Episode – 1961 : Hollow Nickel Case Podcast Transcript In 1953, a newspaper delivery boy in Brooklyn, New York, made an odd discovery. One of his customers gave him a […]
Episode – 1950 : The Year 1950
Episode – 1950 : The Year 1950 Podcast Transcript In the year 1950, the world was halfway through the 20th century. In the 25 years prior, the world had seen […]
Episode – 1947 : The 1969 Sino-Soviet Border Conflict
Episode – 1947 : The 1969 Sino-Soviet Border Conflict Podcast Transcript Many people think that the closest the world ever came to nuclear war was during the Cuban Missile Crisis. […]
Episode – 1936 : The History of NATO
Episode – 1936 : The History of NATO Podcast Transcript In the years following the end of the Second World War, the post-war world that many in the West hoped […]
Episode – 1914 : The Wannsee Conference
Episode – 1914 : The Wannsee Conference Podcast Transcript On January 20, 1942, one of the most infamous meetings in human history took place. Fifteen high-ranking Nazi officials gathered in […]
Episode – 1904 : The Velvet Revolution and The Velvet Divorce
Episode – 1904 : The Velvet Revolution and The Velvet Divorce Podcast Transcript The country of Czechoslovakia was born and died in the 20th century. It was created after a […]
Episode – 1891 : The Long Telegram
Episode – 1891 : The Long Telegram Podcast Transcript On February 22, 1946, George F. Kennan, a career diplomat working in the American embassy in Moscow, sent an 8,000-word cable […]
Episode – 1853 : Questions and Answers: Volume 33
Episode – 1853 : Questions and Answers: Volume 33 Podcast Transcript The month of August was named in honor of the emperor Augustus by the Roman Senate. Originally called Sextilis, […]
Episode – 1843 : The AK-47
Episode – 1843 : The AK-47 Podcast Transcript In 1946, a former Soviet tank mechanic who had no formal training in engineering or manufacturing submitted a design for a new […]
Episode – 1789 : The Last Days and Death of Adolf Hitler
Episode – 1789 : The Last Days and Death of Adolf Hitler Podcast Transcript In April 1945, in the last days of the war in Europe, everything was falling apart […]
Episode – 1689 : Aswan High Dam
Episode – 1689 : Aswan High Dam Podcast Transcript In 1970, one of the world’s largest infrastructure projects opened in Aswan, Egypt. It was a dam that harnessed the power […]
Episode – 1683 : Spy Satellites
Episode – 1683 : Spy Satellites Podcast Transcript A reconnaissance satellite, otherwise known as a spy satellite, is somewhere above your head right now, collecting images and gathering intelligence on […]
Episode – 1677 : The Cambridge Five
Episode – 1677 : The Cambridge Five Podcast Transcript In the 1950s and 1960s, the British Intelligence community was rocked by a series of high-profile defections to the Soviet Union. […]
Episode – 1619 : The Korean War
Episode – 1619 : The Korean War Podcast Transcript In the aftermath of the Second World War, everyone had hoped that major military conflicts would be a thing of the […]
Episode – 1571 : East and West Berlin
Episode – 1571 : East and West Berlin Podcast Transcript From the end of the Second World War through 1990, the city of Berlin, the former capital of Germany and […]
Episode – 1482 : Why Did The Roman Empire Fall?
Episode – 1482 : Why Did The Roman Empire Fall? Podcast Transcript For over 1200 years, Rome, either in its Republican or Imperial form, was the dominant power in the […]
Episode – 1425 : The Gulf of Tonkin Incident
Episode – 1425 : The Gulf of Tonkin Incident Podcast Transcript In August of 1964, an event occurred off the waters of North Vietnam that would have repercussions that would […]
Episode – 1408 : Edward Teller and the Development of the H-Bomb
Episode – 1408 : Edward Teller and the Development of the H-Bomb Podcast Transcript During the Second World War, the United States established the highly secret Manhattan Project to develop […]
Episode – 1404 : The 1956 Suez Crises
Episode – 1404 : The 1956 Suez Crises Podcast Transcript In 1956, one of the most important geopolitical events of the post-war period took place in Egypt. The Egyptian president […]
Episode – 1345 : The History of the CIA
Episode – 1345 : The History of the CIA Podcast Transcript The United States federal agency charged with gathering foreign intelligence is the Central Intelligence Agency or the CIA.The CIA […]