Episode – 0490 : Tokyo Rose & Axis Sally Podcast Transcript During World War II, allied soldiers would often spend their time listening to the radio. They could, at least […]
Episode – 0489 : Paradoxes
Episode – 0489 : Paradoxes Podcast Transcript 2,500 years ago, the Greek philosopher Zeno posited a quandary. If you want wanted to travel from one place to another, you first […]
Episode – 0487 : Remember, Remember the 5th of November
Episode – 0487 : Remember, Remember the 5th of November Podcast Transcript In 1605, members of the Catholic resistance in England hatched a plot that would have completely changed the […]
Episode – 0486 : The Election of 1860
Episode – 0486 : The Election of 1860 Podcast Transcript In 1860, the United States was as divided as it ever had been. The issue of slavery had been growing […]
Episode – 0478 : Monarchies vs Republics
Episode – 0478 : Monarchies vs Republics Podcast Transcript I’ve had many episodes where I talked about a country being a “republic”. In fact, we often use the word but […]
Episode – 0450 : The Nazi Bomb
Episode – 0450 : The Nazi Bomb Podcast Transcript During the second world war, one of the biggest efforts of the war was the Manhattan Project: the secret American program […]
Episode – 0447 : The Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact
Episode – 0447 : The Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact Podcast Transcript When most people think of World War II, they think of the Allied power of the United States, the United Kingdom, […]
Episode – 0436 : The Port Chicago Disaster
Episode – 0436 : The Port Chicago Disaster Podcast Transcript On July 17, 1944, one of the worst disasters to befall the American military during World War II occurred. It […]
Episode – 0422 : The Elgin Marbles
Episode – 0422 : The Elgin Marbles Podcast Transcript Beginning in 1801, the British ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, the Earl of Elgin, began a project to document the sculptures […]
Episode – 0415 : Starfish Prime
Episode – 0415 : Starfish Prime Podcast Transcript In the 1950s and 1960s, the United States detonated nuclear bombs on land, on the water, underground, underwater, and in the atmosphere. […]
Episode – 0414 : The Schlieffen Plan
Episode – 0414 : The Schlieffen Plan Podcast Transcript When the Austro-Hungarian Arch Duke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated it set off a chain reaction resulting in the First World War. […]
Episode – 0410 : Fritz Haber: The Best and Worst Chemist in History
Episode – 0410 : Fritz Haber: The Best and Worst Chemist in History Podcast Transcript Fritz Haber is unquestionably one of the greatest chemists in history. He was a Nobel […]
Episode – 0396 : The 27th Amendment
Episode – 0396 : The 27th Amendment Podcast Transcript The American constitution was written in 1787, but there was a mechanism built in to amend and change the document. Since […]
Episode – 0395 : The American Whig Party
Episode – 0395 : The American Whig Party Podcast Transcript American politics has been called a two-party system. While there are two major parties today, and those two parties have […]
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Episode – 0389 : The Korean Axe Murder Incident
Episode – 0389 : The Korean Axe Murder Incident Podcast Transcript Ever since the cease-fire which ended the Korean war, the demilitarized zone between North and South Korea has been […]
Episode – 0388 : Cincinnatus
Episode – 0388 : Cincinnatus Podcast Transcript Throughout human history, people have killed, robbed, and put their lives at risk in the pursuit of power. In fact, almost all of […]
Episode – 0385 : The Children of Nazis
Episode – 0385 : The Children of Nazis Podcast Transcript Almost everyone has a black sheep in their family. Someone who maybe gets in trouble with the law and doesn’t […]
Episode – 0372 : Objects of State: United States Edition
Episode – 0372 : Objects of State: United States Edition Podcast Transcript Every government had objects which central to their functioning. These are items, physical objects, usually steeped in history […]
Episode – 0368 : Concorde: The World’s Fastest Passenger Airplane
Episode – 0368 : Concorde: The World’s Fastest Passenger Airplane Podcast Transcript Almost as soon as Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier in 1947, people began thinking of ways to […]
Episode – 0363 : The District of Columbia
Episode – 0363 : The District of Columbia Podcast Transcript From the very founding of the United States, there was a debate that took place amongst the representatives from the […]