Hunting the President: Threats, Plots and Assassination Attempts, Part 4: Bill Clinton
Many tried to kill Bill Clinton during his presidency, including former military officers, white supremacists, and a little-known militant named Osama bin Laden. Most famously, Frank Eugene Corder cra...
31 Jan 201936min
Hunting the President: Threats, Plots and Assassination Attempts, Part 3: Ronald Reagan
After his presidency, a deranged man broke into Ronald Reagan’s California home and attempted to strangle the former president before he was subdued by Secret Service agents. This attempt on his life ...
29 Jan 201944min
Hunting the President: Threats, Plots and Assassination Attempts, Part 2: JFK
The only president to be assassinated in the last century was John F. Kennedy. What caused this failure in the Secret Service's typical protection procedures? Was it a perfect storm of bad luck, a lap...
24 Jan 201934min
Hunting the President: Threats, Plots and Assassination Attempts, Part 1: FDR
In American history, four U.S. Presidents have been murdered at the hands of an assassin. In each case the assassinations changed the course of American history.But most historians have overlooked or ...
22 Jan 201945min
Understanding the Rise of Islam Through Military History
How did an initially small religious movement envelope such enormous areas of the world? That is precisely what the community of believers under Muhammed did, conquering the Persian Empire and crippli...
17 Jan 201950min
Fugitive Slaves in America, From the Revolution to the Civil War
For decades after its founding, America was really two nations – one slave, one free. There were many reasons why this nation ultimately broke apart in the Civil War, but the fact that enslaved black ...
15 Jan 201931min
Moral Panics and Mass Hysteria: The Dancing Plague, Salem Witch Trials, and The Tulip Market Bubble
One person's psychosis can be easily dismissed, but how do we account for collective hysteria, when an entire crowd sees the same illusion or suffer from the same illness? It's enough to make somebody...
10 Jan 201951min
How a Researcher Discovered That Her Grandparents Were in the Nazi SS
How would you react if you discovered that your family were deeply embedded within the Third Reich? Today I'm talking with Brazilian-born American Julie Lindahl about her journey to uncover her grandp...
8 Jan 20191h 21min
