New Amsterdam Became New York with Russell Shorto
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Apr 15, 2025 |
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The True Crime Case of Dr. Crippen with Hallie Rubenhold
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Apr 08, 2025 |
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Life in Video Games with Mike Drucker
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Apr 01, 2025 |
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Postwar Baseball, the Spokane Indians, and the Deadliest Accident in American Professional Sports with Eric Vickrey
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Mar 28, 2025 |
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World War II Nazi POWs in America with William Geroux
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Mar 25, 2025 |
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China and its People with NPR Correspondent Emily Feng
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Mar 18, 2025 |
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San Francisco's Turbulent History and an Unbelievable Gilded-Age Murder with Gary Krist
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Mar 11, 2025 |
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The History of Ancient Rome with Gareth Harney
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Mar 04, 2025 |
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Rebel Empresses Elisabeth of Austria and Eugénie of France with Nancy Goldstone
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Feb 25, 2025 |
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The First Airshow in American History with Richard Goodrich
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Feb 18, 2025 |
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Japan, Writing Biographies, Personal Loss, Family, and How the Little Things are What You Remember with Pulitzer Prize Winner Megan Mashall
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Feb 11, 2025 |
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New York City Place Names and How They Got Them Like Major Deegan, Outerbridge, and Hutchinson with Rebecca Bratspies
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Feb 04, 2025 |
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Airships in the Arctic, Roald Amundsen, and a Rescue at the Top of the World with Buddy Levy
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Jan 28, 2025 |
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Burma, The Wa State, and the DEA vs. the CIA with Patrick Winn
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Jan 21, 2025 |
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The Wars of Russian History, Putin's Historical Inaccuracy, and the Charm of The Great with Mark Galeotti
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Jan 14, 2025 |
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The Return of American Revolution Hero the Marquis de Lafayette with Elizabeth Reese
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Dec 17, 2024 |
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Raised By A Serial Killer, Edward Wayne Edwards, with April Balascio
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Dec 10, 2024 |
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The True Crime Story of Barbara "Bloody Babs" Graham and the OJ Simpson Trial with Marcia Clark
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Dec 03, 2024 |
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The FBI's War Against American Gangsters Like John Dillinger, Babyface Nelson, and Bonnie and Clyde with John Oller
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Nov 26, 2024 |
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Gladiators, Spartacus, and the Glory of Rome with Gladiator Historian Alexander Mariotti
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Nov 19, 2024 |
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The Untold Story of the Life of the Infamous Nathan Leopold of the Leopold and Loeb Murder with Erik Rebain
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Nov 12, 2024 |
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Shakespeare, Richard II, Henry IV, and the Rebellion That Had to Happen with Helen Castor
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Nov 05, 2024 |
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The History of Cunning Folk, Magic, and Why They Aren't Witches with Tabitha Stanmore
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Oct 29, 2024 |
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The Greatest Nobodies of History Including Leonardo da Vinci's Ferret, Henry VIII's Groom of the Stool, and Many More with YouTube Star Adrian Bliss
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Oct 22, 2024 |
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The Story of Serial Killer Shawn Grate with Retired Homicide Detective Kim Mager
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Oct 15, 2024 |
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The Greatest Warrior King in English History Henry V with Dan Jones
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Oct 08, 2024 |
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The Battle for American Isolationism Before World War II Between Charles Lindbergh and the America First Movement vs. President Franklin Roosevelt with H.W. Brands
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Oct 01, 2024 |
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The 1983 Marine Barracks Bombing in Beirut with Jack Carr and James Scott
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Sep 24, 2024 |
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A True Story of Sex, Murder, and Utopia at the Dawn of World War II with Abbott Kahler
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Sep 17, 2024 |
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The 1980 Iranian Embassy Hostage Crisis in London and the SAS Operation to Save Them with Ben Macintyre
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Sep 10, 2024 |
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Alexander the Great with Rachel Kousser
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Sep 03, 2024 |
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The Heroic British Pilots of the Battle of Britain in World War II with Martin Dugard
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Aug 27, 2024 |
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The Murdaugh Murders of South Carolina With The Wall Street Journal's Valerie Bauerlein
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Aug 20, 2024 |
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The Million Dollar McDonald's Scam with James Lee Hernandez and Brian Lazarte
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Aug 13, 2024 |
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The Historical Accuracy of the Red Dead Redemption Video Games Series with Tore Olsson
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Aug 06, 2024 |
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The Life of Brazilian Trialblazer and Explorer Cândido Rondon with Larry Rohter
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Jul 30, 2024 |
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A Love Story of Auschwitz During World War II with Keren Blankfeld
