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Episodes: 235

Rudon - Left Wing Garbage
 Mar 11, 2024
Left wing slant on everything. Check timing of titles and general elections. Mildly useful when not in the election cycle.

Brandon
 Feb 9, 2024
The normal liberal hates America! Great podcast 👏 except for the conservative hate


 Sep 28, 2023

John
 Feb 6, 2023
Big Don W fan. watch all his stuff. He should rename this American History Apologies though. Tough to listen to someone who has difficulties saying America is great and generally rues our history with no acknowledging accomplishments. There is some interesting things and listened to it all.

Mike
 Dec 15, 2022
Enjoyable podcast. A little pro American bias does creep in. Ted Roosevelt may be rated as one of the top 10 US Presidents, but one has to recall his Racism. He showed the KKK film Birth of our Nation in the Whitehouse and declared it was the truth.

Description

Join Don Wildman twice a week for your hit of American history, as he explores the past to help us understand the United States of today.

 

We’ll hear how codebreakers uncovered secret Japanese plans for the Battle of Midway, visit Chief Powhatan as he prepares for war with the British, see Walt Disney accuse his former colleagues of being communists, and uncover the dark history that lies beneath Central Park.  

 

From pre-colonial America to independence, slavery to civil rights, the gold rush to the space race, join Don as he speaks to leading experts to delve into America’s past.

 

New episodes every Monday and Thursday.

 

