The Fourteen Men Before George Washington
Everyone knows George Washington was the first President of the United States. Technically true. But it's also a sleight of hand, because fourteen men held the title of President before him, and almos...
29 Touko 1h 5min
Dwight Eisenhower: The Secret Coup Machine
Dwight Eisenhower is the president most Americans remember as the calm grandfather of the nineteen fifties. The general who beat Hitler. The man who built the interstate highways.The smile under the b...
27 Touko 1h 6min
The Foo Fighters of World War Two
The story of the Foo Fighters of World War Two is one of the strangest, best-documented, and least-resolved cases in the history of military aviation. In the late autumn of nineteen forty-four, pilots...
24 Touko 1h 1min
Richard Nixon: Watergate Was Only the Doorway
Most people think they know Watergate. They don't. They know the headline. The break-in, the tapes, the resignation, the wave from the helicopter on the South Lawn. They know the word. They've seen th...
22 Touko 1h 4min
Ronald Reagan: Presidency Off the Books
In the late afternoon of November twenty-first, 1986, Marine Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North and his secretary Fawn Hall stood inside an office a short walk from the Oval Office and fed classified doc...
20 Touko 1h 4min
Abraham Lincoln and the Dakota Thirty-Eight
On the day after Christmas, 1862, 38 Dakota men were hanged from a single scaffold in Mankato, Minnesota. It remains the largest mass execution in American history. The man who signed the order was Ab...
17 Touko 1h 4min
Andrew Jackson: Democracy, Blood, and the Trail of Tears
Andrew Jackson sold himself as the champion of the common man. His face has been on the twenty dollar bill since 1928. There are statues of him in city squares from Tennessee to Washington. He's been ...
15 Touko 1h 4min
