James Garfield – Overlooked for his Short Presidency – Was the Most Beloved Politician of Reconstruction
James Garfield was the last president born in a log cabin, and was raised by a poor widow on Ohio’s rugged Western Reserve. By his late twenties, he had become a respected preacher, state senator, and...
3 Aug 20231h 4min
Road Tripping with Henry Ford and Thomas Edison Through Rural America In Beat-Up Model Ts
Some of the most important moments in the lives of Henry Ford and Thomas Edison weren’t their inventions or business successes. It was their road trips through the most remote, rustic parts of America...
1 Aug 202358min
Did the South Lose the Entire Civil War Because One General Got Lost at the Battle of Gettysburg?
Did the Confederacy lose the entire Civil War on the second day of the Battle of Gettysburg in 1863 because one of their generals showed up late to a battle site? That’s a very simple answer to a very...
27 Jul 202353min
Alexander the Great’s Final Battle Nearly Killed Him with Drowning and War Elephants
In the years that followed Alexander the Great’s victory at Gaugamela on October 1, 331 BC, his Macedonian and Greek army fought a truly ‘Herculean’ series of campaigns in what is today Iran, Turkmeni...
25 Jul 20231h 5min
In 1938, America Underwent a 7-Year Transformation From an Weak, Pacifist Nation to the Arsenal of Democracy
Nobody would have thought that the United States could fight in a world war in 1938, let alone be a major reason for victory. That year, it was so politically isolationist and pacifist that its defens...
20 Jul 202337min
Exploring the Aztec Empire and Indigenous Mexico
This is a preview of Mark Vinet's "History of North America." Explore one of the most glorious Mesoamerican societies and encounter the Pre-Hispanic Mexico ancient culture & civilization that was the ...
19 Jul 20238min
The First War on Terror: How Europe Fought Anarchist Suicide Attacks, From 1850 to WW1
At the end of the nineteenth century, the world came to know and fear terrorism. Much like today, this was a time of progress and dread, in which breakthroughs in communications and weapons were made,...
18 Jul 202344min
The Italian Squad: A Group of 1920s NYPD Immigrant Detectives Who Fought the Rise of the Mafia
The story begins in Sicily, on Friday, March 12th, 1909. Three gunshots thundered in the night, and then a fourth. Two men fled, and investigators soon discovered who they had killed: Giuseppe Petrosi...
13 Jul 202328min
