History Nerds United
By Brendan Dowd
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Let's make history fun again! Come listen to interviews with award winning authors, the rantings of a history nerd, and various other things. Enjoy!
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Pulitzer Prize Winner Caroline Fraser Talks Ted Bundy, the Rise of Serial Killers, Pacific Northwest Life, and the Lead Crime Hypothesis
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Jun 10, 2025 |
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Helen Carr Talks English Kings, Their Favorites, and the Upheaval of the 14th Century
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Jun 03, 2025 |
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Alexander Rose Returns to Talk the Battle of the Atlantic and the Heist of a German U-Boat
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May 27, 2025 |
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Martin Dugard Returns to Talk the History of Midway Island and the World War II Battle That Changed the Pacific Theater
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May 20, 2025 |
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Michelle Young Tells the Story of World War II Art Spy Rose Valland
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May 13, 2025 |
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Kate Summerscale Talks WWII Era Serial Killer Reg Christie and (Maybe?) the Execution of an Innocent Man
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May 06, 2025 |
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Todd Doughty Talks the Publishing Worldand How to Be More Grateful About the Little Things
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Apr 29, 2025 |
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Julie Satow Talks When Women Took Over the American Fashion Industry in 1900s New York City
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Apr 22, 2025 |
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Russell Shorto Tells the Story of How New Amsterdam Became New York
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Apr 15, 2025 |
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Hallie Rubenhold Talks the True Crime Case of Dr. Crippen and What History Has Missed
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Apr 08, 2025 |
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Comedian and Writer Mike Drucker Talks His Life in Video Games
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Apr 01, 2025 |
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Eric Vickrey Discusses Postwar Baseball, the Spokane Indians, and the Deadliest Accident in American Professional Sports
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Mar 28, 2025 |
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William Geroux Tells the Story of World War II Nazi POWs in America and a Risky Prisoner Swap
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Mar 25, 2025 |
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NPR Correspondent Emily Feng Talks China and its People
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Mar 18, 2025 |
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Gary Krist Talks San Francisco's Turbulent History and an Unbelievable Gilded-Age Murder
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Mar 11, 2025 |
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Gareth Harney Talks the History of Ancient Rome in Twelve Coins
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Mar 04, 2025 |
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Nancy Goldstone Talks the Lives of the Rebel Empresses Elisabeth of Austria and Eugénie of France
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Feb 25, 2025 |
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Richard Goodrich Returns to Talk the First Airshow in American History
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Feb 18, 2025 |
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Pulitzer Prize Winner Megan Mashall Talks Biography, Japan, Personal Loss, Family, and How the Little Things are What You Remember
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Feb 11, 2025 |
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Rebecca Bratspies on the New York City Names Like Major Deegan, Outerbridge, and Hutchinson
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Feb 04, 2025 |
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Buddy Levy Returns Again To Talk Airships in the Arctic, Roald Amundsen, and a Rescue at the Top of the World
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Jan 28, 2025 |
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Patrick Winn on Drug Empires, Burma, The Wa State, and the DEA vs. the CIA
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Jan 21, 2025 |
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Mark Galeotti Returns to Talk the Wars of Russian History, Putin's Historical Inaccuracy, and the Charm of The Great
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Jan 14, 2025 |
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Elizabeth Reese talks the Return of American Revolution Hero the Marquis de Lafayette
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Dec 17, 2024 |
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April Balascio Talks About Being Raised By Her Father, Serial Killer Edward Wayne Edwards
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Dec 10, 2024 |
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Marcia Clark talks the OJ Simpson Trial and the True Crime Story of Barbara "Bloody Babs" Graham
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Dec 03, 2024 |
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John Oller on the FBI and the War Against American Gangsters Like John Dillinger, Babyface Nelson, and Bonnie and Clyde
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Nov 26, 2024 |
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Gladiator Historian Alexander Mariotti Talks Gladiator I and II, Spartacus, and the Glory of Rome
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Nov 19, 2024 |
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Erik Rebain Reveals the Untold Story of the Life of the Infamous Nathan Leopold of the Leopold and Loeb Murder
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Nov 12, 2024 |
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Helen Castor Talks Shakespeare, Richard II, Henry IV, and the Rebellion That Had to Happen
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Nov 05, 2024 |
