595 Episodes

  1. Episode 287: Charles Darwin, Evolutionary Revolutionary

    Published: 12/24/2023

  2. QAH Episode 37: The Christmas Truce

    Published: 12/20/2023

  3. Episode 286: Pedro II of Brazil, the Magnanimous Emperor

    Published: 12/17/2023

  4. QAH Episode 36: Alfred Nobel, Merchant of Death

    Published: 12/13/2023

  5. Episode 285: The Elgin Marbles

    Published: 12/10/2023

  6. QAH Episode 35: The Principality of Hutt River

    Published: 12/6/2023

  7. Episode 284: The Mughal Empire

    Published: 12/3/2023

  8. QAH Episode 34: A Brief History of Powdered Wigs

    Published: 11/29/2023

  9. Episode 283: The Prophecies of Nostradamus

    Published: 11/26/2023

  10. QAH Episode 33: Operation Cowboy

    Published: 11/22/2023

  11. Episode 282: Johann Sebastian Bach, the Famed Baroque Composer

    Published: 11/19/2023

  12. QAH Episode 32: Adolphe Sax, Inventor of the Saxophone

    Published: 11/15/2023

  13. Episode 281: Kate Sheppard, the Tenacious Suffragette

    Published: 11/12/2023

  14. QAH Episode 31: The Loudun Possessions

    Published: 11/8/2023

  15. Episode 280: History’s Longest Reigns

    Published: 11/5/2023

  16. QAH Episode 30: Sayyida al Hurra, the Moroccan Corsair

    Published: 11/1/2023

  17. Episode 279: The History of Halloween

    Published: 10/28/2023

  18. QAH Episode 29: Al Capone, Chicago's Notorious Gangster

    Published: 10/25/2023

  19. Episode 278: The Sicilian Mafia

    Published: 10/22/2023

  20. QAH Episode 28 George Mallory, Lost on Everest

    Published: 10/18/2023

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