How to Get Processed Through Ellis Island In 2 Hours or Less
More than 12 million immigrants entered the United States through Ellis Island during its years of operation from 1892 to 1954. Those that came typically spoke no English and fled religious persecutio...
25 Kesä 201950min
Special Announcement: Check Out My New Show 'Ottoman Lives'
Go to www.ottomanlives.com to check out my new show about the people who made the Ottoman Empire run. The Ottoman Empire lasted for six hundred years and dominated the Middle East and Europe, from Bud...
22 Kesä 20192min
George Armstrong Custer: Cocky Military Officer or America's Version of Leonidas at Thermopylae?
George Armstrong Custer had a storied military career—from cutting his teeth at Bull Run in the Civil War, to his famous and untimely death at Little Bighorn in the Indian Wars. But what was his legac...
20 Kesä 201943min
An Interview with 95-Year-Old Tuskegee Airman Lt. Col. Harry Stewart
“Colored people aren’t accepted as airline pilots.” The “negro type has not the proper reflexes to make a first-class fighter pilot.” These were the degrading sentiments that faced eighteen-year-old L...
18 Kesä 201957min
Vlad the Impaler is the (Partial) Inspiration for Count Dracula
Vampire lore goes back to the ancient world (revenant legends abound from Rome to China) but vampire mythology doesn't come into its own until at least the Renaissance period. Was the inspiration for ...
13 Kesä 201956min
'A Woman of No Importance': The One-Legged WW2 Spy Virginia Hall
In 1942, as World War II was raging, the Gestapo sent out an urgent message: “She is the most dangerous of all Allied spies. We must find and destroy her.” That spy was Virginia Hall, a young American...
11 Kesä 201936min
The 4,000-Year-Old Question: Is Judaism a Religion, Ethnicity, Race, or Culture?
What is Judaism? What does it mean to be Jewish? Is it an ethnicity (being one of the descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob), a religion (following the tenets of the Torah, Mishnah, and Talmud) or ...
6 Kesä 201952min
The 500-Year Story of a Gutenberg Bible And Everyone Who Owned It
For rare-book collectors, an original copy of the Gutenberg Bible—of which there are fewer than 50 in existence (and which can sell for $100 million)—represents the ultimate prize. One copy, Number 45...
4 Kesä 20191h 1min
