President Chester A. Arthur: Redemption in Office?
Vice President to a narrow election winner, Chester Arthur was a very unlikely President. But on September 20th 1881 he took his seat as the 21st President of the United States at the dawn of the mode...
23 Touko 202432min
The Real Hamilton: An American Myth?
11 Tonys, a Grammy, a Pulitzer Prize and broken box office records - there's no denying the impact of Lin-Manuel Miranda's Hamilton.Throughout this series on the real Hamilton, we have been trying to ...
19 Touko 202435min
American Castaways: Treachery & Survival in the Falklands
Today we dive into the little-known true story of American castaways abandoned on the Falkland Islands during the War of 1812 ― a tale of treachery, shipwreck, isolation and a desperate struggle for s...
16 Touko 202432min
The Real Hamilton: Downfall, Duel & Death
When Alexander Hamilton took a bullet to the abdomen on the morning of the 11th July 1804, he joined a long list of people who had fallen foul of this very strange practice. So where did duelling come...
13 Touko 202440min
President James A. Garfield: Sex Cults & Assassination
This may have been the second shortest Presidency in the history of the United States, but the term of James Garfield is definitely not one to miss.From his dark horse nomination to his assassination ...
8 Touko 202442min
The Real Hamilton: Lover, Adulterer, Family Man?
Founding Father, first Secretary of the Treasury and focus of one of the world's first political sex scandals - we couldn't do a series about Alexander Hamilton without touching on his personal life.D...
6 Touko 202437min
Teddy Roosevelt: The Making of the Rough Rider President
Theodore Roosevelt is arguably the most masculine president in American history. So how was he influenced by the women around him? And how was he impacted by the deaths of two of them on the same day?...
2 Touko 202433min
The Real Hamilton: Founding Father
Who really was Alexander Hamilton, and what do we actually know about his life?A Founding Father, he fought in the Revolutionary War, founded the American financial system and was the first ever Secre...
28 Huhti 202444min
