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Winter at Valley Forge: Washington's Darkest Hour?
Episode 425
After suffering defeat after defeat, George Washington’s battered army was forced to retreat into the forests of rural Pennsylvania, where they set u…
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Nazi Scientists in America: Operation Paperclip
Episode 424
Why would the United States have welcomed Nazis after the Second World War? Through Operation Paperclip, more than 1,500 German and Austrian scientis…
4 days, 16 hours ago
Early Humans of Ice Age America
Episode 423
When did the first humans arrive in America? Archaeologists have long pushed the theory that human habitation in the Americas dates back only to abou…
1 week ago
LBJ & the Vietnam War
Episode 422
How did a President who was so reluctant to ramp up America's presence in Vietnam become the one who increased it more than any other? When Lyndon B.…
1 week, 4 days ago
The Mormon Founding of Salt Lake City
Episode 421
What drew the Latter Day Saints to Utah? Was anyone living there before the arrival of Brigham Young? And how did the city develop?
Max Perry Mueller …
2 weeks ago
Jefferson & the Revolutionary War
Episode 420
Thomas Jefferson has had no issue being remembered in American History. Ask anyone, this man was fundamental to Independence. But did he fight in the…
2 weeks, 4 days ago
What Really Happened At Waco?
Episode 419
76 people died on 19th April 1993 when the compound of a religious sect, the Branch Davidians, went up in flames. It had been under siege by governme…
3 weeks ago
Sherman's March: Invading the South
Episode 418
General William Tecumseh Sherman's famous invasion of the Confederacy in 1864 has become American legend... but what did Union troops do along their …
3 weeks, 4 days ago
America's Worst President
Episode 417
What makes a bad President? Who was the worst of all time? In this episode from the archive, Don is joined by Professor Jeremi Suri, author of The Im…
4 weeks ago
The People's Founding Father
Episode 416
Signatory of both the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, James Wilson was a sitting Supreme Court justice when he died. So why is he m…
1 month ago