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The Real Hamilton: Lover, Adulterer, Family Man?
Episode 169
Founding Father, first Secretary of the Treasury and focus of one of the world's first political sex scandals - we couldn't do a series about Alexand…
2 years, 5 months ago
Teddy Roosevelt: The Making of the Rough Rider President
Episode 168
Theodore Roosevelt is arguably the most masculine president in American history. So how was he influenced by the women around him? And how was he imp…
2 years, 5 months ago
The Real Hamilton: Founding Father
Episode 167
Who really was Alexander Hamilton, and what do we actually know about his life?
A Founding Father, he fought in the Revolutionary War, founded the Ame…
2 years, 5 months ago
President Rutherford B. Hayes: The First Great Depression
Episode 166
Emerging victorious from an electoral quagmire in 1876, Rutherford B. Hayes became the 19th President of the United States.
Professor Mark Zachary Tay…
2 years, 5 months ago
Founding Father: Who Was John Hancock?
Episode 165
An iconic signature on the Declaration of Independence - that is what John Hancock is best known for. But how did he come to be the first signatory? …
2 years, 5 months ago
The 1921 Murder Farm Massacre: Slavery After the Civil War
Episode 164
During the spring of 1921, eleven bodies were found in in rural Georgia. These men were victims of horrific murders, and also of a more widespread cr…
2 years, 6 months ago
President Ulysses S. Grant: The Myth of the Butcher
Episode 163
How does a heroic general of the Civil War become one of the lowest rated Presidents (at least until recently)?
To discuss Grant's commitment to recon…
2 years, 6 months ago
Ulysses S. Grant & the Civil War
Episode 162
Strategic brilliance? Relentless determination? Unbeatable leadership and cooperation with Lincoln? How did Ulysses S. Grant distinguish himself in t…
2 years, 6 months ago
The Rise & Fall of Al Capone
Episode 161
Al Capone is one of the most notorious gangsters in US history. His story of rags to riches, set against the backdrop of the prohibition era, is wort…
2 years, 6 months ago
NATO: 75 Years Deterring Armageddon
Episode 160
It comprises more than half of the world's defence spending, but what is the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation? How has the United States influenced…
2 years, 6 months ago