Podcast Episodes

Episode 4: Caesar and the Pirates Who Underpriced Him

Season 1 Episode 4

In 75 BC, twenty-five-year-old Julius Caesar was captured in the Aegean Sea by Cilician pirates. Insulted by their modest twenty-talent ransom demand…

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Episode 3: Nixon's Midnight Vigil at the Lincoln Memorial

Season 1 Episode 3

In May 1970, five days after the Kent State shootings and with Washington D.C. besieged by 100,000 anti-war demonstrators, President Richard Nixon sl…

2 days, 21 hours ago

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Episode 2: Eisenhower and the Hellish 1919 Mud Convoy

Season 1 Episode 2

In the summer of 1919, Lieutenant Colonel Dwight D. Eisenhower volunteered for the U.S. Army's first transcontinental motor convoy. Across 3,251 mile…

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Episode 1: FDR and the Friendly Torpedo That Almost Killed Him

Season 1 Episode 1

In November 1943, President Franklin D. Roosevelt embarked on a top-secret transatlantic voyage aboard the battleship USS Iowa to meet Churchill and …

2 days, 21 hours ago

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