Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchAn Interview with Charles Murray: The Real Reasons Apollo Succeeded
How did NASA boldly advance the Apollo Program over the course of a decade to accomplish the greatest feat of mankind: the landing of humans on the M…
16 hours ago
Tobacco and Plantations: The Making of the Old Dominion
his is the tale of how tobacco created the plantations in Virginia for which the Old Dominion is known, and how those plantations entrenched and soli…
4 days, 21 hours ago
The History and Legacy of the Apollo Missions with Richard Easton
In this episode, Will and Richard Easton, a historian of GPS and son of one of the inventors of GPS, discuss the history of the Space Race and Apollo…
6 days, 12 hours ago
The Legacy of Lewis and Clark
In this concluding video on the Lewis and Clark Expedition, Will discusses what the legacy of these two great explorers is. He comments on their disc…
1 week, 4 days ago
Building Great Houses and What They Are with Gregory Treat
In this episode, Will and Gregory Treat, an attorney who helps families plan for multiple generations into the future. They discuss Great Houses—fami…
2 weeks ago
Lewis and Clark: The Triumphant Heroes Return
The Corps of Discovery's Permanent Party makes it back to St. Louis in this episode, finishing the grand march across a continent and back on which i…
2 weeks, 4 days ago
Whitewater of Death: Lewis & Clark's Desperate Descent Down to the Pacific after Braving the Bitterroot Mountains and Lolo Trail
Emerging from the skeletal hunger and crushing snows of the Bitterroot Range and its Lolo Trail, the Lewis and Clark Expedition finally reaches the w…
3 weeks, 3 days ago
The Genius of Tom Wolfe, Destruction of Atlanta, and Decay of America's "Moral Tone" with Rowdy Yates
In this episode, Will and Rowdy Yates discuss the two premier novels of American journalist and author Tom Wolfe—The Bonfire of the Vanities and A Ma…
4 weeks ago
Survival or Extinction: Lewis & Clark Defeat Grizzlies and Waterfalls, Then Get Saved by a Miracle
What happens when the dream of an Empire meets the reality of a vertical wall of granite?
In this episode, we follow the Corps of Discovery as they …
1 month ago
Lewis and Clark's Expedition Begins: From Fort Dubois to the Mandans, Past the Dangerous Teton Sioux
This is the tale of how Captains Meriwether Lewis and William Clark led the Corps of Discovery out of Camp Dubois and up the Missouri River, sailing,…
1 month ago