Stalin Needs a Doctor
The story of Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin's death is perhaps as much an enigma today as it was when shared with the world by the Russian propaganda machine in 1953. But did you know that Stalin's chan...
6 Maj 20248min
Cleopatra and Caesar Have a Baby!
The affair between Julius Caesar and Cleopatra is one of history's most famous and intriguing love stories. But did you know that it also produced Caesar's only male heir? Caesarion was destined to be...
3 Maj 20247min
Cinco de Mayo is NOT Independence Day
Few people remember Napoleon III's attempt to use the turmoil of the American Civil War in the 1860s to sneak past the United States Monroe Doctrine and establish a French client state in Mexico. But ...
1 Maj 20247min
Abe Lincoln Buys Cocaine
Did you know that in the 1930s, a historian named Harry E. Pratt studied Abraham Lincoln's purchase history and found a receipt for a fifty-cent purchase of cocaine just a month before Honest Abe woul...
30 Apr 20247min
Conversations: The Meaning of Courage w/ Col. Jack H. Jacobs
Our guest today is Medal of Honor recipient Colonel Jack H. Jacobs. His selfless acts under fire in Vietnam saved the lives of fellow soldiers and earned him the nation's highest military honors. The ...
26 Apr 202414min
The Lady Who Said "No" to War
The Montana-born feminist and pacifist Jeannette Rankin may have been the first woman elected to the American Congress. But did you know that, to military historians and others alike, she is known as ...
25 Apr 20247min
King Tut's Curse
The ancient Egyptian pharaoh, King Tutankhamun, became one of the period's most famous rulers after the discovery of his nearly intact tomb in the Valley of Kings in 1922, but did you know that part o...
23 Apr 20246min
Elvis' Last Moments
Who has not heard at least one of Elvis Presley's songs or knows exactly who they are looking at when they see his image? But did you know that the details surrounding the king of rock and roll's unti...
18 Apr 20247min
