Pop Quiz | Preventing World War
Winston Churchill's insights into the Second World War's outbreak are a fascinating combination of prediction and justification. He knew Germany was a threat, but his postwar memoirs also include know...
25 Jun 4min
More Security, Less Cost | A Discussion on the "New Look"
How did the Central Intelligence Agency both flourish and decline during the Cold War? What effects did both the Suez Crisis and Hungarian Revolution have on the wider world? And how might the world l...
22 Jun 26min
Sketches in History | Thirteen Days in October
Welcome back to Sketches in History! This segment, just for kids, shows that history isn't just a story; it's an adventure. Join Lottie Archer as she dives into her extraordinary notebook, where sketc...
19 Jun 12min
More Security, Less Cost | The "New Look"
Presidents have always had to balance economic costs with national security. In the 1950s, Dwight Eisenhower took what he called a "new look" at defense policy, which made fundamental changes to how t...
15 Jun 17min
Pop Quiz | A Republic in Danger
How close has America actually come to falling apart? Not in the way politicians throw the word "crisis" around today, but in real, documented, military-was-deployed, states-were-leaving moments. In t...
12 Jun 7min
The Witness & the Spy | A Discussion on Hiss, Chambers, and the Rosenburgs
Join us as we discuss the trial of Alger Hiss, why Whittaker Chambers became disillusioned with communism, the Rosenbergs, and the effects of the Red Scare on American society.Join us every Monday for...
8 Jun 20min
Sketches in History | The Witness and the Secret
Welcome back to Sketches in History! This segment, just for kids, shows that history isn't just a story; it's an adventure. Join Lottie Archer as she dives into her extraordinary notebook, where sketc...
4 Jun 12min
The Witness and the Spy | Hiss, Chambers, and the Rosenbergs
It is August 3, 1948, and a former Communist Party member named Whittaker Chambers walks into a House committee room in Washington, D.C., and says something that no one in the room ever expected to he...
1 Jun 16min
