Jeep: The Little Truck that Could
As tensions rose globally in the late 1930s, the U.S. military recognized the need for a versatile, lightweight vehicle that could replace horses and motorcycles for reconnaissance and other utility r...
3 Juni 20249min
Conversations: Why Writing About Teddy Roosevelt is Draining, w/ H.W. Brands
Our guest today is H.W. Brands, an award-winning historian, the Chair of History at the University of Texas at Austin, and a two-time finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. https://www.patreon.com/c/Histo...
31 Maj 202411min
Wall Street Under Attack!
Long before the World Trade Center bombing of 1993 and the tragic events of September 11, 2001, the most destructive terrorist attack in New York City occurred on September 16, 1920. In fact, at the t...
30 Maj 20247min
Nero's Party House
Nero was one of ancient Rome's most infamous rulers, notorious for his cruelty and vice, and whose reign eventually descended into chaos and rebellion. But did you know that an accidental discovery of...
29 Maj 20247min
The Father of History
Did you know that the study of history, the very principles of historical inquiry and methodology that influence the discipline today began in Ancient Greece with one, Herodotus, referred to as the "F...
28 Maj 20247min
The Hammurabi Way
The principle of "an eye for an eye" is often associated with the concept of lex talionis, which is Latin for "law of retaliation." But did you know that the saying's oldest known origin was only disc...
27 Maj 20247min
Conversations: How History and Science go hand in hand, w/ Edward J. Larson
Today's guest is a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and author of, among other works, the best-selling Summer of Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion and th...
24 Maj 202415min
Aliens Over Texas
Rosewell is indisputably the most famous alleged UFO crash site in American history. But did you know that one morning in 1897, six years before the Wright Brothers invented their airplane and fifty y...
23 Maj 20248min
