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Who is Alan Smithee
Episode 2070
If you look at the Internet Movie Database, one of the most prolific directors over the last 70 years has been Alan Smithee.
He has been credited wi…
1 week, 3 days ago
The East African Slave Trade
Episode 2069
Most people are familiar with the transatlantic slave trade, which enslaved over ten million people over a period of centuries.
Fewer people are awar…
1 week, 4 days ago
The Plot to Steal the Body of Abraham Lincoln
Episode 2068
The 1876 plot to steal the body of Abraham Lincoln is one of the strangest and most audacious crimes in American history.
The scheme aimed to ransom …
1 week, 5 days ago
The Inca Empire
Episode 2067
The Inca Empire was the largest and most sophisticated state ever created in the pre-Columbian Americas, stretching along the Andes from present-day …
1 week, 6 days ago
The History of Tobacco
Episode 2066
When Christopher Columbus arrived in the Americas, members of his crew observed the Taíno people offering them dried leaves as gifts.
They had no clu…
2 weeks ago
The Young Turks
Episode 2065
The 19th-century Ottoman Empire was in decline and was called the “sick man of Europe”.
The Ottoman Empire, like Qing China and Imperial Russia, fail…
2 weeks, 1 day ago
Questions and Answers: Volume 40
Episode 2064
March is upon us. Here in the northern hemisphere, the days are getting longer, temperatures are getting warmer, and people are about to go nuts over…
2 weeks, 2 days ago
Edgar Allan Poe
Episode 2063
Edgar Allan Poe was one of the most influential and haunting voices in American literature, a writer whose imagination reshaped horror, detective fic…
2 weeks, 3 days ago
The American Basketball Association
Episode 2062
One of the most compelling stories in American professional sports is the rise of the American Basketball Association or the ABA.
Founded in 1967, th…
2 weeks, 4 days ago
Marvel Comics
Episode 2061
Marvel Comics has been one of the most prolific comics publishers over the last century.
Not only have they been one of the biggest comic publishers,…
2 weeks, 5 days ago