Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchThe 7 Years War: A World Set Ablaze (Part 1)
Episode 63
Before he was the marble man on the money, George Washington was a twenty-two-year-old Virginia militia officer with more ambition than judgment, sta…
14 hours ago
Australian Folly: The Great Emu War of 1932
Episode 62
In 1932, Western Australian wheat farmers — many of them WWI veterans — were losing their livelihoods to an invasion of 20,000 emus. Their government…
2 weeks ago
Israel & Palestine: Broken Promises (Part 5)
Episode 61
September 13th, 1993. The White House lawn. Yitzhak Rabin hesitates, then takes Yasser Arafat's hand. For one afternoon, the impossible is real.
In th…
4 weeks, 2 days ago
Israel & Palestine: Six Days that Changed Everything (Part 4)
Episode 60
On the morning of June 7th, 1967, Israeli paratroopers push through the narrow streets of Jerusalem's Old City and reach the Western Wall — the last …
1 month, 2 weeks ago
Israel & Palestine: War of Independence/The Catastrophe (Part 3)
Episode 59
Same year. Same events. Two names that can never be reconciled.
In Episode 3 of our five-part series on Israel and Palestine, we live inside 1948 — th…
1 month, 4 weeks ago
Israel & Palestine: Balfour's Promise (Part 2)
Episode 58
In January 1895, a Viennese journalist watches a French mob scream "Death to the Jews" as a decorated officer is publicly degraded for a crime he did…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
Israel & Palestine: When Judea Burned (Part 1)
Episode 57
Jerusalem, August 70 CE. The Second Temple — the holiest site in the Jewish world, the place where God was believed to physically dwell — is burning.…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
The American Civil War: Pyrrhic Victory (Part 6)
Episode 11
Ford's Theatre, April 14th, 1865. Lincoln dies just as his political skill is most needed. Andrew Johnson catastrophically misunderstands what victo…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
The American Civil War: Total War (Part 5)
Episode 10
The war enters its final, most brutal phase. Grant implements relentless attrition in Virginia while Sherman cuts a path of destruction through Georg…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
The American Civil War: A New Birth of Freedom (Part 4)
Episode 9
Five days after Antietam, Lincoln signs the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, transforming the war from a constitutional crisis to a moral crusa…
4 months, 2 weeks ago