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Subscribers: 481
Reviews: 3
Episodes: 127


 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.

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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.

 

Brought to you by History Hit, the award-winning podcast network and world’s best history channel on demand, featuring shows like Dan Snow’s History Hit, Not Just The Tudors and Betwixt the Sheets.


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Episode Date
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