What is the Secret to Happiness? Harvard's 80 Year Old Study's Findings
In the late 1930s, Harvard researchers began an unprecedented study: tracking hundreds of people across their entire lives to answer a deceptively simple question: what makes us happy? For more than e...
22 Dec 202511min
The Forgotten Kingdom of Man and the Isles
Long before modern borders carved neat lines across the Irish Sea, there existed a maritime realm so unusual, so strategically placed, that its rulers commanded not just land, but the waters that boun...
21 Dec 202512min
Killing George Washington
In the summer of 1776, just as the ink of independence was drying and the Continental Army staggered under inexperience, disease, and desertion, a silent threat crept dangerously close to General Geor...
20 Dec 202512min
'The Greatest Generation' OR 'The 'Wounded Generation'? w/ David Nasaw
In this episode, Peter speaks with Dr. David Nasaw, a two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, about his new book, The Wounded Generation: Coming Home After World War II. We discuss moving beyond the triumph...
19 Dec 202525min
The Freemasons
For centuries, the Freemasons have stood at the crossroads of fact and myth, secrecy and symbolism. Presidents, revolutionaries, artists, and ordinary craftsmen have all taken oaths behind closed lodg...
18 Dec 202512min
Napoleon's Missing Penis: A History No One Asked For
History remembers Napoleon as the iron-willed conqueror of Europe, the architect of empire, the man who crowned himself. But beneath the legend lies a stranger, more human story, one of what happened ...
17 Dec 202512min
Sacagawea: Beyond the Myth
She has been cast as the smiling guide, the willing helper, the gentle symbol of American westward expansion. But the real Sacagawea was more than a footnote to Lewis and Clark; she was a kidnapped Sh...
16 Dec 202511min
Belleau Wood: The Battle That Made the Marines
June 1918. A choking forest. Gas, machine-gun nests, and a German advance cutting toward Paris. Into that hell marched a fighting force the world barely knew: the United States Marine Corps. Belleau W...
15 Dec 202511min