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Jul 23, 2024 |
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Cold War Conversations Host Ian Sanders
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Jul 16, 2024 |
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How China's Treasures Were Saved During World War II With Adam Brookes
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Jul 09, 2024 |
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1800s New York City Criminal Mastermind Marm Mandelbaum with Margalit Fox
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Jul 02, 2024 |
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Jazz Age Jewel Thief Arthur Barry With Dean Jobb
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Jun 25, 2024 |
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The History of Reality TV with Pulitzer Prize Winner Emily Nussbaum
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Jun 18, 2024 |
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Greek Life and a Fraternity Drug Ring at the College of Charleston with Max Marshall
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Jun 12, 2024 |
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Caught Up With An Infamous Catfish Fraud With Anna Akbari (Part 1: NO SPOILERS)
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Jun 04, 2024 |
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The Name of the Catfish Who Conned Her With Anna Akbari (Part 2: SPOILERS ABOUND)
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Jun 04, 2024 |
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The Quest for El Dorado and the Fall of Sir Walter Raleigh with Keith Thomson
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May 28, 2024 |
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Early 1900s Terrorism in New York City and the Anarchy Movement with Steven Johnson
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May 22, 2024 |
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NASA's Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster with Adam Higginbotham
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May 14, 2024 |
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The Battles for the British Kingdom from 1000-1066 with Don Hollway
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May 07, 2024 |
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The Lives of Jennie Jerome Churchill and Sara Delano Roosevelt with Charlotte Gray
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May 01, 2024 |
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The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World with Bettany Hughes
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Apr 23, 2024 |
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The Final Voyage of Legendary British Explorer Captain James Cook with Hampton Sides
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Apr 17, 2024 |
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Spies, Murder, and Justice in Northern Ireland with Henry Hemming
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Apr 10, 2024 |
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The 1921 Murder Farm Massacre in Georgia With Earl Swift
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Apr 04, 2024 |
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Stéphane Bréitwieser the Most Prolific Art Thief of All Time With Michael Finkel
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Apr 02, 2024 |
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The Rise and Fall of Pete Rose With Keith O'Brien
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Mar 27, 2024 |
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NASA, Asteroids, and the OSIRIS-REx Mission With Dante Lauretta
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Mar 20, 2024 |
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The Abdication of Edward VIII With Jane Tippett
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Mar 13, 2024 |
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North Korea and Kim Jong Un's Dangerous Sister Kim Yo Jong With Sung-Yoon Lee
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Mar 06, 2024 |
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The Life and Death of Snowboarding Pioneer and Legend Craig Kelly With Eric Blehm
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Feb 28, 2024 |
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The Battle of Agincourt with Michael Livingston
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Feb 21, 2024 |
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The American Glider Pilots of World War II With Scott McGaugh
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Feb 14, 2024 |
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The Black Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis With Maria Smilios
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Feb 07, 2024 |
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The Casablanca Conference of World War II With James Conroy
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Jan 31, 2024 |
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The Rise of Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky With Time Magazine Correspondent Simon Shuster
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Jan 24, 2024 |
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The Music of the 90s With The Ringer's Rob Harvilla
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Jan 17, 2024 |
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The Polly Klaas Kidnapping With Kim Cross
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Jan 10, 2024 |
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John L. Stephens and Frederick Catherwood's Rediscovery of the Maya With William Carlsen
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Dec 21, 2023 |
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How George Washington Kept the Army Together During the American Revolution With Seanegan Sculley
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Dec 19, 2023 |
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The Lost Battalion of World War I With Ed Lengel
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Dec 18, 2023 |
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George Kennan's Epic Journey Through Russia's Siberia With Gregory Wallance
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Dec 06, 2023 |
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Life as a Watchmaker and the History of Keeping Time With Rebecca Struthers
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Nov 29, 2023 |
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The Race to Save Russia's Jewish People Before World War I With Steven Ujifusa
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Nov 22, 2023 |
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The Women Who Fought to Bring Their POW Husbands Home From Vietnam With Taylor Baldwin Kiland and Judy Silverstein Gray
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Nov 15, 2023 |
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Podcaster Jessica Cale from Dirty Sexy History
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Nov 08, 2023 |
