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Exploring the Wreckage of the Britannic (the Titanic’s Sister Ship) and Discovering Why It Sunk in 50 Minutes
Jun 19, 2025 – 48:25 -
Did Tariffs Make America a Manufacturing Powerhouse Or Trigger Economic Misery and Stifle Global Trade?ads)
Jun 17, 2025 – 44:55 -
Alan Pinkerton: The Private Detective Who Saved Lincoln’s Life and Built America’s Contract Security State
Jun 12, 2025 – 50:07 -
MacArthur’s Plans to Drop 50 Nuclear Bombs During the Korean War
Jun 10, 2025 – 50:45 -
The Many Ways That Rome Never Fell and Lives On Today
Jun 5, 2025 – 37:16 -
Hooves of History: How Horses Created Ancient Warfare, Built the Silk Road, and Became the Dividing Line Between Nobleman and Peasant
Jun 3, 2025 – 44:28 -
Moonshining Survived (and Thrived) At Least Two Decades After Prohibition Ended
May 29, 2025 – 45:47 -
How to Cross the Sahara as a Tenth-Century Cameleer
May 27, 2025 – 53:08 -
How American Slaves Fled By Sea, Whether as Stowaways or Commandeering a Confederate Ship
May 22, 2025 – 46:06 -
Did WW2 Heads of State Want to Preserve Their Empires As Much as Defend Their Homelands?
May 20, 2025 – 47:51 -
How a British Governor of Virginia Raised an Ex-Slave Regiment in 1776 to Fight Patriots and Triggered the Revolutionary War
May 15, 2025 – 55:09 -
How a Marine Embedded with Mao Zedong’s Guerrillas in the 30s Became WW2’s Most Celebrated Special Forces Leader
May 13, 2025 – 55:46 -
Microbes Were Discovered in the 1600s. Why It Take 200 Years For Doctors To Start Washing Their Hands?
May 8, 2025 – 54:16 -
From Einstein’s Chalkboard to Oppenheimer’s Nuclear Test: The 50-Year Path to the Atomic Bomb
May 6, 2025 – 48:14 -
Japan’s Desperate Air Battles Against the US in the Final Months of WW2
May 1, 2025 – 37:15 -
D-Day From the East: The Soviet Operation Bagration Crippled the Wehrmacht in Late 1944
Apr 29, 2025 – 42:08 -
Pilgrimages Involved Penitent Marches, Visiting Holy Places, and Watching Drunken Emperors Go on Chariot Rides
Apr 24, 2025 – 44:53 -
Britain Learned How to Set Up Its Global Empire on a Tiny Bermudan Island
Apr 22, 2025 – 44:02 -
The Hatfield-McCoy Feud Started Over a Pig and Nearly Escalated Into a Regional War
Apr 17, 2025 – 45:20 -
The 1845 Potato Blight Struck Across Northern Europe. Why Did Only Ireland Starve?
Apr 15, 2025 – 48:41 -
A Simple Tennessee Preacher Transformed Abolitionism from a Deeply Unpopular Radical Movement to a Centrist Cause
Apr 10, 2025 – 51:18 -
How Benjamin Franklin’s Stove Invention Kept Early America From Freezing
Apr 8, 2025 – 41:53 -
Roman Churches Had No Involvement in Marriage. How Did It Become a Holy Sacrament by the Middle Ages?
Apr 3, 2025 – 38:25 -
How a Mess Cook Saved Dozens of Sailors from Shark Infested Waters Off the Coast of Guadalcanal
Apr 1, 2025 – 28:21 -
Humanity’s Past Suggests We Only Have 10,000 Years to Change or Go Extinct
Mar 27, 2025 – 53:19 -
The 16th Century Ottomans Nearly Conquered Europe. Why Did European Kingdoms Make So Many Alliances With Them?
Mar 25, 2025 – 51:05 -
Fort Stanwix and the Forgotten Revolutionary War Siege That Convinced France to Help the US
Mar 20, 2025 – 42:07 -
Enough is Enuf, Our Failed Attempts to Make English Easier to Spell
Mar 18, 2025 – 39:21 -
Did Haiti’s First and Last King Squander the Revolution or Succeed in Underappreciated Ways?
Mar 13, 2025 – 51:04 -
What Ancient Greeks and Victorian Explorers Thought Was at the North Pole
Mar 11, 2025 – 41:34 -
Nothing Healed America’s Wounds After the Civil War Like Baseball
Mar 6, 2025 – 50:35 -
How an 1870 Murder Created San Francisco
Mar 4, 2025 – 37:52 -
Failed Futures: If Alexander The Great Hadn’t Died, He Might Have Conquered Europe, Circumnavigated Africa, and Built His Own Silk Road
Feb 27, 2025 – 34:20 -
Why the Anabasis is the Second-Most Influential Greek Epic (After Homer’s Works)
Feb 25, 2025 – 48:43 -
The American Revolution Would Have Been Lost Without a Ragtag Fleet of Thousands of Privateers
Feb 20, 2025 – 59:36 -
Did Lincoln Save Global Democracy or Undermine It Using Wartime Powers?
Feb 18, 2025 – 57:26 -
The 1541 Spanish Expedition Down the Amazon to Find the Imaginary “El Dorado” and Valley of Cinnamon
Feb 13, 2025 – 40:32 -
Everyday Life for the 500K German POWs House in America During World War Two
Feb 11, 2025 – 01:02:31 -
The Arsenal of Democracy: How the Revolver and Repeating Rifle Democratized Gun Ownership and Armed the United States
Feb 6, 2025 – 56:07 -
Owning Land Was The Best – and Usually Only – Way to Be Rich in the Ancient World
Feb 4, 2025 – 44:24 -
Benjamin Franklin – In the 200 Years After His Death – Funded New Businesses, Supported Boston and Philadelphia, and Play Pranks
Jan 30, 2025 – 37:53 -
When American Gilded Elite Bought Up English Country Houses, It Create an Epic Transatlantic Clash of Cultures
Jan 28, 2025 – 44:09 -
The Untold History of Earth: Hobbits Really Existed, Dinosaurs Had Feathers, and Yetis Roamed Our Planet
Jan 23, 2025 – 01:08:48 -
How Did Gold Beat Out Every Other Precious Metal To Become Humanity’s Dominant Currency For the Last 2,600 Years?
Jan 21, 2025 – 36:05 -
The 160-Minute Race to Save the Titanic
Jan 16, 2025 – 47:13 -
200 Years Before the French Revolution, German Peasants Tried to Overthrow The Holy Roman Empire
Jan 14, 2025 – 54:27 -
What the Middle Ages Can Teach Us About Pandemics, Mass Migration, and Tech Disruption
Jan 9, 2025 – 53:15 -
Did Orson Welles’s 1938 ‘War of the Worlds’ Broadcast Really Cause a Mass Panic?
Jan 7, 2025 – 48:26 -
A Talk With The Polar Geographer Who Discovered Shackleton’s Endurance Under 10,000 ft of Frozen Water
Jan 2, 2025 – 43:26 -
The Founding Fathers Were 20 and 30-Somethings. Why Is America Now a Gerontocracy?
Dec 31, 2024 – 42:13
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