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Episode Date
UFOs in the US
Dec 02, 2024
The Mayflower: What Was Life Like At Sea?
Nov 28, 2024
The Mayflower: Why Did the Pilgrims Leave Europe?
Nov 25, 2024
President Warren G. Harding: Scandals, Affairs & Cabinet Selections
Nov 21, 2024
The Spanish-American War
Nov 18, 2024
A CIA Man in China: 20 Years Imprisoned
Nov 14, 2024
Nazis in America: Fascism in the 1930s
Nov 11, 2024
Presidents' Private Lives
Nov 07, 2024
Elections Explained: A History of Rigged Elections
Nov 04, 2024
New York Morgue's Dark Secrets
Oct 31, 2024
Elections Explained: The Man Who's Lost The Most
Oct 28, 2024
The Doolittle Raid: WW2 Bombing of Japan
Oct 24, 2024
Elections Explained: How FDR Won Four Times
Oct 21, 2024
The Battle of Bull Run
Oct 17, 2024
Elections Explained: A History of Voting
Oct 14, 2024
Outlaws: John Dillinger | Public Enemy Number One
Oct 10, 2024
Who Was Christopher Columbus?
Oct 07, 2024
Outlaws: Bonnie & Clyde
Oct 03, 2024
Woodrow Wilson & The End of WW1: The League of Nations
Sep 30, 2024
Outlaws: Jesse James
Sep 26, 2024
Guantanamo Bay Detention Center: A History From The Inside
Sep 23, 2024
Outlaws: New York's Criminal Mastermind
Sep 19, 2024
How The World Sees The US: The Art of Diplomacy
Sep 16, 2024
McCarthy & the Second Red Scare
Sep 12, 2024
Japanese in America: Railroads, Internment Camps & Little Tokyo
Sep 08, 2024
President Woodrow Wilson: Progressive? Warmonger? Overrated?
Sep 05, 2024
British Brides for American Tobacco: A Tudor Trade
Sep 02, 2024
Who Was The Richest President?
Aug 29, 2024
Eisenhower: D-Day and the Birth of the American Superpower
Aug 26, 2024
President William Howard Taft: The Reluctant Politician?
Aug 22, 2024
Lafayette: The Marquis and the American Revolution
Aug 19, 2024
Kamala Harris: An Unprecedented Candidacy?
Aug 15, 2024
American History Hit: 200 Episodes On
Aug 15, 2024
President Theodore Roosevelt
Aug 12, 2024
The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt
Aug 08, 2024
Origins of Political Campaigns: Publicity Stunts & Fake News
Aug 05, 2024
American Operators on WW1's Front Line
Aug 01, 2024
The Third Presidential Assassination: McKinley
Jul 29, 2024
President William McKinley: The Secret Service & the Spanish-American War
Jul 25, 2024
Biden: US Presidents, Reelection & the Second Term Curse
Jul 24, 2024
Secrets of the White House
Jul 22, 2024
US Presidents Who Escaped Assassination
Jul 19, 2024
Sovereignty, the Constitution and 100 years of Citizenship: Native Rights
Jul 18, 2024
The Rise of Presidential Power
Jul 15, 2024
President Grover Cleveland: Panic in the Second Term
Jul 11, 2024
Zionism in Texas
Jul 08, 2024
What is Populism? From the Farmers' Alliance to Trump
Jul 04, 2024
What Caused the American Revolution?
Jun 30, 2024
President Benjamin Harrison: The President with a Petting Zoo
Jun 27, 2024
The First Battle of the Civil War: Fort Sumter
Jun 24, 2024
The Whiskey Rebellion: Tax Protest & Armed Resistance
Jun 20, 2024
Presidential Pardons: Mormons, Conscientious Objectors & January 6th
Jun 17, 2024
President Grover Cleveland: Honest to a Fault?
Jun 13, 2024
The War on Crime: The 1930s and the New Deal
Jun 09, 2024
America at D-Day
Jun 06, 2024
Communism in America
Jun 02, 2024
The History of Baseball
May 29, 2024
The Battle of Okinawa
May 27, 2024
President Chester A. Arthur: Redemption in Office?
May 23, 2024
The Real Hamilton: An American Myth?
May 19, 2024
American Castaways: Treachery & Survival in the Falklands
May 16, 2024
The Real Hamilton: Downfall, Duel & Death
May 13, 2024
President James A. Garfield: Sex Cults & Assassination
May 08, 2024
The Real Hamilton: Lover, Adulterer, Family Man?
May 06, 2024
Teddy Roosevelt: The Making of the Rough Rider President
May 02, 2024
The Real Hamilton: Founding Father
Apr 28, 2024
