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National Park Service's Special Agents
Beneath the serene landscapes of America's national parks lies a hidden history of law enforcement and intelligence. The National Park Service's Inte…
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Conversations: How Travel Helps Us Understand Our Place in the World, w/ Rick Steves
In this engaging episode, travel guru Rick Steves joins us to discuss his lifelong philosophy on traveling, sharing how embracing vulnerability and c…
1 year ago
Imperial Germany's Plan For the Invasion of the U.S.
In the decades before World War I, Imperial Germany conducted daring, but largely forgotten, studies imagining an invasion of the United States. Thes…
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Temporary Roman Dictatorships
In the early Roman Republic, the temporary dictatorship was a bold solution to extraordinary crises, granting one man near-absolute authority, but on…
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When NYC Almost Seceded from the Union in 1861
In the spring of 1861, as the United States plunged toward civil war, New York City flirted with the unthinkable: municipal secession. Mayor Fernando…
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The Office of Strategic Services
The Office of Strategic Services (OSS), led by William J. Donovan, conducted daring intelligence operations across Europe and the Pacific, coordinati…
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Zoroastrianism
Long before Christianity, Islam, or even Buddhism had taken firm root, an ancient faith blazed across the Iranian plateau, a faith centered not on ca…
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When the New Deal Became Unconstitutional
During the early 1930s, President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal programs sought to revive the American economy amid the Great Depression, introduc…
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Conversations: NYC's Secret Subway & the Origins of Mass Transit, w/ Matthew Algeo
In this episode, we dive beneath the streets of 19th-century New York with historian and author Matthew Algeo, exploring the daring story of Alfred B…
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MASH Units
In the rugged mountains and freezing valleys of Korea during the early 1950s, a new kind of battlefield hospital emerged, one that would forever chan…
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