19th-Century American Radicals: Vegans, Abolitionists, and Free Love Advocates
On July 4, 1826, as Americans lit firecrackers to celebrate the country’s fiftieth birthday, both John Adams and Thomas Jefferson were on their deathbeds. They would leave behind a groundbreaking poli...
21 Nov 201939min
Benedict Arnold, Vidkun Quisling, and Other Historical Villains—When is Someone Misunderstood vs. Truly Bad?
Do historical “villains” like Benedict Arnold, Vidkun Quisling, and Emperor Caligula deserve their terrible reputations, or are they victims of biased accounts? In this rebroadcast of a live event in ...
19 Nov 201950min
When Does A Scorched-Earth Policy Work? A Look at the Civil War's Final Year
Ulysses S. Grant arrives to take command of all Union armies in March 1864 to the surrender of Robert E. Lee at Appomattox a year later. Over 180,000 black soldiers in the Union army. And most of all,...
14 Nov 201957min
Medic! First Aid in Combat, From WW1 Trenches to Operation Iraqi Freedom
Up until the recent past, if a soldier was wounded in battle, he remained in the field where he had fallen without hope of rescue. Maybe a comrade would drag him to safety, but more likely he would re...
12 Nov 201947min
The Confederacy Dominated the Early Civil War. So Why Did It Ultimately Lose?
The Confederacy won the early battles of the Civil War, led by brilliant generals Stonewall Jackson and Robert E. Lee (to name a few) against blundering Union commanders like the endlessly dithering G...
7 Nov 201944min
Constantine's Conversion to Christianity: Opportunism or a Sincere Gesture?
History Channel documentaries and pop historians have argued that when Constantine converted to Christianity in the fourth century, he was merely following the religious demographic trends of the Roma...
5 Nov 201954min
Was the US Involvement in World War One a Mistake?
Most Americans are unclear about their country’s contribution to victory in World War I. They figure we entered the conflict too late to claim much credit, or maybe they think our intervention was dis...
31 Okt 201959min
Hans Kammler, Nazi Architect of Auschwitz, Defector to the US?
Hans Kammler was among the worst of the Nazis. He was responsible for the construction of Hitler’s slave labor sites and concentration camps. He personally altered the design of Auschwitz to increase ...
29 Okt 201956min
