Siege of Charleston 1780: The Worst American Defeat of the Revolution
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The 1780 Siege of Charleston erased the Continental Army in the South and remains one of the big...
3 Okt 23min
Nathan Hale: The Flawed Young Spy Behind the Revolutionary Legend
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!America's most famous Revolutionary War spy was a 21-year-old former schoolteacher who went behi...
3 Okt 23min
Battle of Moores Creek Bridge: The Last Highland Broadsword Charge
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In February 1776, less than five months before the Declaration of Independence, a force of Scott...
3 Okt 15min
Xerxes I: The Real Persian King Behind the Myth of 300
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Why did a Persian king order his soldiers to give the sea 300 lashes and throw shackles into the...
2 Okt 26min
Woody Guthrie: The Radical Life Behind America's Folk Legend
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The man who wrote the song about redwood forests and Gulf Stream waters was monitored by the FBI...
2 Okt 22min
Winston Churchill: Lisp, Failures, Wartime Triumph and Dark Legacy
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The voice that rallied Britain against fascism began as a weakness: Winston Churchill grew up wi...
2 Okt 22min
William the Conqueror: From Hunted Child to Ruthless King of England
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The most powerful man in Europe died abandoned, and his funeral ended with his corpse bursting i...
2 Okt 22min
Jonas Salk: The Polio Vaccine Pioneer Behind the Patent Myth
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!"Could you patent the sun?" Jonas Salk's famous answer created one of medicine's most beloved my...
2 Okt 22min
