263 Episodes

  1. President Grover Cleveland: Honest to a Fault?

    Published: 6/13/2024

  2. The War on Crime: The 1930s and the New Deal

    Published: 6/9/2024

  3. America at D-Day

    Published: 6/6/2024

  4. Communism in America

    Published: 6/2/2024

  5. The History of Baseball

    Published: 5/29/2024

  6. The Battle of Okinawa

    Published: 5/27/2024

  7. President Chester A. Arthur: Redemption in Office?

    Published: 5/23/2024

  8. The Real Hamilton: An American Myth?

    Published: 5/19/2024

  9. American Castaways: Treachery & Survival in the Falklands

    Published: 5/16/2024

  10. The Real Hamilton: Downfall, Duel & Death

    Published: 5/13/2024

  11. President James A. Garfield: Sex Cults & Assassination

    Published: 5/8/2024

  12. The Real Hamilton: Lover, Adulterer, Family Man?

    Published: 5/6/2024

  13. Teddy Roosevelt: The Making of the Rough Rider President

    Published: 5/2/2024

  14. The Real Hamilton: Founding Father

    Published: 4/28/2024

  15. President Rutherford B. Hayes: The First Great Depression

    Published: 4/25/2024

  16. Founding Father: Who Was John Hancock?

    Published: 4/22/2024

  17. The 1921 Murder Farm Massacre: Slavery After the Civil War

    Published: 4/18/2024

  18. President Ulysses S. Grant: The Myth of the Butcher

    Published: 4/15/2024

  19. Ulysses S. Grant & the Civil War

    Published: 4/11/2024

  20. The Rise & Fall of Al Capone

    Published: 4/8/2024

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