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Tabitha Stanmore Talks The History of Cunning Folk, Magic, and Why They Aren't Witches
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Oct 29, 2024 |
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YouTube Star Adrian Bliss Talks about the Greatest Nobodies of History Including Leonardo da Vinci's Ferret, Henry VIII's Groom of the Stool, and Many More
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Oct 22, 2024 |
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Retired Homicide Detective Kim Mager Tells the Story of Interrogating Serial Killer Shawn Grate
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Oct 15, 2024 |
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Dan Jones on the Greatest Warrior King in English History Henry V
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Oct 08, 2024 |
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H.W. Brands on the Battle for American Isolationism Before World War II Between Charles Lindbergh and the America First Movement vs. President Franklin Roosevelt
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Oct 01, 2024 |
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Jack Carr and James Scott on The Terminal List, the 1983 Marine Barracks Bombing, in Beirut and the Beginning of the War on Terror
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Sep 24, 2024 |
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Abbott Kahler Returns to Tell A True Story of Sex, Murder, and Utopia at the Dawn of World War II
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Sep 17, 2024 |
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Ben Macintyre Tells the Story of the 1980 Iranian Embassy Hostage Crisis in London and the SAS Operation to Save the Hostages
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Sep 10, 2024 |
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Rachel Kousser on the Forgotten Years of Alexander the Great
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Sep 03, 2024 |
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Martin Dugard on Working With Bill O'Reilly and The Heroic British Pilots of the Battle of Britain in World War II
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Aug 27, 2024 |
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The Wall Street Journal's Valerie Bauerlein on the Murdaugh Murders of South Carolina
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Aug 20, 2024 |
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The Creators of McMillions James Lee Hernandez and Brian Lazarte Discuss the Million Dollar McDonald's Scam
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Aug 13, 2024 |
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Tore Olsson Discusses the Historical Accuracy of the Red Dead Redemption Video Games Series
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Aug 06, 2024 |
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Larry Rohter Discusses the The Life of Brazilian Trialblazer and Explorer Cândido Rondon
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Jul 30, 2024 |
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Keren Blankfeld Tells the Amazing Story of Two Prisoners Who Fell in Love at Auschwitz During World War II
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Jul 23, 2024 |
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Cold War Conversations Host Ian Sanders
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Jul 16, 2024 |
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Adam Brookes Tells the Story of How China's Treasures Were Saved During World War II
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Jul 09, 2024 |
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Margalit Fox Returns to Tell the Story of 1800s New York City Criminal Mastermind Marm Mandelbaum
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Jul 02, 2024 |
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Dean Jobb Tells the Story of Jazz Age Jewel Thief Arthur Barry
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Jun 25, 2024 |
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Pulitzer Prize Winner Emily Nussbaum on the History of Reality TV
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Jun 18, 2024 |
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Max Marshall Talks Greek Life and a Fraternity Drug Ring at the College of Charleston
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Jun 12, 2024 |
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Anna Akbari Tells Her Story of Being Caught Up With An Infamous Catfish Fraud (Part 1: NO SPOILERS)
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Jun 04, 2024 |
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Anna Akbari Reveals the Name of the Catfish Who Conned Her (Part 2: SPOILERS ABOUND)
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Jun 04, 2024 |
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Keith Thomson Returns to Talk the Quest for El Dorado and the Fall of Sir Walter Raleigh
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May 28, 2024 |
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Steven Johnson Tells the Story of Early 1900s Terrorism in New York City and the Anarchy Movement
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May 22, 2024 |
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Adam Higginbotham Revisits NASA's Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster
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May 14, 2024 |
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Don Hollway Discusses the Battles for the British Kingdom from 1000-1066
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May 07, 2024 |
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Charlotte Gray Tells the Story of the Lives of Jennie Jerome Churchill and Sara Delano Roosevelt
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May 01, 2024 |
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Bettany Hughes on the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
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Apr 23, 2024 |
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Hampton Sides on the Final Voyage of Legendary British Explorer Captain James Cook
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Apr 17, 2024 |
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Henry Hemming Discusses A True Story of Spies, Murder, and Justice in Northern Ireland
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Apr 10, 2024 |
