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Vietnam: America's Lost War
The Vietnam War didn't begin with a declaration; it began with a decision. Then another. And another. In this overview, we trace the arc of America's…
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Fast & Furious PT Boats
They were made of wood, powered by gasoline, and crewed by men barely out of high school, yet they terrified Japanese convoys and launched the naval …
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Jefferson & Adams: Founding Frenemies?
Two giants of American history, one a combative Yankee lawyer, the other a philosophical Virginia planter, helped birth a nation, then nearly destroy…
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Custer's Last Stand
In the summer of 1876, as America celebrated its centennial, a stunning defeat unfolded on the plains of Montana. Lt. Colonel George Custer and over …
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The Kings' Crusade
In the wake of Jerusalem's fall to Saladin in 1187, three of Europe's mightiest monarchs, Richard the Lionheart of England, Philip Augustus of France…
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Conversations: The Mystery Behind Socrates' Death w/ Matt Gatton
Peter speaks with Matt Gatton about his newest book, The Shadows of Socrates, which reframes Socrates not merely as a martyr for free speech but as a…
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The Pill, the Nurse, and the Revolution
Few medical breakthroughs have changed the world as profoundly as the birth control pill, and few people were as instrumental in that transformation …
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The Last Nazi Fuhrer
When Adolf Hitler shot himself in a Berlin bunker, the Nazi regime didn't die with him, not immediately. In an eerie coda to World War II, Grand Admi…
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Rome's Five Good Emperors
For 84 remarkable years, from 96 to 180 CE, the Roman Empire was guided not by the worst instincts of autocracy, but by its best hopes. In this episo…
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The "Other" Rosa Parks
Before Rosa Parks made history by refusing to give up her seat in Montgomery, Alabama, there was another young woman, just 15 years old, who had done…
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