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Ghosts of Sicily: Navy-Mob Alliance vs. Nazis, w/ Leon Carroll, Jr.
In this full-length interview, I sit down with Leon Carroll Jr. — retired NCIS Special Agent, longtime technical advisor for the hit series NCIS, and…
2 months, 4 weeks ago
The Tailor Who Saved Washington - Twice
When the British evacuated New York in 1783, suspected Loyalists found themselves in danger. Among the most suspicious was Hercules Mulligan, an Iris…
2 months, 4 weeks ago
The Polish Mathematicians Who Cracked the Engima
Everyone knows Alan Turing helped break the Enigma code. Far fewer know that the first breakthrough came years earlier—from Poland. In 1932, mathemat…
3 months ago
Project Iceworm: A Secret Cold War Base Under Greenland
Buried more than 100 feet beneath the Greenland ice sheet lies one of the Cold War's most astonishing secrets. In 1959, the U.S. Army built Camp Cent…
3 months ago
The Civil War Hospital Ships that Invented Modern Trauma Care
The first hospital ship in U.S. Navy history wasn't purpose-built—it was a captured Confederate steamer transformed into one of the Civil War's great…
3 months ago
The Man Who Sold 'Winter'
In the early nineteenth century, the idea of shipping ice to the tropics sounded ridiculous. After all, who would pay for something that melted befor…
3 months ago
Napoleon & the Invention of Canned Food
In this episode of History Shorts, we explore the remarkable story of Nicolas Appert, the Paris confectioner who revolutionized the way the world eat…
3 months ago
Reviving Civic Education in American Classrooms, w/ Jack Miller Center President, Hans Zeiger
In this episode, I sit down with Hans Zeiger, President of the Jack Miller Center and former Washington State legislator. Hans shares how a childhood…
3 months ago
The Forgotten WWI Choctaw Code Talkers
Everyone knows the story of the Navajo Code Talkers in World War II. Far fewer know that the first Native American code talkers helped change the cou…
3 months ago
Abraham Lincoln's Lifelong Battle with Depression
In 1841, a thirty-one-year-old lawyer from Illinois wrote a heartbreaking letter to his law partner: "I am now the most miserable man living." That l…
3 months, 1 week ago