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Charlie Chaplin's Battle with the American Government With Scott Eyman
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Nov 01, 2023 |
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The Legacy of Siskel and Ebert With Screencrush's Matt Singer
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Oct 25, 2023 |
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The Great San Francisco Earthquake and Fire of 1906 With Matthew Davenport
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Oct 18, 2023 |
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The Only IRA Hit on American Soil With Mark Bulik
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Oct 11, 2023 |
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American Revolution Road Trip With Bob Thompson
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Oct 04, 2023 |
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The Newspaper Wars of New York Over Robert Peary and Frederick Cook's Race for the North Pole With Darrell Hartman
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Sep 27, 2023 |
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Thomas Smallwood and His Amazing Exploits Helping Slaves Escape With Pulitzer Prize Winner Scott Shane
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Sep 20, 2023 |
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Journalism With Former AP Bureau Chief for Mexico and Central America Katherine Corcoran
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Sep 13, 2023 |
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Her Father's Defence of Two Canadian Murderers and How It Affected Her Family With Amy Bell
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Sep 06, 2023 |
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New York City's History With Chance Kelly
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Aug 30, 2023 |
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The Search for Three Missing Hikers on the Pacific Crest Trail With Andrea Lankford
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Aug 23, 2023 |
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The Intertwined Lives of Catherine de Medici, Elisabeth de Valois, and Mary Queen of Scots With Leah Redmond Chang
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Aug 16, 2023 |
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The American Servicewomen of World War II With Lena Andrews
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Aug 09, 2023 |
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The Deep Ocean and the Oceangate Disaster With Susan Casey
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Aug 02, 2023 |
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World War II Akimel O'odham Warrior and Hero Ira Hayes With Tom Holm
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Jul 26, 2023 |
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Great White Sharks With Shark Expert Greg Skomal and co-author Ret Talbot
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Jul 19, 2023 |
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Life as a War Journalist With Jane Ferguson
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Jul 12, 2023 |
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Rosa Parks and the O Street Museum With H.H. Leonards
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Jul 05, 2023 |
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1910's Halley's Comet Panic With Richard Goodrich
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Jun 28, 2023 |
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Edgar Allan Poe With Mark Dawidziak
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Jun 21, 2023 |
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How to Fix the Hollywood System With Vanity Fair's Maureen Ryan
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Jun 14, 2023 |
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George Washington's Descendants With Cassandra Good
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Jun 07, 2023 |
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Multi-Level Marketing (MLM) Schemes With Emily Lynn Paulson
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May 31, 2023 |
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The Jazz Age Rivalry of Senator Burton Wheeler and Attorney General Harry Daugherty With Lost L.A. Host Nathan Masters
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May 24, 2023 |
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The Battles for the Rzhev Salient 1942-43 in World War II With Prit Buttar
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May 17, 2023 |
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The History of Knowledge With Simon Winchester
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May 10, 2023 |
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The 1998 New York Yankees With Jack Curry
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May 03, 2023 |
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The Shipwreck and Survival Story of the Wager With David Grann
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Apr 26, 2023 |
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The Texas Rangers and Their Leader Leander McNelly With Tom Clavin
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Apr 19, 2023 |
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David Koresh and Waco with Stephan Talty
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Apr 12, 2023 |
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Arctic Explorer Peter Freuchen With Reid Mitenbuler
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Apr 05, 2023 |
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Denver DA Philip Van Cise and His War on Corruption and the Klan With Alan Prendergast
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Mar 29, 2023 |
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The Horrors of St. Joseph's Catholic Orphange in Vermont With Christine Kenneally
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Mar 22, 2023 |
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The Greatest Poets of Northern Ireland With Alexander Poots
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Mar 15, 2023 |
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Russia, Putin, and the Future of the Ukraine War With Mark Galeotti
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Mar 08, 2023 |
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Archaeologist Christiane Desroches-Nobelcourt With Lynne Olson
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Mar 01, 2023 |
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World War II Political Fixer Anna Rosenberg With Christopher Gorham
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Feb 22, 2023 |
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South Dakota's Most Infamous Cold Case With Lou Raguse
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Feb 15, 2023 |
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The German View From Dunkirk in World War II With Robert Kershaw
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Feb 08, 2023 |
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World War II U.S. Ambassador to Japan Joseph Grew With Steve Kemper
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Feb 01, 2023 |
