Understanding Warren G. Harding
Crikey. Most people don’t know much about President Warren G. Harding and his corrupt administration, but they should! A fascinating life and, um, a fascinating look at how corruption and …
Crikey. Most people don’t know much about President Warren G. Harding and his corrupt administration, but they should! A fascinating life and, um, a fascinating look at how corruption and …
By 1849, Sarah Josepha Buell Hale was an enormously successful teacher, writer, and editor in Boston. She wrote dramatic novels and magazine articles, and edited various important journals, especially The …
Join us on this Woman Crush Wednesday discussion of Lydia Maria Child, one of nineteenth-century America’s most courageous abolitionists. She started her career as a beloved and self-sufficient female author …
Politics in the United States is often divisive. Just in the few short years that this show has graced the podcast world, we have seen a drastic increase in violent …
“Wayward Sisters, Depart in Peace” – Winfield Scott: Quote or No Quote? Listen Now
Dr. Vernon Burton tells us about his experiences as an expert witness in civil rights and voting legal cases. It’s a fascinating look into how the work of historians can …
Vernon Burton: Historians as Legal Expert Witnesses Listen Now
Hitler’s Hanging Judge, Roland Freisler, was truly one of the worst pieces of sh*t in a regime that wasn’t lacking in those. Professor Philip Nash enlightens us about one of …
Dr. Paul Miller-Melamed tells us the story of the assassination of Archduke Franz in 1914. And he enlightens us on the crucial context of the events that led to World …
The 1914 Sarajevo Assassination and the Road to World War I Listen Now
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Walter Pincus exposes the darkest secret in American nuclear history―sixty-seven nuclear tests in the Marshall Islands that wiped out a people and their land. This is an …
Professor Claude Clegg’s new book, The Black President, is the first interpretative, comprehensive history of Barack Obama’s presidency in its entirety. He explains some of the major themes in the …
Buzzkill Genius Dr. Philip Nash brings us a fabulous (and very relevant) show on the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962. There’s so much more to those events than the standard …