Belleau Wood: The Battle That Made the Marines
June 1918. A choking forest. Gas, machine-gun nests, and a German advance cutting toward Paris. Into that hell marched a fighting force the world barely knew: the United States Marine Corps. Belleau W...
15 Joulu 202511min
Killing Che Guevara
Few figures of the 20th century are as mythologized, or as polarizing, as Ernesto "Che" Guevara. To some, he was the heroic doctor-turned-revolutionary who fought against imperialism from Cuba to the ...
14 Joulu 202514min
'The Conqueror' Movie Curse
In 1956, Hollywood set out to make an epic. Instead, it created one of the most cursed productions in film history. The Conqueror, starring John Wayne as Genghis Khan, was filmed in the Utah desert, d...
13 Joulu 202512min
Conversations: Life and Legacy of King James VI and I, w/ Clare Jackson
Dr. Clare Jackson, Honorary Professor of Early Modern History at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, and a renowned expert on 17th-century Britain, joins us to discuss her latest book, The Mirror of Great Britai...
12 Joulu 202519min
Jesse Strang & the Kingdom Hidden Inside America
In one of the most extraordinary and almost forgotten chapters in American history, a man named James Jesse Strang crowned himself king on U.S. soil. This episode unravels the rise of the self-declare...
11 Joulu 202512min
Actium: The Battle That Shaped the Roman Empire
The Battle of Actium was the moment the ancient world pivoted. On September 2, 31 BCE, in the waters off western Greece, two colossal visions for Rome collided: Octavian's disciplined, expansionist re...
10 Joulu 202513min
The Silk Road: Inside the World's First Global Network
For over two thousand years, the Silk Road shaped the destiny of continents. More than a single road, it was a vast web of caravan routes stretching from the imperial courts of China to the markets of...
9 Joulu 202513min
Vietnam War's Secret Phoenix Program
The Phoenix Program remains one of the most controversial and least understood operations of the Vietnam War, a shadow war fought in the alleys, jungles, and hidden villages of South Vietnam. Created ...
8 Joulu 202513min