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The 1913 Canadian Arctic Expedition and the Heroism of Bob Bartlett With Buddy Levy
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Jan 25, 2023 |
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Spain With Giles Tremlett
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Jan 18, 2023 |
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The Murder Cases That Still Haunt Retired Toronto Homicide Detective Steve Ryan
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Jan 11, 2023 |
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Season 1 Wrap Up
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Dec 21, 2022 |
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The Civil War Battle Waged to Build a Confederate Navy With Alexander Rose
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Dec 07, 2022 |
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The Germans Trying to Bring Down Hitler in World War II With Tom Dunkel
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Nov 23, 2022 |
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Benedict Arnold With James Kirby Martin
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Nov 16, 2022 |
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The Red Widow of Paris Margeurite Steinheil With Sarah Horowitz
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Nov 02, 2022 |
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Samuel Adams With Pulitzer Prize Winner Stacy Schiff
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Oct 26, 2022 |
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The Murder of Mexican Journalist Regina Martinez With Katherine Corcoran
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Oct 19, 2022 |
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History, Weed, and Sister Podcasting With Laurel from High Tales of History
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Oct 12, 2022 |
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Gilded Age Serial Killer Edward Rulloff With Kate Winkler Dawson
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Oct 05, 2022 |
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Her Father's Life Growing Up in the Jim Crow South With Nita Whitaker
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Sep 28, 2022 |
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Bootleg King George Remus and a Jazz Age Murder With Abbott Kahler
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Sep 21, 2022 |
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Pope Pius XII and the Vatican During World War II With Pulitzer Prize Winner David Kertzer
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Sep 14, 2022 |
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Curtis LeMay, the Firebombing of Tokyo, and the Road to the Atomic Bomb in World War II With James M. Scott
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Sep 07, 2022 |
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The Great Stewardess Rebellion With Nell McShane Wulfhart
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Aug 31, 2022 |
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The Rise and Fall of Retail Kingpin Crazy Eddie Antar With Gary Weiss
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Aug 24, 2022 |
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The (Kinda) Paranormal Escape of Two World War I Prisoners With Margalit Fox
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Aug 10, 2022 |
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The Scandals of Alexander Hamilton's Decendants With Bill Shaffer
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Jul 27, 2022 |
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The Assault of a New York City Sewing Girl in 1793 With John Wood Sweet
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Jul 13, 2022 |
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Japan and Her Favorite History With TK from For the Love of History Podcast
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Jul 06, 2022 |
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The Immortal Chaplains of World War II With Steven T. Collis
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Jun 27, 2022 |
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The History of Organ Transplants and Crackpot Science With Paul Craddock
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Jun 22, 2022 |
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Fairy Tales and Their Sometimes Very Weird Origins With Nicholas Jubber
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Jun 15, 2022 |
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Privateers, Pirates, Whaling, Hurricanes, and Lighthouses With Eric Jay Dolin
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Jun 01, 2022 |
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The Last Days of the Dinosaurs With Paleontologist Riley Black
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May 18, 2022 |
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The Pirates Who Raided the South Seas and Rescued a Princess With Keith Thomson
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May 01, 2022 |
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The Deadly Rivalry of Medieval Queens Brunhild and Fredegund With Shelley Puhak
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Apr 18, 2022 |
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New York City Jazz Age Madam Polly Adler With Pulitzer Prize Winner Debby Applegate
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Apr 05, 2022 |
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The Invasion Ukraine and the Similarities to World War II With James Kirby Martin
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Mar 29, 2022 |
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The Yalta Conference of World War II and the Daughters of Roosevelt, Churchill, and Harriman With Catherine Grace Katz
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Mar 09, 2022 |
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Dostoevsky and His True Crime Inspiration for Crime and Punishment With Kevin Birmingham
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Feb 15, 2022 |
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The Dresden Bombings of World War II With James Kirby Martin
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Jan 13, 2022 |
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The Kidnapping of Daniel Boone's Daughter Jemima and Early Colonial Justice With Tobey & Matthew Pearl
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Jan 02, 2022 |
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The Battle of Manila in World War II With James M. Scott
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Dec 15, 2021 |
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The Army/Navy Prank War With Prankmaster General Mike Nemeth
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Dec 06, 2021 |
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Arctic Exploration, Conquistadors, and Exploring the Amazon With Buddy Levy
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Nov 16, 2021 |
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The Radium Girls and The Woman They Could Not Silence With Kate Moore
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Oct 19, 2021 |