Marine Raiders: The WW2 Special Forces Who Conquered Pacific Islands One Knife Fight At a Time
At the beginning of World War II, military planners set out to form the most ruthless, skilled, and effective force the world had ever seen. The U.S. Marines were already the world’s greatest fighters...
9 Dec 202134min
The Boer Wars: The South African Conflict That Created Winston Churchill and (Possibly) Concentration Camps
South Africa, despite abolishing apartheid in the 1990s, still stays very fraught with racial tension, making the United States' experience of 2020 pale in comparison. A series of settlements and wars...
7 Dec 20211h 20min
Kim Philby: The KGB Mole Who Nearly Became the Leader of Britain’s MI6
Kim Philby—the master British spy and notorious KGB double agent—had an incredible amount of influence on the Cold War. He became the mentor, and later, mortal enemy, of James Angleton, who would even...
2 Dec 202141min
George Washington: The First American Action Hero
This is an excerpt from an episode of This American President, a great history podcast that is the newest member of the Parthenon Podcast Network. You can find it at www.spreaker.com/show/this-america...
1 Dec 202121min
Why the 1619 Project is Dangerous and Should Be Totally Rejected
The biggest and most controversial historical debate in 2021 is the 1619 Project. Released last year in a special issue of the New York Times Magazine, it is a collection of articles which "aims to re...
30 Nov 202146min
Rebroadcast: Turkey is Both a Bird and a Country. Which Came First?
It's no coincidence that the bird we eat for Thanksgiving and a Middle Eastern country are both called Turkey. One was named after the other, and it all has to do with a 500-year-old story of emerging...
25 Nov 202121min
The 160-Minute Race to Save the Titanic
One hundred and sixty minutes. That is all the time rescuers would have before the largest ship in the world slipped beneath the icy Atlantic. There was amazing heroism and astounding incompetence aga...
23 Nov 202149min
Age of Discovery 2.0, Part 6: Will SpaceX Control Mars Like the British East India Company Controlled the Indian Subcontinent?
The British East India Company is perhaps the most powerful corporation in history. It was larger than several nations and acted as emperor of the Indian subcontinent, commanding a private army of 260...
18 Nov 202141min
