Hitler’s “Desert Fox”: The Military Career of Erwin Rommel
Erwin Rommel, a German field marshal in World War Two, was probably more respected and feared than any other figure in the Wehrmacht. He issued early defeats against the British in North Africa agains...
30 Touko 201950min
When Irish Vets of the American Civil War Invaded Canada in 1866
One year after the Civil War ended, a group of delusional and mostly incompetent commanders sponsored by bitterly competing groups riddled with spies, led tiny armies against the combined forces of th...
28 Touko 201950min
The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present
The received idea of Native American history--as promulgated by books like Dee Brown's mega-bestselling 1970 Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee--has been that American Indian history essentially ended with...
23 Touko 201936min
How Industrialists Plotted to Overthrow FDR Over The New Deal in 1934
FDR launched the New Deal immediately after his 1933 inauguration, but it was not universally popular. Some hated it bitterly. Critics from the right thought it was part of a long-term plan to push Am...
21 Touko 201938min
Teaser: Rendezvous With Death, Part 4
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18 Touko 20196min
Making Your Death Memorable: The Oldest Tombs We Can Trace To One Person
What are the oldest known tombs that can reliably be traced to a person? These are surprisingly tricky to track down. While archeologists constantly find human remains at an excavation site, there are...
16 Touko 201936min
The Kremlin Letters: Stalin's Wartime Correspondence with Churchill and Roosevelt
From 1941 to 1945, Joseph Stalin exchanged more than six hundred messages with Allied leaders Churchill and Roosevelt. The correspondence ranged from intimate personal greetings to weighty salvos abou...
14 Touko 201958min
The RAF Won the Battle of Britain With Strategy But Also Plenty of Luck
In the summer of 1940, Germany sent armadas of bombers and fighters over England hoping to lure the RAF into battle and annihilate the defenders. Day after day the RAF scrambled their pilots into the ...
9 Touko 201939min