President Rutherford B. Hayes: The First Great Depression
Apr 25, 2024
Founding Father: Who Was John Hancock?
Apr 22, 2024
The 1921 Murder Farm Massacre: Slavery After the Civil War
Apr 18, 2024
President Ulysses S. Grant: The Myth of the Butcher
Apr 15, 2024
Ulysses S. Grant & the Civil War
Apr 11, 2024
The Rise & Fall of Al Capone
Apr 08, 2024
NATO: 75 Years Deterring Armageddon
Apr 04, 2024
The Real Great Gatsby
Apr 01, 2024
President Andrew Johnson: Reconstruction & The First Impeachment
Mar 28, 2024
The Salem Witch Trials
Mar 24, 2024
Did the Cold War Ever End?
Mar 21, 2024
Irish in America: Poverty to Power
Mar 18, 2024
Lincoln: Love, Loss & Legacy
Mar 14, 2024
The Rise & Fall of the Ku Klux Klan
Mar 11, 2024
Lincoln & the Civil War
Mar 07, 2024
The Last Ship of the Atlantic Slave Trade
Mar 03, 2024
Lincoln the President
Feb 29, 2024
American History Tellers
Feb 27, 2024
The Truth about the American Dream: The Baldwin-Buckley Debate
Feb 25, 2024
D.B. Cooper & the 70s Hijacking Craze
Feb 22, 2024
Tulsa Massacre: Violence, Resilience & Rebirth
Feb 19, 2024
President James Buchanan: The Worst President Ever?
Feb 15, 2024
The Clinton Scandals
Feb 11, 2024
Facebook at Twenty: From College Dorms to Court Cases
Feb 07, 2024
Origins of the Civil War
Feb 04, 2024
President Franklin Pierce: Tragedies & Trade-Offs
Feb 01, 2024
The Apache Wars
Jan 29, 2024
Masters of the Air: WW2's Bloody 100th Bombers
Jan 25, 2024
The Watergate Scandal
Jan 21, 2024
President Millard Fillmore: The Most Handsome President?
Jan 18, 2024
The Making of Martin Luther King Jr.
Jan 15, 2024
The Election That Changed Politics: 1968
Jan 11, 2024
President Zachary Taylor
Jan 08, 2024
The Tet Offensive: Turning Point of the Vietnam War?
Jan 04, 2024
The Tudors & the American West Coast
Jan 01, 2024
Prohibition
Dec 28, 2023
The Kennedy Curse
Dec 25, 2023
President James K. Polk: Lies, Warmongering & the Myth of Success
Dec 20, 2023
The Amish: Origins and Society
Dec 18, 2023
Tea, Tax & Revolution: Boston Tea Party Aftermath
Dec 14, 2023
The Boston Tea Party Explained
Dec 10, 2023
President John Tyler: The 'Accidental' President
Dec 06, 2023
The Rise & Fall of Political Parties
Dec 04, 2023
Operation Downfall: What if the Allies Invaded Japan?
Nov 30, 2023
President William Henry Harrison: 32 Days in Office
Nov 27, 2023
Napoleon in America
Nov 23, 2023
JFK Assassination: A Witness Remembers
Nov 20, 2023
JFK: The Most Popular President?
Nov 16, 2023
The Gettysburg Address
Nov 13, 2023
President Martin Van Buren
Nov 09, 2023
Vikings in America
Nov 05, 2023
Killers of the Flower Moon: Native Americans & the FBI
Nov 02, 2023
New Orleans Voodoo
Oct 30, 2023
President Andrew Jackson
Oct 26, 2023
The Real Wild West
Oct 23, 2023
Medieval North America: Gods of Thunder
Oct 19, 2023
Battle of the Alamo
Oct 16, 2023
President John Quincy Adams
Oct 12, 2023
What if the South Won the Civil War?
Oct 09, 2023
Origins of the Vietnam War
Oct 05, 2023
The American Buffalo with Ken Burns
Oct 02, 2023
President James Monroe
Sep 28, 2023
Battle of Little Bighorn
Sep 24, 2023
Sabotage & Secret Weapons: The WW2 Dirty Tricks Department
Sep 21, 2023
Three Mile Island: Nuclear Accident in Pennsylvania
Sep 18, 2023
President James Madison
Sep 14, 2023
9/11: Toxic Gas, PTSD & Rebuilding
Sep 11, 2023
The Mexican-American War
Sep 07, 2023
Oppenheimer: What If America Never Dropped the Atomic Bomb?
Sep 04, 2023
President Thomas Jefferson
Aug 31, 2023
The 1906 San Francisco Earthquake
Aug 28, 2023
Prehistoric North America
Aug 24, 2023
Pocahontas: The True Story
Aug 21, 2023
President John Adams
Aug 17, 2023
The Texas Chicken Ranch: Famous Brothel to Broadway
Aug 14, 2023
The Pueblo Revolt
Aug 10, 2023
The Magna Carta in America
Aug 07, 2023
President George Washington
Aug 03, 2023
Robert E Lee: Life & Legacy
