Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchThe Scientific Logic of Cherokee Myths
Episode 5430
The Cherokee people developed a rich mythological tradition that Western scholars long dismissed as primitive superstition, but closer examination re…
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How the Nile explains Egyptian history
Episode 5405
Egypt's extraordinary civilization is impossible to understand without understanding the Nile. The river was not merely a geographical feature of the…
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How British Dirt Proves Caesar Wrong
Episode 5395
Long before the Romans arrived with their legions and their written histories, the people living in Britain had built a sophisticated and thriving ci…
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Hidden Mechanics of World War II
Episode 5393
World War II was the most destructive conflict in human history, but beneath the familiar narrative of famous battles and dramatic turning points lie…
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The Truth Behind the Compromise of 1877
Episode 5433
The Compromise of 1877 is one of the most consequential and misunderstood events in American history. The standard telling presents it as a straightf…
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The Machinery of the American Red Scare
Episode 5427
The American Red Scare of the late 1940s and 1950s was not a spontaneous outbreak of national paranoia but a carefully constructed political machine …
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How 1890 Census Math Engineered America
Episode 5394
In 1924, the United States Congress passed the Immigration Act, also known as the Johnson-Reed Act, and in doing so used census mathematics from 1890…
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Why the American Heartland Turned to Dust
Episode 5440
The Dust Bowl of the 1930s was not a natural disaster. It was a man-made catastrophe created when millions of acres of native grassland across the Am…
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The 1973 Showdown Over Presidential War Powers
Episode 5418
In 1973, Congress passed the War Powers Resolution over President Richard Nixon's veto, attempting to reassert legislative authority over the nation'…
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Precision Geometry of Ancient American Earthworks
Episode 5414
Scattered across the Ohio Valley and throughout eastern North America, ancient earthworks built by Indigenous peoples thousands of years ago display …
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