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'The Greatest Generation' OR 'The 'Wounded Generation'? w/ David Nasaw
In this episode, Peter speaks with Dr. David Nasaw, a two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, about his new book, The Wounded Generation: Coming Home After…
5 months, 2 weeks ago
The Freemasons
For centuries, the Freemasons have stood at the crossroads of fact and myth, secrecy and symbolism. Presidents, revolutionaries, artists, and ordinar…
5 months, 2 weeks ago
Napoleon's Missing Penis: A History No One Asked For
History remembers Napoleon as the iron-willed conqueror of Europe, the architect of empire, the man who crowned himself. But beneath the legend lies …
5 months, 3 weeks ago
Sacagawea: Beyond the Myth
She has been cast as the smiling guide, the willing helper, the gentle symbol of American westward expansion. But the real Sacagawea was more than a …
5 months, 3 weeks ago
Belleau Wood: The Battle That Made the Marines
June 1918. A choking forest. Gas, machine-gun nests, and a German advance cutting toward Paris. Into that hell marched a fighting force the world bar…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
Killing Che Guevara
Few figures of the 20th century are as mythologized, or as polarizing, as Ernesto "Che" Guevara. To some, he was the heroic doctor-turned-revolutiona…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
'The Conqueror' Movie Curse
In 1956, Hollywood set out to make an epic. Instead, it created one of the most cursed productions in film history. The Conqueror, starring John Wayn…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
Conversations: Life and Legacy of King James VI and I, w/ Clare Jackson
Dr. Clare Jackson, Honorary Professor of Early Modern History at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, and a renowned expert on 17th-century Britain, joins us to…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
Jesse Strang & the Kingdom Hidden Inside America
In one of the most extraordinary and almost forgotten chapters in American history, a man named James Jesse Strang crowned himself king on U.S. soil.…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
Actium: The Battle That Shaped the Roman Empire
The Battle of Actium was the moment the ancient world pivoted. On September 2, 31 BCE, in the waters off western Greece, two colossal visions for Rom…
5 months, 4 weeks ago