*Flashback Friday* #47 - Mini-Myth: Catherine the Great Died While Attempting to Have Sex with a Horse
Find any fraternity member who's also a freshman history major. Get him drunk, and he'll start reeling off myths like crazy. One of them will probably be that Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia (1...
27 Apr 20181min
*Flashback Friday* #45 - Mini-Myth: Napoleon Short?
You've probably always seen Napoleon depicted as a shorty. And you may have heard that his ambition was driven by a classic "short man's complex." Alas, it's not true. At least not by his measured hei...
20 Apr 20181min
#257 - Americans Bailing Out the French
Did the United States really “bail the French out in two world wars,” or is it a blustering, bigoted myth? Professor Phil Nash joins us to discuss what actually happened in World Wars I and II, and wh...
17 Apr 201845min
*Flashback Friday* #44 - Mini-Myth: Ben Franklin and Electricity
Did Ben Franklin really discover electricity by flying a kite in a lightning storm? Well, he may have flown the kite, Buzzkillers, but knowledge of electricity's been around a long, long time. Take th...
13 Apr 20182min
#256 - Woman Crush Wednesday: Alice Hamilton
Alice Hamilton was a pioneer in occupational medicine and industrial toxicology. And it’s not an exaggeration to say that she was the most important person in helping to make the American workplace sa...
11 Apr 20186min
*Flashback Friday* #42 - Mini-Myth: George Washington Carver and Peanut Butter
Like all good Americans, I just had a PB&J for lunch. I couldn't help thinking of George Washington Carver, the reputed inventor of peanut butter. You won't be surprised to hear that the invention of ...
6 Apr 20184min
#255 - Robert Kennedy’s 1968 Speech about Martin Luther King
Historian Ray Boomhower joins us to analyze the famous speech given by RFK in Indianapolis, on hearing about the assassination of Martin Luther King in 1968. It’s one of the most famous and touching s...
4 Apr 201840min
#254 - The Unknown Martin Luther King
Martin Luther King did so much more for American society, and wanted so much more from the US government and US elite, than most people realize. Popular history has airbrushed out far too much about h...
3 Apr 201840min
