The Worst Gambling Scandal in NCAA History Led to an Unlikely Story of Redemption
The 1949-50 City College Beavers basketball team were incredible underdogs who experienced an incredible rise and subsequent fall from grace. At a time when the National Basketball Association was sti...
6 Feb 202043min
The Confederate States of America, An Alternate History: 1865-2020
Civil War historians have asked if the South could have won the Civil War (or at least fought to a stalemate) since 1866. If they would have won, then what then? What would a divided states of America...
4 Feb 202051min
An Admiral's List of the 10 Greatest Admirals in History
Today's episode features a special guest, James Stavridis, a four-star U.S. Navy Admiral and former Supreme Allied Commander of NATO. He joins us to discuss the ten greatest admirals in history and lo...
30 Jan 202030min
Pearl Harbor May Have Been Avoided If a Lone US Diplomat Had Gotten His Way
Could one American diplomat have prevented the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor? The answer might be yes. America’s ambassador to Japan in 1941, Joseph Grew, certainly thought so. He saw the writing on...
28 Jan 202044min
How 20K Marines Held Out Against 300K Chinese Soldiers At The Chosin Reservoir, The Korean War's Greatest Battle
On October 15, 1950, General Douglas MacArthur, Supreme Commander of UN troops in Korea, convinced President Harry Truman that the Communist forces of Kim Il-sung would be utterly defeated by Thanksgi...
23 Jan 202056min
Dragons Never Existed. So Why Are They Found in Absolutely Every Ancient Folklore?
You don't have to read the ancient folklore of China, Sumeria, or anywhere else long before you encounter a dragon. Sometimes they guard treasure. Sometimes they kidnap local maidens. Sometimes they a...
21 Jan 202041min
The Crusades, From Both Arab and European Perspectives
For more than one thousand years, Christians and Muslims lived side by side, sometimes at peace and sometimes at war. When Christian armies seized Jerusalem in 1099, they began the most notorious peri...
16 Jan 202052min
How the Nazi Ministry of Propaganda Radicalized Germany
Once the Nazi Party took power in Germany, they managed to end democracy and turned the nation into a one-party dictatorship, launching an endless propaganda campaign to mobilize the public for war. J...
14 Jan 202040min
