FDR's Close Call
Did you know that if it had not been for one woman's courage to throw herself against a crazed would-be assassin during a rally in 1933, none of the feats that made Franklin D. Roosevelt great would h...
17 Jul 20248min
Shadow Amendment
Did you know that another 13th Amendment was proposed in 1861, striving to forever protect the very institution that the 1865 Amendment abolished? In retrospect, the vote was too close for comfort. ...
16 Jul 20248min
Lenin Has Second Thoughts
Did you know that in 1921, when Lenin's socialist order and plans for a world-scale communist revolution seemed to be coming apart in Russia, the so-called father of Soviet communism retreated from th...
15 Jul 20249min
Failed Presidential Assassination Attempts
Most recent shocking events out of Pennsylvania point to another example of how history is often circular and not linear. And while everyone undoubtedly remembers learning in history class of the terr...
14 Jul 202410min
Alexander Graham Bell (Where are they now?)
Some might be familiar with the story of how the man from Scotland invented the telephone. Still, the story of Bell shortly after that behaving quite strangely for a man who had just invented a revolu...
13 Jul 202411min
Conversations: What Role do Books Play in Wars? w/ Andrew Pettegree
British author and historian Andrew Pettegree is a distinguished professor at the University of St. Andrews and an expert on the history of books and media. His extensive body of work includes titles ...
12 Jul 202413min
Do We have Freedom of Speech?
We have heard someone say, "This is a free country, and I have the freedom of speech." But did you know that the concept and practice of freedom of speech underwent significant changes in the United S...
11 Jul 20248min
Tower of London Kills Again
The Tower of London has a long and storied history as a site of imprisonment, torture, and execution, dating back over a thousand years. But did you know that the last person to be executed in the Tow...
10 Jul 20247min