Jul 31, 2023
Birth of the US Government: The Constitutional Convention
Jul 27, 2023
Barbie: German Sex Doll to American Icon
Jul 24, 2023
Mormons & The Founding of Salt Lake City
Jul 20, 2023
A History of American Childhood
Jul 17, 2023
Nixon in Moscow: The Kitchen Debate
Jul 13, 2023
LSD in New York: Research, Recreation and Radicalism
Jul 10, 2023
The Crossfire of Gettysburg
Jul 06, 2023
The Battle of Gettysburg
Jul 03, 2023
Stonewall
Jun 29, 2023
Amelia Earhart
Jun 26, 2023
The CIA & MI6: The Real Special Relationship?
Jun 22, 2023
The Long Death of Slavery
Jun 19, 2023
Louisiana's Ancient Mystery: Poverty Point
Jun 15, 2023
The Lavender Scare: Being Gay in Washington DC
Jun 12, 2023
The Wright Brothers
Jun 08, 2023
White Women Slave Owners
Jun 05, 2023
California Gold Rush
Jun 01, 2023
Lincoln & God: Scepticism to Spiritualism
May 29, 2023
The Birth of the American Flag
May 25, 2023
America Prepares for War: FDR & WW2
May 22, 2023
Serial Killer Family on the Frontier
May 18, 2023
LBJ's Legacy
May 15, 2023
The Rise of Buffalo Bill
May 11, 2023
Roanoke: The Lost English Colony
May 08, 2023
The King & FDR: The Birth of the Special Relationship
May 04, 2023
Battle of Amiens
May 01, 2023
Cahokia: The Medieval Mississippian City
Apr 27, 2023
How Horses Conquered America (Twice)
Apr 24, 2023
Becoming Benjamin Franklin
Apr 20, 2023
America's Top Secrets: Manhattan Project to Drone Warfare
Apr 17, 2023
The Moon Landing
Apr 13, 2023
The Road to Civil Rights
Apr 10, 2023
Hudson River: America's First Art Movement
Apr 06, 2023
Espionage & Enslavement in the Revolution
Apr 03, 2023
French Spies in the American Revolution
Mar 30, 2023
The White House Chief of Staff
Mar 27, 2023
A History of America in 5 Foods
Mar 23, 2023
Iroquois Confederacy
Mar 20, 2023
Empire State Building
Mar 16, 2023
The Erie Canal
Mar 13, 2023
First Ladies of the United States
Mar 09, 2023
New Amsterdam
Mar 06, 2023
George III - The Last King of America
Mar 02, 2023
The Race That Sold The Car To America
Feb 27, 2023
America and the Haiti Revolution
Feb 23, 2023
Samuel Adams
Feb 20, 2023
Harriet Tubman
Feb 16, 2023
A History of New York in 3 Hotels
Feb 13, 2023
The Battle of Valcour Island
Feb 09, 2023
Jamestown
Feb 06, 2023
The First American in Space
Feb 02, 2023
Yellowstone
Jan 30, 2023
The Fall of J. Edgar Hoover
Jan 26, 2023
The Rise of J. Edgar Hoover
Jan 23, 2023
Ellis Island
Jan 19, 2023
Dr Martin Luther King Jr
Jan 16, 2023
Charles Dickens in America
Jan 12, 2023
Inside Benjamin Franklin's House
Jan 09, 2023
Lessons from the Civil War
Jan 05, 2023
Downton Abbey
Dec 29, 2022
The First Americans
Dec 22, 2022
The French & Indian War with Dan Snow
Dec 19, 2022
The War of 1812
Dec 15, 2022
The Assassination of President McKinley
Dec 12, 2022
Pearl Harbor
Dec 08, 2022
Start of the Space Race
Dec 05, 2022
Capturing Lincoln’s Assassin
Dec 01, 2022
The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
Nov 28, 2022
The First Thanksgiving
Nov 24, 2022
Ronald Reagan: The Peacemaker
Nov 21, 2022
Who Really Invented the Light Bulb?
Nov 17, 2022
The Whiskey Rebellion
Nov 14, 2022
African Americans in WW2
Nov 10, 2022
The Race for the North Pole
Nov 07, 2022
Becoming FDR
Nov 03, 2022
Sleepy Hollow & the Haunted Hudson
Oct 31, 2022
America's Psychedelic '60s: Timothy Leary and LSD
Oct 27, 2022
The Oregon Trail
Oct 24, 2022
CIA: The History
Oct 20, 2022
The US Marines' Pacific War
Oct 17, 2022
Edward Rulloff: The Gilded Age Hannibal Lecter
Oct 13, 2022
Cuban Missile Crisis
Oct 10, 2022
Central Park: What Lies Beneath
Oct 06, 2022
Pontiac's Rebellion
Oct 03, 2022
Battle of Midway
Sep 29, 2022
Hollywood Blacklist
Sep 26, 2022
Declaration of Independence
Sep 22, 2022
The Atomic Bomb & the Secret City
Sep 22, 2022
The Queen & US Presidents
Sep 12, 2022
Welcome to American History Hit
Aug 23, 2022