What if Tsarist Russia Hadn’t Gone Communist? Revolutionaries Like Boris Savinkov Tried to Accomplish This
Although now largely forgotten outside Russia, Boris Savinkov was famous, and notorious, both at home and abroad during his lifetime, which spans the end of the Russian Empire and the establishment of...
23 Sep 202152min
Reviving Lost WW2 Stories With An M1 Rifle
You wouldn’t believe how these ninety-year-old WWII heroes come alive when you put a rifle in their hands.Andrew Biggio, a young U.S. Marine, returned from combat in Afghanistan and Iraq full of quest...
21 Sep 202144min
Hollywood Hates History: El Cid (1961)
Eleventh-century Spain was a violent borderland of Christian-Muslim bloodshed, but on the eve of the First Crusade, the two religions cooperated as much as they warred in Iberia. And who else to captu...
16 Sep 202146min
Hollywood Hates History: The Messenger – The Story of Joan of Arc (1999)
What happens when you cast Milla Jovovich as Joan of Arc, take away her combat finesse she displayed in the Resident Evil series, but have her embody the fringe historical theory that the Maid of Orle...
14 Sep 202157min
American Dunkirk – How Half a Million New Yorkers Were Evacuated from Manhattan Island on 9/11
The most famous large-scale sea rescue in history is the Dunkirk evacuation. Here nearly 400,000 Allied soldiers were surrounded by the German army in 1940, and Winston Churchill said, "the whole root...
9 Sep 202148min
Columbus of the Pacific: The Forgotten Portuguese Sailor Who Opened Up Earth’s Largest Ocean in 1564
Lope Martín was a little-known 16th century Afro-Portugese pilot known as the "Columbus of the Pacific"--who against all odds finished the final great voyage of the Age of Discovery. He raced ahead of...
7 Sep 202144min
Brown Brothers Harriman: The Shadowy Investment Bank That Built America’s Financial System
Conspiracy theories have always swirled around Brown Brothers Harriman, the oldest and one of the largest private investment banks in the United States, and not without reason. As America of the 1800s...
2 Sep 202137min
Drunk: How We Singed, Danced, and Stumbled Our Ways to Civilization
Humans love to drink. We have a glass or two when bonding with friends, celebrating special occasions, releasing some stress at happy hour, and definitely when coping with a once-in-a-lifetime pandemi...
31 Aug 202144min