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Earl Swift Explains the Peonage System and the 1921 Murder Farm Massacre in Georgia
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Apr 04, 2024 |
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Michael Finkel on Stéphane Bréitwieser the Most Prolific Art Thief of All Time
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Apr 02, 2024 |
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Keith O'Brien Discusses the Rise and Fall of Pete Rose
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Mar 27, 2024 |
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Dr. Dante Lauretta Discusses NASA, Asteroids, and the OSIRIS-REx Mission
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Mar 20, 2024 |
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Jane Tippett Reevaluates the Life and Abdication of Edward VIII
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Mar 13, 2024 |
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Sung-Yoon Lee Discusses North Korea and Kim Jong Un's Dangerous Sister Kim Yo Jong
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Mar 06, 2024 |
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Eric Blehm Talks the Life and Death of Snowboarding Pioneer and Legend Craig Kelly
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Feb 28, 2024 |
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Michael Livingston Revisits the Battle of Agincourt
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Feb 21, 2024 |
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Scott McGaugh Tells the Story of The American Glider Pilots of World War II
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Feb 14, 2024 |
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Maria Smilios Tells the Story of the Black Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis
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Feb 07, 2024 |
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James Conroy Discusses the Casablanca Conference of World War II
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Jan 31, 2024 |
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Time Magazine Correspondent Simon Shuster Talks the Life and Character of Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky
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Jan 24, 2024 |
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The Ringer's Rob Harvilla Reminisces on the Best Music of the 90s
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Jan 17, 2024 |
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Kim Cross Revisits the Kidnapping of Polly Klaas
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Jan 10, 2024 |
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William Carlsen Tells the Story of John L. Stephens and Frederick Catherwood's Rediscovery of the Maya
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Dec 21, 2023 |
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Seanegan Sculley Discusses How George Washington Kept the Army Together During the American Revolution
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Dec 19, 2023 |
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Ed Lengel Tells the Story of the Lost Battalion of World War I
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Dec 18, 2023 |
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Gregory Wallance Tells the Story of George Kennan's Epic Journey Through Russia's Siberia
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Dec 06, 2023 |
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Rebecca Struthers Discusses Her Life as a Watchmaker and the History of Keeping Time
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Nov 29, 2023 |
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Steven Ujifusa Tells the Story of the Race to Save Russia's Jewish People Before World War I
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Nov 22, 2023 |
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Taylor Baldwin Kiland and Judy Silverstein Gray Discuss the Women Who Fought to Bring Their POW Husbands Home From Vietnam
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Nov 15, 2023 |
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Podcaster Jessica Cale from Dirty Sexy History
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Nov 08, 2023 |
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Scott Eyman Tells the Story of Charlie Chaplin's Battle with the American Government
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Nov 01, 2023 |
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Screencrush's Matt Singer Discusses the Legacy of Siskel and Ebert
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Oct 25, 2023 |
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Matthew Davenport Tells the Story of The Great San Francisco Earthquake and Fire of 1906
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Oct 18, 2023 |
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Mark Bulik Tells the Story of the Only IRA Hit on American Soil
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Oct 11, 2023 |
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Bob Thompson Talks His American Revolution Road Trip
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Oct 04, 2023 |
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Darrell Hartman Discusses the Newspaper Wars of New York Over Robert Peary and Frederick Cook's Race for the North Pole
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Sep 27, 2023 |
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Pulitzer Prize Winner Scott Shane Tells the Story of Thomas Smallwood and His Amazing Exploits Helping Slaves Escape Right Before the Civil War
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Sep 20, 2023 |
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Former AP Bureau Chief for Mexico and Central America Katherine Corcoran on the History and Future of Journalism
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Sep 13, 2023 |
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Amy Bell on Her Father's Defence of Two Canadian Murderers and How It Affected Her Family
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Sep 06, 2023 |
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Chance Kelly on His Love for New York City's History
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Aug 30, 2023 |
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Andrea Lankford Tells the Story of the Search for Three Missing Hikers on the Pacific Crest Trail
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Aug 23, 2023 |
