Episode – 0803 : Carthago Delenda Est: The Third Punic War Podcast Transcript In 201 BC, the Romans were victorious over their archrivals, the city-state of Carthage, in the Second […]
Episode – 0758 : The Republic of the Marshall Islands
Episode – 0758 : The Republic of the Marshall Islands Podcast Transcript Located between Hawaii and Guam in the middle of the Pacific Ocean is one of the smallest countries […]
Episode – 0756 : The Sinking of the Bismarck
Episode – 0756 : The Sinking of the Bismarck Podcast Transcript Entering the second world war, Britain was still the top naval power in the world. While the British Navy […]
Episode – 0729 : The Mississippi River
Episode – 0729 : The Mississippi River Podcast Transcript Located in the heart of North America is one of the most important rivers. It isn’t the longest river in the […]
Episode – 0721 : The Nuremberg Personality Tests
Episode – 0721 : The Nuremberg Personality Tests Podcast Transcript At the end of the second world war, the allies indited 24 top, surviving Nazi leaders, and put them on […]
Episode – 0716 : Never Give Up, Never Surrender
Episode – 0716 : Never Give Up, Never Surrender Podcast Transcript On September 2, 1945, on the deck of the battleship USS Missouri, the Japanese Empire formally and unconditionally surrendered. […]
Episode – 0709 : Precision Munitions
Episode – 0709 : Precision Munitions Podcast Transcript In 1940, an investigation conducted by the British military found that only 1 in 5 of their bombers were actually landing bombs […]
Episode – 0640 : The Catiline Conspiracy
Episode – 0640 : The Catiline Conspiracy Podcast Transcript We like to think of terrorist plots as being a condition of the modern world. However, there were such plots were […]
Episode – 0639 : The Battle of Yarmouk
Episode – 0639 : The Battle of Yarmouk Podcast Transcript From August 15 to August 20, in the year 636, one of the most important battles in history took place. […]
Episode – 0627 : The History of the Tank
Episode – 0627 : The History of the Tank Podcast Transcript On November 20, 1917, German soldiers on the Western Front saw something that had never been seen in the […]
Episode – 0612 : Holodomor
Episode – 0612 : Holodomor Podcast Transcript In the years 1932 and 1933, one of the greatest humanitarian disasters in human history occurred in what was then the Ukrainian Soviet […]
Episode – 0598 : The Trinity Test
Episode – 0598 : The Trinity Test Podcast Transcript On July 16, 1945, at 5:29 am, 35 miles southwest of Socorro, New Mexico, the world’s first nuclear bomb was detonated. […]
Episode – 0568 : Operation Long Jump
Episode – 0568 : Operation Long Jump Podcast Transcript In November 1943, the Big Three leaders of the allied powers in world war II, Winston Churchill, Franklin Roosevelt, and Joesph […]
Episode – 0555 : The Acadian Expulsion
Episode – 0555 : The Acadian Expulsion Podcast Transcript Beginning in the 16th century, French settlers crossed the Atlantic to settle in a French colony located in the new world. […]
Episode – 0553 : The Marian Reforms
Episode – 0553 : The Marian Reforms Podcast Transcript When you hear about ancient battles and wars, the stories are often dominated by famous generals whose names have come down […]
Episode – 0520 : 08-Dec-41
Episode – 0520 : 08-Dec-41 Podcast Transcript Most people are probably aware of the events which took place on December 7, 1941. As Franklin Roosevelt said, “it was a day […]
Episode – 0501 : The Culper Ring
Episode – 0501 : The Culper Ring Podcast Transcript In 1778, in the middle of the Revolutionary War, while camped outside New York City, General George Washington and Major Benjamin […]
Episode – 0491 : Suez Canal
Episode – 0491 : Suez Canal Podcast Transcript Africa is big. Really big. And for thousands of years, people have dreamed of a way to cut through the narrowest part […]
Episode – 0490 : Tokyo Rose & Axis Sally
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 – 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 […]