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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 -
A Pre-WWI French Philosopher Was More Popular Than Elvis and Possibly Entered the US Into the Great War
Dec 26, 2024 – 43:13 -
While Starving at Besieged Leningrad, Scientists Hid Drought-Resistant Crop Seeds That Could Prevent Future Famines
Dec 24, 2024 – 40:30 -
Surviving Nearly 2 Years of Shipwreck on a South Pacific Island in the 1880s
Dec 19, 2024 – 43:13 -
How Did 450 Boers Defeat 15,000 Zulus at the Battle of Blood River in 1838?
Dec 17, 2024 – 48:45 -
Key Battles of the Barbary Wars, Episode 9: The End of North African Piracy and the Beginning of American Global Naval Hegemony
Dec 12, 2024 – 58:31 -
When Did Americans Become Americans? 1945, 1865, 1787, or 1776?
Dec 10, 2024 – 46:41 -
Key Battles of the Barbary Wars, Episode 8: The Second Barbary War (1815)
Dec 5, 2024 – 38:38 -
How Much of a Nation’s Fate is Bound Up In Its Geography?
Dec 3, 2024 – 41:50 -
Key Battles of the Barbary War, Episode 7: An Uneasy Peace -- The Interbellum Period and the War of 1812
Nov 28, 2024 – 43:36 -
The Scramble for More Aircraft Carriers in WW2 Meant Retrofitting Cruisers Into These Sorts of Ships
Nov 26, 2024 – 53:52 -
Key Battles of the Barbary War, Episode 6: Swashbuckling Ship Battles and 500-Mile Desert Marches Won the First Barbary War
Nov 21, 2024 – 41:15 -
Knights Could Still Be Found on English Battlefields in the 1640s. What Were They Doing There?
Nov 19, 2024 – 41:49 -
Key Battles of the Barbary Wars, Episode 5: The Destruction of the USS Philadelphia
Nov 14, 2024 – 36:58 -
The Jewish Confederates
Nov 12, 2024 – 56:34 -
Key Battles of the Barbary Wars, Episode 4: The First Barbary War (1801-05)
Nov 7, 2024 – 36:46 -
Was The Vietnam War Unwinnable?
Nov 5, 2024 – 59:12 -
Key Battles of the Barbary Wars, Episode 3: The Barbary States and Their 300-Year Reign of Mediterranean Piracy
Oct 31, 2024 – 37:51
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