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Leah Redmond Chang Tells the Story of the Intertwined Lives of Catherine de Medici, Elisabeth de Valois, and Mary Queen of Scots
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Aug 16, 2023 |
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Lena Andrews Discusses the Efforts of the American Servicewoman of World War II
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Aug 09, 2023 |
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Susan Casey Discusses the Wonders of the Deep Ocean and the Oceangate Disaster
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Aug 02, 2023 |
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Tom Holm on the Life of World War II Akimel O'odham Warrior and Hero Ira Hayes
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Jul 26, 2023 |
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Shark Expert Greg Skomal and co-author Ret Talbot Discuss Great White Sharks
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Jul 19, 2023 |
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Jane Ferguson on Her Life as a War Journalist
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Jul 12, 2023 |
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O Street Museum Owner H.H. Leonards on Her Friendship with Rosa Parks
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Jul 05, 2023 |
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Richard Goodrich Tells the Story of the 1910 Halley's Comet Panic
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Jun 28, 2023 |
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Mark Dawidziak Discusses the Life and Death of Edgar Allan Poe
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Jun 21, 2023 |
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Vanity Fair's Maureen Ryan on How to Fix the Hollywood System
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Jun 14, 2023 |
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Cassandra Good Tells the Story of George Washington's Descendants
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Jun 07, 2023 |
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Emily Lynn Paulson on Breaking Away From Multi-Level Marketing Schemes
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May 31, 2023 |
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Nathan Masters on His Show Lost L.A. and the Jazz Age Rivalry of Senator Burton Wheeler and Attorney General Harry Daugherty
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May 24, 2023 |
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Prit Buttar Discusses the Battles for the Rzhev Salient 1942-43 in World War II
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May 17, 2023 |
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Simon Winchester Discusses the History of Knowledge
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May 10, 2023 |
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Jack Curry on the 1998 New York Yankees
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May 03, 2023 |
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David Grann on the Incredible Shipwreck and Survival Story of the Wager
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Apr 26, 2023 |
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Tom Clavin on the Texas Rangers and Their Leader Leander McNelly
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Apr 19, 2023 |
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Stephan Talty on David Koresh and How Waco Happened
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Apr 12, 2023 |
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Reid Mitenbuler Tells the Story of Arctic Explorer Peter Freuchen
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Apr 05, 2023 |
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Alan Prendergast Tells the Story of Denver DA Philip Van Cise and His War on Corruption and the Klan
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Mar 29, 2023 |
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Christine Kenneally on the Horrors of St. Joseph's Catholic Orphange in Vermont
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Mar 22, 2023 |
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Alexander Poots on the Greatest Poets of Northern Ireland
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Mar 15, 2023 |
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Mark Galeotti on Russia, Putin, and the Future of the Ukraine War
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Mar 08, 2023 |
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Lynne Olson on Trailblazing Archaeologist Christiane Desroches-Nobelcourt
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Mar 01, 2023 |
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Christopher Gorham Talks the Life of Anna Rosenberg World War II Political Fixer
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Feb 22, 2023 |
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Lou Raguse Tells the Story of South Dakota's Most Infamous Cold Case
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Feb 15, 2023 |
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Robert Kershaw Discusses the German View From Dunkirk in World War II
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Feb 08, 2023 |
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Steve Kemper Tells the Story of World War II U.S. Ambassador to Japan Joseph Grew
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Feb 01, 2023 |
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Buddy Levy Returns to Talk the Disasterous 1913 Canadian Arctic Expedition and the Heroism of Captain Bob Bartlett
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Jan 25, 2023 |
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Giles Tremlett Talks the History of Spain
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Jan 18, 2023 |
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Retired Toronto Homicide Detective Steve Ryan on the Murder Cases That Still Haunt Him
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Jan 11, 2023 |
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Season 1 Wrap Up
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Dec 21, 2022 |
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Alexander Rose on the Civil War Battle Waged In London to Build a Confederate Navy
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Dec 07, 2022 |
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Tom Dunkel Reveals the Germans Trying to Bring Down Hitler in World War II
