EP34 Atomic Accountability
Dan visits with Professor Alex Wellerstein, whose new book about Truman and the dropping of the atomic bombs will challenge everything you think you know about the subject.
28 Nov 20251h 23min
EP33 Sledgehammer and Big Shot
Henry Sledge, son of Eugene Sledge, writer of the classic war memoir "With the Old Breed at Peleliu and Okinawa" has released a book that includes tons of material left out of his dad's memoir along w...
5 Jul 20251h 31min
EP32 The Show with Mike Rowe
Dan has an extended and completely unplanned conversation with TV and podcast host Mike Rowe about jobs, history, media, politics and the current zeitgeist.
29 Mar 20252h 30min
EP31 Kushite Conversations
Dan talks with writer, broadcaster and journalist Zeinab Badawi about the ancient African kingdom of Kush and her book on African history.
13 Jan 20251h 11min
EP30 So, you say you want a revolution?
This show could also have been called "Violent Reflections" as Dan repurposes old work he did on the revolutionary era of the late 1960s. This is NOT a deep HH-style look at the period, but is instead...
1 Aug 20241h 37min
EP29 The Handmaidens of the Apocalypse
Investigative journalist Annie Jacobsen joins Dan to discuss the contents of her new book which, using insider and expert information, dramatically outlines how a nuclear war might unfold.
5 Apr 20241h 1min
EP28 Superhumanly Inhuman
This show starts off with an extended discussion of the genocide of Jews in the Holocaust and the associated dangers of extreme governmental power followed by an interview with Holocaust expert and hi...
16 Feb 20243h 18min
EP27 More Steppe Stories
Huns, Mongols, Turks, Scythians and other nomadic steppe tribes are longtime interests of Dan's. In this show he interviews historian Kenneth W. Harl who specializes in the study of those fascinating ...
16 Aug 20231h 10min
