LBJ Goes to the Bathroom - and Lives
It is December 6, 1944, and the future president of the United States has to go to the bathroom. He knows there is no time as his B-26 bomber is about to take off, yet the 33-year-old Naval officer as...
28 Okt 20249min
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Conquerors: Alexander the Great
We kick off our new weekend limited series with Alexander the Great (356–323 BCE), one of history's most legendary military leaders, the king of Macedon, and creator of one of the largest empires in t...
27 Okt 202410min
Religions: Christianity
Christianity emerged in the 1st century CE in the Roman province of Judea, rooted in the teachings of Jesus of Nazareth. Yet, the Apostle Paul, who never knew Jesus in person, would have the most prof...
26 Okt 202411min
Conversations: How the Read Dead Redemption games mirror history, w/ Tore Olsson
Peter speaks with American History Professor at UTK, Tore Olsson, about his latest book, Red Dead's History: A Video Game, an Obsession, and America's Violent Past, where Olsson unpacks the real histo...
25 Okt 202436min
The First Female Pharaoh
I assume most of us have heard of Cleopatra, Ancient Egypt's last queen pharaoh, or maybe even about some of the other twenty known Female Pharaohs. But how much do you know about the original, the fi...
24 Okt 202410min
The Black Swallow of Death
There are amazing stories in history, and then there are the really amazing stories. Gene Bullard's (an elderly elevator operator at New York's RCA building in the 1950s) story fits into the latter ca...
23 Okt 20249min
The Man Who Killed Booth
One may think that the person who brings down the man who assassinated one of the nation's most revered presidents would be a stand-up guy, a hero. Well, think again because Thomas "Boston" Corbett, t...
22 Okt 202410min