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Nov 23, 2022 |
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James Kirby Martin Returns to Talk Benedict Arnold the Biggest Traitor in American History
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Nov 16, 2022 |
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Sarah Horowitz Talks about the Red Widow of Paris Margeurite Steinheil
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Nov 02, 2022 |
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Pulitzer Prize Winner Stacy Schiff Talks Samuel Adams and His Hand in the Coming of the American Revolution
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Oct 26, 2022 |
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Katherine Corcoran Discusses the Murder of Mexican Journalist Regina Martinez
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Oct 19, 2022 |
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Laurel from Hightailing Through History Discusses Weed and Sister Podcasting
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Oct 12, 2022 |
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Kate Winkler Dawson Discusses the Life and Death of Gilded Age Serial Killer Edward Rulloff
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Oct 05, 2022 |
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Nita Whitaker Talks Her Father's Life Growing Up in the Jim Crow South
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Sep 28, 2022 |
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Abbott Kahler on Bootleg King George Remus and a Jazz Age Murder
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Sep 21, 2022 |
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Pulitzer Prize Winner David Kertzer on Pope Pius XII and the Vatican During World War II
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Sep 14, 2022 |
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James M. Scott Returns to Talk Curtis LeMay, the Firebombing of Tokyo, and the Road to the Atomic Bomb in World War II
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Sep 07, 2022 |
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Nell McShane Wulfhart on the Great Stewardess Rebellion and Why It Happened
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Aug 31, 2022 |
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Gary Weiss on the Rise and Fall of Retail Kingpin Crazy Eddie Antar
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Aug 24, 2022 |
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Margalit Fox Talks Obituaries, The New York Times, and the Paranormal (Kinda) Escape of Two World War I Prisoners
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Aug 10, 2022 |
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Bill Shaffer Discusses the Scandals of the Alexander Hamilton's Decendants
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Jul 27, 2022 |
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John Wood Sweet Talks About How the Assault of a Sewing Girl in 1793 Made New York City History
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Jul 13, 2022 |
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TK from For the Love of History Podcast Talks Japan and Her Favorite History
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Jul 06, 2022 |
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Steven T. Collis Talks About The Immortal Chaplains of World War II
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Jun 27, 2022 |
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Paul Craddock Discusses the History of Organ Transplants and Crackpot Science
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Jun 22, 2022 |
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Nicholas Jubber on Fairy Tales and Their Sometimes Very Weird Origins
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Jun 15, 2022 |
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Eric Jay Dolin on Privateers, Pirates, Whaling, Hurricanes, and Lighthouses
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Jun 01, 2022 |
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Paleontologist Riley Black on the Last Days of the Dinosaurs
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May 18, 2022 |
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Keith Thomson on the Pirates Whop Raided the South Seas and Rescued a Princess
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May 01, 2022 |
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Shelley Puhak on the Deadly Rivalry of Medieval Queens Brunhild and Fredegund
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Apr 18, 2022 |
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Pulitzer Prize Winner Debby Applegate Talks New York City Jazz Age Madam Polly Adler
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Apr 05, 2022 |
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James Kirby Martin on the Invasion Ukraine and the Similarities to World War II
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Mar 29, 2022 |
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Catherine Grace Katz Talks the Yalta Conference of World War II and the Daughters of Roosevelt, Churchill, and Harriman
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Mar 09, 2022 |
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Kevin Birmingham Discusses Dostoevsky and His True Crime Inspiration for Crime and Punishment
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Feb 15, 2022 |
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James Kirby Martin on the Dresden Bombings of World War II
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Jan 13, 2022 |
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Tobey & Matthew Pearl on the Kidnapping of Daniel Boone's Daughter Jemima and Early Colonial Justice
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Jan 02, 2022 |
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James M. Scott talks the Battle of Manila in World War II
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Dec 15, 2021 |
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West Point Army/Navy Prankmaster General Mike Nemeth
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Dec 06, 2021 |
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Buddy Levy on Arctic Exploration, Conquistadors, and Exploring the Amazon
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Nov 16, 2021 |
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Kate Moore The Radium Girls and The Woman They Could Not Silence
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Oct 19, 2021 |